"What's your favourite Beatles album?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of The Beatles."

Wow, the Rolling Stones have released 500 albums? They really are on a roll.

If only King Crimson, Zappa, Aphex Twin, Talk Talk, put out ANYTHING as close enough in greatness to Harry Styles.

It's like they didn't want to be too biased toward classic rock and jazz, so they just went to the other extreme of including a bunch of inconsequential recent releases

Anthony not every list is going to have Death Grips at 1

Anthony, you can’t judge the whole list just because they didn’t have Total Xanarchy at #1.

Ranking 500 albums is just such a Herculean task, the number is way too large to accurately rank any of these albums anyway. This list was doomed to fail

You're a Beatles fan eh? What's your favourite album? - I would have to say "The Best of the Beatles." -Alan Partridge

The best album of all time is Crazy Hits by Crazy Frog, this is the truth

Rolling stone has made 3 versions of this list since 03 and STILL can’t put a single king crimson record on the list

I was shocked to see Billie Eilish's When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? on the list. It's a fine album, but way too recent to be considered amongst the 500 greatest.

The fact that they put drake in front of any radiohead album is a blow

The energy of every Rolling Stone list: Dad to daughter: "You know, I actually gave that Harry Styles guy of yours a listen and I'll admit he's got some good songs." Daughter: "Oh, cool, glad you liked it." Dad: "Actually he reminds me of Jackson Browne a bit. You know Jackson Browne? Oh you've gotta take a listen to this..."

The worst part of this list hands down is the fact that Rolling Stone continue to pretend that King Crimson don't exist

4:42 “Eagles Hotel Cali f o r n i a”

For being dated, the cover of Graduation looks like it was made in 2021

No Anthony, "Money Store wasn't in all 500 spots" is not a valid criticism

He mad because Yeezus is there instead of The Money Store

Tbh this list was doomed before they even started making it. Music and art in general is just way too subjective and fluid to rank. Especially when talking about comparing really good art with really good art.

Whatever you think about Hotel California, it's massive influence on music and pop culture cannot be denied. And it is pretty good.

the fact that there’s 500 albums from all different genres here and anthony has probably listened to them all and has something to say about them all is mind blowing to me

The fact that “The New CALassic” isn’t on there is a travesty.

If they were so concerned about “representing” the world’s music, why isn’t Clube da Esquina on this list? What many consider the greatest Brazilian album of all time.

We finally entered the "let's make everyone happy instead of picking what's really good" era.

Also, isn’t it cheating to include greatest hits compilation? Those aren’t albums.

But yes of course, the four continents: USA, South America, Africa and Japan.

Apparently Bad bunny and Harry Styles have released a better record than Tool, Boston, SOAD, Faith no More and Talk Talks whole discography... yeah a shocker right

Rolling stone also put Welcome to the Jungle as the greatest rock song of all time.........kill me

Boomers would burn down Rolling Stone HQ if they left the Eagles off of this list.

The fact that it's not Die Lit 500 times is what upsets me most

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon is at #55. There's something really wrong here

The inclusion of greatest hits albums might be the worst thing about this

If only Frank Zappa had an album as good as Drake, T Swift or Harry Styles...

Even boomers scoff at how out of touch Rolling Stone is. They've been irrelevant for decades.

I was getting ready to hear him shit on MBDTF for being in the 14th spot

i desperately wanna see fantanos top 500 albums, or at least 100 or 50

The fact that AM by arctic monkeys is on the list instead of “whatever people say that’s what I’m not” is an absolute tragedy.

Hard to believe Anthony thinks Nostalgia Critic's "The Wall" belongs on the list over Pink Floyd's version.

The lack of metal and prog albums makes this list invalid. Also love how the comments here say how King Crimson should be on the list: BECAUSE THEY SHOULD

*Doesn't even talk about the fact that Dark Side of The Moon is in the 40s*

That Harry styles and stooges “wtf placement” was literally the first thing I noticed too

Damn idk who Rolling Stone is but melon just ended their career with this review

The title itself, "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", is such an eye-roll. Too American-esque.

