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4: Prince & The Revolution, "Purple Rain" Definitely one of my favs. Having a full band gives it a stripped-down, fuller sound compared to "Sign O' The Times". Lets Prince's vocals shine through that much better too. Almost wish I hadn't watched the movie because it's so goofy. #applemusic #top100

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Just starting Purple Rain and I gotta say fuck all these ultra special expanded deluxe remastered editions. I know it's up to the labels more than the streamer but please just leave the original version up too. Extras are cool but the greatest albums are more than the sum of their parts.

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5: Frank Ocean, "Blonde" Undeniably beautiful, not top 5 material for me though. I'm not finding much about lasting impact. IDK if it broke new ground or just executed everything really well. Which is not a knock. Everyone makes a burger but almost nobody makes a great one. #applemusic #top100

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6: Stevie Wonder, "Songs in the Key of Life" This has grown on me since I first listened to it all the way through for the RS 500. It's clearly a huge undertaking and the scale and breadth of styles is impressive. I still think it's a lot to get through in a single sitting. #applemusic #top100

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7: Kendrick Lamar, "good kid, m.A.A.d city" Hands down one of my all-time favorite albums. Changed the way I looked at hip-hop. It's poignant and honest and tells this beautiful, sad story. It feels intensely personal and most important: is greater than the sum of its parts. #applemusic #top100

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8: Amy Winehouse, "Back to Black" I think the production lets this down. Even with "hi-res lossless" it sounds like Amy is at the other end of a long hallway and the band is in another room further away. Doesn't do her voice justice. Still not top 10 material to me though. #applemusic #top100

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9: Nirvana, "Nevermind" It's weird growing up with this album and not realizing what a huge paradigm shift it caused until decades later. It stripped rock to it's bare essentials, and marked a huge turning point from the hair metal and synth pop of the 80s. Thankfully. #applemusic #top100

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10: Beyonce, "Lemonade" Wooo Top 10! This isn't even really a genre I'm into but I fucking love this album. It takes so many styles and so many influences and just meshes them all perfectly. And it's oozing with the kind of confidence normally reserved for rap and AC/DC. #applemusic #top100

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11: Fleetwood Mac, "Rumours" Everyone gets caught up in the context of the relationship drama going on behind the scenes when this album was made, but I think even without that it's still just really beautiful and well made. Catchy as hell too for something so serious. #applemusic #top100

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12: Radiohead, "Ok Computer" RS has Kid A higher but I think I agree. IMO this album showed everyone that Radiohead was a generational musical force to be reckoned with, not just another ephemeral "alternative rock" act. Left all those "The Bends" copycats in the dust. #applemusic #top100

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13: Jay-Z, "The Blueprint" Personally I prefer the Black Album to this one but no denying it's great. Loses steam a bit near the end IMO, and no need for a reprise of "Girlsx3". Production set the standard for a decade? Two? Still, better than Dylan, Blue, and Marvin? IDK man. #applemusic #top100

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14: Bob Dylan, "Highway 61 Revisited" I'm not a huge Dylan fan but this is a great album. Way more approachable than his earlier work. Fuller sound, tighter songwriting, and better mixing so the harmonica isn't 10x louder than everything else. #applemusic #top100

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15: Adele, "21" Love the audacity to put this directly above "Blue" but tbf it's 100x more pleasant to actually listen to. An entire album about a breakup should be a miserable slog but she also manages to nail the anger and defiance to bring a little fun to the pity party. #applemusic #top100

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16: Joni Mitchell, "Blue" I've listened to basically all her albums (RS loves Joni), including this one (multiple times), and I still don't get it. It literally just finished and I couldn't hum you a single song. There are no melodies. Shrill falsettos everywhere. Just awful. #applemusic #top100

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17: Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On" What a gorgeous album. The songs all flow together and it has this relaxed, subtle sound that makes it feel really honest and conversational. And of course it's every bit as poignant today as when it was released, because America. #applemusic #top100

