Whether it be in the form of a poll, personal opinion, or marketing device, there has been a history involved between human nature and the need to organize things into lists. To be more specific, many people create for themselves a "Top Five" list of things (Top five actors, top five movies, etc.). Quite possibly the biggest contributor to this incredible American tradition is the ever-acclaimed Rolling Stone magazine. Rolling Stone is well noted for its release of "Top 100 Recording Artists" or "Top 100 Guitarists" or "Top 100 Albums" lists. And it is precisely this notability which leads to the most astonishing disappointment ever.
I have found in my experience that Rolling Stone is the absolute most over-rated piece of literature in the world today. It's reviews and it's lists are all based on a present-day consensus, leaving it to favor the most popular trends of that month. This is the problem with polling the readers. If you are looking for the greatest anything of all time, you have to base it on what knowledge you have or that you can find archived somewhere. You can't ask thirteen year olds today who the greatest guitarist of all time is. To my great depression I had to explain to a young friend of mine the other day who Jimmy Page is. Further more, I received a blank look when the words "Led Zeppelin" escaped my lips. Is this really the society that we want to tell us about great music?
To make this short and simple, not to mention a slap in the face to Rolling Stone, I will finish my little rant this evening with a Top Five list of my own. And so I present...
Puck Almighty's Top Five Over-Rated Magazines of ALL TIME
1. Rolling Stone
2. Playboy
3. Cosmopolitan
4. Reader's Digest
5. Time
