http://observer.guar.../review/story/0,,1821230,00.html

Intresting.

Altough DYOH should def be in there.

"Mary J Blidge [...] Without this ... no R&B/soul divide, which means no TLC, Beyonce, or Ashanti, to name just three."



Now I want to get back in time and kill her before she does her album...

And where the fuck is Led Zeppelin ????

I wished the Chems had made it to the list but it's pretty fair and spot on. Interesting to see Velvet Underground at the #1 spot above the Beatles, not sure about the placement... I do agree with the last bit that says reducing the list to just 50 was a torturous process. There's too much good stuff, there's too much influential stuff.



I'm sorry, but I don't think Spice Girls needed to be on there. Maybe it's just a UK thing... I'm not sure why the Strokes are on there. dFairport Convention was a bit of an odd choice imo as was Human League and I don't know if I agree with those or not. I can understand why Mary J. Blige made it to the list but I cannot for the life of me understand why she butchered U2's One.

50 LFO

Frequencies (1991)



Acid house was sniffed at as a fad until it started producing 'proper' albums. Frequencies was its first masterpiece. Updating the pristine blueprint of Kraftwerk with house, acid, ambient and hip hop, it made dance music legitimate to album-buyers.



Without this ... no success for Orbital, Underworld, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers or Aphex Twin.



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really???

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whirlygirl Escribi�:

I can understand why Mary J. Blige made it to the list but I cannot for the life of me understand why she butchered U2's One.

Yeah, for that too she deserved to be murdered

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*dances*

38 Radiohead

The Bends (1995)



In parallel with Jeff Buckley, Radiohead's Thom Yorke popularised the angst-laden falsetto, a thoughtful opposite to the chest-beating lad-rock personified by Oasis's Liam Gallagher. Sounding girly to a backdrop of churning guitars became a much-copied idea, however, one which eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound.



Without this ... Coldplay would not exist, nor Keane, nor James Blunt.

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Great, like I needed ANOTHER reason to go back in time and skull fuck Thom Yorke to death.

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The Spice Girls???



You have to be kidding me.