Is there anyone who has heard about a Mexican music magazine called "Puro Pop"?
A lot of the critics lists at AM are from a source called "Pure Pop". I got these lists by email from a subscriber of the magazine, Marques. He first told me that "Pure Pop" was the name of the magazine translated into English and later he wrote that the Spanish name was "Puro Pop". (I don't know why I still haven't changed the name at AM.)
Someone with a good overview of Mexican music magazines once wrote here in the forum that he had a never heard about a magazine called "Pure Pop" or "Puro Pop", so I wrote an email to Marques to check the source. He wrote me a long answer, telling me that "Puro Pop" was one of the biggest music magazines in Latin America among other things. I decided to believe him.
But, as I was going through the lists for the EOY archive, I started to wonder about this again. I made a google search on "Puro Pop" and couldn't find a single thing about a music magazine with that name. If nobody here recognizes the magazine, I might remove the lists from AM.
To Marques: My sincere apologies for raising this question again if "Pure Pop" indeed exists.
Michael, this list is not an original list from puropop.com.br (that, I agree with Henirk, it’s not the ghost magazine from Mexico), they referenced a list from Esquire Magazine (March 2009) that could be eligible. You can find the original list in their web page, here. Anyway this is the complete list copied from the Brazilian page, I’m not sure if it’s in order of importance:
“Darkness on the edge of town”, Bruce Springsteen
“Phases and stages”, Willie Nelson
“The Stone Roses”, The Stone Roses
“Lust for life”, Iggy Pop
“The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, David Bowie
“Live at the Apollo”, James Brown
“What’s going on”, Marvin Gaye
“Crooked rain, crooked rain”, Pavement
“Illmatic”, NaS
“Dire Straits”, Dire Straits
“American beauty, Grateful Dead
“Out of step”, Minor Threat
“Aftermath”, The Rolling Stones
“Paul’s boutique”, The Beastie Boys
“Led Zeppelin I”, Led Zeppelin
“Imperial bedroom”, Elvis Costello
‘The Cars”, The Cars
“Being there”, Wilco
“Destroyer”, KISS
“The bends”, Radiohead
“Gettin’ ready”, The Temptations
“Highway to hell”, AC/DC
“The dictionary of soul”, Otis Redding
“The headphone masterpiece”, Cody Chessnut
“The good, the bad, and the ugly soundtrack”, Ennio Morricone
“Blood on the tracks”, Bob Dylan
“Take a giant step/De ole foiks at home”, Taj Mahal
“Catch a fire”, Bob Marley
“MTV Unplugged in New York”, Nirvana
“The best of Mississippi John Hurt (Live at Oberlin College, 1966)”, Mississippi John Hurt
“The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1”, The Traveling Wilburys
“Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas”, Townes Van Zandt
“Woke on a whaleheart”, Bill Callahan
“Rubber soul”, The Beatles
“The Velvet Underground & Nico”, Velvet Underground
“Workin’ together”, Ike & Tina Turner
“The Earth is not a cold dead place”, Explosions in the Sky
“True stories”, Talking Heads
“This is hardcore”, Pulp
“Appetite for destruction”, Guns N’ Roses
“In the wee small hours”, Frank Sinatra
“Sketches of Spain”, Miles Davis
“Combat rock”, The Clash
“Road to ruin”, The Ramones
“Marquee moon”, Television
“Animals”, Pink Floyd
“Doolittle”, The Pixies
“The adventures of Slick Rick”, Slick Rick
“Ready to die”, The Notorious B.I.G.
“The unreleased recordings”, Hank Williams
“Ten’, Pearl Jam
“Band of gypsys”, Jimi Hendrix
“Brighter than creation’s dark”, Drive-By Truckers
“Modern sounds in country and western music”, Ray Charles
“…And justice for all”, Metallica
“Fair warning”, Van Halen
“Reasonable doubt”, Jay-Z
“Pet sounds”, Beach Boys
“Exile in Guyville”, Liz Phair
“Look sharp!”, Joe Jackson
“Songs in the key of life”, Stevie Wonder
“Rage Against the Machine”, Rage Against the Machine
“Who’s next”, The Who
“Left to his own devices”, Vic Chessnut
“Sinfonia Nº. 5”, Beethoven
“Night beat”, Sam Cooke
“Songs of Leonard Cohen”, Leonard Cohen
“Penthouse”, Luna
“Buena Vista Social Club”, Buena Vista Social Club
“Small change”, Tom Waits
“Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (Live)”, Johnny Cash
“Harvest”, Neil Young
“Mingus ah um”, Charles Mingus
“Sinfonia Nº. 5”, Gustav Mahler
“Grace”, Jeff Buckley
