RS‘s list is an interesting and at times odd mix of fogies and new blood, with a few representatives from each camp who don’t seem like they really belong here. For instance, it’s the second list in two days that shows kindness towards Chinese Democracy. The Jonas Brothers also did quite well. Outside of that, you’ll recognize names from the Gummys, and the Magnetic Fields’ Distortion received a deserved nod.
Things become a little strange in the top 20, Axl and Lars, but the top spot goes to a band that’s been quietly placing high on just about all the year-end lists we’ve seen so far.
50 No Age – Nouns
49 Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
48 Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
47 Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
46 The Academy Is… – Fast Times at Barrington High
45 Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward
44 The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
43 Nas – Untitled
42 David Byrne and Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
41 AC/DC – Black Ice
40 Jonas Brothers – A Little Bit Longer
39 Taylor Swift – Fearless
38 Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line
37 Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
36 The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
35 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
34 Stephen Malkmus – Real Emotional Trash
33 Ne-Yo – Year Of The Gentleman
32 Jamey Johnson – The Lonesome Song
31 MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
30 Duffy – Rockferry
29 Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
28 The Knux – Remind Me in Three Days…
27 Brian Wilson – That Lucky Old Sun
26 Mudcrutch – Mudcrutch
25 The Magnetic Fields – Distortion
24 Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
23 Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst
22 Jackson Browne – Time the Conquerer
21 Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads
20 Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
19 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Part 1 (4th World War)
18 Lucinda Williams – Little Honey
17 B.B. King – One Kind Favor
16 Randy Newman – Harps and Angels
15 The Black Keys – Attack & Release
14 Ryan Adams And The Cardinals – Cardinology
13 Blitzen Trapper – Furr
12 Guns N’ Roses – Chinese Democracy
11 Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
10 Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
09 Metallica – Death Magnetic
08 Beck – Modern Guilt
07 Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
06 Santogold – Santogold
05 John Mellencamp – Life, Death, Love and Freedom
04 My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
03 Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
02 Bob Dylan – Tell Tale Signs:The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
01 TV on the Radio – Dear Science
The one and two positions sort of crystallize the strange duality of this thing. Also, John Mellencamp is that beloved? This is our John Mellencamp? You can read year-end blurbs, etc., at RS.
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I can’t believe The Jonas Sisters surpassed AC/DC, one of the best rock bands of ALL TIME!! Black Ice was the #1 album in 29 countries! Nowadays, music (if it can be called that) is all about the money, pop-culture success, and who has the #1 downloaded song. What happened to real music and good albums, not just a few good songs?
How did “Ill Bill – The Hour of Reprisal” not make the list????????????????
As if anyone will read this now, but this list is just ridiculous, RS doesnt know shit about music and they just try to find whats popular or whats on other peoples lists, while trying to please who they choose and gave good reviews to throughout the year. ACDC and Metallica in the top 50!!!!!?? Thats a joke, welcome to the year 2000, fuck both those bands they suck and need to throw in the towel. Dont worry cause wolf parade, cloud cult, crystal castles, black moth and tobacco, why, and so much more are left totally out. WTF. And for that last comment, Ill Bill? Yeh lets put Necro and other death hop up there, really cool. Oh yeh, nas and erika baddhu on the list: thats a good one, really cracked me up. Oh yeh lil wayne in the top five? Thats a good one, the last to hop on synth voice studio shit, and the rappers who’s been ghost written for a decade. Funny stuff. RS is a corporate whore, faux-avant garde p.o.s. magazine. And TV on the radio sucks, even thought they have a lot of hype. And yeh I like bob dylan, but these are old songs and shouldn’t be considered in the running for new albums of 2008. Thats it, thats all.
Utter rubbish with 90% of entries coming from the good ole USA and 10% from the rest of the world. Highest British entry is MOR cack Coldplay. Need I say more. Bout time this magazine went the same way as Melody Maker did over here and died.
rolling stone is great
Ummmmmm, dude, I’m pretty sure I’m pointing out the obvious but I’m 99.999% sure that you haven’t even LISTENED to JB’s A Little Bit Longer album. So you have absolutly no right to go around and say other albums are better then theirs. You hate them just because they’re with Disney. If you would read their review of the album (and not only their review, there are many professional reviews similar to this one) that say JB are definatly more than their Disney affiliations and they all say people need to actually LISTEN to their songs before judging who they are better or worse than.
All you people saying GnR shouldn’t be on this list are just showing what a bunch of pseuds you are.
And as for ‘Is [insert artist] relevant these days?’ – what the hell has ‘relevance’ got to do with it? It’s supposed to be about enjoying listening to music not worrying about whether you’re listening to the same music as everyone else!
You sad, sad losers.!
Jonas Brothers? Really?
Vampire Weekend <3