Well, they did give The Moody Blues Days Of Future Past and Iron Maidens Number Of The Beast a 2 star rating and *NSYNCs No Strings Atached a 3 star rating.


Rolling Stone???.... Generic?.... The hell you say. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28..._surprised.gif

Rofl...Every once and a while there is a decent article...BUT! i much prefer a good slam every once a while...

They also gave every early Black Sabbath record a one star rating. They gave every 70's AC/DC album less than one star.

Not that either of those bands are prog, or related to Rush in any way...just pointing out how incredibly idiotic RS are.

haha good point there. wasnt all the music of that time based on being rebellious and NOT sounding the same? it's just a shame that rush gets put down because of their originality

RS are incredibly biased against prog and metal, and even jazz to a lesser degree... Their 500 greatest albums list had seven jazz albums, SEVEN.... Three Miles Davis albums, two John Coltrane albums, One Ornette Coleman album and one Stan Getz album.

On their list of 100 greatest artists, only one jazz artist made the list, Miles Davis.... And he was below Eminem and AC/DC.

And then theres the infamous guitarists list... Hardly any jazz players at all.... Only Les Paul and John McLaughlin, and guess what?... They were heaps below Jack White, Jack f*cking White.... Apparantly Django Reinhardt and Wes Montgomery were not good enough for the list.... But Joan Jett sure was.


Biased soul sucking clowns.

Yeah, their best guitarist list was pathetic.

My favorite was Kirk Hammett at number 11 above Jerry Garcia, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, The Edge, Mark Knopfler, Diik Dale, John Fahey, Steve Cropper, Bo Diddley, Brian May, John Fogerty, Robert Fripp, Eddie Hazel, Scotty Moore, Frank Zappa, Les Paul, T Bone Walker, John McLaughlin, Pete Townshend, Tom Verlaine, Jorma Kaukonen, Dicky Betts, Link Wray, Mick Ronson, Steve Howe, Eddie Van Halen, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Winter, Robert Quinn, David Gilmour, Randy Rhoads, Tony Iommi, D.Boon, Robby Krieger, Angus Young and Greg Ginn... And then theres all the other great players they left out... Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, Andres Segovia, Paco De Lucia, Sabicas, John Williams, Wes Montgomery, Michael Hedges, Phil Keaggy, Carl Perkins, Duane Eddy, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Doc Watson, Roy Clark, Albert King, Billy Gibbons, Pat Matheny, Joe Pass, Allan Holdsworth, Leo Kottke, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Mark Ribot, Steve Hacket, Alex Lifeson, Adrian Belew, Johnny Marr, Billy Zoom, East Bay Ray and several others.

And of course, Kurt Cobain and Jack White in the top 20 is completely laughable (i think both are great, but top 20 players they are not).... On the bright side, i was happy to see John Frusciante, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Tom Morello, Adam Jones, Kevin Shields, Thurston Moore, Vernon Reid, Trey Anastasio and Derek Trucks make the list.. They're among the best guitarists we have today, IMO.... And i was amused to see Johnny Ramone so high on a greatest guitarists list, however i do think he deserves to be in the top 100, for his overwhelming influence alone, but not at freaking 16, somewhere in the 70s/80s region would have been more appropiate... Anyway, i don't think the list is completely bad, i'll give credit where its due and i think Dave Fricke (who likes teh prog, so he can't be all bad) tried his best to offer an alternative to standard guitarist lists... I was happy that the list wasn't plump full of shredders and neo classical wankers like Batio and Cooley.... But overall the list lacked consistancy, it simply should have been called Rolling Stones 100 FAVORITE guitarists of all time, no one should complain then.

this makes me sad:(

Rush Rocks!!! Yyz!!

I play bass and love prog, so naturally every Rush song is a musicgasm for me. Not to mention the contributions of Lifeson and Peart.