Britney Spears next to Tommy is just hilarious to me.

Disintegration in number 2 made me smile lol. I don't agree with it being that high, but I appreciate that album getting some huge praise.

Agree with Joe. This is the problem when you combine individual top 20 lists. People assume the big albums will make it, so they stuff their lists with obscure albums they want to make it, and the result is a completely random list.

I know you guys are being intentional about spreading out your lists, but it would be great to see your own rankings of your top 200 albums. Also, as a long time follower still waiting for the Deep Purple, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney album rankings (with Joe's input!)

I was looking for another list to react to and then this popped up in my feed. I'll give you guys a shout out in my reaction, and watch this afterwards. There better be a Beatles album or two in the top 10! 😃

Nomination for best lines on TLM: "People just think this record's like, cool to like because it doesn't have any good songs on it" - Jason That's such a great music snob comment. As I'm writing this, I'm imagining Barry (Jack Black) in High Fidelity, saying that line. It would've worked well with Jack's manic and passionate, over the top delivery.

None of my favorites are up there. If I had to make a list, mine would consist of underdogs: 1. Willis Alan Ramsey -Willis Alan Ramsey 2. Eric Carmen - Boats Against the Current 3. Kim Carnes -Voyeur 4. Plainsong - In Search of Amelia Earhart 5. Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection 6. John Martyn - Solid Air 7. Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri - Where Rivers Meet 8. David Gray - Mutineers 9. Radiohead - Kid A 10. Laura Nyro - Eli & the 13th Confession 11. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 12. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 13. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele 14. Damien Rice - "O" 15. Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight 16. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left 17. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights 18. Kris Kelly - Runways 19. Bill Withers - Just As I Am 20. Dream Academy - Dream Academy 21. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright 22. Judy Collins - True Stories & Other Dreams 23. Bee Gees - Odessa 24. Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes 25. Jellyfish - Bellybutton

What I like about this list (comparatively speaking) is that Country and Jazz get some noticeable representation at the expense of Hip Hop. More variety of genres is always refreshing. As you mentioned, there were some artists over-represented and I saw some weak odd-ball choices, including those Motown albums that contain a few hits and lots of filler. For classic Motown, it's got to be compilations as the label was singles driven during their early peak. I didn't see a lot of Folk or World Music (Fela, Khan, Adé) so it still seems artificially skewed towards pop. The Top 20 looked pretty random but at least that provided some fun observations on your part. I'll echo an earlier comment and suggest Tastes Like Music attempt a list of this magnitude. Enjoyable episode.

What the hell? Did Elvis Costello get “cancelled” without me knowing it? He should have at least 3 albums on a list like this.

When the pawn is her best by a country mile

The man ain’t lyin about that Sam Cooke… awe inspiring performance

These lists are always fun to argue about, but I can't take them too seriously. Glad to see Mahmoud Ahmed on the list, though. To this day the best concert I've ever seen was Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete and Getatchew Mekurya, backed by The Ex, at Damrosch Park in NYC. Also happy to see a bunch of Spiritual Jazz mentioned; Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders get regular spins here.

Related hey there, ODing on Cake, SC FN MG can’t get enough thank you. This is sophisticated Pop, great ripping horns ,they go from Comanche to Up Close to Jolene so very good

As a Brazilian and die-hard fan of Clube da Esquina, I have to say that it's a very "Brazilian" record (sort of like Acabou Chorare, which I personally think is peak "Brazilian"). Whenever I show it to my foreign friends, they usually react with a "OMG this is the most beautiful record I've ever heard" or "meh, it's alright I guess" (similar to your guys' reactions).

No British folk rock, Randy Newman, Scott Walker, Elvis, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, Dusty In Memphis, but instead Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson and Britney Spears…

no who’s next? interesting.

Odd, patchworky list - better than Apple - and I've gotta admit seeing The Cure at #2 warms my heart. Disrespect to the Beatles, Beach Boys and Pink Floyd unwarranted though.

Even Robert Smith would surely think this was ludicrous.

Not one New Order or Depeche Mode album on the list? LOL I will it was nice to see Disintegration that high albeit crazy. Also nice seeing The Mats’ Pleased to Meet Me and Tim so high.

