Monday, October 05, 2020

Artists with multiple albums on our 500

 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  (Scrolling through an unpublished piece as lengthy as our 500 list is a nightmare.)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it and recheck the below (again, it's a nightmare to scroll through a piece of that length -- to scroll through an unpublished draft).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