Top favorite albums of this decade

[Jesusetc84]

This is what seem to be my favorites of the decade so far.

 

01. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

02. Radiohead- In Rainbows (2007)

03. Radiohead- Kid A (2000)

04. The Microphones- The Glow, Part 2 (2001)

05. Antony & The Johnsons- I Am a Bird Now (2005)

06. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Abbatoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)

07. Joanna Newsom- Ys (2006)

08. Brian Wilson- SMiLE (2004)

09. OutKast- Stankonia (2000)

10. Bob Dylan- Love & Theft (2001)

 

what about you?

[PopTodd]

You mean, besides my own?

 

1. Joe Pisapia - Daydreams (2002)

2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Abbatoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)

3. Brinsley Schwarz - Cruel To Be Kind: Live @ the BBC (2005)

4. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (2005)

5. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (2006)

6. The Format - Dog Problems (2006)

7. Tom Z

[Littlebear]

Can't remove anything from these 13 ones...

 

Jenifer Jackson - Birds (2000)

Rachel Ries - For You Only (2005)

Niobe - White Hats (2006)

Amy Rigby - Til the Wheels Fall Off (2003)

Jill Sobule - Underdog Victorious (2004)

Sam Phillips - A Boot & a Shoe (2004)

Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream (2004)

Amy Allison - Sad Girl (2001)

Laura Cantrell- Not the Tremblin' Kind (2000)

Devon Sproule - Upstate Songs (2003)

Neko Case - Canadian Amp (2001)

Joe Pisapia - Daydreams (2002)

Anny Celsi - Little Black Dress & Other Stories (2003)

[PopTodd]

Can't remove anything from these 13 ones...

 

Jenifer Jackson - Birds (2000)

Rachel Ries - For You Only (2005)

Niobe - White Hats (2006)

Amy Rigby - Til the Wheels Fall Off (2003)

Jill Sobule - Underdog Victorious (2004)

Sam Phillips - A Boot & a Shoe (2004)

Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream (2004)

Amy Allison - Sad Girl (2001)

Laura Cantrell- Not the Tremblin' Kind (2000)

Devon Sproule - Upstate Songs (2003)

Neko Case - Canadian Amp (2001)

Joe Pisapia - Daydreams (2002)

Anny Celsi - Little Black Dress & Other Stories (2003)

 

You and I are gonna be friends.

[Littlebear]

You and I are gonna be friends.

 

It's the only guy of my list, to boot!

[solace]

no way could i limited it to 10

 

(in order of year released)

 

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command

Red Animal War - Breaking In An Angel

The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Vol. 1 & 2

Death Cab - The Photo Album

Ted Leo - Tyranny of Distance

Spoon - Girls Can Tell

My Morning Jacket - At Dawn

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Doves - The Last Broadcast

Sonic Youth - Murray Street

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway

The Wrens - Meadowlands

M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent

Cat Power - You Are Free

Brian Wilson- SMiLE

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs

M. Ward - Post War

[Gobias Industries]

I don't know if this is a good ordering, but it's fair enough, I guess:

 

1. Bob Dylan - "Love and Theft"

2. Brian Wilson - SMiLE

3. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust

4. Paul McCartney - Chaos & Creation In The Backyard

5. Bob Dylan - Modern Times

6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

7. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore

8. Kanye West - Late Registration

9. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

10. Radiohead - In Rainbows

 

That was too damn hard to cut down. Stuff I had to cut, but I really wanted to put on the list:

 

11. Andrew Bird - & The Mysterious Production of Eggs

12. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

13. Sigur Ros - Takk...

[Kalle]

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. Wilco Sky Blue Sky

3. Radiohead - Kid A

4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

5. Ron Sexsmith - Time Being

6. Arcade Fire - Funeral

7. The White Stripes - Elephant

8. Brian Wilson - Smile

9. Beck - Sea Change

10. Radiohead - In Rainbows

 

I'm not sure how I feel about that list I'll probably change some of those after further consideration.

[solace]

7. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore

oh shit, add that to my list!

