Results of Rolling Stone's Top Artist/Album/Song of the Decade polls.

[allbecauseofu2]

whats 21CE at? i heard 700,000 copys?

 

[ozeeko]

You could find reasons to say this about any time in history. Just make the most of it.

I'm just speaking musically.

But now that you mention it, this IS probably the wost time to be alive, culturally, economically...everything is in shambles.

 

[bono_212]

You could find reasons to say this about any time in history. Just make the most of it.

 

[ozeeko]

I think Bee Gee's "Night Fever" trumps anything recorded in the past year that i've heard.

 

[bono_212]

I think Bee Gee's "Night Fever" trumps anything recorded in the past year that i've heard.

And I don't. Wait for it...wait for it..."Music is subjective".

 

[broker]

The "official" (non-online poll) Rolling Stone list in the new issue, chosen by the editors and various musicians, has ATYCLB at #13 and Beautiful Day at #9. I was actually mostly impressed by the lists - (and no, Green Day doesn't make the top 10 of either list) - it reminded me of a lot of great music.

Rolling Stone also lists NLOTH as Best album of the year and MOS as best song of the year. (There's a lot of U2, and a lot of U2-love, in this issue - they are, of course, written up as one of the artists of the decade).

 

[trojanchick99]

The "official" (non-online poll) Rolling Stone list in the new issue, chosen by the editors and various musicians, has ATYCLB at #13 and Beautiful Day at #9. I was actually mostly impressed by the lists - (and no, Green Day doesn't make the top 10 of either list) - it reminded me of a lot of great music.

Rolling Stone also lists NLOTH as Best album of the year and MOS as best song of the year. (There's a lot of U2, and a lot of U2-love, in this issue - they are, of course, written up as one of the artists of the decade).

Thanks for the heads up. I guess I will need to pick it up.

Look, I love Green Day, but yeah... not Artist of the Decade. But, I mean, who really WAS artist of the Decade. You can make an argument for Radiohead, Kanye, Jay-Z, Beyonce (pop), and U2. There wasn't a clear cut leader, which I don't think is necessarily bad.

As for no good music, I think there is some but it isn't mainstream. Mainstream rock right now is horrid.

 

[cobl04]

Just make the most of it.

exactly people! Be positive! At least the song wasn't 21 Guns!

 

[powerhour24]

Well its nice to see them still get that high on the charts considering the hate for them amongst the tech-savvy young generation that no doubt made up most of the voters.

 

[LemonMelon]

U2 aren't as commercially popular, and I guess NLOTH and 21CB have had a similar recption. You don't exactly see Green Day everywhere like in 2004, same with U2.

Yeah, except Warning (AKA the album before American Idiot that no one remembers) only went gold. Even floppy nlothy blew those numbers out of the water. Count in ticket sales and U2 comes out WAY on top of Green Day for the 00s.

Of course, my top 5 albums for this decade probably sold a million copies combined, so I couldn't care less about this topic if I tried. As a matter of fact, I just might.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

I find those lists to be decent


And someone questioned "Beautiful Day, song of de decade?"

Why not? I don't like ATYCLB but in my opinion it was the most important song for U2 this decade... imo, of course.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

Ok, I just realized that those list where the results not the poll

Still decent though... But green day shouldn't be in number 1.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

And U2 are the only ones to have two albums... Relevants, still?

 

[bono_man2002]

exactly people! Be positive! At least the song wasn't 21 Guns!

I liked that song till Revenge of the Fallen ruined it for me!

 

[GibsonExplorer]

And U2 are the only ones to have two albums... Relevants, still?

Radiohead also has two albums on the list, if that's what you're saying.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

Sorry I didn't see that

But that doesn't kill my point

 

[monsieur fly]

I'm disappointed that NLOTH did not crack the top five (never mind the top ten) but at least HTDAAB was nowhere to be seen!

 

[nielsgov]

The Green Day fanclub must have been bored.

 

[U2girl]

Coldplay isn't artist of the decade ? Interesting.

 

[trojanchick99]

So, Rolling Stone released some of the ballots for Album/Song of the Decade. These were filled out by various artists. A couple of interesting votes. Apparently, Lars Ulrich is a BIG NLOTH fan.

Tom Morello: Album - 21 was ATYCLB Song - 9 was Moment of Surrender.
Kirk Hammett: Song - 9 Beautiful Day
Lars Ulrich: Album - 11 was NLOTH Song - 1 was Moment of Surrender and 17 was Vertigo.

 

[Rosebud]

I guess those lists could be worse...

It is indeed a little sad that a lot of the people are from past decades, though personally I'm a fan of older musicians. I don't dig the teenage cult of pop music.

As per the state of current music, it's silly -- there are so many incredible, innovative, fresh bands and people, but no one pays attention to them, e.g. Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Feist, the Swell Season, The Veils, etc...

 

[bono_man2002]

The Green Day fanclub must have been bored.

And the u2 one lazy?

Coldplay isn't artist of the decade ? Interesting.

I certinaly thought they would have had a song in the top 10.