Rolling Stone's Top 100 songs of the decade... what a fuckup.

[insanity]

Seriously, Crazy should not be on the top 20, let alone #1.

The list is here, and it is awful:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31248926/100_best_songs_of_the_decade

[NightWatcher]

1. had to get to #15 to find one I liked

the list http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31248926/100_best_songs_of_the_decade/27

Ok, I lied, I kinda sorta like Hey Ya by Outkast

Yay, Radiohead has a higher ranked song than Coldplay

[NewJeffCT]

3. that was the first song I even recognized

I don't really listen to music anymore, though.

[zonkers]

2. Yay, Lil Wayne!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Meh.

I mean, there were some decent songs on that list. But the mainstream music scene has been so watered down and diluted this decade I'm not at all shocked or angered about some of the selections, just....apathetic.

[jobycom]

5. You sound like my parents in the 70s.

They missed Pat Boone and Doris Day.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Those darn kids with their long hair and their record players!

:D

[jobycom]

14. You can't tell the boys from the girls!

:rofl:

[SCantiGOP]

20. my Dad said that once watching an anti-war demonstration on TV

he was kind of embarrassed when I pointed out that both of the guys he was referring to had beards as well as shoulder-length hair.

[jobycom]

27. I had a friend's grandfather tell me to drop my pants so he could tell.

Racist old coot, too.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. In this decade, they should just do "the only twenty or so songs that didn't utterly fucking suck"

And even then, it would just be a list of Rush's and Neil Young's albums.

[MilesColtrane]

7. I've only heard 5 on that list.

And, only those because they were used in commercials

[jobycom]

8. It obviously wasn't a "Most Popular" list. "Yeah" isn't even on it.

That song may go down as the symbol of the decade. That or "Crazy."

[gmoney]

9. An odd list...

hard to believe LCD Soundsystem got three tracks on there, and Gorillaz got two.

I do think that Crazy is a great song... maybe I relate to it a bit too much. And the video is outstanding, too.

[hippywife]

10. And Rolling Stone surely isn't

the magazine it used to be, either, apparently. Pop-music sellouts.

[HopeHoops]

11. COOL! I didn't know any of them!

Actually, there were only a handful of performer names I recognized, and most of those were only because they are media clowns.

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Wow - I recognize 34 songs.

But that is one fucked-up list. "Not Ready To Make Nice" only #77???

[blue_onyx]

17. What?

"Not Ready to Make Nice" should be way higher that 77.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

15. pretty pathetic list

I wouldn't consider most of these rock but synthetic pop

[JCMach1]

16. Pathetic... WAY too much Coldplay

:puke:

Not to mention Jay-Z

[blue_onyx]

18. Of the Top 10...

Amy Winehouse "Rehab" is the only song that I find even somewhat enjoyable.

There's only a few songs I liked:

Kelly Clarkson: Since U Been Gone
Britney Spears: Toxic
Madonna: Music
Madonna: Hung Up
Dixie Chicks: Not Ready To Make Nice
Lady Gaga: Poker Face

I also love Pink but they picked one of her least good songs "Get the Party Started."

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. Yuh dang whippersnappers!

(shakes cane)

When we were your age, we had to walk 500 miles through a blizzard and earthquakes and carnivorous voles just to get to hear "Barracuda" even once, and WE WERE GRATEFUL!

(shakes cane)

[Kat45]

21. They only mentioned one or two of the songs I really liked this decade

Most of the songs on the list I didn't recognize; don't know them. I don't listen to as much music as I used to but I still listen to quite a bit, and still ignore the pop crap as I always did--and of course that's what's on the list for the most part. I was glad to see Jet's "Are You Going to Be My Girl?" on the list, albeit the second half of it. I think that is a terrific, catchy hard rocking song--you know, the kind of song you don't hear much of anymore. Though I think it was featured on a soundtrack and/or a commercial, which may be responsible for its being noticed and appearing on the list.

[flvegan]

22. I think I recognized maybe 10 of those songs

and fewer artists. Coldplay? Really?

[old mark]

23. I am familiar with 4 of the top 100. I don't recognise many of the performers -

I hesitate to call them bands because I don't know how many actually play anything.

I know 1 of the Winehouse songs, one of the Springsteens, the Green Day (American Idiot) and one other that I can't even remember since seeing it 2 minutes ago.

I did hear about 30 seconds of the Johnny Cash, but never heard the whole song, and I may have heard the Robert Plant/Alison Krause song, but I'm not sure that was the right song.

Time to start the next decade - better luck next time, hope I'm still here to check it.

mark

[Zomby Woof]

24. If they don't have anything by Los Lobos or Gov't Mule

I won't even look.

[cbdo2007]

25. Oh come on....Crazy should def be top 5.

It's pop brilliance.

But this list just goes to show you one thing....this has been about the worst decade for music since probably the 1520's.

That's why, turn on any radio station and most of them are still playing stuff from the 90's like its new. I was just thinking today in the car, everytime I'm flipping around in Kansas City here through the stations, I swear every time there is an Offspring song playing. Heck listen to morning shows to hear what the top songs are usually cause they only play about 20 songs in 4 hours so they should be playing some current stuff....nope, even that is mostly 90's. Old Foo Fighters are on all the time and Offspring and old Greenday. Music is definitely going down hill.

[Danger Mouse]

26. In other words '90 or so shitty songs and 10 that are good.'

Cause aside from Cash, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Wilco and the White Stripes, the list contained complete crap.
The GOOD music from this decade was mostly OUTSIDE the mainstream.

[ElboRuum]

28. I recognized about 15%, and of those, actually liked five.

How utterly shitty.

[tigereye]

29. hmm, better list than I expected - lots of "adult alt' on there

Arcade Fire, Amy Winehouse, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, the Killers, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Green Day, Flaming Lips Do you Realize (beautiful song) and even Grandpa Bob Dylan (and I mean that affectionately) made the top 20.

it could have been much, much worse.


I could have done without 99 Problems in the top 5 or whatever - I think it's really sexist and I don't really like Jay-Z - but that's just me.