corporate rock magazines still suck

[rone]

All you need to know about Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is that Fripp and Zappa are #42 and #45, and Kurt Cobain and the nitwit in the White Stripes are #12 and #17.

If only they'd at least had the decency to say Greatest Rock Guitarists... i mean, hell, where's Andrés Segovia, you know? And where the fuck is Adrian Belew, anyway? I mean, it's nice they included Robert Johnson, but #5? The Edge and Tom Morello ahead of Brian May? It's small comfort that Kim Thayil managed to sneak in at #100... Fucking Rolling Stone. They'll lull me into giving them a shred of respect, then they put the American Idol cockmaster twins on the cover, and now this.

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[nothings.livejournal.com]

My life has become simpler once I realized that anytime you see "The One Hundred Greatest ..." or "The Twenty Best ..." you instead interpret them as "100 Great ..." and "Twenty Good ...", and realize that the actual rankings and the claim of top-of-listness is just marketing (it sells the magazine because, I guess, most people are incapable of forming their own opinions).

Most of the time these discussions are obviously subjective, although clearly in this particular case there are some objective qualities to consider (technical prowess & innovativeness, at least; I think emotional aspects are subjective, though).