The next issue of Rolling Stone — on stands and available in the online archive on Friday — features fifty artists sharing lists of top ten songs from artists and musical mini-genres that they know, and love, deeply. Highlights include Yoko Ono on her favorite John Lennon songs, My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way on the best glam rock tunes, Win Butler on Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith on Bob Dylan's love songs. Over the next five weeks, RollingStone.com will post these and bonus, online-only lists, with streams of many of the songs as well as audio from interviews with some of the best-known list-makers.

The playlist issue started with an idea from Roots drummer ?uestlove. We asked him to tell us his favorite songs, but he said he wanted to go deeper. "In my eyes, what defines a true artist is their filler," he said. "I happen to like the Stevie Wonder songs that aren't hits. I can say the same thing for Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Prince's hits are like a red carpet that he lays out

Ryan Adams, "Destroyers"
The first track from Adams' forthcoming album Cardinals III/IV, which collects material recorded during the Easy Tiger sessions into "the Cardinals second double-album concept rock opera about the '80s, ninjas, cigarettes, sex and pizza," has more of a loose-limbed, '70s-rock feel. Not that this quality is necessarily a bad thing. (Adams' site also has some demos from that era available for download.)

OMD, "VCR"
Britain's New Wave stalwarts tip their collective cap to the next generation with this beautiful cover of a song by their much-buzzed-about fellow citizens the xx. This haunting track recalls the heights reached by the band's 1981 synthpop masterpiece Architecture & Morality. [Via]

Morose, "Tired"
The name of this band, and this song, will probably give you a good idea of just how downcast the music is. Thankfully, the misery the band wallows in comes off beautifully, thanks in part to a vocalist with a wail not unlike Morrissey's — and the three

When the Bay Area's weather permits, folk legend Joan Baez sleeps 20 feet above ground in a wall-less treehouse nestled inside a 200-year-old oak on her property. On Wednesday, while disembarking from the house, she fell to the ground, sending her to the hospital.

Baez was treated for minor injuries at Stanford Hospital after the incident at her Woodside, Calif., home.

Rolling Stone's Afternoon With Joan Baez And Pete Seeger

"My contact with nature and the moon and the birds and the trees, they mean so much to me," Baez said when discussing the treehouse in an October interview with the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle .

Nancy Lutzow, who works at Baez's company Diamonds & Rust Productions, told the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday that the singer was "resting comfortably." Baez's next live appearances are scheduled for March 2011.

Joan Baez injured in fall from backyard treehouse [San Jose Mercury News via Pat's Papers] 

In the '70s, John Lydon called himself Johnny Rotten and raged against Britain's monarchy with the Sex Pistols' scorching "God Save The Queen." But in the British tabloid The Sun he wishes Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton the best — and notes that his problems with his homeland's royal family are rooted in the "austere nonsense ... being propagated," not the people themselves.

"People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true," Lydon says in the lengthy piece, which was culled from an interview with the Sex Pistols/Public Image Limited frontman. Lydon praised William's mother, the late Princess Diana, for changing the face of the royal family and helping them shake off the doldrums that led to "God Save the Queen."

"Di firmly started laying the pathway out of all that," Lydon said. "She was fantastic. Di introduced a different element to it all. She refused to turn up and just be a cartoon character in someone else's charade."

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