What follows is a list of albums I’ve listened to and or owned/enjoyed from the list of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 (not the recently revised 2020 list) list of 500 greatest albums of all time list. Albums I owned or otherwise listened to/enjoyed before embarking on the “list challenge” are indicated in bold. This list will be periodically updated each time I listen to a “new” album from that list. I’m taking a look at both the 2012 list and the 2020 list, so I’m not putting albums in any “order.” What is NOT included are albums I didn’t finish listening to (for whatever reason)

Here’s a list of those albums:

1. Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, The Beatles
2. Revolver, The Beatles
3. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
4. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
5. Exile on Main Street, Rolling Stones
6. London Calling, The Clash
7. The Beatles (the White Album), The Beatles
8. The Velvet Undergound & Nico, The Velvet Underground & Nico
9. Abbey Road, The Beatles
10. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
11. Nevermind, Nirvana
12. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
13. Thriller, Michael Jackson
14. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
15. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
16. The Joshua Tree, U2
17. Led Zeppelin (I), Led Zeppelin
18. Tapestry, Carole King
19. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
20. Never Mind the Bollocks – Here’s the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
21. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
22. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
23. Greatest Hits, Al Green
24. Achtung Baby, U2
25. Led Zeppelin (IV)
26. Purple Rain, Prince and the Revolution
27. Led Zeppelin (II), Led Zeppelin
28. Harvest, Neil Young
29. Born in the U.S.A, Bruce Springsteen
30. The Wall, Pink Floyd
31. Catch a Fire, The Wailers
32. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
33. Sign “O” The Times, Prince
34. Remain in Light, Talking Heads
35. Saturday Night Fever (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), various artists
36. Aja, Steely Dan
37. Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin
38. 1999, Prince
39. Exodus, Bob Marley and the Wailers
40. Parallel Lines, Blondie
41. The Immaculate Collection, Madonna
42. So, Peter Gabriel
43. Buffalo Springfield Again, Buffalo Springfield
44. Murmur, REM
45. The Downward Spiral, nine inch nails
46. Tea for the Tillerman, Cat Stevens
47. Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
48. Licensed to Ill, Beastie Boys
49. War, U2
50. Like a Prayer, Madonna
51. Automatic for the People, REM
52. Trans Europe Express, Kraftwerk
53. All that You Can’t Leave Behind, U2
54. Odelay ! Beck
55. Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Red Hot Chili Peppers
56. Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction
57. MTV Unplugged in New York, Nirvana
58. Ghost in the Machine, The Police
59. Disintegration, The Cure
60. Superunknown, Soundgarden
61. Faith, George Michael
62. Live Through This, Hole
63. Synchronicity, The Police
64. In Utero, Nirvana
65. Outlandos D’Amour, The Police
66. Boy, U2
67. I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, Sinead O’Connor
68. Let It Be, The Beatles
69. The Pretender, Jackson Browne
70. Elephant, The White Stripes
71. Reggatta de Blanc, The Police
72. Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine
73. Substance, New Order
74. Siamese Dream, Smashing Pumpkins
75. Violator, Depeche Mode
76. Play, Moby