Rolling Stone's top twenty five album covers

Rolling Stone has a list of their ''"Twenty Five Favorite Album Covers,''" and they made some pretty bold decisions let me save you some time:
-The Beatles: Good band. No, great band.
-Nirvana, Radiohead: Dear 90'''s, Give it time. Love always, The Canon
-Hip Hop: Hmm. Interesting theory. We'''ll get back to you. Okay fine, you get one.
-Any band around which critical opinion has already permanently crystallized to the point where we run no risk of sparking any sort of controversy whatsoever: Now that'''s what I'''m talking about!
The Top 5, for the record, went as follows:
5.) Beastie Boys, Paul'''s Boutique
4.) Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
3.) The Beatles, Abbey Road
2.) The Clash, London Calling
1.) The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper'''s Lonely Hearts Club Band

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October 25, 2007 at 5:56 p.m.

shocking!

October 25, 2007 at 5:58 p.m.

Reason #52394 why RS sucks something awful, and pretty much always has to one degree or another

October 25, 2007 at 8:39 p.m.

the most amusing aspect of it all to me is that in the end this was just some stupid tossed-off list of album covers...and they still couldn't stomach throwing a bone to the left or right of center. i can (sort of) understand where the golden age obsession and reluctance to get caught catering to trends would come into play in, say, formally publishing a list of "the top 500 albums of all-time." with something like that, i actually think hyper-self-awareness can in a lot of ways be a virtue.but album covers?? does anyone even for a split second buy into the idea that the beatles are representative of 4/25ths of the best album covers of all-time? sigh.. it's canon porn.

October 26, 2007 at 7:03 a.m.

I think it's one of those cases where they forget what the topic even is. Like, "okay, best album covers... um... well we better put the Beatles in there." They're confusing things. The Beatles were a great band, so they'll top pretty much any topic list that RS assembles. "Okay, best slacks... well we better put the Beatles in there."

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