It’s the time of the year when we listen to music in enormous portions, but with so many albums of so great quality, who doesn’t hear?
We’ve already got SPIN, Paste, Q and Mojo lists of the Best Albums of 2013 and now here’s the one from Rolling Stone which this year reward ‘Modern Vampires of the City’, by Vampire Weekend, followed by the controversial Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’. The bronze medal goes to the sales champion ‘Random Access Memories’ by Daft Punk. Rolling Stone Top 10 also includes John Fogerty, Paul McCartney, Lorde and the indie rock bands Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and the hard rockers Queens of the Stone Age.
The year 2013 was full of big releases, had rock, rap, hip-hop, electronic, alternative and even pop wich have other names not very present in the so called “mainstream” music industry,like the ‘Bangerz’, the new album by Miley Cyrus, the newcomer Lorde who took a creditable 7th place ..
Confirm below the 2013 Top 50 albums for Rolling Stone:
50. Beck – Song Reader
49. The Flaming Lips – The Terror
48. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
47. M.I.A. – Matangi
46. Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action
45. Avicii – True
44. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against a Stone
43. Savages – Silence Yourself
42. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
41. J Cole – Born Sinner
40. Pearl Jam – Lightining Bolt
39. Keith Urban – Fuse
38. Kurt Vile – Waking on a Pretty Daze
37. The So So Glos – Blowout
36. Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt
35. Best Coast – Fade Away EP
34. Neko CAse – The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
33. Pusha T – My Name Is My Name
32. The Bones of What You Believe
31. Haim – Days Are Gone
30. Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob
29. Bombino – Nomad
28. Kacey Musgraves, ‘Same Trailer Different Park
27. Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
26. Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
25. Elton John – The Diving Board
24. Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP 2
23. My Bloody Valentine – MBV
22. Phoenix – Bankrupt!
21. Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time
20. Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
19. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
18. Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose
17. Danny Brown – Old
16. David Bowie – The Next Day
15. Atoms For Peace – Amok
14. Drake – Nothing Was The Same
13. Disclosure – Settle
12. Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
11. Parquet Courts, Tally All The Things That You Broke
10. John Fogerty – Wrote a Song For Everyone
9. Arctic Monkeys – AM
8. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
7. Lorde – Pure Heroine
6. Queens of the Stone Age – … Like Clockwork
5. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
4. Paul McCartney – New
3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
2. Kanye West – Yeezus
1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City