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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2003-09-27 09:57 pm
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"Music ranky thing"

This meme has been vectored from [livejournal.com profile] pootrootbeer.

Your job, should you choose to vector it further: take the following list of artists and order them from Most Essential to Least Essential. To keep things interesting, remove one artist of your choosing from this list, and add one new artist of your choosing.

Then post the results on your journal.

My list:

  • Pink Floyd
  • Pixies
  • Queen
  • The Beatles
  • The Who
  • Rush
  • Fleetwood Mac
  • The Grateful Dead
  • REM
  • Steely Dan
(removed from list: Queensrÿche)

It's a bit tricky due to the mutable nature of 'essential'. The Beatles, say, are ultimately essential to understanding pretty much all of rock and pop nowadays, but they're not the most essential group in my musical Weltanschaunng because i find that their work is spotty and hasn't aged well. I removed Queensrÿche because they're completely irrelevant, but if i could i'd dump REM and Steely Dan because their legacy of pussy rock is emasculating the youth of the world and it Must. Be. Stopped.

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[identity profile] ikkyu2.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Steely Dan because their legacy of pussy rock is emasculating the youth of the world

Fuck, dude, there's a line, and you just crossed it. Are you still running the Kook of the Month club? Because you just nominated yourself.

There's more thoughtfulness, more nuance in one line of a Steely Dan song than in the entire soppy soggy sappy-ass Beatles' pop-rocks oeuvre. When John Lennon sings "Imagine," I imagine a world where shitty crap-rock ballads based on juvenile fantasy worlds didn't captivate the listening ears of the populace.

Then again, I liked Underworld.
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[personal profile] kodi 2003-09-28 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome. Queensr::che only survived one hop.

I think that's the problem with this meme - the starting bands are too fundamental. Anything someone adds is going to be a ripe target for elimination. This would have been SO much cooler if the list had started out with, say, 3 acts from each of the past 3 decades, with one shitty pop band, one infulential-but-unpopular band, and one overblown "greatest band of all time."

Or make it "either add one or delete two." That would have been fun.
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