Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, 2020 Reboot

When the first RS 500 came out in 2003, people were talking about the “death of the album.” The album —and especially the album release — is more relevant than ever. (As in 2003, votes were vis mere allowed for compilations and greatest-hits albums, mainly because a well-made compilation can be just as coherent and significant as an LP, because compilations helped shaped music history, and because many hugely important artists recorded their best work before the album had arrived as a prominent format). The reboot of the RS 500 includes 86 albums from this century, and 154 are new additions that weren’t on the 2003 or 2012 versions. The classics are still the classics, but the canon keeps getting bigger and better. vis mindre