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18: Taylor Swift, "1989 (Taylor's Version)" A great album but IMO it's rated a bit too high. It's impeccably well executed but not really breaking any new ground. She is extremely good at capturing a certain vibe though, which I think is what makes her such a cultural icon. #applemusic #top100

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19: Dr. Dre, "The Chronic" Definitely a landmark album. Dre almost single-handedly created the west coast sound, and also established himself as a great rapper and one of the premier eyes for talent in the industry. That's a lot for one album. Ranked slightly too high though. #applemusic #top100

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I'm taking a break but I just scrolled and saw the next album is "The Chronic". RS editors must be absolutely fuming at this list.

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20: The Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds" I liked this better this time around, but reading about it, seems like a lot of the innovation/impact was in recording and arranging techniques. IMO that's hard to really appreciate without a deep understanding of what came before it. #applemusic #top100

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21: The Beatles, "Revolver" I'm admittedly not a Beatles fan at all but I do like this album. It's so much more real and mature and musically interesting than their earlier work. A really massive change in the course of just a couple years, so full credit...to drugs. #applemusic #top100

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22: Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run" I appreciate the significance of Springsteen, but other than "Nebraska" I can never really get into his music. He's got such a distinctive sound it's practically his own genre. But there's only so many sad poems about New Jersey I can take. #applemusic #top100

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23: Daft Punk, "Discovery" Come on. I love this album, it deserves to be on the list, but not this high. It's not better than Ziggy. Not better than Low End Theory, not better than Dark Side. Not by any metric. #applemusic #top100

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24: David Bowie, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" I love this album because the premise and lyrics seem so silly on paper. Then you hear it and it just clicks. I think it's also one of Bowie's most approachable albums and that's a good thing. #applemusic #top100

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25: Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" IDK about music theory or jazz history or what 'modality' really means or any of that. What I do know is that this album is just gorgeous and a joy to listen to from beginning to end. Also apparently it influenced literally every genre? #applemusic #top100

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26: Kanye West, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" So Kanye turned out to be a total POS but to be fair the production here is off the charts. The problem with Kanye has always been his 5th-grade level lyrics. He gets outshone by someone else on nearly every track. #applemusic #top100

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27: Led Zeppelin, "II" Definitely one of the foundational albums of hard rock. I'm guessing this is maybe the only Zep album though and I'm not really sure how you justify it over the first one. I guess they came out so close together it's hard to say one was more influential. #applemusic #top100

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28: Pink Floyd, "The Dark Side of the Moon" One of the most hauntingly beautiful albums ever made. An absolute travesty to have it this low, because it's basically perfect in every way. Also hands-down the best album to get really stoned and lay on the floor to. Top 5 easy. #applemusic #top100

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29: A Tribe Called Quest, "The Low End Theory" Bought a copy of this last year and it has since become one of my favorite albums. Amazing production, great flow and lyricism. It's so laid back and chill. Just effortlessly cool. NGL I actually listened to it twice. #applemusic #top100

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30: Billie Eilish, "WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?" This is a really good album. It's sultry and funky and tender. But again, I don't see how you can justify saying it's better than Aretha or London Calling or Aquemeni. It's too sterile, too perfect, too engineered. #applemusic #top100

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31: Alanis Morissette, "Jagged Little Pill" Nah fuck all the way right off. I just started it but I've heard it before and it's fine, but there's no goddamn way it's better than a single one of the last dozen picks. #applemusic #top100

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32: The Notorious B.I.G., "Ready to Die" Yes it's a great album but the sex "skits" will never not be extremely cringey. Kills the momentum and it's just unnecessary on an album that's already almost 70min. All this real shit about drugs, violence, depression, then "lol BJs". #applemusic #top100

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33: Radiohead, "Kid A" Hilarious how critics hated this when it came out because it wasn't just more "OK Computer". It's not my favorite either but I gotta respect a band that makes the music they want to make even if it means losing some fans. Better than chasing the past. #applemusic #top100