No albums by Swans, Ween, Coil, Igorrr, The Residents, Stereolab, Boredoms, and many more. Rolling Stone have never been right about anything. In fact, extremely few music critics have been right about anything.

their lack of metal bothers me. out of 500 albums only 9 were metal , from only 5 different bands(iirc). the highest metal album is Master Of Puppets just barely at the top 100. they left out Toxicity. Paranoid, the single most important album for heavy and dark music(not only metal) is below Taylor Swift's Red. no Slayer no Iron Maiden no Alice in Chains this list is a joke to metal

The list had no King Crimson, either. AND it knocked off Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica for two Taylor Swift albums jfc

I'm surprised "Toxicity" inst anywhere to be found on the list

TBH What's Going on is a solid #1 choice. It's just as relevant now as it was almost 50 years ago

This whole list change radiates, “How do you do fellow kids,” energy.

The fact that theres not a single king crimson album on the list is a crime against humanity

I was sad to see nothing by Gorillaz on the list, Demon Days and Plastic Beach are DEFINITELY BETTER than Chief

We deserve a pink moon classics review

The jazz placements on these lists are always bizarre. The lists are clearly made by people who mostly listen to rock and occasionally some jazz, so they through in a couple jazz albums to make sure they're included but they're always below rock and pop albums that frankly make no sense to be ranked above them.

Taylor Swift's Red album (#99) is higher than any Björk album on this list. Let that sink in.

Anthony isn’t laughing here. Those hoarse exhales are withholding large amounts of rage. I don’t blame him; this list has more questionable entries than a schizophrenic’s diary.

Being a jazz musician reading this was depressing

Anthony doesn’t understand how much millennials love graduation

Yea it is completely ridiculous how they included “greatest hits” albums and shit like that

"Philosophy of the World" should rank higher than anything Drake has ever put out

I disagree on Graduation. Great album back to front some of the beats and samples on there are so good. 808s is great in concept but songs like The Glory, Everything I Am, I Wonder and Good Morning are better than most songs on 808s.

The fact that this magazine didn't included King Crimson's debut album for three straight times (2003, 2012 and now 2020) is a crime against music, and there's a lot of albums that deserve to be in there too

Man, not including In the court of the crimson king is just criminal

Its also important to say that music is not only in english…as a mexican it bothers me that they don’t consider music that’s not in English. There is awesome music in spanish, in Portuguese, etc. Rolling Stone is very partial as always in its rankings

There's a considerable bias on this list. For instance, how is Master of Puppets the only metal album in the top 100?

The fact that Björk's Vespertine isn't on the list says more about the list than the tedious list itself does.

Apparently Harry styles has a better album than the entire discography of Tool and System of a Down. Alright then.

If you think about it, we can just put all of fantano's most highly rated albums together and have a "Theneedledrops 500 Greatest Albums list" right?

Well, here you go! (These are in no particular order, just the order I made off the top of my head.) 1. ‘The Black Parade’ - My Chemical Romance (2006) 2. ‘Fallen’ - Evanescence (2003) 3. ‘The Open Door’ - Evanescence (2006) 4. ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’ - My Chemical Romance (2004) 5. ‘Never-mind’ - Nirvana (1991) 6. ‘Dirt’ - Alice In Chains (1992) 7. ‘Hybrid Theory’ - ‘Linkin Park’ (2000) 8. ‘Meteora’ - Linkin Park (2003) 9. ‘Live Through This’ - Hole (1994) 10. ‘Nobody’s Daughter’ - Hole (2010) 11. ‘License To ill’ - Beastie Boys (1984) 12. ‘IGOR’ - Tyler The Creator (2019) 13. ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ - Billie Eilish (2019) 14. ‘American Idiot’ - Green Day (2004) 15. ‘Rage Against The Machine’ - Rage Against The Machine (1992) 16. ‘Led Zeppelin IV’ - Led Zeppelin (1971) 17. ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’ - Pink Floyd (1973) 18. ‘The White Album’ - The Beatles (1968) 19. ‘The Soft Parade’ - The Doors (1969) 20. ‘The Doors’ - The Doors (1967) 21. ‘The Marshal Mathers LP’ - Eminem (2000) 22. ‘The Marshal Mathers LP 2’ - Eminem (2013) 23. ‘Tha Carter |||’ - lil Wayne (2008) 24. ‘Tha Carter V’ - lil Wayne (2018) 25. ‘?’ - XXXTENTACION (2018) 26. ‘17’ - XXXTENTACION (2017) 27. ‘Bad Vibes Forever’ - XXXTENTACION (2019) 28. ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ - Kanye West (2010) 29. ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’ - Panic! At The Disco (2005) 30. ‘Pray For The Wicked’ - Panic! At The Disco (2018.

