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My Top Ten Albums of the Last Decade:

post #1 of 29
3/23/10 at 4:23am
Thread Starter 
The 00's. The decade that music made a comeback. A return from the cookie cutter coporate alt rock propaganda that every wanna be that ever heard the opening notes to "..Teen Spirit" attempted to replicate. Wash, Rinse, Repeat, and post your top ten.

Without further adieu:

10. Amy Winehouse "Back to Black"

9. Danger Mouse (The Beatles vs. Jay Z) "The Grey Album"

8. Sufjan Stevens "Illinios"

7. Radiohead "Kid A"

6 The National "Boxer"

5. TV on the Radio "Return To Cookie Mountain"

4. Jay Z "The Blueprint"

3. Nora Jones "Come Away With Me"

2. Bloc Party "Silent Alarm"

1. TV on the Radio "Dear Science"


There you have it. Now, what are your Top 10 albums from the preceeding decade?
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post #2 of 29
3/23/10 at 4:38am
I haven't heard a lot of newer stuff (Animal collective and ilk) but here goes, in no particular order:

Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Ros - ( )
Jon Foreman - Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer EPs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On the Bad One
Audio Adrenaline - Until My Heart Caves In
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Sigur Ros - Takk...
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post #3 of 29
3/23/10 at 4:52am
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Im not familiar with Sigur Ros. I'm assuming they are a band. What are they like?
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post #4 of 29
3/23/10 at 6:42am
Disclaimer: These lists are fun, but arbitrary by nature. I didn't consider any jazz or classical recordings, and for every pop/rock/hip-hop choice, I probably could have substituted any of five others.

Having said that...

Beck -- Sea Change
The Streets -- A Grand Don't Come for Free
Alice Smith -- For Lovers, Dreamers, and Me
The White Stripes -- White Blood Cells
MIA -- Arular
Jay Z -- The Black Album
Lucinda Williams -- World Without Tears
Ghostface Killah -- Fishscale
Deerhoof -- The Runners Four
Amy Winehouse -- Back to Black

On a very disturbing note (for me at least), two of the albums I wanted to include (O.K. Computer and The Miseducation of Lauren Hill) turned out to be from the late 90s. Oh my. When did I get so old?
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post #5 of 29
3/23/10 at 7:22am
The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
Devin Townsend - Terria
Devin Townsend - Ki
The Meads of Asphodel - Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua
Agalloch - The Mantle
Taake - Bjoergvin
Solefald - Pills Against the Ageless Ills
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Ackercocke - Words That Go Unspken, Deeds That Go Undone
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post #6 of 29
3/23/10 at 7:47am
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Originally Posted by JDGAFFLIN View Post
Im not familiar with Sigur Ros. I'm assuming they are a band. What are they like?
think of the most achingly beautiful feeling you've ever had, and imagine it in sound, washing over and inside you, making this glorious, luminous thing you just can't explain...

...they're a band, of elfin gods.

YouTube - Sigur Rós - Popplagid (Heima live) HD
talk about minimalism!

YouTube - sigur ros - Svefn-g-englar

YouTube - Sigur Ros - Vaka (Live)

YouTube - Sigur Ros - Glósóli

YouTube - Sigur Ros - Hljomalind
that's not an official video, but it's pretty effective with the song.

YouTube - Sigur Rós - Flugufrelsarinn (music video)
this one: forget the video...I just thought you should hear this song.
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post #7 of 29
3/23/10 at 9:18am
in no particular order cept for #1
#1 Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Fall of Ideals - All that Remains
Horizons - Parkway Drive
nocturnal - The Black Dahlia Murder
Deja Entendu - Brand New
On letting Go - Circa Survive
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Panic at the Disco
Toxicity - System of a Down
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold

though as a warning i did pick this list in all of 5 minutes
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post #8 of 29
3/23/10 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by DrBenway View Post
Disclaimer: These lists are fun, but arbitrary by natur
I would say that should be assumed when reading most any list, even more so for a medium as dense in selection and relative as music.

