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Jan 29 2007, 06:41 PM
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I don't think there's one of these already so I'm making it now.
Here's what I've got to say about Rolling Stone: Their lists are good, and are a good tool for expanding and finding about new music and such even if I don't agree with them all the time, but I was looking at the bios on the site, and they seemed really un-professional to me, and very biased, I think some of the stuff that was included in some of the bios (like the Beatles' and Pink Floyd's) should have been left off like one of them called "A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell" two albums nobody ever listens to" and in the Beatles' it insisted that "Helter Skelter" 'sucks."
I was wondering if anybody noticed that. The lists are cool, but the way the biographies are written really makes me wonder about some of the writers at Rolling Stone
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Jan 29 2007, 06:45 PM
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I actually like the magazine. They're not professional to the point to where I feel like a big corporate suit and tie is talking to me, but are professional to the point to where I feel like I'm learning something from someone who I could carry a conversation with.
Their stories and articles can be interesting, and for the most part, their lists are interesting, informative and helpful.
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Jan 29 2007, 06:45 PM
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Yea, I feel that Rolling Stone is often hit and miss. When it's good it's great, but when it's not it sucks.
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Jan 29 2007, 06:47 PM
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Love it. Minus their lists. Reviews have gotten me into some good groups (Cold War Kids, RHCP).
Don't look at the website. The magazine is better. Occasional sexy chicks on the cover, too.
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TheSmashedGuitar
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Jan 29 2007, 06:48 PM
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Love it. Minus their lists. Reviews have gotten me into some good groups (Cold War Kids, RHCP).
Aww thier lists are the best part. (Problem is they're out of order, ha.)
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Kira
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Jan 29 2007, 06:49 PM
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Love it. Minus their lists. Reviews have gotten me into some good groups (Cold War Kids, RHCP).
Aww thier lists are the best part. (Problem is they're out of order, ha.)
"Dani California" was nowhere in the Top Singles Of 2006.
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ihateguitarists
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Jan 29 2007, 06:50 PM
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Love it. Minus their lists. Reviews have gotten me into some good groups (Cold War Kids, RHCP).
Aww thier lists are the best part. (Problem is they're out of order, ha.)
"Dani California" was nowhere in the Top Singles Of 2006.
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Kira
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Jan 29 2007, 06:50 PM
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Their interviews are usually amazing. I loved the one they had with Bono a while back, and the one with Bob Dylan was pretty good, too.
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Kira
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Jan 29 2007, 06:51 PM
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- White Collar Boy
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Love it. Minus their lists. Reviews have gotten me into some good groups (Cold War Kids, RHCP).
Aww thier lists are the best part. (Problem is they're out of order, ha.)
"Dani California" was nowhere in the Top Singles Of 2006.
Just smoke that cigar, son.
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Jan 29 2007, 06:54 PM
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It's a good advertizement and entertainment/publicity magazine I guess.
I don't like this Panic! At The Disco cover they have now. Bring back that Fergie one.
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Kira
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Jan 29 2007, 06:58 PM
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It's a good advertizement and entertainment/publicity magazine I guess.
I don't like this Panic! At The Disco cover they have now. Bring back that Fergie one.
>_>
Or Bob Dylan.
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Jan 29 2007, 07:09 PM
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Unfortunately, there's also some real crapola here, such as "Little Child" and "Devil in Her Heart." The old show tune "Till There Was You" would rank as the Beatles' all-time ghastliest moment -- if not for the horrifying "Hold Me Tight" ( "It's you!/You, you, you!") which happens to be an original.
The strain of Beatlemania shows in Beatles for Sale, as the lads unload some of the ickiest covers from their bar-band days.
...It makes Mr. Moonlight easy to forgive
Help! was utterly ruined in its U.S. version, which cut half the songs and added worthless orchestral soundtrack filler, so it's always been underrated
"In My Life" was one of the last Lennon-McCartney songs that the pair actually wrote together, and it could well be a loving farewell to each other before the friendship turned sour.
(On Revolver) John's songs are the best, but Paul gets in the funniest line: "If I am true I'll never leave,/and if I do I know the way there."
By now, the Beatles didn't need to push -- they could have hit #1 with a tape of themselves blowing their noses, which would have been catchier than "Hello Goodbye" or "Lady Madonna."
The double-disc White Album, officially entitled The Beatles, has loads of self-indulgent filler -- even the justly maligned "Revolution #9" is more fun than "Honey Pie" or "Yer Blues." Before CDs, most people just made a 45-minute tape of highlights for actual listening; now you can program "Sexy Sadie" and "Long, Long, Long" without having to lift the needle to skip over "Helter Skelter."
...nobody will ever understand how they talked George Martin into permitting that godawful bass feedback at the end of the otherwise perfect "Julia."
As a strange footnote, the White Album acquired permanent notoriety during Charles Manson's 1969 trial, when an L.A. district attorney floated the theory that the album had inspired an alleged hippie murder cult. Silly stuff, but the accusation stuck, even though there's never been any evidence behind it; as Charlie himself admitted, he was more of a Bing Crosby man. Oh, well -- "Helter Skelter" still sucks anyway.
The Paul-supervised Let It Be . . . Naked remix isn't worth the trouble.
Though some of these I agree with completely, I think they let their bias show too much..and that's just the Beatles' review, Floyd's isn't much better
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Jan 29 2007, 07:12 PM
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- working_class_hero
- Jan 29 2007, 06:41 PM
I don't think there's one of these already so I'm making it now.
