no pinback? and M.I.A. is horrible

Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon made the list. Wow! I have renewed faith, lol. Not an easy album, not commercial, but definitely one of the best albums in a long long time, and one of my favorite albums of all time. It just keeps getting better… (in fact, Banhart has written more songs in three albums that I can’t live without than most artists in their entire career).

1.Yours Truely, Angry Mob
2.Year Zero
3.Neon Bible

Also used to love Radionhead but In Rainbows is 3 amazing songs and the rest is a total shambles.

Am I wrong, or did they fail to put Era Vulgaris on this list? And if so, why am I subscribed to this magazine?

To quote Paul Simon: “I’ve been slandered and libeled/I’ve heard words that I’ve never read in the Bible”. Christ! I get personally insulted for saying I didn’t like Radiohead’s last album. Then I get personally insulted for liking a Radiohead song. I don’t care if you disagree with me. I’m not so insecure that I can’t handle people not walking in perfect goosestep with my music preferences. Obviously, there are some people, mainly Radiohead fans, can’t appropriately relate to other people who disagrees with them. To all the people who insulted me in this thread, I feel sorry for you. You obviously live such empty lives that you take something like differing musical preferences personally.

Anyone who still thinks creep was a good song is a dumbass douchebag…thought i would say that.

Come Onnnn, u guys always disappoint when yall rep Hip hop, y is it always jay-z THIS or Jay-z THAT? American Gangster is great but its NOT the best hip hop album of the year, Jay may be popular, but his new album is nowhere near as Good as K-os’ Atlantis, Pharoahe Monch’s Desire, or Public Enemy’s How you sell Soul (where were yall on that one). Eardrum, is another that was a standout. These deserve top ten.
Come on and rep hip hop properly, or u will lose even more ppl reading your mag.

no one mentioned the new K Kerns cd . it is trancendant. you posers probably are clueless about it,but no matter it will over run all in it’s path soon.

1.) “In Rainbows” - Radiohead
2.) “Sky Blue Sky” - Wilco
3.) “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank” - Modest Mouse
4.) “Icky Thump” - The White Stripes
5.) “Kala” - M.I.A.
6.) “Era Vulgaris” - QOTSA……

Round out the rest as you see fit. But know that the Pumpkins’ “Zeitgeist” should be up around #42. Hell, I’d even go as low as #29.

keep it real

1 Disraeli Gears
2 Electric Ladyland
3 D israel i G ears
4 ElEctrIc lAdylAnd
5 DiSRaeLi GeaRS
6 El eCtriC Ladyla nd
7 Disraeli GEARS
8 eLECTRIC lADYLAND
9 Dis rae li Gear s
10 E lec tric La dy land

glad i could clear this up. now all you can sleep with ease.

It was a pretty solid list. MIA was dead on. Rilo Kiley’s mainstream debut didn’t belong at #8 even though it was a really catchy album. Lily Allen deserved better and so did Feist. Where’s Bedouin Soundclash though? And the Hip Hop albums picked for this list are terrible aside from most of the list. It’s an insult to Hip Hop heads. For starters Jay Z at #3 and Lil Wayne at #27? Here’s a list of 5 better hip hop albums:
1.Blu and Exile Below the Heavens
2.K-os Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
3.Pharoahe Monche desire
4.Buck 65 Situation
5.Lupe Fiasco the Cool
Common and Kanye were placed acoordingly. And Talib’s Eardrum shouldn’t have been on the list so RS got that right. It was the worst of his career. And stop giving so much props to Jay-Z. He’s good but not worth the praise he receives.

Feist should have been closer to the top of the list. MIA as #1 is dead on. I think Lily Allen deserved more props. Rilo Kiley ’s mainstream debut shouldn’t have been so high. And I don’t know how you can list Jay-Z as #3 and Lil Wayne at #27? Was this year in hip hop that bad? Where’s Monche’s Desire, Blu and Exile’s Below the Heavens, K-os’Atlantis: Hymns for Disco and Kweli’s Eardrum(actually I take Eardrum back)? i would mention Lupe’s the Cool but I haven’t listened to it yet. The lack of conscious hip hop is an insult to hip hop heads. And Britney’s album does DESERVE to be here.

