#52 Davie Bowie, 'Station to Station' #RollingStoneTop500 More good Bowie, but a few weeks from listening I don't really remember much of it. 'Golden Years' is the only song I know from having 'ChangesOneBowie' on CD.

#51 Chuck Berry, 'The Great Twenty-Eight" #RollingStoneTop500 Weird to have a collection make this list but whatever, I've always liked Chuck Berry. A lot of these sound alike with the same intro (are the all 'Johnny B. Goode' but so what? I found myself singing along a lot.

Reflecting on having made it through the first 50 albums in #RollingStoneTop500 a few weeks ago: First, it's amazing how few of these I was familiar with. I said I wasn't going to quibble with the order but I definitely think some things are missing that shouldn't be.

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Hooray! I'm 10% of the way through #RollingStoneTop500. It took about 5 months so this whole project is going to take years. It's been extremely interesting and fun so far.

#50 Jay-Z, 'The Blueprint' #RollingStoneTop500 I really liked the first half of this then it kinda lost me. But very musical, and strong lyrics telling a story. 'Takeover' is a hell of a diss track "And all you other cats throwin' shots at Jigga, You only get half a bar, fuck y'all [n-words].'

#49 Outkast, 'Aquemini' #RollingStoneTop500 Very pleasing to have discovered this. Good rap and very funky and really good storytellin'.

#48 Bob Marley and the Wailers, 'Exodus' #RollingStoneTop500 This is probably all I've ever known about Reggae, but I dig it. I didn't know most of the songs, but certainly 'Jamming,' which I would have bet had no 'g' at the end, 'Three Little Birds,' and 'One Love' are classics for sure.

#47 Ramones, 'Ramones' #RollingStoneTop500 Great album that really captures (started?) Garage/Punk Rock. I don't think I ever heard the gentle 'I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend' before, it's really good. Speaking of production, the quality of the sound is amazingly good considering it was recorded for $600

#46 Paul Simon, 'Graceland' #RollingStoneTop500 All of these are good but I don't love it. I picked up the idea somewhere that Simon really wanted this to be cleanly produced. To me they seem overproduced, so mission accomplished I guess.

#45 Prince, 'Sign O' the Times' #RollingStoneTop500 Prince still doesn't do it for me. I did like 'If I Was Your Girlfriend,' I think.

#44 Nas, 'Illmatic' #RollingStoneTop500 Another one that needs more listens to really get into the lyrics. Not really my cup of tea but evocative of the 90s in New York. If you're from a culture that I'm clearly not.

#43 A Tribe Called Quest, 'The Low End Theory' #RollingStoneTop500 I really like this one. Nice rhymey fast rapping over a jazz bass line. Relatively clean lyrics. I really liked 'What?'

#42 RadioHead, 'OK Computer' #RollingStoneTop500 Another that doesn't really hit for me. Writing about this a few weeks after a listen I only really remember 'Exit Music (for a Film)'. I like its classical influence (apparently Chopin's Prelude Op 28, No. 4). It also reminded me of 'Figure 8' from

#41 The Rolling Stones, 'Let it Bleed' #RollingStoneTop500 Every song here rocks! I love 'Let it Bleed' and 'Country Honk' which I could have sworn was called 'Honky Tonk Woman' because it turns out to be a county version of it. Also, it's really called 'Honky Tonk WomEn'. Who knew?

#40 David Bowie, 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' #RollingStoneTop500 Every track is classical Bowie and great listening. But this is another concept album that I don't see working that way. Maybe it felt different in context when it came out

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#39 Talking Heads, 'Remain in Light' #RollingStoneTop500 I wasn't familiar with this album but it all sounds just like the Talking Heads songs I do know, all very catchy and danceable.

#38 Bob Dylan, 'Blonde on Blonde' #RollingStoneTop500 More great Dylan. I only knew 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 35', which is ridiculous, and 'Just Like a Woman' which was apparently controversial.

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#37 Dr. Dre, 'The Chronic' #RollingStoneTop500 While there are lots of nasty words this is fairly approachable rap, rather fun and funky. And introducing Snoop Doggy Dog. Plus silly things like 'The $20 Sack Pyramid' and "The Doctor's Office"

#36 Micheal Jackson, 'Off the Wall' #RollingStoneTop500 Still not an MJ fan. "She's Out of My Life" is a good ballad, and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" takes me back, but I don't much like it.

