"Greatest albums of all time" - that's an interesting idea for Apple to be the arbiter of great music and for it to be "albums."
The music streaming giant announced their 100 greatest albums of all time with Lauryn Hill’s 1998 “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” claiming the top spot. This is considered the album that "helped redefine hip-hop and R&B."
I've been listening to young people on the CBC talk about it all week. Good thing I listen to the CBC as I wouldn't know about Hill's work otherwise, not being in the hip-hop generation.
Hill’s album won over other classic records from Beyoncé, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, Amy Winehouse, Frank Ocean and Nirvana."
My guess is that "Of all time" would mean within Apple Inc's "relative" lifetime. That's April 1, 1976 in Los Altos California. So if the company was started then, Wozniak and Jobs would have been born in the 1950s, so the decade or so earlier would be included. And that's where the past comes in. The reviews say things like Apple Music has repeated the past approach - of Rolling Stone, Time, and others in trying to define the top and the best of something. Even calling it an album or LP is an idea of the 20th century - the 1950s when the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys elevated the album.
My own list of the greatest music has Bach and Beethoven - I am so far back in the time machine that I haven't caught up to albums.
MSNBC's conclusion to this list:
"But albums themselves are no longer a juggernaut, as music is now mostly streamed on services like Spotify and Apple Music, where algorithms, user-created playlists and professionally curated "Essentials" are the most common listening experience. Ironically, Apple wrote that its list was meant to be "a modern love letter to the records that have shaped the world we live and listen in today," but it may be closer to a eulogy for a lost era of music, given by one of its killers."
Our list seems like this endless, narrow hall - very elegant - and probably a great view from all those windows.
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