They are the favourite argument starters on every entertainment site in the world. Along with those lists come a few certainties. Citizen Kane will be the greatest movie, Pele will be the greatest football player and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will be the greatest album.
Unless you are Entertainment Weekly. The magazine has published their list of the 100 greatest albums of all-time and Sgt. Pepper isn't at the top. As a matter of fact, it didn't even make the list.
The people at EW had Revolver top the list, one of four Beatles albums that made the top 100 (the others being The White Album (#12), Abbey Road (#22) and Rubber Soul (#46).
The rest of the top ten is pretty much your standard fare with only Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy being a surprise.
Their top twenty:
1.Revolver - Beatles
2.Purple Rain - Prince
3.Exile on Main St. - Rolling Stones
4.Thriller - Michael Jackson
5.London Calling - Clash
6.Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
7.Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin
8.My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
9.Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
10.Nevermind - Nirvana
11.Blue - Joni Mitchell
12.The White Album - Beatles
13.What's GoingOn - Marvin Gaye
14.At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
15.Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
16.Sunrise - Elvis Presley
17.21 - Adele
18.Graceland - Paul Simon
19.Call Me - Al Green
20.Beggar's Banquet - Rolling Stones
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