Blender, in typically clueless fashion, counts down the 100 days that changed music. Among the oddities, the release of Radiohead's Kid A, Depeche Mode selling out the Rose Bowl and Scarface topping the VHS rental list. Here are five far more important days than the ones they picked.
1- Nirvana's Nevermind dethrones Michael Jackson's Dangerous off the top of the Billboard charts.
2- Blur and Oasis simultaneously release Country House and Roll With It, respectively marking the commercial high point and inevitable artistic decline of Britpop.
3- The release of Stravinsky's Rites of Spring. Without him there would be no Velvet Underground, Television and Sonic Youth.
4- Lester Bangs reviews Patti Smith's Horses, bringing the CBGB scene to the world's notice.
5) Bob Marley and the Wailer release their first album.
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