I’m shocked to see America not celebrating its greatest band, THE SHINS, they made a perfect album in 2007 (great American music also forgotten: NY’s BLONDE REDHEAD and LIARS, New Jersey’s DäLEK, and MENOMENA)… And horrified to see the worst of 2007 in RS’s top 50 (Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Out Boy, Devendra, Linkin Park, Maroon 5…).

Blackout was a really good record, it’s nothing like her previous ones and for once, she’s done something different. She didn’t go for the tacky teen-pop she did before, it’s all just a techno-pop album where no songs sound alike. It seems like the most effed up people are the most brilliant. Yeah, she didn’t write or produce it, but she knew what she was doing.

I’m pretty sure JP is mildly retarded.

1. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
2. Magic - Bruce Springsteen
3. John Fogerty - Revival
4. White Stripes - Icky Thump
5. Steve Earle - Washington St. Serenade
6. Black Francis - Blue Finger
7. Bruce Springsteen - Live In Dublin
8. Led Zeppelin - Live In London (boot)
9. Fountains Of Wayne - Traffic & Weather
10.The Police - Live In RIO 2007(import)

Wild Card - The Smithereens - Meet The Smithereens

Dead-on choice with M.I.A. on the top slot. Kala is indeed album of the year.

Radiohead is a great band but The White Stripes are better.

1. Icky Thump (The white stripes)
2. Magic (Bruce Springsteen)
3. In Rainbows (Radiohead)

“Creep” era Radiohead was very very bad pseudo-grunge, maybe only Bush being a worse fake grunge band (love those tennis shorts and $1,000 sunglasses Gavin or whatever your fucking name is). In Rainbows Radio Head is very very bad Yes pseudo-prog rock which yes kids, was the worst form of rock EVER. Worse than 80’s hair metal ? Yes. Worse than boy bands ? Yes, it was. How people can adore that lazy eyed hobbit Thom, lol, lord, it’s very entertaining.

JP, you just lost all your fucking credit, and I mean ALL of your credit by putting fucking Cowboy Troy in your top 5 albums. If you had any musical taste at all you would realize he is nothing but an insignificant piece of shit that will never, never EVER have even a spec of talent.

OK, this is the last post defending my position on Radiohead. I think it’s a simple matter of liking prog. rock or not. To me, prog. rock is much of mindless studio doodling meant to sound deeper than it really is. I perfer straight ahead rock songs that are simple, yet connects to the emotional truth that they are trying to convey. Bands like U2 and Green Day.

Also, Radiohead fans are not doing the band any favors by declaring everything they do as brilliant. You guys are like “Captain Awesome” from the TV show “Chuck”. If everything they do is “Awesome!”, then by that logic everything they have done has been average.

My Top 5 albums of ‘07
1. Lucinda Williams - West
2. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
3. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
4. Cowboy Troy - Black In The Saddle
5. Bettye LaVette - Scene Of The Crime

Lupe Fiasco presents “The Cool” is not in the top 25, what a joke. I saw Mia at Lolla this year and it was horrible, everyone in the crowd was just looking around like what is this?

“memory almost full”is one the best things I’ve heard this year,and I listen to A LOT of different types of music.Macca rules!

If you know ANYTHING about music, you cannot say that radiohead is “mediocre, average”- it is not a matter of opinion when it comes to this- listen to the song, “Reckoner,” nothing about that song can be found in AVERAGE bands, by average I am mean bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, even The Killers

In Rainbows is not an “average” collection of songs (other ex/ All I Need, Nude- not simple melodies or compositions, accessible yet soars in regards to being progressive, atmospheric with moody) and you may not like them, but that is what it is, an opinion-but dont downplay their ability as musicians, thats fallacious in the face of so much overwhelming opinion contrary to your assertions-

I dont like U2 or Green Day, but you must respect bands that can maintain longevity- many bands would kill to have an album like Ok Computer or The Bends!

taylor | 12/27/2007, 7:00 pm EST

i agree, JP is a moron. In Rainbows is sooo much better than Pablo Honey, The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Theif….people who don’t like to listen to music more than once to actually articulate the music just don’t get radiohead, and i used to be that person until i started hearing crap from all these horrible bands like paramore, and fall out boy, who try to be rock, but why can’t they just admit that they are pop…that is trying to be hardcore….
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I’m not going to call you a moron. Yet, your post makes absolutely no sense at all.

