Your Top Ten Albums of this Decade (00-09)

[Pop Trash]

Similar to the film thread in this topic. Let's see those top tens ladies and gentlemen.

[Pop Trash]

Oh, and this is completely unofficial. No poll or anything.

[Spinal]

1. Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (PJ Harvey)
2. American Idiot (Green Day)
3. Let it Die (Feist)
4. Once soundtrack (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová)
5. Gorillaz (Gorillaz)
6. Kid A (Radiohead)
7. Get Behind Me Satan (The White Stripes)
8. One Beat (Sleater-Kinney)
9. Extraordinary Machine (Fiona Apple)
10. Ayeshteni (Natacha Atlas)

[Sven]

5. Gorillaz (Gorillaz)

Cool.

[Melville]

1. Radiohead, Kid A
2. Portishead, Third
3. Sunset Rubdown, Shut Up I Am Dreaming
4. Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around
5. Arcade Fire, Funeral
6. Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights
7. Sunset, The Glowing City
8. Devendra Bandhart, Rejoicing in the Hands
9. The National, Boxer
10. Amon Tobin, Supermodified

[Derek]

7. Sunset, The Glowing City

:pritch:

[dreamdead]

1. Explosions in the Sky, "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place"
2. Isis, "Oceanic"
3. Boris, "Flood"
4. Chroma Key, "You Go Now"
5. Coaltar of the Deepers, "Come Over to the Deepend"
6. Sunset Rubdown, "Random Spirit Lover"
7. Tenhi, "Maaäet"
8. Radiohead, "Kid A"
9. Disillusion, "Back To Times Of Splendor"
10. The Field, "From Here We Go Sublime"

Runner-up: OSI, "Free"

Largely a blend of post-rock, indie rock, and atmospheric metal. I heavily recommend the Chroma Key (free to listen to at their website (http://chromakey.com/)) and Tenhi albums...

[Milky Joe]

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs/Armchair Apocrypha/Noble Beast
The Mountain Goats - All Hail Texas West
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat/We All Belong
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands/Nino Rojo/Smoky Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People/Broken Social Scene
The Capstan Shafts - Euridice Production
Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
Beach House - Devotion
Thomas Function - Celebration
The Mattoid - Hello

this is hopeless.

[D_Davis]

Almost impossible for me to do...

1. Brian Wilson - Smile
2. Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Song for Lost Blossoms
3. The Cure - Bloodflowers
4. cLOUDDEAD - Ten
5. Ween - Quebec
6. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
7. Brian Eno and David Byrne - Everything that Happens
8. Daniel Lanois - Shine
9. King Crimson - Construction of Light
10. Bruce Kaphan - Slider: Ambient Excursions for Pedal Steel Guitar

Too many others. This list could change tomorrow. Except for number 1.

[ContinentalOp]

I've barely scratched the surface of this decade, I'm afraid. For the last five, six years I've listened to mainly late 70's- early 90's alternative rock music. Well, anyway, here's a list.

1. Arcade Fire- Funeral
2. Joe Hisaishi- Joe Hisaishi Meets Kitano Films
3. The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4. Shellac- 1000 Hurts
5. The Magnetic Fields- I
6. Belle and Sebastian- The Life Pursuit
7. Radiohead- Kid A
8. New Order- Get Ready
9. Silver Jews- Tanglewood Numbers
10. Radiohead- Hail to the Thief

[trotchky]

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
5. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
6. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover'
7. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
8. Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
9. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
10. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine

ruffly; apt to change depending on my mood

[transmogrifier]

1. Blueberry Boat, The Fiery Furnaces
2. The Woods, Sleater-Kinney
3. Sonic Nurse, Sonic Youth
4. Sound of Silver, LCD Soundsystem
5. Funeral, Arcade Fire

6. XTRMNTR, Primal Scream
7. Hate, The Delgados
8. Third, Portishead
9. Murray Street, Sonic Youth
10. Hail to the Thief, Radiohead

Or something.

[Acapelli]

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Boris - Pink
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Strokes - Is This It
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine



HM: Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs, Arcade Fire - Neon Bible, Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die, Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene, Glasvegas - Glasvegas, Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights, Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender, Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye, Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds, Kanye West - 808s And Heartbreaks, The Knife - Deep Cuts, LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver, Liars - Drums Not Dead, The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic, Panda Bear - Person Pitch, Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyranny Of Distance, TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain, Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Destroyer - Your Blues
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse
Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
Animal Collective - Feels
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Arcade Fire - Funeral
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Cat Power - You Are Free

I think these are the 10 albums I have listened to the most this decade.

[trotchky]

i'm not sure how many of the albums on my list are there because they really meant something to me at one time and how many are there because i still enjoy listening to them. probably about fifty-fifty.

