tolkev commented on…
Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s"
The poseur top 100 — 3 years ago
These are all great records. But the list has a whiff of Rolling Stone style hipper-than-thou to it. My main compliant is leaving Black Sabbath off is wrong. Whether you like them or not, their impact was profound and lasting. They were principle architects of Heavy Metal and a major influence on countless artists within and beyond the genre they helped to originate. Do you think you could spare one Bowie album?! Leaving out Black Sabbath is an incomplete list of top albums of 70’s. As for which album… although Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath-1973 is my personal favorite, Paranoid-1970 or Master of Reality-1971 are blueprints of Heavy Metal.
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Greg
Columbus
Definitive lists don't allow for editing
Just because you think Sabbath should be there doesn’t mean it made Pitchfork’s list. (Heck, I like some of Sabbath’s stuff.) If you want to correct this injustice, craft a list of “Great 1970s music Pitchfork forgot about” or something. But this list should be here as Pitchfork actually composed it..whether or not we agree it.
tolkev