Here's what I've got to say about Rolling Stone: Their lists are good, and are a good tool for expanding and finding about new music and such even if I don't agree with them all the time, but I was looking at the bios on the site, and they seemed really un-professional to me, and very biased, I think some of the stuff that was included in some of the bios (like the Beatles' and Pink Floyd's) should have been left off like one of them called "A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell" two albums nobody ever listens to" and in the Beatles' it insisted that "Helter Skelter" 'sucks."
I was wondering if anybody noticed that. The lists are cool, but the way the biographies are written really makes me wonder about some of the writers at Rolling Stone
The lists aren't actually that cool to me actually. Like Zach says it has its hits and misses. I posted this in the Pink Floyd forum: Hits: Pretty Things' Parachute as album of the year in 1970 Misses: Three albums by the Kinks, in the 280-300 spot.
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Jan 29 2007, 07:13 PM
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- Jan 29 2007, 10:09 PM
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Unfortunately, there's also some real crapola here, such as "Little Child" and "Devil in Her Heart." The old show tune "Till There Was You" would rank as the Beatles' all-time ghastliest moment -- if not for the horrifying "Hold Me Tight" ( "It's you!/You, you, you!") which happens to be an original.
The strain of Beatlemania shows in Beatles for Sale, as the lads unload some of the ickiest covers from their bar-band days.
...It makes Mr. Moonlight easy to forgive
Help! was utterly ruined in its U.S. version, which cut half the songs and added worthless orchestral soundtrack filler, so it's always been underrated
"In My Life" was one of the last Lennon-McCartney songs that the pair actually wrote together, and it could well be a loving farewell to each other before the friendship turned sour.
(On Revolver) John's songs are the best, but Paul gets in the funniest line: "If I am true I'll never leave,/and if I do I know the way there."
By now, the Beatles didn't need to push -- they could have hit #1 with a tape of themselves blowing their noses, which would have been catchier than "Hello Goodbye" or "Lady Madonna."
The double-disc White Album, officially entitled The Beatles, has loads of self-indulgent filler -- even the justly maligned "Revolution #9" is more fun than "Honey Pie" or "Yer Blues." Before CDs, most people just made a 45-minute tape of highlights for actual listening; now you can program "Sexy Sadie" and "Long, Long, Long" without having to lift the needle to skip over "Helter Skelter."
...nobody will ever understand how they talked George Martin into permitting that godawful bass feedback at the end of the otherwise perfect "Julia."
As a strange footnote, the White Album acquired permanent notoriety during Charles Manson's 1969 trial, when an L.A. district attorney floated the theory that the album had inspired an alleged hippie murder cult. Silly stuff, but the accusation stuck, even though there's never been any evidence behind it; as Charlie himself admitted, he was more of a Bing Crosby man. Oh, well -- "Helter Skelter" still sucks anyway.
The Paul-supervised Let It Be . . . Naked remix isn't worth the trouble.
Though some of these I agree with completely, I think they let their bias show too much..and that's just the Beatles' review, Floyd's isn't much better
I won't say anything...
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Jan 29 2007, 07:15 PM
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Unfortunately, there's also some real crapola here, such as "Little Child" and "Devil in Her Heart." The old show tune "Till There Was You" would rank as the Beatles' all-time ghastliest moment -- if not for the horrifying "Hold Me Tight" ( "It's you!/You, you, you!") which happens to be an original.
The strain of Beatlemania shows in Beatles for Sale, as the lads unload some of the ickiest covers from their bar-band days.
...It makes Mr. Moonlight easy to forgive
Help! was utterly ruined in its U.S. version, which cut half the songs and added worthless orchestral soundtrack filler, so it's always been underrated
"In My Life" was one of the last Lennon-McCartney songs that the pair actually wrote together, and it could well be a loving farewell to each other before the friendship turned sour.
(On Revolver) John's songs are the best, but Paul gets in the funniest line: "If I am true I'll never leave,/and if I do I know the way there."
By now, the Beatles didn't need to push -- they could have hit #1 with a tape of themselves blowing their noses, which would have been catchier than "Hello Goodbye" or "Lady Madonna."
The double-disc White Album, officially entitled The Beatles, has loads of self-indulgent filler -- even the justly maligned "Revolution #9" is more fun than "Honey Pie" or "Yer Blues." Before CDs, most people just made a 45-minute tape of highlights for actual listening; now you can program "Sexy Sadie" and "Long, Long, Long" without having to lift the needle to skip over "Helter Skelter."
...nobody will ever understand how they talked George Martin into permitting that godawful bass feedback at the end of the otherwise perfect "Julia."
As a strange footnote, the White Album acquired permanent notoriety during Charles Manson's 1969 trial, when an L.A. district attorney floated the theory that the album had inspired an alleged hippie murder cult. Silly stuff, but the accusation stuck, even though there's never been any evidence behind it; as Charlie himself admitted, he was more of a Bing Crosby man. Oh, well -- "Helter Skelter" still sucks anyway.
The Paul-supervised Let It Be . . . Naked remix isn't worth the trouble.
Though some of these I agree with completely, I think they let their bias show too much..and that's just the Beatles' review, Floyd's isn't much better
I won't say anything...
Is that supposed to be a dig at me or something? I may let my biases show, but I don't write for a magazine FFS..you'd think a professional magazine's review might be a little more..objective?
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