Weezer fans are way too forgiving. The Red Album is awful. Modern Guilt and The Slip are great.

Oh yeah!
Get a load of our awesomeness fellow Victims, we got Day & Age to the top!

i would have put folklore and superstition by black stone cherry, and the illusion of progress by staind on there

1. Black Keys – Attack and Release
2. Ryan Adams – Cardinology
3. Kings of Leon – Only By the Night
4. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
5. Metallica – Death Magnetic
6. Beck – Modern Guilt
7. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
8. Hacienda – Loud is The Night
9. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
10. GNR – Chineese Democracy

woo killers

I WANNA NEW DAY & AGEEE!

YESSSSSS!

This list is way better than what R.S. came up with for best of ‘08.

Sweet!! Justice is served fellow Victims!!!!!

Wow, Rolling Stone readers are stupid as hell. That top 5 is so god awful it blinds me. The only respectable album in that top 5 is MGMT and even that isn’t a top 20 album.

P.S. Day and Age is so bad Helen Keller would cover her ears when she heard it.

Where’s bloc party intimacy

The actual Top 50 in the magazine is a lot better then this dreck. Honestly, what are all these fan sites trying to prove by getting all their members to go out and vote like this? I just don’t see the point.

Anyway, my favorite album of the year was Untitled, the Nas album.

The Killers, R U Seriouse?! They need to go back and get influenced by Hot Fuss instead of all the other crap they have churned out. Saw Dust was better than this!
And atleast the readers put DC4C on there list.

The killers are just terrible.

day & age the best album

MGMT is like listening to monkeys vomit.

There’s nothing out there like Chinese Democracy right now. Such a great album and far ahead of its time. TVOTR and MMJ are good too.

Umm bad joke ChiliPepper.

Good job Killers- so far Day & Age has been pretty ignored in year-end lists. I think it’s actually quite an impressive and fun record.

The Killers rock, dude!

Guns N’ Roses – Chinese Democracy Rocks!!!

The Mars Volta destroys you all.

The Mars Volta destroys all of you.

Awesome! I love the killers and Day & Age is a masterpiece as all the albums of The Killers!!

The Mars Volta will burn down all your homes.

Honestly the only albums that belong there from the top 20 are Lil Wayne, NIN, Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend, The Black Keys, My Morning Jacket and the amazing TVOTR album.

I seriously can’t get over how god awful The Killers are. Just because Brandon Flowers shaved that pitiful mustache doesn’t mean Day and Age is any better than the disgustingly bad Sam’s Town. I can’t respect any band in which the lead singer said that Sam’s Town would be “one of the best albums of the past 20 years.”

For all those fools who are saying that The Killers album Day & Age it’s terrible, crap etc, Im going to say to you that you are all ignorants about music and if you didn’t like the album is because your IQ is so low that you can coordinate and understand the beauty of the album Day & Age it’s just flawless and Marvellous!

How can MGMT be included? Oracular Spectacular was released in 2007.

Day and age should be on top of the Billboard 200. The album has sold only 260,000 copies…

Coldplay will have to give all of their cred to Satriani – bad news when an “artist” has to rip off another for a hit. Can you say Vanilla Ice?

Personally, I think When You Were Young and Read My Mind carried Sam’s Town to greatness.

Day & Age is even better, and a lot more expansive.

Don’t hate if you can’t create.

Welcome BACK to the jungle Axl!!

Chinese Democracy ROCKS!!

awesome!!

Greece loves G n’r

Chilipepper, everyone is entitled to their opinion whether YOU like it or not. True Killers fans can see the evolution of their music through their albums and to us Sam’s Town IS one of the best albums of the last 20 years – along with Day & Age, Hot Fuss and Sawdust. Music is subjective so get over yourself and quit ragging on us because we are fans. We have as much right to make our musical choices known as you do. I am so sick of the Killers fans being sterotyped as female teenage airheads. I am not, nor are many of the fans that I know. I am a 33 year-old college educated professional who has a broad variety of musical tastes and the reason I listen to their music has nothing to do with Brandon Flowers’ mustache. What kind of comment is that anyways?? What does that have to do with their music?? They are in fact an incredibly talented group of musicians who continue to deliver unique, genius music to their fans. If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it.

RS is feeling the wrath of The Killers now!

What? They couldn’t even put Day & Age in their top 100!

They have something against The Killers and it needs to stop before it gets further out of hand!