[Doug]

1. Dylan- "Love and Theft"

2. Centro-matic- All the Falsest Hearts Can Try

3. Centro-matic- Distance and Clime

4. Centro-matic- Fort Recovery

5. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

6. Centro-matic- Love You Just the Same

7. My Morning Jacket- At Dawn

8. My Morning Jacket- It Still Moves

9. Okkervil River- Stage Names

10. Mendoza Line- Fortune

[lizish]

Could never really rank these

 

Wrens - Meadowlands

Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black

Calexico - Feast of Wire

Deadly Snakes - Porcella

Reigning Sound - Time Bomb Highschool

Josh Ritter - Hello Starling

Broken Family Band - Welcome Home Loser

Songs: Ohia - Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma

Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

Okkervill River - Black Sheep Boy

Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown

Mendoza Line - Lost in Revelry

Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses?

You Am I - Dress Me Slowly

New Pornographers - Mass Romatic

Destroyer - Streethawk: A seduction

Centro-matic - Love You Just The Same

M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent

National - Alligator

Reigning Sound - Break Up Break down

Sadies - In Concert Vol 1

Sleater-Kinny - The Woods

The Thermals - Body Blood and the Machine

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway

Richard Buckner - The Hill

Wilco/Billy Bragg - Mermaid Ave Part II

 

probably forgetting an absolute ton

[sureshot]

Sound of Silver would definitely jump in there somewhere

[TCP]

In no order:

The Foxtrot

Kid A

Mysterious Production of Eggs

I'm Wide Awake

Magnolia Electric Co

The Creek Drank the Cradle

Illinois

Post War

Let Me Go x3

Sea Change

From A Basement on the Hill

Show Me Your Tears

[Whitty]

Only one from 2007 that would be a no doubt-about-it top album of the decade would be Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem.

 

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot; A Ghost Is Born

Spoon - Gimme Fiction (but pretty much everything really...)

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib

Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power; Mwng

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Built to Spill - You In Reverse

The Gourds - Cow, Fish, Fowl or Pig

The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

The Black Keys - Rubber Factory

[Scalzunfield]

Too many awesome albums, but here is today's attempt:

 

Spoon - Ga x5

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

Wilco - YHF

Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production Of Eggs

Decemberists - Her Majesty

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

Destroyer - Rubies

Deerhoof - Apple O'

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

 

And I know I missed a bunch...

[El Picador]

Califone - Roots and Crowns (2006)

Sonic Youth - Murray Street (2002)

Wilco - YHF (2002)

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)

Calexico - Hot Rail (2000)

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (2002)

Iron and Wine/Calexico - In the Reins (2005)

Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)

Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000)

Phish - Farmhouse (2000)

Split Lip Rayfield - Never Make it Home (2001)

Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (2001)

Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing... (2000)

Yo La Tengo - I am not Afraid of You... (2006)

Fruit Bats - Mouthfuls (2003)

Old Crow Medicine Show - OCMS (2004)

Jolie Holland - Escondida (2004)

Kunek - Flight of the Flynns (2005)

Okkervil River - Stage Names (2007)

Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)

[mpolak21]

1. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful Life

3. Joanna Newsome: Ys

4. Califone: Quicksand/Cradlesnakes

5. Radiohead: Kid A

6. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

7. Radiohead: In Rainbows

8. Brian Wilson: Smile

9. Elliott Smith: From a Basement On The Hill

10. Broken Social Scene: You Forgot it in People

11. The Microphones: The Glow (part two)

12. Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing...

13. Grandaddy: Software Slump

14. Grizzly Bear: Yellow House

15. Wilco: A Ghost is Born

 

 

 

--Mike

[remphish1]

No Order and 15 albums

Air- Talkie Walkie

Beck-Guero

The Charlatans UK- Wonderland

Interpol-Antics

Oasis- Don't Believe the Truth

Blur-Think Tank

Stereophonics-Language Sex

Robert Bradleys Blackwater Surpirse- TIme to Discover

Radiohead- Hail to the Theif

Sigur Ros- Takk

Supergrass- Road to Rouen

Travis- The Invisible Band

The Walkmen- Bows and Arrow

The White Stripes- White Blood Cells

Wilco- Yankee Foxtrot

[willywoody]

i like many of those mentioned as well as the sound of silver.

