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Last week, Rolling Stone published our completely updated list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In making the new list, we received more than 300 ballots from artists, critics and other figures from throughout the music industry.
Among them all, the first ballot that came in was from Adam Horovitz (a.k.a. Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys), and it set a high bar for taste, erudition and hilarious bullshit. Seeing vegetable-loving psychedelic rockers Ultimate Spinach and German clarinet master Hugo Strasser on a best albums did our hearts proud, even if most of us filled our lists with less obscure choices. But even the sharpest music scholars on the RS staff weren’t hip to artists like Jan Pfundt and Pops Willard. In fact, a few of them sounded a little too theoretically good to be true, as if perhaps they may have been placed on the list not because of their musical quality but as part of some sort of clever satirical gesture. Sure, a record like Dr. Funk-A-Dunk’s Out Of Bounds On The Dance Floor could be a real thing. Or it could be fake. Or it could be so fake it’s real, or so real it’s fake. How are we to know? To each their own.
In any case, thanks Adam. Your list sure is a real education, and we’re gratified that you’ve been kind enough to let us share it with our readers. If anyone out there ever tracks down that Juan Epstein joint, let us know.
Macka B, Sign of the Times
Grits and Gravy, Nuthin’ But The Good Stuff
The Frank Figueora Funk Ensemble, Double Bang Bang
Chirp,The City Ain’t Tough Enough
Sergeant Crikey, It Mek Dem Bubble
Hugo Strasser,TanzHits ’71
Ultimate Spinach,Ultimate Spinach
The Outta Controls,I Need New Friends
The Lover’s 2,Slip Into Something More Fantastical
Merv Gelter,Unlinked Passages And Patterns
Danice Wilder, Funk Your Body Down
Strategic Orchestrations,My Suzuki Sierra Is Bumpin’
Jan Pfundt,Gekreuzte Drähte
Pops Willard,Bus Station Situation
Janice Montcrieff,Pour me another Glass Of Whine, You Baby
The Dapper Duo, Your Freaky Touch
Urszula Dudziak,Urszula
Miss Sally Murdoch,Turn Me On When The The Lights Go Off
The Cosmonauts (Featuring Shep Greenley),Bump That Funky Bump
Digitz,Why Is That Again?
The Satin Velvettes,Sooth My Mood
Ebbet Maynfield,Flutes A Plenty
Video Kids,Woodpeckers From Space
The Pete Smith Quintet,Dynamism
Amy Cranterston, The Strength Of The Willow’s Shadows
Ruff-N-Ready,We Rhyme Right
Phil Collins,Dance Into The Light
Westbeth,Down In The Basement (Where The Funk Grows)
The Captain,22lb Turkey
Monotony,Witness The Rampage
The Tremont High School Drum Line,Marching Band Favorites
Chip Button,Drums Are My Bag
Crabby Appleton,Rotten To The Core
Dr. Funk-A-Dunk,Out Of Bounds On The Dance Floor
Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments,Pound It
The Clarence Widley Orchestra,Boxcar Business (Original Soundtrack)
Melancholia,Exploration Interflection
Al Carlton,Too Smooth
Earl Wilson, Jr.,Let My People Come (A Sexual Musical)
Khia,Thug Misses
The Dunes of Distance,Equanimity
General Echo,12” Of Pleasure
Aileen Mccullough,An Oiread Sin Báistí
Sweet Lou,Already On It
The T-Bones,No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach Is In)
Ladies and Lords,The Mod Way
Crianças Loucas,é Meu Agora
Juan Epstein,Boogaloo In Brooklyn
Little Marcy,Happy Day Express
Carmine Rittzi,Freak Your Way Out Of This One
