Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums and Songs of the Decade & 2009 Poll

[GibsonExplorer]

of course, they were the ones who gave the album 5 stars. it's predictable that they would put U2 at the top of year-end polls.

 

[GibsonExplorer]

LCD Soundsystem was a more important band to the decade than U2?

How many people in the world recognize Beautiful Day?

How many people in the world would recognize any LCD Soundsystem song?

That is just funny.

On the up side, nice to see Arcade Fire and Fleet Foxes on the list. Where are Feist and the Swell Season though?

Just because a song is more recognizable doesn't make the band more important. If that's the case, this list would be ruled by Top 40 acts.

And the Swell Season, while pleasant and umm, swell, is overrated.

 

[Notabene]

 

[roy]

of course, they were the ones who gave the album 5 stars. it's predictable that they would put U2 at the top of year-end polls.

Just like Q magazine..

 

[GibsonExplorer]

I guess Rollingstone needs to retroactively apply 5-star ratings to all the albums that placed above NLOTH on this list. What a joke of a publication.

 

[nielsgov]

At least some magazines have good music taste.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

Good ol' GibsonExplorer

 

[popacrobat]

Good ol' GibsonExplorer

and if they hadn't he'd say that U2 are now irrelevant and their transformation into the Rolling Stones is complete. again.

 

[ramblin rose]

So does anyone have the actual poll from Rollingstone? Somehow getting the info from Contactmusic makes be very uneasy.

 

[BonoFox1]

**Rolling Stone magazine also listed the decades GREATS!

THE BEST 100 SONGS OF THE DECADE
1 | Gnarls Barkley — "Crazy"

2 | Jay-Z — "99 Problems"

3 | Beyoncé — "Crazy in Love"

4 | Outkast — "Hey Ya!"

5 | M.I.A. — "Paper Planes"

6 | The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"

7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Maps"

8 | Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"

9 | U2 — "Beautiful Day"

10 | Eminem — "Stan"

11 | MGMT — "Time to Pretend"

12 | Eminem — "Lose Yourself"

13 | 50 Cent — "In Da Club"

14 | Missy Elliott — "Get Ur Freak On"

15 | Johnny Cash — "Hurt"

16 | The Strokes — "Last Nite"

17 | Bob Dylan — "Mississippi"

18 | Kelly Clarkson — "Since U Been Gone"

19 | Kanye West — "Jesus Walks"

20 | Justin Timberlake — "Cry Me a River"

21 | OutKast — "B.O.B."

22 | Amerie — "1 Thing"

23 | Rihanna — "Umbrella"

24 | Radiohead — "Everything in Its Right Place"

25 | Missy Elliott — "Work It"

26 | Coldplay — "Clocks"

27 | The Postal Service — "Such Great Heights"

28 | Randy Newman — "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country"

29 | Kanye West — "Gold Digger"

30 | R. Kelly — "Ignition (Remix)"

31 | The Flaming Lips — "Do You Realize?"

32 | Franz Ferdinand — "Take Me Out"

33 | Daft Punk — "One More Time"

34 | Coldplay — "Yellow"

35 | Bruce Springsteen — "The Rising"

36 | U2 — "Moment of Surrender"

37 | LCD Soundsystem — "Losing My Edge"

38 | Gorillaz — "Clint Eastwood"

39 | Modest Mouse — "Float On"

40 | Kelis — "Milkshake"

41 | LCD Soundsystem — "All My Friends"

42 | Arcade Fire — "Wake Up"

43 | The Roots — "The Seed (2.0)"

44 | Britney Spears — "Toxic"

45 | Kylie Minogue — "Can't Get You Out of My Head"

46 | MGMT — "Kids"

47 | Green Day — "American Idiot"

48 | The Killers — "Mr. Brightside"

49 | The Walkmen — "The Rat"

50 | Beyoncé — "Single Ladies"

51 | D'Angelo — "Untitled (How Does It Feel)"

52 | Christina Aguilera — "Beautiful"

