100 Greatest Albums of All Time

By Rolling Stone | Best Ever Lists September 29, 2012

From ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ to ‘The Doors’ make it to the ROLLING STONE list

The 70 Greatest Dylan Songs

By Rolling Stone | Best Ever Lists, Features May 31, 2011

To celebrate Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday on May 24, we asked the world’s foremost
Dylan experts to pick his best songs. Plus: Appreciations by Bono, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jim James, Lucinda Williams, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Martin and many more

100 Best Albums of the Nineties

By Rolling Stone | Best Ever Lists, News & Updates May 20, 2011

The Nineties as a musical era started late and ended early — kicked in by the scritchy-scratch power chords of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” ushered out by the doomy piano intro of “. . . Hit Me Baby One More Time.” Anti-pop defeated by pop — full circle, all apologies. You’ve heard the story. But [...]

The 25 Boldest Career Moves in Rock History

By Andy Greene | Best Ever Lists May 20, 2011

From the very beginning of rock & roll musicians have made shocking career moves – from marrying their cousins to shaving their heads in front of hundreds of flashing cameras. Here’s a look at the 25 boldest ones of all time.

500 Greatest Albums

By Rolling Stone | Best Ever Lists, News & Updates May 19, 2011

500. Touch – Eurythmics Annie Lennox looked like a gender-bending robot zombie, but she sang with soul; producer Dave Stewart hid behind his beard and masterminded the sound. Together they made divine synth-pop, especially “Who’s That Girl,” a tale of kinked-up sexual obsession, and their biggest hit, “Here Comes the Rain Again.” 499. Born Under [...]

100 Greatest Singers

By Rolling Stone | Best Ever Lists May 17, 2011

The beauty of the singer’s voice touches us in a place that’s as personal as the place from which that voice has issued. If one of the weird things about singers is the ecstasy of surrender they inspire, another weird thing is the debunking response a singer can arouse once we’ve recovered our senses

100 Greatest Guitarists

By Rolling Stone | Best Ever Lists May 17, 2011

They built their own guitars, stabbed speaker cones with pencils, shattered instruments and eardrums — all in search of new ways to make the guitar cry, scream, whisper, shout and moan

100 Best Albums of the Eighties

By Rolling Stone | Best Ever Lists, Features April 20, 2011

This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and [...]