Elvis in Zagat Survey Music Guide

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:20 pm

see
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... id=1984699
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Here are the Zagat Survey Music Guide's top albums by
genre:

Blues: "Moanin' in the Moonlight," Howlin' Wolf
Classical: "Horowitz in Moscow," Vladimir Horowitz
Country & Western: "Will the Circle Be Unbroken,"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Dance: "Dance Collection," Donna Summer
Electronica: "Protection," Massive Attack
Folk: "John Prine," John Prine
Funk: "Funkify Your Life," the Meters,
Hip-Hop: "It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us
Back," Public Enemy
Jazz: "Kind of Blue," Miles Davis,
Kids: "The Muppet Movie" soundtrack
Musicals: "My Fair Lady" (Lerner and Loewe)
New Age: "Nouveau Flamenco," Ottmar Liebert
Pop Vocal (Contemporary): "Thriller," Michael Jackson
Pop Vocal (Traditional): "Best of the Songbooks," Ella
Fitzgerald
R&B: "The Best," Luther Vandross
Rock (Overall): "Born To Run," Bruce Springsteen
Rock (Alternative): "The Joshua Tree," U2
Rock (Art/Experimental): "Dark Side of the Moon," Pink
Floyd
Rock (Classic): "Born to Run," Bruce Springsteen
Rock (Garage/Underground): "Nuggets: Original
Artyfacts," various
Rock (Hard/Heavy Metal): "Master of Puppets,"
Metallica

Rock (New Wave): "This Year's Model," Elvis Costello

Rock (Oldies): "Elvis," Elvis Presley

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:23 pm

What a strange list.... is there any background on where these results camef rom, and what Zagat is?

tokyo vogue · Post by **tokyo vogue** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 5:16 pm

something to do with popularity, i think. not like a 'best evar' thing.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 4:37 am

Horowitz in Moscow ????

Metallica???

Muppets?

Who made up this list?

Pov · Post by **Pov** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:23 am

Did Alice's Restaurant make the list?

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 3:55 pm

Zagat are the people who do the super-popular (and pretty useful) series of restaurant guides. They've tried to apply the same thing to movies and now music, but there's a difference between, "gee, I need to find a restaruant in ______ for Saturday night that has vegetarian food on the menu" and "Gee, I need to need to know what the fifty greatest comedies of all time as voted for by random people is".

Unless they've changed it, their technique is polling, as filled out by both ordinary eaters and food critics. Actually, I don't know if critics are allowed to vote on the new entertainment guides. I do understand the lists are typically bland for movies.