‘Rolling Stone’ Magazine Picks Their 2010 Album Of The Year

‘Rolling Stone’ Magazine Picks Their 2010 Album Of The Year
With only weeks left of 2010 the annual barrage of Lists of the year’s best music, movies, books, etc. are on the way … and Rolling Stone magazine are getting the party started with the release of their list of the Top 30 Albums of the Year. What is of most interest to me is [...]

With only weeks left of 2010 the annual barrage of Lists of the year’s best music, movies, books, etc. are on the way … and Rolling Stone magazine are getting the party started with the release of their list of the Top 30 Albums of the Year. What is of most interest to me is the Top 10 Albums … particularly, their choice of Album of Year. This year, RS has determined that the best album of 2010 is Kanye West‘s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy:

Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West made music as sprawlingly messy as his life. When he wasn’t feuding with Matt Lauer or bugging out on Twitter, Kanye was building hip-hop epics, songs full of the kind of grandiose gestures that only the foolish attempt and only the wildly talented pull off. The more he piled on — string sections, Elton John piano solos, vocoder freakouts, Bon Iver cameos, King Crimson and Rick James samples — the better the music got. Never has Kanye rhymed so hilariously (“Have you ever had sex with a pharaoh?/I put the pussy in a sarcophagus”) or been so insightful about his relationship-torpedoing faults. From the bracing prog-rock of “Power” to the spooky grandeur of “Runaway” to the shape-shifting “Hell of a Life,” he made all other music seem dimmer and duller. Is the album dark? Sure. Twisted? Of course. But above all, it’s beautiful.

As much as it pains me to agree, Kanye‘s album is truly one of the best releases of the year. Expect to see Fantasy top many Top 10 lists this year and expect to see it featured in many more lists, even if it’s not at the top. Kanye West may act like a douche of epic proportions most of the time but there is no denying that he is incredibly talented. It’s a shame his antics make people shy away from liking his music because if he didn’t act like an ass all of the time, he’d enjoy a lot more love from a lot more people.

After the jump, see which other albums Rolling Stone magazine named as the 10 best of 2010 …

02: The Black Keys Brothers
03. Elton John and Leon Russell The Union
04. Arcade Fire The Suburbs
05. Jamey Johnson The Guitar Song
06. Vampire Weekend Contra
07. Drake Thank Me Later
08. Robert Plant Band of Joy
09. Eminem Recovery
10. LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening

While I don’t agree with most of this Top 10 list complied by Rolling Stone, I do see quite a few of my fave albums of 2010 in their Top 30 list of albums. Click HERE to see the RS list of the 30 Best Albums of 2010 and see if your faves have made the cut. As for Kanye‘s album, do you think it is the best album of 2010? If no, which album is your fave?

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