Sonic Youth Gossip - SPIN insults us al with their Top 100 "alternative" music drummers list

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It's mind boggling that James Brown's drummers are considered alternative

I shudder to think who they would put at #1 on a list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...

is it just me or doesn't firefox allow to navigate through that list?
was Jim White of Dirty Three listed at all? Just wondering. He's such a great drummer

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Originally Posted by GravitySlips

Deerhoof's drummer is pretty good!

Absolutely! Not saying he is better than SS Beat Control, but he's really friggin good.

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Originally Posted by chocolate_ladyland

the list is better backwards

since when are black sabbath, slayer and all R&B/jazz drummers considered alternative? I think spin just wants to piss off list-obsessive classic rock fans

They should have put Keith Moon on the list. The Who was an "alternative" to underground, non-mainstream music.

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Originally Posted by Chris Lawrence

I shudder to think who they would put at #1 on a list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...

They put Thurston and Lee funnily enough

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Originally Posted by stateyourrights

no offense to any one. steve is a very unique and fitting drummer for sy and i couldnt see anyone else in his place but he's not the best drummer in the alternative world. He certainly is really good. please dont take this the wrong way.

Dude. Steve OWNS polyrythmic drumming, and he can go from total punk to jazz in a heartbeat. Not to mention the guy is one of the genuinely nicest people I've ever had the privilege to meet.

I'm surprised Janet Weiss didn't get her rightful place in a SPIN top-10 (shes at 53), SPIN has been eating out the S-K grrls for decades now!

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

No love for Murph.

Sighs. Those fucks.

Also where was Phil from radiohead? The guy wasn't replaced by a drum machine for a reason, and like Steve he is pure class as well as perhaps the consistently best dressed drummer outside of some kind of philharmonic or 60s mo-town thing.

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Originally Posted by halgreen

I can't even get it to work, I'm stuck on the dude from The Feelies. But I see that Dave Grohl made number 1...:confused:

Well, at least they one thing right ;)