First of all, I actually listened to “In Rainbows” several times this year. I was bored senseless by the mediocrity of it. It wasn’t groundbreaking or revolutionary as fans claim it is. I give them credit trying to find a different way to sell albums in the digital age. Musically however, I still think they are just a barely average band who have rabid fans who like to insult people they disagree with.

Brittney Spears!! Did she even write any of the songs?

The new Neil Young acoustic album: Live At Massey Hall 1971. You should hear it.

Springsteen Album Magic is great ,Springsteen is in a class of is own.Going down as one of the greatest.

RS sucks. Britney Spears? Amy Winehouse? These people are tabloid fodder, whil Alicia Keys is a true musician who is focused on her art, not bulshit. And what about Rocco DeLuca? His album is nowhere to be seen.

Queens of the Stone Age anyone?

i agree, JP is a moron. In Rainbows is sooo much better than Pablo Honey, The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Theif….people who don’t like to listen to music more than once to actually articulate the music just don’t get radiohead, and i used to be that person until i started hearing crap from all these horrible bands like paramore, and fall out boy, who try to be rock, but why can’t they just admit that they are pop…that is trying to be hardcore….

PAUL F***ING MCCARTNEY???Are you insane?

lupe’s cd easily top 3…hes real hip hop like talib, common, nas, the roots, etc.

lupe fiasco is the shit. rs sucks

Kanye needs to off the list and gone forever. I dont care what his cd collection is like. He just samples and painfully attempts to rap over other peoples songs. unlistenable. Didnt we already go over all this with puffy??? How is kanye any different???

“Britney Spear’s album is Stellar.” Now I know the world is coming to an end.

Maybe Britney Spears’ album truly is one of the best of the year. Maybe compared to Jayz, Kanye, Fall Out Boy, and Nine Inch Nails etc Britney’s is one of the best.

There are people praising Britney Spears “Blackout” album. Yet, I’m a moron for not drinking the Radiohead Kool-Aid. Being musically and lyrically obtuse doesn’t make you a great artist. It’s not that I’ve never liked Radiohead. To me, they have always been riding on the success of one great song, “Creep”, and two good albums: “The Bends” and “OK Computer”. After getting absurdly rave responses for their worst song off of “OK Computer”, “Paranoid Android”, They started to make these awful prog. rock/techno albums which were more soundscapes than songs. What Joe Levy is saying, in so many words, is that Radiohead had scale back on their prog. rock/techno experiments and started playing songs again. Yet, the results sound like their first album. Which was full of mediocre filler with the exception of “Creep”.

Oh I think they just forgot Panda Bear’s “Person Pitch”

MODEST FUCKING MOUSE!

that filthy whore is lucky to be at 40

Amy Winehouse at number 40 is absolute bullshit. Her lifestyle has nothing to do with her music. The girl is nominated for Album of the Year, and will probably win. wtf?

JP | 12/21/2007, 4:56 pm EST

““In Rainbow” sounds like “Pablo Honey” without “Creep”.”

WTF? Are you kidding me? Somebody slap the shit out of this guy. damn.

In Rainbows really should have been #1 (even though MIA would be #3 after the arcade fire). The fact that they make BEAUTIFUL music (very few musicians can say that) that is also artistic and pushes the boundaries says enough. After all, who else but Raduiohead generates so much buzz instantly, the world was BUZZING about the new album. Surely that accounts for something.

And yeah rolling Stone, the fact that Fall Out Boy and Britney Spears made this list is retarded. Just so you know…it’s shit like that that made me cancel my subscription.