I don’t understand how a four star record like Narrow Stairs by Death Cab didn’t make RS’s list while an album like, say, The Academy Is…’s latest did with only three stars.

i didn’t dig the new killers album (loved the old 3)
and weezer red wasnt that bad; jus different

Anyone can say what they want about what I have to say. But I can’t stand people who are so quick to judge an album like Day&Age by the Killers. I am so sick of it!!! What makes an artist, band, writer good is the ability to change their musical direction. All of you trashing the Killers album have to room for change or experimentation. There is a beauty and true art to what bands like the killer do. If all you want is Hot Fuss then play it and stick to the same thing and don’t allow yourself to grow musically along with the band. Don’t call yourself a fan of the killers if you can’t step out your own realm every now and then. The same goes for Guns and Roses, everyone expected another Appetite for Destruction or Use Your Illusions. Well then, stick to that and just come to the conclusion that you are just not willing to accept that bands are and will change their style. If they don’t change, then you guys criticize them for sounding redundant and doing the same thing. So what is it that you want from the Killers, Guns N Roses, Kanye West, Death Cab for Cutie, Kings of Leon, etc… That’s what makes an artist, “change”, “experimentation”, stepping out of the ‘norm’, what ever norm or normal may be to you. Music is music. Music isn’t about repetitiveness and albums you heard 3,5,7 years ago. So grow up.

And it is not to say that no one is entitled to their opinion. Let me make this very clear. It’s okay that people don’t like the new Killers album. I don’t have a problem with that at all. I have a problem with people wanting the same of the same of the same. They want what they heard from Hot Fuss or what they previously done. That’s what bothers me. I also don’t like it when people are sooooo quick to make a judgement call on an album when they only played once, maybe twice. That’s not what buying an album is about. It took me to my third or fourth listen to fully appreciate the album. So give it another chance. If you still don’t like it, then fine, I can accept that. But at least go into with an open ear and the realization that this a “new” Killers album, not Hot Fuss Vol.2. That’s all

Day & Age was a horrible, horrible “album”. Disco meets drained… this album had 1 great song, and 1 good song… hardly counts as a great album.

Really? Those saxophone parts count as a good album?

I fear the future of this country when people could be so dumb as to think this is the #1 album of the year…

Oh wait, were all the voters under 18?

LAME!

TV on The Radio can take their early Genesis meets Big Audio Dynamite sound and go to hell with it too, I don’t GET this band at all… and Coldplay? Really? Is it just because U2 didn’t release an album this year that you have to LOVE Coldplay… Yes I am saying that they rip off U2…

This is a really ignorant list.

For the record: MGMT is WAYYYYYY overrated. Saw them live twice… the songs blend into each other… there are 4 good songs on that album, and it is a good album… but people need to back off the praise.

!!

the killers are good to your soul

How can anyone actually like Axl Rose’s new album (I refuse to call them Guns N Roses).
The album is lame and should not make a list of top 500 albums of the year. Why even give Axl the sense of achievement. Dude is one of the biggest dusch bags of our time.

How can anyone actually like Axl Rose’s new album (I refuse to call them Guns N Roses).
The album is lame and should not make a list of top 500 albums of the year. Why even give Axl the sense of achievement. Dude is one of the biggest dusch bags of our time.

Thanks for having my back Andy! You’re a STAR!!!!!!!!

Gotta give props to the fans who voted for the Verve – Forth. This is a great album and an awesome comeback for one of the best bands in the world.

Gotta give props to the fans who voted for the Verve – Forth. This is a great album and an awesome comeback for one of the best bands in the world.

My poop sounds better than Day & Age.

The new G n’R album is good but the original line up needs to get back together.

woo
go killers…
thats great…
the new album is so cool!…
i love it ..

This list is so much better than that piece of crap that Rolling Stone came up with.

wow, “death to the killers” is a huge douche bag. why don’t you enlighten us on what IS good music then, you fucking loser.

HAHA .. Day and Age isnt in RS top 100 albums … RS is a failure!

People need to chill and enjoy the music, regardless of their opinion of the artist. It’s the reason RS is so messed up. And Day and Age is awesome, and Helen Keller would feel the funky bass and start dancing.

so the best album won, wouldn’t have it any other way

Awesome! Right on top, were they deserve to be!

Victims, Victims!

WTH? Chinese Democracy should be #1

Love your voice Axl, Chinese Democracy rocks.

better song this year than “Sorry” on Chinese Democracy

Why ain’t Guns N’ Roses #1? Mind blowing and killer lyrics.

There you have guys!!
The Killers N°1!!!

1. The Killers, “Day & Age”
2. Lil’ Wayne, “Tha Carter III”
3. Vampire Weekend, “Vampire Weekend”
4. MGMT, “Oracular Spectacular”
5. Blitzen Trapper, “Furr”
6. Coldplay, “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends”
7. Santogold, “Santogold”
8. Death Cab For Cutie, “Narrow Stairs”
9. The Mars Volta, “Bedlam in Goliath”
10. Weezer, “The Red Album”

the killers rocks !
and the others q se jodan !
especially GnR
victims present

The killers day and age is absolutely, ridiculously good. Just listen a few times and you will agree. If not, maybe you just don’t get it.

britneys and beyonces new album should be somewhere on this list

britneys and beyonces new album should be somewhere on this list

britneys and beyonces new album should be somewhere on this list

I’ll just come out and say it: The Killers are the best currently active band in the world right now, with Coldplay a close contender. Day & Age is amazing. But props to Rolling Stone readers (but not its editors) for the other choices as well. There is some serious talent on that list. 2008 was a blast in music. Here’s to 2009!

