Album Of the Decade

[pillory]

Let's try:

A Silver Mt Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Anne Laplantine - Dicipline
Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires
Blithe Sons - We Walk the Young Earth
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down the Road
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Cadaver - Necrosis
Cherry Blossoms - The Cherry Blossoms
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Double Leopards - Out of One, Through One and To One
Dälek - Absence
Excepter - Vacation/Forget Me
Feathers - Feathers
Francisco Lopez - Untitled #104
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
GHQ - Hea
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
Hototogisu - Prayer Rug Exorcism
In Gowan Ring - Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Blues du Jour
Microphones - The Glow pt 2
No-Neck Blues Band - Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones...
Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää
Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds
Sargeist - Satanic Black Devotion
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Sunburned Hand of the Man - No Magic Man
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing...

About a third of it could be thrown into this New Weird America thing. And Marcia Bassett runs off with the Featured on Most Albums Award (three). Hm.

 

[pillory]

Never realised The Avalanches were rated that highly, always wanted to get the album purely based on Frontier Psychiatrist but never got around to it. Ah well maybe in another 10 years.

I realised, but I never understood why. Since I Left You and Frontier Psychiatrist are awesome, but the rest is boring. (But it has to be said I haven't listened to the whole album since before my ears were accustomed to hip-hop and electronica, so my opinion on this is totally worthless.)

 

[Alwyn]

Frontier Psychiatrist

I never really like any music that I feel a 3 year old could have made.

 

[pillory]

I never really like any music that I feel a 3 year old could have made.

Much of the music I like sounds like that, actually, but Frontier Psychiatrist doesn't.

 

[Biscuit1871]

what would be your list cockbiscuit?

In the process of compiling it.

Brand New - The Devil and God are raging inside of me, definitely is on the list.

Dr Dre - 2001 (99) and They're only chasing safety - Underoath, are also likely to be on the list for me.


Just to clarify are we saying a decade as in 99-09?

 

[pillory]

Just to clarify are we saying a decade as in 99-09?

That would be eleven years.

 

[Biscuit1871]

i know, but feck it. Im including Dr Dre.

 

[SecondFig]

Let's try:

A Silver Mt Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Anne Laplantine - Dicipline
Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires
Blithe Sons - We Walk the Young Earth
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down the Road
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Cadaver - Necrosis
Cherry Blossoms - The Cherry Blossoms
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Double Leopards - Out of One, Through One and To One
Dälek - Absence
Excepter - Vacation/Forget Me
Feathers - Feathers
Francisco Lopez - Untitled #104
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
GHQ - Hea
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
Hototogisu - Prayer Rug Exorcism
In Gowan Ring - Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Blues du Jour
Microphones - The Glow pt 2
No-Neck Blues Band - Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones...
Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää
Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds
Sargeist - Satanic Black Devotion
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Sunburned Hand of the Man - No Magic Man
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing...

About a third of it could be thrown into this New Weird America thing. And Marcia Bassett runs off with the Featured on Most Albums Award (three). Hm.

Would agree with those three, would also add Mono vs. World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder as one of the best post-rock albums of the decade

 

[Rood]

An article here which criticises the NME list - although he spends a lot of time stating the obvious: NME is an indierock magazine and as such the list is dominated by that type of music!

You call these the best albums of the last decade? - Features, Music - The Independent

In principle, the notion of the NME compiling a Greatest Albums of the Decade is one that should be welcomed, not least as a much-needed corrective to the overwhelmingly sales-and industry-led nature of most such lists.

After all, if there were no such place remaining to proclaim the greatness of, say, The Shins and Arcade Fire, the world would be a much more regimented marketplace. But it's hard to be particularly enthusiastic about the top 50 placings which the magazine has published, for a number of glaring reasons.

Most notable is the overwhelmingly white, male constitution of the list, with only four specifically black acts (and a sprinkling of about the same number of black musicians amongst the other bands), and an equivalent situation pertaining for female musicians – and this following what by any standard has been an unusually prolific creative period for female acts.

