Apple Music's Top 100 Albums of All Time is a Disaster | Reaction

No 90's rock pretty much unrepresented on this list.

Greatest disappointment about the list is its largely US/ UK myopia. This was a golden opportunity to introduce several classic albums/ sounds from around the world to curious listeners but it was largely squandered. Hopefully they course-correct when they do their singles list.

Obviously this list is awful but am slightly surprised the beloved Ed Sheeran failed to make the list 😂

i hate using the word "woke", but once i waddled through the list, i found it incredibly woke and uninspiring. but oh well. most top 100 lists i just laugh at anyways.

why do you hate kraftwerk so much? i wouldnt put TEE in the top 100, but if you are going to go with an influential and important album by kraftwerk that inspired so many different artists and genres, youd have to go with computer world. i would definitely put that in the top 100.

- Hotel California ranked at 99 with Usher ranked above it?!?!?! C’mon man, this list is bllsht!!! I’m already out!!!

for me ok computer should be in the number 1

You guys lost me at Hotel California

Yeah, they really need to stop calling these lists "greatest" or "best" of all time. They are the nothing more than the favorite albums of the specific people voting for them.

Goodbye yellow brick road is Elton at his peak top 15 at worst

I understand the outrage for Blond but it’s my personal favorite album of all time. I’ve listened to probably thousands of albums at this point so I’m not just saying this based on a small sample size but, this is a very important album. It has influenced nearly every R&B album since its release and countless hip hop albums as well. It is very important album on identity, nostalgia, and letting go. It might not be for you guys but in terms of impact, it’s very high relative to many other albums on this list and there’s a reason that it has cultivated such a cult fan base for him. I initially didn’t like it as much as channel orange either but it has grown on me significantly since (obviously) because on repeat listens, nearly every song can grab you and become a favorite (aside from the interludes). It’s a groundbreaking album and will age extremely well. You can go check rate your music or something for better explanations but even there, where a much more wider audience exists and votes on things, has it in near the top 50 from tens of thousands of votes so it’s probably more it’s just not for you and not that it’s just an okay album

PASTE magazine have just released their top 300 albums of all time - a pretty decent list. Worth a video?

Was this list based on the number of album purchases on iTunes? If so, that ranking is based on that segment of users that stream music on iTunes and therefore excludes a huge population of music buyers.

Get outta here to kraftwerk? "Taste in music" more like trash taste in music unsubscribed😂

I understand the list makers trying to diversify across the music spectrum but, in my opinion, they produced a list with an abundance of albums that haven't stood the test of time. I mean, there are certainly some true classics here, but there are a bunch of newer records that are really just "safe" choices. A lot of these albums are not particularly original. There's a kind of edginess that the best albums have that may not click with listeners for a few years. Or, it isn't until much later that you realize how original it was for the time and you can see its influences. A lot of these newer records are too recent to have settled in.

One Bowie is not enough.

Black heavy list. I guess after years of old white rockers picking albums...

burial ABSOLUTELY deserved to be on here

I can't think of an appropriate word to describe how bad this list is.

No Soundgarden superunkown, pearl jams ten, jeff Buckleys Grace or literally ANY Fiona friggin Apple album????

Any list that includes any music from the insanely overrated Taylor Swift is by definition, null and void. Unless the category is Top albums full of unmemorable songs.
You listen to one of her songs and you have forgotten it, by the time the song ends - sometimes before the song ends.

Apple Music should never make list of best anything, period.

No Elvis! The clash copied his first LP cover too show how he influenced them! Apple can’t even get their watch made well. These Lp’s suck on the most part. George M. Must be Tim Cook’s favorite artist.

Maybe Google, General Electric, Tesla, General Motors, and Mercedes should put a list out.

oh she is that much better, tragic take

This is not a very good list who put this list together I think they need to go back and reexamine good and great albums

Honestly although some picks were stupid asf(Taylor swift, frank ocean, artic monkeys, etc) it’s not that bad of a list as y’all were making it.

Not a rap fan so yup this is bad for me and not in a cool Jackson way.