Glad Day and Age made the top spot like it deserved.

Death cab for cutie’s narrow stairs should have been number 1. It was an amazing record every song was so raw and amazing . hope they win the grammy as well! Btw coldplays chances of winning the grammy are getting thinner due to the satriani contreversy

Wow, this list is way better than Rolling Stone’s!

My top 5:
1.Kings of Leon-Only by the Night
2.The Raconteurs-Consolers of the Lonely
3.Taylor Swift-Fearless
4.Nine Inch Nails-The Slip
5.The Killers-Day & Age

And I’m really glad to see The Verve voted in! It’s probably my #6!

chilipepper is awesome, he only likes what the editors of rolling stone recommend

I just dont understand why so many people like such a horrible band. the Killers are no good, give your collective heads a shake.

The Airborne Toxic Event is way better than almost every single one of the bands mentioned here on these lists. Go out and buy it and see what really good music is like. As for all the killers trashing – I used to love the Killers, but they kinda suck. They try waaaaay to hard to be the next U2 or the “worlds greatest band” and that ain’t gonna happen. These lists are always subjective and really mean nothing. Stop listening to the radio, stop watching MTV, and get out there and discover all kinds of GREAT music, not the usual crap that infests our daily lives. One more point – Although The Slip is NIN weakest album, after 20 years Trent Reznor proves that he really is THE MAN.

In Rainbows should be on this and RS’s list.

REO Speedwagons’ 1st album should be the Album of the Year…EVERY year. Everyone should stop recording music until they say it is ok to start recording again. This is REO Speedwagons’ world….everyone else is just living in it.

The Killers were ok…too.

Chinese Democracy higher than Death Magenetic? Oh, please.

Being disappointed by any Rolling Stone best-of list is like being surprised that the sun rises, so I won’t comment on my many qualms re: this list.

Having said that, I actually was stunned that Drive-by Truckers (no “The”) made the list. Well done! A great band that’s not mainstream or “indie mainstream” like, say, Fleet Foxes (which is not to say they’re not great as well) actually made the list.

By the way, “In Rainbows” is a fantastic album…but it came out in 2007.

I got to say the new killers album dissapointed, i’m a huge fan and was expecting more of the sams town vibe but could only get into three of the songs,Human,this is your life and neon tiger.Other than that they shouldn’t have used stuart price as a producer and stuck to the original formula.

Coldplay #2? WIMP ROCK RULES!!

This readers list of top albums is a perfect example of why The Rolling Stone is no longer considered a serious music industry publication anymore. Seriously, The Killers’ Day & Age as top album, LMAO. Never mind that POS rose squatted out to make a few bucks (think with all the time spent on it it would at least have a few tracks worth listening to). No list is some wish list by a bunch of twelve year olds.

take the blinders off. u so called music experts. Teenage Head featuring Marky Ramone was certainly the best CD(not album) released in 2008. Period.

i dunno if its cuz i’m from canada, but i’ve never heard of tv on the radio before, or a lot of these bands. but i am kinda surprised theres no theory of a deadman up there, there newest CD really does kick ass.

as for the killer hating, not gonna lie i don’t like their style now, but hey all bands change direction, and if their new stuff has evolved into something that the band feels is better, then it is. music is all about expression ppl

I thought the new Journey Album was great. Brought me back to the 70’s and 80’s when Rock Ruled.

Who choose G’n'Rs new ablum, its an indulgent mess of an album, made by a one of musics biggest jokes, why call it G’nR, it should be called the axl Rose experience or something

Have to agree with huh???where is bloc partys album, its a quality album and shows a band trying a new sound which should be appladed

Chinese Democracy should be number 1

what about Walter Becker’s new cd-
reggie babby

what about Walter Becker’s new cd-
reggie babby

“Accelerate” by R.E.M. should’ve been in the RS list!!!

I am surprised to see that Parker House and Theory’s first cd is nowhere to be found! It is a great record full of enthusiasm and intelligent music.

I agree with Kings of Leon in the top 5, and I would have been ok with the Killers somewhere in the top 10. But Chinese Democracy in the top 5? What have you people been smoking?? What a bloated waste of airspace, produced by a spoiled child of a man who ruined his own career. Death Magnetic should have been much higher on the list, and I’m shocked that AC/DC’s Black Ice didn’t even make it on this list. I’m pretty sure only teeny-boppers read this magazine…

LMAO LMAO KILLERS ALBUM FIRST HAHAHAHA

Its Awful, Go Buy Only By The Night and open your eyes America, Kings of Leon are amazing.

