Yeah, this music list is the list of a wanna be hater. It's like Rolling Stone's 50 Best lists, which just go with the flow of the teen scene. Plus, it's from Maxim. They're too busy selling Axe deodorant, and showing side boob and top crack, to know anything about music.
They think they're hipsters, is what the problem is. Or at least, they desperately want to be hipsters. They talk, dress and act like hipsters. I doubt, though, that they know anything about what's going on in music besides what's on the billboard charts.
Agreed. His post on The Alan Parsons Project left me with no doubt that this guy doesn't know anything about what he rails against (but how many of these guys actually do?)
Blender Article said:
Having conquered the Dark Side of the Moon,
He says this as if it's insignificant. Jesus Christ, whether you like Pink Floyd or not,
Dark Side of the Moon was a very complex engineering feat. There's also the other Engineering work Parsons had done
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1969 Abbey Road (The Beatles)
1970 Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd)
1973 The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
1974 Hollies (The Hollies)
1975 Another Night (The Hollies)
1975 Ambrosia (Ambrosia)
1976 Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)
EMI Records’ beardy staff engineer Alan Parsons decided that what the universe really needed was a prog-rock concept album based on the work of nineteenth-century horror novelist Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by Orson Welles. It didn’t, of course,...
1]
Tales of Mystery and Imagination reached #38 on the Billboard Top 200.
2] In the U.K., it reached Gold status inside the first year.
Not to mention that shortly thereafter,
I, Robot and
Eye in the Sky were in the Billboard Top 10. So, again, it's not like this guy is an unknown trying to be something big. Parsons is a talented artist, a talented Engineer, a talented Producer.
but an undeterred Parsons soldiered on, swapping prog-rock for vapid AOR in the ’80s. Finally bundled off to play guitar in Ringo Starr’s backing band, he was never seen again.
Just counting anything after the 1980s:
Try Anything Once (1993)
On Air (1996)
The Time Machine (1999)
A Valid Path (2004)
In the ’90s, the world-champion Chicago Bulls took the court to the pretentious swells of Parsons’s “Sirius.”
I don't think that word means what he thinks it means.
All in all, if this article can't even get simple facts correct, there's no way the opinion's going to be any better.
This seems like a pretty transparent attempt to get "outrage traffic" to their site. Everyone is bound to be bothered by at least one inclusion on the list.
Oh, I agree. That's usually the staple of people like this. They have nothing valuable to contribute, so they churn up outrage and annoyance.
