So I'm off work and thought I'd get some more music talk going. This time lets rank the best Albums of the decade since we're at midway point. I started with 2001 since we all know perfectly well the decade didn't start in 2000. So, the criteria is to give your desert island top 15 - 20 albums of the decade. The only stipulation is no reissues or greatest hits compilations. Soundtrack are permitted provided that at least 50% of the songs are original and I guess Dj compilations (ie Cafe Del Mar, Thievery Corporation, etc...) can be included as they're made up off new songs. Leeway will be given for albums released in 2000 but not in the USA untill 2001. Remeber to choose as if you were being sentenced to a desert island for life and you can only bring new material from 2000's. PS. Commentary is welcome. Explain why you want/feel Justin Timerlake's - Justified is a top album. I'll start.... 1) The White Stripes - Elephant 2) 2 Many Dj's - as heard on radio soulwax pt2 3) Aterciopelados - Gozo Poderoso 4) The Strokes - Is this it 5) RJD2 - Dead Ringer 6) Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango 7) Babasonicos - Jessico 8) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 9) Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz & Thee Glitz 10) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 11) I Monster - Neveroddoreven 12) The Greenhornes - Dual Mono 13) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf 14) Loretta Lynn - Van Der Rose 15) Cafe del Mar - Cafe Del Mar: Volume 6 16) Interpol - Antics 17) M.I.A. - Arular 18) Hot Chip - The Warning 19) The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free 20) Bebe - Pafuera Telarañas These are the albums that define the decade for me. I'm latin so I have the luxury of having another culture to draw from. As such, I included some Latin albums that are very close to my heart. I had a hard time finding a Hip-Hop album that was great from beging to end. I enjoyed several tracks from various artists but no entire album made me want to bump any of my top 20. Which leads me to ask: Is this a bad decade for Hip-Hop???? Is 50 cent the zenith of the genre as of today???? Plenty of other albums by the Gorrillaz, Nortec Collective, Beck, etc... almost made the cut. But these are my top 20.
here's 11 off the top of my head and in no particular order - i might be leaving some out? white stripes - get behind me satan jay z - the black album / danger mouse - the grey album - the grey album is what i heard first and that made me a jay-z fan - i bought some of his albums b/c of that, so let it be known that when dj's do stuff like danger mouse the source can still make money off it - do you hear me sir paul? radiohead - hail to the thief wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot sufjan stevens - come on feel the illinoise juana molina - son beck - sea change nellie mckay - get away from me cafe tacuba - cuatro caminos spiritualized - let it come down oneida - the wedding two soundtracks... hedgwig and the angry inch team america: world police - "america, **** yeah"
beck - sea change ben harper - diamonds on the insdie chemical brothers - push the button flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots johnny cash - any of the american recordings kings of leon - youth and young manhood moby - hotel nick cave - abattior blues/the lyre of orpheus ry cooder and manuel galbon - mambo sinuendo sigur ros - takk tom petty - the last dj weezer - weezer wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot zwan - mary star of the sea
Nodes of Ranvier "Nodes of Ranvier" Bloc Party "Silent Alarm" Sigur Ros "Takk" Pelican "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw" Mogwai "Mr. Beast" Becoming the Archetype "Terminate Damnation" every album from Between the Buried and Me Beck - "Sea Change" Kings of Leon "Aha Shake Heartbreak" The Shins "Oh, Inverted World" God Is An Astronaut "Let It Come Down" Explosions in the Sky "How Strange, Innocence" mewithoutYou "A-->B Life" RHCP "Stadium Arcadium" Spiritualized "Lazer Guided Melodies"
Opinion only, and off the top of my head. And in no particular order. 1) Jay-Z - Blueprint 2) Circa Survive - Juturna 3) Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury; We Got It 4 Cheap series [I been waiting for Hell Hath for upwards of 3 years. It didn't disappoint.] 4] Nas - God's Son [yeah Stillmatic was great back then but hasn't really stood the test of time imo] 5] Fall of Troy - Doppelganger [for the youngn's. What the Mars Volta shoulda been, in my eyes at least.] 6] Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes; Worlds Apart [many sleep on the latter. It's one of the most beautiful, well put together albums I've ever heard.] 7] Deftones - White Pony 8] Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute [these guys are nuts. Daryl, the singer is one of the best I've ever seen live.] 9] Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights [the spiritual successors of the Smiths, Joy Division, etc.] 10] Radiohead - KID A/Amnesiac [I have a boner for this band.] I realize none of these would make any music publication's lists. This is just a personal faves of the decade list
You like Antics more than their debut? Also, give the new Clipse a listen if you want a rap album thats great all the way through. This was a great decade for hip-hop, it's just that the majority of so-called rappers today are fake, manufactured copy-cat products of the industry. And we can't complain, when we started buying record breaking amounts of 50 cent records, we created the monster known as "fake-thug rap". Shame on me for buying that album.