LMAO LMAO KILLERS ALBUM FIRST HAHAHAHA

Its Awful, Go Buy Only By The Night and open your eyes America, Kings of Leon are amazing.

WHAT??? No Shinedown on either list??? The Sound of Madness is the BEST ALBUM OF 2008.

Don’t believe me? Listen, then you will agree.

wow pretty much all these bands are terrible but then again most mainstream music sucks quit listening to the radio and mtv and find some music that is original and doesnt sound like every other band out there and can play more than 3 power chords

Chinese Democracy has to be one of the worst albums of the year. It never ceases to amze me how critics and some know nothing fans cum everytime Guns ‘n Roses are mentioned. This is not them – only Axl throwing shit at the walls.

Oasis? Give me a break. Metallica – irrelevant since the Black Album. What do they have to be so miserable about. Fakers.

lil’ wayne is highly overated. He is an average lyricist, with good beats. He really hasn’t done anything to influence hip hop in a positive, ground breaking fashion. All he is, is repetative commercial garbage. His only meaningful song on the cater 3 was “Tie my Hands.” While Dr.Cater was highly creative, Wanyne is very hypocritical in making such a track, for he is very much at fault for many of the flaws he describes with current rappers. Throughout the album he drops a few solid lines, but if you actually listen to the whole ablum, he is very inconsistent with his level of captivating lyricism. All Wayne is in terms of musical abililty, is an updated version of 50 cent, whereby he is the new kingpin of commercial hip hop. He is a decent POP entertainer at best, and no where near as good a RAPPER as he is made out to be. The fact the rolling stone ranked him so high, and that Nas’ Untitled was ranked so low is an embarrasment to all music, not just Hip Hop. I have no problem jamming to lil wayne at a club or party, but the fact that he is recieving such accolades is very questionable…STOP AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE LISTENING TO PEOPLE!!!!!

i’m a weezer fan, but i’m surprised more people aren’t complaining that red album made this list, considering their music peaked about 15 years ago

I’m sure most of you on here arn’t even old enough to understand who Axl Rose is. Ya he’s a fuckin dick, but he knows how to sing and knows how to produce music. Fuckin’ Genius!!!!!!!!!!

1. 808’s & Heartbreak
2. Day & Age
3. Evil Urges
4. Only By The Night
5. Viva La Vida

Much respect to the artists that made this list but when 30 Seconds To Mars releases a new album guarenteed it will blow every 2009 album out the water! Their songs are raw, captivating, and contagious; they’re still the best Alternative Band out. 30 STM for Life!

Much respect to the artists that made this list but when 30 Seconds To Mars releases a new album guarenteed it will blow every 2009 album out the water! Their songs are raw, captivating, and contagious; they’re still the best Alternative Band out. 30 STM for Life!

Much respect to the artists that made this list but when 30 Seconds To Mars releases a new album guarenteed it will blow every 2009 album out the water! Their songs are raw, captivating, and contagious; they’re still the best Alternative Band out. 30 STM for Life!

fuck off 30 sec to mars is rock band ..,,,,,,,,lol to your general knowledge

“I’m sure most of you on here arn’t even old enough to understand who Axl Rose is. Ya he’s a fuckin dick, but he knows how to sing and knows how to produce music. Fuckin’ Genius!!!!!!!!!!”

Hands down the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. The only thing that Axl is good at is being an aforementioned dick. Anyone that disrespects his fans the way he does deserves no recognition nor said fans. The album flopped for a reason. It’s a piece of crap (face it, he wiped his ass and turned it into this,) and nobody cares about Guns ‘N Roses anymore (although in reality it’s actually Axl and Friends.) If he had released this album 17 years ago when he was supposed to, he might’ve had a chance at holding onto the popularity he once held instead of pissing it away like the giant overinflated egomaniac he is. Anyone who would blindly follow Axl after all the shit he’s pulled deserves no respect themselves.

Little Joy’s debut deserves a spot on both lists.

I love the top 4 here, as well as Vampire Weekend. I also love that Weezer made it pretty high!

Anyone that does see that Metallica’s cd was not only one of this years 10 best but comback of the year!…does not know their music. welcome back! Metal Up Your Ass!

I can’t understand why music today is so weak. All I can figure is that taking music programs out of schools, and the advent of the computer condemned music as the premier art form in this country. So sad considering our almost 100 year reign as the kings and queens of cool.

Most don’t have a clue what constitutes good music…just what’s popular, it doesn’t mean it’s good. Metallica should have gone the way of Iron Maiden, retirement. As for AC/DC…redundent…damn you Bon Scott. The Killers…ever see them live, they suck, simply a studio band. And GnR ?????? Just trying to plug an album out there to make some coin…try this on for size..Satori Life, Planet Music…a band on the rise.

This is ages better than RS’s list (no Jonas Brothers is a start) but Mars Volta deserve to be way higher.