This is hardly a surprise – after all, it has always been a source of great frustration to NME writers that its readership is so resistant to black music styles. In the 1980s, I know from personal experience that if a black artist was put on the cover – even a high-profile artist such as Michael Jackson or Prince – there would be a slump in sales. Which is not to suggest that NME readers were in any way racist, simply that their tastes in music were strictly circumscribed in a way that the writers', on the whole, were not. Fair dos: not everybody likes classical music, either. But this list, we're told, was not a readership poll, but compiled by a panel of "musicians, producers, writers and record label bosses" – which does suggest that the voting panel itself was chosen from a very narrow cross-section of the music industry, presumably to closely reflect the magazine's readership. Which raises a further point as to the value of a periodical which so closely mirrors its readers' tastes as to render it virtually stagnant. But that's another matter.

I've no quibble with the choice of The Strokes' debut album as the NME's Greatest Album of the Decade: by their criteria, it kick-started the indie revival which is the magazine's core interest (even if subsequent releases witnessed such a sharp drop in quality they're nowhere to be seen here). Likewise for The Libertines at No 2 – although three entries for Pete Doherty is rather overstating the poor chap's artistic value. Primal Scream's Xtrmntr at three is more of a surprise – a decent album, certainly, but that good? – while the really interesting absence is Britpop, with only Blur of the major players from a few years before making it to the list – and with their least Britpoppy album, at that. Nice to see The Coral hanging in there, though I'm surprised that Radiohead haven't featured higher.

Perhaps more shocking is that, with The Strokes at the top, there is no place for Kings Of Leon, who were initially regarded as a sort of "Southern" Strokes, but have since effortlessly eclipsed their compatriots' achievements – perhaps demolishing their "cool" quotient in the process. And what of The White Stripes, who might have been expected to dominate such a list not too many years ago, but can now only just scrape into the Top 20?

Interestingly, while British and American acts seem equally well represented – though shamefully, there is not one world-music performer on the entire list – heavy metal is as poorly represented as hip-hop, with only the marginally metal Muse and Queens Of The Stone Age qualifying. And while Dizzee, Jay-Z and MIA are grudgingly granted places, there's nowhere for Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, perhaps the single most influential rap album of them all.

Musical differences: NME vs Andy Gill

The NME top 10

1 The Strokes, Is This It
2 The Libertines, Up The Bracket
3 Primal Scream, XTRMNTR
4 Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell
6 PJ Harvey, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
7 Arcade, Fire Funeral
8 Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights
9 The Streets, Original Pirate Material
10 Radiohead, In Rainbows

...and Andy Gill's

1 Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise
2 The Necks, Drive By
3 Ry Cooder, Chavez Ravine
4 OutKast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
5 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator)
6 Bob Dylan, Modern Times
7 Tinariwen, Amassakoul
8 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
9 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
10. Laura Veirs, Carbon Glacier

 

[brewlio]

In my shite opinion.

In no particular order as they're all cracking albums.

Damien rice - O
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Libertines - Up The Bracket
Dr. Dre - 2001
The Strokes - Is This It ?
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper lunatic Asylum
White Stripes - Elephant
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Outkast - Stankonia
Libertines - The Libertines
Kasabian - Kasabian


Also highly commended:

Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform
The Charlatans - Wonderland
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Babyshambles - Down in Albion
RHCP - By The Way
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

 

[Laphroaig]

There's already a thread on Pitchfork's list here.

 

[Anderson Searl]

"Dr. Dre - 2001"

For feck sakes, the album came out in 1999 people...

 

[Biscuit1871]

"Dr. Dre - 2001"

For feck sakes, the album came out in 1999 people...

In the process of compiling it.

Brand New - The Devil and God are raging inside of me, definitely is on the list.

Dr Dre - 2001 (99) and They're only chasing safety - Underoath, are also likely to be on the list for me.


Just to clarify are we saying a decade as in 99-09?

i know, but feck it. Im including Dr Dre.

i know...

