![]() What are the 10 greatest stoner rock records?I’m looking forward to seeing your picks (and I think I already gave away two of mine). If you think it’s crap, pick something else.In demographic research, they call it crowd-sourcing, but I’m not even sure what we’re crowd sourcing for, so let’s just have at it. If you think Welcome to Sky Valley is the best because it happens to be the album you listened to while you went trekking through the desert that one time, awesome. Let’s put everything out there and see what comes back, what we can agree on, disagree on, whatever. Everything counts, everything’s in.If you’ve got a list of 30 essentials or just one you want to add to the others, that’s cool. but what is it about an individual record that lets it stand the test of time, and is standing the test of time a basis for judgment of greatness? What about those albums you listened to when you were younger that sound dated now?Īre they any less great because you’ve grown out of them?So I’ve decided to open it up. What else did they do and how much of it was defined by this single album? Never mind questions about what counts as stoner rock and when that began - was it the ’90s or was it when Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil? What was happening at the time? Where is the band from? What was the response? How influential was it? What made it so special? Who was on it? That never quite materialized, but this whole time I was thinking to myself about what makes an album really great?There’s so much context involved. It was - I’ll be honest - an excuse to slather even more praise onto Master of Reality, which I don’t think ever has enough. The reason I ask is this: I said a while back I wanted to start some hall-of-fame-esque series of posts covering the classics of the genre, going all the way back to the start. ![]()
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