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

**Ivan Drago** · 08-06-2009, 12:46 AM

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** · 08-06-2009, 01:40 AM

Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)

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** · 08-06-2009, 02:36 PM

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** · 08-06-2009, 03:40 PM

Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)

1. Discovery - Daft Punk

how the hell did i forget this? would definitely make my top ten

**trotchky** · 08-07-2009, 06:30 AM

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** · 08-07-2009, 12:51 PM

Quoting trotchky (view post)

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** · 08-07-2009, 12:52 PM

Quoting ThePlashyBubbler (view post)

Brian Wilson - SMiLE

Awesome.

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

**Pop Trash** · 08-07-2009, 03:01 PM

Quoting trotchky (view post)

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** · 08-07-2009, 04:06 PM

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** · 08-07-2009, 04:07 PM

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** · 08-07-2009, 04:12 PM

Quoting Boner M (view post)

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** · 08-07-2009, 04:33 PM

Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)

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** · 08-07-2009, 04:40 PM

Quoting Boner M (view post)

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** · 08-07-2009, 05:09 PM

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** · 08-07-2009, 05:23 PM

Quoting Raiders (view post)

St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Do you mean Actor or Marry Me?

**Raiders** · 08-07-2009, 05:25 PM

Quoting Derek (view post)

Do you mean Actor or Marry Me?

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

**EyesWideOpen** · 08-08-2009, 06:04 PM

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** · 08-08-2009, 07:08 PM

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** · 08-08-2009, 07:44 PM

Quoting Spinal (view post)

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** · 08-09-2009, 01:30 AM

Quoting Spinal (view post)

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** · 08-09-2009, 01:35 AM

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

**trotchky** · 08-09-2009, 01:44 AM

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** · 08-09-2009, 01:10 PM

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** · 08-10-2009, 03:15 AM

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.

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