The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” tops Apple Music's list of the 100 best albums

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Prince, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, The Beatles, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and Nirvana all made the top 10.

Once every few years, a publication or some other entity must come out with a list of the greatest albums ever recorded. A few things are certain: It will invariably contain at least one album by The Beatles, it will have some very controversial choices, and Janet Jackson fans will be upset.

Apple Music's attempt is no different. Still, today, the streaming giant unveiled the top 10 in its list of the 100 best albums, crowning Lauryn Hill's landmark 1998 album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, No. 1.

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'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'

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“This is my award, but it’s a rich, deep narrative, and involves so many people, and so much sacrifice, and so much time, and so much collective love," Hill said of the honor.

Billed as "a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made," the list was curated by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside "a select group" of artists, songwriters, producers, and industry professionals.

To celebrate the top 10, legendary record producer and discosmith Nile Rodgersand beloved singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers sat down with Apple Music's Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden to chat the best of the best.

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'Purple Rain'

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"Lauryn brought everybody with her on this record," Rogers said of the No.1 pick. "She brought her community. She brought her friends and her family. You’re in the kitchen; you’re in the living room with her. You hear people; you hear the voices talking… It’s so open and so expansive and so direct… To have an artist like Lauryn Hill be the number one, that means a lot."

Rodgers simply added, "She’s amazing. This record is amazing."

Though Hill tops the list with her first and to-date only solo album, there are a handful of artists who have two entries on the 100 list, including The Beatles (Abbey Road at No. 3, Revolver at No. 21), Prince(Purple Rain at No. 4, Sign O' the Times at No. 51), Stevie Wonder (Songs in the Key of Life at No. 6, Innervisions at No. 44), and Beyoncé (Lemonade at No. 10, Beyoncé at No. 36).
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'Lemonade'

The top 10 in Apple Music's list of the 100 best albums:

1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
2. Thriller - Michael Jackson
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
5. Blonde - Frank Ocean
6. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
7. good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
8. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
9. Nevermind - NIrvana
10. Lemonade - Beyoncé

All in all, not a terribly surprising list, perhaps with a few questionable placings here and there. After a while, these lists tend to look alike, anyway, but if they're good for anything, it's getting people to talk about music.
And as for Janet: No. 42 with Control. Not bad. Not great. But that's what you get when you qualify art.
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Was watching cnn when they talked about this questionable number 1 pick I’ve never heard of this nigger faggot and question how this is better than MJ or the Beatles.

 

[JosephStalin]

Have never heard any of her music. No fucks given.

 

[Jikka]

How many bands can say that shit?

Alice Cooper’s billion dollar babies

 

[Tepes Thot]

It’s a solid album, and I understand going back to the past because what’s out now….

But the sheer fact that she was never able to follow it up like others mentioned on this list makes me question its place.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

Hard agree on "Rumours" and "Pet Sounds" making the top 10.

I will humbly propose "Born in the USA" as one of the greatest albums ever made. All bangers, start to finish.

The problem with lists like this is that they're all made by Boomers, X'ers, people born after the towers fell, or people who think rap is good. For example, I'd put Moby's album "Play" on the top 10, but I don't know if I can separate my personal enjoyment of that album out from the good times in my life when I was listening to it; someone born 10 years before or after me might think it was pure shit.

I think the only way a fair list could be compiled is to get a "naive" audience together and expose them to like 100 contenders from 1950-1960, and have them rank that action.

 

[Wendell X]

I think the only way a fair list could be compiled is to get a "naive" audience together and expose them to like 100 contenders from 1950-1960, and have them rank that action.

That would make for much more interesting reading too. But sadly it wouldn't be polarising enough, and would require more effort than sitting in front of your computer typing.

Also Tusk is much more deserving and a better album than Rumours and I will fight you all on this. I'll fight you all at once, the spirit of meme injuns gives me the strength of ten bears.

 

[William Murderface]

If I had to put a rap album on a Top 10 Albums of all time list, and I mean absolutely had to, I'd go with Run DMC Raising Hell.