Quck 'n Dirty, In Order:

1. Autechre - Confield
The Knife - Silent Shout
Therion - Lemuria
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Mastodon - Leviathan
Pan Sonic - Kesto (234.48:4)
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa
Principles of Geometry - Lazare
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Ladytron - Witching Hour
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post #9 of 29
3/23/10 at 12:46pm
Maybe not the 10 objectively best albums of the decade, but 10 albums that I spent the most time with. In alphabetical order:

Gold - Ryan Adams
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
Rockin' the Suburbs - Ben Folds
Keep it Together - Guster
Around the Year With - Joe, Marc's Brother
O - Damien Rice
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
Final Straw - Snow Patrol
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2
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post #10 of 29
3/23/10 at 1:06pm
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Originally Posted by virometal View Post
I would say that should be assumed when reading most any list, even more so for a medium as dense in selection and relative as music.
I absolutely agree. I wrote that because I have seen discussions like this get pretty heated, and I just wanted to reinforce my perspective. Not everyone has a sense of humor, or a sense of proportion, for that matter. Discussions about music can be as volatile as discussions about religion sometimes!

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Originally Posted by kamcma View Post
Maybe not the 10 objectively best albums of the decade, but 10 albums that I spent the most time with.
Very well put; I would describe my thought process and my selections in the same way. I hesitated, for example, when i realized that there was no Radiohead on my list. While I think they made some great albums during the decade, and may in fact be the best rock act of the decade, my personal favorite is definitely O.K. Computer. I had that on my list initially, but had to remove it when it dawned on me that it was actually released in the late 90s.

Their albums of the 2000s may even be better than O.K. Computer. But none of them knocked me sideways the way OKC did. I remember sitting in my living room with my girlfriend and just playing it over and over again. The subsequent albums, while great, didn't have quite the same "shock of the new" for me.
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post #11 of 29
3/23/10 at 1:31pm
Thread Starter 
Great thread so far. I use these lists as much as a learning tool to discover new music, rather then argue about who has better tastes. Plus it's nice to get a perspective to what others are listening too.

As the thread title suggests. MY list was MY top 10. Everyone elses list will vary. Doesn't mean I don't want to see 'em.
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post #12 of 29
3/23/10 at 1:54pm
No particular order:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
Daft Punk - Discovery
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Hot Chip - The Warning
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - S/T
The Knife - Silent Shout
Radiohead - Kid A
Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Zero 7 - When It Falls
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post #13 of 29
3/23/10 at 2:29pm
I am old because I can't even think of 10. I did notice that Tool's "Lateralus" hasn't been mentioned yet. Nor has Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". Maybe Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's "BRMC"? Us old timer listen to music so I'll give a nod to David Gilmour's "On An Island". For the heck of it I'll add Green Day's "American Idiot". I'll throw in Opeth's "Damnation". Does Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" count? Oh shoot I forgot Radiohead's "Kid A". I know that's not 10, but that's all I've got.

If we mentioned the 70's, the list could be 100's of albums long. I think that says something.
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post #14 of 29
3/23/10 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by baka1969 View Post
I am old because I can't even think of 10. I did notice that Tool's "Lateralus" hasn't been mentioned yet. Nor has Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". Maybe Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's "BRMC"? Us old timer listen to music so I'll give a nod to David Gilmour's "On An Island". For the heck of it I'll add Green Day's "American Idiot". I'll throw in Opeth's "Damnation". Does Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" count? Oh shoot I forgot Radiohead's "Kid A". I know that's not 10, but that's all I've got.

If we mentioned the 70's, the list could be 100's of albums long. I think that says something.
It says you're more familiar with music from the 70's and you like more of it. I'd personally have no trouble throwing out 100 albums from last decade, if asked. I haven't posted a list yet because I'm having trouble narrowing do to just 10. So, it's all relative.
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post #15 of 29
3/23/10 at 3:56pm
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Madvillain - Madvillainy
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
St. Vincent - Actor
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