Adam Horovitz Submitted Fake Album Names To Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums

Alyson Camus|October 1, 2020

Adam Horovitz submitted fake album names

Adam Horovitz submitted fake names – Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien

This new article published by Rolling Stone is a proof that their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time the magazine bragged about last week, is… not very legitimate?

They said they received more than 300 ballots from different artists and other music-business people and among them was the ballot from Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz. But looking at his list, it seems that he was making fun of the entire thing. Rolling Stone called his choices ‘obscure,’ and this is the least they could say. ‘But even the sharpest music scholars on the RS staff weren’t hip to artists like Jan Pfundt and Pops Willard,’ they wrote, ‘In fact, a few of them sounded a little too theoretically good to be true, as if perhaps they may have been placed on the list not because of their musical quality but as part of some sort of clever satirical gesture.’

I honestly don’t know any of the names Adam put on this list, and I searched some of them and only found traces of a few of them (some links are provided below), while the rest appears to be made up? RS admitted it: ‘In fact, a few of them sounded a little too theoretically good to be true, as if perhaps they may have been placed on the list not because of their musical quality but as part of some sort of clever satirical gesture.’

In other words, Adam Horovitz submitted fake album names, and a list including a few ‘real things’ just to trump the enemy. But the real albums are so obscure, so insanely ridiculous, that it was obviously an attempt to make fun of Rolling Stone’s pointless endeavor. In the end, all of these names sound very creative, the entire list is a good laugh, and even though I thought that ‘Ultimate Spinach’ by Ultimate Spinach could only come from a true vegan, this one really do exist.

Here is the list submitted by Adam Horovitz (a.k.a. Ad-Rock )

1. Macka B, Sign of the Times

2. Grits and Gravy, Nuthin’ But The Good Stuff

3. The Frank Figueora Funk Ensemble, Double Bang Bang

4. Chirp, The City Ain’t Tough Enough

5. Sergeant Crikey, It Mek Dem Bubble

6. Hugo Strasser, TanzHits ’71

7. Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach

8. The Outta Controls, I Need New Friends

9. The Lover’s 2, Slip Into Something More Fantastical

10. Merv Gelter, Unlinked Passages And Patterns

11. Danice Wilder, Funk Your Body Down