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The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present edited by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber, Fireside Books/Simon & Schuster, 208 pages
If you're a pop-music fan under the age of 40, then it has probably seemed as if the rock 'n' roll canon was etched in Rolling Stone before you were born. You know the list by now: the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, maybe Bruce Springsteen, and finally (begrudgingly), Nirvana. Hip-hop and electronic music are too confusing, disco is a time-stamped joke, and the Internet era means no single band has the potential for a seismic, "Beatles on Ed Sullivan" moment -- so new bands must not be important, right?See the full content of this document
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But with the baby boomers handing the White House over to a new generation, it's time to relax the boomers' grip on pop-music history, as well. The Web site and Internet magazine Pitchfork ha...
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