SO PUT THEM ON THE EFFING COVER ALREADY!

Where’s Gaslight Anthem?
Paul Westerberg?
Counting Crows?
But the Jonas Brothers get on the list. You guys make me sick.

Wow, not including Jenny Lewis seems like a shock to me

Acid Tongue was a huge disappointment compared to Jenny’s previous releases.

The Gaslight Anthem should be on the top of everyone’s list but all music press are leaving them out.

wtf?
taylor swift?
are you fricken kidding me?
okay, now putting on her on the list is just plain maddness.

Love the fact that my favorite cd of the year is the RS top album of the year. Also appreciate that The Magnetic Fields got some love, but why are R.E.M., The Raveonettes, Robyn, Los Campesinos! and PORTISHEAD not on this list!?

the new James album “hey ma” is pretty good…but i guess rs doesnt like them.

Dr. Dog deserves some cred too. The album Fate is incredible.

Agree with Abe. Dr. Dog is the jam. Decent list over all, but the Jonas Bros? Seriously? Way to sell your soul RS.

Wheres:

Death Cab for cutie – Narrow Stairs
Bloc Party – Intimacy
Ray Lamontagne – Gossip in the grain
Elbow – The Seldom seen kid
Rise against – Appeal to reason
Mars Volta – The bedlam in goliath
and many MANY more….

Goodbye Rolling Stone

OK, if TV on the Radio is top record, and that’s fine, why not more coverage throughout the year? This feels like last year’s MIA of, “Let’s look relevant even if we kind of missed the boat on writing more about this artist.” This is why this list is such a sham. Well, one of the reasons. Another is the Jonas Bros. appearing, yet no Death Cab. Remember your glory years? GnR at 12? Wow. A travesty of a list.

What WAS the credential for these?

I agree. GNR is in top 5 easily.

An yet again, another Rolling Stone lists that completely sucks ass…

I remember when rolling stone at least made an attempt (a small attempt) to be somewhat informed in its reviews. In fact, rs used to put aside the delusion that everyone else existed because of rs instead of the reverse.
further, the saving grace of rs in those days though (unlike today in rs) was that even though most of those rs reviews were done by rs staff whose heads had spent more than an overdose amount of time stuck firmly up their own ass breathing in the toxic fumes of their own biological excrement factory, there was the occasional sortie outside to relatively clean air whereby in that environment they would write a review that seemed to say, ‘’For this review I have taken my head out of my ass to stop and smell the roses instead of my own sh#*!’’
Such a review was rare but it did occur…unlike today where it does not occur at all.
Sadly, these days, all rs staff spends 100% of their time up their own ass hooked on the smell of their own sh#*!
The rs reviews these days, much in keeping with rs overall, are the equivalent of a sewage farm that has burst its banks and is now polluting the environment.

I haven’t bought RS since 1994 because they turned into ttl sht. Now I see that they are still ttl sht.

So… no Kanye…

Not even on the top 100 singles?

Not Stronger, not Good Life, Not Love Lockdown, Not Heartless? Really?

Bloc Party’s Intimacy was my Favorite Cd this year second to Dear Science. Is not even on the muthafuckin list! But really taylor swift lonas bros hella Wack.

Are your Music Reviewers/Critics tone deaf or just plain deaf??? What is with this Top 50 Albums of 2008 list. 80% of it is CRAAAAAAAAAP!!

What happened to real freakin music? Who listens to this shit? Better yet…who buys this shit? Bands like Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Vampire Weekend….it’s nothing. Maybe the only reason people & the Rolling Stone reviewers/critics like this stuff is because of the names of the bands sound cool/hip!!!! I’m shocked that Jackson Browne & AC/DC & Metallica are even included in the same Top 50 as all this other amatuerish, mediocre slop. There..that’s my review of your 2008 Top 50 Albums List…Roy Gray

Are you people listenting to yourselves? Half of you are saying “Your opinion is wrong and mine is right”. This is Rolling Stone’s OPINION. I’m sorry if it’s hard for you to accept that not everyone will have the same taste as you and be just like you. If you don’t like the list, who fucking cares? Don’t just sit here bitch about it. If you really want, you can make your own fucking list. Yeah, I don’t totally agree with this list (such as allowing the Jonas Brothers on it) but overall I think it’s pretty good. And it doesn’t matter anyways cause it’s just an opinion.

tExKEE