{"id":71,"date":"2008-10-09T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-10-07T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T19:41:49","slug":"the-rolling-stone-album-guide-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stone Album Guide Sucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stone<\/span> is widely considered to be the authority on music, with its Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll<\/span>, top 500 lists (artists, albums, LP covers), and album guides. But I beg to differ. The fourth edition of Rolling Stone’s Album Guide<\/span>\u00a0(“10,000 of the best rock, pop, hip-hop and soul records”) is rife with lazy mistakes. Along with numerous grammar and usage inconsistencies, I found these monstrous errors:<\/p>\n

Isobel Campbell doesn’t sing Belle and Sebastian’s “Waiting for the Moon to Rise”; Sarah Martin does.<\/div>\n
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Black Box Records should be Black Box Recorder<\/span>.<\/div>\n
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Madonna’s “Beautiful Stranger” isn’t a “giddy Bond soundtrack hit”; it’s from the second “Austin Powers” movie. (Her “Die Another Day” is from the Bond movie of the same name.)<\/div>\n
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“Nature’s Way” isn’t a “Rare Earth nugget”; it’s by Spirit.<\/div>\n
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Metallica is omitted. This seems strange because the band is undeniably successful and boasts a vast album repertoire. I find it odd that Megadeth and Slayer merit entries and Metallica doesn’t.<\/div>\n
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Rolling Stone<\/span> might be getting so secure with its elite status that the editors are getting lazy. And why not? It’s not like anyone’s going to question the almighty Rolling Stone<\/span>. But I’m taking a stand against such rock-n-roll sloth: I propose that Rolling Stone<\/span>\u00a0HIRE ME AS A COPY EDITOR AND FACT-CHECKER. I’ll work cheap; I just ask to be credited on the editors’ page and be extensively thanked in the acknowledgements section for restoring its good name.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stone is widely considered to be the authority on music, with its Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, top 500 lists (artists, albums, LP covers), and album guides. But I beg to differ. The fourth edition of Rolling Stone’s Album Guide\u00a0(“10,000 of the best rock, pop, hip-hop and soul records”) is rife with lazy mistakes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-boomers","category-rolling-stone-album-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}