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New 2020 rolling stone ranking of the 500 greatest albums of all time

phoenixdogfan

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Remember, all the records you mention are older. And yeah, there's some dumb selections. This should not be taken as holy writ, more like throwing you-know what at the walls.
It's like when you get those "all time" list of the greatest football or basketball players and it's dominated by buys who played in the '90s or later. That's called "recentcy error", and it correlates strongly with the age group the selectors fall into.
 

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Are there really no folk artists? I thought I saw Dylan, Cat Stevens, and a few others (like Gillian Welch).

That said I don't recall seeing some names I would have expected like Joan Baez, Guthrie or Seeger.
Don't know if I'd call Cat Stevens a folk singer. Dylan, I guess, but not a pure one like PPM, Baez, Seeger, or The Weavers. Suppose you could stretch the definition to include Simon and Garfunkel and Bruce.
 

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It's like when you get those "all time" list of the greatest football or basketball players and it's dominated by buys who played in the '90s or later. That's called "recentcy error", and it correlates strongly with the age group the selectors fall into.
It is also what is known as "growing old".
 

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Don't know if I'd call Cat Stevens a folk singer. Dylan, I guess, but not a pure one like PPM, Baez, Seeger, or The Weavers. Suppose you could stretch the definition to include Simon and Garfunkel and Bruce.
Joan Baez has not been a "pure" folk singer for a long time.
Peter Paul and Mary were always a commercial response to the folk scare of the early sixties. But, again, this is "Rolling Stone", not "Sing Out".
 

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This will probably not be germane to the audiophile audience here, but J Dilla's Donuts was criminally underrated. I frankly think hip hop in general was underrepresented, given modern listening trends, but Donuts spawned whole genres. To put it hundreds of places behind Lemonade is wild to me. This NPR piece from 2013 is truer today than it was then.
 
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