53 | The Rapture — "House of Jealous Lovers"

54 | Coldplay — "The Scientist"

55 | OutKast — "Ms. Jackson"

56 | Radiohead — "Idioteque"

57 | The Shins — "New Slang"

58 | The White Stripes — "Fell In Love With a Girl"

59 | The Strokes — "Hard to Explain"

60 | Beyoncé — "Irreplaceable"

61 | Jet — "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

62 | Alicia Keys — "Fallin'"

63 | Lil Wayne — "A Milli"

64 | U2 — "Vertigo"

65 | Green Day — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"

66 | Madonna — "Music"

67 | Wilco — "Jesus, Etc."

68 | Coldplay — "Viva La Vida"

69 | Santigold — "L.E.S. Artistes"

70 | Arctic Monkeys — "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor"

71 | Justice — "D.A.N.C.E."

72 | Kings of Leon — "Use Somebody"

73 | Queens of the Stone Age — "No One Knows"

74 | TV on the Radio — "Wolf Like Me"

75 | Arcade Fire — "Rebellion (Lies)"

76 | Madonna — "Hung Up"

77 | Dixie Chicks — "Not Ready to Make Nice"

78 | LCD Soundsystem — "Daft Punk is Playing at My House"

79 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss — "Gone Gone Gone"

80 | Phoenix — "1901"

81 | Pink — "Get The Party Started"

82 | Jay-Z — "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"

83 | The Gossip — "Standing in the Way of Control"

84 | The Clipse — "Grindin'"

85 | The Dirty Projectors — "Stillness Is the Move"

86 | Aaliyah — "Try Again"

87 | The Knife — "Heartbeats"

88 | Jay-Z — "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"

89 | Bright Eyes — "Lua"

90 | Midlake — "Roscoe"

91 | Bruce Springsteen — "My City of Ruins"

92 | Brad Paisley — "Alcohol"

93 | Snoop Dogg — "Drop It Like It's Hot"

94 | Radiohead — "Pyramid Song"

95 | Mary J. Blige — "Family Affair"

96 | Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"

97 | Fleet Foxes — "White Winter Hymnal"

98 | Amy Winehouse — "Back to Black"

99 | Gorillaz — "Feel Good Inc."

100 | Damian Marley — "Welcome to Jamrock"











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 Rós: Ágaetis 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: Próxima Estación Esperanza

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

67 | Björk: 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 Rós: ()

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





http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31248926/100_best_songs_of_the_decade/27

 

[bram]

GibsonExplorer: Rollingstone didn't create the list. They just published it.

 

[Jeannieco]

 

[GibsonExplorer]

GibsonExplorer: Rollingstone didn't create the list. They just published it.

Right. It still doesn't excuse them for giving 5 stars to an album that critics agree is not as good as a couple of dozen albums ranked higher on this list that was given less than 5 stars.

 

[tomtom]

Whatever. All I care about is that Moment of Surrender is getting the recognition it so richly deserves. It's epic, well-written, sonically adventurous, lush, textured, spiritual, trippy, melodic, and it's U2's best song since Stay, probably better.

 

[markoajda]

Whatever. All I care about is that Moment of Surrender is getting the recognition it so richly deserves. It's epic, well-written, sonically adventurous, lush, textured, spiritual, trippy, melodic, and it's U2's best song since Stay, probably better.

Well put!

 

[Rosebud]

Just because a song is more recognizable doesn't make the band more important. If that's the case, this list would be ruled by Top 40 acts.

And the Swell Season, while pleasant and umm, swell, is overrated.

Point 1) I feel you, but I didn't really mean that Beautiful Day was "more important" (which is an awkward way to phrase this anyway) than other songs just because it was more popular. I mean important in a deeper sense to the mood and character of the decade, especially with how people heard this song after 9/11. Again, this is totally just my own feelings; I just see BD as a song that captured and spoke to a moment in time, in our history, for a lot of people. It seems like more than just a good piece of music, but something collective, that so many people were hanging their experiences and emotions onto at that time. Just for me personally, it (and the whole album really) was such an important part of the decade, and thus, and important part of the decade's music. That's all.

