BarryP wrote:
Needlessly being a dick, don't you think? Why not just provide your own better standard rather than shit on mine? The OP was asking for input, not an evaluation of my first pass on this.
And here I thought you were being a dick. :)
From my first response:
The Doors, Credence, Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Santana, ZZTop, Grateful Dead, Heart, Cheap Trick, Talking Heads, Jefferson Airplane, Alice Cooper, Kiss, ...
If you put the bottom at having sold 20 million for an album you have two Beatles, one Zeppelin, and one or two Floyd depending one your time cutoff.
Classic rock was never about album sales. If you want to be depressed look through the top albums by year. 1967, one of the greatest years for music. Fucking Monkees had the #1 album for 31 weeks in '66 and '67, their first only displaced by the second.
Bruce was popular long before Born in the USA, and it wasn't his best work.
I don't think we can validate classic rock(or any music) by album sales any more than we can by Grammy wins.
The only standard I can give you is will you listen to it 10 years later (or 50).
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.