Top 5 albums of the past 10 years?

[Bosk]

What would be your choice for the absolute best 5 albums released in the past ten years?

 

[lmilhan]

Absolutely impossible for me to answer I'm afraid. That covers way too much time, and way too many albums for me to even think about comming up with an answer.

What are yours?

 

[Enverxis]

Maudlin of the Well - Bath (2001)
Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map (2001)
Virgin Black - Elegant and Dying (2003)
Forgotten Silence - Senyaan (1998)
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell (2005)

 

[Davey]

Hard to narrow it down that far because at a point it becomes almost silly, kind of like those surveys for best album from every year, and this is even more restrictive in some ways, but without weighing how much or how little impact they had on anything beyond my own ears ...

Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Laika - Sounds of the Satellites
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights
Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes

Of course, the one I'm addicted to at the moment always seems like the best of all time, and right now, and for the last few days, it's been the modern sounds of the Black Heart Procession, and the aptly titled The Spell.

 

[jonnyhambone]

It can change daily it seems but these are a couple that I've thought of as classics (for my ears) for a long while now:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement - Wowie Zowie
Akron/Family - Akron/Family
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Yo La Tengo - having to pick one I'd say, FakeBook

 

[Masonjar]

Flaming Lips - SOFT BULLETIN (1999)
Radiohead - OK COMPUTER (1997)
Hum - DOWNWARD IS HEAVENWARD (1997)
Cave In - JUPITER (2000)
Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun (1999) [I love the overstatement: the album pumps in the morning mist with "Sven-G-Englar" — a song of such accomplished gorgeousness that one wonders why such a tiny country as Iceland can musically outperform entire continents in just a few short minutes. from Allmusic.com]

 

[Purgatos]

I couldn't even begin to guess. I never know what was released when.

 

[Xakepa]

OK Computer is definitely there and most probably Kid A as well...or the other way around - Kid A is definitely there and OK Comp most probably as well.

I'd also put Ágætis Byrjun there, but weather I'm right or not - it'll take maybe 10 years to figure.

Knives out

 

[zumaro]

So in attempting to answer this impossible question, I will restrict myself to the indyish rock that I secretly prefer but would never admit to liking in public, and then look at the computer playcounts to see what I am actually playing, rather than thinking that I should play. And the winners under those conditions are:

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
The Shins - Oh Inverted World
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider

How embarrassingly tuneful and easy listening is that?


Edit - oops that was 6 - oh well.... Maybe best 5 jazz albums tomorrow?

 

[CRESCENDOPOWER]

Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
Tool – AEnima
Tool – Lateralus
System of a Down – Toxicity
Opeth – Blackwater Park

2001 was a great year for music!

 

[Fastnbulbous]

Five in ten years, I don't have that kind of discipline. I gotta at least have an album per year...

1 DJ Shadow * Endtroducing (Mo Wax) 96
2 Chico Science & Nação Zumbí * Afrociberdelia (Chaos) 96
3 Tortoise * Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey) 96
4 Radiohead * Kid A (Capitol) 00
5 PJ Harvey * Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea 00(Island)
6 Amon Tobin * Supermodified (Ninja Tune) 00
7 Björk * Homogenic (Elektra) 97
8 Dr. Octagon * Dr. Octagonecologyst (75 Ark) 96
9 Björk * Vespertine (Elektra) 01
10 Arto Lindsay * Noon Chill (Bar/None) 98

Honorable mentions:

Four Tet * Rounds (Domino)
Cafe Tacvba * Quatro Caminos (MCA)
TV On The Radio * Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)

 

[Akathriel]

so many tough choices I had my own idea but feel myself wanting to include some of things listed above haha.

1.Tool-Aenima (the oldest album on my list. IMHO, a true epiphany, and Tool's only real masterpiece. Lateralus is almost as good, and 10kD is almost as good as Lateralus, but neither comes even close to reaching the lofty heights of Aenima. Both lack the anger, lyrical depth, and songwriting of Aenima (both following albums recycle riffs from Aenima.)

2. Opeth-Blackwater Park (Nuff said.)

3. Godspeed You!Black Emperor-Lift your skinny fingers (very impressive, not necessarily gybe's best though i think it is, but the first album which truly refined their sound and truly brought it above and beyond similar formulaic post-rock bands. Another true masterpiece.

4. Melvins Trilogy (this is 3 albums 6 discs. This is not only impressive because it fuses the Melvin's heavy, punk, and progressive sound and infuses it with new energy, but it is impressive that the Melvins were able to create a sense of coherency that spans 6 discs and at least 3 years that I can consider it one album. I respect Melvins a lot and they've come a long way from a generic Seattle band with Kurt Cobaine as a lacky to working with Lustmord.)

5. Isis-Panopticon (I couldn't tell you why I like this album so much. They musicianship is not spectacular, nor the songwriting extremely bizzare or progressive (not well worded; what i meant is chord and theme progressions are very logical) but it has achieved ssomething I have yet to find in several years of post and prog metal delving. True beauty. the album flows liquidly and the songs are more movements, but turner's spartan haiku's are somehow immensley satisfying. If i had to describe the album in one word crystaline.)

 

[Davey]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fastnbulbous Five in ten years, I don't have that kind of discipline. I gotta at least have an album per year... 10 Arto Lindsay * Noon Chill (Bar/None) 98

That is a timeless one. Listen to it a lot myself. Usually over and over for a couple days or so. Nice and comfortable sound too. The eclectic "Gods Are Weak", the soothing "Anything" with Sussan Deyhim doing some guest vocals, the fittingly titled "Noon Chill", and all the rest.

Some other pretty good records in 98 for me, including ...

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Richard Davies - Telegraph
Silver Jews - American Water
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

 

[Duggeh]

Vangelis - Mythodea
Jean-Michel Jarre - AERO
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III
Mike Oldfield - Tr3s Lunas
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2003
Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat
Eurythmics - Peace
REM - Up
Crash Test Dummies - Songs Of The Unforgiven

 

[Borat]

Just off the top of my head right now, these have probably been my faves:

Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Bjork - Homogenic
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance