Dylan tops Rolling Stone albums list

Bob Dylan's Modern Times has been hailed the year's best album by rock bible Rolling Stone.

The folk-rock icon's acclaimed album beat the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium and Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped to the top of the pile in the magazine's year-end poll.

Other top albums from the likes of TV On The Radio and Cat Power also made the top 10, as did Tom Waits' newly-released collection Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards.

Rolling Stone's top 10 albums are:

1. Modern Times by Bob Dylan

2. Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers

3. Rather Ripped by Sonic Youth

4. Return To Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio

5. Fishscale by Ghostface Killah

6. The Greatest by Cat Power

7. Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse

8. Boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady

9. Blood Mountain by Mastodon

10. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards by Tom Waits.