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Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie
I never know what to make of top xx lists by magazines like Rolling Stone and NME. They claim to focus only on including 'great' or 'important' or 'influential' albums, but what is great or important or infuential is still only a matter of opinion. In other words they're aiming at something that is impossible - objectivity.
Better to just list the albums you love and give up any pretension.
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Yup yup.
The biggest boo boo is attempting to treat something subjective as if it were rooted in absolute objectivity. A lot of the times these lists attempt to feign eclecticism to maintain credibility too.
That being said I don't really have an issue with The Queen Is Dead, but I don't think that This Is It (or Arctic Monkeys) should be anywhere on that list.