I was aimlessly stumbling around the internet last night and landed on Rolling Stones "Best Albums of the Decade" list and noticed that there were a number of artists I'd not heard of and that there was a whole lot of Kings of Leon and U2. It got me thinking that I've always been pretty shitty at keeping up with new albums and such, but it also got me thinking that Rolling Stone's list is not where I'd like to start exploring unheard albums from (I believe every album KoL and U2 made in the decade cracked the top 50!). So I thought it'd be cool for us to post our 50 favorite albums between 2000-2010 and maybe I can get caught up with the times from all of you fine people.
50 probably sounds like a lot, but I feel if we go with anything under 30 we are gonna see too many repeats. Plus it's fun! It's a list, what's not fun about it? I could list all day long. Quick go have fun, or have fun at the speed you normally have fun at. It's a big world out there and I can respect we all have fun at different intensity levels so don't nobody go hurting themselves trying to feel you must hold yourself to some kind of socially assumed fun level that all the cool kids are saying you must be at, take your time or don't of course, if that's your thing, right?. Cool.
Also, just list what ever album you liked to listen to. I don't think this list should concern itself with the cultural significances of the decade. As in, don't include a dub-step album just cuz you gotta represent the fact that womping happened in the 2000's which leads you to scouring your foggy memory for the most perfect proto dub-step album you can think of (Which was probably already done by Beethoven oh so long ago anyway, so give up with that nonsense). Unless of course that specific Womper is something you just plain ol' liked. We clear? Of course we are, nothing complicated about that. Do we all remember what's happening here? That's right, we're having fun.
Oh yeah, reissues don't count, nor do b-sides, outakes, or anything other than a proper album. These are the rules.
Here are 50 from me in no particular order.
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part 1 Of Montreal Coquelicot yada yada... and so forth.. and so on... New Pornographers Mass Romantic The Avalanches Since I left You Tom Waits Real Gone Colin Stetson - New History Waterfare Vol. 1 Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica Beachwood Sparks Once We Were Trees Tindersticks - Can Our Love Sparkelhorse Its A Wonderful Life Radiohead Kid A The Constantines Shine A Light Wilco A Ghost Is Born Beck Sea Change Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People Caribou Swim Animal Collective Sung Tongs TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain They Might Be Giants No! Sufjan Stevens Illinois My Morning Jacket Z Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers 13 and God 13 and God Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome Cut Chemist The Audience is Listening The Deadly Snakes Porcella The National Alligator Panda Bear Person Pitch The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse Beirut The Flying Cup Club Feist The Reminder Fuck Buttons Street Horsing Marc Ribots Ceramic Dog Party Intellectuals Black Mountain In the Future Dirty Projectors Bitte Ocra LCD Soundsystem This is Happening The Drive-By Truckers The Big To Do Snowglobe Doing the Distance The Shins Chutes Too Narrow Ween White Pepper Tom Waits Alice The Unicorns I was Born A Unicorn Man Man Six Demon Bag Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump Hawksley Workman For Him and the Girls The Rheostatics Night Of the Shooting Stars Lemon Jelly LemonJelly, KY The Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours The Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creations Dark Tom Waits Blood Money
EDIT: Damn, I forgot about the Pernice Brothers. All their 2000 stuff was solid but I would add "Your, Mine & Ours" to this list in a heart beat.
I put the first fifteen in order, then I just filled in the gaps. My list is sort of boring, a little Pitchfork-y, but whatever, I stand by all of these albums. Also, I'm sure I'm forgetting 10 or so that I ordinarily would have put up here.
Circulatory System - Circulatory System The Strokes - Is This It? Animal Collective - Sung Tongs The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When Were Gone? The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell Joanna Newsom - Ys Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker Arcade Fire - Funeral Sigur Ros - () The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands, Child, You Walk Like a Peasant The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists M.I.A. - Kala The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Beach House - Teen Dream Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend Radiohead - Kid A Radiohead - Hail to the Thief Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me Lil Wayne - The Carter III Kanye West - Graduation Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz Gossip - Music for Men chune-yArDs - BiRd BrAiNs The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Daft Punk - Discovery Spoon - Girls Can Tell Spoon - Kill the Moonlight Future Islands - In Evening Air The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America Jens Lekman - Oh Youre So Silent Jens Liars - Drums Not Dead The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Baths - Cerulean The Field - From Here We Go Sublime Dr. Garbanzourines - Skeleton Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery Viking Moses - Crosses
Dreeeeeeeeww, this came out in 1999! Although I wouldn't even fault some future boarder in the year 2030 if they put it on their 2020-2030 Best of List. Shit is timeless.
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening (#2) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (#5) The Strokes - Is This It? Daft Punk - Discovery Chemical Brothers - Further Girl Talk- Feed the Animals Arcade Fire - Funeral (#3) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Jay-Z - Black Jay-Z - The Blueprint Kanye West - College Dropout (#4) Kanye West - MBTDF Outkast - Stankonia Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors The White Stripes - Elephant The Antlers - Hospice The Arkells - Jackson Square Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (#1) Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record Amy Winehouse - Back to Black Chromeo - Fancy Footwork Dan Deacon - Bromst Diane Birch - Bible Belt Foals - Total Life Forever Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound The Hold Steady - Stay Positive Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid Joel Plaskett Emergency - Down at the Khyber Joel Plaskett Emergency - Truthfully, Truthfully Josh Ritter - The Animal Years Justice - Cross Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day The Knife - Deep Cuts MGMT - Oracular Spectular Miike Snow - Miike Snow My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves The National - Boxer Passion Pit - Manners Phantogram - Eyelid Movies Robyn - Body Talk Sleigh Bells - Treats Temper Trap - Conditions Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History The XX- XX Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Although I wouldn't fault some future boarder in the year 2030 if they put it on their 2020-2030 Best of List. Shit is timeless.
Just for clarification, are you asking us to compile a top 50 of the first decade of the century (2000-2009), or a top 50 of the century so far minus this year (11 years, 2000 - 2010). The above quoted text makes me think the former was intended.
Ha ha. I knew I'd get busted on that sooner or later. I included 2010 as part of the "decade" for no other reason than some decent albums came out in 2010 that I personally wanted to add to the list. I make the "decade" rules 'round these parts! Also, I was being serious about my lack of current release knowledge, so personally it serves me quite nicely to have it go all the way to 2010.
The Pitchforks are bad, but they don't hold a candle to how bad CoS is. They have zero consistency and make straight up lies about shit. The one good thing is they have a comment section that you can point out all their terribleness on. When they reviewed the Flaming Lips @ Sas. they made no mention of the Soft Bulletin not being completed or the cake or anything. They were just like "solid set", because they clearly left halfway through, if they even went, to see Yeasayer. That's one of a thousand examples. Fuck those people.
I think all that proves is that those Pitchfork lists are collaborative efforts by the staff rather than a reflection of the individual reviews.
/Pea's "no shit" statement of the day.
I had this all typed up then read further down and saw that you beat me to it:
Really it's not a huge shock that the review doesnt agree with the top 200 list. The review is by 1 person and the list is (as far as I know) all or most of the writers.
Being this is the first time I have read this list, it really isnt a surprise, though I dont think Kid A was the best album of the last decade.
Is anyone going to make a list in actual order or are we all too scared to get into a debate about what was the best album of the decade?
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