 

[Anderson Searl]

No, brew put it in his list.

I'm gonna post my top 200... yes... 200, later.

 

[Rood]

No, brew put it in his list.

I'm gonna post my top 200... yes... 200, later.

200? No thanks - 10 or 20 will do just fine!

 

[Rood]

There's already a thread on Pitchfork's list here.

and since Doogie went to the effort to type it all out - here is the full list ...

I'm sorry if I've misspelled anything but here you are...

200 - Jay Retard - Blood Visions 2006
199 - Deerhoof - Apple O’ 2003
198 - Boris - Akuma No Uta 2005
197 - Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbal 2007
196 - William Basinski - The Disentegration Loops 2003
195 - Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Letting Go 2006
194 - Pulp - We Love Life 2001
193 - Devendra Bahart - Rejoicing in the Hands 2004
192 - Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll 2005
191 - Air - Talkie Walkie 2004
190 - Elliott Smith - Figure 8 2000
189 - Jamie Lidell - Multiply 2005
188 - M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts 2003
187 - Stars of the Lid - Tired Stars of the Lid 2001
186 - The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine 2006
185 - Scarface - The Fix 2002
184 - Vitalic - OK Cowboy 2005
183 - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 2006
182 - Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange 2002
181 - Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs 2005
180 - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus 2004
179 - Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out of This Country 2006
178 - Lil’ Wayne - Tha Carter II 2005
177 - Broadcast - The Noise Made By People 2000
176 - The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee 2002
175 - Various Artists - Total 3 2001
174 - Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy 2005
173 - Herbert - Bodily Functions 2001
172 - Constantines - Shine a Light 2003
171 - The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike 2004
170 - Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors 2000
169 - Common - Like Water for Chocolate 2000
168 - Califone - Roots and Crowns 2006
167 - Annie - Anniemal 2004
166 - Jim O’Rourke - Insignificance 2001
165 - Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa 2003
164 - Les Savy Fas - Rome (Written Upside Down) EP 2000
163 - DJ / rupture - Uproot 2008
162 - Wu-Tang Clan - The W 2000
161 - Air France - No Way Down 2000
160 - Deerhunter - Cryptograms 2007
159 - Girl Talk - Night Ripper 2006
158 - Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies 2006
157 - Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow 2003
156 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 2005
155 - Clipse - Lord Willin’ 2002
154 - Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album 2004
153 - Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala 2007
152 - Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein 2001
151 - The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows 2004
150 - The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema 2005
149 - Tough Alliance - A New Chance 2007
148 - Erlend Øye - DJ Kicks 2004
147 - T.I. - King 2006
146 - My Morning Jacket - Z 2005
145 - Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat 2004
144 - Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet 2001
143 - The Decemberists - Picaresque 2005
142 - Primal Scream - XTRMNTR 2000
141 - Neko Case - Blacklisted 2002
140 - TV on the Radio - Dear Sience 2008
139 - Love is All - Nine Times the Same Song 2006
138 - The Libertines - Up the Bracket 2002
137 - Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle 2002
136 - No Age - Weirdo Rippers 2007
135 - Sigur Rós - ( ) 2002
134 - Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf 2002
133 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War 2008
132 - Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair 2008
131 - The Notwist - Neon Golden 2002
130 - Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2 2005
129 - The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come for Free 2004
128 - Life Without Buildings - Any Other City 2001
127 - Sleater-Kinney - The Woods 2005
126 - Mastodon - Leviathan 2004
125 - The Books - Thought for Food 2002
124 - PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea 2000
123 - Four Tet - Rounds 2003
122 - Ryan Adams - Heartbraker 2000
121 - Broadcast - Haha Sound 2003
120 - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance 2001
119 - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2000
118 - The Beta Band - Hot Shots II 2001
117 - Low - Things We Lost in the Fire 2001
116 - Michael Mayer - Immer 2002
115 - The Shins - Oh, Inverted Wordl 2001
114 - Cam’ron - Purple Haze 2004
113 - LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem 2005
112 - Feist - The Reminder 2007
111 - M83 - Saturdays = Youth 2008
110 - The National - Boxer 2007
109 - Band of Horses - Everything All the Time 2006
108 - Sonic Youth - Murray Street 2002
107 - Justice - † 2007
106 - Caribou - Up in Flames 2003
105 - Battles - Mirrored 2007
104 - The Postal Service - Give Up 2003
