Post by Friendly Destroyer on Sept 5, 2011 7:19:24 GMT -8
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 – It’s 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 Ribot’s 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.
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 – It’s 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 Ribot’s 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.
just came into its own in a big way.
