ROLLING STONE Top 100 Albums of the Decade

[Bodhi]

wow, aside from maybe 4 or 5 albums on there, what a pile of fucking trendy dog shit.


Albums of the Decade

1 | Radiohead: Kid A

2 | The Strokes: Is This It

3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint

5 | The White Stripes: Elephant

6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral

7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP

8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times

9 | M.I.A.: Kala

10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout

11 | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

12 | LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

13 | U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind

14 | Jay-Z: The Black Album

15 | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising

16 | OutKast: Stankonia

17 | Beck: Sea Change

18 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

19 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

21 | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head

22 | Green Day: American Idiot

23 | D'Angelo: Voodoo

24 | Bruce Springsteen: Magic

25 | Radiohead: Amnesiac

26 | Cat Power: The Greatest

27 | The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

28 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell

29 | Sigur R?s: ?gaetis Byrjun

30 | Radiohead: In Rainbows

31 | My Morning Jacket: Z

32 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

33 | Daft Punk: Discovery

34 | OutKast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

35 | PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

36 | U2: No Line on the Horizon

37 | 50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin'

38 | Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker

39 | Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak

40 | Kanye West: Late Registration

41 | Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

42 | Elliott Smith: Figure 8

43 | The Killers: Hot Fuss

44 | System of a Down: Toxicity

45 | Kanye West: Graduation

46 | Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds

47 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

48 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science

49 | Fiona Apple: Extraordionary Machine

50 | Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning

51 | Spoon: Kill the Moonlight

52 | M.I.A.: Arular

53 | Kings of Leon: Only By the Night

54 | Norah Jones: Come Away With Me

55 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand

56 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend

57 | Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism

58 | Danger Mouse: The Grey Album

59 | Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights

60 | Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

61 | The Shins: Oh, Inverted World

62 | Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man

63 | Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak

64 | Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator

65 | Manu Chao: Pr?xima Estaci?n Esperanza

66 | Antony & the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now

67 | Bj?rk: Vespertine

68 | U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

69 | Missy Elliott: Under Construction

70 | Sleater-Kinney: The Woods

71 | Bright Eyes: Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Eart to the Ground

72 | Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand

73 | Coldplay: Parachutes

74 | Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium

75 | Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

76 | Sigur R?s: ()

77 | Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

78 | Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

79 | The New Pornographers: Electric Version

80 | Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood

81 | Ryan Adams: Gold

82 | Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R

83 | The Black Keys: Attack & Release

84 | Eminem: The Eminem Show

85 | Coldplay: Viva La Vida

86 | The Postal Service: Give Up

87 | Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere

88 | Brian Wilson: Smile

89 | Radiohead: Hail to the Thief

90 | Amadou & Miriam: Dimanche a Bamako

91 | The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious

92 | Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

93 | Johnny Cash: Unearthed

94 | The Libertines: Up the Brackett

95 | Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor

96 | The Streets: Original Pirate Material

97 | Wilco: Sky Blue Sky

98 | TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain

99 | The Hold Steady: Almost Killed Me

100 | Leonard Cohen: 10 New Songs

[CheapJon]

shitty shitty list, on the top10 only eminem really deserves to be there IMO

[mrlee]

What a fucking WANK list.

Way too much Radiohead also.

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Wow, I own two albums out of those 100 (Hot Fuss and Toxicity). I'm happy with that.

Radiohead are a band I've never 'got', and don't think I ever will 'get'. Obviously there's something about them that people like, but to me, it's just some moaning over an acoustic guitar....

I'll stick with my personal favs from the 2000s, and you can list yours here.

[D]

I thank god everyday I don't have Rolling Stone Magazines' shitty taste in music

[mrlee]

I thank god everyday I don't have Rolling Stone Magazines' shitty taste in music

 


Damn right, D. Fuck those asshole critics!

[Fingers]

Rolling Stone still worships Springsteen, The Stones-they always give them 5 star reviews-2 albums by Bruce in the top 25? Come on

[D]

Can someone please explain Radiohead to me? I just don't fucking get it

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I think they just go on Wikipedia, type in "random bands" and list them to sound important.

[D]

I had to know what all the fuss was about so I listened to some of that Kid A album

are u fucking kidding me?

[Smoking Guns]

Worst list I have ever seen in my life.  What a terrible decade of music if this is the best we got. 

[Juanjay]

I counted 17 albums on that list that were pretty good.

[bumblegod]

top 3 make sense to me, sufjan stevens should be much higher though. In rainbows would be placed higher if it were older, probably should be top ten.

Can't say i really have a probem with the list, though i do disagree with a lot of it, it's what you come to expect.


yankee hotel foxtrot is probably the best album of the last 25 years, imo.

[Derby Greg]

top 3 make sense to me, sufjan stevens should be much higher though. In rainbows would be placed higher if it were older, probably should be top ten.

Can't say i really have a probem with the list, though i do disagree with a lot of it, it's what you come to expect.


yankee hotel foxtrot is probably the best album of the last 25 years, imo.

I would probably place In Rainbows in my top 3 of the decade. I think the album is hauntingly beautiful and I would be staggered if people didn't agree. That saying - I "dont get" Kid A at all - neither could I get into the follow-up. Just because something is out of left field doesn't make it great.

Gold Ryan Adams, Hold Steady Almost Killed me, Chin D, My Morning Jacket Z and Pearl Jam self titled are my other stand outs.

GREG

[_Mezz_]

Okay, I'm a U2 fan. I was into them before GNR. But I mean, come on. Only one of those 3 albums that were on there actually deserves to be on the list.
American Idiot has gotten REALLY old, along with Viva La Vida. Seriously. And if I hear "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers one more time, I'm gonna hit someone
Out of that list I only like a few - including the Wilco ones.

[D]

U can call me a musical idiot if u want, but I'd rather listen to Poison's Greatest Hits than Radiohead.

[BlowUpYourVideo]

U can call me a musical idiot if u want, but I'd rather listen to Poison's Greatest Hits than Radiohead.

The song 'Creep' from their first album is quite good, but they do definitely baffle me the rest of the time.


And there ain't nothing wrong with 'Somebody Told Me'.

[CheapJon]

U can call me a musical idiot if u want, but I'd rather listen to Poison's Greatest Hits than Radiohead.

The song 'Creep' from their first album is quite good, but they do definitely baffle me the rest of the time.

And there ain't nothing wrong with 'Somebody Told Me'.

they have one of the best videos ever IMO, but I guess that's the music directors and not the bands take
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5X7HKxpiQA

[mrlee]

U can call me a musical idiot if u want, but I'd rather listen to Poison's Greatest Hits than Radiohead.

Thats probably because, even though they are no revolutionary band, Poison are fun. Radiohead are fucking depressing.

[AtariLegend]

Love Radiohead.

Wouldn't place Kid A above Funeral on my personal prefence list.... though neither are probably my favorite album of the decade.

As for the list, just random as usual by "Rolling Stone" to mention as many "relevant at the time" albums as possible.