 

also would add :

 

gillian welch- time the revelator

zero 7- simple things

deerhunter-cryptograms

[remphish1]

Wilco - YHF

Wilco - AGIB

Wilco - Summerteeth

Wilco - SBS (hard to believe there is only one other mention of SBS in this thread)

Interpol - Turn On Your Bright Lights

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf

Cave In - Jupitor

Piebald - We Are the Only Friends We Have

Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep

No Knife - Fire in the City of Automatons

Five Way Friday - Moon Driven World

 

I listen to so much old stuff, it's hard to come up with anymore for this decade.

 

Summerteeth was 99

[Synthesizer Patel]

bob dylan - love & theft

joanna newsom - ys

wilco - a ghost is born

super furry animals - rings around the world

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot

gillian welch - soul journey

super furry animals - phantom power

fiery furnaces - blueberry boat

lambchop - nixon

panda bear - person pitch

grandaddy - sumday

 

i think they are probably in order, and it's 11

[lamradio]

Summerteeth was 99

 

Oops, misread the post.. I was thinking the last 10 years.. Modifying my list.. Ah, nevermind.. I'll just delete and repost later..

[Guest David Puddy]

1. wilco - yhf

2. radiohead - kid a

3. wilco - a ghost is born

4. wilco - sky blue sky

5. spoon - gimme fiction

6. umphrey's mcgee - anchor drops

7. phish - farmhouse

8. beck - sea change

9. loose fur - born again in the usa

10. aimee mann - lost in space

11. bob dylan - modern times

12. bob dylan - love & theft

[John Smith]

Favorite Albums of the new millennium?

 

Some in no particular order:

 

Beyond - Dino Jr

Yoshimi - Flaming Lips

Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age

Death By Sexy - Eagles of Death Metal

Southern Rock Opera - Drive By Truckers

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Elephant - White Stripes

American IV The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

Stereo/Mono - Paul Westerberg

The Wind - Warren Zevon

The Rising - Springsteen

Cold Roses - Ryan Adams

Rubber Factory - The Black Keys

Streetcore - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Illumination - Paul Weller

Isolation Drills - GBV

Earthquake Glue - GBV

 

Catch Flame - Paul Weller

Human Amusement at Hourly Rates - GBV

Tools in the Dryer - Lambchop

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon - Springsteen

Lost Crowes - The Black Crowes

Personal File - Johnny Cash

How the West Was Won - Led Zeppelin

The Day they Shot a hole in the Jesus Egg - The Flaming Lips

[MrRain422]

2007 stacks up pretty well.

 

1. Natsumen - NEVER WEAR OUT yOUR SUMMER xxx!!! (2006)

2. The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

3. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (2006)

4. Blanche - If We Can't Trust the Doctors... (2004)

5. Fugazi - The Argument (2001)

6. The White Stripes - De Stijl (2000)

7. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (2007)

8. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

9. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)

10. Neko Case - Blacklisted (2002)

 

11. The Go - The Go (2003)

12. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore (2003)

13. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy (2007)

14. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)

15. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

16. Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (2005)

17. Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache (2005)

18. Loose Fur - Loose Fur (2003)

19. Wilco - A Ghost is Born (2004)

20. Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills (2001)

 

21. Hank Williams III - Straight to Hell (2006)

22. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (2005)

23. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (2004)

24. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

25. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)

26. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000)

27. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (2004)

28. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (2004)

29. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

30. Tenacious D - Tenacious D (2001)

 

31. Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005)

32. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers (2007)

33. The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)

34. Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue (2003)

35. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)

36. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (2005)

37. The Strokes - Room On Fire (2003)

38. Thunderbirds Are Now! - Make History (2006)

39. The Libertines - Up the Bracket (2002)

40. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (2001)

 

41. The Roots - Game Theory (2006)

42. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007)

43. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (2007)

44. The Sights - Got What We Want (2002)

45. The Toadies - Hell Below/Stars Above (2001)

46. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby (2000)

47. Mission of Burma - OnOffOn (2004)

48. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)

49. Luna - Romantica (2002)

50. The Strokes - Is This It? (2001)