Consensus Top 350 Albums of All-Time: 180. Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young and Crazy Horse (170 Viewers)

[titusbramble]

185 (tie). The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses (133 points)

@titusbramble #11
@Dreaded Marco #33
@Eephus #49
@zamboni #63
@Pip's Invitation #66

The Stone Roses is the debut studio album by English rock band the Stone Roses. It was recorded mostly at Battery Studios in London with producer John Leckie from June 1988 to February 1989 and released later that year on 2 May by Silvertone Records.

Despite not being an immediate success, the album grew popular alongside the band's high-profile concert performances, which also helped establish them as fixtures of the Madchester and baggy cultural scenes. The record's critical standing also improved significantly in later years, with The Stone Roses now considered to be one of the greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 11 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). It has sold over four million copies worldwide.

I first heard this during college when I went to visit one of my high school buddies at his school. I was blown away and still am today. Another record where there are no wrong answers for playlist choice.

Well it'll be Made of Stone. Close between that and I Am The Resurrection

 

[Dan Lambskin]

192 (tie). White Blood Cells – The White Stripes (131 points)

@Dan Lambskin #12
@rockaction #31
@Ilov80s #39

White Blood Cells is the third studio album by American rock duo the White Stripes, independently released by the Sympathy for the Record Industry on July 3, 2001. Recording took place in Memphis, Tennessee at Easley-McCain Recording over three days, and was produced by guitarist and lead vocalist Jack White. Production was rushed in order to capture a "real tense feeling" and the band's energy, and was their first album to be mastered in a studio.

Nice. Glad to see it. This album blew my mind when I first heard it. I had seen “Fell In Love With A Girl” on MTV, really liked it, and bought the album at a Target for some reason even though I figured it would probably be mediocre at best.

But when I put it in the stereo, “Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground” came on and my interest soared. Was this a punk Zeppelin? I like Zeppelin and love punk. Then “Hotel Yorba” played through my beater system and my just-moved-home-from-the-city-*** loved the countrified interlude. Then back to the rock. By the time I got through “Little Room” and its drop off into oblivion and cavestomp drumming I was completely giddy and totally rapt. This was something like I’d never heard.

So one of my musical loves thusly began. Brother and sister? Wife and lover? Red and white and black? Viva Detroit again in The Stooges (another fave of mine) tradition?!

All of it and then some. This was sublime. The eerie “The Union Forever” and the simple beauty of “We’re Going To Be Friends,” about childhood experiences without being too twee or ironic and then “Now Mary,” and then fin. I shook my head.

A masterclass of an album. The last great rock band, and Jack White, the last real rock star. Genius, entrepreneur, bat-maker, guitar-maker, vinyl aficionado and sometimes Londonite. What a band. What a story. Viva Detroit indeed.

Hard to pick a song here. I wonder what @Dan Lambskin thinks.

Let’s go with The Same Boy You've Always Known

 

[Pip's Invitation]

187 (tie). Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix Experience (132 points)

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@krista4 #32
@Mister CIA #52
@Uruk-Hai #58
@Dwayne_Castro #64

Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968. A double album, it was the only record from the Experience with production solely credited to Hendrix. The band's most commercially successful release and its only number one album, it was released by Reprise Records in the United States on October 16, 1968, and by Track Records in the UK nine days later. By mid-November, it had reached number 1 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, spending two weeks there. In the UK it peaked at number 6, where it spent 12 weeks on the British charts.

At the time of release, this was probably the most sonically innovative record to come along, and it still sounds fresh today. It’s not only relentlessly ambitious but relentlessly tuneful. It also features my #1 song from the covers countdown.

I haven’t decided what to choose for the playlist so I’ll wait a bit to see if any other suggestions come in.

