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The 50 Worst Things Ever to Happen to Music
Scott Stapp. Pop-opera. The braided goatee. These are just a few of the things even the most open-minded among us cannot abide.

Blender, April 2006

50. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Has any record’s influence upon music proved so malignant? Concept albums, progressive rock, Brian Wilson’s nervous breakdown, baby boomers yammering away about the Summer of Love, musicians taking themselves more seriously than cancer surgeons — all the Beatles’ fault. And is there anyone alive who hasn’t suffered a collapse of the will to live during “When I’m Sixty-Four”?

49. That dude who yells “Freebird!” at every rock show

48. Hip-Hop Skits
Smart rap fans know the drill: As soon as you burn a new album, instantly delete any track that’s under a minute long. It’s the best way to avoid the stupid banter, fake sound effects and unfunny phone calls that bog down 95% of all hip-hop albums. Except Snoop’s “Deeez Nuuuts” bit. That’s classic.

47. Slash Quits GN’R
Paradise City officially became uninhabitable in 1996 when Slash walked out on Axl Rose, shattering one of the best, most rewardingly volatile relationships in rock history. Not only did the split force us to endure Slash’s Snakepit, but Guns N’ Roses became forever an ego-tripping punch line, with Axl — stubborn ex that he is — running through multiple replacements (including Howard Stern lookalike Buckethead) in a vain attempt to prove he doesn’t need his old partner.

46. Decency
In 1967, the Rolling Stones were forced to change a not particularly salacious song to protect the tender sensibilities of the American television-viewing public. Thirty-nine years and one stray Super Bowl breast later, the Rolling Stones are forced to change a not particularly salacious song to protect the tender sensibilities of the American television-viewing public. Viva progress!

45. Rootkits
In their desperation to make their new releases piracy-proof, Sony Music also managed to make them privacy-proof. The label was busted last year for releasing CDs with copy-protection software built in that, when played in PCs, could send data from your computer to the record company.

44. Rock poets
Memo to aspiring rock stars: Lyrics do not constitute poetry. Neither do pedestrian observations your life-coach thinks are profound. And despite what Jim Morrison seemed to believe, disturbed Freudian ramblings you howl while waving your dick around onstage are also, alas, not poetry. Please “cc” Jewel, Billy Corgan and Jeff Tweedy on this memo.

43. Non-fake Lesbians
Don’t get us wrong — we love lesbians. Just so long as they’re not playing music. From Melissa Etheridge to the Indigo Girls, real-live sapphic rock stars are to blame for some truly awful trends: earnest coffeehouse confessionalism, the Lilith Fair, flannel. Now t.A.T.u., on the other hand …

42. Scott Stapp
Although he’s rehabilitated his image in recent years by becoming an incorrigible drunk and trying to beat up 311, there’s no getting around the music. The fourth-generation grunge he’s peddled solo and with Creed might be harmless if it weren’t swathed in quasi-religious pomposity and delivered with an arrogance that — in light of his musical, er, gifts — feels downright delusional.

41. Melisma
It’s a fact: Words like “girl” and “baby” do not have 25 syllables. But thanks to that R&B-spawned, Idol–promulgated school of vocal histrionics — wherein one overdoes gospel ululations like Whitney Houston with a noseful — neither the shortest word nor sweetest melody can go unmolested by a uvula-spazzing “showstopper.”

40. Parrotheads
For millions, Jimmy Buffett isn’t just a guy who writes songs about putzing around the Caribbean — he’s a shining symbol of the “good life.” That so few of them will get any closer to this life than hanging out in a dank bar called The Banana Boat, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, sipping a frozen daiquiri and waiting for their turn to karaoke “Margaritaville” is monumentally depressing.

39. AIDS
Although it was responsible for many deaths (Freddie Mercury and Eazy-E among them) and inspired one of the most insipid hits in the past three decades (“That’s What Friends Are For”), the most significant musical damage done by the AIDS virus came with the subsequent demonization of sex and drugs, two ingredients without which rock & roll become practically pointless — if not impossible.