 

[Ser Prize]

The album is decent enough but it is odd they would put it as number one. Lauryn Hill is a pretty interesting person- possibly a lolcow or a kiwi folk hero, depending on your perspective. She has named the J, condemned the rainbow mafia, and did time for tax evasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauryn_Hill

Is this her?

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

Fucking Billie Eilish got in #30 above Steely Dan "Aja", Talking Heads "Remain In Light" and Rolling Stones "Exile on Main St." Nothing from King Crimson, Simon & Garfunkel, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson. Plenty of shit-tier rappers that will be forgotten in 20 years though. Nirvana gets in but nothing from Soundgarden, Alice In Chains or even Pearl Jam. Only metal album on the list is "Master of Puppets". Only "country" on the list is Kacey Musgraves. Dogshit list.

 

[William Murderface]

Is this her?
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Jews moving into Nazi Germany is pretty much the textbook definition of "glutton for punishment".

 

[William Murderface]

Fucking Billie Eilish got in #30 above Steely Dan "Aja", Talking Heads "Remain In Light" and Rolling Stones "Exile on Main St." Nothing from King Crimson, Simon & Garfunkel, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson. Plenty of shit-tier rappers that will be forgotten in 20 years though. Nirvana gets in but nothing from Soundgarden, Alice In Chains or even Pearl Jam. Only metal album on the list is "Master of Puppets". Only "country" on the list is Kacey Musgraves. Dogshit list.

I can probably put together a Top Ten list of live albums that ends up being fifty albums long and still barely scratched the surface. Right off the top of my head (and in no particular order) is Johnny Cash Live At Folsom Prison, ABB At Filmore East, KISS Unplugged, Frampton Comes Alive, Ozzy Tribute, Motorhead No Sleep Til Hammersmith, Cheap Trick At Budokan, MC5 Kick Out The Jams, Concert For George.

 

[CarlosDanger]

No Bathory "Blood Fire Death"? Fucking faggots.

 

[tehpope]

I will humbly propose "Born in the USA" as one of the greatest albums ever made. All bangers, start to finish.

I like Nebraska better. BITUSA is basically Nebraska if it was done as a stadium rock album. The album even started life as trying to make a full band version of Nebraska.

 

[Jobama]

>7/10 are black artists
>8/10 if you count honorable negro Amy Winehouse

They don't even try to make their propaganda subtle because they know that the only ones paying attention are incapable of knowing any better.

I think you mean 6/10.

 

[MirrorNoir]

That would make for much more interesting reading too. But sadly it wouldn't be polarising enough, and would require more effort than sitting in front of your computer typing.

Also Tusk is much more deserving and a better album than Rumours and I will fight you all on this. I'll fight you all at once, the spirit of meme injuns gives me the strength of ten bears.

Tango in the night is the most consistent FM alum, which is funny given how it was a pair of solo albums (McVeigh and Buckingham) smashed together as a FM album due to Mic Fleetwood owing a huge tax debt and bullying them to use their stuff for a new FM album to get him out of debt. Along with Nicks only being able to record vocals for two-three songs and only for a couple of days, because her drug addiction got so bad by this point she was finally forced into rehab.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder

Anyone else getting the feeling that if you asked them to name a track off this album all they'd be able to say is "Gangsta's Paradise without Coolio"?

Spoiler: Mildly on topic: Blue Man Group ads poking some fun at music critics and 'greatest albums of all time'

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Dogshit list, but then again they're Apple consumers.

 

[breadandcircuses]

The actual album list feels like that one Joke from High Fidelity.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Iirc shes got a reputation for being late to concerts. And wasn't she in a cult

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

I can probably put together a Top Ten list of live albums that ends up being fifty albums long and still barely scratched the surface. Right off the top of my head (and in no particular order) is Johnny Cash Live At Folsom Prison, ABB At Filmore East, KISS Unplugged, Frampton Comes Alive, Ozzy Tribute, Motorhead No Sleep Til Hammersmith, Cheap Trick At Budokan, MC5 Kick Out The Jams, Concert For George.

Live After Death by Maiden and Exit Stage Left from Rush too, but they seem to have completely excluded live albums from the list.

Live at Folsom is pretty much a cultural landmark, if there was going to be an exception, that would be it. I'd argue it is the most important and influential of any of Cash's albums period.