103 - M.I.A. / Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism Volumer 1 2004
102 - The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree 2005
101 - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 2004
100 - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes 2002
99 - Lil’ Wayne - Da Drought 3 2007
98 - Cat Power - You Are Free 2003
97 - The Dismemberment Plan - Change 2001
96 - Spoon - Girls Can Tell 2001
95 - Grizzly Bear - Yellow House 2006
94 - Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas 2002
93 - 2 Many Dj’s - As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2 2002
92 - Björk - Vespertine 2001
91 - The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic 2000
90 - Jay-Z - The Black Album 2003
89 - Wolf Parade - Apologise to the Queen Mary 2005
88 - The Wrens - The Meadowlands 2003
87 - Kanye West - Graduation 2007
86 - Belle and Sebastion - The Life Pursuit 2006
85 - Gas - Pop 2000
84 - Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World 2001
83 - Joanna Newsom - Ys 2006
82 - Beck - Sea Change 2002
81 - Hot Chip - The Warning 2006
80 - The Clientele - Suburban Light 2000
79 - Justin Timerlake - FutureSex / LoveSounds 2006
78 - No Age - Nouns 2008
77 - Missy Elliott - Miss E: So Addictive 2001
76 - Junior Boys - Last Exit 2004
75 - Ghostface Killah - Fishscale 2006
74 - The White Stripes - Elephant 2003
73 - The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 2001
72 - Sleater-Kinney - One Beat 2002
71 - Portishead - Third 2008
70 - Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake States 2003
69 - Liara - Drum’s Not Dead 2006
68 - Robyn - Robyn 2005
67 - The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 2002
66 - J Dilla - Donuts 2006
65 - Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven 2000
64 - The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America 2006
63 - Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer 2007
62 - Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner 2003
61 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 2008
60 - Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic 2003
59 - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak 2003
58 - The Field - From Here We Go Sublime 2007
57 - The Rapture - Echoes 2003
56 - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 2009
55 - Animal Collective - Feels 2005
54 - M.I.A. - Arular 2005
53 - Clinic - Internal Wrangler 2000
52 - Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury 2006
51 - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 2008
50 - Deerhunter - Microcastle 2008
49 - Antony & the Jonhstons - I Am a Bird Now 2005
48 - The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday 2005
47 - Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender 2004
46 - The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow 2003
45 - Fugazi - The Argument 2001
44 - D’Angelo - Voodoo 2000
43 - Luomo - Vocalcity 2000
42 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 2009
41 - Burial - Untrue 2007
40 - The National - Alligator 2005
39 - Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun 2000
38 - Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That 2006
37 - Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out 2000
36 - The Streets - Original Pirate Material 2002
35 - Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2007
34 - Radiohead - Amnesiac 2001
33 - Basement Jaxx - Rooty 2001
32 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 2008
31 - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain 2006
30 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 2002
29 - Bon Iver - From Emma, Forever Ago 2007
28 - Kanye West - The College Dropout 2004
27 - Animal Collective - Sung Tongs 2004
26 - Fennesz - Endless Summer 2001
25 - Madvillian - Madvilliany 2004
24 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell 2003
23 - Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People 2002
22 - M.I.A. - Kala 2007
21 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2007
20 - Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights 2002
19 - Spoon - Kill The Moonlight 2002
18 - Kanye West - Late Registration 2005
17 - LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 2007
16 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 2005
15 - The Knife - Silent Shout 2006
14 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 2009
13 - Outkast - Stankonia 2000
12 - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 2001
11 - Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 2000
10 - The Avalanches - Since I Left You 2000
9 - Panda Bear - Person Stich 2007
8 - Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun 2000
7 - The Strokes - Is This It 2001
6 - Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica 2000
5 - Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2001
4 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002
3 - Daft Punk - Discovery 2001
2 - Arcade Fire - Funeral 2004
1 - Radiohead - Kid A 2000

 

[Rood]

The full NME Top100 is now available online along with videos and the original reviews ...

