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Attention music fans.

If you read this "Top 50" list and actually eat this crap up, you are incredibly musically challenged.

First of all, LOL, The Doors (for all of Morrison's faults) are perhaps one of the most influential and (IMO) greatest bands EVER. I may be 19 but I like to think I have great taste in music - none of this cRAP or "hip-hip" or "R&B" shananaghans.

To put bands like The Doors or Primus or Goo Goo Dolls on a "list" like this and just totally neglect the manufactured BS that is being spoonfed to our willing youth in the form of "J-Zee(sus he sux)" and "Ludicrap" etc (not to mention all the whiney little brats with guitars these days) is just rediculous.

There is a reason great bands like Led Zeppelin, Allman Bros., Aerosmith, etc will never go away...its the last of the worthy music!! Not to mention all the wonderful classical music that have become legendary. I dunno...stupid list, stupid magazine, stupid writer, stupid is as stupid writes.

Corey

I can't post Altanet articles on FR (http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18830) because the mods don't want to have long rambling discussions of their political pieces. That said, I think you would like this quote I saw today:

How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop
Stay Free!: What are the origins of sampling in hip-hop?
Chuck D: Sampling basically comes from the fact that rap music is not music. It's rap over music. So vocals were used over records in the very beginning stages of hip-hop. In the late 1980s, rappers were recording over live bands who were basically emulating the sounds off of the records. Eventually, you had synthesizers and samplers, which would take sounds that would then get arranged or looped, so rappers can still do their thing over it. The arrangement of sounds taken from recordings came around 1984 to 1989.

I am on the SXSW music festival "headlines" daily email and so that is how I came to read an altanet article (and even then I gave up on it when I saw I couldn't post it to FR). This excerpt was the main point I wanted to discuss (although I could have gotten into "fair use" and copyright law as well).

The Doors (for all of Morrison's faults) are perhaps one of the most influential and (IMO) greatest bands EVER. I may be 19 but I like to think I have great taste in music

Oh my. I'll chalk it up to your youth, but please take a serious look at the great Jim's poetic twaddle (not to mention the band's tremendous three-chord range). I wrote better stuff in fifth grade.