Rolling Stone Album Guide sucks!
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Topic: Rolling Stone Album Guide sucks!
Posted By: Carl floyd fan
Subject: Rolling Stone Album Guide sucks!
Date 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? |
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 09 2004 at 11:05
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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! |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: November 09 2004 at 12:21
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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. |
Posted By: jiggajake
Date Posted: November 09 2004 at 13:13
| does the guide come to those with suscriptions? |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: November 09 2004 at 13:32
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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!!!!! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 21:28
How could they omit Deep Purple          ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 21:52
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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. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date 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. |
Posted By: Jeremy Bender
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 10:50
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ELP
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Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 14:48
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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 |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 23:47
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no ELP? rolling stone blows ------------- 
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