Is SPIN really circling the drain?

i know this ruins Spin's business plan but can someone just paste a list of the acts so that i don't have to click through each page?

what do you mean? i love waiting for all the ads to load

worth clicking through to see that the name of the new hives album is "lex hives"

i know this ruins Spin's business plan but can someone just paste a list of the acts so that i don't have to click through each page?

isn't this whiney's biggest pet peeve on other websites?

very very infrequently (maybe once or twice a year on Spin) one of these click-thru galleries will be compelling enough that i'll actually click thru. 100% of the rest of the time i will not read the article. it's not because i am taking a moral stand on it. it is because i am too lazy. this is one of those times.

er, that's maybe once or twice a year on Slate. i've never clicked thru on Spin.

scroll up, we had this convo a couple weeks ago

Thank u Whiney for allowing me to stream the new Off! record today.

http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-offs-ferocious-self-titled-lp

yes yes yes yes

Has the new ish shipped? I've been eagerly checking my mailbox every day for like the past two weeks.

i got it in the mail a couple weeks ago

sweet! i didn't know there was a new one.

was so awesome when i saw them and their "encore" was the first three songs of the set over again because they didn't know any more songs

I could just hug these guys for the guitarist article. So many upset Steve Lukather fans on the Jim Dunlop Guitar Products facebook page right now.

The Jam Master Jay at #10 kinda gives away that this is just informed trolling, and it's lazy that Jonathan Richman/David Byrne are ignored while Jerry Harrison gets a nod (ditto Corin Tucker/Mary Timony for Carrie Brownstein). But I do love that like 95% of the older guitarists are also in the SPIN alternative record guide. The new staff clearly respect the canon.

Jim Martin got robbed, though. STATION!

I wonder how many times SPIN has printed the words "Derek Bailey" since that book.

i like that list! as far as lists of that type go. the jerry harrison thing was odd -- seems to me him and byrne were equal in the heads guitar dept. would've put glenn mercer in there somewhere but that's just me.

To answer my own question re: Bailey, Google Books suggests dude was referenced once in 1989, 1996 & 2000 and TWICE in 1998.

i remember limp bizkit referencing him in 98, yeah.

the 'star-points' guitarist graphic in the paper issue >>>>>>> the online listicle trolling skrillex haters

That book got me into Sonny Sharrock, but I shifted away from the "tell me more, Byron Coley" side of it before I got around to hearing Chadbourne, Bailey or Fahey.

fahey is so amazing man, like you should check him out

i got a little lol out of pretty much every multiple-guitarist band letting 2 guys have a shared entry on the list except "sorry, mike mccready, you shred too much, stone's gonna go it alone on this one"

i skipped the middle of the list so maybe i'm wrong but it seemed overly reactionary - i'm all for overturning the canon list of classic rock guitarists but it seems like it would have been more effective trolling with some of those dudes scattered around, like jimi hendrix at no. 2 and THEN lee ranaldo and thurston moore at no. 1. but far be it to tell whiney how to troll people. hendrix is not on this list at all btw, unless i missed him.

some of the guitarists that got the same considered "we could have paired you with your bandmate but FUCK YOU" that Mike McCready, Mary Timony and David Byrne got:

Ivan Julian
Tanya Donnelly
James Iha
David Gilmour (tbf Syd is in the alt guide but not Pink Floyd)
Syl Sylvain
Scott Kannenberg
Ed O'Brien (man, they really prefer the guitarist that sometimes drops the guitar to twiddle knobs, don't they?)
James Williamson (shots fired!)
Belinda Butcher

Had Robert Fripp in but he popped up eventually. Guess that guy has an "indie pass" for all the non-King Crimson stuff in the guide.

i skipped the middle of the list so maybe i'm wrong but it seemed overly reactionary - i'm all for overturning the canon list of classic rock guitarists but it seems like it would have been more effective trolling with some of those dudes scattered around, like jimi hendrix at no. 2 and THEN lee ranaldo and thurston moore at no. 1.

that's the funny thing, this really wasn't an overturning of the classic rock canon but a reaffirmation of the classic spin one. with the addition of late discoveries like shuggie otis and james brown guy.

Did they skip Michio Kurihara?

if we had to include hendrix and jimmy page, our list would be like 75% overlap woith the RS list(s)

Also Anthony, i do hope we UPDATED the classic spin canon

well it'd be weird if you didn't include anything after 1995. and some of you whippersnappers are clearly cooler with Pantera et al than your teachers were.

I don't understand why Bez Bez was left off this list.

i kinda like that SPIN's only reason for existing at this point is for trolling RS readers

that's a noble pursuit imo

which is why i said i kinda like it

i mean as much as i disagree with completely leaving Hendrix off the list, the thought of Lesfetz going apoplectic with rage makes me smile

It's kind of funny that "fuck your blues-rock paradigm, we're on some LOU REED shit" can still ruffle feathers

i definitely would not let anyone from spin fuck my blues-rock paradigm

especially not if theyre already on some lou reed shit

guy prob shared needles

who was Rolling Stone trolling when they came up their narrative. Leonard Bernstein?

oh man i just realized Peter Buck isn't on here. How did HE get left out of the Lou Reed family tree?

so embarrassing for us

i'm just noting the irony. Peter Buck's a big reason you guys even have a narrative.

buck has a lot of tasty licks

Anyway, I just bought some records based on that list, so thanks wgw.

if we had to include hendrix and jimmy page, our list would be like 75% overlap woith the RS list(s)

that shouldn't matter to you fyi

i know aero will have my back, but given the nature of the list Andy Cohen of Silkworm/Bottomless Pit TOTALLY should be on this list

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it really shouldnt matter to do something unique and different?

i've said this elsewhere, but the primary word in "SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time" isn't "All-Time" but is, in fact "SPIN"

yeah I don't wanna fight with you, whatever. list is just kind of dumb imo, like when I finish clicking through it I go "well, you made me look - good job, my bad." Euronymous. I mean - Prince is on Rolling Stone's list, too, so's Dimebag. If you wanted to do something different, you might have assigned some of the list to people who're into guitar & can talk in non-impressionistic ways about how people play. You would then be doing something Rolling Stone hasn't done since the mid-seventies: focusing on musicality instead of image.

I gotta say though I'm now really looking forward to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau getting listed as one of the top 100 MCs

yeah as much as i like the list there's too much blatant trolling...like Jam Master Jay...and Dave Navarro