My Spring Project- Listen to Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 500 Albums List

Rolling Stone put out this list of albums in October 2020. They did this list in the 1980s as well. I had a subscription back in the 1980s. They published these lists in the magazine before they made them coffee table books. I was a teenager in the 1980s and read Rolling Stone for those bands that I didn’t hear on the radio. The way to hear music back then was to wait for the radio to maybe play a song you want or buy albums. So back then, I read the Top 500 list, looked for how the favorites ranked then threw the magazine out.

There were a lot of albums that I heard of but never heard.

They say as you get older, you get set in your ways. I’m trying to open my world. So I’m going to listen to these albums. No matter how bad, I will listen. No matter if I only know the hit, I will learn an artists full story of the album.

The first thoughts:

This list is very 1990s heavy. If I remember right, the 1980s list was 1960s heavy. Nostalgia. I knew of many of these albums, scoffed at many, never heard of a few. The plan is to finish the list in the next two months.

The definition of album needed to be clarified. Boxed sets or greatest hits should not qualify. Album should be seven to fifteen songs, thirty-five minutes to eighty minutes.

To the list’s credit, I have found some unexpected treasures so far.