Where is Panda Bear? No mention of him or Animal Collective yet they put Devendra which is a terrible album. Very scattered countdown indeed.

This is a little ridiculous. INRAINBOWS was good but Year Zero is better! Also what the hell is that ga ga ga ga ga ga and Neon Bible album doing on there? The Arcade Fire’s first album was pretty impressive but Neon Bible was just slow and boring. I can’t argue with Kanye being on there since he is my favorite rapper but seriously Year Zero should be up in the top 5!

I’m still not sold on your #1 choice. The song that was playing on the background sounds like something from Alvin & The Chipmonks.

No matter, how much critical smoke blown up my ass about Radiohead and Kanye. I still think both of them are tremendously overrated. Radiohead is getting credit for acting like a rock band. Come on! They are a rock band. “In Rainbow” sounds like “Pablo Honey” without “Creep”. Which means that they are trying really hard to make bad music and succeeding. Rilo Kiley was a surprise to me on the list. Since it got a mediocre review from Rolling Stone earlier this year. I like the album, but I don’t think it was really top 10 material.

None of the albums in the top ten match what I think are the best album of the year. Even though, I am willing to check out LCD Soundsystem and Against Me! in the near future.

Ok, first of all, I hate to admit it, but “Blackout” IS one on the best albums of this year. Show another album with such great production. Actually, that’s not production: that’s engineering.

Anyway, I can’t understand how you forgot about Björk & Tori Amos.

Oh, but the RS included Fall Out Boy, so I assume that I’m the one who’s wrong in here…

WHERE IS LUPE??? i’m hoping the reason he doesn’t appear on this list is because his album dropped before it could be reviewed. But if that’s not a case, this list is a joke. The Cool is easily one the the best albums to come out in 2007.

No Costello Music by The Fratellis? Easily the best new band of the year! Should have beat Britney Spears, at least!

Hmmmm….no Tegan & Sara and no Kaiser Chiefs? No thank you, RS. No thank you.

Amen Felix-
Fall Out Boy, but not the National? Congrats Rolling Stone, you have officially jumped the shark.

where is the national?

really think icky thump should be higher then it is

Where is Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool!!!? You put Britney Spears at #50 but no Lupe Fiasco? I do like this album Britney released and I don’t even dig her previous work but this album is good but top 50 good?….NO WAY!!! Britney Spears and no Lupe Fiasco?…you have got to be kidding me!

How can people listen to britney spears??!!!! it’s not even meaningful music…..and look where her life has gotten her…i feel sorry for her…

No Kenna? Come guys, what are you listening to in your offices?

Does Joe Levy seem a little too smug to you?

Cool, I think I’ll give it a listen. She’s been through a lot, and I think I can take a chance for $14. I think she’s a woman who’s never had to think for herself. Now, she’s forced to grow because she has to do it on her.

I think she’s gonna come out on top and make a lot people look like jerks for dissing her for every little thing they see, every single day. Unlike Josh Groban she’s suffered. I think he’s a flash in a pan like Hootie and the Blowfish. I stick with Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, The Who, Led Zep till a good hard rock act finally breaks though.

I think she should cross over into hard rock. You don’t need the best pipes in the world to do it, and she can dump all the dancing stuff that she’s a little too old to do now! Josh Groban, Rest In Pieces, wuss!

Do not criticize Britney Spears’ new album “Blackout” without listening to it. This is her first record that I have bought, and it is STELLAR. It is incredible, innovative and downright progressive dance/pop music. Nothing like it out there. She deserves #1 on this list!

How in the fuck is Brittney Spears even NEAR this list, honestly? Just when you think Rolling Stone puts together an honest list, this ditch pig’s “album” is tacked to the bottom. Corpoate Bitches!!

How can Amy Winehouse be number 40. It has to be top 5.

Jay-Z, You have to be kidding me. That is not even music.

Kala was good, but I’m not sure I would put it at the top and you guys at Rolling Stone really need to stop sucking the dick of every musician you put on your cover. Both Bruce Springsteen and Jay Z, belong nowhere near the top ten nonetheless at two and three.

where the heck is modest mouse???

spit or swallow?