The New York Dolls, for those playing along at home, were an underground 70s band. Huge influence on the Sex Pistols, and the entire birth of British punk, and I have to think on Bowie and the birth of glamrock as well, given their gender-bending appearance.

But Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders are dead. It's kinda like that MC5 minus two version that's touring now. Or the very idea of the Who without Keith Moon.

Or Pink Floyd without Syd. ;)

If he wrote a book about 3-11

311! Unlike me, they have no hyphen. And I'm a fan.

Anyway, what did y'all think about Pitchfork's Top Albums of the 70s list?

It's not a bad list, but you'd think Carole King's Tapestry would get into the top 100.

I hate to say this, but I do sometimes feel like Hec's thing is liking stuff very few people listen to anymore, or have heard at all.

I disagree with this. And not to pick apart Hec with out him being here, but I think he has a bottomless pit of music crack-like addiction love that all of the compilation CDs in all of the Virgin megastores and obscure music shops of the coolest cities ever could not fill. Be it mainstream or nobody-has-ever-heard-of-it-before. Others people likes or dislikes, I don't think come into it, IMO.

I would love to see more people in here. Love it.

This I agree with, however.

I'm a big mainstream gal. I like some of the off-beat stuff, but for the most part, my big loves are on the well-beaten path.

I do some skimming when there's a lot of talk about music I'm unfamiliar with, but sometimes talk will catch my eye and I'll try to check out those artists.

Does anyone want to hear about how much I love the following Kylie Minogue songs?

"Your Disco Needs You"

"Love at First Sight"

"Come Into My World (Fischerspooner remix)"

edited because I never format my lists right

That list of 100 albums is cool. There's a lot of stuff I don't own that I should. And there's a lot that I own on LP but not CD, and hence never play. Must remedy that.

Bowie's Low doesn't belong at #1, though. Unless the writer is going by its influence on electronica and what-not.

I'm not sure who is of a folkish sort of mind here, but does anyone here have Patti Griffin's latest? Or, a possibly more relevant question- were a Patti Griffin newbie to buy one album, which should be first?

I just got the new Patti Griffin, and I haven't had a chance to really listen to it. For a first album, I'd recommend Living with Ghosts.

Oh, I like that Kylie Fischerspooner remix too. Shouldn't work, given FS's "we're soooo art-rock" shtick, but it does. Don't know the others, but gotta love "Your Disco Needs You" as a title.

Right now I am listening to the Black-Eyed Peas feat. JT, "Where is the Love?"

That 70s list made me feel fuckin' antique. Grah! You kids! Outta my Bowie CDs!