Best Albums 2000-2009 (so far)
Great topic:
Just my fav albums per year:
2000:
Ditry Three – Whatever You Love You Are
Spring Heel Jack – Disappear
Comets on Fire – Comets on Fire
2001
Solex – Low Kick and Hard Bop
Tool – Lateralus
Hope Sandoval – Bavarian Fruit Bread
2002
Low – Trust
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Comets on Fire – Field Recordings From the Sun
Sigur Ros: ( )
Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
2003:
Supersilent – 6
Cat Power – Your Are Free
Kopernik – Kopernik
Books – The Lemon of Pink
2004
Ghost – Hypnotic Underworld
Solex – Laughing Stock of Indie Rock
Boris – At least / Feedbacker
Comets on Fire – Blue Cathedral
2005
Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Harris Newman – Accidents With Nature and Each Other
Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
2006
Joanna Newsom -Ys
Boxhead Ensemble – Nocturnes
Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
Brightblack Morning Light – Brightblack Morning Light
Alejandro Escovedo – The Boxing Mirror
2007
Battles – Mirrored
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Besnard Lakes – Are the Black Horse
Holy Fuck – LP
2008
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Portishead – Third
Have a Nice Life – Deathconciousness
Alps: III
2009
Currently empty. Maybe last Dream Theater or Porcupine Tree albums.
Adam Green – Friends of Mine
Beta Band – Hot Shots II
Emporium – Silver Brainwaves
Go Kart Mozart – Tearing Up the Album Charts
Kool Keith – Matthew
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
The Strokes – Is This It
The Tough Alliance – A New Chance
Jonathan Richman – Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
Silver Jews – Bright Flight
Little Wings – Wonderue
Grandaddy – Excerpts From The Diary of Todd Zillla
Circulatory System – s/t
Cloetta Paris – Secret Eyes
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
Black Affair – Pleasure Pressure Point
Roisin Murphy – Overpowered
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Ease Down The Road
Don Lennon – Routine
Adam Green – Jacket Full of Danger
Kevin Blechdom – Eat My Heart Out
Hidden Cameras – Mississauga Goddam
Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
Bjork – Vespertine
The-Dream – Love Hate
Andrew WK – Close Calls With Brick Walls
There’s prolly more but that was one more than 25, and I promised myself I wouldn’t exceed that number
Midlake, Gerbils, etc., I’m already thinking of other ones
Three I think of off the top of my head would be:
Fleet Foxes – s/t
Bon Iver – “For Emma, Forever Ago”
Arcade Fire – “Funeral”
JESUS thats a long time
2009
Staff benda bilili – self titled
paolo fresu & uri caine – think
group bombino – Guitars From Agadez, Vol. 2
bibio- ambivalence avenue
animal collective – merriweather post pavillion
2008
zomby – where were u in 92
guilty simpson’s album
onra- chinoiseries
paavoharju
parenthetical girls – entanglements
matmos – supreme balloon
dilla – unreleased album
grouper – draggin a dear up a hill
flying lotus – los angeles
daedelus – love to make music..
clutchy hopkins – walking backwards
arthur russell – love is overtaking me
the alps – III
2007
tunng – good arrows
seabear – the ghost that carried…
papercuts – cant go back
pantha du prince – this bliss
mark ronson – version
library tapes – everything
dilla – ruff draft
gowns – red state
gui boratto- chromophobia
food – molecular gastronomy
dntel – dumb luck
devlin & darko – fabricdead 33.3
cocorosie – adventures of…
blockhead – uncle tony’s coloring book
arthur & yu – in camera
amiina – kurr
2006
spank rock – yoyoyoyoyo
sir richard bishop – fingering the devil
sibylle baier = colour green
radio citizen – berlin serengeti
plastic little – she’s mature
peter and the wolf – lightness
people under the stairs – stepfather
parenthetical girls – safe as houses
matmos – the rose has teeth..
islands – return to the sea
girl talk – night ripper
fiery furnaces – bitter tea
cut chemist – the audience’s listening
cftpa – etiquette
2005
white stripes – get behind me satan
sufjan stevens – illinois
slum village – s/t
rubin steiner – drum major!
prefuse reads the books
konono no1 – congotronics
jamie lidell – multiply
JOMF – flags & fig 5
dangerdoom – mouse and the mask
cocorosie – noahs ark
caribou – milk of..
bright eyes – im wide awake (shut up)
boom bip – blue eyed
books – lost and safe
andrew bird & mysterious production..
