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Post by davers on Sept 6, 2011 17:44:43 GMT -8
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? Step right up Davers. Order that shit. "That" being your. When I first read this thread I thought it would be tough to come up with 50 albums that really made an impact on me, but reading all these lists makes me think it wont be that hard. I'll try and to an ordered list by the end of the night. Oh and I own 3 copies of The Moon and Antarctica so those will be the top 3.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Sept 6, 2011 18:01:03 GMT -8
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest I was definitely tossin' and turnin' about whether or not to include this. Great album.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Sept 6, 2011 18:07:30 GMT -8
I think what I will do is eventuallly make two lists, one will include an ordered list of the bands that appear on multiple lists (if we all start to order our shit I'll make it fit that as well) and another list that will comprise of all the bands that only appear once. I'm actually looking foward to the second list so I can pluck random albums out when I'm looking to hear something new. What's a good time frame to do this? I'm thinking 2 weeks from now.
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Post by Drew on Sept 6, 2011 19:03:12 GMT -8
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Post by Drew on Sept 6, 2011 19:04:21 GMT -8
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Dreeeeeeeeww, this came out in 1999! 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. Whoops. Add Feist- The Reminder instead. I also forgot Outkast altogether! WTF! Stankonia would probably kick one of those out of my top 15. I ordered my top albums, fuckers, read the post
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Post by know ID yuh on Sept 6, 2011 19:36:02 GMT -8
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 horse porn 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. quoted for emphasis I8 , we should look into the option of disallowing people to delete posts. There was a great reply by an unnamed poster which I was going to reply to, but then they deleted it, so my thoughts won't make sense. Anyway, to reply to nameless poster, COS is terrible. It was a great sight when it was a collaboration of internet information, but when they tried to create original content, and be the anti-Pitchfork, it became insufferable. I credit Pitchfork for even quoting COS, because the opposite wouldn't happen (I don't read COS anymore, so maybe they have changed that recently). I think Alex is a good guy, and I'm glad he made a living out of it, but man that shit is TERRIBLE.
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Post by interstateeight on Sept 6, 2011 19:46:10 GMT -8
Should be done. Could a non-mod please tell me if they can delete their own post?
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Post by Lump on Sept 6, 2011 20:11:58 GMT -8
Test.
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Post by Lump on Sept 6, 2011 20:12:20 GMT -8
Yikes. I can't delete. I don't know how I feel about this.
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Post by Lump on Sept 6, 2011 20:12:47 GMT -8
The good news is I'm probably going to post much much less because I'm super paranoid now.
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Post by J-Dawg on Sept 6, 2011 20:15:15 GMT -8
I've rarely used the delete button. I did make a late night drunk post once that souly totally called me out on after I deleted it, and after that I've been a bit more careful about drunk posting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 20:19:53 GMT -8
I just happen to get up for work at the same time all of you party-goers are going to bed. I did enjoy that post though. You should probably drunk post more.
Also, if you really don't want your post to be seen you can just edit it to say something different, or nothing.
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Post by Pea on Sept 7, 2011 20:38:47 GMT -8
Oh ok
Alcest - Souvenirs d'Un Autre Monde Amos Lee - Amos Lee Amusement Parks On Fire - Road Eyes Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Arcade Fire - Funeral Band of Horses - Cease to Begin Between the Buried and Me - Alaska Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me Califone - Roots and Crowns Chromeo - Fancy Footwork Chromeo - Business Casual Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 Daft Punk - Human After All Damien Rice - O Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Dredg - El Cielo Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion Dropkick Murphys - Blackout Eluvium - Accidental Memory in the Case of Death Flogging Molly - Within a Mile of Home Grand Archives - The Grand Archives Ignite - Our Darkest Days Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days Jimmy Eat World - Futures Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening M83 - Saturdays = Youth Massive Attack - Heligoland Mum - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy Opeth - Blackwater Park Radiohead - Kid A Radiohead - In Rainbows Sigur Ros - ( ) Sigur Ros - Takk... The Antlers - Hospice The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism The Chemical Brothers - Further The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree The National - Boxer The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart The Postal Service - Give Up The Shins - Wincing the Night Away The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt Tool - Lateralus We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
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Post by davers on Sept 8, 2011 10:03:22 GMT -8
Disclaimer:
I was 12 at the start of this decade. At this point I was a skater kid, listened mostly to skater kid music and whatever was on the radio. Then I listened to a bunch of the classics for a few years then got into more current music. So I will have missed a whole bunch of music you all find obvious.
