Re: Greil Marcus' "Treasure Island" lists from STRANDED: Albums
This list is absolutely awful. Even "Rolling Stone" lists aren't this bad. No progressive, electronic or avantgarde music of any kind, barely any hard rock, punk or new wave but the Rolling Stones' or Van Morrison get half of their entire discographies in.
Critics like these make me sick. They pretend to be open-minded, but in fact they only like two or three genres and think everything else is rubbish.
Re: Greil Marcus' "Treasure Island" lists from STRANDED: Albums
Um, exactly how much punk and new wave are you expecting in a list that was compiled in _1979_?!? Considering its vintage, I would say that Marcus does a pretty good job of including a lot of the best of the then-current punk: the Pistols, Clash, Adverts, Wire, X-Ray Spex, etc.
Re: Greil Marcus' "Treasure Island" lists from STRANDED: Albums
The Ramones and Television are two criminal omissions in the punk department, but punk is just one of many genres which is underrepresented/not represented, presumably to make space for every album the Rolling Stones released to that point.
Re: Greil Marcus' "Treasure Island" lists from STRANDED: Albums
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