This is way too deep in the realm of jazz/metal to be noticed by Rolling Stone but I personally liked an album called Traced in Air by Cynic.

i dont know how the hell chinese retirement fund made any list

shinedowns sound of madness deserves way more respect than it gets. I think it should definitely be on the list

People that don’t listen to the radio because it’s too “commercial” better only listen to music they make themselves because every artist you listen to with a record deal or not is making money. Good music is good music no matter how many people know who they are. Are the Beatles bad because they’ve sold more albums than anyone? What about U2? Listen to music for what it’s worth, not so you can brag that you know an artist befor others.

Sorry.

Anyway my picks for album of the year

1. Be Your Own Pet- Get Awkward
2. Kanye West- 808s &Heartbreak
3. Santogold
4. Mars Volta- The Bedlam in Goliath
5. Bloc Party- Intimacy

how come there isnt any slipknot?
people dont give them enough credit.

wow. All these big bands ( of course ) are on the list that have been has beens for over 20 years. acdc? guns n roses? metallica? fucken terrible. Oasis clearly droped the best album of 08. Killers suck, they admit themselves that their biggest musical influence is OASIS and yet it gets more praise then their masters? puh-leaase. no one will remember the killers in 20 years, just wait and see.

I don’t understand how Death Cab for Cutie didn’t make either list… I think it may have to do with the fact that they aren’t really considered “mainstream”, but they deserve to be on at least one of the lists! I mean come on, Jonas Brothers made the official top 50! Wake up and listen to the music!

I’m kind of wondering where Theory of a Deadman are and Shinedown…??? I really like their style of music and think they are awesome. But I guess they decided to put music that isn’t very good on here instead of the good stuff. It seems to me though that lots of people are upset about this list.

YOU MEAN THE DEATHCAB THAT IS #12 ON THE LIST?

YEAH, IT’S A SHAME THEY DIDN’T MAKE IT!

YOU MEAN THE DEATHCAB THAT IS #12 ON THE LIST?

YEAH, IT’S A SHAME THEY DIDN’T MAKE IT!

YOU MEAN THE DEATHCAB THAT IS #12 ON THE LIST?

YEAH, IT’S A SHAME THEY DIDN’T MAKE IT!

Where the fuck is Accelerate by R.E.M., Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace by The Foo Fighters and Dark Horse by Nickelback?!?!? They were clearly the thre best mainstream rock albums of the year. Most people who rate this shit only listenh tho the fuckin’ singles and have their head too deep in shit to bother giving a few fucking dollars and minutes to acutually “BUY” an album for once.

Here the list of things that should not be included:

808s & Heartbreak
Day and Age
Red Album

Everything else I am okay with. An aquaintance of mine thinks Chinese Democracy is terrible, but I must disagree.

1)G’n'R – Chinese Democracy
2)Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
3)Coldplay – Viva La Vida

I can only laugh and shake my head every time I read someone say that bands like Shinedown, Staind, Britney, and Beyonce should be on the list.

Put down your TeenBeat and find some taste in music!

I think most of the list was ok. I don’t think the killers should be at number 1 and I think coldplay is rated to high and vampire weekend is rated to low and oasis should be in the top 10.

One album i think should be on this list is Electric arguments by the firemen (paul mccartney) Great album

I’m not too sure what RS has against The Killers, but it’s obvious that Day & Age has to fall within the top ten of any “albums of 2008″ list. The Killers put out an absolutely flawless record. I think RS is losing it’s relevance.

Chinese Democracy is clearly the best album of the year!!!
Deep down everybody knows it!!

It’s amazingly interesting how i started out poised that AC/DC was gonna win it all and then came weezer and the offspring (yeah they also put out an album this year) then came November
my vote:

THE KILLERS: DAY & AGE

I don’t understand why The Killers got snubbed, nor why they’re getting all this hate. They released a great album. Not the album of the year, but at least they have the balls, and the talent, to keep moving forward with their sound, structure, and writing. I’d advise haters to actually give the album a listen, and disgruntled Hot Fuss fans to do the same. There’s bits of all their albums in there, along with a lot of new.

I actually don’t get why any of this is getting criticized. It’s just music. If you don’t like it, listen to something else. There’s variety for a reason. The only exception is, of course, Slipknot, which we all know is absolutely terrible, and is more just sound than actual music. As a big metal fan, I have to say ‘lawlz, Slipknot’.

album is awful. They cannot write lyrics that make sense. “Are we human or are we dancer?” Enough said. That song makes no sense and is pseudo-intellectual garbage!

Love Chinese Democracy. Axl writes some awsome lyrics

Warpaint- The Black Crowes… I guess having feel in your music gets you left off both lists…

1) KINGS OF LEON
2) OFFSPRING
3) WEEZER
4) BECK
5) MARS VOLTA
6) DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

AND ALSO A REAL GREAT CD THE BLIND
MELON , FOR MY FRIENDS . GREAT COMEBACK CD NEW SINGER. BUT THEY KICKED HIM OUT OF THE BAND ?