Well , I'm still trying to process the fact that they think System of a Down's Toxicity is better than Rubber Soul , and Led Zeppelin IV . What universe am I in ? And , as Joe said , apparently Prog Rock doesn't exist , at least in Paste's universe . I tell you who else doesn't exist in their universe : Frank Zappa , Santana , Elvis Costello , Peter Gabriel , Deep Purple , The Doors , Dire Straits , XTC , Cream , Jethro Tull , 10 CC , Gladys Knight & the Pips , The Four Tops , The Temptations , Little Feat , Roxy Music , Procol Harum , Elvis Presley , Frank Sinatra , and on and on . Anyway , it's always entertaining listening to you dissect these lists . Cheers !!!!

This list is pretty bizarre but it’s better than the Apple Music list for sure

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I agree with both of you that many of choices are great, but the ranking doesn't quite add up. By the way, the first list of this kind I ever saw was for Rolling Stone magazine's 20th anniversary, where they ranked the top 100 albums from 1967 to 1987. It'd be interesting to see if you guys want to dive into that one. I was a teenager at the time and found it quite influential.

Very cool to see Camaron's La Leyenda Del Tiempo. Amazing record...I requested the song that gives name yo the album for one of the monthly Patreon's playlist

I would love to hear your personal top 300 lists!

This list is SO much better than Apples. I am slightly surprised (although maybe it's only me) that they find no room for either R.E.M or Crowded House....

Joe has a really hard time with the words "high" and "low" for these lists such that the viewer has no idea where he's saying an album should be placed.

No In Utero? The Bends? Achtung Baby? Keep It Like a Secret? Oh well, life goes on....

Super refreshing list. Even picks like Disintegration being #2 is wild but I respect it

Also imho ‘Talking Book’ & ‘Music Of My Mind’ are both superior to ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ as great as it is

No Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jelly Fish Spilt Milk, Cars first album, Supergrass first album, breakfest in America, Todd Rundgren Something Anything...

This list is a large improvement from Apple's. There's more variety and more welcoming of older albums. The top 10 was a little weird but they picked a much better album for the number 1 spot.

Great to see Disintegration by The Cure as high as 2. Disappointed to see the likes of OK Computer and Dark Side of the Moon as low as they were So many great albums overlooked, but I guess they wanted some variety with genres and eras Great video. Great work once again guys. Cheers!

The Replacements' "Tim" made it to 41 - maybe they heard the good remix? And their 'Let it Be" landed at 76. This was better than I expected for these two great records, and I'll stop while I'm ahead. There is little use trying to figure out most of the rest.

I would probably have quite a few of the albums that were skipped through in my top 100. Always nice to see BOC make an appearance.

I started out liking this list, but it became apparent it's just subjective chaos to a fault.

The Idler Wheel is goated!

The Cure at #2 greatest album ever created is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen on one of these lists.. Also, *THREE* Fiona Apple albums? !? and not a single one from Rush, Alice in Chains, Depeche Mode? F off, list :D - seems like someone was trying WAY too hard to be obscure to show how clever they are

Seeing 'Hissing of Summer Lawns' at 52 is cool. One of my favorite albums. I hope we see the Ramones deep dive someday. Override the polls Jason!

‘I Want You’ is my favorite Marvin record…his work with Leon Ware is sublime

Weird to see how these lists change over time. Hounds of Love was nowhere near the top of any of these lists even 10 years ago. Is that because of Stranger Things?

“People just think this album’s cool to like because it doesn’t have any good songs on it” 💯

The Meters ‘Rejuvination’ is great, maybe their best, and Aquemini is my favorite ‘OutKast’

METERS REJUVENATION IS SUCH A RIPPER! So cool they put it on the list. Maybe my personal favorite funk record

All three (Paste, Apple, Rolling Stone) lists are really poor, and I suspect are partially made that poor intentionally just to stir up conversation and draw attention to the publication. I'm waiting for the Tastes Like Music top 500 albums for the definitive list!

Nebraska is not overrated

When are you guys going to review Laura Nyro's catalogue?

I'm surprised y'all aren't familiar with Dreaming My Dreams by Waylon. Interested to hear your thoughts about some of his other albums, Jason. Any favorites?

