Inside Our New 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List
In the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we dig into Rolling Stone’s brand-new list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Brittany Spanos (who will be hosting a separate upcoming podcast series focused on the list, produced with Amazon Music) joins Jon Dolan, Rob Sheffield, and host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. To hear the entire episode, press play below, or download and subscribe on on iTunes or Spotify.
The discussion focuses on the difference between this list (which was topped by Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On) and the original 2003 list (which was led by the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), the ideas behind the revamp, online reaction to it, the voting process, changing tides in critical tastes, how the new list better represents newer and more diverse music, and much more.
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