When did Rolling Stone start to suck?

Back in the 1970's I read Rolling Stone magazine all the time. In the dark, dark days of "Disco Fever" Rolling Stone was a beacon in that deep darkness. It managed to ignore the populist crap that plagued the "top 40" charts and gave me articles on the deep goodness that was also happening in those times. Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Alan Parsons, Supertramp, Rush, Neil Young and many others did some of their best work in the 70's.

Fast forward 25 years.

A friend of Brenda's gave us a pile of current Rolling Stone magazines. I was kind of excited about getting plugged back into the new music scene in these exciting days of the Internet, .MP3s, artists from Bruce Springsteen to James Blunt.


Then I started to read them.

The magazine is now a cover to cover advertisement for fashion. I can't tell you how disappointed I am to only have about 8 pages of decent articles about music or movies. The rest is all sales materials and misguided political rhetoric. All of it now tries to get you to buy $500 sneakers, expensive rum and crappy albums.

--Rolling Stone might as well be People magazine...