100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums
Good post at Neojaponisme about Rolling Stone Japan’s decision to publish a list of the 100 top J-rock albums, apparently in an attempt to establish a foothold for proper mainstream critical music writing. (The Japanese press is notoriously uncritical in reviews because the publication is almost invariably dependent on advertising revenue from the content producers/distributors.)
It’s still a heavily biased list, but a good start provided it isn’t (as one commenter suggests) a ploy to get the uninitiated into the back catalogue to cover weakening new-release sales.
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