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Is there such a thing as an objective album ranking?No, but there's such thing as a "somewhat objective album ranking".
>Actually forget the shifting landscape of music, consider the shifting landscape of people - theres been significant generational change since 2003, doesn't it make sense that albums move up and down the ranking as their relevance increases or decreases?
Not when it hasn't change that much for 3 decades prior...
>It doesn't surprise me at all that Marvin Gaye would have gone up the ranking.
As if Marvin Gaye represents some new taste/genre? It's as old or older as a lot of the stuff it went above in ranking.
And it's not like 2020 sensibilities are somehow closer to Joni Mitchel's Blue suddenly over, say, Velvet Underground (which, iirc, got dropped in ranking).
No, but there's such thing as a "somewhat objective album ranking".
>Actually forget the shifting landscape of music, consider the shifting landscape of people - theres been significant generational change since 2003, doesn't it make sense that albums move up and down the ranking as their relevance increases or decreases?
Not when it hasn't change that much for 3 decades prior...
>It doesn't surprise me at all that Marvin Gaye would have gone up the ranking.
As if Marvin Gaye represents some new taste/genre? It's as old or older as a lot of the stuff it went above in ranking.
And it's not like 2020 sensibilities are somehow closer to Joni Mitchel's Blue suddenly over, say, Velvet Underground (which, iirc, got dropped in ranking).