38. Sting

37. Gilbert O’Sullivan
In suing Biz Markie for sampling “Alone Again, Naturally,” in his 1991 song “Alone Again,” this ’70s British novelty twerp had a chilling effect on hip-hop’s most basic musical technique, establishing a legal precedent for litigious, hip-hop-ignorant tight-asses. The Biz’s next album: All Samples Cleared!

36. Sean Combs is … Puff Daddy is … P. Diddy is … Diddy.

35. Van Halen fire David Lee Roth

34. Van Halen hire Sammy Hagar

33. Van Halen fire Sammy Hagar

32. Van Halen hire Gary Cherone

31. Jazz fusion
It’s a rule of thumb that any music that uses “jazz” as a prefix will make you want to saw your head off in boredom (see also: jazz-funk, jazz rap, jazz house). But none is as wearying as the genre that thought what rock really needed was month-long bass solos and time signatures Stephen Hawking wouldn’t understand.

30. Braided Goatees
It seems so natural. Just grow those chin whiskers out a foot, part in the middle, and weave pube-like braids! Tragically, resultant blood loss to the brain knocks 80 points off your IQ, resulting in guttural vocals and misspelled band names.

29. Popera
Soaring key changes! 53-year-old groupies! Incessant use of the word amore! Blender explores pop-opera, the most disturbing hybrid since the humanzee.

28. The Disappearance of Independent Record Stores
Sure, the big-chain megamarts save you a few dollars. But do their employees know you by name? Will they hook you up with unexpected new imports? Will they ridicule you when you mispronounce Sufjan Stevens’s name? For music geeks, losing the mom-and-pop stores is like losing a musty, nerd-filled home away from home.

27. “Jukebox” Musicals
Why is crowbarring classic-rock songs into a play with a “plot” apparently written on the back of a matchbook so detestable? Not just because the results are creaky and insulting — the Queen-themed We Will Rock You — but also because they reveal that the rock stars involved don’t care about art, only money. And, despite recent high-profile flops — Lennon, Good Vibrations — there’s no end in sight. Coming soon: My Humps: The Musical!

26. Adam Duritz’s dreadlocks

25. Tribute Albums
Don’t die. If you do, a dozen artists who ripped off all your ideas while you were alive (and one of whom will almost certainly be Sheryl Crow) will record overly reverent, roundly uninspired versions of your songs for a tribute album. This album will be ignored and/or quickly forgotten, or will spur a revival in your music that you won’t be around to enjoy and profit from.

24. Mark David Chapman

23. Woodstock ’99
The lineup was bad enough — a lame attempt at multi-culti harmony mixing patchouli-soaked pied pipers (Rusted Root) with braindead alpha-males (Insane Clown Posse). When the event got going, the second sequel to the Summer of Love quickly degenerated into an ugly free-for-all of sexual assault, arson, ODs — and $6 pizza slices. No wonder those ATMs were looted.

22. Lists That Reduce Rock History to a Series of Glib Soundbites
(Sorry.)


21. Nearly Every Hip-Hop Video
We get it. Your ride is pimped, your crib is a castle and at the drop of an ice-encrusted hat, you can have tons of scantily clad ho’s pouring bottles of Cristal down your gullet while you kick it in the hot tub. Congratulations to a generation of hip-hop video directors for making decadence seem so … boring.

20. Syn Drums

19. Electric Violins

18. Soprano Sax

17. Fred Durst

16. Replacement Lead Singers
AC/DC’s impressive recovery from Singer-Vomit-Asphyxiation is the exception that proves the rule. If the phrase “Van Hagar” fails to convince, consider Rock Star: INXS and the macabre spectacle of Queen fronted by a leatherfaced Paul Rodgers.

15. CDs
First, record companies made everyone re-buy their entire collections on newfangled “compact discs,” promising sonic superiority and virtual indestructibility. Despite obvious drawbacks — ever try to separate seeds and stems on a jewel case? — everyone ponied up anyway. Then, once this digital format became the very means by which music could be ripped and distributed for free, these same companies cried poor. Boo. Hoo.

14. Florida
Let us be perfectly clear: We are not besmirching Florida, the strong African-American matriarch of TV’s Good Times. We are besmirching Florida, the Sunshine State, unholy font of the Backstreet Boys, ’N Sync, O-Town, limpbizkit, 2 Live Crew, dangling chads and an army of drum-pummeling, grizzly-bear-mimicking death-metal bands with names too “evil” (i.e., moronic) to mention. A curse upon the balmy Southern realm!

