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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.
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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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marakanetz
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Mrmitch, it's much more polite than puking LOL!
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