Monday, March 29, 2010

1001 Albums You Must Hear vs Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums

What do the “1001 Albums You Must Hear before You Die” book and the Rolling Stone Magazine “The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” have in common?
315 albums.
The Rolling Stone list has 185 albums absent from the longer list, but 46 of those are compilations, a category that was not included in the 1001 Albums list.
So it is more accurate to say that the Rolling Stone selection includes 139 albums that did not make it to the 1001 Albums selection.
107 artists released those 139 albums. Most of them have other albums mentioned by the 1001 Albums list. The Beatles, for example, have 7 albums in the 1001 list. In the Rolling Stone list, all these 7 are mentioned, plus another 4.
There are however 27 artists that are only mentioned by Rolling Stone. Jackson Browne is mentioned with 3 albums, No Doubt and The Meters have 2 albums each. The other 24 artists include Barry White, Graham Parker, Steve Miller Band and Weezer with one album each.
Sources: 
1001 Albums
RS 500 Albums

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