A Versão Norte Americana da revista Rolling Stone consultou críticos, músicos, jornalistas e outros profissionais do mundo da música para elaborar uma lista com os 100 melhores álbuns da década. O resultado ficou bem diferente do ranking feito pela revista New Musical Express, mas da para notar que vários CD's compõem as duas listas.
Segue a lista:
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
21 - Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
22 - Green Day: American Idiot
23 - D'Angelo: Voodoo
24 - Bruce Springsteen: Magic
25 - Radiohead: Amnesiac
26 - Cat Power: The Greatest
27 - The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
28 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
29 - Sigur Rós: Ágaetis Byrjun
30 - Radiohead: In Rainbows
31 - My Morning Jacket: Z
32 - Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
33 - Daft Punk: Discovery
34 - OutKast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
35 - PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
36 - U2: No Line on the Horizon
37 - 50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
38 - Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
39 - Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak
40 - Kanye West: Late Registration
41 - Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
42 - Elliott Smith: Figure 8
43 - The Killers: Hot Fuss
44 - System of a Down: Toxicity
45 - Kanye West: Graduation
46 - Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds
47 - Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
48 - TV on the Radio: Dear Science
49 - Fiona Apple: Extraordionary Machine
50 - Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
51 - Spoon: Kill the Moonlight
52 - M.I.A.: Arular
53 - Kings of Leon: Only By the Night
54 - Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
55 - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
56 - Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
57 - Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
58 - Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
59 - Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
60 - Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
61 - The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
62 - Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man
63 - Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak
64 - Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator
65 - Manu Chao: Próxima Estación Esperanza
66 - Antony & the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
67 - Björk: Vespertine
68 - U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
69 - Missy Elliott: Under Construction
70 - Sleater-Kinney: The Woods
71 - Bright Eyes: Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Eart to the Ground
72 - Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
73 - Coldplay: Parachutes
74 - Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
75 - Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
76 - Sigur Rós: ()
77 - Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
78 - Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
79 - The New Pornographers: Electric Version
80 - Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood
81 - Ryan Adams: Gold
82 - Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R
83 - The Black Keys: Attack & Release
84 - Eminem: The Eminem Show
85 - Coldplay: Viva La Vida
86 - The Postal Service: Give Up
87 - Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere
88 - Brian Wilson: Smile
89 - Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
90 - Amadou & Miriam: Dimanche a Bamako
91 - The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious
92 - Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
93 - Johnny Cash: Unearthed
94 - The Libertines: Up the Brackett
95 - Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor
96 - The Streets: Original Pirate Material
97 - Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
98 - TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
99 - The Hold Steady: Almost Killed Me
100 - Leonard Cohen: 10 New Songs
Agora eu faço a minha lista com os álbuns dessa aí de cima mas os que eu gosto, sem alterar a ordem, pois fica difícil fazer isso com tanta qualidade. Tá certo que nem todos aí eu conheço, portanto minha lista não tem necessariamente os melhores.
1 - Radiohead: Kid A
2 - The Strokes: Is This It
3 - The White Stripes: Elephant
4 - Bob Dylan: Modern Times
5 - Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
6 - U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
7 - Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
8 - The White Stripes: White Blood Cells
9 - Radiohead: Amnesiac
10 - Sigur Rós: Ágaetis Byrjun
11 - Radiohead: In Rainbows
12 - Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
13 - System of a Down: Toxicity
14 - Manu Chao: Próxima Estación Esperanza
15 - Coldplay: Parachutes
16 - Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
17 - Sigur Rós: ()
18 - Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R
19 - Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Mais uma vez eu lembro que faltou muita coisa e que eu não coloquei na ordem que deveria, mas duas coisas eu digo, In Rainbows com certeza ficaria em primeiro e colocar Hail to the Thief em 89º lugar foi palhaçada.
