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Originally posted by spookyfish
Well, the music geeks at Corporate Rock Central (aka Rolling Stone) have come out with their 500 greatest album list. Feel free to discuss or ignore entirely. I'll start.
Just off the top of my head, I'm surprised that Sgt. Pepper's is at number one. It isn't even the best Beatles album. Revolver should take the #1 slot. I've never understood why Sgt. Pepper received the hype it does, other than that it was the Beatles response to Pet Sounds. It's a great album, but frankly there are better albums out there.
I'll have to look at the list in more detail later.
Confidential to Paigow: The Dead first shows up around 250 or so, and it's the live album. American Beauty is the first studio album to show up at around 258. I'm sure you have issues with this.
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I have no issues bc music is totally subjective and the fact that you cannot go two seconds without seeing yet another list of the greatest whatevers in a magazine or tv channel doesnt really enhance my faith in such things.
That said, I think the Dead are underated for studio albums. American Beauty is a great album (Candyman haunts me), and Working Man's Dead is killer. The Here Comes Sunshine on Wake of the Flood is one of the greatest tunes ever recorded and so is Alabama Getaway from Go to Heaven (an album widely derided as schlock on a new label as I recall). Very few records put out in recent years could hold a candle to any of this. Jerry Garcia was an absolute musical prodigy, as shown in the wide range of musical styles that the Dead covered, wrote and innovated. I don't think I would know anything about jug music (and I dont mean the Bob Seger tunes that the strippers rub themselves to at tittie bars) were it not for the Dead. And I dont think a RS defintitive list is gonna change my mind. Just remember when you were growing up and they had these countdowns of the Greatest Rock N Roll Song Ever and the number one tune was always Stairway to Heaven? Exactly.
