RS 500 Greatest Albums

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Postby lukpac » Sat Nov 29, 2003 5:24 pm

The sampler has 5.1 mixes of all the songs too...
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Postby krabapple » Sun Nov 30, 2003 1:28 am

This really goes without saying, but I'll still observe that amid all this talk about the LP as a unit as opposed to individual songs, that the art/prog crowd got the shaft yet again. There's a bunch of Pink Floyd on the list, but after that there's a big goose egg. No Genesis, Yes, Rush or Moody Blues. (Though Gabriel's poppiest solo album made it on.) And *definitely* none of the less-visible acts like Golden Earring, Gentle Giant, Porcupine Tree or (wait for it) Marillion. There's a Kraftwerk album, but that's probably more for the techno influence than anything else. And Queen made it on with Night At The Opera, which I guess is close enough.



Jethro TUll's Aqualung made the cut.


RS was not always so prog-unfriendly, despite what peopel think. Several of the
70's Yes albums got good to great reviews, for example, as did even a couple of ELP albums.
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