My old band played with them at CMJ Festival in Cleveland awhile ago. I didn't dig em til i saw them live. One of the funnest shows I've ever been to...the entire band was on point, son!
I get so pumped up for the build up...then the scream...then "And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead"....then one of the most epic songs ever. I was so happy they used that intro to promote the NBA playoffs back in 05. GO TEXAS MUSIC!
In no particular order: "By the Way" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "Turn on the Bright Lights" - Interpol "Silent Alarm" - Bloc Party "( )" - Sigur Ros "Living With War" - Neil Young "Sea Change" - Beck "Guero" - Beck "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" - Wilco "A Ghost Is Born" - Wilco "Hot Fuss" - The Killers "Modern Times" - Bob Dylan "Takk.." - Sigur Ros "Push the Button" - Chemical Brothers "Palookaville" - Fatboy Slim "Antics" - Interpol "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" - The Flaming Lips "X & Y" - Coldplay "Hail to the Thief" - Radiohead "The Eraser" - Thom Yorke "Aerial" - Kate Bush "Mary Star of the Sea" - Zwan I probably should have more but my musical tastes are more geared to older artists like Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Byrds (probably my new favorite group), Queen, Roxy Music, The Smiths, etc. Artists that normally don't do new albums.
yeah no offense to the guy that started the thread but for me "turn on the bright lights" was miles and miles better then antics. there were only 2-3 songs on that whole album that in my opinion that can stand up to the average song on bright lights. sorry just had to get that out
Taxiride - Imaginate Savage Garden - Affirmation Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want Pink Cream 69 - Sonic Dynamite Racer X - Technical Difficulties Hanson - This Time Around House Of Shakira - III Wonderland - End of the Bliss Tribe of The Gypies - III Sammy Hagar - Ten 13 SR-71 - Now You See Inside Doug Howard - Last Standing Man Dakota Moon - Dakota Moon Gotthard - Homerun Dream Hunter - Bad Attitude Ashes to Ashes - Darker Side Robbie Williams - Ego Has Landed American Hi Fi - s/t Sugarbomob - Bully Stabbing Westward - s/t Danger Danger - Cockroach Taxiride - Garbage Mahal Jughead - s/t Britton - Alien Romper Room Yogi - Any Raw Flesh Tonic - Head on Straight Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers Hall & Oates - Do It for Love Train - My Private Nation Vertical Horizon - Go HIM - Razorblade Romance Green Day - American Idiot
Some solid albums off the top of my head. Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below Ludacris - Word of Mouf 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin Kanye West - The College Dropout Hieroglyphics - Full Circle Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium Tool - Lateralus Becoming The Archetype - Terminate Damnation Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand Muse - Absolution Eminem - The Eminem Show The Roots - Phrenology Still Remains - Of Love and Lunacy The White Stripes - Elephant Audioslave - Out of Exile System of a Down - Toxicity Opeth - Blackwater park Nodes of Ranvier - Self Titled
