Rolling Stone's Top 50 Songs of 2012

These people are obviously living in an alternate universe - one totally devoid of real music.  Just proves once again how irrelevant this magazine has become.

Sandy

Hahaha...gave me the best laugh of the day. Thanks.
They picked the worst VH song off the latest album?!

My sister literally LOL at this list. Some few decent songs there.
We like Doom & Gloom and just that....it's all we like..

A majority of this list highlights the difference between Music and ($)Entertainment-in-audio-product-form($).

Music is an Art, whereas most of the songs on mainstream airplay these days are the equivalent of fast food for the ears, just pure instant gratification, but no fulfilling value, just empty calories that are cheap to make/replicate and make a fortune for those selling them.
Thats not to say there's anything wrong with listening to them and enjoying them for what they are (entertainment), but to support/promote and evangelize it as music to look up to and emulate for artistic reasons is something i have little patience for, and sadly that is what Rolling Stone magazine does constantly.

There's always exceptions to the rule but it all comes down to what you value as a music fan, music made with integrity and honest intent, or songs that adhere to a consumer-conscious formula (4 minutes, vocals start before 20 seconds, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, key change, simple lyrics & melodies to stick in the listeners head, tweaked to death at the mixing desk & auto-tune for the pretty female singer with the boob-job, all other instruments replicated by pro-tools or played by successful session musicians, add in computer generated handclaps and a bridge section filled by a current rapper and you've got a hit etc etc...) that have a huge dollar-sign hanging over them, because frankly thats all they are, a product and nothing else.

Also any publication that does top 10/20/50/100 lists of anything in the Arts (in a way that implies there is a way to decipher the merit of any given example to the point that you can insinuate its value in comparison to others of its kind) is looking to sell magazines to the gullible or uninitiated and nothing more.
Anyway, you honestly think that 5 or 6 writers/reviewers got in a room and listened to all the songs that came out this year and painstakingly judged the best songs through some secret formula that assigns value to such tunes just so they can inform their loyal readership?

Common sense gets lost sometimes in todays 'I'm offended by that' society

Nope. Which will explain any assumptions or misrepresentations i may have made. Im only going on what i've seen from their constant 'top 20' lists i've seen mentioned on forums

Thanks Rick, i appreciate that.

Was expecting folk to just respond flippantly & tell me to lighten up so cheers my good man

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Extremely succinct post my good man!  Beautiful.  Spot ON as you say.  Definitely one of the top 5 JB forum succinct posts of the year!!!    

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