This is a list put together by Robert Pollard balloting the Rolling Stone magazine for the Greatest Albums.
I nicked this from the Hoffman site and it’s like all these lists but looking through the artists and albums I think he has nailed it.
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I love these things, especially as here, when it’s an artist who makes great music himself.
Cool to see The Who’s Sell Out getting shout out!
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Always love these lists for the debates and arguments they create. Good to see Wire well represented
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RS is a joke I would never read
Martin
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Reflects the age & tendencies of the readership by the looks of things unless no one’s made any music for 30 or 40 years?
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It’s a shadow of what it used to be but still often writes great stuff. Whst alternative do you suggest?
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The Naim forum ’What Are You Listening To’ , much more informative & not full of hipster music 
Seriously, it’s the best thread (by far) on the forum and can be a spark of inspiration when you’re scratching your head for what to put on next!
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Hipster music is a self-defined thing. “I don’t like this therefore…” “There is a lot of this in this magazine therefore…”
Some of the best music of this century I have discovered in the pages of RS - Kacey Musgrave springs to mind - along with some of the finest writing on climate and many other issues. Certainly music often seems a long way down the agenda but what they review is no less accurately reviewed for that. I try of it and don’t really “get it” - the new Bad Bunny album for example but they’re broader and more open minded than most UK publications and forums and don’t deserve cheap pejorative terms.
There are one or two albums in the list that I might consider putting into my top 50, but I’m afraid probably not many more than that. I certainly wouldn’t require all of the fingers of one of my hands to count the ones that I might select.
I am in the ‘older’ listener bracket, so most (but not all) of my choices would probably be from the 70s. However, I do have quite an eclectic taste in music so there would probably be a sprinkling of much more recent stuff in my top 50 as well.
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Didn’t realise my post contaned “cheap pejorative” 
so sorry if I’ve upset you.
RS is still rubbish compared with what it used to be years ago.
And I still stand by the ‘what are you listening to …’ being better than RS for me!
I was pleasantly surprised to see my most played album in at No.2.
Sheer Heart Attack by Queen was one of the first albums I bought as a teenager.
Hipster is up there with woke. It’s not upsetting but it’s also not really a thing and in any case has the exact opposite meaning of when it’s used as a pejorative. It is such a laughably wrong description of the music they cover one can only assume you’ve not read RS in at least a decade.
I have about 14. Not sure what the significance of the list is meant to me to be honest. Largely unsuccessful musician makes list. Contains stuff person does and doesn’t like. Contains brilliant stuff and stuff that is bewilderingly bad and, er, that’s it… Just like every other list then.
Read it last year during a flight, rubbish as far as I’m concerned.
What you must realise is that posts on forums are personal opinions, and that’s all mine are!
If you enjoy RS great, it’s just not for me 
It’s a funny list. How Queen can be at 2 and Wire at 3 defeats me. I cannot abide Queen and love Wire, but the whole thing seems totally random. How can anyone rate both Queen and Wire to highly. And where are The Smiths?
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Where they belong - not in a top 50.
But then I like Queen but cannot abide The Smiths. Lists are too much down to personal tastes.
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I like queen and the smiths!
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Yep, same here!
I think Robert Pollard is an interesting guy and I like some of his solo stuff and his recordings with Guided By Voices.
Any list with Wire 154 and One Year by Colin Blunstone is worth a few minutes of my time.
I’ve got everything in the list apart from the Godz and Roky Erickson which is soon going to be rectified.
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I love lists because they are interesting and point you towards something which you haven’t heard before. Robert Pollard’s list seems wilfully contrary in places (no-one could possibly think Satanic Majesties is the best Stones album, or Trompe le Monde the best Pixies album) but I am now going to track down Godz (who?)
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