13. Light Aircraft
The first day the music died, it took Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper with it. The next day it took country star Patsy Cline. And then Jim Croce, half of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Denver and Aaliyah. There is, it seems, a good reason the tour bus is such a popular transportation option.

12. Kevin Federline
Golfing and wifebeaters? Whatever. Multiple babymamas? Hey, do your thing. Even the rapping isn’t that bad. But snatching away our favorite pop star — that cannot be forgiven. Two years ago, Britney Spears was America’s sexy sweetheart; then the ex-backup-dancer pounced, and it was bye-bye “Toxic,” hello diapers and Cheetos.

11. “You Really Have to See Them Live.”
First heard muttered by a proselytizing Grateful Dead fan sometime around minute 13 of the studio version of “Terrapin Station, Pt. 1,” this reflexive, defensive cry has long been used as an excuse for the existence of reams of irretrievably dull Phish, Widespread Panic and moe. records. If your studio albums feel limp compared with your live show, don’t put them out.

10. “Colonel” Tom Parker
Meet the Slobodan Milosevic of artist management: Before Suge Knight, Lou Pearlman or even Allen Klein came the “Colonel” — inventor of ruinously exploitative rock management. Getting his hooks into Elvis in 1955, the Dutch con man artfully steered the King away from making music (which he had something of a knack for) and towards the likes of Clambake, Kissin’ Cousins, Kid Galahad and the 30-odd other Hollywood forgettables he made instead of recording or touring for most of the next decade.

9. Whitey
There are people who believe that this creature — call him “honky,” “ofay” or the “blue-eyed devil” — was created 6,000 years ago by an evil scientist named Yakub via genetic experimentation on an island called Patmos in a … lab or something. These people are music critics. In the first half of the century, Whitey took the kaleidoscopic music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and begat Lawrence Welk and the couldn’t-be-more-appropriately-named Paul Whiteman. In the latter, he took Little Richard’s gender-bendy, crypto-porn shout “Tutti Frutti” and begat its wan, Wonder Breaded anathema, Pat Boone.

We see the Beast’s essence everywhere. There he is, a beefy blond youth in a Von Dutch cap, spilling keg beer as he shifts weight from one Teva to another to a Bob Marley song — something he calls “dancing”; there he is, performing as Michael Bolton and Vanilla Ice or singing through the narrow, goateed visage of A.J. McLean. The dreaded character George Clinton christened Sir Nose D’Void of Funk has had an anti-Midas touch on music for decades now, whether it’s rockers copping the sexiness but not the subtlety of the blues in the ’50s or lemon-faced mooks hijacking hip-hop’s vigor to express the torments of suburban males who can’t get laid in the ’90s. White folks: They ruin everything.

8. The Age of 27
For most of us, the Bermuda Triangle of morbidity lies between the ages of 50 and 53, after which, if you dodge cancer, heart disease and other bullets, you’ll probably live for decades. For rock stars, the year to fear is 27 — the checkout date for Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones and blues legend Robert Johnson among others. Honorable mentions to Nick Drake (at a wizened 26) and Tim Buckley (at a boyish 28) — who were, after all, eccentric.

7. Finding God
Once the Big Guy gets under an artist’s skin, the work tends to suffer. Al Green went from making the sexiest music known to man to making gospel albums known to nobody. Mase quit hip-hop for the ministry, and when he returned, his skills didn’t come with him. The less said about Bob Dylan’s born-again albums the better, but the idea of Jehovah’s Witness prince proselytizing door-to-door in purple pumps still brings a smile. Esther, née Madonna, caused quite the mishegas by hopping aboard Kabbalah’s Judaism-meets-New-Age-hooey bandwagon. And Cat Stevens loved Islam so much, he named himself after it when he converted and then quit the music biz in 1979. Silly rock stars — you’re supposed to be the ones being slavishly worshipped!

6. Madonna’s British Accent

5. Ecstasy
As if convincing countless innocents to spend nights crushed into dilapidated warehouses, waving glowsticks and bouncing along to the same monotonous groove wasn’t bad enough, ecstasy also taught a generation of dance-music auteurs that songwriting was as easy as looping a beat, then taking a nap.

