Rolling Stone chooses “The Best of Rock”
In this month’s issue of the Rolling Stone, the music meets pop culture meets politics magazine selected the 125+ “People, Places and Things Ruling the Rock Universe in 2008.” Several of this year’s selections made there way online, giving us a glimpse of who really is, who the Rolling Stone believes are the current players in the world of rock.
Here are some of the highlights accompanied by lackluster commentary…
- Best Breakthrough: My Morning Jacket - The Kentucky natives receive the honors after only 10 years into their existence.
- Best Festival Band: Radiohead - It was between either them or Jack Johnson, but then again, does anyone really like Mr. Mellow?
- Best MC: Lil Wayne - Poor Kanye…
- Best Album Cover Designer: Brian Roettinger - No love for Trevor Brown after whole Crystal Castles debacle?
- Best Producer: Danger Mouse - What hasn’t Brian Burton done recently? He released a new Gnarls Barkley ablum, collaborated with Beck, and helped out the Black Keys. And that is only the begining…
- Best Reunion: Led Zeppelin - No brainer considering the number of articles and blog posts pertaining to a reunion tour that never happened are probably astronomical.
- Best Songwriter: Conor Oberst - In today’s music world, it is probably always going to come down to Oberst and Adams. And Adams hasn’t been doing himself any favors lately to help his case.
- Best Festival: Bonnaroo - Even after the most recent additions?
- Best Scene: Baltimore - As someone who grew up in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, I have no comment for this one.
- Best Rock Movie: U2 3D - Is anyone really surprised?
- Best Live Band: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Thank you!
To check out the rest of “The Best of Rock,” be sure to pick up this month’s issue of the Rolling Stone…
baltimore!? fucking baltimore! Hell yeah!
I’m still one of the few to find MMJ highly overrated. I think Rolling Stone has something for them, considering Jim James is in every issue just about.
Zeppelin was obvious, but The Police, to me, seemed to be a more interesting reunion, mainly because none of them had worked together all at once in years… longer than Zeppelin.
I agree with the Led Zeppelin thing