[dirtboy]

Actually, Led Zepplin got five mentions overall:

Artists with the most entries in Rolling Stone's 500 best albums:

Beatles: 11

Bob Dylan: 10

Rolling Stones: 10

Bruce Springsteen: 8

The Who: 7

David Bowie: 6

Elton John: 6

5 each: The Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Otis Redding, U2

4 each: Madonna, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello, Grateful Dead, James Brown, Police, The Smiths, Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Prince, Roxy Music, Simon & Garfunkel, Sly & the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads.

Decade by decade breakdown: 50s or before: 29 albums (5.8% of total 500 list) 60s: 126 (25.2%, but 55% of the top 20 70s: 183 (36.6%) 80s: 88 (17.6%) 90s: 61 (12.2%) 00s: 13 (2.6%).

Albums by men or male-led groups: 439 (87.8%)

Women or female-led groups: 47 (9.4%)

Mixed groups (with more or less equal female and male lead singers): 14 (2.8%)

[steppenwolffe]

What? No Billy Idol's "Whiplash Smile?!"

I smell conspiracy!

[B Knotts]

Bah. This is all boomer crap.

It's not all bad, but these people ignore so much outside of the particular cultural niche in which they live.

How about Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking?"

Where's Glenn Miller, Kay Kyser or Les Brown?

Hank Williams?

Ralph Stanley?

[pau1f0rd]

Looks like another British victory!! Thanks America! Seriously though, the 'special relationship' and our 'cultural ties' were never more plainly shown than this.

[Imal]

This article doesn't mention Led Zeppelin at all, yet mentions groups like Coldplay, and that's precisely my point. It also does not mention Bob Dylan in any way shape or form, even though he appears second on the list and even wrote some of the most popular hits other bands rode to fame on. I am led to conclude that "The Paper for the Rest of Us" is granting ink based on who their common sponsors and owners are.

What usefulness is there in such a poorly written article? As much as anything else that comes out of USA Today I suppose. Yet another piece from them which carefully winds its way between the facts. At least they could have put up one of their asinine charts showing votes represented as vinyl record graphics or something, but that would have required actually printing the names of the runners-up, and even McPaper has to cut a few corners now and then.

There is so little relevant information in this article that it is utterly worthless. Your post, to which I am replying, is far better journalism than the article itself, having a much higher signal-to-noise ratio and far less skew.

For the record, if you'll pardon the pun, I do happen to like Sgt Pepper and respect what it accomplished for popular music very, very much.

But I hate crappy journalism.

[GOP_Lady]

My very favorite -- Roxy Music!!! :-) My favorite album is "Avalon."