I really prefer the Rolling Stone’s list. That one sucks so much ! The top 5 is…well, just shameful – how can the Black Keys be 20th when you’re supposed to talk about Rock ‘n Roll ?!! And where are the Black Crowes, Black Mountain and The Hold Steady ?!!

Chinese Democracy is the worst album I’ve ever heard…it’s laugh-out-loud bad during some of the intros. I really don’t see how people can enjoy anything on it other than “Better” and “Madagascar”…and this is coming from a longtime fan who truly truly wanted to like the record. I’ll never understand people who are defending this piece of musical garbage.

leave it to rolling stone fans to vote metallica as 14, coldplay! CMON!!!

A BIG BIG SHAME “the seldom seen kid” by Elbow is not in the list or neither mentioned above. It’s THE album of 2008!
BAH!

“the seldom seen kid”, by Elbow! Bless you!!!

The best thing about most of these comments is that majority of ppl dont realise that this is a “READERS” list.

I agree with some of each list. The real top 10 albums of the year.

1)Fleet Foxes – Self Titled
2)Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
3)The Black Keys – Attack & Release
4)The Pretenders – Break Up the Concrete
5)She & Him – Volume One
6)Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
7)Flight of the Conchords – Self Titled
8)Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarus Dig
9)My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
10)The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely

Honorable Mentions:

Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Santogold – Self Titled
R.E.M. – Accelerate
Ryan Adams – Cardinology
Beck – Modern Guilt
The Streets – Everything Is Borrowed

Oh, and I third “The Seldom Seen Kid” by Elbow as one of the best albums of the year!!

ok look… to the people who think the killers music does not make sense trust me you don’t know. open your mind to the sounds and the lyrics have more depth to them then any other band. well wow does it actually make you think? yes it does! it’s amazing, and the best part is everyone has thier own unique interpretation. It’s great!
If you haven’t already guessed… yes i am a Victim and i’m damn proud of it

The readers’ top 5 is purely a joke (I desperately hope so), err – where are the Black Crowes ? Black Mountain ? The Hold Steady ? guys, if it was a list for, well, I don’t know, something like MTV, I wouldn’t be here to comment. But come on dudes, it’s about ROCK ‘N ROLL !!! You disappoint me, I was here to escape from f**king european music (here what we call “rock” is actually electro, and you know, when they find a poor little low riff, they’re acting like fucking guitar heroes…well, ’so tired of being European) you have the luck to hear f**king great bands like My Morning Jacket or The Black Keys, and you put them as 7th and 20th – to make COLDPLAY (errr) THE 3RD ?!?!?!! Men, if you like that sh*t, come here and take my place, and I’ll go at yours and I’ll finally see Pearl Jam on tour (…you don’t know what it is to wait for them for years) !!

I think the list was more realistic considering what the mainstream audience was listening to. I’ll have to say though that I’m sad that “Pretty Odd” by Panic at the Disco wasn’t on there or that RS never acknowledges the band Noah and the Whale’s album Five Years Time. Both are great albums that deserve recognition somewhere. Fleet Foxes is great but i still feel they don’t really developed their own original sound unless you consider a cross between something like John Lennon and perhaps Simon and Garfunkel or Queen “NEW”. The Killers album is good not #1. Viva La Vida was just a cult hit because of Viva La Vida. however ‘Reign of Love’ i find personally to be a better song. anyways. this is to me an accurate “reader’s List”

If you can forget the hysteria surrounding the album and treat it as an Axl Rose solo album (which of course it is) it is pretty damn good. Catcher, Better, Sorry, Prostitute and TWAT are awesome songs. If you want AFD pt 2 forget it, but listen without prejudice and you’ll find plenty there. It’s hysterical how all the haters and self proclaimed hipsters constantly brand him as irrelevant but they can’t stop talking about him.

1) Dear Science by TV On The Radio

2) Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes

3) Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket

4) For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver

5) Furr by Blitzen Trapper

That is how it should be reader or critic on here.

WTF? wheres dig out your soul?? thats the best album of 08. second best album: Hold On Now, Youngster… (los campesinos)

i’m kinda surprised that a lot of the “remade” lists didn’t have the killers’ Day & Age in there. i think that their third album was definitely there best of albums, and deserve to be at least in the top ten. not necessarily number one, but at least be high. the killers really created an original sound in there third album, and was a great releaf to the fans from the compilation album that they released, sawdust.
in my opinion, top ten would be:
1. viva la vida – colplay
2. day and age – the killers
3. dear science – tv on the radio
4. only by the night – kings of leon
5. chinese democracy – guns and roses
6. modern guilt – beck
7. the slip – nine inch nails
8. tha carter III – Lil wayne
9. narrow stairs – death cab for cutie
10. 808 & heartbreak – kanye west

1. Opeth – Watershed

That’s all.

shocked by the list…quite better after i’ve seen the comments..!!!

