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March 22, 2006

"The Ten Most Accurately Rated Bands of All Time"

I just discovered this great piece from Spin (which happens to be the first magazine I ever got paid to write for) on those rare bands who end up neither overrated nor underrated, but just right. I don't agree with all the author's judgements (I think Tone-Loc and Young-MC are both seriously underrated - they, like Hanson, made better music with the Dust Brothers than Beck ever has), but the concept is great.

On the related subject of famousness, see the always dead-on Fametracker, which accurately dubs itself "The Famer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth."

And for the origins of this whole thread, check out this piece of basketblogging by moonlighting TPM Cafe and Tapped contributor Matthew Yglesias, along with the wide-ranging discussion it engenders, wherein I end up defending the Fantasic Four movie for its comic-booky charms. (I hated Batman Begins because it went exactly the opposite way - it seemed desperately apologetic about being a movie based on a comic book. But that's a subject for another post . . .)

Posted by tedf at March 22, 2006 07:23 PM

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So does that mean "And the Cradle Will Rock" is the Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead of rock?

Posted by: KT at March 23, 2006 04:33 PM

The commentary on Matthew Sweet was probably the most bang-on. Interestingly enough, I listened to a ton of Triumph when I was a junior high student and I still have most of their cassettes buried in my parent's house somewhere.

BMN

Posted by: BMN at March 23, 2006 06:41 PM

Well, you're Canadian. There were laws requiring you to listen to Triumph, weren't there?

Posted by: Ted Friedman at March 23, 2006 08:04 PM

March 22, 2006

"The Ten Most Accurately Rated Bands of All Time"

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