Posted by Dfelon

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Bodyjar is pretty great but I'd never really elevate them to Top 10 category just on personal taste.

Oh, me either. I just threw 'em in there to shake things up a bit.
maybe some folk'll get into them now ha ha.

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Originally posted by DFelon204409:
I've made the same argument about metacritic lists.

Well, I might agree but this is MC..

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Originally posted by JGlass:
Rolling Stone's lists make me laugh because they show how relevant Rolling Stone is (their lists are always consensus greats and safe picks like the Sex Pistols).

i see this a lot about rolling stone not being relevent anymore, and i would somewhat agree, but i'm curious at what point exactly they lost their relevence. surely they were relevent at one point weren't they?

It was once, and for many years a great magazine. I tuned out around the late 1980's.

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Originally posted by kalibtweli:
I see this a lot about rolling stone not being relevant anymore, and i would somewhat agree, but I'm curious at what point exactly they lost their relevance. Surely, they were relevant at one point, weren't they?

I'm too young to answer this question.

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Originally posted by allo:
pm3 wrote:
Slayer - Undisputed Attitude (Classic Punk Cover Songs from the gods of Trash, It is awesome!)
bravo!!! lots of metalheads here in cro told me in conversation that "Slayer taught those punks how to play".nonsense!Its a hommage album to all those punk groups they were listening as kids.Hardcore in its best.

Yeah, Metal heads say a lot. I love metal but anyone that had a background of punk new these songs in 1996 when this CD came out. It was part tribute to the hardcore/punk side of thrash's roots and partly an attempt for the MIGHTY SLAYER to cash in on the pop-punk trend of the time, showing what they viewed as PUNK ROCK.

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Originally posted by JGlass:

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Originally posted by kalibtweli:
I see this a lot about rolling stone not being relevant anymore, and i would somewhat agree, but I'm curious at what point exactly they lost their relevance. Surely, they were relevant at one point, weren't they?

I'm too young to answer this question.

I don't know if you are. I tend to think that it has been a much more recent problem that has arisen with Rolling Stone (wasn't that minger from the Hills on the cover or something?).

Shit, at least having Britney Spears on the cover had SOMETHING to do with music. I'd say they lost their relevance somewhere in the 90's, but that's just me. You can go to their website and look at all the Magazine covers throughout time, and you'll see that the more recent they get, the more irrelevant they get. It's kind of like watching your dad get older until his teeth fall out.

Okay so io just looked at a bunch of Rolling Stone magazine covers, and man they've sucked shit for a while.

I think they lost their relevance, however, in 1996 when they announced Live the best band according to their readers. When a majority (or winning percentage) of you readership are complete numb-skulls and you don't have the nuts to call them out on it, that's when you are no longer relevant.

But i looked at some 70's covers, and they've sucked for a while.

Just a footnote from someone who has been reading music media for about 30 years.

Rolling Stone for many years had one of the most envied bunch of staff writers in the history of American pop culture.
James Henke, Anthony DeCurtis, Mikal Gilmore,Kurt Loder, Hunter S.Thompson, David Fricke, Robert Christgau...just for starters.

Sure, they had their blind spots, and now the mag is a total joke, but America, never forget those great essayists who did so much for rock writing.

...and back to topic, let's not forget cow-punk: Jason & the Scorchers rocked that genre pretty damn well.

It still blows my mind that Trophy Scars is semi-widely known. Are you from NJ by any chance DFelon? I went to high school with TS, saw them play before anyone knew them.. hell, I was at their (now ex-guitarist)'s house the other day.

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Originally posted by Shakedown:
It still blows my mind that Trophy Scars is semi-widely known. Are you from NJ by any chance DFelon? I went to high school with TS, saw them play before anyone knew them.. hell, I was at their (now ex-guitarist)'s house the other day.

Hahaha no I discovered them on mp3.com way back in the day (as in Darts to the Sea - I actually anticipated the release of Hospital Music), and have been following them. New stuff sort of sucks hard. It's funny you'd say that about knowing them because I have two random stories about that. A family friend of mine visited me in California and tagged along to see Trophy Scars live and recognized one of the two guitarists that he went to high school with. A friend of mine from college said he grew up with the people in that band and that they played on baseball teams and stuff when he was little. Does the name Brian Blood ring a bell?

Hahaha, what a small world. I know of Brian Blood... I know his sister, Katie. Darts to the Sea... wow, hello freshman year. I still have that t-shirt.

Haha ya I think I met her once. That is sort of ridiculous. But anyways, music...

This will wind up changing in my own opinion but these happen to be the ones that are fresh in my mind.

1. Crass- Christ The Album
2. Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
3. Killing Joke- Killing Joke
4. The Stooges- The Stooges
5. The Hives- Barely Legal
6. The Stranglers- No More Heroes
7. Motorhead-(dont bother arguing, i consider them to be punk) Iron Fist
8. The Clash- The Clash
10. Nirvana- (once again, dont argue, grunge is basically punk anyway) In Utero