The article in the Jan. 17 Back to School edition of The Daily Helmsman titled "10 Best and Worst Albums of 2000" hardly deserved the one and a half page layout it got.
The student body could also have definitely gone without this particular "contributing writer's" editorial comments on the year in music.
He did okay on a few of the calls -- the Baha Men, 98 Degrees and Aaron Carter really did put out some albums that did not edify the music industry.
I can also go for U2, Eminem and Green Day having made good albums.
But you could have at least gotten someone to write this article who could separate talented musicians from groups of trend-setters who play meaningless pop music or meaningless, watered-down "alternative," and whom no one will remember in five years for that very reason.
I mean, I like pop songs almost as much as the next person, but I do not recognize the artist's albums as quality music, because they simply are not.
None of these things would have been so bad about the article if only they were represented as some kind of popular mass opinion.
I would have suggested a surveyed consensus of U of M students of their own "best and worst albums of 2000," or at the very least had the article written by someone who was musically oriented enough to know what they are talking about and had legitimate reasons to back up his choices.
