I believe in an effort to attract younger readers, Rolling Stone have recently revamped their Top 500 list, adding more contemporary and R ‘n’ B artists. Can’t see that leading to many on here, including me, changing their lists. Off the top of my head, here‘s my top 12:
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde
Born To Run
Darkness
Blue - Joni
Otis Blue
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne
Blood On the Tracks
Hotel California
Aja - Steely Dan
Old No 1 - Guy Clark
In no particular order.
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
Jackson Browne - The Pretender
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Bob Dylan - Desire
Neil Young - Harvest
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Edited when I realised I could choose 12.
I'm old...& I like music that is easy & fun to listen to, has a good beat & is great to dance to...& that's not offering an apology...
Well, if I remove Bruce and Bob, that will leave me some space to include
I See a Darkness
White Blood Cells
Suicide
On a tedious car journey last year Mr J and I did our top ten, excluding Bruce & Bob, on he grounds that if we included those two there wouldn't be much room for any others!
This is the list, in no particular order
Motown Chartbuster vol 3
Supremes Sing Motown
Otis Blue
Leonard Cohen (first album)
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou
The Pretender - Jackson Browne
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Squeezing Out The Sparks - Graham Parker
Kate & Anna McGarrigle (first album)
As I am allowed 12 for the purposes of this exercise, I will add Born to Run and Western Stars. If I could stretch to 13 and have a Bob, it would be Desire.
Let’s see... 12...
Born to Run
Darkness
Otis Blue
Gris Gris
Blood on the tracks
Revolver
Car Wheels on a gravel road
Townes Van Zandt
Closing Time
Velvet Underground and Nico
Moondance
The Band
@Brown Eyed Boy that‘s one fine list you’ve got there!
Sgt. Peppers
Everything else
RS is bullshit now.
My Top 10 as of this moment, in no particular order....
Born to Run
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Exile on Main Street
August and Everything After
Blonde on Blonde
Plastic One Band
Highway 61
Sticky Fingers
No Coode
This Year's Model
Stay Positive