Coldplay’s cd was amazing and is probably a top 5 album of the decade if not number 1. Oasis Dig out your soul is one of the best albums ive heard in years as well. A masterpiece. R.E.M accelerate was incredible. GNR album was downright terrible. I listened to it 6 times and it got worse each listen. Maybe 3 good songs the rest are fillers. This is coming from someone who owns all of GNR albums. Some of the lyrics were embarrasing.

All Hope is Gone!
— Slipknot

Hate on that!

Chinese Democracy. One of the greatest solo albums of all time. That is a compliment, not a put down.

where are my faves?

Electrelane, Firey Furnaces, Danielson and the best CD of the year … (I didn’t name them!) Fuck buttons. Perhaps the only band to really break any new ground and deliver amazing tracks… thanx,

peterchoyce at yahoo KXLU radio, LA

1. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
2. The Killers – Day & Age

Black Tide’s “Light From Above”-SURELY!? GNR? u gotta be kiddin me. u guys have no credibility whatsoever.

glad to see vampire weekend in there! kings of leon should be 2nd maybe and then it should be coldplay no1!!

chinese democracy is the best album on the list. the only one that deservis to be on there. i have cornrows. i dont like people. i am bipolar. fuck you!! i hate chinese democracy!

1. Whitesnake: Good To Be Bad
2. AC/DC: Black Ice
2. Guns n Roses: Chinese Democracy
That is all.

LMAO…

808’s and Heartbreak is handsdown the most influential album this year.

1. Kanye
2. Killers
3. Coldplay

I have to agree with the editor’s choice of TV on the Radio’s Dear Science as the best album of the year; an amazing, complex and wholly original masterpiece.

My top 5 would be:
1. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
2. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins
4. Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns
5. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight

Hey everyone, have you ever thought that maybe your musical taste isnt the same as everyone else and this list is just another set of opinions? so maybe shut up.

This list is far better than the 50 that the RS editors chose. FAR BETTER.

By the way, where’s Calexico – Carried to Dust? This is absurd. It’s probably one of THE best albums of 2008.

I’ll take

1. Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes)
2. Viva La Vida (Coldplay)
3. Hideaway (the weepies)
4. Accelerate (REM)
5. Narrow Stairs (Death Cab)

i believe the slip is the best album of the year. nin is probably the only band worth listening to these days imo. all the other wannabes need to learn a thing or two from trent. 30stm? try getting a reservation at dorsia now you stupid bast***

1.boston spaceships-brown submarine
2.fleet foxes-fleet foxes
3.boyracer-sunlight is the best antiseptic
4.vampire weekend-vampire weekend
5.no age-nouns
2008 top 5ive

My god what shitty music.

Metallic made a great metal album certainly not Ride the Lighting but very good.

AC/DC will always rock.

My Morning Jacket is pretty good.

Everything else, complete and utter shit.

yes!! the killers are #1!!

they deserve every bit of recognition for the master piece known as “Day and Age”

Chinese Democracy is the biggest pile of shit i have listened to this year. I’m pissed because Nine Inch Nails never gets enough respect for their outstanding musical talent…anyone who didn’t like The Slip can go hit a bridge!

In a serious Top 50 album list, R.E.M.’s accelerate should be in at least at the position number 10 (like in this Readers’ Top 30 ) but in the Rolling Stone Top 50 there is no trace of such a great album. So… I’m only wasting time here…

me and RS editors have no doubt that the best album of the year is from tv on the radio Dear Science!!!!

Coldplay’s album was total garbage. I would only listen to it if I was constipated.

The Mars Volta is one of the best bands ever.

(1.) TODD RUNDGREN – ARENA –’Arena’ proves Todd still has a lot of songwriting muscle and performance minded guitar chops. …. (2.) JEFF BECK – LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ CLUB – As impressive as any Jeff Beck fan would expect. …. (3.) STEVE WINWOOD – NINE LIVES – This is pop music with soul. Deeper and braver lyrically than anything he’s ever done. …. (4.) WALTER BECKER – CIRCUS MONEY – Becker lives up to his high self imposed standards with this very fine album. …. (5.) GUNS N’ ROSES – CHINESE DEMOCRACY – A great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard – rock record. ….

(6.) NADA SURF – LUCKY – ‘Lucky’ radiates with the oomph of a solid power pop release.
(7.) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!! – Cave’s sharpest, wittiest, most resolute album in quite some time. …. (8.) DIDO – SAFE TRIP HOME – Comforting, reassuring music that’s quietly powerful. …. (9.) PORTISHEAD – THIRD – ‘Third’ is so consistently strong from start to finish that it vaults right into classic status. …. (10.) BUDDY GUY – SKIN DEEP – ‘Skin Deep’ works as an effective showcase for Buddy’s wild, gnarly guitar. ….