Point 2) We can agree to disagree.

 

[digitize]

The difference between GibsonExplorer and the other trolls is that GibsonExplorer doesn't seem to like any of U2's output from any era.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

The difference between GibsonExplorer and the other trolls is that GibsonExplorer doesn't seem to like any of U2's output from any era.

This has been proven as fact.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Care to back that up with evidence?

oh, i need evidence? i just wanted to be argumentative.

 

[thefuture]

Good to see no Coldplay album topped U2 overall...wait did I say that out loud lol

 

[bram]

Right. It still doesn't excuse them for giving 5 stars to an album that critics agree is not as good as a couple of dozen albums ranked higher on this list that was given less than 5 stars.

Are you being serious? Rollingstone doesn't wait to dole out their star ratings until they see what every other critic has decided. Say what you want about their critical worth, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to wait until everyone else weighs to give your own opinion (and then match it with the consensus).

Here's the timeline:

--Rollingstone gives the album 5 stars while lots of other critics weigh in (mostly giving 3-4 stars or the equivalent).

--Rollingstone polls a bunch of artists, critics, music journalists, et al. to determine the best 100 albums of the year. As we'd expect (based on the overall critical reception), these people don't hold NLOTH up to be the masterpiece that Rollingstone does.

So how does it follow that Rollingstone should now consider every album that placed above NLOTH in this poll to be superior?

 

[GibsonExplorer]

Are you being serious? Rollingstone doesn't wait to dole out their star ratings until they see what every other critic has decided. Say what you want about their critical worth, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to wait until everyone else weighs to give your own opinion (and then match it with the consensus).

Whoever said that they have to wait to see what others said? If they had a fucking clue, they'd know right away that NLOTH is no 5 star album.

 

[nielsgov]

Whoever said that they have to wait to see what others said? If they had a fucking clue, they'd know right away that NLOTH is no 5 star album.

Do you like U2?

 

[bram]

Whoever said that they have to wait to see what others said? If they had a fucking clue, they'd know right away that NLOTH is no 5 star album.

That opinion is of the album is fine (as is your disagreement with RS's rating), but your criticism of the poll in conjunction with the 5-star rating makes no sense.

 

[LemonMelon]

Initial ratings are irrelevant anyway. Retroactive rating boosts happen all the time; look at Pitchfork's top 200 of the decade and compare those rankings with the original ratings, and it won't match up either. Also, why should it be Rolling Stone's job to adjust their rankings based on the opinions of other music publications? They're not an aggregating website.

 

[Maoilbheannacht]

Right. It still doesn't excuse them for giving 5 stars to an album that critics agree is not as good as a couple of dozen albums ranked higher on this list that was given less than 5 stars.

The ratings for how many stars an album gets from Rolling Stone is done by people at the magazine. The top 100 albums of the decade was done by people who do not work at the magazine! Thats why your going to have differences.

 

[Rosebud]

Ugh. Sorry, but really - UGH.

I guess this is the same as the above post, but... ugh.

Sorry, I know that sounded awful. When I posted, I was under the impression that this list was made by votes from the public. Judging it as a mainly popularity list, I just thought it was funny that some of those people beat out U2, especially that album. I adore LCD Soundsystem, so no offence intended.

 

[GibsonExplorer]

The ratings for how many stars an album gets from Rolling Stone is done by people at the magazine. The top 100 albums of the decade was done by people who do not work at the magazine! Thats why your going to have differences.

Thanks for telling me the exact same thing Bram told me, again.

 

[gherman]

1.) Kid-A?

How does that song go again? "OVER-RATED!!!!!!!!"

 

[LemonMelon]

1.) Kid-A?

How does that song go again? "OVER-RATED!!!!!!!!"

Kid A was chosen as the number one song of the decade? Even Pitchfork, on its indiest day, with an electrified indie machine wouldn't choose that one.