Originally posted by SPARX:
How are the rankings determined? Whoever spends the most on advertising gets to put their favorite crap band higher in the list 
Wasn't meant as a personal attack against you posting it,in fact I got quite the chuckle out of it.Just as the list goes on it seems to lose all rationale.
No offense taken.
Rolling Stone asked musicians, critics, historians and key industry figures to rank their 50 favorites. The 273 participants included Beck, U2's The Edge, Jackson Browne, Art Garfunkel, Missy Elliott and members of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Linkin Park and The Doors. The Ernst & Young accounting firm devised a point system to weight votes for 1,600 submitted titles.
I think the extraordinary number of "ad pages" they got wasn't really some sort of list payola, I think it was just a sad commentary on the fact that people still eat this stuff up. As Celeste pointed out, it's probably as much for the purpose of deriding it as for any other reason.
