Rock music by numbers: Kerrang!'s 100 Greatest Rock Albums Ever! feature
'I was a teenage metalhead ...' It's almost like entering enemy territory and it's pretty discomfiting. Yeah man, I've just bought this 20-year-old copy of Kerrang! magazine (50p) because I couldn't resist the lure of the "100 Greatest Rock Albums Ever!" feature in this glossy special edition from November 2006. Hmm, what's happening to me? Cum on feel the noize: Peter Saville did not design this magazine cover Lists are generally infantile and idiotic, but - ahem - I've done plenty of them myself (check out my 100 pop songs list or, even, my 200 protest songs mega-effort). Yep, infantile and idiotic they may be but they're also effective. Idly picking up this Smash Hits-style mag in a charity shop the other day, of course I had to immediately scan the list, grimly aware that I was being suckered into caring (in the slightest) whether Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction was really the best rock album ever made or wondering wh...