2004
!!! – louden up now
soft pink truth – do you want new wave..
radio dept – lesser matters
quasimoto – unseen
matthew ship – harmony and abyss
joanna newsom – milk eyed mender
gonzales – solo piano
ghostface – pretty toney
fiery furnaces – blueberry boat
devotchka – how it ends
devendra – rejoicing, nino rojo
brian wilson – smile
blockhead – music by cavelight
2003
unicorns – who will cut out hair
stellastarr – st
philip glass – hours soundtrack
king geedorah – take me to your leader
jaylib – champion sound
four tet – rounds
erykah badu – worldwide underground
cinematic orchestra – man with a movie camera
charizma & pb wolf – big shots (delayed release)
books – lemon of pink
bonobo – dial m for monkey
ark – alleluyark
2002
ugly cassanova – sharpen your teeth
soft pink truth – do you parrty?
postal serive – give up
lemon jelly – lost horizons
flaming lips – yoshimi
boom bip – seed to sun
boards of canada – geogaddi
blackalicious – blazing arrow
atmosphere – god loves ugly
aphex twin – drukqs
2001
weezer – green album
stereolab – sound-dust
slumber party – psychedelicate
ladytron – 604
four tet – pause
the faint – danse macabre
dr dre – 2001
avalanches – since i left you
air – 10,000 hz legend
2000
white stripes – de stijl
mum – yesterday was dramatic today is ok
lemon jelly.ky
grandaddy – sophtware slump
ghostface – supreme clientele
belle and sebastian – fold your hands
amon tobin – supermodified
theres a ton missing but for everyone’s sake thats probably a good thing
My 10 favorite albums of the millennium:
1. Ys – Joanna Newsom
2. Kid A – Radiohead
3. Time (The Revelator) – Gillian Welch
4. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out – Yo La Tengo
5. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
6. Is a Woman – Lambchop
7. The Milk-Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom
8. In Rainbows – Radiohead
9. Orphans – Tom Waits
10. Moon and Antarctica – Modest Mouse
Honorable mentions:
Heartbreaker – Ryan Adams
Dear Companion – Meg Baird
Mirrored – BATTLES
The Letting Go – Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Vespertine – Bjork
Heron King Blves – Califone
The Covers Record – Cat Power
La maison du mon reve – CocoRosie
Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie
“Love & Theft” – Bob Dylan
The Power Out – Electrelane
White Chalk – PJ Harvey
Cut Yourself a Switch – Catherine Irwin
Drums Not Dead – Liars
Things We Lost in the Fire – Low
Trust – Low
The Great Destroyer – Low
Pig Lib – Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Rock Action – Mogwai
A Boot and a Shoe – Sam Phillips
Indifference – Jim O’Rourke
Comfort of Strangers – Beth Orton
The Woods – Sleater-Kinney
Sonic Nurse – Sonic Youth
Superwolf – Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Rip It Off – Times New Viking
Songs in a Minor Key – Varnaline
Transfiguration of Vincent – M Ward
Fever to Tell – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It’s Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Eraser – Thom Yorke
Understood the Joanna Newsom fascination for like a solid month, then just shook my head in befuddlement whenever anyone talked her sub-Arwen-ness up
Cat Power – The Greatest
Stereolab – Chemical Chords
M.I.A. – Kala
Sonic Youth – Murray Street/Rather Ripped
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
Beastie Boys – To the 5 Burroughs
Beach House – Devotion
Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong
The White Stripes – Icky Thump
Portishead – Third
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Beck – Sea Change
Prefuse 73 – Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives
Nite Jewel – Good Evening
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – Naturally
impossible to put an any particular sequence…all great music that has effected me in so many ways…
Mum-Finally we are no one
Vlad. Delay- Anima
the Strokes- is this it
Metallic Falcons- Desert doughnuts
Interpol-Turn on the Bright Lights
Cat Power-You are Free
Ariel Pink’s haunted Graffitti- the Doldrums
Bjork-Vespertine
Animal Collective- merryweather pavilion post
Jane-Berserker
Pan Sonic-Katodivaihe / Cathodephase
Excepter- Sunbomber, Alteration, Self-destruction
Bad Sector-Xela
Colleen-everyone alive wants answers
Cannibal Ox-the cold vein
Madvillain-madvillainy
Lord Quas-the Unseen
Breakage-this too shall pass
MF Doom-Operation
Dr.Dooom-First come first served
japanese Telecom-Virtual Geisha
Jean Grae- jeanius
Little Brother- the Minstrel show
Edan-Primitive Plus and Architecture
Clipse-Hell hath no fury
Ghostface Killah-fishscale
Jaylib-s/t
im missing a ton but these ones come to mind quickly :)
Polygrot: props for choosing Nite Jewel…tops for me right now :) check out her dublab live set
atlas sounds’ new cd. also merriwhether post pavillion I listen to that everynight before I go to bed. I imagine thats how it is to be on psychedelics even though I wouldnt know.