I tried to do a list from my head, but only came up with 32 albums I thought should be on the list. I picked my top 10 from these since if I couldnt think of it then it didnt make a big enough impact on me to make the top 10. The rest I had to look through itunes and other lists to get. I also made this in about an hour, so I probably forgot some stuff.
#1 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica #2 The Strokes - Is This It? (It took me ages to decide what should be #2) #3 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not #4 Arcade Fire - Funeral #5 Bad Religion - The Process of Belief #6 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver #7 Kanye West - College Dropout #8 The Postal Service - Give Up #9 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out #10 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible #11 Gorillaz - Demon Days #12 The White Stripes - Icky Thump #13 LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening #14 The Killers - Hot Fuss #15 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights #16 The Strokes - Room on Fire #17 Radiohead - In Rainbows #18 Black Mountain - In the Future #19 Gorillaz - Plastic Beach #20 Arkells - Jackson Square #21 TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain #22 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People #23 Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? #24 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf #25 Radiohead - Kid A #26 Daft Punk - Discovery #27 Massive Attack - Heligoland #28 Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away #29 Lily Allen - Alright, Still #30 Kanye West - Graduation #31 Wolfmother - Wolfmother #32 Beck - Guero #33 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells #34 M83 - Saturdays = Youth #35 Major Lazer - Guns Dont Kill People, Lazers Do! #36 Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place #37 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell #38 Jay Z - The Black Album #39 Fiest - Let it Die #40 Dropkick Murphys - Blackout #41 Lupe Fiasco - The Cool #42 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer #43 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters #44 The National - Boxer #45 Girl Talk - Night Ripper #46 Chromeo - Fancy Footwork #47 Fuck Buttons – Street Horsing #48 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend #49 Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky #50 Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
OK now I see why no one put all 50 in order. I ended up having to guess where a few albums went as a starting point, then use it as a guage for others. Once I finished I realized that X album was better than Y album. This went on for about 10 minutes till I said fuck it.
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Post by Pea on Sept 8, 2011 10:15:14 GMT -8
Shit! I totally forgot about the Postal Service album. I need to stuff that into my list somehow. Love seeing Blackout on your list too, davers. My copy of that CD is practically destroyed from so much listening during high school.
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Post by davers on Sept 8, 2011 11:22:28 GMT -8
I wanted to put The Gangs All Here on there to, but alas, 1999.
Still one of my favourite acts to see live, even if their show is pretty much the same every time.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Sept 8, 2011 11:38:27 GMT -8
Good work Davers!
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Post by kymess_jr on Sept 8, 2011 13:17:16 GMT -8
#10 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible I like that you put this on here, and so high up. Sometimes I think I'm one of the only people that really really liked this album. I think I'm gonna wuss out and just post my list in alphabetical order. It's far too stressful trying to order the damn thing.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Sept 8, 2011 13:39:02 GMT -8
I think a non-ordered list is a-okay.
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Post by Drew on Sept 8, 2011 14:02:05 GMT -8
#10 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible I like that you put this on here, and so high up. Sometimes I think I'm one of the only people that really really liked this album. I think I'm gonna wuss out and just post my list in alphabetical order. It's far too stressful trying to order the damn thing. A) You think you're one of the only people that really really liked that album? You should meet more people. I think it's generally regarded as being in the canon by most folks, in spite of the fact that HG is ambivalent towards it. B) I think it's funny that people stress out over ordering their lists, as if someone's going to hold them to it someday, or report their preferences to the bands. "The Strokes are pissed at me!" C) Though all these comments sound critical of you, kymess, I'm just twisting arms - no hate intended. And I'd love to see your list, ordered or not.
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