So they didn't include In The Court Of The Crimson King, one of the most acclaimed and influential albums of the 20th century?

Anthony scrolls past The Downward Spiral without saying anything me: *screams in industrial*

Graduation is the best Kanye album in my opinion. It’s aged the best and it’s his best album for non hip hop fans to get into hip hop

"Honestly surprised by the lack of Corey Feldman on this list" -Melon Amazing quote 👏

Rolling stones list before 1.(Bob) Dylan 2.(Bob) Dylan 3.(Bob) Dylan 4.(Bob) Dylan 5.(Bob) Dylan

You didn’t even mention that Arcade Fire’s Funeral just barely squeezes onto the list at 500.

It might not be a good list for someone who's already deep into their music fandom journey, but it is a good starter kit. My grandma bought the huge ass book of this, and it's kind of what got me really into hunting down all of these different albums. Next thing you know, I was going down the Last FM rabbit hole, Wikipedia rabbit holes, eventually I subscribed to your channel.

As I love the 2012 list and have been collecting everything I can from it, when this 2020 list came out, you could literally see the soul leave my eyes.

I love Harry but this is disgusting. So is Drake's 'Take Care' beating out 'Pink Moon'.

Anthony, you can’t just threaten to kill the families of everyone who made this list just because To Be Kind wasn’t #1.

My favorite Neil Young album , "On the Beach", finally made the list.

As soon as you mentioned there were *compilations* on this list, my mind was blown. COMPILATIONS 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 ALBUMS

I have to agree with you melon, Fruit Salad by the Wiggles should not have been #1. Top 10 maybe but definitely not 1.

If Total xanarchy is not top 10 this is not a valid list 😤😤😤 on my momma

The only good thing about this list is listening to it, without reference to rating, and discovering new sounds and artists.

Angelic 2 the Core not being number one is one of the biggest injustices in the music industry.

Hotel California being ranked before Led Zeppelin II is a crime against humanity

Lists like this are always a joke. Fun to go through as a reminder to listen to certain artists/albums though.

Im actually surprised not any Animal Collective album made it, not even MPP. Personally I love Spirits They are gone, probably one of the greatest pieces i have ever heard, but I guess that is only me.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about 50 Cent's GRODT being on here, let alone it being at 280

We want to see a Anthony Fantano Greatest 500 Albums of all time List. #makeithappen

Rolling Stone is a joke, always has been.

I agree with almost everything Melon said in this video, but Hotel California was a summertime thrill in the 70s whether you like the Eagles or not it’s an important piece of rock history and I’ll always love their work because my grandma showed them to me as a kid

I just realized that Rush never put out a better record than Fine Line

Dude how can The Rolling Stones release that many albums, they’re definitely older than I thought. 🤔🤔🤔

Nevermind better than Kid A and Ok Computer....... *okey?* Abbey Road the best beatles album.... *mmmm???* In the Court of the Crimson King doesn´t appear *_Chicken Little has left the chat_*

Dude, I really do like Extraordinary Machine. Admittedly, I still need to listen to Fiona Apple's more critically acclaimed stuff, but that was a nice album, especially as her career shifted from the 90's to the 2000's, and I love how playful both the music and lyrics are on it.

Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2019 #23 Harry Styles - Fine Line A few months later.... Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time #491 Harry Styles - Fine Line Makes sense...

We need an Anthony Fantano 500 greatest albums of all time list.

I love Extraordinary Machine... Even if it's Fiona's weakest one... It's a pretty body of Work!

I was shocked that Bob Marley's "Legend" was #48 on the list. Literally just a greatest hits album that completely ignores everything The Wailers did before "Catch a Fire".

Last time around The Beatles dominated the top 20 of the list. Now only Revolver and Abbey Road meet the criteria. There's so many albums ahead of Sgt Pepper that should not be ahead of it too. Especially since some of those albums were heavily influenced by Sgt Pepper