4. Neverland Ranch
It’s not as though everything was hunky-dory for MJ before he moved here. But somehow, the star’s retreat into a llama-stocked, Ferris-wheel-equipped, 2,600-acre Southern California funny farm in 1988 didn’t help his psyche. Wacko Jacko may since have emerged from his rustic Xanadu — dangling a baby off a balcony here, facing child-molestation charges there — and moved to Bahrain, but the great pop star he used to be has been lost forever in this multimillion-dollar shrine to childhood.

3. “The Star-spangled banner”
Here’s an idea: Let’s have the theme song for the world’s biggest and most diverse democracy be: 1) boring; 2) violently militaristic; and 3) next to impossible to sing. Not enough? OK, now let’s bring in Roseanne Barr to perform. She’s too busy? Get me William Hung!

2. Suge Knight
Here’s some advice: If Suge Knight offers to bail you out of jail, wait for a better offer. After doing this for Tupac Shakur, the bullying head of Death Row records molded a talented 24-year-old rapper into a doomed gangsta cartoon, fanned a preposterous coastal rap feud (fuck the Bering Strait, too, while we’re at it!) and steered his young star on a confrontational course that ended in a bullet-riddled BMW 750. Whether or not Biggie Smalls’s subsequent murder was related, Knight drafted a tragedy hip-hop never got over.

1. Kids Today!
Back in our day, we didn’t have any of yer fancy iPods and ringtones and downloads. We didn’t have the luxury and convenience of your scrotum-rings and your World Wide Web logs. When we wanted to steal the new Uriah Heep album, we couldn’t just troll the Internets for it, we had to do it the old-fashioned way — by hiking to the store (uphill, both ways) and shoving 12” of vinyl under our sweaters (which we had to knit ourselves). That’s why you sniveling whipper-snappers don’t appreciate the real value of music. Or Uriah Heep. Now get the hell off our lawn!

Пункт 1 (Kids Today!) -- Супер!
Многое объясняет. Старожылы, обратите внимание...
Так шта под обляду они (составители), наверняка, и производственную гимнастику исполняли... :-)

Soprano Sax зачетно!)

А откель у Мадонны Иванннны песенка American Life случилась?
Насколько помнится про пирожок америкосовский в 71-ом году Don, сват наш, McLean пел, а Мадонна чай про жизть, что ли? :))))))))

2john lee hooker:

>33
>AQUA
>“Barbie Girl” 1997
>Scandi-wegian pedo-pop alert! Erk!

Педо-поп))))) Нет, ясно, что это на самом деле значит, но звучит оч. прикольно))

2Ram On The Run:

>А откель у Мадонны Иванннны песенка American
>Life случилась?

Есть такая. С одноименного альбома 2003 года

Не пойму, чем им так не нравится “The Sounds of Silence” или Abony And Ivory. Да и вообще, в из списке "худших" много симпатичных, достойных песен.

2Textpert:

>Не пойму, чем им так не нравится


Кто-то просто выпендриваеццо))

~> Flaming Rain:

Спасибо за инфу!

~> Texpert:
[Не пойму, чем им так не нравится “The Sounds of Silence” или Abony And Ivory. Да и вообще, в из списке "худших" много симпатичных, достойных песен.]

Тоже не пойму, чем "The Sounds Of Silence" и "Abony And Ivory" не угодили? Все бы на таком уровне писали...

20 САМЫХ УЖАСНЫХ ПЕСЕННЫХ ТЕКСТОВ
(взято с ПлэйонЛирикса)
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20. John Mayer, “Something’s Missing”
Friends. Check
Money. Check
Well-slept. Check
Opposite sex. Check
Guitar. Check
Microphone. Check
Messages waiting for me
When I get home. Check
How come everything I think I need
Always comes with batteries?
What do you think it means?

We don’t know John, what does it really mean? You use a vibrator?

19. Black Eyed Peas, “My Humps”

My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps.

Fergie: setting back feminism 50 years. And it isn’t even sexy in a trashy, slutty kinda way.

