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Points: 8851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2015 at 15:09
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Prog fans are truly a funny bunch. Decades of complaints about being ignored by the mainstream press, and when Rolling Stone publishes a Top 50 - which is much better than one could expect, and includes some rather unusual (and interesting) choices - what do they do? They pick it apart because it doesn't EXACTLY conform to what their own Top 50 would look like.

Anyway, some time ago I started a thread about this same list, which went on for quite a few pages: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=102920

good points Raff.  I think the list is better than one might have expected from RS.  
I guess what bugs me is that maybe if they had given a few of those albums the respect they deserved back in the day, well, maybe things would have been different  Geek
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Prog fans are truly a funny bunch. Decades of complaints about being ignored by the mainstream press, and when Rolling Stone publishes a Top 50 - which is much better than one could expect, and includes some rather unusual (and interesting) choices - what do they do? They pick it apart because it doesn't EXACTLY conform to what their own Top 50 would look like.

Anyway, some time ago I started a thread about this same list, which went on for quite a few pages: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=102920
Honestly they did a pretty good job. Bonus points for including Can up that high.
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Prog fans are truly a funny bunch. Decades of complaints about being ignored by the mainstream press, and when Rolling Stone publishes a Top 50 - which is much better than one could expect, and includes some rather unusual (and interesting) choices - what do they do? They pick it apart because it doesn't EXACTLY conform to what their own Top 50 would look like.

Anyway, some time ago I started a thread about this same list, which went on for quite a few pages: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=102920

Yes,,,,thanks Raff for finding that thread you started....I forgot where it was.
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This is the same Rolling Stone that has always hated prog, right?
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Prog fans are truly a funny bunch. Decades of complaints about being ignored by the mainstream press, and when Rolling Stone publishes a Top 50 - which is much better than one could expect, and includes some rather unusual (and interesting) choices - what do they do? They pick it apart because it doesn't EXACTLY conform to what their own Top 50 would look like.

Anyway, some time ago I started a thread about this same list, which went on for quite a few pages: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=102920

good points Raff.  I think the list is better than one might have expected from RS.  
I guess what bugs me is that maybe if they had given a few of those albums the respect they deserved back in the day, well, maybe things would have been different  Geek
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We may be a funny bunch but nine out of ten posts here were mainly positively surprised. And hasn't every single top 50 or 100 list ever posted here been picked apart? Isn't that partly what they are for? I remember that MOJO made a Prog Rock-special 8-10 years ago. That one off contained a top 40 or 50 that I remember as genuinely thought through and impressive.

This is slightly related: some guy who calls himself Qwerty100 made a presentation of what must be the lousiest list ever published in an actual magazine. Check it out. At times a real fun read.
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^Yikes! Thank God they included albums by Kiss and the Sex Pistols to give it some class.Clown
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

^Yikes! Thank God they included albums by Kiss and the Sex Pistols to give it some class.Clown
Metal must be like prog, everyone's definition of it is wrong...except mine, of course. I would say more than half the albums listed are not really "metal". But then I am sure a Canadian who types in an odd pseudo-British idiom will come by and relate the story of a used record reseller in Carnaby Street who put late 60s and early 70s rock groups like the Who, Zeppelin, Mountain and Cream in a bin marked "metal".
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Points: 12581 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2015 at 21:55
I think that list serves it's purpose, which I think would be to point non-proggers in a direction to start digging into the genre.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

This is slightly related: some guy who calls himself Qwerty100 made a presentation of what must be the lousiest list ever published in an actual magazine. Check it out. At times a real fun read.


Wow, just wow, that is unbelievably hilarious.
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Here's what I said in the previous thread

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Any list with CAN in the top 10 and Ruins in the top 50 makes me smile. A lot of the usually suspects at the top of the list but it's pretty eclectic further down. Nice to see Harmonium in there.

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Considering the broad range and somewhat obscure bands covered I'd say most complaints are pretty trivial compared to the overall quality of the list.
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2015 at 23:07
Not the Prog list I would make

But it's a pleasant surprise to see something from RS that makes sense.

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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

This is slightly related: some guy who calls himself Qwerty100 made a presentation of what must be the lousiest list ever published in an actual magazine. Check it out. At times a real fun read.


Wow, just wow, that is unbelievably hilarious.
 
And KC's Red made both lists!
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

This is slightly related: some guy who calls himself Qwerty100 made a presentation of what must be the lousiest list ever published in an actual magazine. Check it out. At times a real fun read
Wow, just wow, that is unbelievably hilarious.
 
I made the mistake of reading that list at work.  People have been coming into my office to ask if I'm feeling unwell as they are misinterpreting the sounds of repressed laughter.
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Points: 10017 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2015 at 07:44
^The worst, but in many ways also the best list ever.
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^ I can't stand metal and even I got that the list was total rubbish.
But the commentary was brilliant.  Yes, best worst list ever.
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Points: 24391 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2015 at 07:59
The list is hilarious, and about half of the choices are irresistibly dumb. On the other hand, the guy's comments sound occasionally clueless. He flings the word "pop" around with wild abandon (and meaning it as a put-down), then sings the praises of Van Halen's 1984, which contains quite a few radio-friendly songs. Not to mention his comments on Black Sabbath's debut, Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast, or Judas Priest's Sad Wings of DestinyConfused...
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^Yes. He's a bit of an opinionated brute (& obviously more into more extreme metal) but highly entertaining and still on point most of the time imo.
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2015 at 16:01
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

This is slightly related: some guy who calls himself Qwerty100 made a presentation of what must be the lousiest list ever published in an actual magazine. Check it out. At times a real fun read.


Wow, just wow, that is unbelievably hilarious.


Found a picture of the guy who wrote that:
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Points: 10017 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2015 at 16:38
^If the list wasn't so genuinely crappy and plain wrong in every way - your picture would have been kind of spot on.
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