The Top 100 albums released between January 2000 and December 2009, as voted for by NME staff (past and present) plus a selection of musicians and industry figures that included Arctic Monkeys, Carl Barat, The Killers, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty, Elbow, Johnny Marr, MGMT, Ian Brown, The Big Pink, Snoop Dogg, Alan McGee, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Michael Eavis and many, many more (see the full jury in NME magazine).
The Top 100 Greatest Albums Of The Decade | NME.COM

There is also an interesting chart in The Guardian which shows what position these ablums reached in the charts and what year they were released (wanted to copy and paste it but the formatting doesnt work):
NME's top 50 albums of the decade: how high did they get in the charts? Plus original reviews | News | guardian.co.uk

 

[Nearco]

I think this decade's been a shocker for music but here's a few that stand out for me:

That's because you never go beyond the mainstream. Your list was pretty representitive of someone who doesn't do that much digging.


1.Radiohead - In Rainbows
2.GY!BE - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
3.The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
4.Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
5.Isis - Oceanic
6.PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
7.Tom Waits - Alice
8.Sigur Ros - Takk
9.Deftones - White Pony
10.The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
11.At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
12.Rosetta - Wake/Lift
13.Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
14.Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
15.Isis - Wavering Radiant
16.System of a Down - Toxicity
17.Xasthur - Telepathic with the Deceased
18.Tom Waits - Real Gone
19.Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
20.Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

 

[Nearco]

Let's try:



A Silver Mt Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...

cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Double Leopards - Out of One, Through One and To One
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down the Road

Sargeist - Satanic Black Devotion
Weakling - Dead as Dreams

Interesting choices. I did have a Double Leopards album on my computer before my hard disc went kaput a few months ago. Actually I had a bunch of noice related stuff but I did prefer Raccoo-oo-oon.
A Silver Mt Zion I should love because of the personnel and i've really tried but the vocals ruin it for me.
cLOUDHEAD are a band i've heard but not checked out fully and I have Beware from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Is your choice a clearly better album.
Weakling would have been in my top 25. Fantastic album and some of the best BM riffage ever. Sargeist i've never heard - who are they similar to? LLN?

 

[Red_Jamie]

That's because you never go beyond the mainstream. Your list was pretty representitive of someone who doesn't do that much digging.

This is a list of the best albums of the decade. Not a list where we desperatley try to show to others on the forum how broad our musical tastes are...

I literally burst out laughing at that comment. Talk about patronising. I assure you I listen to a massive variety of music..

Have you ever thought that maybe the albums I mentioned are famous, popular and 'mainstream' for a reason?

Well there is a reason.. It's because they're amongst the best albums of the decade. Hence their inclusion.

 

[Nearco]

Have you ever thought that maybe the albums I mentioned are famous, popular and 'mainstream' for a reason?

Well there is a reason.. It's because they're amongst the best albums of the decade. Hence their inclusion.

Don't talk shit, by that rationale X Factor is the best television programme on our screens. The reason shit like The Libertines were popular is because sheep like students bought it because the NME told them to. Your list even contained a Kings of Leon album. Surely one of the most uninspiring and just fecking boring bands ever to be best sellers.

 

[Biscuit1871]

This is a list of the best albums of the decade. Not a list where we desperatley try to show to others on the forum how broad our musical tastes are...

I literally burst out laughing at that comment. Talk about patronising. I assure you I listen to a massive variety of music..

Have you ever thought that maybe the albums I mentioned are famous, popular and 'mainstream' for a reason?

