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What's really amazing is that the list was assembled by readers rather than the editors.
Here's what they had to say:
"#75: Goo-Sonic Youth, 1990: Sonic Youth's 1990 major label debut helped launch the Alternative Nineties, bringing the arty rebelliousness of Manhattan's avant-garde post-punk scene into the mainstream. Guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo used a wild array of alternate tunings on an even stranger selection of pawnshop specials and other strategically art-damaged guitars. The result was a toxic cloud of electric guitar meltdown, from which Goo's 11 diamond-hard rock songs emerge like some tatooed downtown Venus with a skateboard in lieu of a half-shell. With all its relentless experimentalism, Goo is nonetheless 100 percent rock at it's dirty, cranked-up best.
WHAT THEY SAID: Thurston Moore: 'We decided from the start always to stay true to the idea of experimenting in music. That's what keeps it interesting for us.'"
Okay, so it wasn't number 1 (that honor went to Led Zeppelin IV) and was bested by some crap (Green Day's American Idiot actually beat it by one), but at least it was on there, and some other good stuff was on there as well, like The Beatles' Revolver, Tool's Aenima and 10,000 Days (which they accidently listed as 10,000 Years), and Radiohead's OK Computer.
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