The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

why.

I have a far better idea of how the current decade will be seen retrospectively, than I had at the end of the 90's. I don't know what that means though.

mission of burma
kylie minogue
the flaming lips
phish
kayne west
kylie minogue
yung joc
lauren hill
vampire weekedn

lol wut

clap your hands say yeah

the bravery

afroman

paulina rubio

samantha mumba

willa ford

koffee brown

vampire weekedn

i'd be fine with this becoming a "the ratpure" type meme

do you guys think mission of burma lyrics are awesome, or secretly shitty, or sort of both!

Can we start compiling the Rhino deluxe box-set "OMGWTF!! The Story of the 00's"?

Ballwasher, you're too chicken to put your real opinion out there for fear of being ridiculed. Well played.

lmao no

i just think this thread is canadian and unncessary

lol ballwasher

YES I WASH MY BALLS UNLIKE U LOLOLOL

Of course I don't. That's where you come in.

Canadian and "unncessary." Yeah, god forbid we talk about our favorite music here.

lol you are such a lame.

do we really need another list thread, especially one about a decade that isn't even over and as a result is impossible to have any perspective on...

BE MY GUEST THO I'LL LEAVE YOU GUYS ALONE AND YOU CAN MAKE UR LISTS AND COMPLIMENT EACHOTHER

Smilez & Southstar

Why the fuck would having perspective on a decade that's not over yet be "impossible"?

this is definitely going to be one of the best threads of the 00s so far.

FUCK YOU CHUCK DON'T CURSE AT ME.

The Fiery Furnaces

Blueberry Boat = Best album of the decade (So far)

1. Dälek - Abandoned Language (Ipecac)
2. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)
3. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux)
4. Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art (Lex)
5. Pharoahe Monch - Desire (SRC/Universal/Motown)
6. Oh No - Dr. No's Oxperiment (Stones Throw)
7. Busdriver - RoadKillOvercoat (Epitaph)
8. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth (Rhymesayers)
9. Black Milk - Popular Demand (Fat Beats)
10. Talib Kweli - Eardrum (WB)
11. Little Brother - Get Back (ABB)
12. Cloud Cult - The Meaning Of 8 (Rebel Group)
13. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (Musicane)

WIN

Great, BUH-BYE my dirty lil' ballwasher, the family jewels miss ya already.

Back to topic, then. Don't let the trolls scare you. Every year there are threads discussing best of year so far, usually before the year is half over. The decade is over 80% over. There's no reason to wait 'til the glossies have their end of decade features put to bed to talk about it first. A good majority of the people here participate in the year end polls.

It's harder to address an entire decade, for sure. It feels like a bigger commitment to state your favorite of the decade so far. It's certainly more difficult. But we do have one year and 11 months to change our minds. Is anyone feeling secure enough to give an honest answer?

Artists
01 TV On The Radio
02 Radiohead
03 Nação Zumbí
04 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
05 Patrick Wolf
06 The White Stripes
07 Mastodon
08 My Computer
09 Arto Lindsay
10 Tom Waits

Albums
01 Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) 00
02 TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope) 06
03 Björk Vespertine (Elektra) 01
04 TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go) 04
05 Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Capitol) 03
06 Four Tet - Rounds (Domino) 03
07 Café Tacvba - Quatro Caminos (MCA) 03
08 PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island) 00
09 N*E*R*D - In Search Of ... (Virgin) 02
10 Amon Tobin - Supermodified (Ninja Tune) 00

Expanded to 100.

^^HOMOSEXUAL^^

Yeah, TV On The Radio. Agreed.

!!!
Aesop Rock
Arcade Fire
Black Rebel Motorcycle club
El-P
Franz Ferdinand
Jurassic 5
New Porographers
LCD Soundsystem
Radiohead
Sonic Yoooooooooooouuuuuuuf (still great guys)
Super Furries
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

and some others i aint remembering

 "†"

Radiohead - Kid A
The Strokes - Is This It
OutKast - SB/TLB
Coldplay - Parachutes
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Streets - Original Pirate Material and A Grand Don't Come For Free
Lily Allen - Demos
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
the Boom Selection CD

13. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

That's got to be the worst album title I've ever seen.

Amen brother.

ill selection, snrub

Let us say that one would need 3 great LPs released in the decade to qualify for our project.

With that in mind, we hereby nominate:

Drive-By Truckers
White Stripes

MIA and Bob Dyaln both need one more to qualify, then they'll top the list.

White Stripes are awful - Black Keys all the way!

3 LPs? That'd discriminate against SOOOOO many bands with obvious talent that have jus started (and even some going for a while, like franz).

^^^ smart guy

What about - the 3 LP's or the Black Keys?

The Black Keys are #64 for me, would have been higher if it weren't for Magic Potion. Super Furry Animals had a good run, but I couldn't get into Love Kraft and Hey Venus!.

