Hot on the heels of our own list of 2012’s 50 best albums comes the grandaddy of ‘em all, Rolling Stone. And I’m not kidding about the grandaddy thing: Their top five includes a 63-year-old dude and a 71-year-old dude. Which is especially insane because those picks — Bruce at 1, Dylan at 4 — really don’t deserve to be anywhere near the top of anything (they’re mid-pack at best in the respective artists’ catalogs). But hey, to paraphrase Woody Allen, Jann Wenner wants what Jann Wenner wants. More oldsters include Neil Young (67) at 10, Jimmy Cliff (64) at 12, Leonard Cohen (78) at 13, Dr. John (72) at 15, Bonnie Raitt (63) at 22, Donald Fagen (64) at 25, Bobby Womack (68) at 36. (To be clear: I’ve got nothing against any of those artists, albums, or the aged in general; why, just yesterday I just gave a positive review to a new album from a 67-year-old man. Just pointing out a general trend.) There’s some crossover between our list and theirs (and everyone else’s): Frank Ocean, Fiona Apple, Kendrick Lamar, Japandroids, Cloud Nothings, etc. The most surprising inclusions here, for me, are Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer and Green Day’s ¡Uno!, neither of which seem destined to go down in history as classics. Most shocking omission? Just considering the source and their predilictions, I’m kinda stunned to see the Rolling Stones’ three-disc hits compilation, Grr, left off. Hey, it’s got two new songs on it! Check out the list below.

01 Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

02 Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

03 Jack White – Blunderbuss

04 Bob Dylan – Tempest

05 Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…

06 Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city

07 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Here

08 Green Day – !Uno!

09 Japandroids – Celebration Rock

10 Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill

11 Mumford & Sons – Babel

12 Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth

13 Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas

14 Best Coast – The Only Place

15 Dr. John – Locked Down

16 Cat Power – Sun

17 John Mayer – Born and Raised

18 Nas – Life is Good

19 Band Of Horses – Mirage Rock

20 Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music

21 Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory

22 Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream

23 Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits

24 G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer

25 Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos

26 Django Django – Django Django

27 Gary Clark Jr. – Blak and Blu

28 Beach House – Bloom

29 Dave Matthews Band – Away From the World

30 Azealia Banks – 1991

31 Taylor Swift – Red

32 Hospitality – Hospitality

33 Grimes – Visions

34 Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls

35 Grizzly Bear – Shields

36 Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe

37 Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now

38 Titus Andronicus – Local Business

39 Passion Pit – Gossamer

40 Escort – Escort

41 The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter

42 Allo Darlin’ – Europe

43 fun. – Some Nights

44 Garbage – Not Your Kind of People

45 Rick Ross – Rich Forever

46 Muse – The 2nd Law

47 Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables

48 The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania

49 Amadou And Mariam – Folila

50 Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan