Offmessage

I link to this article in the Guardian because it does exactly what it should do. Half of it I’m so glad to hear someone else say (like Bob Marley, Jim Morrison and The Beatles) and the other half really winds me up (how can you say that about The Stone Roses, Beefheart and Neil Young?). Marvellous. Stir up a little controversy at your Christmas party…

On a related note - The 10 most accurately rated bands in history. Number 1: Van Halen:

This band should have been the biggest arena act of the early 1980s, and they were. They had the greatest guitar player of the 1980s, and everyone (except possibly Yngwie Malmsteen) seems to agree. They switched singers and became semi-crappy, and nobody aggressively disputes that fact. They also recorded the most average song in rock history: �And the Cradle Will Rock.� What this means is that any song better than �And the Cradle Will Rock� is good, and any song worse than �And the Cradle Will Rock� is bad. If we were to rank every rock song (in sequential order) from best to worst, �And the Cradle Will Rock� would be right in the fucking middle. And that’s exactly what I want.