Thanks for not making me be that guy.
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OK Boome-
My dear friend jalfrezi, I find your argument compelling yet not fully convincing.
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Thanks for not making me be that guy.
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…says the guy who fawns over 50 year old music
The Walrus will tear us apart
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No one takes those lists seriously as “The X greatest” do they? I always like skimming through as you can quickly get a sense of where it’s coming from and maybe see if there’s anything you’ve not heard or have forgotten about, but beyond that it’s just another version of “here’s some stuff we like”.
I mean, I just skimmed that Rolling Stone one. Obviously Kind of Blue is very high, then there’s Bitches Brew near 100, a few Coltrane albums in the 100s- 200s and then one Ornette Coleman album (might have missed a couple, obv). It’s kind of ludicrous to think that those albums make it, but the rest of Jazz has been assessed to be worse than 400+ rock albums. It would have been more credible to include none and just say it’s out of scope, except that those are the Jazz albums people who like rock listen to, so there you go. Obv there’s innumerable genres that are even less represented.
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https://unstuckpolitics.com/t/travel-thread-tips-tales-and-tasty-treats/346/11
Looking forward to reading about it.
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They also weren’t boomers.
Rolling Stone is pretty bad anyway.
If you want a decent music critic go to Christgau or Lester Bangs obviously
Hahaha
Yes and I also fawn over early 20th century art. Shame on me, millennial!
Counterpoints?
Also not a boomer, just
It’s possible I just wanted to OK Boomer you so let me think on it.
RS is an unashamedly rock mag. Its top X albums are rock albums or rock adjacent.
Its nonsense I agree, but I see the need to draw a somewhat arbitrary line somewhere and I don’t see how they could exclude all of Miles for instance as he was so influential on rock and probably closer to a rock sound in some cases than some experimental stuff they probably include ( I assume).
Technically, all blueprints are copies.
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This thread is in a bad place.
You guys hear about this eruption in White Island off the coast of NZ? Not great. I feel like touring active volcanoes is never making my to-do list.
You’ve DYOR unlike some of those tourists I guess.
Are you looking to someone who used to be a neo-Nazi for wisdom?
I knew nothing about this one, so maybe DMOR would have convinced me otherwise, but I definitely would have considered checking it out if I was in NZ.
Why would you even put Jazz albums against Rock albums?
Bitches Brew: jazz, rock or crossover?