Rolling Stone Album Guide sucks!

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   I got the 4th edition album guide and just flipping through it,  I noticed many glaring omissions which disapointed me greatly.  After flipping through it once I must say I am not to excited to look at the book again.  Put your prog biases away and tell me which band being left out surprises you the most.  Once I found glaring omission #10 I put it back in the bag.  I must say, at least Can, Floyd, Genesis and a few others were included, but still.....man does Rolling Stone suck.  Why didn't I see that a few years ago? 

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Poll Question: Worst omission
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Badfinger	1	[5.00%]
Foghat	0	[0.00%]
Focus	1	[5.00%]
Gong	1	[5.00%]
Soft Machine	0	[0.00%]
13th floor elevators	1	[5.00%]
ELP	14	[70.00%]
Camel	0	[0.00%]
Deep Purple	1	[5.00%]
Gentle Giant	1	[5.00%]
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Carl floyd fan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 09 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 176	Topic: Rolling Stone Album Guide sucks! Posted: November 09 2004 at 10:34
	I got the 4th edition album guide and just flipping through it, I noticed many glaring omissions which disapointed me greatly. After flipping through it once I must say I am not to excited to look at the book again. Put your prog biases away and tell me which band being left out surprises you the most. Once I found glaring omission #10 I put it back in the bag. I must say, at least Can, Floyd, Genesis and a few others were included, but still.....man does Rolling Stone suck. Why didn't I see that a few years ago? Edited by Carl floyd fan

Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: November 09 2004 at 11:05
	What is the actual point of the guide?? Missing out ELP, Deep Purple, and Camel doen't make sense in any case. They sold millions of albums and were very successfull. To miss out the others just shows poor taste.
	Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

Garion81 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2004 Location: So Cal, USA Status: Offline Points: 4338	Posted: November 09 2004 at 12:21
	Considering by 1974 that ELP and Deep Purple had reached the same lofty heights as Led Zeppelin in all ways I would find their omissions the worst. Considering that Rolling Stone since 1975 and later has always been more impressed with the sales/business end than the actual music.

jiggajake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2004 Status: Offline Points: 157	Posted: November 09 2004 at 13:13
	does the guide come to those with suscriptions?

gdub411 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 24 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3484	Posted: November 09 2004 at 13:32
	No Rock Guide Should omit the 1st tiered progressive bands. Really though, what did you expect? Rolling Stone has been slamming progressive rock for years. It was probably the very same critics of Rolling Stone that roasted ELP LP after LPas the ones who wrote the book you own. I have read reviews on prog bands before by the "well respected" Rolling Stone magazine and they would describe the music as too lengthy, meandering and of course pretentious. They shout at the band to just get on with it. Get on with it? You mean like your much heralded Nirvana? These guys music was so simple that when I was in a band we would cover their tunes because they were easy to play. Yet Rolling Stone would revere Nirvana's simplistic unchallenging music as a work of genius while the sophistication of ELP was self indulgent crap! Someone needs to leave a turd in the Rolling Stone HQ because that is exactly what they are!!! A big brown, smelly nasty turd!!!!! Edited by gdub411

The Miracle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427	Posted: July 28 2005 at 21:28
	How could they omit Deep Purple
	last.fm

Man With Hat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166183	Posted: July 28 2005 at 21:52
	ELP
	Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

Arsillus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 26 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7374	Posted: July 29 2005 at 10:08
	Look, the Rolling Stone Magazine sucks. I don't even care what they say. They know nothing about music- all they care about is $$$$. They've been irrelevent for years now, if not, ever.

Jeremy Bender Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 29 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 531	Posted: July 29 2005 at 10:50
	ELP

kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Posted: July 29 2005 at 14:48
	It's one thing for the editors to not like ELP. But the fact is they packed STADIUMS (not arenas) and headlined festivals with 100,000s of fans, such as California Jam. Like them or not, they're a part of rock history. Excluding Deep Purple is also unforgiveable - every NuMetal and hard rock guitarist out there cut his teeth on *Smoke on the Water*.
	"Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin

NetsNJFan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 12 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3047	Posted: July 29 2005 at 23:47
	no ELP? rolling stone blows