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Our List-Obsessed Manhattan Friends

Posted at 12:00 PM on November 14, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (5 Comments)

Time magazine has published its all-TIME greatest 100 albums. (Clever, huh?)

We know you're worried about whether this list reflects the sensible will of the people or the pretentious will of the critics, so we'll get this out of the way right here: A cursory review suggests that music snobs were responsible. (Hey, we love P.J. Harvey's "Stories" and Pavement's "Slanted" as much as the next guy; but two of the best records of all time, with no Pink Floyd representing? That's a willful slap in the face to Democracy.)

The only other thing we would add is this: Funny how five of the ten best albums of the 2000s weren't even recorded in the 2000s. They are re-released collections of Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, and Muddy Waters. That seems a little... uh, let's choose our words carefully here..... lame.

And beyond that, the most important question is this: Can this issue of Time outsell perennial favorites like Yoga and Jesus?

Comments (5)

This list is laughable. It's like the TIME music critics had their junior-high-aged children do an overnite book report on the last 60 years of music and picked out the albums for a list.

Posted by taylor | November 14, 2006 2:06 PM

Making a list like this and not including Pink Floyd is ridiculous. Obviously their criteria was faulty. How can you possibly not include the best selling album of all time? They clearly have no idea what they are doing. And why the heck did they include compilation albums? They aren't even real albums! This list is complete rubbish.

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