>There are definitely valid complaints about the placement of
>many of these picks. Based on their stated goal I think the
>biggest flaw is a recency bias. From what I remember they used
>to make these lists from an elitist perspective. If an album
>was released with in x many years it wasn't even considered.
>Only the most known and universally liked albums were on
>there. I appreciate them relaxing that but they went too far.
>
>
>I feel like they needed to cap the position recent albums
>could reach. Maybe anything past 5 years is fair game but
>anything more recent is hard to justify putting it in the top
>50 at minimum.

^^ these paragraphs especially but I agree with basically everything you said here.