Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Today we're going to address Rolling Stone's new and entirely revamped list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

It's the first time we really did it since 2003.

That was the last time we had a big vote.

There was an update in 2012, but it was really just a little bit of an update.

This is our first vote from scratch with a huge panel of voters,

roll the dice, and see where it lands things since 2003.

And so we put out this new list, and what's amazing is that everyone on the internet came together all at once and said

You Rolling Stone are absolutely right no discussion needed you nailed it. This is the definitive list. It's all over

All right this is not exactly what happened.

But I think it was a pretty good response out there.

I have with me, Rob Sheffield, John Dole and Brittany Spanos,

who's actually going to be hosting a new podcast on

Amazon that dives deep into the 500 albums list. But before we get into the list itself

what do you all make of the reaction?

Obviously in reality, no one's going to be thrilled with every single thing on a list of

500 albums compiled by a massive vote.

So what do you make of the reaction so far?

People love to argue. They really, yeah. I kind of just caught little glimpses of it, but yeah,

it was funny to kind of see, especially when you kind of see like the music writers I follow kind of going

off their specific beats I follow a lot of like emo and pop punk writers who were like

where's all the email pop punk and like pop writers who like this these pop

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