40 Chairlift - Does You Inspire You
39 Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
38 Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
37 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
36 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
35 The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
34 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
33 El Guincho - Alegranza
32 The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
31 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
30 Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
29 Nas & DJ Green Lantern - The Nigger Tape
28 Metallica - Death Magnetic
27 The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
26 R.E.M. - Accelerate
25 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
24 Duffy - Rockferry
23 Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
22 Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
21 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
20 Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
19 Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
18 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
17 The Roots - Rising Down
16 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
15 Beck - Modern Guilt
14 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
13 No Age - Nouns
12 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War
11 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
10 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
09 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
08 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
07 Deerhunter - Microcastle
06 Santogold - Santogold
05 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
04 Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
03 Portishead - Third
02 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
01 TV On The Radio - Dear Science

I know everyone likes to rip on Spin, but the top 20 actually looks really good compared to most of the other lists we've seen.

yeah, it's pretty good actually. And though I wouldn't put the Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson disc in the top 50, it is pretty darn good, and props for them thinking outside of the box.

yeah, nice to see Fucked Up so high.

Spin is better than that POS magazine they call blender. I mean, who puts the Doors in the worst bands of all time list? Really? If you do hate them, that doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad, it just that you don't personally like it. A well-structured CD can be great and I still won't like it (example: Fleet Foxes).
But, I still respect it and recognize it as well made music.

Anyways, it's nice to see the Black Kids high up on a list, but I highly disagree with the Streets amd Santogold's presence. Both efforts seem very ameteur to me. Otherwise, this is one of the better lists so far.

I've always like Spin and this is another nice list by them.

The best list I;ve seen. Spin is easily the best magazine out, not to indie not to mainstream always thinking outside of the box. Glad to see Th N****r tape get some love.

One of the better year-end lists by music mags. Good to see Gnarls Barkley, The Roots, Fucked Up, Nas & DJ Green Lantern and R.E.M. get some props, but including Chinese Democracy for anything other than laughs is suspect. Notable exclusions are The Bug and, to a lesser extent, The Walkmen.

I like the top of this list but I can't condone putting my morning jacket and beck above nick cave and the bad seeds.

And why do a lot of critics lists feel the need to include metallica and guns and roses, are they actually good?

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Originally posted by PrairieFire:
I like the top of this list but I can't condone putting my morning jacket and beck above nick cave and the bad seeds.

Nor can I. It's a travesty.

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And why do a lot of critics lists feel the need to include metallica and guns and roses, are they actually good?

Maybe they felt that "metal" had to be represented and didn't hear the better stuff. I haven't heard the Metallica release, but Chinese Democracy is laughably bad, over-the-top awful, off-the-charts craptastic....

I bought a hard copy of this the other day and it's pretty sweet. They have some pretty solid writers and the list itself is pretty good. They also have a very cool picture of Bradford Cox (Deerhunter finished #7 on their list) and I can show it to people and say, "Hey, look, that's the guy who I got like four autographs from and who I talked to for like 20 minutes after the show!"

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Yeah, decent list. Still can't get enough of TVOR.

Hello everyone. Nice to meet you all.


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