Actually it only makes you seem stupid to diminish a person because he/she does not share the same preferences as you.

Metal killed metal when it became engrossed with stadiums and sales. Metallica stayed tru to it's form from the beginning (for the most part) and kept a loyal fan base long after Cobain was dead and buried. Some say it was the lack of silly glam-alike foibles like spandex and neon embraced by even the best bands including Dio. Some say the music stayed fresh and topical. I think it's because they did all things tru to who they were. Fans can smell sellouts a hundred miles away. Bon Jovi started with a hometown Jersey party boy vibe and stayed tru to it (aside from some overly hollywood video like "i'm a cowboy") and to this day can still fill mid size arenas. The moral here is don't get caught in the trends. Write good lyrics and good music. Stop worrying about getting the private jet and you may last as long as U2.

No kidding Finally! It should be a double album for as long as it's taken.

I just cannot let this one go. Radiohead kind of blows??? Why? Because they are not a super arena BS band like U2, or they want to be an extremely huge arena rock band even though they shouldnt or cant, (Coldplay). The fact that Radiohead consciously made challenging music as an art form instead of pleasing record labels and the grammys has the most important merit that will stand throughout time. Who is going to remember 20 years from now of that "neat" performance from Coldplay and Jay-Z in the Grammys? I now I will remember the Radiohead and the USC marching band performance! That performance proved that even though Radiohead does not play the music and comercial game at all they could still be the most impressive band. And remember Chris Norris, Radiohead could make that poppy comercial record like Dullplay but wouldnt that be boring? whatever

Hey Kit, right on. It's probably lucky for Krunch that he has so little idea what's really going on, because if he did, it would scare the crap out of him. Brazil is coming on strong, the one's I know are working hard, and their smart. It's true their government is corrupt, but so is ours, and ours is getting worse while theirs is getting better. And they are making the better music. Check out any of the artists (particularly Lulina) on Wild Animal Kingdom's compilation, Brazil Could Be Your Life (http://www.wakrecs.com/) and you'll wish that it was! They want to visit here (most don't want to stay), and anybody lucky enough to visit there will find their life changed in a way that hearing Nirvana or Tupak or Lady Gaga never will.

Chris brown's career is not over. No woman deserves to get hit and even though that was the case as long as Chris brown has fans friends and family that loves him he will always have a career.

It's easy to make a case for something if you grab a handful of annecdotal evidence and ignore the world at large. I am no fan of Nirvana. I loathe Nirvana, they represented a return to absurd rock values that I had hoped were dead and gone. They aimed for a cross between Black Flag and Black Sabbath (a paltry ambition) but they achieved was a recapitulization of Black Oak Arkansas. But it is impossible to ignore (if you live in the real world) that grunge represented ground zero for the innovative, inclusive, musical synth-based styles of the 80s (New Wave, or whatever) Technical guitar playing (Dweezel Zappa even put the instrument down for a while, there was no market for what he was doing) and hair metal, among other things. What followed was gloomy, depressing, and inartuculate. I don't know why you knock Collective Soul, I have liked what little I heard of them. They had good songs that displayed a stylistic range that grunge never achieved. The 17th Rock Myth that the Spin guys forgot to include: the irrelevancy of Spin Magazine to contemporary life. The last time they were relevant was when they covered The Human Skab. What is happening in music today is everything and nothing. If you are interested in my take on it, check out http://zebratrucks.blogspot.com/. Just remember, you and I and Spin are equally important. There are no ordinary people, and there are no stars.

Wow that's one of the worst reviews I've read in a while. Dripping with pretension. I, in fact find this album to be one of the better albums this year and give it an easy 5/5.

I realize you're young and hip and all, and that you need to allow space for irony (Tom Jones' Kiss) as well as your love for kitsch. I realize that you have only 50 slots and not every song can make it. I even realize, given the depth of the writing here that you may also just be a bunch of hipsters who have never heard of her. But your omission of Aretha Franklin's Respect is a musical and cultural disgrace. I think you've finally given me a reason to stop reading spin.

Great list but epic fail for not including Johnny Cash's "Hurt," which should be #1 with a bullet.