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I just read a New York Times article from Christmas day about Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone. It discusses the upcoming 1000th issue this year, next year's 40th anniversary issue, and the Wenner Media empire that he has built. Are any of you still reading Rolling Stone? I was glued to it through high school and the beginning of college, but I let my subscription lapse around 1999. Since then, the only issues that I've bought have been the ones featuring Radiohead and the 500 Best Albums issue. I stopped reading around the time that I was getting more into the college/indie bands, and I just felt that the magazine didn't cover those artists as well as I was looking for it to do. That's not to say that I gave up on pop music, but I just didn't feel a connection with the features in the magazine any more. Since then, I haven't subscribed to any music magazines except Spin, and that was only because I got a free year. I've threatened for years to get subscriptions to either NME or Q, but they're now also looking increasingly blah and the US subscription cost seems prohibitively high. The NYT article mentions that Rolling Stone will be increasing its web presence over the next few months, which I'll be looking forward to seeing. It always had a pretty weak website, considering the clout of the print magazine. So, do any of my readers still check out RS regularly?
Since I mentioned Rolling Stone's 500 Best Albums list, I should note that I got Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited from my sister for Christmas. This album also includes the #1 song from the RS Best Songs list. It's not surprising, considering the magazine's name (check out #2, as well). I pulled out the best albums issue to show my family and noticed that this completes my collection of the top 10 albums on that list. In case you're curious, I have 119 albums off of the full list.
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Jerad posted this in Music | Comments (4)
I clocked in at 179 of the top 500 albums, the boss, the who, beatles and stones really fluffed my number.
ROCK!
ps- I didn't count any mp3 albums that I have on the 500. All 179 are either vinyl(most of them) cd or tape.
Posted by: Top500 Albums at January 3, 2006 06:13 PM
It is fucking satanic to just get highway 61...GET SOME SPRINGSTEEN and HENDRIX, they are huge holes in your collection.
Posted by: BobDylansGhost at January 3, 2006 06:14 PM
Don't talk to me until you have some more Talking Heads, Smiths, Elvis Costello, and at least one copy of an album by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.
Posted by: Jerad at January 4, 2006 10:00 AM
Own lots of da 'heads, smifs and i'm all up in costello boi! No Carter though.....
SUCKA JUST GOT SERVED!
Posted by: YouBEENservedFOO' at January 5, 2006 09:38 PM
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