Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums Of The Year
Filed under: Music Minute
As 2008 wraps itself up, Rolling Stone would like to offer its version of Top Albums Wankery, so here goes:
1. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
2. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs — The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
3. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
4. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
5. John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love and Freedom
6. Santogold: Santogold
7. Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
8. Beck: Modern Guilt
9. Metallica: Death Magnetic
10. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
11. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
12. Guns n' Roses: Chinese Democracy
13. Blitzen Trapper: Furr
14. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology
15. The Black Keys: Attack & Release
16. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels
17. B.B. King: One Kind Favor
18. Lucinda Williams: Little Honey
19. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)
20. Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
21. Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads
22. Jackson Browne: Time the Conquerer
23. Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst
24. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
25. The Magnetic Fields: Distortion
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26. Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch
27. Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
28. The Knux: Remind Me in Three Days…
29. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
30. Duffy: Rockferry
31. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
32. Jamey Johnson: The Lonesome Song
33. Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman
34. Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
35. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
36. The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
37. Nine Inch Nails: The Slip
38. Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line
39. Taylor Swift: Fearless
40. Jonas Brothers: A Little Bit Longer
41. AC/DC: Black Ice
42. David Byrne and Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
43. Nas: Untitled
44. The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
45. Be Your Own Pet: Get Awkward
46. The Academy Is…: Fast Times at Barrington High
47. Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
48. Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
49. Hot Chip: Made in the Dark
50. No Age: Nouns
What do U think?
Where's Adele?
Perez Hates Me ^^
I agree that numbers 20, 35, 37, and 42 should be there. Other than that….pffft…..
Havent even heard of half of these!!!!!
not bad. but what are the jonas brothers doing on there???
we all know you dont listen to them perez.
you like lady gagagageme.
yay dylan!……whatever everything else
Jann Wenner sucks the donkey, and the donkey feels good.
O.K. THANK YOU MARIO!
Asshole, where's my nom???
jonas brothers above ac/dc? are having a fucking laugh?
first?
Re: _Alice_ – heyy sweet tits.
anything exciting today??
THAT LIST SUCKS! EXCEPT FOR DUFFY AND NAS!!!!!!!!!!!
ok….and ryan adams……..my hubby is having a bromance with ryan…..he's growing on me
Its better than most.
Gossip?
Re: mama of 2 – WHAT UP!
How CAN THE FORGET T.I. PAPER TRAIL I CANT BELIEVE IT NO ONE EVER GIVES TI RESPECT HE DESERVES WHO AGREES?
yayyy JONAS BROTHERS AND TAYLOR SWIFT.
love the #1 album
I'M SO NOT SURPRISED THE ACADEMY IS MADE THE LIST!
ok not first, but still. the fucking HoBros? what is the world coming to.
No "Best of Balsac"? I WAS ROBBED!
I agree with them on some of them, but MOST of them shouldnt be on that list.
and why the hell are the jonas brothers on there! eww
the conor oberst CD is amazing
Re: mama of 2 – ahahaha…..i had to listen to fm the other day and actually heard gaga……i laaauuughed!
T.IT.I T,I TI TI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haven't heard of alot of them.
wheres death cab for cutie and narrow stairs?
I love TV on the Radio! Good for them….
Re: LettyB Can Be Imitated Not Duplicated – heyy
is that really you??!!!
I love that TAI made it on there
ugh. rolling stone really knows how to ruin music for me. it's like a mix of the worst of pitchfork and blender. no thanks!
Re: mamajud – heyy
lol
Yay for the fact that they had enough integrity to leave off Katy Perry, Mariah Carey and Lady Gaga. Just because albums sell a lot of copies doesn't mean they are good.
THE ARCARDE FIRE!??? COME ON! They should be at the top of this list.
WHERE is ALANIS MORISSETTE's FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT??? BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR!
Re: Mahima – shouldn't you be in school?
See rolling stone agrees that Britney Spears Circus sucks…
Re: LettyB Can Be Imitated Not Duplicated – hahahahaha
love the new avatar!
very festive!
I think that of montreal and hot chip should have been higher on the list.
Pssh ! Taylor Swift before Jo Bros ??
Seriously Rolling Stone ?
And why the F is vampire weekend doing here ???????? they suck !
i love Ra Ra Riot, and MGMT.
NEXT PUTO!
Jonas Twits and no Oasis - shocking?!
Rolling Stone has become an uncredible/laughable rag!
I love Girltalk but most of this is crap.
Sorry, fucking lame ass list.
Katy Perry where are u girl…………………hot n cold and i kissed a girl are just fab!!!
Re: Master Patrick Berlin – he hates us too.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Where is Jason Mraz?????
