Rolling Stone Top 50 Albums of 2005

[Fresh Tendrils]

Top 50

Oh snap.

[BGarrett7]

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I've heard a grand total of one of those albums -- In Your Honor, #30 -- and couldn't be happier about that being the case.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I think its amazing X&Y isn't on there.

[BGarrett7]

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I think its amazing X&Y isn't on there.

It's funny, actually. Rolling Stone will get so far up an artist/band's rectum, put them on numerous covers throughout the year, praise their every step and movement... And then give their album three stars -- like they did with X&Y. I think it would be absolutely hilarious, and quite fitting given Rolling Stone's style, if the Coldplay album had made the top fifty albums of the year.

[CM1847]

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It's funny, actually. Rolling Stone will get so far up an artist/band's rectum, put them on numerous covers throughout the year, praise their every step and movement... And then give their album three stars -- like they did with X&Y. I think it would be absolutely hilarious, and quite fitting given Rolling Stone's style, if the Coldplay album had made the top fifty albums of the year.

The covers and pub are all about $$$$$. Coldplay was coming over here in their first major, big-venue tour of the states and needed an extra push in pub in magazines and radio play. They got it and sold out shows all over the country. The same band who couldn't sell out a small community college gym 3 years ago over here, now selling out anywhere they played.

I own 9 of the albums on the list. The list isn't that bad, other than Rolling Stones being #2, no one else has them anywhere in the top 10, or 20 or 30 for that matter. Just a case of RS being all over an older band, they do that quite often. There really aren't any surprising picks at all, a nice, safe list that keeps some indie cred while being mainly focused on mainstream stuff. A by-the-book list, but for Rolling Stone is really isn't that bad. Like you said, Coldplay isn't on the list, neither is RS darlings the Dave Matthews Band. They also put on some bands who probably got the 100 word review treatment when their album came out.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I've seen Paul McCartney's album on more than a few lists. Has anybody listened to it and have any impressions?

[BGarrett7]

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The covers and pub are all about $$$$$. Coldplay was coming over here in their first major, big-venue tour of the states and needed an extra push in pub in magazines and radio play. They got it and sold out shows all over the country. The same band who couldn't sell out a small community college gym 3 years ago over here, now selling out anywhere they played.

I can't speak for the rest of the country, but Coldplay has been selling out arenas in Atlanta since early 2003. Their popularity wasn't exactly sudden or a result of Rolling Stone or other magazine covers.

[jmood88]

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The list first lost me with kanye being number one and died when 50 cent was at 10.

[CM1847]

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I can't speak for the rest of the country, but Coldplay has been selling out arenas in Atlanta since early 2003. Their popularity wasn't exactly sudden or a result of Rolling Stone or other magazine covers.

A few years ago in Charlotte they played at a community college gym downtown and didn't fill it up, I believe that was in 02 or 03(probably 02). This year they played a huge outdoor ampitheater and the place was absolutely packed, seats and lawn(no room to sit in the lawn, everyone had to stand).

Their popularity definitely isn't a direct result of magazine covers, but they definetely made sure they put the money into getting publicity so EVERYBODY knew they had a new album and tour.

My original point was that money can buy you covers of magazines, but I am glad to see that RS didn't make sure to suck up to them on this album, which they obviously thought wasn't that great. They could have easily thrown a 4 star review at X&Y and put it in their top 10, I was just glad to see they didn't do that.

[BGarrett7]

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My original point was that money can buy you covers of magazines, but I am glad to see that RS didn't make sure to suck up to them on this album, which they obviously thought wasn't that great. They could have easily thrown a 4 star review at X&Y and put it in their top 10, I was just glad to see they didn't do that.

Fair enough, I can't argue that.

[CM1847]

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The list first lost me with kanye being number one and died when 50 cent was at 10.

Magazines/websites that focus on rock(indie or popular) seem to have a very difficult time finding good rap music. I'm going to bet that any underground rap websites won't have Kanye's album in their top 5 at all, yet it keeps popping up all over these rock-based music lists.

[jmood88]

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Magazines/websites that focus on rock(indie or popular) seem to have a very difficult time finding good rap music. I'm going to bet that any underground rap websites won't have Kanye's album in their top 5 at all, yet it keeps popping up all over these rock-based music lists.

Yeah. I think they just threw random rap albums just so that it won't seem like they're biased or anything.