50 of the 70's

not a bad list, but predictable usual candidates for this kind of mainstream list. 

JD wrote: Which ones would you have included?

Saperlipopette! wrote: Still, kind of nice to see that the "universally acclaimed" albums are mostly great ones.

Saperlipopette! wrote: David_D wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Still, kind of nice to see that the "universally acclaimed" albums are mostly great ones. And how do you define "the great ones"? I don't really. Except that I love at least half of those albums, and quite like pretty much the rest as well. The 70's like very decade, had a lot of crap music that sold more and was more popular than many of those on this list. I find it uplifting that these 50 albums that has stood the test of time are almost exclusively  quality releases - according to me. I trust my own ears and don't really care if you disagree.

I really have no issue with this list, to me Tapestry is not a rock album but more a pop/folk album. To me this is list is pretty perfect to introduce someone to rock music of the 70's.

Had I had to estimate the number of charts around for this kind of thing, I'd probably have said something like 4,000 rather than 40,000. Curious what the inclusion criteria were here. Probably all anglophone? Of course chances are nobody here can tell me, but just note the number itself, while impressive, doesn't make this more reliable as "general consensus" as had there been 200 well chosen ones according to transparent criteria. (For example many of the 40,000 may have been far from general when it comes to inclusion criteria so that some albums could maybe have appeared in 10,000 of them, others just in 1,000, just because how they were set up.) I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this or could have done better, just my point is the sheer number isn't necessarily on its own a stamp of quality.

Lewian wrote: Had I had to estimate the number of charts around for this kind of thing, I'd probably have said something like 4,000 rather than 40,000. Curious what the inclusion criteria were here. Probably all anglophone? Of course chances are nobody here can tell me, but just note the number itself, while impressive, doesn't make this more reliable as "general consensus" as had there been 200 well chosen ones according to transparent criteria. (For example many of the 40,000 may have been far from general when it comes to inclusion criteria so that some albums could maybe have appeared in 10,000 of them, others just in 1,000, just because how they were set up.) I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this or could have done better, just my point is the sheer number isn't necessarily on its own a stamp of quality.

There's a link at the bottom of the article. When I look at Best Ever Albums all-time chart, it's very similar to RYM's all time chart. Seems to me if you collect enough data these are pretty much the albums you end up with. And it's not bad at all, but a little predictable and unexiting. As with Rotten Tomatoes for movies, I trust it's about as close to a consensus it's possible to get. But I don't trust consensus.

Lewian wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: There's a link at the bottom of the article. When I look at Best Ever Albums all-time chart, it's very similar to RYM's all time chart. Seems to me if you collect enough data these are pretty much the albums you end up with. And it's not bad at all, but a little predictable and unexiting. As with Rotten Tomatoes for movies, I trust it's about as close to a consensus it's possible to get. But I don't trust consensus. Great, I should've read more thoroughly, then I would've found it myself. I wouldn't refer to the list as a "consensus" though as those with very different lists were incorporated but didn't "consent". A law decided by parliament through democratic voting isn't a consensus either; those who lost the voting will normally still be against it.

I didn't. I wrote it's about as close to a consensus that you can get. Which I believe is correct. These albums are "generally" agreed upon to represent "the best".

Saperlipopette! wrote: Lewian wrote: Apparently everyone can register and submit their own chart, and they are not all anglophone. No, I know. I wrote that in the top 50 for the 1970's presented (where data from all 50 000 or so lists had been collected), only one album was from outside the anglosphere (Can - Tago Mago).