I excluded artists who had only one album from my list, and I did give more weight to those who had three to five consistently great albums. Technically going just by points Radiohead would have topped it, but I also consider the fact that they're more on an artistic downswing, while I'm betting that TVOTR have yet to peak. Hopefully I'll find out later this year. I counted their EPs too.

well this blows but it's still better than those stupid idolator/p&j threads

Villalobos

In a sick way, I was hoping someone would start a thread like this.

blueski's quasi-racist-hipster-moi?-roflist:

1. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. Basement Jaxx - Rooty
4. Broadcast - The Future Crayon
5. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
6. Daft Punk - Discovery
7. Richard X - ...Presents His X-Factor Vol 1
8. The Knife - Deep Cuts
9. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
10. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
11. Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cuts
12. Feist - The Reminder
13. Kraftwerk - Tour De France
14. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
15. Feist - Let It Die
16. Broadcast - Haha Sound
17. Ladytron - 604
18. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz
19. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
20. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
21. Annie - Anniemal
22. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
23. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
24. Hot Chip - The Warning
25. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
26. Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour
27. Ellen Allien - Berlinette
28. Britney Spears - Blackout
29. Casette Boy - The Parker Tapes
30. Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It
31. LFO - Sheath
32. Erlend Oye - DJ Kicks
33. Ladytron - Light And Magic
34. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
35. Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue
36. The Bird And The Bee - The Bird And The Bee
37. Medicine8 - Iron Stylings
38. Michael Mayer Presents - Immer
39. Radiohead - Kid A
40. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
41. Cassius - Au Reve
42. Royksopp - Melody AM
43. Herbert - Bodily Functions
44. Girls Aloud - Chemistry
45. MIA - Kala
46. Kelis - Tasty
47. Hystereo - Corporate Crimewave
48. Prodigy - Dirtchamber Sessions 1
49. Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
50. Gus Gus - Attention
51. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up
52. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Sustain Decay Release
53. Wiley - Treddin On Thin Ice
54. The Rapture - Echoes
55. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
56. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
57. Senor Coconut - El Baile Aleman
58. The Strokes - Room On Fire
59. MIA - Arular
60. Kelis - Kaleidoscope
61. St Etienne - Finisterre
62. Teddybears Sthlm - Fresh
63. The Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
64. Doves - Lost Souls
65. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
66. Anti-Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia
67. Justice - +
68. Zero 7 - Simple Things
69. Tok Tok Vs Soffy O - Tok Tok Vs Soffy O
70. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
71. FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
72. Outkast - Stankonia
73. Bjork - Vespertine
74. Air - Talkie Walkie
75. Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens
76. Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
77. Manitoba - Up In Flames
78. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
79. Etienne De Crecy - Tempovision
80. Gonzales - Gonzales Uber Alles
81. Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3
82. John B - Future Reference
83. St Etienne - The Sound Of Water
84. Orbital - The Altogether
85. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
86. Doves - Lost Sides
87. Phoenix - Alphabetical
88. Missy Elliott - Under Construction
89. Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth
90. Roots Manuva - Dub Come Save Me
91. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
92. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies And Uprock Narratives
93. Space Cowboy - Across The Sky
94. !!! - Louden Up Now
95. Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor
96. Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say?
97. Crydamoure Presents - Waves 2
98. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
99. Mylo - Destroy Rock N' Roll
100. Burial - Untrue

(And I am going to post a list later.)

re: White Stripes: right city, wrong band...Electric Six own the 00's...

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Three of the original four band members, bassist Jamie Krents, vocalist/drummer Nick Stumpf, and vocalist/guitarist Matthew Stinchcomb, are from Washington, D.C. They were heavily influenced by the hardcore scene that flourished during their youth in the D.C. area. They began playing together in a series of bands while in their teens and then all attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where they continued to play together. The three friends then moved to Brooklyn, New York after college, where the French Kicks were formed with vocalist/guitarist Josh Wise, a Princeton grad who originally hailed from Huntsville, Alabama.

In 1999 they released a self titled EP The French Kicks under the label My Pal God. Soon, after a lot of touring, the band signed to Startime International. They soon released the Young Lawyer EP in 2001. The group then embarked on a tour with fellow garage rockers The Vue and The Walkmen. In 2002 they released their first full length album, One Time Bells. Jamie Krents departed the band the next year, and was replaced on bass by Lawrence Stumpf, Nick's younger brother. In 2004, their next album, The Trial of the Century was released. Another personnel change occurred when Nick stopped playing drums at live shows to concentrate on his lead singing. A series of temporary drummers filled his spot until the band settled on Aaron Thurston, a Massachusetts native.

In late 2005, Stinchcomb announced that he was leaving the band. A new album was released on July 18, 2006 titled Two Thousand.

Their video for their single "So Far We Are" also features actress Olivia Wilde.