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34: Public Enemy, "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" It's crazy how well it holds up as a whole. Chuck D's flow is remarkably tight and his lyrics are topical but somehow timeless. You can really hear how it influenced the whole genre for decades. #applemusic #top100

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35: The Clash, "London Calling" Insane album. It's punk but draws on so many other influences that it's never sounded dated. One of the most influential rock albums ever. 35 is way too low, easily a top 10 album. #applemusic #top100

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36: Beyonce, "BEYONCE" Beyonce undoubtedly one of the greatest vocalists of all time, but TBH ultra-polished, ultra-perfect get old really quickly for me. It starts to feel like a technical demonstration more than an expression of passion. I want more tracks like "Flawless". #applemusic #top100

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37: Wu-Tang Clan, "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" Really similar minimalist production to Illmatic, but the huge variety of MC sounds and styles adds the extra depth and texture I thought Illmatic was missing. It also just feels more real, more gritty. #applemusic #top100

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38: Carole King, "Tapestry" I knew the singer-songwriters would come eventually, the RS list is absolutely plagued by them. Luckily this album does not fall into most of those traps. These are simple songs, with catchy tunes and memorable lyrics and it's all the better for it. #applemusic #top100

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39: Nas, "Illmatic" I know this is one of the all-time great hip-hop albums, but I've never really loved the production. It's very minimalist and repetitive, to me it's underwhelming. Nas is rapid firing all these great rhymes over a simple beat and some tinkly xylophone? #applemusic #top100

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40: Aretha Franklin, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" For my money, Aretha has one of the best voices in all of music. It's beautiful, full, and just a touch "greasy" as she put it in "Muscle Shoals". Trying not to look ahead but I have a feeling this is ranked too low. #applemusic #top100

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41: Outkast, "Aquemini" Great album. Outkast basically created a genre, and this is them pushing the limits of it and sounding completely comfortable doing it. It draws on influences from a half dozen genres, and is equal parts cool, funny, and melancholy, and somehow it works. #applemusic #top100

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42: Janet Jackson, "Control" At first listen this just struck me as a quintessential 80s album, but after reading the great Wikipedia summary on its legacy I realize there's a lot more to it. Just goes to show that context can make a huge difference when listening to music. #applemusic #top100

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43: Talking Heads, "Remain in Light" Liked it better than this time around. Better sound system probably helps, there's a lot of texture here that's easy to miss. I still like "Speaking in Tongues" and "Stop Making Sense" better though. #applemusic #top100

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44: Stevie Wonder, "Innervisions" I want to like this album more than I do. I really love the funky tracks but the more melancholy ballads just never click for me. #applemusic #top100

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45: Bjork, "Homogenic" Bjork is an acquired taste that I have not acquired. Still, can't deny that she is utterly unique, and that she sings with more raw passion than practically anyone else. #applemusic #top100

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46: Bob Marley & The Wailers, "Exodus" What an unbelievably gorgeous album. Sadness, tenderness, love, hope. It's just so pure and honest. But it's also straightforward and catchy as hell. Not like the amelodic "singer-songwriter" schlock that RS fawns over. #applemusic #top100

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47: Drake, "Take Care" I thought Drake was supposed to be all about the feels but this album is surprisingly superficial. Turns out Drake mostly has feelings about how great Drake is. And his voice is annoying. RS rated it higher than "Paul's Boutique" too and both are wrong. #applemusic #top100

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48: Beasite Boys, "Paul's Boutique" Insanely well done on every level, and way ahead of its time. It's still mind blowing just how seamlessly the three of them rhyme together. Probably rated too low. #applemusic #top100

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49: U2, "The Joshua Tree" Starts out super strong, then peters out a bit. Definitely good but not better than several things they've rated it higher than. #applemusic #top100

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