500 gives Rolling Stone enough room to do A LOT better:
-Their list has multiple titles from Miles Davis and Coltrane, has one Stan Getz and one Ornette Coleman (way before his peak).
LIST DOES NOT HAVE:
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Eric Dolphy
Charlie Parker
Cecil Taylor
Albert Ayler
Duke Ellington
Roland Kirk
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Bill Evans
Dave Brubeck
Gil Evans
Don Ellis
Sun Ra
John Zorn
Henry Threadgill
Don Cherry
Anthony Braxton
Oliver Nelson
Oscar Peterson
Keith Jarrett
Cannonball Adderley
Sam Rivers
Lee Konitz
Paul Desmond
Personal taste aside, RS failed to competently assemble another list.
The list has multiple titles from Roxy Music, Brian Eno and Pink Floyd and has single albums from Kraftwerk, Suicide, Sonic Youth, Captain Beefheart and My Bloody Valentine.
LIST DOES NOT HAVE:
King Crimson
ELP
Yes
Can (omission of Can is a sub zero I.Q. act of pants shitting)
Van der Graaf Generator
Henry Cow (or any Fred Frith)
Amon Duul II
NEU
Soft Machine
National Health
Camel
Gong
Terje Rypdal
Gentle Giant
Weather Report
Mahavishnu Orchestra (maybe even dumber than the Can omission)
Brand X
Magma
Chrome
List has multiple titles of Metallica, Black Sabbath AC/DC, Kiss, Def Leppard, Mott The Hoople, MC5, The Stooges, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Aerosmith, one Van Halen record and a Peter Wolf record.
LIST DOES NOT HAVE:
Deep Purple
Scorpions
Thin Lizzy
Judas Priest
Rory Gallagher
Humble Pie
Kansas
James Gang
Spirit
Blue Cheer
Blue Oyster Cult
Captain Beyond
Wishbone Ash
Uriah Heep
Megadeth
Motorhead
Pantera
Slayer
Patto
UFO
The list does contain two Frank Zappa records, but both came out before 90% of his recorded output and well before the bulk of his best compositions were released.
Can't stomach going into detail about the whole list, but it seems likely that the first 500 discs thrown on the floor by a gang of chimps in a record store might have about the same ratio of slick formulaic flotsam. Thinking RS assembled a good list of the 500 greatest albums is kind of like thinking Geo. W. Bush was a good president.