You know how Rolling Stone publishes those ‘500 Greatest Albums of All-Time’ lists every few years? As if to punctuate that they’re a joke, their just-released third list saw Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, an album from 1971 replace The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album from 1967, neither of which have had any sort of public re-evaluation in recent years. It’s just based on the capricious whims of the respondents to their surveys, which is why Gaye’s album rocketed from sixth place to first, past not one, not two but three Beatles albums.
Ad-Rock from The Beastie Boys treated the survey with the dignity and respect it deserved, filling his list with obscure albums peppered with bands and albums he just made up. And as if it wasn’t clear enough he wasn’t taking it seriously, he also included Phil Collins.
He was also the very first person to respond to the survey.
Here’s what his list looked like:
- Macka B, Sign of the Times
- Grits and Gravy, Nuthin’ But The Good Stuff
- The Frank Figueora Funk Ensemble, Double Bang Bang
- Chirp, The City Ain’t Tough Enough
- Sergeant Crikey, It Mek Dem Bubble
- Hugo Strasser, TanzHits ’71
- Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach
- The Outta Controls, I Need New Friends
- The Lover’s 2, Slip Into Something More Fantastical
- Merv Gelter, Unlinked Passages And Patterns
- Danice Wilder, Funk Your Body Down
- Strategic Orchestrations, My Suzuki Sierra Is Bumpin’
- Jan Pfundt, Gekreuzte Drähte
- Pops Willard, Bus Station Situation
- Janice Montcrieff, Pour me another Glass Of Whine, You Baby
- The Dapper Duo, Your Freaky Touch
- Urszula Dudziak, Urszula
- Miss Sally Murdoch, Turn Me On When The The Lights Go Off
- The Cosmonauts (Featuring Shep Greenley), Bump That Funky Bump
- Digitz, Why Is That Again?
- The Satin Velvettes, Sooth My Mood
- Ebbet Maynfield, Flutes A Plenty
- Video Kids, Woodpeckers From Space
- The Pete Smith Quintet, Dynamism
- Amy Cranterston, The Strength Of The Willow’s Shadows
- Ruff-N-Ready, We Rhyme Right
- Phil Collins, Dance Into The Light
- Westbeth, Down In The Basement (Where The Funk Grows)
- The Captain, 22lb Turkey
- Monotony, Witness The Rampage
- The Tremont High School Drum Line, Marching Band Favorites
- Chip Button, Drums Are My Bag
- Crabby Appleton, Rotten To The Core
- Dr. Funk-A-Dunk, Out Of Bounds On The Dance Floor
- Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments, Pound It
- The Clarence Widley Orchestra, Boxcar Business (Original Soundtrack)
- Melancholia, Exploration Interflection
- Al Carlton, Too Smooth
- Earl Wilson, Jr., Let My People Come (A Sexual Musical)
- Khia, Thug Misses
- The Dunes of Distance, Equanimity
- General Echo, 12” Of Pleasure
- Aileen Mccullough, An Oiread Sin Báistí
- Sweet Lou, Already On It
- The T-Bones, No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach Is In)
- Ladies and Lords, The Mod Way
- Crianças Loucas, é Meu Agora
- Juan Epstein, Boogaloo In Brooklyn
- Little Marcy, Happy Day Express
- Carmine Rittzi, Freak Your Way Out Of This One