The Challenge Revisited

On the 16th of October 2013, I started a 239 day journey to listen to every single song on every single album of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.

The list has since been refreshed and updated and almost 7 years later, I’m going for the double marathon. New list, new challenge, same rules.

• Start at #500 and work my way through to #1

• Listen to every song on every album in order (bonus tracks on deluxe albums don’t count)

• No spoilers, I don’t look ahead so please don’t spoil it for me if you have

• I’ll write a brief review after I listen. Feel free to give me your thoughts

You're probably wondering why I'm doing it again if I've done this one before. More info from Rolling Stone below about how this list is different to the last.

Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003, with a slight update in 2012. But no list is definitive — tastes change, new genres emerge, the history of music keeps being rewritten. So they decided to remake their greatest albums list from scratch. To do so, they received and tabulated Top 50 Albums lists from more than 300 artists, producers, critics, and music-industry figures (from radio programmers to label heads, like Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman). The electorate includes Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Billie Eilish; rising artists like H.E.R., Tierra Whack, and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail; as well as veteran musicians, such as Adam Clayton and the Edge of U2, Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan, Gene Simmons, and Stevie Nicks.

86 of the albums on the list are from this century, and 154 are new additions that weren’t on the 2003 or 2012 versions.