<![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin" - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin" - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:41:10 EDT Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:41:10 EDT http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4887214 This is the first issue of SPIN I ever bought, and it's long gone. When are they gonna do a better job of maintaining their archives?

Alfred Soto

]]> 33:371807:c4887214 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:41:10 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4872076 Wow, I haven't thought about that piece in a long time. I'd guess it was among my first half-dozen professional bylines. (The first, also for Spin: a review of the girl group put together by MC Hammer, Oaktown's 3-5-7.)

It was inspired by a Harper's Index entry that toted up the top three words in Springsteen songs (which I believe included girl and street). I was pleased that some months later Harper's included my tabulation of the top three Madonna words in another Index entry (and delighted that you remember it after all these years).

Also, "Word Up" was one of the most overused music-magazine headlines of the era, second only to "The Politics of Dancing."

The Gavin Report

]]> 33:371807:c4872076 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:00:25 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4871577 Never a huge Spin reader but the whole "whatever happened to" makes me think of the Canadian magazine Chart [ChartAttack.com] the British mag Q [q4music.com] . They're both still around and, good god, if they don't generally stink! When and why did they demote themselves to Tiger Beat fodder?

These days, I think some of the best music writing is found in free publications like Exclaim [Exclaim.ca] and also online via several sites - try [CokeMachineGlow.com] for instance. I highly recommend reading Exclaim and suggest a subscription if you're not able to benefit from their free distribution across Canada.

cheesebubble

]]> 33:371807:c4871577 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:22:40 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4869175 one thing I meant to mention but forgot to is how the book excerpts, especially, in the meetings-of-minds list sort of reframed rock history in a way that undercut neat historiographical patterns--made the footnotes the main story, a good trick for the article's length at least.

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:371807:c4869175 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:26:23 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4866796 Best post you've done recently. Nice job.

@Al Shipley: My friend sent me that quiz late last week, and it ate up a whole workday. I then forwarded it to a friend (ahem...someone mentioned above), and he passed it on to another dude who refined the idea in a new quiz by "tag-clouding" lyrics to some '80s songs. Try it out:

[www.cruzich.com]

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:371807:c4866796 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:52:16 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4864244 Superb piece. This issue was a bit before my time, but I have considerable (and somewhat sentimental) fondness for Spin's Sia Michel era, and still consult the 2003 Ultimate List issue. A bit snarkier and self-satisfied than what's described above, but it effectively (if temporarily) upstaged Blender's stranglehold on the geeky music list market.

Charles A. Hohman

]]> 33:371807:c4864244 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:16:25 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4863102 Those last few lists kinda remind me of this lyrics quiz that places all the words from a given song in alphabetical order:
[www.themorningnews.org]


Al Shipley

]]> 33:371807:c4863102 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:39:03 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4857727 Great post. I remember that issue, in fact -- it's the one that alerted me to Tragic Mulatto!

rizzuto

]]> 33:371807:c4857727 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:31:57 EDT <![CDATA[Project X Spins Top 35 Rock Lists Compiled By "Spin"]]> http://idolator.com/371807/project-x-spins-top-35-rock-lists-compiled-by-spin#c4856114 Great post -- I've muttered elsewhere that something always kept me from checking out Spin much at the time (probably a combination of Guccione Jr. and the AIDS conspiracy theorizing) but in retrospect I missed out on a magazine which would have been far more in tune with my mindset than RS ever possessed.

"32. January 29, 1983: Prince appeared on Solid Gold. Prince brought his entire stage set-up, complete with lights, ramps and backdrop, not to mention eight backing musicians, and then lip-synced '1999.'"

I remember this VERY well. In fact, let's see...dang, apparently not on YouTube. Anyone else finding it?

NedRaggett

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