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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums


Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums

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23 episodes
Language:
English
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Podcast

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The stories behind some of the most essential albums of all time, told by the artists who made them and Rolling Stone’s writers and editors. Each episode focuses on one album from the brand-new, updated version of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums list, featuring fresh conversations with the people who made the music, classic interview audio and expert commentary. Episodes include the late Tom Petty on his solo classic Wildflowers, Taylor Swift talking about her career-changing 2012 album Red, and Public Enemy breaking down their political masterpiece It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.Listen to songs featured on the podcast and more hits from the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums list here.Now we’re back with Season Two. Across 10 episodes, you’ll hear Dolly Parton tell the stories behind the songs on her 1971 solo breakthrough Coat of Many Colors; Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr delve into the making of the Beatles’ troubled final album, Let It Be; Britney Spears’ collaborators explain how she made 2007’s Blackout in the eye of a paparazzi hurricane; friends and relatives of Alice Coltrane look back at how she overcame tragedy to create her masterpiece Journey in Satchidananda; Rivers Cuomo and his bandmates reflect on the unlikely birth of Weezer’s Blue Album; and much more.Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums is hosted by Senior Writer Brittany Spanos.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 23 episodes

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Yusuf/ Cat Stevens' "Tea for the Tillerman"

In the latest episode of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, Yusuf reflects on his mas...

41 minutes
May 31, 2022

Missy Elliott's "Supa Dupa Fly"

In the Nineties, much of the conversation about hip-hop was dominated by the feud betwe...

40 minutes
May 24, 2022

Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector", ft. Darlene Love

In this special holiday episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, our new podcast...

43 minutes
May 17, 2022

Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"

In the newest episode of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, we dive into Lucinda Will...

38 minutes
May 10, 2022

Public Enemy’s "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"

In the first episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, we tackle one of hip-hop’s...

38 minutes
May 03, 2022

Kanye West's "Yeezus"

In 2013, Kanye West released Yeezus, his sixth studio album. It sounded like nothing th...

28 minutes
Apr 19, 2022

Parliament-Funkadelic's "Mothership Connection"

At the beginning of 1975, Gerald Ford was president, the United States and Soviet Union...

40 minutes
Apr 12, 2022

David Bowie's "Station To Station"

In 1975, David Bowie moved to Los Angeles and reinvented himself. As rock's greatest ch...

28 minutes
Apr 05, 2022

Liz Phair's "Exile in Guyville"

Back in 1993, a young songwriter named Liz Phair came out of nowhere to drop one of the...

32 minutes
Mar 29, 2022

Shakira's "Dónde Están los Ladrones?"

With more than 80 million records sold worldwide, Shakira is the best-selling female La...

36 minutes
Mar 22, 2022