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This book is great coffee table material, but I think it's a bit silly to treat Rolling Stone as any sort of meaningful cultural arbiter in modern times, where:

This book is great coffee table material, but I think it's a bit silly to treat Rolling Stone as any sort of meaningful cultural arbiter in modern times, where: -niche music blogs exist, -Spotify's related albums exists, -Allmusic and Band Camp exist, and (most importantly) -near-instant communication with your friends, peers, and social groups (who are still my biggest source of new music) exist There are just so many sources of recommendations that are better suited to aligning to an individual's musical tastes. It really throws into sharp relief what a dinosaur RS is.

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On the other hand, we’ve heard about the downsides of bubbles and echo chambers over the past few years — very broad lists like these can be good reminders that quality music (or good ideas of whatever sort) exist outside of the realm of what you and your friends are currently into. Not saying I agree with or care much about the actual rankings here, but it’s a decent list to scroll through and reconsider an artist or band I haven’t given much ear time to before.