18. Bruce Springsteen, “Glory Days”

He could throw that speed ball by you
make you look like a fool

The Boss is a great lyric writer and we feel bad for even bringing this up. But this song was about remembering high school and a baseball player. Perhaps he could blow a ‘fast ball’ past you, but a ‘speedball’ is something that John Belushi or Chris Farley would blow past you.

17. The Killers, “All These Things I've Done”

I've got soul but I'm not a soldier.
I've got soul but I'm not a soldier
I've got soul but I'm not a soldier

We got it the first time. People are slowly starting to realize that they sound interesting in a retro way but their lyrics are utter dross.

16. Wang Chung, “Everybody Have Fun”

Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody wang chung tonight

“Rats, what rhymes with fun? Er…wait a moment. Wang Chung! That rhymes. Hurrah! That was lucky.” Yes there was some good music in the 1980s. And then there was Wang Chung.

15. Poison, “Unskinny Bop”

Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop, nothin' more to say.

Making fun of 80s hair bands is too easy; it is like shooting fish in a barrel. But this steaming pile of rubbish has to win some award. Unskinny means fat, right?


14. Destiny's Child, “Bills, Bills, Bills”

Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Can you pay my automo' bills?
Then maybe we can chill
I don't think you do
so you and me are through

Before Beyonce et al were inventing words like Jelli and Bootilicous there were writing stuff like this. So, I can only be with you if I pay your bills? That would make you a…what exactly?

13. Gwen Stefani, “Hollaback Girl”

This shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S

It’s a spelling bee from the blonde leader of No Doubt. The whole song led to debates about what exactly a hollaback girl was. But this line was just plain weird.


12. Alanis Morissette, “Ironic”

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

I am sure she is sick of hearing about this. They are not bad lyrics, but the only ironic thing about any of the lyrics in this song is that they have nothing to do with irony. I think Sarah Vowell said it best – “Irony isn't a black fly in your chardonnay. Irony is naming your national airport after the president who fired all the air traffic controllers.”


11. Avril Lavigne, “SK8tr Boi”

He was a boy, she was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?

Not really. Wow that’s two young Canadian singers in a row. Can Celine be far behind?


10. The Police, “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”

He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov

Sting just reminding you that he reads. Pretentious? Moi?


9. Billy Idol, “Flesh for Fantasy”

Face to face
And back to back
You see and feel
My sex attack

My sex attack? Where’s the romance?

8. Kanye West “Jesus Walks”

I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers,
The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way y’all need Jesus.

Sometimes it works so well for Kanye. And then there’s this time.

7. Emerson, Lake and Palmer “Taste Of My Love”

You need love, I need love, here it comes , the taste of my love.
I'm gonna love you like nobody ever loved you
climb on my rocket and we'll fly.
Over the moon past the sun till we find
the gates of heaven open wide for lovers
I'm gonna love you like nobody ever loved you
climb on my rocket and we'll fly.

It is pretty easy to find a lot of pretentious twaddle put out by 1970s prog rockers. But this has to take the cake. Rumour has it that ELP put out a deliberately cheesy album after being made to fulfill a record contract. This would be very cheesy though.


6. Prism, “Starship Superstar”

I'm a spaceship superstar
I've got a solar-powered laser beam guitar
(he's a spaceship superstar)
I'm at the top of all the charts on Mars

Laser beam guitar?? If this is life on Mars I don’t want to go.

5. David Hasselhoff “Is Everybody Happy”

If you’re surrounded by clouds of thunder
Don’t let it get ya and pull-pull you under
You gotta fight it and learn your lesson
Or you will end up in deep deep depression
Whatever the hang up
We’re getting a gang up
And we are gonna have us some fun

Oh God. Where’s that bucket?

4. America, “A Horse With No Name”

On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things

Things? What, after three lines of the song the lyrical well ran dry?

3. Billy Ray Cyrus, Achy Breaky Heart

And if you tell my heart,
My achy breaky heart,
He might blow up and kill this man.

Country music is often a well of heartfelt, clever and poignant lyrics. Then there is Billy Ray – king of the mullet and writer of this beauty.

2. Captain and Tennille, “Muskrat Love”

Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land
And they shimmy
And Sammy's so skinny

And they didn’t wing this. They actually wrote it down. With a straight face.