LIVE THROUGH THIS ahead of NEVERMIND?

I feel like this list is more audacious compared to a lot of the other lists.

This is so much better than Apple, or even the more recent Rolling Stone lists. It's still not great, but better.

Any "greatest" list will suffer from personal preferences, but I agree with Jason's opinion. There's no need to include an album that wouldn't even make your top 8 list. I would go on to say that if you plan to list more than about 3 to 5 albums from a single artist on your "greatest albums" list, then you're probably compling the wrong list. If you're going to wave your favorite artist's flag that hard, then you should just limit your list to a specific genre, or time period, or simply the best albums by that artist.

With multiple placements by such artists as Bjork and Fiona Apple appearing on the list .. where is Tori Amos at???? Surely, any of her first four albums alone would deserve proper recognition?!

One of these lists finally admitted that country music is a valid art form!

I agree with Joe, the Apple list at least you knew the pattern and what their formula was. This seems like some random person's list of albums they like. It doesn't seem like selection by a committee or some type of formula. Albums are all over the place here and some are just very poorly misplaced. I personally don't care for these lists but thought I'd weigh in anyway.

Better than Apple but there’s 200 more albums to play with! Much better than Apple. Good to see Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada. Someone is clearly a Twin Peaks fan too. I now realise that you guys would hate my Top 100!

excellent list overall. hissing is actually my favorite joni album.

Everybody is different. For example, On The Beach is my fav Young album. I think this list is better than the Apple one (not difficult) in terms of the content. However, the order appears ridiculous to me - like they (ironically) just hit shuffle when publishing this list. Stuart.

pleased to see Burial and Reign in Blood in there, weird top 10.

I love Wilco and always laugh with Joe's reactions

Agree with Bjork's Post > Homogenic, finally not alone!

I know you can't reveal here when Prince week will drop but can you say if it's soonish?! Asking for a friend!!😂❤

I wouldn't put The White Album ahead of Rubber Soul. Why does Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" never get on these lists? OR did I miss it? Crazy innovative and influential record.

I hadn't even heard of Fishmans until you talked about the Rate Your Music top albums. I really like Long Season, but it is, on its best day, with the wind at its back, a dark horse candidate for my top 300. Number 7? Get f'd.

These "Greatest Albums of All Time" lists are way too broad to properly evaluate albums and be taken seriously. It would make more sense to rank the "Top 100 Rock Albums from the 70s" or "Top 100 Hip Hop/Rap albums from the 90s", which is what you try to do on this channel. It's too difficult to compare albums from different genres and time periods. I think it would be more interesting for famous artists to list their favorite 100 albums of all time than these media publications.

I know you have some time constraints; but there were so many notable albums that you didn't comment on.

I remember I would often buy Mojo or Uncut but Paste was one I would read while sitting in Borders & enjoying a coffee ☕️. The articles weren't compelling & often didn't include interviews. Kinda of a dull magazine & really favored bands that were supposed to be good but in reality were mediocre !

I think this list's biggest flaw is the placements of the albums. But at least they have solid representation of country, funk, electronic, and non-english music. In my opinion the variety on this list makes it far better than Apple's

Very fun to see something from The Miracles/Smokey Robinson but is that the best choice? The best album Smokey Robinson has delivered? Tell me your thoughts!

I love the only Janelle Monae album on the entire list being the one when she stopped being great.

Great video as always, but that was a rough list.

The number 3 and number 2 slots are based.

Amazing Grace is a kind of a live album. She wanted to do a gospel album, but wanted to get the feeling of a church with a gospel choir. So they decided to record it live in a church over a few days to give it that feel. But it was not recorded to be a concert album. There is a critically acclaimed documentary about it produced a few years back which may be why it's inclusion on this Paste list. All in all it is an absolute wonderful passionate album.... But, I still would not consider it one of the best 300 albums of all time, and as you pointed out not even her best of 1972

Calling Carrie & Lowell “dreadfully boring” is wild. It’s an album written for his mother who passed away. It’s not like it’s meant to be exciting.

On the Beach rules! You’re insane.