I missed Atlas sound last night! they had the unfortunate opening slot duty so I passed it up…love his stuff!
Add Julian Casablancas’s new thing! What a killer, lyrically and musically
Love and Theft
Orphans
Modern Times
Some off the top of my head:
Radiohead – Kid A / Amnesiac / Hail to the Thief
John Frusciante – Shadows Collide with People / Curtains / The Empyrean
Sufjan Stevens – Come on Feel the Illinois
The White Stripes – Elephant
Tom Waits – Orphans / Bone Machine (I would also add his live concert on NPR’s all songs considered podcast)
Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike / Super Taranta
Seu Jorge – Cru / The Life Aquatic soundtrack (doesn’t get better than Bowie in Portuguese)
Am I the only one who thinks Hail to the Thief is Radiohead’s best album?
For now and at this moment, anyway…
1. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, Tom Waits
2. “Love and Theft”, Bob Dylan
3. Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State, Sufjan Stevens
4. A Thousand Leaves/Sonic Nurse, onic Youth
5. Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
6. White Chalk, P.J. Harvey
7. Greendale, Neil Young
8. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
9. Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear
10. Neon Bible, Arcade Fire
“Am I the only one who thinks Hail to the Thief is Radiohead’s best album?’
Yes.
No to every single album on the original list besides Funeral.
Since you have such a distaste for those albums, Crobley, why don’t you give us two things:
1. A substitute list.
2. Some in-depth criticisms of every single album other than Funeral. I assume someone who would make a statement like that would have heard every single album on that list. So, they would actually know what they’re talking about instead of just talking out of their ass because someone else listens to music they’ve never even heard of… yes, I seriously doubt you’re doing that Crobley. So, I’d love to hear your criticisms of every single album on that list (other than Funeral, of course).
Ahh, I saw this one coming.
Well, I’ll get started, I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
What do you want first, the criticisms or the substitute?
Criticisms probably.
You’ve actually heard every single album on there?
Well, I’ll get started
He’s going to go listen to all of the albums! :D
Of course not, maybe half, I’m just a stubborn asshole who thinks their opinion is the best. I’m working on my Don Caballero criticism now.
I’ve never written out an in depth criticism of music before…I’m not quite sure what to say.
So, you said no to every album when you have only heard, “…maybe half…?”
Nevermind. Forget the criticisms, and alternate list. It’s what I suspected, please actually know what you’re talking about before criticizing something as personal as someone’s taste in music. It’s pretty offensive, and extremely arrogant. Although, I’d still like to hear even a coherent criticism of Don Caballero (the greatest band to ever live).
Check out my profile for semi-in-depth reviews of specific bands.
I know it is. I do want to do the criticisms but I’m not sure how to articulate my feelings on some of these albums.
I am listening to American Don. Not bad, it’s alright, but the first thought that comes to mind is ‘another basic instrumental band’. I don’t really feel any meaning to these songs, not to say there isn’t one. Upon first listening to it, it sounds like people just playing music to play. Even though I do not understand the meanings of any of these songs yet, I don’t sense anything special.
I took a shot at it, not great but I tried.
Richard: Bone Machine’s from 1992. =) Great album, though.
Green Day, you guys? =/
But anyway:
The Crane Wife- The Decemberists
Rosenrot- Rammstein
I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning- Bright Eyes
Lifted or the Story Is- Bright Eyes
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots- Flaming Lips
Super Taranta- Gogol Bordello
Bird in a House- Railroad Earth
Radio Retaliation- Thievery Corporation
Mink Car- They Might Be Giants
(there’s more, these are just off the top of my head,)
herbie s
Broadcast – Tender Buttons
The Avalanches – Since I Left You
Jens Lekman – When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
Comet Gain – Realistes
Stereolab – Chemical Chords
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak
The Raveonettes – Chain Gang of Love
Love is All – Nine Times That Same Song
The Clientele – Strange Geometry
Kings of Convenience – Quiet is the New Loud
Blonde Redhead – A Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Cass McCombs – A
Chromatics – Night Drive
Saturday Looks Good to Me – All Your Summer Songs
Daft Punk – Discovery
The Concretes – The Concretes
Electrelane – No Shouts, No Calls
The Books – Lost and Safe
Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic
Studio – West Coast