Best Album.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Ball Tops in Stone

Rolling Stone has named Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball the best album of the year. The magazine -- which gave the album five stars when it was released in March -- calls it "Rock's most pointed response to the Great Recession: a song suite explicitly for the 99 percent, as largehearted, and as righteously wrathful, as any album he's made." The blurb also calls it "Springsteen's most walloping and adventurous release in decades."