Rolling Stone Names 'MBDTF' Album of the Year

[Almostlity]

In their annual list of the past year’s top albums, Rolling Stone has crowned Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as album of the year. The rest of the list can be found below.

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.

Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2010

1. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. The Black Keys, Brothers
3. Elton John and Leon Russell, The Union
4. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
5. Jamey Johnson, The Guitar Song
6. Vampire Weekend, Contra
7. Drake, Thank Me Later
8. Robert Plant, Band of Joy
9. Eminem, Recovery
10. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
11. The Dead Weather, Sea of Cowards
12. John Mellencamp, No Better Than This
13. Taylor Swift, Speak Now
14. Robyn, Body Talk
15. The National, High Violet
16. Kid Rock, Born Free
17. Beach House, Teen Dream
18. Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown
19. M.I.A., Maya
20. Neil Young, Le Noise
21. Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty ///
22. Spoon, Transference
23. Elizabeth Cook, Welder
24. Maximum Balloon, Maximum Balloon
25. Superchunk, Majesty Shredding
26. Yeasayer, Odd Blood
27. Peter Wolf, Midnight Souvenirs
28. My Chemical Romance, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
29. The Roots, How I Got Over
30. Rick Ross, Teflon Don

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Save the hate please.

[mceddie]

drakes album is higher than recovery? smh.

[momentisgolden]

When you got "Thank me Later" on top of Recovery....

[momentisgolden]

Oh, not sure if "Distant Relatives" qualifies for the list too... but if it does, it should be on it.

[Rash J]

drakes album is higher than recovery? smh.

[Trimss]

drakes album is higher than recovery? smh.

Kinda disappointing

Drake's album isn't in any possible way better than Recovery !!

[Devil'sAdvocate]

when u have drake's album higher than ANY eminem album.

ur opinion is not valid,and they can shove it up their asses.

@ having punk rock album.

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Thank Me Later over Recovery?

Fuck Rolling Stone. Recovery got way better reviews and is way more successful, and I'm assuming that's what they go by because no one who KNOWS hip hop would ever put Drake above Eminem.

Congrats to Kanye though

[westsidekreidy]

...kanyes album isnt even good

[obzion]

...kanyes album isnt even good

this.

[GenePeer]

They just called 'Ye a wildly talented foolish person

[EM1973]

MBDTF is a very good album.No doubt about that.
Βut imo isn't the album of the year!
It's for sure the most over-hyped album of the year.

[DƎRDYPK]

keep doing ya thing Kanye
we see you

fuck the haters bra bra

[NicoleEM]

smh @ this list.Kanye's album of the year?Thank me later better then Recovery.Wtf where they thinking?

[macdaddy019967]

...kanyes album isnt even good

this.