Well there is a reason.. It's because they're amongst the best albums of the decade. Hence their inclusion.

Oyeah, using how popular something is, really is a good measure of its quality.

Using that Logic, Xfactor is one of the best TV shows ever, Stella is the best tasting beer, The Sun has the highest quality journalism and the Black Eye Peas are one of the best bands of our generation. Your average person knows nothing about nothing, particularly in regards to music. For the majority, music is just something to play in the background. Thats why distinctly average bands like the fecking Black Eye Peas are heralded as outstanding by so many.

 

[Red_Jamie]

Don't talk shit, by that rationale X Factor is the best television programme on our screens. The reason shit like The Libertines were popular is because sheep like students bought it because the NME told them to. Your list even contained a Kings of Leon album. Surely one of the most uninspiring and just fecking boring bands ever to be best sellers.

You crack me up fella.

 

[Red_Jamie]

Oyeah, using how popular something is, really is a good measure of its quality.

Using that Logic, Xfactor is one of the best TV shows ever, Stella is the best tasting beer, The Sun has the highest quality journalism and the Black Eyes Peas are one of the best bands of our generation. Your average person knows nothing about nothing, particularly in regards to music. For the majority, music is just something to play in the background. Thats why distinctly average bands like the fecking Black Eyes Peas are heralded as outstanding by so many.

Fair points. But did I ever say anything that implied any of your points? really? You're reading into it all wrong.

This guy has read into my comment that I only listen to mainstream music despite knowing nothing about me or ever having met me. I literally laughed out loud on reading his post.

I wonder where he sets his bar as to when he's gonna stop listening to a band because he might worry he's appearing too mainstream. When they get a top 50 album maybe? The first time they sell out Manchester Apollo?

 

[pillory]

I have Beware from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Is your choice a clearly better album.

I haven't heard Beware, but generally I've liked I See a Darkness (1999, unfortunately) and EDTR better than all of the subsequent albums I've heard. Here are a couple of awesome songs from EDTR (all with totally crap sound, for some reason).

Sargeist i've never heard - who are they similar to? LLN?

SBD is basically Transilvanian Hunger worship, but much more 'pop' (more melodic, that is, not more synths and boobs). Some of the riffs here are hilariously catchy, for instance. And yes, quite similar to what I've heard from LLN, which isn't much. Although that's probably truer of some of their other records.

 

[Nearco]

This guy has read into my comment that I only listen to mainstream music despite knowing nothing about me or ever having met me. I literally laughed out loud on reading his post.

I wonder where he sets his bar as to when he's gonna stop listening to a band because he might worry he's appearing too mainstream. When they get a top 50 album maybe? The first time they sell out Manchester Apollo?

I assumed because there is so much better music knocking about than the albums from the artists you listed. I just can't believe anyone who can list an album by a band as supremely average as The Coral as one of the best of the decade can have listened to that many alternatives

As for your second point, I think you'll find albums by the likes of Radiohead and System of a Down in my list. Two very popular acts with huge followings.

 

[Laphroaig]

I have Beware from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Is your choice a clearly better album.

Yes, but it's still the wrong choice. The Letting Go is a ridiculously amazing album, as is I See A Darkness. EDTR is terrific, Superwolf (a joint effort together with Matt Sweeney) is mostly fantastic, and Master and Everyone is very, very nice. Beware is probably his poorest album for a long while. Not that it's bad though.

cLOUDDEAD - s/t is a must-have.

 

[Rood]

cLOUDDEAD - s/t is a must-have.

Is it actually an album though?
Im probably being pedantic but really it is a singles collection

 

[Rood]

Here is another Top 100 - this time from emusic.com - am starting to see various albums mentioned again and again in these lists - am keeping track in the OP if anyone is interested ...

