I guess I just look it it like, if you were picking the greatest album from the 50s & 60s, it should proabbly be a rock and roll record. Sure, Sinatra put out great albums in the period, but the biggest musical shakeups were in rock, so I'd have to lean that way.

I guess if I though tthere was any way you could possibly pick out an objectively "best" album from such a long period of time with so much good music coming out, I would be less likely to disagree. But, since I think that notion's a bit silly, I guess I look for external signifigance to the pick.

I agree the electronic music rise is a huge musical development that has affected music across the board too, from rock to hip hop and beyond, really. I may be naive in saying it, but it seems to me that its the biggest European contribution to pop music, while hip hop is the what the US brought to the party. Sure, there are plenty of electronic bands in the US and plenty of Hip Hop ion Europe, but it seems like the biggest audiences and most firm roots make the case. But, if I weant to give a nod to electronic music, I'm gonna go a lot further than going to Radiohead to do so.

Davey...sorry I ignored the sales chart stuff. I just really don't look at 'em enough to be sure one way or another. It seems to me, I tend to see more hip hop and such with big nubers more often than rock, but I'm pretty out of the pop culture loo most of the time these days, so I could be way off base. Then again, maybe the answer is as simple as we live in a world where multiple strains of music are pumping at once and we just need to stop with all the linear thinking remember that we don't have to pick one or the other as of current signifigance.