Do You Guys Agree With This?!

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Hershey K

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I'm still having a hard time figuring out why everybody seemed to love 808 and Heartbreak. I'm not a Kayne hater but every dang song just droned on and on about his relationships... atleast that's what I thought I could hear through the merciless auto-tuned production.
 
You're right about that. Since I'm not trying to come up with my own top 100 in this thread I only focused on what they had and whether I agreed or not. But since you mention it, it is quite shocking not to see Modest Mouse's The Moon & Antarctica (though Rolling Stone would have likely picked Good News or the awful We Were Dead over it), and Tool's Lateralus. I'd love to see some Built to Spill but don't expect it from Rolling Stone, same goes for the others you mentioned who I don't follow enough to have an opinion on. Actually, I don't listen to Raconteurs but it seems they made quite an impact and that Rolling Stones would like them.
 
I get what you're saying. Still, I see Rough Trade, Jagjaguwar (who also released Farm), Sub Pop, Matador, Asthmatic Kitty (Sufjan's own label), Merge, Secretly Canadian, Danger Mouse and In Rainbows were self released, XL Recordings, and Fat Cat looking through the list. I mean, if you consider any label under Alternative Distribution Alliance to not be an independent label, I guess you have a point. Otherwise, about half that list is not major label releases. And though ADA is owned mostly by Warner, the labels that release their music through the company sign banRAB themselves and don't work with any of the major labels. It was just Warner's way of making a little money of the independent scene without any control over the music that's produced. I'm not trying to be a **** or say their list is unexpected or even close to true, but I'd consider Jagjaguwar, Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, and Secretly Canadian to be the modern day equivalent of the labels you listed up there and I see all of them on the list.
 
So Rolling Stone published their "100 Best Albums of the Decade" this past week and I have to say WTF!? I can agree with some of these choices, but what do you guys think?

Here's the article:
100 Best Albums of the Decade : Rolling Stone

1 | Radiohead: Kid A

2 | The Strokes: Is This It

3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint

5 | The White Stripes: Elephant

6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral

7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP

8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times

9 | M.I.A.: Kala

10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout

11 | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

12 | LCD SounRABystem: Sound of Silver

13 | U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind

14 | Jay-Z: The Black Album

15 | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising

16 | OutKast: Stankonia

17 | Beck: Sea Change

18 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

19 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

21 | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head

22 | Green Day: American Idiot

23 | D'Angelo: Voodoo

24 | Bruce Springsteen: Magic

25 | Radiohead: Amnesiac

26 | Cat Power: The Greatest

27 | The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

28 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell

29 | Sigur R
 
All these sort of lists will never satisfy the battle hardened music fan and I would much rather rely on word of mouth to hear new music or lost gems. Strokes Nuraber 2? Does anyone even listen to that album anymore?It's decent enough but nuraber 2 for what is essentially a Garage Rock revival album and not a particularly great one at that? Give me The Hunches or King Khan anyday.
 
This is really bad. Worse than Pitchforks, and only a little better than the NME's. Three Coldplay? Four Kanye West albums? No thanks...
 
Yet another 'Best Of' list compiled by people who all listen to exactly the same thing..yay?

And three White Stripes albums? Really now?
 
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