1. Richard Harris/Donna Summer, “MacArthur Park”

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think I could take it, `cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh no!

The most famous of all bad lyrics. Whether it was Richard Harris belting it out in the original four hour version or Donna Summer doing the disco version the whole song is just priceless.

15 ХУДШИХ АЛЬБОМОВ ВЕЛИКИХ
ПО ВЕРСИИ "РОЛЛИНГ СТОУН"

Rolling Stone’s 15 Worst Albums By Great Bands

1. Bob Dylan, “Down In the Groove”
2. Rolling Stones, “Dirty Work”
3. David Bowie, “Tonight
4. Van Morrison, “Beautiful Vision”
5. The Clash, “Cut the Crap”
6. Neil Young, “Old Ways”
7. Van Halen, “Diver Down”
8. The Who, “Face Dances”
9. Elvis Costello, “Mighty Like A Rose”
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers, “One Hot Minute”
11. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “American Dream”
12. Aerosmith, “Rock in a Hard Place”
13. Lou Reed, “Mistrial”
14. Morrissey, “Kill Uncle”
15. Led Zeppelin, “Presence”

-- Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/05/14/rolling-stones-15-worst-albu...

САМЫЕ УРОДЛИВЫЕ МУЗЫКАНТЫ.
Согласно KissNews.de и читателей-писателей онлайнмагазина Blogcritics
Итак, "Великолепная дюжина"

01. Shane MacGowan (THE POGUES)
02. G.G. Allin
03. Gene Simmons (KISS)
04. Lemmy (MOTÖRHEAD)
05. Thom Yorke (RADIOHEAD)
06. Jim Skafish (SKAFISH)
07. Madonna
08. Alex Van Halen (VAN HALEN)
09. HATERUSH
10. GWAR
11. Roger Waters (PINK FLOYD)
12. JOURNEY

19. Black Eyed Peas, “My Humps”

My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps.

Прямо сегодня слушал эту песенку. Прикольная. Не текст, а типа негритянский голос девки той, поющей. И таким голосом можно спеть вообще все что угодно.


17. The Killers, “All These Things I've Done”

I've got soul but I'm not a soldier.
I've got soul but I'm not a soldier
I've got soul but I'm not a soldier


Он еще клип никак не комментировал. А там вообще - .опа со смыслом и его загадочностью. Какие-то девки бросаются в ковбоев бумеранги, один остается живым и ходит с доской, в которую вставлены лампочки. Сначала вроде мстит за товарищей, а потом вообще непонятно чем занимается. Наверное это сюрреализм, тогда критик ничего не понял :)

Все-таки материал такого рода поп-трэш слишком привязан к тамошнему всему социуму. Это к тому, что читая некоторые песенные изречения вне комментариев ничего "плохого" о них и не подумал бы :)

2Expert:

Ну да, ну да, особенна "май хамп, май хамп..." жывотрепесчусчее жэ

500 СD КЛАССИЧЕСКОГО РОКА, КОТОРЫЕ ВЫ ДОЛЖНЫ ИМЕТЬ :-)
По версии Блендера на 2003 год.
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AC/DC
Highway to Hell
ATCO, 1979
The album that firmly cemented AC/DC’s trademark sound — grooving backbeats topped with heavy, play-in-a-day riffs — and original singer Bon Scott’s nihilism. Six months after its release, the frontman would be found dead in a car in London following a booze bender.
Standout track: “Highway to Hell”

RYAN ADAMS
Heartbreaker
BLOODSHOT, 2000
Alt-country motormouth Adams surprised many with his first solo album after the demise of Whiskeytown. Where that group’s records had been rough and rowdy, here was a relaxed, soothing beauty that melted hearts with its smoky, lovesick charms.
Standout track: “Come Pick Me Up”

AEROSMITH
Toys in the Attic
COLUMBIA, 1975
Although they copped their share of Rolling Stones licks (not to mention Rolling Stones attitude), Aerosmith also had a jones for James Brown, and it was their sly sense of funk — particularly in “Walk This Way” and “Sweet Emotion” — that kept these Toys in play.
Standout track: “Walk This Way”