[ledfloyd]

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Kid A
Stay Positive
Sea Change
The Blueprint
Heartbreaker
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Get Behind Me Satan
The Extraordinary Machine (Jon Brion Version)

runners-up:
The Woods
Bows + Arrows
Cripple Crow
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
It Still Moves
Stankonia
Lateralus
Quality
The Dropper
Largo
Ys

[Melville]

:pritch:
Yeah, I can't get enough of that album. And your year-end lists introduced me to three of my top ten. Those lists are gold.

[Lasse]

I'll do a Danish top 10. Just because.

Kashmir - Zitilites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9qeL0usEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdJb_diCPh0

D-A-D - Everything Glows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwqLsFQj3hQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MnitGpGOkA

L.O.C - Melankolia/XXXCouture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5fGgsEfhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0puFb4WT72k

Suspekt - Prima Nocte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSMcuAmUJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyvO5ZrFhnY

SupaJan - Ditidol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGa4-l1YWIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJnElQA-I-E

Troo.L.S & Orgi-E - Forklædt Som Voksen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nH29AmwRws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERt94rBZ-Q8

Nephew - USADSB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4XWxzxa-eE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvEoSEl3yFg

Malk De Koijn - Sneglzilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j508YhHdk7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEImOWtYgUg

Aqua - Aquarius
...

Mew - Frengers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivoYMJq2kiI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tei_-YmCWek

[D_Davis]

Of the albums listed, I like these the most:

Sunset, The Glowing City
The Field, "From Here We Go Sublime"
Explosions in the Sky, "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place"
Isis, "Oceanic"
Boris, "Flood"
Beach House - Devotion
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Why? - Elephant Eyelash
Boris - Pink

[Milky Joe]

Beach House - Devotion

:pritch: I farking love this band.

[D_Davis]

:pritch: I farking love this band.


I don't listen to them as much as I would like to.

[right_for_the_moment]

1. The National - Boxer
2. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6. Madvillain - Madvillainy
7. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
8. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
9. Kanye West - College Dropout
10. Bob Dylan - Modern Times

Tentatively of course, I feel as though I am forgetting something

[Pop Trash]

1. Modest Mouse -The Moon and Antarctica (this should seriously be on more lists)
2. Arcade Fire -Funeral
3. Interpol -Turn On The Bright Lights
4. Radiohead -Kid A
5. Deltron 3030 -S/T (this too)
6. Wilco -Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7. Broken Social Scene -You Forgot It In People
8. Ted Leo/The Pharmacists -Hearts of Oak
9. The Shins -Oh, Inverted World
10.The Strokes -Is This It

A few notes: I wish I could put a TV on the Radio album on here, but I find their albums to be too inconsistent to be top ten worthy. But, holy crap, when those guys are good, they are great.

Also, I really need to get The National's Alligator and Boxer. The few songs I've heard have been great.

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Bob Dylan - "Modern Times"
2. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - "Real Emotional Trash"
3. Sleater-Kinney - "One Beat"
4. Regina Spektor - "Soviet Kitsch"
5. Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
6. Beirut - "Gulag Orkestar"
7. The National - "Boxer"
8. M.I.A. - "Kala"
9. Pharoahe Monch - "Desire"
10. Cat Power - "The Greatest"

So many honorable mentions, I won't waste my time listing them.

[ledfloyd]

i just realized i didn't remember malkmus or cat power. and dylan should've been in my honorable mentions.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Discovery - Daft Punk
2. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
3. Takk... - Sigur Ros
4. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
5. Bodysong soundtrack - Jonny Greenwood (does this count?)
6. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
7. The Glow Pt. II - The Microphones
8. Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
9. Relapse - Eminem
10. Eyes Open - Snow Patrol (yup hipster nihilism FTW)

[D_Davis]

Almost impossible for me to do...

1. Brian Wilson - Smile
2. Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Song for Lost Blossoms
3. The Cure - Bloodflowers
4. cLOUDDEAD - Ten
5. Ween - Quebec
6. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
7. Brian Eno and David Byrne - Everything that Happens
8. Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark
9. Daniel Lanois - Shine
10. King Crimson - Construction of Light

Too many others. This list could change tomorrow. Except for number 1.


Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark out...

Bruce Kaphan - Slider: Ambient Excursions for Pedal Steel Guitar in

[ThePlashyBubbler]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Beirut - Gulag Orkestrar
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Broken Social Scene - S/T
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance

Something Like That.

[Acapelli]

1. Discovery - Daft Punk
how the hell did i forget this? would definitely make my top ten

[trotchky]

i don't get the love for wilco. yankee hotel foxtrot, to me, is like a pavement album with completely dull, humorless lyrics. the instrumentation is very nice, but i find the disc pretty boring on the whole.

