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500 Greatest Albums of all Times

Yes, Rolling Stone Magazine is at it again with a new version of subject, that is on the newsstands now. Some think there is a bias in the list, others dismiss it as a marketing stunt. So my question is simple, and numerical, how many of these albums do you actual;y currently own, in any media form. All who answer with '500' will get to go to New York and be an unpaid intern at Rolling Stone for five years, no expenses paid.
buconero117
mateored
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As far as I'm concerned, this is about as useful as asking my 80-year-old father to name his 500 favorite rock records (and, just to be clear, he's not a rock fan).
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tomcy6
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These lists are really nothing to get excited about. Every person alive would come up with a different list of the 500 best.

If you are expecting a lot of post bop jazz to show up in a Rolling Stone 500 best, I'm not sure what you're thinking. Your time would be better spent reading DownBeat. Can you imagine Bob Dylan or the Stones showing up in a DownBeat best of? By chance, there's a Critic's Poll on DownBeat right now.

Check out the list, if there's something there that you like, read the review. If not, put it back in the rack and go home and listen to that death metal band you like so much and congratulate yourself on your good taste.

There is always Amazon for people who wish to be amateur reviewers. You can review individual albums and you can make up your own best of lists, and they'll be published on the web for the whole world to see. Don't get mad, have a go at it yourself.
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
Snooze.......
mrmitch
359 posts
 
Bill, all your yawning and snoozing is making me tired!
duanegoosen
355 posts
 
It's apparent that when setting themselves up as a prominent oracle covering contemporary music, RS chose to rely on poorly informed opinions when putting together the "greatest 500 albums" list.
They put up multiple titles from Miles Davis and Coltrane and listed albums of Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman... when you have more than 490 slots left to fill, you gotta' be pretty damn ignorant not to list any records released by their peers.
Opinions aside, their list omits many albums that shaped the evolution of jazz and rock. Their assessment is very inaccurate and poorly serves readers and a lot of recording artists.
Last I heard, we still get to speak truth to power to some degree and are generally at liberty to point out incompetence when we see it.
Ranking albums and artists is inherently kinda' dumb, (trying to quantify something that is largely qualitative). The best we can can probably hope for is that the morons at RS can learn from their mistakes.
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