courtney love literally said black people shouldn't listen to rock music

f*** that racist b****!

ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/48368018.html

"Do you really like rock music?" she asked one female. "Because you're African-American. That would be like me being into Lil Wayne."

Life After Death at 117 is wild lol

Someone just post the list and put it in op so I don’t have to click

Bet they felt real progressive putting Lauryn Hill in front of it at #2

Maxwell way too low Wtf.

i'll ask the same thing i always do when that point of "time" is made. rhetorically of course. is this the same staff that made the 2003 edition of the list? i'd assume not. times have changed, drastically. we have more knowledge and access than ever before. we're also, yes, more tolerant and open-minded than ever before. not necessarily qualities i'd deem as negative. so, if that's reflected in a music publication's random and ultimately inconsequential list, then it's like idk...so be it?

trust me, you'll find several people who would see no issue with the examples you've highlighted. we should all become more comfortable with differences in opinions.

I get the urge to not have Nevermind super high but I would have put it in the top 5 because of how impactful it is. It is THE 90s album, and im someone who prefers In Utero. Same deal w Low End and Midnight Marauders

Velvet Rope was a great rnb pick for top 10, i would have had Illmatic in the top 10 as well

A s***ty band people refuse to let go of.

Also anyone who isn’t into Lil Wayne shouldn’t speak on anything ever

Shoulda put it #1

fair. which album out of the top 15 or 10 would you swap it with? let's leave out the Hole and Liz Phair albums lol.

I like Pinkerton but I don’t think it needs to be on any Best of the 90s list.

Also did I skip over Melon Collie and Parklife?

Missing those 2 and Pinkerton are huge misses

Pinkerton is 100% a top 150 album of the 90s

I could see it not being in a top 50 or even top 100 though

It’s not the staff that made it in 2003, and the current staff has no ties to them anymore. But that’s part of the issue many have. They used to have an identity and integrity behind the publication. Now it’s just one of many homogenized publications.

It’s all been downhill since the purchase.

i will never understand the obsession with mbv but good for them I guess

right, and that's a completely separate issue that a few have brought up in this thread. but you'd have to be privy to that information. i don't think a good portion of people that entertain these lists are.

Re: the poptimism, I think most of their staff now is also just younger and less afraid of pop music than the Gen X rock fans who were there when the publication started. But I agree their embrace of pop music does take focus away from whatever smaller or up-and-coming bands they’re covering and has resulted in them becoming Rolling Stone for Millennials.

I like it but not better than like velvet rope, miseducation, ok computer, nevermind, low end theory

i woulda had it top 10 nut not #1

ice cube kinda getting disrespected on this list only one cube album at 95 is lame

Amerikkka’s Most deserved a top 50 spot easily

It could be