#35 The Beatles, 'Rubber Soul' #RollingStoneTop500 Not my favorite Beatles album, but still lots of classic songs: 'Drive My Car,' 'Norwegian Wood,' 'Nowhere Man,' and Michelle are all songs I know and love. 'Run for Your Life' is disturbing and I hope not reflective of anything they would really do

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#34 Stevie Wonder, 'Innervisions' #RollingStoneTop500 I was worried I wasn't going to like this one. The first two songs seem a little slow and improvisational jazzy to me (see #31 Miles Davies) but really gets going (and political) with 'Living for the City' and doesn't stop.

#33 Amy Winehouse, 'Back to Black' #RollingStoneTop500 35 minutes of bluesy goodness, there's not a bad song here. These hit harder (especially 'Rehab'!) knowing she drank herself to death only five years later. Highly recommend the documentary of the same name.

#32 Beyonce 'Lemonade' #RollingStoneTop500 Not the kind of music that I normally hear somehow but this is really good. They're all catchy and she can sure sing. I don't see what the fuss is about her getting a country and western Grammy since 'Daddy Lessons' is country and almost 10 yrs old.

#31 Miles Davis, 'Kind of Blue' #RollingStoneTop500 Frankly, I find this kind of improvisational jazz boring. It's cool in a way, and would be great in a fancy whisky bar but I'd happily carry on talking with my friends with this in the background.

#30 Jimi Hendrix, 'Are You Experienced?' #RollingStoneTop500 'Purple Haze' must have hit like a ton of bricks back in 1967, and it still does! No one had ever heard anything like it! The only other song I could have identified is 'Foxey Lady' (with an 'e'?') absolutely classic.

#29 The Beatles, 'White Album' #RollingStoneTop500 The first album is great starting off strong with 'Back in the U.S.S.R.,' 'Dear Prudence' (which I knew better from the iconic Siouxsie and the Banshees cover), and 'Glass Onion' (early meta?). Even 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dah' holds up surprisingly well.

#28 D'Angelo, 'Voodoo' #RollingStoneTop500 I just found this boring. Maybe driving alone is not the way to listen to this. It struck me as background lounge music. A lot of bass and occasional riffs on a trumpet or sax or something. And him vocalizing along.

#27 Wu-Tang Clan, ‘Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)’ #RollingStoneTop500 Not to my liking, but kinda fun. They almost have to be kidding. There's like 9 guys rapping on here and they're definitely having fun.

#26 Patti Smith, 'Horses' #RollingStoneTop500 "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." Holy shit that's badass. This album kicks hard from the beginning and never stops! I only slept of this one for 50 years. Though to be honest I probably won't have liked it when I was a teen.

#25 Carole King, 'Tapestry' #RollingStoneTop500 Another one I've always wondered about but never bothered to listen to. I knew about Carole King from 'Really Rosie' which I loved as a kid. And I even have this on CD (accidentally stolen from a roommate) but never listed to it.

#24 The Beatles, 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band' #RollingStoneTop500 Another great Beatles album. 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' 'With a Little Help from My Friends,' and 'A day in the Life' all classics. 'When I'm Sixty-four' hits differently now. A bunch in the middle I didn't know.

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The Velvet Underground, 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' #RollingStoneTop500 The first album on the list I actually own, though I didn't get it until well into adulthood. I remember seeing 'VU' in a record store with the VU meter on the album cover. What kind of music could this be?

The Notorious B.I.G., 'Ready to Die' #RollingStoneTop500 Another one not aimed at my but I kinda love it. The guy is just so obviously happy to have made it doing rap--he's just infectious. Sad that he was murdered only a few years later.

#21 Bruce Springsteen, 'Born to Run' #RollingStoneTop500 I thought I didn't care for Springsteen, but I think I do! I only really knew Born in the USA (overplayed and misinterpreted), and "I'm on Fire" for a very silly reason:

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#RollingStoneTop500 4% done!

Warning for anyone trying to listen to albums on Apple Music at least on my Tesla: Sometimes it will skip songs for no reason. @apple @Tesla (hmm, neither are on here?)

#20 Radiohead, 'Kid A' #RollingStoneTop500 I don't get it. I mean, I love 'Creep,' and sing it at Karaoke, but I bought 'In Rainbows' because of the pay-what-you-want thing (and maybe because of 'Creep') and listened to it once, only maybe all the way through, and then forgot about it.

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#19 Kendrick Lamar, 'To Pimp a Butterfly' #RollingStoneTop500 Another rap album about experiences I just don't share. I see the brilliance here--the protest, the musicality, the jazz influences--But it's not meant for me.