So you're not happy with our top 500 because you're favorite album didn't place high enough on the list?
Maybe you can find comfort in the fact that the artist had multiple albums on the list?
By the way, when ROLLING STONE did their 500 list, coverage insisted that three females made their top ten. We haven't checked how many our list includes in the top ten or in the list. We'll do that next week. (Scrolling through an unpublished piece as lengthy as our 500 list is a nightmare.) But the RS list had four women in the top ten. Reporters rightly counted Lauryn Hill and Joni Mitchell for two. For three? They counted Stevie Nicks based on RUMOURS being in the top ten but, pay attention, Fleetwood Mac had two female members -- Stevie and Christine.
We'll print our 500 list after we publish it and recheck the below (again, it's a nightmare to scroll through a piece of that length -- to scroll through an unpublished draft). We'll put CSNY on the list when we can print it -- the two Byrd albums are our big question.
Fifteen albums:
The Beatles have eight albums and solo John Lennon has three, Paul McCartney has two, and George and Ringo have two each
Fourteen albums:
Diana Ross has ten albums solo and four with the Supremes (one of which is with the Supremes and the Temptations)
Eleven albums:
Joni Mitchell
Ten albums:
Prince
Stevie Nicks has six albums solo and four with Fleetwood Mac for a total of ten
Eight albums:
Carly Simon
Pretenders have seven albums and Chrissie Hynde has one solo album
Seven albums:
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Six albums:
Stevie Wonder
Sting has three solo albums on our list, one album with Shaggy and two with the Police
Five albums:
Aretha Franklin
Heart
Cher has four solo albums and one album with Sonny
Roberta Flack
Four albums:
Alicia Keys
Rickie Lee Jones
Melanie Safka
Cass Elliot has one solo album and three with The Mamas and the Papas
George Michael has three solo albums and one with Wham!
Three albums:
Radiohead
Animal Collective
Jimi Hendrix
Bangles
Laura Nyro
Blondie
Ben Harper
Tracy Chapman
Eurythmics
Sade
Janet Jackson
Tina Turner
John Mellencamp
Dionne Warwick
Jody Watley
Tori Amos
Chaka Khan
Aimee Mann has one solo album on the list and two with 'Til Tuesday
The Eagles
Rod Stewart
Two albums:
Afghan Whigs
Joan Baez
Mavis Staples
Donovan
Elvis Costello
Van Halen
The Weekend
Mary J. Blige
Bobby Womack
Phil Ochs
Depeche Mode
Carole King
Cat Power
The Cowboy Junkies
Erykah Badu
U2
Van Morrison
Jackson Browne
James Brown
The Kinks
David Bowie
Herbie Hancock
The Artic Monkeys
Billy Joel
The Isely Brothers
The Replacements
Kate Bush
The 5th Dimension
Janis Joplin -- one solo and one with Big Brother and the Holding Company
Afghan Whigs
Sly & The Family Stone
Nirvana
Kanye West
Ashford & Simpson
PJ Harvey
Sam Smith
Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Pointer Sisters
Earth, Wind & Fire
Rihanna
Dolly Parton
Jack Johnson
The Beach Boys
Bruce Springsteen
Smokey Robinson has one solo album and one with the Miracles
Jefferson Airplane
R.E.M.
TLC
Bright Eyes
The Clash
Morrissey has one solo album and one album with The Smiths
Jill Scott
Fiona Apple
Solange
Wilco
