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Yahoo Music's Top 20 Albums of All Time

Robert of the Radish at Y! Music has posted his extremely scientific, thoroughly researched list of The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real). Overall, this could be the best "best of" list I've ever seen. A few reactions:

1. Led Zeppelin x 4? OK, Led Zeppelin is hands down my favorite musical act of all time, but even I'm a bit shocked that they take up 20% of the list. Pretty dang impressive, and I especially love that my personal favorite, Houses of the Holy, managed to squeeze into the list.
2. No Denying George Michael. It's too easy to look at Sir George as a joke these days, but the fact is that the Faith album was stacked. Many a 6th grade dance was spent jamming to those tunes. And then there was also the then racy "I Want Your Sex." Ironically, my parents got this for me as a stocking stuffer in 6th grade. . . . .
3. Stevie Wonder at #1? The only real issue I have with the list is with the #1 spot. I feel like the formula ellicits great results until you get here, where critical review and peer review via Grammy's seem to skew the results. Can an album with 10 mil. in sales really top the list? Maybe it's cuz everybody's favorite American Idol tryout song comes from this record. 
4. Lack of Grammys. I like that the formula doesn't give too much weight to the Grammy. At the same time, it's pretty interesting to see how many of these big dogs didn't get a Grammy. Is the grammy overrated?
5. Lest we forget the Greatness of GnR. Axl, Slash, Duff . . . .  try not to think about what might've been. It's a shame Guns n' Roses had to come and go the way they did. This world is way short on true Rock Gods.
6. Lots of Rockers. What does is say that at least 50% of the list falls into a pretty hard rockin' crowd?

What's missing from the list in your opinion? I really have no issues with it, except with the #1 spot.

Increased Library Visits Don't Mean a Boost in Book Reading

The Dallas Morning News reported that library traffic has increased this year.

My first reaction is, "why do people still go to libraries when you've got the Internet?" Then the answer smacked me upside my large forehead as I looked through all the pictures featured in the article.

Almost every picture featured in the article showed people sitting at rows of computers.

Sure, the article credits the economy (like every other story coming out these days), but that's not it. More and more people need to use the computer, probably to get on the Internet, but these people don't have access at home.

The Dark Knight Breaks a Bogus Record

Congrats to 'The Dark Knight' for breaking the one-day box office record, reaching $66.4 mil. on its opening day.

Let's not get carried away here: there's a lot more contributing to that broken record beyond the movie's apparent greatness. I mean, I'm not even that old, and I can remember when movies cost half as much as they do today. Which means 25 years ago, the Dark Night would've only generated $33 mil. from the same amount of people.

Let's start leveling the playing field. Give me the number of tickets purchased per theater, regardless of price. Anybody got that stat handy?

Latest Poll - McCain is Boring

A poll recently confirmed what has been blatantly obvious for at least the last six months: McCain is boring, and Obama gets people pumped up.

The article details a recent poll showing "that 38% of Obama's supporters say the election is exciting compared with 9% of McCain's."

I'm a reluctant McCain supporter that falls into the 91% that wouldn't consider the election exciting. At least not yet. And that's why I think Obama will actually end up winning. I can't bring myself to vote for Obama, but I'm not particularly thrilled to vote for McCain. I think a lot of people feel exactly the same as I do, and enough of that indifference is gonna lead to a low showing of McCain supporters at the polls in November.

Dizzying Up the Girl?

Lady Spins on an Escalator

This is kinda funny. How many of us might try this and end up with a broken arm? Or in my case, I'd probably twist an ankle.

Brett Favre - Hang It Up

I'm so sick of stud athletes retiring and then unretiring.

Roger Clemens has done it a few times.  Michael Jordan did it. Now Brett Favre. I understand that these guys might still have something to offer. But I hate, HATE that these athletes I've looked up to all my life are now acting like fickle women.

If you're going to call the press conference, shed the tears and quote that it's time to spend more time with your family, then have the balls to back it up. Or at least the forethought to not do it at all if you know you really don't want to.

Iron Man - Surprisingly Entertaining

A couple weeks ago, my wife and I saw Iron Man. Granted, the main reason we were going was so I could check and see if my company's commercial was airing as promised, so the movie selection was simply secondary. I was not expecting much out of this movie - just a couple hours of brainless sitting to come in from the heat.

I must say, I was pleasantly surprised.

 

Positive of Bad Economy = Less Mexicans

The Dallas Morning News posted this article, Mexicans leaving under duress, in Saturday's paper. It's an excellent read, and points out a possible benefit of the economy being down.

No, I'm not saying I want all the Mexicans to hit the road. I am saying that an economic setback has a way of taking care of issues that we otherwise didn't know how to take care of. Face it: America knows illegal immigration is a huge issue (before the economy took its huge dip, illegal immigration and the war were the two hot topics for the presidential hopefuls). The problem is that America has no idea how to solve it, and probably never will come up with a good way of solving it.