Rolling Stone ranking: #17 Our score: 99.98 The overnight-success story of the 1990s, Nirvana's second album and its totemic first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," shot up from the nascent grunge scene in Seattle to kick Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard album chart and blow hair metal off the map... Read the Rolling Stone... Read more →

Rolling Stone ranking: #33 Original Our score: 91 "Our early songs came out of our real feelings of alienation, isolation, frustration – the feelings every­body feels between 17 and 75," said singer Joey Ramone. Clocking in at just over 28 minutes, Ramones is a complete rejection of the spangled artifice of 1970s rock. The songs are... Read more →

Rolling Stone ranking: #03 Our score: 97.33 "I don't see too much difference between Revolver and Rubber Soul," George Harrison once said. "To me, they could be Volume One and Volume Two." Revolver extends the more adventurous aspects of its predecessor – Read Rolling Stone Review Chris McJaggerly: I give Revolver a 33.  I’m... Read more →

Rolling Stone ranking: #35 Our score: 99.33 Read the Rolling Stone review here. Chris McJaggerly: I’m writing in January 2016, the month of David Bowie’s death.  Essays and podcasts about Bowie are everywhere.  Most of them talk about his persona and his costumes.  Too few of them delve deeply into his music.  Bowie... Read more →

Rolling Stone ranking: #06 Our score: 85.33 Excerpt from Rolling Stone: "In 1969 or 1970, I began to re-evaluate my whole concept of what I wanted my music to say," Marvin Gaye said. "I was very much affected by letters my brother was sending me from Vietnam..... Read full Rolling Stone review here. Tom Heerman Alright, I... Read more →