Rolling Stone please stop reviewing Hip Hop albums. Do half of those people even like rap?

What a terrible list!!!!!!!!!

I didn’t like all of Day & Age, only Human, Losing Touch and Spaceman, the rest was… yea, but I am glad to see that The Killers got the #1. IMO, nothing beats When You Were Young.

Come on!!! will someone give AC/DC the recognition they deserve! this is ridiculious. That black ice album was SICK! but everyone is too involved with coldplay, and LIL WAYNE (blah)

theres no way in hell kanye west’s album should be on this list. its complete shit.

Seems that all Axl haters need to shut up…Chinese Democracy scores on both lists..critics and fans…
Album was released on November 23 and already sold 3.8 million copies worldwide…it was the 14 best seller, ahead of Kayne, Britney and Kid Rock….not bad for an album that was a best buy exclusive in the US and had no promotion at alll….
Chinese is a success…welcome back to the jungle Axl….

Just saw the Killers live and it was class! As a fan of their work since they began I love all their albums, and think their best so far is Day & Age. I find that most people who criticize it have listened to 1, 2, maybe 3 songs from the album at best, and some haven’t listened to any…

One of my favorites of the year is “Black Roses” by “The Rasmus”… I dunno how can ppl hate The Killers after they have given one of the best albums of the decade…

1.) The Rasmus – Ten Black Roses
2.) The Killers – Day & Age
3.) Coldplay – Viva La Vida
4.) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
5.) Vampire Weekend
6.) AC DC – Black Ice
7.) Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
8.) Nickelback – The Dark Horse
9.) The Offspring – Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace
10.) Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream.
I cant believe the RS list could be so tasteless …
PS – Cant wait for the new GD album… !!!

ha, the readers list is way better

Jimi the god

Yeezy forever

I haven’t heard all of those albums, but I have heard MGMT’s two cents, TV On the Radio’s flashback to the future and The Raconteurs’ respects to a more natural-rock & roll, and NIN’s album of liberation, and I am impressed by all of them. I am ecstatic that they all made this top 10 list. Radness.

1. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
2. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
3. MGMT – Orcular Spectacular
4. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
5. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Radiohead – In Rainbows
7. Beck – Modern Guilt
8. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

All this talk and only three comments about Drive-By Truckers? They’ve been one of the most honest & hard-working bands out there the last few years. Nice to see their latest album got in enough hands to make a RS list.

So many good albums have’nt featured in the RS list. The Black Crowes? The Rasmus? Lamb of God? Hot Chip? Flogging Molly? Those criticizing Coldplay & The Killers dont know what music is… Best albums of the year. Also I think Chinese Democracy is totally over-rated. Mars Volta, Avenged Sevenfold etc have’nt got the required attention. Those criticizing Kanye West have’nt heard “Heartless” & “Love Lockdown”.

I don’t know about you guys, but Chinese Democracry SUCKEd in my opinion.

The Rasmus Should be their
they have made a very good death pop album Black roses . it should be appericated and considered

Man, i don’t know about you guy’s, but the Raconteurs album this year was unbelievable. Check it out if you haven’t already.

OMG! Where’s Safe Trip Home on the list? No one appreciate music anymore. I’m a fan of the Killers but I was very disappointed by Day and Age. Sam’s Town was way better.

I agree: many people have never even listened to Sam’s Town or Day & Age but seem to be experts on both records. If you’ve only heard Human on the radio or whatever, you really have no idea: Day & Age is an excellent record, far more accomplished than Hot Fuss. Get informed before you spout nonsense about other people’s art.

but where is “Black ice” ??!!!!

but where is “Black ice” of AC/DC ??!!!!

i can’t believe it !
only these days mediocre rock.
did you hear about Uriah Heep and “Wake the Sleeper” ?

1. Venus in Overdrive – Rick Springfield
2. Death Magnetic – Metallica
3. Revelation – Journey
4. Black Ice – ACDC

I’m really happy to see Day & Age on top, and I’m guessing most of the people hating the Killers haven’t even heard Day and Age yet.

I’m also happy to see MGMT high on the list, though I wish the Fleet Foxes were higher… and Guns N Roses new album wasn’t that great. It was alright. But not that great.

1# Metallica – Death Magnetic
dont care about the rest.. but metallica is the greatest band ever!

1.The Killers
2.Santogold
3.Kings of Leon
4.Vampire Weekend
5.Beck

JENNY LEWIS KICKS BUTT! BEST ALBUM OF 2008, PERIOD.

wheres Ne-Yo’s Year of the Gentleman? its one of the best albums ever created… and the best one that Ne-Yo has made so far…

Vampire Weekend, Kanye, Lil’ Wayne and TV on the Radio. That’s all I need.

Oh, and for MGMT? Well, not bad…but not great.

More Kings of Leon, please.