1. The Strokes - Is This It?
2. The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
3. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
4. M.I.A. - Arular
5. Burial - Untrue
6. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
7. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
8. Spoon - Girls Can Tell
9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
10. Arcade Fire - Funeral

eMusic's Best Albums of the Decade, eMusic

 

[Stobzilla]

Relationship Of Command. - At the drive-in
Worship and tribute - Glassjaw
What are you listening to ? - The Kinison
You come before you - Poison The Well
For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver

 

[Anderson Searl]

Composing my list, which ill post a link too...

 

[sammymc]

ladyhawk - ladyhawk
black mountain - black mountain
the bees - free the bees
neil young - chrome dreams II
midlake - van occupanther
wolf people - EP
fleet foxes - fleet foxes
wooden shjips - wooden shjips
sufjan stevens - illinoise
black keys - rubber factory

 

[I_live_cement]

I assumed because there is so much better music knocking about than the albums from the artists you listed. I just can't believe anyone who can list an album by a band as supremely average as The Coral as one of the best of the decade can have listened to that many alternatives

As for your second point, I think you'll find albums by the likes of Radiohead and System of a Down in my list. Two very popular acts with huge followings.

To be fair to them, "Dreaming of You" is probably one of the best songs of the decade.

 

[FranklyVulgar]

sammymc you must be the first person to mention Van Occupanther. Cracking album.

 

[sammymc]

sammymc you must be the first person to mention Van Occupanther. Cracking album.

it is indeed..theyve a new one coming out soon too, hopefully itll be as good...also theyre touring soon, so hopefully get to see them again as their gig in Leeds Irish centre would be one of my gigs of the decade too.

 

[acnumber9]

What i dont know i cant comment on, i do know snow patrol, and i do know they are utter turd however.

I bet you like athlete keane and embrace as well?

I just dont understand the appeal is all, like ok, i can understand why you think snow patrol might be "alright" but i cant fathom how you can put them in twice! for your favourite album of the decade!

There's a clue in the word I bolded.

 

[Easy V]

Gonna change mine, as I managed to forget a few of my favourites last time;

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
5. The White Stripes - Elephant
6. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
7. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
8. The Strokes - Is This It
9. Daft Punk - Discovery
10. M.I.A. - Kala
11. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
12. Arcade Fire - Funeral
13. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
14. Radiohead - In Rainbows
15. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
16. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
17. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
18. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
19. The National - Alligator
20. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

 

[Rood]

Observer Music Monthly Top50:
Albums of the decade | Music | guardian.co.uk

1. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say ...
4. The Strokes - This Is It
5. Arcade Fire - Funeral
6. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
7. The White Stripes - Elephant
8. Jay-Z - The Black Album
9. Salif Keita - Moffou
10. Burial - Untrue

Had seen The Streets mentioned in some of these lists but didnt expect to see it up at No1 anywhere - not sure it would make my Top10, its good but not great.
OMM have obviously aimed to cover a few bases with a token hiphop/electronic/world music album throw in among the indie classics of the decade.

 

[Doogie]

Observer Music Monthly Top50:
Albums of the decade | Music | guardian.co.uk

1. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say ...
4. The Strokes - This Is It
5. Arcade Fire - Funeral
6. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
7. The White Stripes - Elephant
8. Jay-Z - The Black Album
9. Salif Keita - Moffou
10. Burial - Untrue

Had seen The Streets mentioned in some of these lists but didnt expect to see it up at No1 anywhere - not sure it would make my Top10, its good but not great.
OMM have obviously aimed to cover a few bases with a token hiphop/electronic/world music album throw in among the indie classics of the decade.

Are people still listening to Original Pirate Material? It was good, really good actually, at the time but while I'm still listening to albums from this list like Kid A, This Is It, Funeral etc. I'm not listening to OPM anymore.

 

[Rood]

Are people still listening to Original Pirate Material? It was good, really good actually, at the time but while I'm still listening to albums from this list like Kid A, This Is It, Funeral etc. I'm not listening to OPM anymore.

I rarely listen to it - as you say, it was fresh and original when it came out with a couple of great singles but it hasnt aged very well. Naming it as album of the decade is madness!