Yeah, the Run DMC/Aerosmith selection tells you what Rolling Stone is attempting to do with its selections from the last twenty years: pinpoint the time that a hip/hop song hit the radar of an aging white boomer magazine. Apparently, it only took another 5 years and and another rap group collaborating with a group of white musicians to rock the RS world once again, with Public Enemy's 'Bring da Noise' another selection on their list. Having been thus twice introduced to the concept of rap, they then get kinda cocky, dropping even the salutory 'Dr.' for Dre in their next hip-hop entry, another selection which falls way short of being earth moving.

Not to suggest that the good folks at RS are racist, just clueless. What's irritating with lists like these is the presumptive employment of the personal plural: we were all moved by these songs, weren't we? No, actually, anybody who was listening to music at the time would have figured out rap as a musical phenomenon far earlier than 1986.

btw...got a new ipod, 4x the size of the previous one. and while i'm unconvinced that anybody needs to walk around with 15,000 songs in their hand, it's good to have options.