500 larger albums of all times

The 500 Greatest Albums off All Time ( 500 larger albums of all times ) was the cover of an special issue of the magazine Rolling Stone published in November 2003. The list was based on the votes of 273 musicians rock'n'roll, critics and people of the industry of the disc; each one proposing a list of 50 albums. Several kinds of music are in the list, of which the Rock, the Blues, the Jazz, the Hip hop, and the fusion of those.

This list suffers from a strong connotation of Anglo-American artists. Only one album in the list was produced in a nonanglophone country ( Trans-Europa Express train of the German group Kraftwerk #253)

Only 6 songs of all the albums of Signal 10 appear in the signal 100 of the 500 best songs given also by the magazine in 2004. Like has Rolling Stone (n°1), What' S Going One (n°4), London Calling (n°15), In My Life (n°23), God Only Knows (n°25), and has Day in the Life (n°26).

Statistics

Signal 10

1. Sgt. Pepper' S Lonely Hearts Club Band , The Beatles
2. Fart Sounds , The Beach Boys
3. Revolver , The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited , Bob Dylan
5. Drunk Rubber , The Beatles
6. What' S Going One , Marvin Gaye
7. Exiles one Hand Street , The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling , The Clash
9. Fair one Fair , Bob Dylan
10. The White Album , The Beatles

Artists appearing with the most albums in the list

1. The Beatles (11 including 4 in signal 10)
2. Bob Dylan (10 including 2 in signal 10)
2. The Rolling Stones (10 including 1 in signal 10)
4. Bruce Springsteen (8)
5. The Who (7)
6. David Bowie (6)
6. Elton John (6)
6. Led Zeppelin (6)
9. The Byrds (5)
9. Neil Young (5)
9. Otis Redding (5)
9. U2 (5)
9. Bob Marley (5 including 4 listed with Bob Marley and the Wailers)

Artists with the most percentage of their discography in the list

This list contains only the artists who have at least 3 albums in the list.

The Jimi Hendrix Experiment (3/3), Nick Drake (3/3), The Stooges (3/3), Eminem (3/3) and Big Star (3/3)
The Beatles (11/13) - 85% (including the American version of Meet the Beatles )
The Smiths (4/5), The Organizes (4/5), The Velvet Underground (4/5) - 80%
The Who (with Keith Moon) (7/9) - 77.78%
Led Zeppelin (6/8) and Cream (3/4) - 75%
The Who (7/11) - 64%
Bruce Springsteen (8/13) - 62%
Nirvana (3/5) and Simon and Garfunkel (3/5, by exluant their Greatest Hits album) - 60%
U2 (5/10), Roxy Music (4/8), Radiohead (3/6), The Doors (3/6), Talking Heads (4/8), and The Clash (3/6) - 50%
The Rolling Stones (10/23) - 47%
Creedence Clearwater Revival (3/7) and Michael Jackson (3/7) - 43%

Many albums for each decade

1950s or before - 29 albums (5.8%)
1960s - 126 (25.2%)
1970s - 183 (36.6%)
1980s - 88 (17.6%)
1990s - 61 (12.2%)
2000s - 13 (2.6%)

Internal bonds

500 greater songs of all times

External bonds

the list on the site '' Rolling Stone ''
the list on Rhino.com

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