AEROSMITH
Rocks
COLUMBIA, 1976
A tough, arrogant follow-up to Toys in the Attic, Rocks is a tasty, nasty set of fuck-me riffs and fuck-you swagger, combining Aerosmith’s coarse blend of maximum R&B/blues metal and perfecting prototypical 1970s American hard rock in the process.
Standout track: “Back in the Saddle”

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
Live at the Fillmore East
POLYDOR, 1971
An example of great musicians stretching out and simply flowing. Even though producer Tom Dowd skillfully edited some of the jams, we’re still talking 10 minutes–plus on three tracks.
Standout track: “Statesboro Blues”

THE ANIMALS
The Best of the Animals
ABKCO, 1988
Led by Eric Burdon and masterful organist Alan Price, the Animals leavened their R&B grit with English pop hooks. This compilation of pre-’66 hits captures their early peak, from British Invasion staples to the obligatory blues covers.
Standout track: “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”

THE BAND
Music From Big Pink
CAPITOL, 1968
Their landmark debut: The oracular lyrics and the music’s subdued desperation form a meditation on social turbulence, while their rootsy approach proved surprisingly visionary. Steeped in history and myth, the album’s mystique hasn’t diminished.
Standout track: “The Weight”

THE BAND
The Band
CAPITOL, 1969
Like Italians reinventing the Western, these Canadians envisioned a hillbilly funk and melancholic grandeur that Americans hadn’t recognized in themselves. Here, Robbie Robertson comes into his own, writing or cowriting every tune.
Standout track: “Up On Cripple Creek”

BEACH BOYS
Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
CAPITOL, 1990
Brian Wilson at his early peak (1963 and ’64), before the demons took over. Embellishing the myth of good-time California, the Boys celebrate cars and surf with thrilling harmonies. An exhilarating mix of nerdiness and swagger.
Standout track: “I Get Around”

BEACH BOYS
Today!/Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
CAPITOL, 1990
Following his 1964 breakdown, Brian Wilson fled the road to concentrate on studio work. This pairing of the band’s two 1965 albums spotlights the more mature and complex music that resulted.
Standout track: “Help Me, Rhonda”

BEACH BOYS
Pet Sounds
CAPITOL, 1966
Ignoring ’60s pop conventions, Brian Wilson turned the noises in his head into a musical universe. Heavenly arrangements punctuate an emotionally wrenching song cycle bursting with youthful hope, longing and doubt. This is why Brian Wilson is a genius.
Standout track: “God Only Knows”

CHUCK BERRY
The Great Twenty-Eight
CHESS, 1982
Quintessential rock & roll, the trunk of rock’s family tree. Berry’s iconic guitar licks and his sly poetry provide ruminations on love, school and cars. This ideal introduction is packed with addictive music that bows to no one.
Standout track: “Johnny B. Goode”

BLACK SABBATH
Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978)
RHINO/WARNER BROS., 2002
Ozzy Osbourne’s astonishing howl and Tony Iommi’s sludge-filled riffs were the definition of metal and created some of the most dense, dark noise ever recorded.
Standout track: “Paranoid”

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield
ATCO, 1969
Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay kept it together for two years and three albums, blueprinting the ’70s L.A. sound. Always diverse, often brilliant.
Standout track: “For What It’s Worth”

THE BYRDS
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
COLUMBIA/LEGACY, 1968
When David Crosby left the Byrds, Gram Parsons entered and transformed the folk-rock trailblazers. In contrast to leader Jim “Roger” McGuinn’s eclectic irony, Parsons displayed a deep feeling for old-fashioned roots music that still rings true today.
Standout track: “Hickory Wind”

THE BYRDS
Greatest Hits (Expanded Edition)
COLUMBIA/LEGACY, 1999
Roger McGuinn and company invented folk-rock by making the music of Bob Dylan safe for mass consumption. But these West Coasters’ true brilliance lay in their dirty-Beatles and space-pop originals.
Standout track: “Eight Miles High”

TRACY CHAPMAN
Tracy Chapman
ELEKTRA, 1988
Chapman has yet to better this powerful and socially conscious debut. The rootsy arrangements are masterpieces of understatement, focusing attention on the sincerity of Chapman’s world-worn voice and her confessional, storytelling lyrics.
Standout track: “Fast Car”

