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Post by steveternal on Sept 2, 2008 19:35:58 GMT -5
The close of the decade isn't too far off, so it got me thinking, what have been the greatest albums released since 2000?
I was surprised to find it a very difficult question to answer. Usually I can spit out a top 10 with little effort, but I can't nail this one down. I'm really curious what all of you think might go down as this decade's defining moments. Remember, I'm not talking about your personal favorites, but the global favorites, the praised, the commercial successes, the landmarks, the watersheds, the defining moments.
Here's my working shortlist, in no particular order.
The Arcade Fire - Funeral The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Radiohead - In Rainbows Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Gorillaz - Gorillaz The White Stripes - Elephant Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News Tool - Lateralus Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head Norah Jones - Come Away with Me Green Day - American Idiot
I really like the Grey Album. But I don't know about top 10. I can see it as top 25. I was just thinking about this. Again I don't know if it's top 10 but how about
Drive By Truckers ~ Southern Rock Opera Ryan Adams ~ Heartbreaker The Hold Steady ~ Boys And Girls In America Justin Timberlake ~ Justified
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Post by thingsfallapart on Sept 4, 2008 15:07:37 GMT -5
Some of my favorites:
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (2007) Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (2007) My Morning Jacket - Z (2005) Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
Lateralus - Tool Is This It - The Strokes Frances The Mute - Mars Volta Year Zero - NIN In Rainbows - Radiohead Sea Change - Beck Ta Det Lugnt - Dungen Fixer - Download Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves - Legendary Pink Dots Desperate Youth - TV On The Radio You're A Woman, I'm A Machine - Death From Above 1979
Edit: All but the LPD, Death From Above, and Download I kind of see as universally praised. Those are just some of my favs....
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe Southpacific - Constance Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops series Fugazi - The Argument Low- Things We Lost In the Fire The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 National Skyline - This = Everything Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance Beck- Sea Change The Church - After Everything Now This Sonic Youth- Murray Street Tom Waits- Alice/Blood Money Clear Horizon - Clear Horizon Crescent - By the Roads and the Fields Stephen Malkmus- Face the Truth Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan Massive Attack- 100th Window Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt AFX - Chosen Lords Bob Dylan - Modern Times Psychic Ills - Dins/Early Violence Max Richter - Songs From Before Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Peter Broderick - Docile Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior Yellow6 - Painted Sky Beach House - Devotion Peter Broderick - Float
I will have to finish this list later, that's all I have time for now.
Post by steveternal on Sept 5, 2008 21:32:08 GMT -5
^^^C'mon, man, you think some of those will go down in history as the greatest of this decade? A few there I could maybe see, others don't have a snowball's chance.
Radiohead - Kid A Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Opeth - Blackwater Park Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun Sigur Ros - () Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Tool - Lateralus The Strokes - Is This It
All I can think of right now, which makes me want to listen to these albums.
Lateralus - Tool Is This It - The Strokes Frances The Mute - Mars Volta Year Zero - NIN In Rainbows - Radiohead Sea Change - Beck Ta Det Lugnt - Dungen Fixer - Download Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves - Legendary Pink Dots Desperate Youth - TV On The Radio You're A Woman, I'm A Machine - Death From Above 1979
Edit: All but the LPD, Death From Above, and Download I kind of see as universally praised. Those are just some of my favs....
Liking this list, but I think Kid A is Radiohead's best 00' album, and De-Loused is the better Volta album. For my add I consider Demon Days by the Gorillaz to be very good as long as its the version with Hong Kong.
Edit: Didn't even see Steve had their self titled on his list, guess i'm just a big naysayer tonight.
I'm limiting my list to one album per band, to give you guys a better idea of my tastes.
1. Elephant - The White Stripes 2. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 3. Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse 4. Bright Like Neon Love - Cut Copy 5. Hail to the Thief - Radiohead 6. Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree 7. Highly Evolved - The Vines 8. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 9. Discovery - Daft Punk 10. ( ) - Sigur Ros
Post by popsicle sarah on Sept 8, 2008 2:38:07 GMT -5
some good ones so far, only ones i can think to add are
Postal Service - Give Up Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium Muse - either album Wolfmother - Wolfmother (one of the most video-gamed bands of all time, prob the reason they broke up heh)
edit: adding The Killers - Hot Fuss and um... Justin Timberlake, no idea the name of the album just know lotsa ppl tried to convince me to listen to it
some good ones so far, only ones i can think to add are
Postal Service - Give Up Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium Muse - either album Wolfmother - Wolfmother (one of the most video-gamed bands of all time, prob the reason they broke up heh)
edit: adding The Killers - Hot Fuss and um... Justin Timberlake, no idea the name of the album just know lotsa ppl tried to convince me to listen to it
I guess I'm going to sound like an ass saying this, so I apologize in advance, but...if you really think these are some of the best albums that have come out this decade, you should try expanding your musical tastes...consider it a friendly suggestion.
I guess I'm going to sound like an ass saying this, so I apologize in advance, but...if you really think these are some of the best albums that have come out this decade, you should try expanding your musical tastes...consider it a friendly suggestion.
