bad list

love the song paint it black

Seriously?!? Nowhere on this list are Aesop Rock’s “None Shall Pass” or El-P’s “I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead”? Those were two seriously stellar hip hop albums from 2007. Brother Ali’s “The Undisputed Truth” and Canibus’s “For Whom The Beat Tolls” also deserve mention before (ugh!) Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, and even Kanye. Record sales are not necessarily an indication of quality in hip hop…

This list is a joke. Amy deserves better! But what’s with all the Fall Out Boy bashing? Their new ablum is different but it’s by no means bad. It definately deserves to be there.

What a joke. While a few of these albums deserve to be on this list, it is obvious that a good 20% of the selections chosen were chosen only for the “wah??” factor.

I mean, c’mon. MIA at #1? #1?? Winehouse being near the bottom? Britney spears is still being called a musician?

This list is just a complete bad list. they are forgeting about alot of the better albums and why is people like alicia keys and amy winehouse at the bottom? Rihanna’s album is very nice ass well. this list is s dunce.

Barely any Timbaland. Feist shoulda been higher. Where’s CHROMEO?!?!

this list maybe the worst list ever. How could you not have Lupe Fiasco’s THECOOL at #1. Lupe should be hailed the new RAKIM. He is True hiphop

i agree Lupe’s THECOOL is the best of 2007 . Lupe is the true hiphop

Lupe=TheCOOL=the best of 2007

This lsit is garbage, How did MIA get #1, its garbage, Lupe Fiasco’s The COOL, should have been #1. Every track on that cd is dope. Lupe is the true new Hiphop.

Next time you make a top 50 list, learn to include someone that knows about Hard Rock and Metal. No Nightwish? Coheed and Cambria? Shadows Fall? The fact that you didn’t even mention the Dethklok album tells me that your list was completely uninspired.

The fact that you completely failed to mention these genres (Don’t even say Nine Inch Nails—Year Zero was totally substandard for Reznor) tells me how ignorant RS really is about music.

ST

no modest mouse? is this even a real magazine

Have any of you even listened to Britney Spears’ album? Sure, her life is a big screw up, but the record is actually very very good with no fillers, every song is excellent. I even personally think that it deserved a higher ranking. Agree with the others on the WTFness of Fall Out Boy’s inclusion.

Ryan Adams’s “Easy Tiger” Probably should have been included. Kinski’s “Down Below It’s Chaos” ABSOLUTELY should have been included.

I think that list that may be the biggest joke of the year. I think it shows how out of touch rolling stone is to music nowadays. How many cookie cutter pop acts and same sounding indie rock bands were there on that list? Too many, not to mention that putting Kayne West’s album in the top five is a crime as it is by far the worst of all his albums. To me it looks like a bit of payola to bands that really are not that groundbreaking, yet get insane amounts of coverage and accolades even though there albums were boring,( I’m looking at you Arcade Fire and Spoon). The list is basically full of popular music, not good music.

Fallout Boy and Brittney Spears? my 13 year old sister could have made a more intelligent and thoughtful list

wouldve liked to see:
-Pharoahe Monch- Desire (best hip hop album of the year … sorry, Jay-z)
-Ryan Adams
-Modest Mouse
-Soulsavers
and maybe some others that i can’t think of right now

the order of the one’s chosen is way off. MIA is great and all but come on.

no RUSH???

Come on guys, GET A CLUE!!!

YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF IDIOTS FOR RANKING MURPHYS AND BRITNEY SPEARS OVER RYAN ADAMS.

It’s a shame Gavin Castleton’s For the Love of Pete and A Bullet, A Lever, a Key aren’t the list. Most solid releases in a while.

I’m a big Radiohead fan and i can admit that there were other cds released this year that were better. My favorite is The Boxer by the National.

