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

[cjboog]

Rolling Stone today has posted its top 100 songs and albums of the decade as voted on by various critics and artists. This is different from the reader's poll...which Green Day fan clubs obviously felt very passionate about!!

I felt it deserved it's own thread because it's much more extensive than the reader's poll, it's the legitimate list that wasn't decided upon by the passions of internet fan clubs but reflects the consensus of top critics and artists of the decade...

Here's the list of top 100 albums...

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


Great showing for U2 with...
ATYCLB at #13
NLOTH at #36
HTDAAB at #68

U2 also had three songs in the top 100 songs of the decade

#9 "Beautiful Day"
#32 "Moment of Surrender
#64 "Vertigo"

Both lists can be found here

100 Best Albums of the Decade : Rolling Stone

100 Best Songs of the Decade : Rolling Stone


DISCUSS!!!

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Do not want.

 

[cjboog]

It also looks as though U2 has been named one of 7 artists of the decade...

U2
Bruce Springsteen
Arcade Fire
Beyonce
Radiohead
MIA
Kanye West
Jack White

: Rolling Stone

 

[bono_man2002]

Fucking Radiohead.

No Love for Scarlet's Walk either...I thought that would have made it very low on the list.

 

[OrARoundabout]

Really isn't that bad of a list...glad to see some older KOL albums on there.
Glad to c Kala in the top 10.

 

[intedomine]

Strokes @ 2
Interpol @ 59

 

[Tommy WM]

Nice list. Aha Shake Heartbreak should have been in the top 10 but Only By the Night should not be on that list. It's the worst pile of crap ever. Well done U2 though!

 

[OrARoundabout]

Nice list. Aha Shake Heartbreak should have been in the top 10 but Only By the Night should not be on that list. It's the worst pile of crap ever. Well done U2 though!

Agreed, although OBTN wasn't really soooo bad.

Youth and Young Manhood deserves to be higher than it at least.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

wow, i'm pleased about moment of surrender's placement. that's a nice surprise!

 

[angelordevil]

wow, i'm pleased about moment of surrender's placement. that's a nice surprise!

Maybe the best song on the album? I think so.

 

[Super Yo]

U2 top rolling stone 2009 polls

U2 TOP ROLLING STONE 2009 POLLS

U2's NO LINE ON THE HORIZON has topped Rolling Stone magazine's Best Albums of 2009 poll.
The release beat Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix and Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3.
Meanwhile, U2 have also scored the Best Song of 2009 honour with Moment of Surrender. The song beat Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys and Bruce Springsteen's Outlaw Pete among the editors' picks.
Precious was named Best Movie, ahead of Up In The Air and The Hurt Locker.

10 December 2009 01:36

U2 - U2 Top Rolling Stone 2009 Polls - Contactmusic News

 

[digitize]

Nice

 

[popacrobat]

 

[Niceman]

 

[Roland of Gilead]

This is nice, even when I don't need the "experts" telling me MOS and the album are the best of the year.

 

[LemonMelon]

Uh, MGMT's album is three great singles + filler.

 

[Rosebud]

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?

 

[bono_man2002]

Whats an LCD Soundsystem?


:kidding:

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Whats an LCD Soundsystem?


:kidding:

YOU stole my line!

You cannot be forgiven, Daniel.

 

[An Cat Gav]

I think it's quite an impressive list, U2 have 3 albums in the top 100. Even I would have struggled to put Bomb as high as RS did.

 

[phommel]

The problem with those lists is that it's always very subjective. Which gives a lot of discussion, which is great!
This is a list made by more than 100 artists, journalists and people from the music industry.
It's not about popularity or about how many people recognize a song. It's what these voters thought is relevant music from the last decade.

Although my list would look different of course, it's not a bad list at all. I can live with Radiohead on the number 1 position. Radiohead scored high in many other music lists. And be honest, what other group has been so innovative in music as Radiohead? OK Computer was a masterpiece. Then they completely reinvented themselves and brought out another masterpiece, KidA...
Good to see that both U2 and Radiohead are represented with all their albums from the decade. However, I would rate NLOTH above U2's other albums and I would rate In rainbows above Amnesiac. TI don't agree at all with the overrepresentation of indie bands taht u see i these lists, especially in lists from the UK...

 

[bono_212]

Uh, MGMT's album is three great singles + filler.

Once I saw that at #18, I pretty much discounted the rest of the list. Then I saw Hot Fuss at #40 and had to say something. Because this is really bugging me about every list I see from this decade. Just because a band releases two follow-up albums that aren't as beloved, should not discount the fact that they ushered in what has become a HUGE branch of popular music this decade. If someone wants to tell me otherwise, go for it, but saying that "Hot Fuss" should be anywhere but the top ten, maybe even the top 20 just doesn't seem to have a grasp on the decade, imo.

 

[LemonMelon]

I think it's quite an impressive list, U2 have 3 albums in the top 100. Even I would have struggled to put Bomb as high as RS did.

You have to put in great amounts of thought and elbow grease to be as useless as Rolling Stone. To that end, it's a VERY impressive list.

 

[An Cat Gav]

You have to put in great amounts of thought and elbow grease to be as useless as Rolling Stone. To that end, it's a VERY impressive list.

Agreed, that's what I meant totally, I'm actually quite shocked.

 

[Dalton]

My little sister is one of the "critics" that voted on this list. She's deaf.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Once I saw that at #18, I pretty much discounted the rest of the list. Then I saw Hot Fuss at #40 and had to say something. Because this is really bugging me about every list I see from this decade. Just because a band releases two follow-up albums that aren't as beloved, should not discount the fact that they ushered in what has become a HUGE branch of popular music this decade. If someone wants to tell me otherwise, go for it, but saying that "Hot Fuss" should be anywhere but the top ten, maybe even the top 20 just doesn't seem to have a grasp on the decade, imo.

i'm telling you otherwise.

 

[cobl04]

crazy @ #1

Uh, MGMT's album is three great singles + filler.

truer words have never been spoken.

 

[The Sad Punk]

At least Sounds of Silver beat Atycub.

 

[The Sad Punk]

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?

Ugh. Sorry, but really - UGH.

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

 

[bono_212]

i'm telling you otherwise.

Care to back that up with evidence?