Remember, I'm not talking about your personal favorites, but the global favorites, the praised, the commercial successes, the landmarks, the watersheds, the defining moments.
obviously if the object of this thread was to name my favorite albums on the '00s none of these albums would have even been close to on my list. well, i take that back, the postal service might be in my top 50. *shrug*
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Sept 11, 2008 12:47:02 GMT -5
Gnarls Barkley - St. elsewhere (seriously, Crazy was fucking unavoidable for a while there) Racontours - Consolers of the Lonely Plant/Krauss - Raising sand
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by the3penguins on Oct 29, 2008 11:09:40 GMT -5
Kanye West - The College Dropout Radiohead - In Rainbows Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The White Stripes - Elephant The Killers - Hot Fuss Bob Dylan - "Love and Theft" Beck - Sea Change Green Day - American Idiot Sufjan Stevens - Illinois The Decemberists - Picaresque
Here are the top 10 albums from each year I view as "culturally significant" with the emboldened album being THE defining album from that particular year. (I left out 08, cause it's not over).
From 2000: Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea - PJ Harvey Music - Madonna The Moon & Antarctica - Modest Mouse Stankonia - Outkast Kid A - Radiohead Figure 8 - Elliott Smith Oops...I Did It Again - Britney Spears All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
From 2001 (Tried and Failed to Limit to 10): Since I Left You - The Avalanches Vespertine - Bjork Discovery - Daft Punk Gorillaz - Gorillaz The Blueprint - Jay-Z Brushfire Fairytales - Jack Johnson Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World Room For Squares - John Mayer Miss E... So Addictive - Missy Elliott Celebrity - 'N Sync Rock Steady - No Doubt Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros White Blood Cells - The White Stripes Is This It? - The Strokes Lateralus - Tool
2002: Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - Bright Eyes American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay The Eminem Show - Eminem Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol Come Away With Me - Norah Jones In Search Of... - N*E*R*D By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
2003: Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent Dangerously In Love - Beyonce Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie Chocolate Factory - R. Kelly The Black Album - Jay-Z Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast Give Up - The Postal Service Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins Elephant - The White Stripes Fever to Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2004: Funeral - The Arcade Fire Rubber Factory - The Black Keys Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson American Idiot - Green Day Hot Fuss - The Killers Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn From a Basement on a Hill - Elliott Smith Confessions - Usher The College Dropout - Kanye West Smile - Brian Wilson
2005: Guero - Beck Silent Alarm - Bloc Party Digital Ash In a Digital Urn/I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey Z - My Morning Jacket Alligator - The National Illinois - Sufjan Stevens Mesmerize - System of a Down OK Cowboy - Vitalic Late Registration - Kanye West
2006: Modern Times - Bob Dylan The Letting Go - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Night Ripper - Girl Talk St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco Loose - Nelly Furtado Ys - Joanna Newsom A Girl Like Me - Rhianna FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
2007: New Wave - Against Me! Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire My Favourite Worst Nightmare - The Arctic Monkeys † - Justice Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem Kala - M.I.A. Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails In Rainbows - Radiohead Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon Graduation - Kanye West
The interesting thing looking at the shift is just how much the internet has leveled the playing field for what was once considered "indie" music. Rolling Stone and MTV, which used to be the great indicators of pop culture, have both become largely out of touch compared to Pitchfork because the latter is an internet birthed animal, plugged into blogs and music genres all over the world.
Greatest Albums of the 00's is subjective though, so that makes it personal. Everyone has their own idea of what the greatest albums of the 00's are. Yes, some albums are going to be on a lot of peoples' lists, but everyone's lists are going to be different. And just because Rolling Stone or Pitchfork says it's great, doesn't automatically mean it's great. I think a lot of people would argue that some of the albums they consider "great" aren't that great and that there are a lot of albums that actually are "great" which are brushed off or overlooked. I think "culturally important" is kind of a b.s. term. Different things are important to different people for different reasons. People would argue that some of Eminem's albums are going to be remembered 50 years down the line, but I sure as hell won't remember them. I'll remember how much of an impact records by local bands such as Schooner and Hotel Lights had on me, and how great they were, but I don't expect someone across the country to know who they are. That said, I'd argue that these are the greatest so far:
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha Grizzly Bear - Yellow House M. Ward - Post-War Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time Schooner - Hold On Too Tight Sigur Ros - ( ) Sigur Ros - Takk... Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Mazarin - We're Already There Sleater-Kinney - The Woods Wilco - A Ghost Is Born Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Doves - Some Cities Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow The National - Alligator Arcade Fire - Funeral Hotel Lights - Hotel Lights South San Gabriel - Welcome, Convalescence Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Beulah - Yoko The Wrens - The Meadowlands My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves TV On The Radio - Young Liars Radiohead - Hail To The Thief Radiohead - In Rainbows Manitoba - Up In Flames Cat Power - You Are Free Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff Beck - Sea Change Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone Ben Kweller - Sha Sha Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear My Morning Jacket - At Dawn Radiohead - Amnesiac Coldplay - Parachutes Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven Radiohead - Kid A Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica TV On The Radio - Dear Science Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
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