i havent heard it.

lollolololoolololol

who actually comments these things, and why?

Dylan’s latest album is a limp,dispassionate affair of colossal proportions.The greatness of his last 2 albums obviously got to his head(a common problem in his career),and the high praise showered on “Modern Times” is only given so, because everyone is to blindsided by his prestige.

I completely agree with Collin. Much as I love Bob, and thought his last two albums were excellent, “Modern Times” felt lazy, dull, and often outright illegal. (Rolling and Tumbling, anyone?!)

Because, Dan, people have opinions.

Who puts a long series of ‘lol’*, and why?

*Especially when they’re comment was unnecessary and was not worthy of laughing out loud.

Thaough Modern Times was amazing and I’m not that into his musc.

Hmm.
Then I guess I’ll make a Squidoo page saying why “Modern Times” is number one.

I fell in love with this album and chose it as Mirr World’s #1 album of 2006 as well. It’s not too often I agree with Rolling Stone but stranger things have happened. Check out my Best of 2006 post here if you’re interested:

http://mirrworld.blogsp ot.co m

I also have posted the best blogs, concerts, albums, songs, YouTubes and movies from 2006.

Not sure what happened with the link…I’ll try it again

http://mirrworld.blogsp ot.com

And this is why I don’t post on RollingStone.com forums…lame.

I love Modern Times.

I don’t care what anyone says, Modern Times is his best in 30 years

hes talking about rock music thats going on

ooooooooooooooooo the irony shakesphere

This year in music was so bad, I decided to save my hard earned cash on women instead. Next year? Two words….Chinese Democracy.

Modern Times is the sound of a man recording farts and incoherent babble……….most overrated musician of all time

modern times IS the best album of the year

modern times at #1? really? not a bad record but not even close to the best this year. rolling stone is losing touch with the current music scene, if it hasn’t already lost it. darth vader,kiefer sutherland, and fergie (!?) on the cover? i thought it was a music mag!!!!!!!!!

As a person who swears by melodic rock music like The Beatles, They Might Be Giants and XTC, I just don’t get the insanity surrounding Dylan. I love Highway 61, Bringing It All Back Home, and many other individual songs, but I just don’t get the hoopla. Yes, his lyrics are great, but great lyrics alone doesn’t not equal great music. He just isn’t very melodic, so I can’t fully sink my teeth into everything he does.

Dylan is REALLY good, but I don’t think he’s up there with The Beatles.

And Modern Times bores the shit out of me. Love and Theft is much more listenable.

no need to post my favorite, because I agree with Rollingstone. Modern Times is the best album of 2006.

Bought it. It sucks. Album of the Year, by FAR, is Doves “Some Cities”, but like anyone at Rolling Stone would ever give a crap about them. Tired of your AUTOMATIC 5 Stars for every time Dylan or Neil Young take a crap in a studio.

I’m amazed no one else has actually MADE a page and taken RS up on this offer. Oh well here’s my submission:

http://www.squido o.com/rollingstone/beyourownpe t

Be Your Own Pet’s self-titled debut for RS’s Album of the Year! If you need anything else email me at johnbradley600@yahoo.com. Thanks and vote for me!

Hmm, what happened to my link? One more try

http://www.squidoo.com/ro llingstone/beyourownpet

There , that’s my submission! BYOP!

Okay, so it adds spaces when you push the post button but it’s just squidoo.com/rollingstone/beyou rownpet. Please check it out.

Modern Times is a major disappointment. Once again, the media hype and lies deceives people. 2006 hasn’t been a brilliant year.

Modern Times is probably slightly better than this posting, maybe

I agree that Modern Times is over-hyped. Don’t get me wrong, it is a good album and deserves to be in the top 10. But, it lacks the energy and spirit of Love and Theft, which was a much better album.

good album but no way the best of the year. For me it was the Arctic Monkeys, what people say i am is what im not. Not only are the lyrics superb but there’s also no bad songs on the album. I sumtimes feel only Dylan or the Beatles are allowed to make it to the top of a rs poll!

Where’s Neil Young’s “Living With War” or “Other Peoples Lives”, Ray Davies?

so rolling stone is going to let a bunch of idiots rob bob of his album of the year title? good call

I feel the album of the year shouldve been, either, Joanna Newsom “Y’s” or Hold Steady “Boys and Girl’s in a America” and the tracks of the year was an embarrasment, a bunch of shitty overplayed pop music and typical RS junk. GET SOME BALLS RS. I think i may have to abandon the magazine soon. There has been so many 3 star album reviews lately because your writers have no balls to say something sucks.

Nice Dylan review here:
http://www.vintagerock. com/classiceye/bd_modern.aspx

Nice Dylan review here:
http://www.vintagerock. com

I love Dylans snarly grizzled voice, and Modern Times is good but I think I like Love & Theft better.

Stadium Arcadium all the way

I say either Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers -or- The Information by Beck… those are the only two CDs that I can listen to all the way through with out skipping one.

Modern Times, wasn’t bad but I definitely think – Time out of Mind, Love and Theft, and Modern Times were-WAY overrated.

Heres a few albums that I think were some of the best disks this year
Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I am , Thats what I am not
TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
Regina Spector- Begin to Hope
Damien Rice- 9
Just a few of my pics.

The New Dylan is solid. Pearl Jam, RHCP, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah YEah Yeahs.

If anything’s overhyped its the Arctic Monkeys. I bought, and thoroughly enjoy the album, but it’s far from the year’s best album. Remember the Hives? Anyone?

And TV on the Radio?! The whole album is just them droning on and on. It’s like Ambien in music form.

Ultimately, I’d go with Regina Spektor, Butch Walker, the Dresden Dolls, the Decemberists or RHCP.

Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins-Rabbit Furcoat. Absolutley stunning. Nothing short of beautiful.

1) Return to Cookie Mountain – TV on the Radio
2) Boys and Girls in America – The Hold Steady
3) Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys
4) The Greatest – Cat Power
5) Okonokos – My Morning Jacket

i nominate modern times

i vote for sam’s town

1) Return to Cookie Mountain-TVOTR
2) Ys-Joanna Newsom
3) Modern Times-Bob Dylan

I love Modern Times, but definetaly Return to Cookie Mountain. Mmmm…it’s like a brain bath in water of soul.

comets on fire- avatar
did anyone here this album???

I admit that I haven’t even heard alot…the new Tom Waits, Grizzly Bear. But my list is just from everything Ive heard so far.

I don’t think you guys even put Josh Ritter’s “The Animal Years” on your 50 best list. Criminal.

Vic Thrill and the Saturn Missile
“Circus Of Enlightenment”

If you haven’t heard or seen them. Do.

Is no one else going to make a squidoo page? Am I the only one? *woohoo!*

http://www.squidoo.com/rolling stone/beyourownpet

My Pick:

http://www.squidoo.co m/rollingstone/albumoftheyear

http://www.squidoo.com/rolling stone/albumoftheyear

Not trying to be an unfair competitor, but wouldn’t it be cooler guys at RollingStone if you picked a new #1 album that wasn’t even IN your top 50 already (like BYOP). I mean, TV on the Radio will just have to move up a few spots. And you guys love Be Your Own PET – you’ve said so all year! So c’mon guys, let’s get crazy with our decisions here.

lp of the year….seek it out…you won’t be sorry:

WILLIE NILE-STREETS OF NEW YORK
WILLIE NILE-STREETS OF NEW YORK
WILLIE NILE-STREETS OF NEW YORK
WILLIE NILE-STREETS OF NEW YORK

if you love american rock and roll, great lyrics, it’s as good as it got this year…it’s like the best lp bruce springsteen never made…a masterpiece. if you have xm radio and listen to deep tracks you’ve probably heard some of this….

I can’t not listen to Dylan’s “Modern Times”.

Pearl Jam’s self titled is by far and away the best of 2006. Get real with yourself if you think fuckin bob dylan’s lame ass Modern Times, aka Rolling Stone kiss ass muah muah, is better. PJ is way more diverse and worth listening too.

Modern Times is overrATED BY ROLLING STONE LIKE ANY OTHER DYLAN ALBUM… this is simply a decent album at best where pearl jam and tool produce stellar albums, in particular pearl jam with their release of a meaningful album, front to back, full of straight rock

Oh shit, I made one, but figured you guys’d find yourselves. Don’t know why: http://www.squidoo.com/rolling stone/animalyears

http://www.squidoo.com/rolling stone/animalyears

That didn’t work, copy and paste it if you must.

Albums of 06′

1)The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers (Best live band around period)
2)The Strokes-First Impr. of Earth
3)YYY-Show Your Bones
4)Bob Dylan- Modern Times
5)Arctic Monkeys-Whatever people say I am…

MCR was pretty good, so was Gnarles Barkley. I just dont see the big deal with Pearl Jam, they must be good if they can still sell records after how many years, i just dont get the atraction to them.

The Beatles “LOVE”

Anybody out there looking forward to John Mellencamp’s new album “Freedom’s Road” — due out Jan. 23? I hear it’s fantastic. I can’t wait.

i think all you should know taht the album of the year belong to the artic monkeys!, c’mon don’t fool yr selfs!

i am very much looking forward to john mellencamp’s new cd. he’s been one of my faves since he added the ‘mellencamp’ for his UH-HUH record…

I don’t hate it, i find it to be too good to hate. Just I find it the lesser of his latest trilogy of comeback albums.

then again, I’m a guy who appreciates Self Portrait. So what do i know?

oh and i really thought that KT Tunstall’s Eye To The Telescope album shouldve made the top 50.

And that Wolfmother should’ve made some list for one of the worst. they suck, royally.

I mean most critics lampoon Jet for ripping off classic rock prototypes– and RS encourages Wolfmother who sucks about 20 times more.

My two bits, in defense of the Strokes, are here:

http://www.squidoo.com/ rollingstone/hellomynameisjuli anhijulian

Take a look.

I don’t have time for Squidoo, but I concur with the insanity that is the absence of the Strokes on the list… EASILY one of the best of the year

Don’t forget David Gilmour’s On an Island. The man can still sing at 60 and that guitar …

I agree with the former comment of RS needing to GET SOME BALLS!
It’s a given if Bob Dylan or The Rolling Stones put out a new album, instantaneously, they’re number 2 or 1. Thank God for Kanye for the number 1 spot on 2005’s list.

Thing is, Dylan’s new album isn’t that great. Sonic Youth’s new album is better, but it doesn’t deserve number one.
What we’re seeing is a great magazine only serve it’s best lists with major albums.

And Tool’s new album sucks ass and dick at the same time.

At least they had the balls to show some love to Ghostface Killah and Mastodon. Otherwise, this list just shows that RS has no balls and that this year wasn’t that great for music.

perception – The Doors

1.) Broken Boy Soldiers – The Raconteurs
2.) Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers
3.) Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys
4.) Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
5.) The Eraser – Thom Yorke

1. Todd Snider “The Devil Inside”
2. Bob Dylan “Modern Times”
3. Tool “10,000 Days” (would have been #1 if not for the unfortunate choice of “Wings For Marie” too early in the album.
4. Johnny Cash “Endless Highways”
5. Neil Young “Living With War”

get some taste:
1)joanna newsome
2)tv on the radio
3)grizzly bear
4)fujiya and miyagi
5)destroyer- rubies

Was Johnny Cash’s album in the top 50?

Album of the year:
TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain

Runner-up:
M. Ward – Post-War

I still can’t believe RS couldn’t find a place for M. Ward anywhere in their top 50 albums list. An embarassing oversight for the mag. Hell, even NPR managed to list the album at #4.

album of year!

out here all night – by my band Damone!!!!!

the Black keys and gov’t Mule released some excelent blues bases rock that seems to be overlooked by this mag. doesnt surprise me.

“I’m as pale as a ghost, holding a blossom on a stem. You ever see a ghost? No, but you have heard of them.” INCREDIBLE
If it ain’t broke…don’t break it.
Carry on Bobby,you’re still the best.

The biggest surprise is that Paul Simon’s “Surprise” wasn’t included in the top 10 much less top 50.

SAMS TOWN,THE KILLERS,IT’S A KILLER

I’ll take Yo La Tengo’s I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass at number one, with Tom Waits’ Orphans a close second. Below them, I’ve got the NY Dolls, Pearl Jam, and Knopfler/Harris’ All the Roadrunning. Bob makes my top ten, but just barely. RIP James Brown. RS.com, where’s your story on this? Why is this posted on Yahoo! before it’s posted here?

neil young crazy horse live at the
fillmore east.
soul coughing irresistable bliss
beatles white album

i couldnt think of good modern music.

everybody shut up about dylan
the album has a few great tunes on it and the tour prior was astounding.

i wonder if there will be a final JAMES BROWN lp….i just found out he died today…on XMAS!! what a bummer.

The best album of the year is The Who’s Endless Wire, an awesome Townshend/Daltrey masterpiece and hell of a comeback. They proved theyve still got it while touring with Ringos kid Zak on Drums, Townshends brother on backup vocals/guitar, and Pino Palladino on Bass. The tour kicked ass, and so did the album, keep rockin!

Come on guys… Give a little love for a bigger bang!!

sorry, but if you think 10,000 days sucks you might as well jump back off of the bandwagon

This was a lousy year for music. I liked My Morning Jacket’s live CD/DVD “Okonokos,” the new Pearl Jam and Lupe Fiasco’s LP (although the bootleg was better), but overall, this year sucked. And I’m one of the biggest Dylan fans I know (I’ve got about thirty albums, not including boxed sets, greatest hits, etc.), but the new one just left me cold. Both “Time Out of Mind” and “Love & Theft” were way better IMHO.

Dylan … Modern Times …. Modern times is the best album of modern times …. you figure out what that means!!!

call me crazy but i say beck – the information

Muse gets no love around here (from this mag) yet they play stadiums in the UK.

My tops include:

Muse
The Rapture
Tool
Thom Yorke
Gnarls
Ratatat
Strokes
R HCP
MSTRKRFT
Beatles
Slayer

RHCP-”Stadium Arcadium”

-or-

Beck-”The Information”

I liked the list of rollingstone! But i am afraid that i am with drawing my subscription do to the fact who ever put the list together is a nimrod? Why you ask?Because the best album of the year wasnt on the list! You could of put it dead last on the list i wouldnt of cared but not to put it on the list at all is CRAZY! and i am talking about gnarls barley! For god sake you put lil wayne and bird man on the list but not them! Who ever made that list they all need to be fired and go work at spin!

THE BLACK CROWES FREAK AND ROLL BABY!

Zimmy is still tops. Modern Times rocks like a monkey!!!

Dylan, as David Bowie so eloquently put it, has “a voice like sand and glue”! Modern Times is not very good, don’t get the hype.