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.