This is not a horrible list, which really isn’t saying alot.
WHERE’S THE NATIONAL?! WHERE’S QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE?! WHERE’S THE SHINS?! WHY IS WILCO RANKED SO FREAKIN’ LOW?!
Okay so I got that off my chest. Other than that, I give you guys thumbs up for placing Spoon & Against Me! in the top 10. Good calls. Though I’m a little iffy on Arcade Fire at #4… I myself woulda put it on this list… but #4?

I can’t believe how bad that list is. MIA’s album, while sounding cool, is terrible–she couldn’t rap christmas presents. And warbling ‘Where is my mind?’ off-key? There’s a difference between paying homage and stealing cos you can’t create by yourself.

And Bruce at 2? I love the Boss, but this album–along with 1/2 the top 10, is mediocre at best.\\
Also, there’s little that’s agressive about Radiohead’s album, besides the crappy and misplaced bodysnatchers.

Don’t understand why Winehouse is below Lily Allen. Back to Black is a seriously good record.

Other than that, not a bad list overall.

Come On… LInkin Park????!!! Britney Spears!!!!!???????

M.I.A, it that that HORRIBLE music they play between shows on MTV? If so, they they are not on my top 10,000 for this year.

Best record of 2007 - Sky Blue Sky, no question

2007 would be the year that I liked the least ammount of new music since 1981 when I started to buy music (OK I’m old)

Springsteen, Fogerty, Wilco, Fountians Of Wayne, Bruce….hmmmm

I liked Ozzy’s Single, Foo Fighters single…hmmmm

White Stripes CD was less good than the one before but a good disc….

…..Robert Plant’s new one is kinda dull but has it’s moments..

….McCartney’s disc is decent

Wow, what a lame music year!

Granted, much of the fun in best-of-the-year lists comes from the discussion/arguing/complaining that follows. But I honestly feel like this list– above all else– is just trying to be annoying. If I’m understanding correctly, Linkin Park, Miranda Lambert, and Chris Brown all put out better albums this year than Wilco. Really? Britney Spears and Nickelback round out your two “Top of 2007″ lists? Really.

It would be more fun to complain if I felt like these lists were actually put together in a serious manner, with the editors honest opinions. The top 10 are pretty solid, and there’s a ton a great music spread throughout the list. But the order is crazy, and too many mediocre-to-poor albums are scattered in between the better choices. I appreciate you all leaving The Shins and Modest Mouse off the top albums list, because they didn’t belong. But some obvious absences are:

Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew - Spirit If…
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Queens of the Stoneage - Era Vulgaris
The National - Boxer

Surely one of those could have slid into that last spot ahead of Britney Spears in an honest, best-of list. So please, I’m begging you, do us all a favor, and leave the crap off the lists next year. There’s plenty of good stuff to go around, and it’s much more fun to argue about.

I have been a radiohead fan for a while now, and In Rainbows is AMAZING, and sure, no radiohead album is loved by everyone, but this album is just so amazing, and beautiful, and thom’s voice is soooo beautiful. First time i heard it, and even now, i get chills…

one of the best albums and band in the history of music.

In Rainbows really insn’t great.
The album became more about how it was sold than the music which is unlistenable at best.

queens of the stone age and modest mouse were on your readers top poll. not britney spears or fall out boy or any of those worthless people.

your reader’s interests are eslewhere. you should listen to them more often. maybe this is why rolling stone isn’t the magazine that it used to be.

britney spears?

seriously.

I’m just a bit more confused about the order than the actual picks……on a sidenote- i just don’t get lcd soundsystem. i have listened to the new album over and over again but i don’t understand what people find so amazing about the music. What makes them so good to people?

Totally agree with MIA being up there (perhaps not as # 1 though) along with Les Savy Fav and LCD Soundsystem but I’m very surprised to see Amy Winehouse at # 40? Amy’s CD should be top 10 material. LCD’s “Sound of Silver” should be in the Top 3.

Also for all you indie rock fans out there, the CD by Blonde Redhead titled “23″ should definitely be in the Top 5 (that’s my # 1 album of 2007). Jenny Eliscu should have contributed to this list.

A little surprised to see that Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild album is not on this list. Top 5 album of ‘07 to me.