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DragonForce: Gay or Guitar Gods?

Have you heard of these guys yet? I can't make up my mind if this is good stuff or just stuff. The songs are hard to listen to, but the acrobatic guitar playing is entertaining. 

Everything That Sucks About Country Music

There are so many things wrong with country music these days, but I think it's all summed up in this sorry video by Taylor Swift:

I've always thought country music sucked for the most part, but at least it was easily identifiable. Today, it's really just pop music for white people.

Gone are the days of boots and hats and twang. What's with the hooded sweatshirt here? Why is it that every female country singer these days is bitter about something? Hasn't Alanis Morrissette and Avril Lavigne already cornered this market?

Then, let's take a look at the band. Contrary to popular belief, it takes more than fiddle and a steel guitar to make a song country. I would be shocked if any of this guys know a single George Strait song.

Finally, this girl can't even sing. Enough said. 

Suffice it to say that country music exemplifies the worst of American culture: take something that can be good and pure (music) and commercialize it until there's not a single drop of soul left in it.

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.