WHERE IS SLIPNOT AND THE TREWS!!!!!!!!!!!!
And why the fuck isnt AC/DC higher on the list??
WHAT ABOUT DISTURBED!!!!!!!!!!!
BRITNEY SPEARS?!!?!?!
WTF M A N
Kaiser chiefs and raconteurs but no Killers?!
or will they be on next years list…they should be.
yaa taylor beat jb
where's katy.?
WHERE THE FUCK IS MADONNA ???????
This is CRAP…..
Who the hell is TV on the Radio or is it Dear Science ??
and who the hell is No Age: Nouns ??
Re: harrybalsac – SIT ON MY FACE
Re: mama of 2 – Hey mama!
They have Jonas Brothers on there. That makes their opinion completely void.
I completely agree with this list, but Raconteurs should have been way higher.
And Day and Age will be on next year.
Where the fuck is Oasis' "Dig Out Your Soul".
Rolling Stone sucks. I'm surprised that they didn't put the Jonas Brothers at number 1.
WTF? I haven't even heard of most of those people!
The acaddemy is… totally deserves to be on that list
I am very intrigued with this list ..some of them were kinda surprising but awesome list.
NO T-PAIN! Someones gittin' a fist…
fresh
They need much younger Editors over there.
don't have a single one of these albums…
im glad Madonna didnt make it, that album sucked.
I liked janet's "Discipline"
OK, this is a joke right? Perez, you're being Punk'd! Jones Brothers! No way! It's got to be a joke.
KANYE'S ALBUM SHOULD HAVE MADE THE TOP 10
TYPICAL AMERICANS, THEY KNOW FUCK ALL ABOUT INOVATIVE MUSIC.
THE GUARDIAN, THE TIMES, THE OBSERVER AND EVEN THE TELEGRAPH HAVE GIVEN KANYE'S ALBUM THE THUMBS UP.
WAKE UP PEOPLE AND STOP LISTENING TO SHIT MUSIC.
THE FUTURE IS NOW!
Re: tarantino112 – I DO!!!!!!
never heard of #1
k
In addition to only knowing about 40% of the artists, I have only have ever heard promoted on TV-Print-Radio 6 out of the 50 albumns…. so this is definitely complete BS.
UNDER PERFORMER ON THE LIST (goes to) :
Interestingly KINGS OF LEON are the US's biggest success story on the International scene this year (In UK/Ireland, Europe & Australia & NZ).
BIGGEST SUPRISE on the list goes to :
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Re: Shakermaker – TOTALLY AGREE, DIG OUT YOUR SOULS IS ACE.
OASIS RULE.
Re: Big Black Dick – LOL!
typical. one woman in the top ten. rollingstone is and always will be totally sexist towards women in music. santagold should be higher than 6.
Yeah they fucking rule!!!,happy that they got number one not happy that jo hos are on that list.
I LOVE TV ON THE RADIO!!!
yay for them!!
Where are the Sammies? "Sandwich" is an amazing album.
The Jonas Brothers being on that list is a JOKE.
Natasha Bedingfield was robbed!
the fact that chinese democracy is even on the list makes the whole thing laughable. That album was crap, actually, it gave crap a bad name, even if you're a fan of crap that album was still no good.
taylor!
Tell me they are joking! What's this? Joke?
so happy TV on the radio got the number one spot. amazing album…even better band. never heard of them? get out of the teeny bopper mainstream world and actually listen to some music…..!
"The Academy Is…" really? Innersting…
Re: TomCruiseInBed – TV on the radio is amazing!!! and their album is dear science. download it. educate yourself. it's actual MUSIC!
No Miley???
Wow. Be Your Own Pet made the list?
Re: popculture – wow, nice myspace picture there..
No Madonna, no Katy Perry, no LadyGaga….hooooooray ! but where is Jamie Lidell, where are The Ting Tings ?
the JONAS BROTHERS? what. the. fuck.
Tv On the Radio and Girl Talk have been going back and forth atm as my favorite albums of the year, both so different yet amazing in their own ways, but from an actual artist made perspective, I'd have to agree with Dear Science clearly being the best.
I don't agree with For Emma, Forever Ago being so low though, I can see a few albums on there that it should have been above.
The only major crime I'm noticing is that the Jonas Brothers beat out the Raconteurs.
Re: MELiCiOUS! – Ok , but I didn't wipe so good…
Where is Death Cab's "Narrow Stairs?!" That's a great album.
Waaaait wait wait. I didn't notice until just now because I think my brain refused to process it, but- is that Metallica? And Guns n Roses? God help us….
Metallica #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #9's not so bad tho ;p the rest is shit, period……….