where does it come from?
Essential Tunage presents all the CDs mentioned by Rolling Stone in the magazine's 15 May 1997 issue. The list was called The Rolling Stone 200: The Essential Rock Collection. Its editors define it as a "library that offers a complete portrait of what rock & roll has been and what it has become."what is it?
I am a huge fan of just about 90% of the bands featured here and like most of the remaining 10%. The plan is to link each of the bands to at least one decent website, but for now I'm just happy that I've typed the list in.I don't agree with two or three, but the list is very comprehensive and worth a look, so here it is. The asterisks next to some of the CDs point out to the stuff that I own, mostly for the benefit of those readers who happen to be me (not ALL of the CDs asterisk'd have been purchased -- a significant portion of them have been taped). Please make a note of the recording labels on the tunes, particularly the anthologies -- the one great thing about this list is that it sifts through all the shoddy or cheap or lame compilations and picks out the pearls.
Clicking on the name of the band or artist leads to info on said band or artist. Clicking on the title leads to the appropriate Amazon.Com page, which often contains very groovy sound-clips, reviews, and whatnot -- as well as the opportunity, if you so wish, to buy the aforementioned album.
Just about every CD mentioned in the Rolling Stone list is still in print -- some (very few) seemed iffy: they were either out of stock or seemed to appear under a different heading. In those cases, I included additional possible choices or alternatives following the album title, linked by the question-mark-within-parentheses [(?)].
What else? While all the Amazon-affiliated titles are up, the list of artist-related sites are not. I welcome suggestions.
a note
Some of the out-of-print CDs have surfaced, for no reason I can explain, in the Columbia House music club. So I've put in a link to it when appropriate (as CH).
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