Joe said no post punk but they did have The Strokes - This is it. But yeah overall really bad list.

Where the fuck is the ramones ?!?!

Too many rap and hip hop albums . This list is so biased to the mainstream genres .

And how is apple ranking these ? Is it by influence , popularity , critical acclaim I don’t understand . Some inclusions on here are very misplaced . Blond at number 5 ? Come on

Downward spiral is a pretty based pick though i will give the list that .

Hot take but queen is dead is not the best smiths album . I’m a huge smiths fan and it’s probably the one I return to the least . Never had no one ever is a really mediocre song and although the rest of the album is incredible , queen is dead being one of the best openings to any album ever followed by the wonderful frankly mr shankly and then followed up by one of the best smiths songs ever recorded i know its over . cemetary gates is a pefect song but then being followed by never had no one ever completely kills the flow of the album for me even though its picks up in the second half with the incredible singles , my favourite being the boy with the thorn in his side . i just think the smiths debut is a much better album experience in every single way . reel around the fountain is the best smiths songs theyve ever written and that opening drum beat by mike joyce is incredible its just an otherwordly song the way johnnys guitar intertwines with morrisseys vocals is utter perfection . and the album contains way better singles than the queen is dead with them being this charming man , hand in glove and what difference does it make . and the album resolves way better with suffer little children the it does with some girls are bigger than others . lets be honest some girls has one if the best guitar riffs ever recorded but are utterly undermined by morrissey's pointless lyrics about the varying sizes of women , like really is that the best lyrics he could come up with for that 😂 suffer little children is the perfect closing song as it conveys such a haunting but beautiful message honouring the children who died on the moors of Manchester. i dont see why all the hype is around the queen is dead when the debut is far superior.

This list is so wild I can't even. How can they be so right but then also so wrong?

I'd put 10 Beatles albums before Hotel California.

- I'd place Off the Wall or Bad over Thriller.
- No White Album or The Bends on a top 100 list is ridiculous.
- I wouldn't expect these albums to be on there but they're some of my personal favs:

English Beat - I just Can't Stop It
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and The Cooked
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
Ariel Pink - Mature Themes
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Clearly picked by the HR department.
In Britain we have a catch all term that describes this kind of self congratulatory, "worthy", performative virtue signalling type behaviour and that word is 'WANK'!
This list is a load of wank!
Actually it was probably advised by a DEI algorithm at the behest of said HR department.
Wank!

These are two of the most pretentious music elitists I have ever seen

Best selling in no way correlates to being a good album, let alone one of the best. Back In Black sold tons, but it's a very mediocre album by a VERY mediocre band. Hell ... REO Speedwagon was more significant than AC/DC!

Yes, Guns & Roses sold a ton, but they were a half assed group whose hype infinitely exceeds their talent. As for impact, all they did was foster a bunch of crappy hard rock bands.

Winning a Grammy has never meant anything. Look at the list of Best New Artists, they're almost 100% crap, most never heard from again.

The Archies, Partridge Family, Millii Vanilli, etc all sold millions, huge hits ... and total crap.

this sounds like the male vocal fry semi-finals

No Who albums,Tommy, Who's Next,Quadrophinia!!

Rate my top 10 list:
1. Nevermind (Nirvana has always been my favorite grunge. Soundgarden , Aic, and Pearl Jam are close though).
2. Purple Rain
3. Blood on the Tracks
4. Pet Sounds
5. Abbey Road
6. The Bends (OK Computer 2nd favorite)
7. Ziggy Stardust
8. Physical Graffiti
9. The Black Parade (I grew up in the 2000s okay)
10. Grace (feel like this album has kinda went under the radar with time. I don’t really see it high up on many lists)

Favorite of 2024: Brat. It could potentially be top 50 for me all time.

I was hoping to see Johnny Cash Folsom Prison

Who in lanas field is better than her because calling NFR not a top 100 album of 2019 is an outrageous take it demolishes overrated albums like igor and titanic rising by miles in the same year it came out

Blond is a masterpiece though. Although I think Channel Orange is better.

I need to know about the kraftwerk beef lol