'Rolling Stone' releases list of 200 greatest 21st century rock songs and it's as awful as you'd imagine
'Rolling Stone' releases list of 200 greatest 21st century rock songs and it's as awful as you'd imagine
Anyone of a certain age who is even tangentially familiar with knows that, for a time, "Rolling Stone" magazine was almost the foremost expert on all things involving the genre.
In recent decades, however, the once-proud music mag has devolved into hipster drivel, and nowhere is that more evident than in their ranking lists.
From their infamous "250 Greatest Guitarists of All-Time" (in which they ranked Joni Mitchell and someone named Sister Rosetta Tharpe over Tony Iommi and ) to the perplexing "500 Greatest Albums of All-Time," the fine folks over at "Rolling Stone" have released some stinkers, opting to let their contrarian opinions and eye-rollingly leftist leanings color their rankings.
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"Greatest" is a subjective term, especially when it comes to music, but when large swathes of the entire internet take exception to your rankings, you might have to reevaluate some things.
On that note, it looks like "Rolling Stone" has released yet another God-awful list, this time in the form of "The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of The 21st Century So Far."
I'll be frank with you, I don't really hold a lot of 21st century rock in high regard.
I'm a child of the '90s, but my musical tastes predate someone of my birth year by a good two decades, consisting mainly of rock and metal acts from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s.
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Even then, I can admit that there is plenty of great rock to be found on this side of the year 2000, but "Rolling Stone's" list eschews most of that to try and cobble together this eclectic ranking to boost their street cred with all the gender-fluid dorks from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn (aka, the only people still reading "Rolling Stone").
Let's start at the top and see what they selected as the "greatest" rock song of the 21st century.
"Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeah's. Are we serious here?
If your response is, "Who the hell are the Yeah Yeah Yeahs?" congrats, youre not alone.
The only reason I know this song, unfortunately, is because I used to watch Fuse TV in the early 2000s and this boring, monotonous song and accompanying music video would interrupt all the fun pop-punk acts I actually wanted to see, but I digress.
This song taking the top spot is just a harbinger of things to come, so sit back as I regale you with some of the more egregious placements and omissions on this list.
For starters, I think "Rolling Stone" needs to reevaluate what the word "rock" means, because there are some musical acts dotting the upper spots of this ranking that probably shouldn't even be on here at all.
Would any of you make a rock playlist and add Lana Del Rey, Jay-Z, MGMT, Taylor Swift, and/or Lady Gaga to it?
If you answered "yes," then congratulations! You're either certifiably insane or you write for "Rolling Stone" (and those two things aren't exactly mutually exclusive).
Some of the songs that got shafted by whoever wrote this list are staggering.
CHAD GILBERT, NEW FOUND GLORY FOUNDING MEMBER AND LEAD GUITARIST, DEAD AT
