Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. People love

lists. I think we can agree on that. Magazines, broadcasters, and websites are always publishing them.

The ones that seem to get the most attention are those that rank a specific

thing from worse to best. And let's be honest, most of these lists are designed to court controversy,

to create arguments, and to get people talking about how things got ordered and why or why not

someone or something should be at number one. I get it. But not all lists are created equal. Some are just supposed to

keep track of something, what to buy at the grocery store, errands that need to be done, things that

you need to pack for a trip. Then there's middle ground, lists that keep track of something,

while attempting to slot them in some kind of order of importance, influence, or impact. Such lists

will result in arguments and debate over how things were ranked, which is fine, but the primary

purpose of such a list is an attempt to remember what happened and what was more important

to remember over something else. We're already 25% of the way through the 21st century,

and with the pace of life and the news cycle, it's harder and harder to keep up with what happened this week, let alone the

last quarter century. And that's why every once in a while, it's important to stop,

take a breath, look around, and try to remember what happened. And once we account for that, we can get a better

idea of why we've ended up where we are, the advances we've seen, the mistakes we've made,

and the happy and unhappy accidents that have occurred. And maybe, just maybe, if we know all this

and review everything from time to time, we can figure out where we're going.

This is part of one of those lists. It's chapter five of the 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the

Millennium. So far. This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.

Hi again, I'm Ellen Cross, and welcome to the fifth installment of our look at the 100

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