> I do think, though, that there are certain genre biases in Rolling Stone:
> against prog and power pop, and pro-punk.  And as a rule they tend to err on
> the side of undue enthusiasm with respect to recent (last 5-7 years, say)
> releases.  

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for the way the bottom portion of the top 500 came to pass.  There are some very interesting choices there...well, more interesting than those in the upper ranks, anyway.  I think my favorite three in a row are:

485. All Time Greatest Hits, Loretta Lynn 
486. Maggot Brain, Funkadelic 
487. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Smashing Pumpkins 

Where the hell else are you going to find those three artists back to back...?