RADIOHEAD, GNARLS TOP STONE’S BEST RECORDS OF THE DECADE

Radiohead’s Kid A is the album of the decade, and Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” is the noughties’ top song, according to the pundits at Rolling Stone, which has posted its Top 100s on rollingstone.com as the retrospective print issue hits newsstands.

A perusal of the albums list reveals that Radiohead is the only act to place four albums in the Top 100, while Kings of Leon and Kanye West snagged three apiece. Strangely, the only KOL longplayer that didn’t make the final cut is our favorite, 2007’s Because of the Times.

The most recent LPs on the list are MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular (’08) at #18, Lil Wayne’s The Carter III (’08) at #32, U2’s No Line on the Horizon (’09) at #36, KOL’s Only by the Night (’08) at #53, Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (’09) at #60, Kanye’s 808s and Heartbreak (’08) at #63 and Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago (’08) at #92.

Here are the Top 20 albums and singles, with links to their respective entries. For the rest, click on the link above.

Albums of the Decade
1 | Radiohead: Kid A
2 | The Strokes: Is This It
3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint
5 | The White Stripes: Elephant
6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral
7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP
8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times
9 | M.I.A.: Kala
10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout
11 | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
12 | LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
13 | U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
14 | Jay-Z: The Black Album
15 | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
16 | OutKast: Stankonia
17 | Beck: Sea Change
18 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
19 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

Songs of the Decade
1 | Gnarls Barkley — "Crazy"
2 | Jay-Z — "99 Problems"
3 | Beyoncé — "Crazy in Love"
4 | OutKast — "Hey Ya!"
5 | M.I.A. — "Paper Planes"
6 | The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"
7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Maps"
8 | Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"
9 | U2 — "Beautiful Day"
10 | Eminem — "Stan"
11 | MGMT — "Time to Pretend"
12 | Eminem — "Lose Yourself"
13 | 50 Cent — "In Da Club"
14 | Missy Elliott — "Get Ur Freak On"
15 | Johnny Cash — "Hurt"
16 | The Strokes — "Last Nite"
17 | Bob Dylan — "Mississippi"
18 | Kelly Clarkson — "Since U Been Gone"
19 | Kanye West — "Jesus Walks"
20 | Justin Timberlake — "Cry Me a River"