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| From | David Pearlman <dap@arlingtonmass.com> |
| Subject | Re: Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums |
| Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:03:49 -0500 |
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I actually thought the list was pretty good. It isn't my list, for sure. But neither
is is the list of anyone who actually voted for the list. There were VERY few albums
on the list that I thought "ugh, who got paid off to put THAT on the list?"
I mean, we can all argue about the rankings and why our pet favorites aren't there.
I sure as heck would NEVER put Sgt. Pepper down as the best Beatles album, let alone
the best album of all time period.
But it was a surprisingly well rounded list of meat and potatoes pop/rock/rock-and-roll
albums. I am not sure why the few jazz albums included were included (all great jazz
albums, but if you're going to accept jazz albums as fair game, then there should be more
than the handful on the list of 500 best albums).
No, outside of the requisite Big Star albums, there wasn't much of a nod to "obscure" power
pop faves. But what do you expect from a list determined by polling a few hundred diverse
bizzers?
This list was way better, I thought, than the list of best albums that RS put together in
the early '90s--the one that included very high rankings for stuff like Foreigner 4 and Billy
Joel's Innocent Age. (Both stuck on the list at Jan Wenner's insistance on behest of his buddies).
dap
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:55:20 -0800
> From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums
> Message-ID: <023a01c3b3a7$342b5030$5245a443@Franklin>
>
> Finally saw this "expertly compiled" list:
> http://www.rollingstone.com/features/coverstory/featuregen.asp?pid=2164
>
>
> Little Richard, The Band, and Joni Mitchell before
> Led Zep IV, Back in Black (AC/DC), or The Wall (Pink Floyd)??
>
> What the f***!!!! Of course, this is the same rag that put Jack White
> on their list of best guitarists of all time too...so I shouldn't be too
> surprised!
>
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