Time Magazine’s Top 100 Albums

Have at it, all you music geeks.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 7:39 pm | 2 Comments

Anonymous says:

December 19, 2006 at 12:19 am

Beatles rule.
Anonymous says:

January 30, 2007 at 6:08 am

It’s hard to imagine how Time magazine managed to forget about one of the best hip-hop albums to come out in the 90’s, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” It is one of the most critically acclaimed albums of that time and I’m pretty sure she won 5 Grammys for it. She wrote, arranged and produces almost every track on the album and yet, she still didn’t make it to the “which album deserves to be on the list” survey to the right of the page. I believe she had the most success of bringing a hip-hop artist into the mainstream without disturbing or distorting her true image. Shame on Time, but i forgive you.

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