Ed. note: Every two weeks, it seems, some magazine, TV network or blog releases its "Top 100 So-and-so music things of all time" list. Often, these rankings simply recycle the same set-in-stone music-geek beliefs that were established years ago—
Pet Sounds rules, as does
London Calling, etc.—but because there are often shifts in the critical canon, we've asked alarmingly frequent Idolator commenter (and occasional guest editor) Chris
"dennisobell" Molanphy to start keeping track of them for a new column we're calling "Canon Fodder." In this debut column, he reacts to this weekend's interminable glut of
"It was 40 years ago today..." navel-gazing, and it's the last thing you'll ever want to read about
Sgt. Pepper.
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Ed. note: Every two weeks, it seems, some magazine, TV network or blog releases its "Top 100 So-and-so music things of all time" list. Often, these rankings simply recycle the same set-in-stone music-geek beliefs that were established years ago—Pet Sounds rules, as does London Calling, etc.—but because there are often shifts in the critical canon, we've asked alarmingly frequent Idolator commenter (and occasional guest editor) Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy to start keeping track of them for a column we're calling "Canon Fodder." In this installment, he gives us a three-fer by the greatest, sexiest artist of the '80s:
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