New Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list

[David]

Read the comments below the list. Everybody is pissy that such-and-such was left off, or placed below so-and-so. That's why they run these lists, to pique. Pique is a response, and they want a response. If you're responding, you're looking at the article in print or online and therefore also glancing at the ads.

I don't care anymore about placement. I just like reading these lists for the writeups on albums of note. I'm a sucker for opinions expressed well. But I'm looking over this list now, reading a lot of the commentary, and not finding a lot to get excited about. Rolling Stone used to Rolling Stone a lot better in the old days. I hate to sound like grandpa shaking his fist at the kids on his lawn, but there is a lot of minimally tolerable crud on the list in the top 100 or so. Still, you can find great recommendations if you keep looking: at no. 448, Otis Redding's "Dictionary of Soul" for example. What an album!