Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums

So I am going to make an attempt to listen to a bunch of the Top 500 albums, as according to Rolling Stone magazine. I will start out by saying I do NOT agree with their choices, but I also understand the importance of some of these albums. I do love The Beatles, and do understand the importance of Sgt. Peppers, but I have always prefered the material between that and the pop stuff. In other words, by fave Beatles has always been the Help! soundtrack and Revolver. But, even that being said, I am not so sure I would put these albums in my Top 10.

I am going through these as my continued exercise in being open minded and giving music continual chances. Also, even though I do not believe every music fan has to bow at the alter of Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and Elvis, I do believe that every music fan has to keep turning a well tuned ear towards these artists and should always return to them, giving them the chances that they do deserve. Some bands have been so impotant to the music world that they deserve respect.

I will be starting from the top and moving my way down. Why? Because I do have most of the stuff on the top of the list. The bottom of the list is full of a lot more garbage than the top, as is expected. Plus, my library will have an easier time getting most of the top stuff, than the bottom. I expect the writing about things might get a little more fun the further I get into this thing. I also am going to bet some of the stuff will get a very brief listen. Although my wife does have Dr. Dre's The Chronic here in the house, I can admit that it will probably get as much time as it did the last time I attempted to listen to it. Not much time at all.

So, if you care to read along, please do. Lets see what happens. While I do this, I will probably also be mentioning what other sites are calling "number one."

7 months slipping by.

Urgh. Well, that didn't go as planned.

So, what the heck happned.

Well, loyal followers, as we all remember I shouted from a mountain top that I would be laying tracks down for a much desired recording project. I probably should have checked by recording software to see if all was working as I had expected. It was not. Plus, I just didn't have the desire, nor material, to dive on in. So time turned into a blur and I lost track of it all.

In that time, however, I rediscovered an obsessive love of music I had previously lost. I gained more love for bands I had always enjoyed, but now found myself loving (Yes and The Monkees being the main two). I found a new love of my guitar, one that is driving me to learn the instrument more than ever before. I also bought a new guitar in the process. I have been writing and perfecting new songs, and actually learning covers, something I had always looked down on before. But now I am using those covers to keep me playing and interested during "dry spells."

So, why am I rambling on here? Nope, I am not going to make any great promises, and empty threats of this site being updated all of the time. I am only writing this here because I feel a need to. Going to try and write on this thing here when I feel a need to. Hopefully this will become an eventual regular move on my part, but as my buddy Ken will probably say, I ain't believing it until I see it.