Better than apple's, but I didn't hate their list that much to begin with so I'm fine with both Edit: Joe, you really need to give The life of Pablo another spin, it's a great album and my personal 2nd favorite Kanye album, not quite the masterpiece that College dropout is, but it's fantastic and underrated IMO.

Joe & #236! A small victory. I couldn’t believe my ears. 😮😊

that was just for you Daddy 😂

Disintegration the best album ever, bitches :P

Many of the placements on this list are totally wack but I do agree that I like the variety and the representation of some different things even if they aren't necessarily things I would pick. It's still a mess but I am going with Paste as the best even if I can't get over the fact that they put that Britney Spears album in there. I remember thinking that wasn't even a good album and obvious hits + filler collection when it came out, there's no way 25 years later that it sounds like anything but that. There does seem to be a lot of over-correction with this list as far as putting past agreed upon classics fairly low on the list. That aspect is annoyingly transparent. Even with my complaints this list is still my favourite of the three. 😂

Joe would like "Another Green world" by Eno.. amazing guitar solos

33:48 i really wished if you guys didn't Skip and talk about the 84. Album because this album getting so much famous the last years and i never understood the hype

The Cure's Disintegration should be higher, the PJ Harveys should all be in the top 30 and the Deerhunter is about 70 spots too low. Other than that, not a bad list.

Aretha's Amazing Grace is a live gospel album. It is a stunning album. Surprised you both dismissed it so easily. You don't need to be a gospel aficionado to love it. The shows were filmed, but not released for decades due to a syncing issue that they were recently able to fix, it is worth watching. It is amazing how artists fall in and out of fashion. Everyone has their artist they can't believe gets snubbed. For me it is Elvis Costello. For a lot of his career he was the critics darling, but somehow he has fallen out of favor and I am not completely sure why. Too much of a catalogue making him seemingly unapproachable? Not having that singular album that can be added to a list with no discussion. Or maybe he hasn't gone dormant for long enough for people to miss him? He will be missed and hopefully appreciated when he is sadly gone.

Slightly better than Apple but still some massive baffling choices and placements

Why no comment on some of the albums? I saw Wire-Chairs Missing. Way too low!

Another Green World is a great record

Paste followed up a horrible Top 100 by Apple with an also awful Top 300 of their own. What joy.

I still prefer my old Rolling Stones from 2003. Has there been a better one since?

Even though I have listened to about 280 of these 300 - there are some big misses on this list, but FAR superior than that Apple crap.

Raw Power definitely deserves to be in the top 100

Better than Apple's but still embarrassing. Cosmo's Factory? Damn the Torpedoes? Number of the Beast? Today? Madman Across the Water? I could go on. They included live albums so where's Judy Garland Live at Carnegie Hall or Allman Bros at Filmore East?. Why isn't Classical music represented?

Dirty Computer is my fave Monaé album

best album of all time is ok computer, abbey road or dark side of the moon in not order

Aquemini is underrated, listen To it again, incredible

My favourite Stevie record and my no. 1 album of all time - and I still think this list is whack 😂 I used to look up to these magazine lists when I was younger- now I see right through them. Especially how much opinions change based on what suddenly becomes 'popular'. Americans didn't care at all for Kate Bush for years- until Stranger Things has made her insanely popular! I barely saw her name on these types of lists 10 or 15 years ago. My advice to anyone younger than me (late 30s 😄) who looks up to these kinds of lists, use them as an introduction or stepping stone to listening to more stuff out there. These lists are intended to pee off as many people as they can!

3 PJ Harvey albums is just fine by me.

This was much better than apple apple was over half rap were not influence only people that were growing up in the 90s would get this

I think the only reason this list seems better than the Apple list is because Paste had another 200 albums to play with.

What is this On The Beach slander? :p Genuinely is my favourite Neil Young record and way better than After The Gold Rush (which is probably in my top 10 NY but not top 5). His songwriting is better here (Walk On and the whole second side in particular) and his guitar playing on the title track is amazing.

I get the hate for putting it above after the gold rush but on the beach still has a lot to offer . Side 2 is memorizing starting from the title track which is a top ten Neil young song. It’s all just so haunting. A top 5 Neil album 🫡