[D_Davis]

i don't get the love for wilco. yankee hotel foxtrot, to me, is like a pavement album with completely dull, humorless lyrics. the instrumentation is very nice, but i find the disc pretty boring on the whole.

I like it, but I don't love it. I greatly prefer Summerteeth, and even A Ghost is Born.

The often-mentioned album that I don't get the love for is Kid A. It's mediocre ambient/electronica at best, and a huge step backwards after The Bends and OKC.

[D_Davis]

Brian Wilson - SMiLE



Awesome.

How only one two people put this historical release on their list blows my mind.

[Pop Trash]

i don't get the love for wilco. yankee hotel foxtrot, to me, is like a pavement album with completely dull, humorless lyrics. the instrumentation is very nice, but i find the disc pretty boring on the whole.

I think it's kind of a masterpiece, but to each their own. I do remember thinking "Heavy Metal Drummer" sounded a hell of a lot like Pavement when I first heard it. But that's not really a bad thing.

[Boner M]

Dunno about a top ten, but my three most listened to are probably:

Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Coil - The Ape of Naples

[Boner M]

Actually, The Strokes' debut would probably be my most listened-to, but I only have time for several tracks on it these days ("Hard to Explain" would def. be among my top 10 songs of the decade).

[D_Davis]

Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet


Nice.

If you like Hecker, you should definitely check out the new comp I posted in the Discuss Music thread. There are a few tracks that you will most definitely dig.

[Boner M]

Nice.

If you like Hecker, you should definitely check out the new comp I posted in the Discuss Music thread. There are a few tracks that you will most definitely dig.
Will do.

btw, I checked out Jon Hassell recently on account of your constant pimpin' - first with Power Spot, which was pretty good, if a bit sterile and dry compared to, say, the Hassell-inspired Arve Henriksen (whose Chiaroscuro you should def. seek out), but I heard his more recent Fascinoma, which was really beautiful stuff. Still need to hear his latest... I'm fuming over missing his recent Sydney show, which by all reports was excellent.

[D_Davis]

Will do.

btw, I checked out Jon Hassell recently on account of your constant pimpin' - first with Power Spot, which was pretty good, if a bit sterile and dry compared to, say, the Hassell-inspired Arve Henriksen (whose Chiaroscuro you should def. seek out), but I heard his more recent Fascinoma, which was really beautiful stuff. Still need to hear his latest... I'm fuming over missing his recent Sydney show, which by all reports was excellent.

Power Spot is not a favorite of mine. I prefer Maarifa Street and his newest one the most. I dig Arve Henriksen - I dig a lot of stuff on Rune Grammafon. They're kind of like ECM, only geared more for my tastes.

:)

If they could somehow combine ECM's art aesthetic with RG's music...wow.

Speaking of which...if you haven't yet check out Prezens, with Craig Taborn and David Torn. Holy crap....avant-jazz-prog-rock at its finest.

[Raiders]

Alpha:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - Prospect Hummer
Badu, Erykah - New Amerykah Part One
Beck - Sea Change
Currituck County (Kevin Barker) - Ghost Man on Second
Harvey, PJ - White Chalk
Johannsson, Johann - IBM 1401: A User's Manual
Soundtrack - Once
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Wind-Up Bird, The - Whips

[Derek]

St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Do you mean Actor or Marry Me?

[Raiders]

Do you mean Actor or Marry Me?

Uh, damn, I've always thought her debut was self-titled. I meant Marry Me.

[EyesWideOpen]

Gorillaz - Demon Days
GZA & DJ Muggs - Grandmasters
The Strokes - Is This It
Weezer - Make Believe
Weezer - Maladroit
Weezer - The Green Album
The Killers - Sam's Town
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

[Spinal]

I think if I took my favorite songs off those three Weezer albums and made one album out of them, it would make my list.

[EyesWideOpen]

I think if I took my favorite songs off those three Weezer albums and made one album out of them, it would make my list.

I feel that way about The Red Album (even though it has my favorite Weezer song ever). But as for the three albums I listed I love all of them except for a weak track or two on each.

[Acapelli]

I think if I took my favorite songs off those three Weezer albums and made one album out of them, it would make my list.
throw in the red album and i could do the same

[D_Davis]

The only Weezer album I really like is the Blue album - but I really, really like that album. Top 50 good.

[trotchky]

pinkerton is my favorite weezer album. the blue album is also pretty great. the rest i can take or leave or else outright hate.

[EyesWideOpen]

I love all the Weezer albums equally except for The Red Album which I like the least. Weezer has been one of my three favorite groups since they came out, I don't know what it is but I just love their music. The Beatles, The Wu-Tang Clan & Weezer: the three most important bands in my life.

[Spaceman Spiff]

1. Portishead - Third
2. Radiohead - Amnesiac
3. Radiohead - Kid A

...er... there may be 1 or 2 others that I can't think of off the top of my head.