 

[Ilov80s]

192 (tie). White Blood Cells – The White Stripes (131 points)

@Dan Lambskin #12
@rockaction #31
@Ilov80s #39

White Blood Cells is the third studio album by American rock duo the White Stripes, independently released by the Sympathy for the Record Industry on July 3, 2001. Recording took place in Memphis, Tennessee at Easley-McCain Recording over three days, and was produced by guitarist and lead vocalist Jack White. Production was rushed in order to capture a "real tense feeling" and the band's energy, and was their first album to be mastered in a studio.

Nice. Glad to see it. This album blew my mind when I first heard it. I had seen “Fell In Love With A Girl” on MTV, really liked it, and bought the album at a Target for some reason even though I figured it would probably be mediocre at best.

But when I put it in the stereo, “Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground” came on and my interest soared. Was this a punk Zeppelin? I like Zeppelin and love punk. Then “Hotel Yorba” played through my beater system and my just-moved-home-from-the-city-*** loved the countrified interlude. Then back to the rock. By the time I got through “Little Room” and its drop off into oblivion and cavestomp drumming I was completely giddy and totally rapt. This was something like I’d never heard.

So one of my musical loves thusly began. Brother and sister? Wife and lover? Red and white and black? Viva Detroit again in The Stooges (another fave of mine) tradition?!

All of it and then some. This was sublime. The eerie “The Union Forever” and the simple beauty of “We’re Going To Be Friends,” about childhood experiences without being too twee or ironic and then “Now Mary,” and then fin. I shook my head.

A masterclass of an album. The last great rock band, and Jack White, the last real rock star. Genius, entrepreneur, bat-maker, guitar-maker, vinyl aficionado and sometimes Londonite. What a band. What a story. Viva Detroit indeed.

Hard to pick a song here. I wonder what @Dan Lambskin thinks.

Let’s go with The Same Boy You've Always Known

Done

 

[Pip's Invitation]

185 (tie). The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses (133 points)

@titusbramble #11
@Dreaded Marco #33
@Eephus #49
@zamboni #63
@Pip's Invitation #66

The Stone Roses is the debut studio album by English rock band the Stone Roses. It was recorded mostly at Battery Studios in London with producer John Leckie from June 1988 to February 1989 and released later that year on 2 May by Silvertone Records.

Despite not being an immediate success, the album grew popular alongside the band's high-profile concert performances, which also helped establish them as fixtures of the Madchester and baggy cultural scenes. The record's critical standing also improved significantly in later years, with The Stone Roses now considered to be one of the greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 11 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). It has sold over four million copies worldwide.

I first heard this during college when I went to visit one of my high school buddies at his school. I was blown away and still am today. Another record where there are no wrong answers for playlist choice.

Well it'll be Made of Stone. Close between that and I Am The Resurrection

Added.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

183 (tie). Second Helping – Lynyrd Skynyrd (135 points)

@Val Rannous #20
@Uruk-Hai #28
@Dwayne_Castro #30

Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It features the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974.

Second Helping reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. The RIAA certified it Gold on September 20, 1974, and Double Platinum on July 21, 1987.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

183 (tie). Weezer (Blue Album) – Weezer (135 points)

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@MAC_32 #37
@Barry2 #50
@kupcho1 #55
@Dr. Octopus #59
Jeb #66

Weezer (commonly known as the Blue Album) is the debut studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on May 10, 1994, by DGC Records. It was produced by Ric Ocasek of the Cars.

The album received critical acclaim and reached number sixteen on the Billboard 200, and was certified 5× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2024. It remains Weezer's best-selling album, with more than 15 million copies sold worldwide by 2009. It has been named one of the best albums of the 1990s by several publications. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it number 294 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

 

[Dr. Octopus]

180 (tie). Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young and Crazy Horse (136 points)

@jwb #3
@Pip's Invitation #3

Rust Never Sleeps is the tenth album by Canadian American singer-songwriter Neil Young and his third with American band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records and features both studio and live tracks. Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio, while other songs originated in the studio. Young used the phrase "rust never sleeps" as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid artistic complacency and try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live.