Is SPIN really circling the drain?

classic he1go interjection

if youre not gonna put son house or jimmy page on the list then for christ's sakes don't put jack white on it.

jw is the only exception to indie fux BLOOZHAMMER BRO zings

yup and it never fails to drive me nuts

like with so many lists of this type (as mr. underrated suggests), a fair amount of it seems to be about namechecking bands as opposed to musicians/musicianship.

Like, the dude from Gang of Four? Mr Zzz from the Yawn Yawn Yawns?

The first Vini Reilly Invasion record smokes

Thank you for the new nickname.

Andy Gill seems like he was pretty influential as a guitarist

I don't have a problem with the list per se, other than the writing is terrible and occasionally inaccurate (x & y in a food processor? Stevie Ray Vaughn plays guitar on "Let's Dance" not Nile Rogers. Rogers produced (and plays guitar elsewhere on the album)

Vaughn plays lead, Rodgers plays rhythm on the track "Let's Dance" actually

Anyway, getting mad about this list is like getting mad at one of Cracked's lists.

Having said that, Pat Place and John McGeoch aren't on this list so fuck this list and fuck Spin.

Vaughn plays lead, Rodgers plays rhythm on the track "Let's Dance" actually

Huh, didn't realize that... I knew that Rogers played elsewhere on the album (the Pushing Ahead Of The Dame blog gets into all the details and Rogers' frankly impossible job at hand), but I thought the title track was all Vaughn. Would love to hear a track-by-track breakdown of it.

The chink-a-chink rhythm parts are all Rodgers.

can't believe MF Doom got left off, he totally plays the guitar, verbally, man

to say nothing of Bobby McFerrin

speaking of which where's the harmonica guy from Blues Traveler

rly mad they didn't include the cast of Friends on the list

and if Jam Master Jay made it on then we should include other people who only fictionally play guitar like the kid from Deliverance and Samuel L Jackson's character from Black Snake Moan

otm, chandler bing was robbed

http://i.imgur.com/mdvB9.jpg

And shouldn't the Disaster Area guy be here also? They're a thousand times more doom, sludge, etc. than the pikers on this list. Plus they're in the future!

he even has his own pedal

http://i.imgur.com/Lic2z.jpg?1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxzs3lGSu2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrvfMSYNqBg

24 Steve Albini (Big Black/Shellac) SOMEONE FORGOT RAPEMAN, p cool list otherwise tho

is this list in any order

the numbers are 'points,' so skrillex has 100 points, sonic youth dudes have 1 point

so unfair, but i guess maybe if they had more bass drops or w/e

its funny because i remember from my spin reading youth when they used to like to include public enemy or whoever under the heading of 'rock' and now look theyre still doing it, its a spin tradition

jam master jay at ten is way stranger than skrillex because if you dont play guitar you should totally be confined to the bottom third IMHO

in all seriousness tho its a sweet alt list and there are tons of doods i love on there, its cool to do something a lil diff that doesnt quite make sense

it probably doesn't work as well online but the David Marchese infographic comparing a bunch of guitarists that's in the actual issue is so much cooler than the list: http://www.greatkat.com/59/articles/spinmagazine.html

if youre not gonna put son house or jimmy page on the list then for christ's sakes don't put jack white on it.

^^^

Elmore James too, Guitar Slim, or if you simply have to have the "but he combined all their styles and brought nothing of his own to the table/he's basically our kinda people!" quality at least go with Greg Cartwright

For all the posturing about "the kids," the SPIN list is really for people in their 40s.

Connor 54 minutes ago

#2 Kevin Shields: Didn't know writing boring pentatonic metalcore riffs based off of Maiden tunes would get you on any list anywhere.

okay this gave me a much-needed lol

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:21 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha I just got this

For all the posturing about "the kids," the SPIN list is really for people in their 40s.

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Friday, May 4, 2012 2:04 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

the list of guitarists that people in their 20s listen to is pretty short, though

Should have thrown Nathan Chapman in there.

is daniel johnston on here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z36CD5iFWRY

that list is kinda cool. but yeah jack white is right up there with corgan for me as far as people who make me want to blow my brains out. and what whiney said about jeff beck is how i feel about j mascis. unless j is drumming in deep wound. then i love him. better trolling would have left out fahey and basho. and included whatsherface from the shaggs and the banjo player for the monks.

Hey Viv Albertine! This list rules. Good work Whiney.

thx man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDHALrvp2CI

― scott seward, Friday, May 4, 2012 9:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/Lyn7j.gif

lol wrong utube *insert bobby mcfarin sunshine of yr love*

if spin realllly wanted to troll, the end of this list should have been
1. YOU
http://www.thebanjoguru.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/guitar-hero.jpg

honestly what would have been the best is if you would have done a total whiney list like how you did...all "oh the dude from boredoms"...."doug martsch"...."kelly clarkson"...."rahzel from the roots".... all up to number one then pull a bait and switch and be all

Number 1:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mq-dKm343sw/SxBViqbfJfI/AAAAAAAAECc/ruo6nWXhEcM/s1600/Allan+Holdsworth+-+1987-09-12+-+The+Bottom+Line,+NYC+front.jpg

HAHA J/K LOSERS IF YOU CAN'T SWEEP PICK AN ARPEGGIO IN PHRYGIAN MODE U FUKKIN SUCK LOL"

i love when bobby screams at the end of that track. best scream. whole track should have been him screaming.

1. u and yer ipad

these people all say fark instead of fuck.

http://www.fark.com/comments/7086447/Spin-magazines-top-100-guitarists-of-all-time-Skrillex-is-100-Jam-Master-Jay-is-10-no-Hendrix-Page-Van-Halen-in-sight-Oooh-edgy

Judging from the last issue and also the jpg of that guitarist thing SPIN seems to be moving towards infographics that *look* cool but are somewhat confusing and hard to actually read, which seems to defeat the purpose of an infographic.

lol guitars