CHEAP TRICK
Live at Budokan
EPIC, 1979
They previously underachieved everywhere except the far East, but this live set made these Midwestern ne’er-do-wells heroes at home. Full of distorted Beatles hooks in an arena of screaming teens — there’s no finer distillation of pop charm and heavy-rock thrills.
Standout track: “I Want You to Want Me”

ERIC CLAPTON
The Cream of Clapton
POLYDOR/CHRONICLES, 1995
Honors both the chart-friendly, easier-listening, late-’70s Clapton and the whirling dervish of years earlier, scaling his creative peaks with Cream and keeping Jimi Hendrix from snapping at his heels. His vocals aren’t bad either.
Standout track: “Layla”

ALICE COOPER
The Best of Alice Cooper: Mascara & Monsters
RHINO, 2001
In his pomp, the man formerly known as Vincent Furnier produced a fistful of classic, glam-tinged rock anthems. Twenty-two remasters of the Alice band’s finest moments on one CD give you everything you need.
Standout track: “Under My Wheels”

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Chronicle
FANTASY, 1976
Creedence suffused sturdy songwriting with socially conscious, visionary Americana. John Fogerty’s plain-spoken lyrics were as indelible as his hooks, while the band’s elemental swamp-rock swung mightily.
Standout track: “Fortunate Son”

THE DOORS
The Very Best of the Doors
RHINO, 2001
Transcendental, pervy pop-rock, often imitated but rarely bettered. This double-disc compilation gathers the radio hits (“Hello, I Love You”), the lengthy wig-outs (“The End,” “Riders On the Storm”) and fan-friendly rarities. Best skip the organ solos, though.
Standout track: “Break On Through”

BOB DYLAN
Bringing It All Back Home
COLUMBIA, 1965
A year after the British Invasion had trained our attention on the other side of the Atlantic, Dylan brought it all back home with an album that electrified both folk music and the rock audience. Suddenly, the music’s possibilities seemed endless.
Standout track: “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

BOB DYLAN
Highway 61 Revisited
COLUMBIA, 1965
Dylan flips the bird at the naysayers with his first (almost) entirely electric set. It featured the rant “Like a Rolling Stone” and the twisted mythology of the title track, remaining defiantly “plugged” until the acoustic 11-minute closer, “Desolation Row.”
Standout track: “Like a Rolling Stone”

BOB DYLAN
Live 1966: The Royal Albert Hall Concert
COLUMBIA/LEGACY, 1998
Official release of the legendary bootleg. Its acoustic half finds Dylan hushed and stoned, while during the electric segment, his hardcore audience is effectively at war. The word compelling scarcely suffices.
Standout track: “Ballad of a Thin Man”

BOB DYLAN
Blonde On Blonde
COLUMBIA, 1966
An album that could confirm Dylan’s genius on its own. Arrogant at times, Beatles-influenced, thoroughly in love with pop music, full of delicate instrumental detail and yet epic in scale. More evidence that 1966 was the best year of the last century.
Standout track: “Just Like a Woman”

BOB DYLAN
John Wesley Harding
COLUMBIA, 1967
John Wesley Harding goes for country over folk, despite using what are seemingly folk tales to couch its cryptic political allegory. The sound is straightforward, paving the way for country-rockers, but the words are knottier than ever.
Standout track: “All Along the Watchtower”

BOB DYLAN & THE BAND
The Basement Tapes
COLUMBIA, 1975
These homemade demos are quintessential Dylan performances, gritty and spontaneous. Recorded in 1967 with his new group, the Band, they easily outshine many of the tracks on his official albums.
Standout track: “This Wheel’s On Fire”

BOB DYLAN
Blood On the Tracks
COLUMBIA, 1975
In 1975, Dylan was in the throes of divorce. His best album since Blonde On Blonde was the result. Its intimate ambience and gorgeously warm production still make many acolytes claim that it’s the finest album he’s ever made.
Standout track: “Tangled Up in Blue”

BOB DYLAN
Love and Theft
COLUMBIA, 2001
Released on September 11, Dylan’s best album in a decade was downright prophetic. A recording steeped in borrowed blues perfect for verses riddled with apocalyptic revelations and other things “too terrible to be true.” Unnerving.
Standout track: “Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum”