good listen imo..

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Wow red, thats an informative post.

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Wow red, thats an informative post.

Yours is even more spectacular.

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Wow red, thats an informative post.

Yours is even more spectacular.

Same can be said for yours

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Wow red, thats an informative post.

Yours is even more spectacular.

Same can be said for yours

Rubber glue, me you.

Id like to agree with red.

Its a great selection of tracks, well worth obtaining. Loads of great old classics as well some new great tunes that I wasnt expecting.

Lots of tunes I hadnt heard too (although I probably should have).

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs

Nirvana doesnt belong on the list at all. I like them fine, but they were just redoing the same music that the Pixies had done better a few years before. Kurt Cobain fessed to this.

Otherwise its pretty good. Thrilled to see the underrated Ronnettes and Impressions on the list.

i hate these "greatest" things

tis all personal opinion, most popular would be more accurate

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tis all personal opinion, most popular would be more accurate

Pshaw, theyre always opinion driven--but such lists always inspire me to go and listen to some neglected music in my collection, like Jerry Lee Lewis, theTemptations, Sam Cooke, or even Dusty Springfield.

Quote from: maximusotterNirvana doesnt belong on the list at all.

Okay, they imitated another bands style. Please offer another reason.

-Not flaming, trying to start a discussion.

Good Point.

If bands didnt imitate stuff that had gone before, that would be a much shorter list.

Whatever you say about the pixies getting there first musically, if you played a pixies record and a nirvana to your average man in the street, Id say its a fairly safe bet which one would be recognised.

Ive said this before and Ill say it again, the nice thing about great bands is that they often inspire me to go and listen to their influences, which are often also great  

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Quote from: maximusotterNirvana doesnt belong on the list at all.

Okay, they imitated another bands style. Please offer another reason.

-Not flaming, trying to start a discussion.

Well, the Pixies are musically far more talented, better songwriting, etc. Theyre *the* seminal and influential band coming out of the 80s into the early 90s. Go forward a couple years and itd be Pavement on the indie rock end of things.

I like Nirvana for a couple songs. Heck, I lived in the same small town as those guys--theyre my homeboys and my circle of friends intersected with theirs, but theyre not the best. The first Hole record after Kurt offed himself is more interesting, and yeah it owes props to Patti Smith and the Stooges. Nirvana wasnt borrowing from Chuck Berry or even the New York Dolls, nah, they were ripping off their contemporaries like Pixies, Soundgarden, and Screaming Trees. They did it pretty well, but just because they charted doesnt make them "the best".

hey guys,


go steal this collection, listen to it, and then find a conclusion, before critique starts to flow.

please humour me on this.

while your at it, have a sh*t, a smoke and chillax. its a good listen.