I also tend to get very snippy about declarations of musical greatness (as you can tell). I apologize if I have offended. My complaint is not that the groups on MoDs list are bad, just that they're nowhere near a "best of all time" list (in my opinion). I suppose I just get suspicious when I see so much recent music, and my first assumption is "oh, this person just picks whatever's popular right now instead of really thinking about it," which is an unfair assumption to make. But hey, Stunt is awesome and Norah Jones is great, so I'll shut up and let people have their opinions.
While we're on the subject, here's my top ten list:
1: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by the Beatles. Anyone who disagrees is wrong.
2: Abbey Road, by the Beatles. Oddly, this is the only Beatles album I own. My others have all been loaned out and lost.
3: Nevermind, by Nirvana. Completely revolutionary. Maybe I'm just thankful that it finally killed the 80s.
4: Simon and Garfunkel, Greatest Hits. Not a single song on this album is less than a classic.
5: Rubber Soul, by the Beatles. No, I'm not just picking every Beatles album I know. It's really that good.
6: Revolver, by the Beatles. Okay, maybe I have some bias Beatleward.
7: Thriller, by Michael Jackson. Thriller could get on this list as a single, but the album also has Beat It and Billie Jean.
8: Graceland, by Paul Simon. Possibly the best poet of the modern world, let alone the best songwriter.
9: Hot Rocks 1964-1971, by the Rolling Stones. The best of the Stones during their very best years. Even if you don't think you know any Stones songs, I bet you could sing along with half the tracks in this set.
10: The Joshua Tree, by U2. I'm not even a huge fan of U2, but I know good music when I hear it.