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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman
That situation is not the same as today. Black people today get a lot of airplay due to their influence on rock, blues, funk, soul, hip hop, jazz, pop, etc. Also, the vote is for the best rock and roll albums. So why would I vote for something that's not rock and roll? I'm not voting for Death's Symbolic on a smooth jazz list. And I'm not voting for an R&B album like The Animals on a rock and roll list.
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Dude, the Animals were rock'n'roll. Just cause they weren't a carbon copy of Little Richard doesn't magically make them some completely different genre. And if you're going to call bands like the Small Faces and the Animals not rock'n'roll, then I'm going to call bull**** on Elvis for his sappy ballads that couldn't be any less rock'n'roll, and I think those other bands have plenty of r'n'r songs to make up for whatever ones you think aren't. Seriously, though, the Small Faces "Shake" isn't rock'n'roll? WTF?
And regardless, the Animals are in the battle whether you like it or not, so it doesn't make sense to vote for an album you like less, as it will only serve to weaken the thread in the long run.
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Plus, if you're going to say "black people are better," you yourself are stereotyping Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Gene Vincent, early Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, The Ventures, Johnny Cash, and The Everly Brothers.
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I love early Rolling Stones and consider them better than their influences, which is why I said that white people didn't catch up to the earlier, black innovators until the British Invasion. And it's not like I necessarily blame Elvis or Buddy Holly for being weak-sauce versions of black artists. If memory serves, they were watered-down because the record companies were afraid of backlash from white America if they started selling their children "black music". Or maybe it was just your average, everyday, corporate pussification of "underground" music.
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