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Okay, here's my top 20 for the 00's:

Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
Pole: Steingarten
AZ: Aziatic
Eve: Eve-olution
M.O.P.: Warriorz
Dead Prez: Let's Get Free
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein
Two Lone Swordsmen: Tiny Reminders
Readymade: Bold
Allou: Allou
Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players: Can't Cool
Cheikha Rimitti: N'ta Goudami
Readymade: Bold
Asa: Terveisiä kaaoksesta
310: After All
Nas: God's Son
Monolake: Cinemascope
Wu-Tang Clan: The W
S.I. Futures: The Mission Statement

Generally I wanted to include only one album per artist, but I just couldn't choose between the two great Cee-Lo LPs, so I had to include them both.

00s = thank you blog people for bringing back teh Girl Talk Dr. Demento shit.

Okay, here's my top 20 for the 00's:

Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
Pole: Steingarten
AZ: Aziatic
Eve: Eve-olution
M.O.P.: Warriorz
Dead Prez: Let's Get Free
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein
Two Lone Swordsmen: Tiny Reminders
Readymade: Bold
Allou: Allou
Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players: Can't Cool
Cheikha Rimitti: N'ta Goudami
Readymade: Bold
Asa: Terveisiä kaaoksesta
310: After All
Nas: God's Son
Monolake: Cinemascope
Wu-Tang Clan: The W
S.I. Futures: The Mission Statement

Generally I wanted to include only one album per artist, but I just couldn't choose between the two great Cee-Lo LPs, so I had to include them both.

-- Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:55 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sterling Clover RIP

tuomas listens to rap albums so i don't have to

jay dilla did both "donuts" and "welcome 2 detroit" in the 00's, i cant believe no one mentioned them. i find it hard to think about the 00's as a whole, im not so sure that the early stuff wasnt more 90's than 00's judging by the way things have panned out.

Best Albums of the 00s

Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) 00
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope) 06
Björk Vespertine (Elektra) 01
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go) 04
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Capitol) 03

^^i can get w/ tvotr to an extent but this is unspeakable

Don't front on Vespertine.

Yeah I know this is total ethanbait, but I want Three 6 Mafia to sample the intro of "Pagan Poetry".

blueski i'm giving you an atta boy on a very good list but some parts are weird to me. Por exampel:

burial's 2nd album > burial's 1st ???
Immer, Kid A and Speakerboxx = #31, #32, #33 ???

my shitty list to follow. rest assured, dear readers, carl craig's remixing prowess will be give its due!

burial's 2nd album >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> burial's 1st

Wow, I didn't actually expect a top 100 list, thanks blueski. Did you compile it just now? I hadn't thought about Senor Coconut in years, will have to dig some up. Need to re-listen to Mylo again, as I don't remember anything from the album. Tuomas, you may be the one who I learned about Asa from, it was one of my favorites that year.

At least there's now a few posts with substance amidst the 2kool4skool posturing. Nothing wrong with questioning people's picks, but to do it so snidely without laying your own out for scrutiny seems a bit weaselish. Care to share, J0rdan and Rev?

the purpose of my post was to state that i thought it was insane that someone could think that tvotr have made two of the four beat albums of the decade

i don't think that's that snide tbh

as for my own top w/e of the 2000s, i'll think about it

i hate how every track on Untrue uses the exact same beat and is boring and dumb*

*except for Archangel

xxxpost

Tuomas, you may be the one who I learned about Asa from, it was one of my favorites that year.

Whoa, I didn't know anyone had even heard about Asa outside Finland! What with the lyrics being in Finnish and all.

"i don't think that's that snide tbh"

That's because you are what 12 years old. It's snide. If you wanted to be snide, good on you, but pretending it's not is naive.

Most consistent album artists, off the top of my head, in alphabetical order:

Brooks & Dunn
Dixie Chicks
Gore Gore Girls
Toby Keith
Lil Wayne
Montgomery Gentry
Trick Daddy

I am probably missing some. And albums are harder.

oh yeah, also:

Tim McGraw

And what the hell, probably:

White Stripes

a repost from 21st Century House and Techno POX

unranked list:

booka shade - mandarine girl
daft punk - discovery
donnacha costello - the colour series
efdemin - self titled lp
isolee - we are monster
the knife - silent shout
luomo - vocal city
ricardo villalobos - achso ep
rhythm & sound - see mi yah boxset
various - a dozen or so odd tracks remixed by carl craig/c2

a non-synthesizer generated type stuff to follow. i think i will look back on the 00s as the decade i listened to way fucking more music than i did previously

Oasis

1. Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
2. The Rapture - Echoes
3. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the queen mary
4. White Stripes - White blood Cells
5. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
9. Band of horses - Everything all the time
10. Interpol - Antics

"Most consistent album artists, off the top of my head, in alphabetical order:

Brooks & Dunn
Dixie Chicks
Gore Gore Girls
Toby Keith
Lil Wayne
Montgomery Gentry
Trick Daddy

oh yeah, also:

Tim McGraw

And what the hell, probably:

White Stripes

-- xhuxk"

they are all very consistent. consistently fucking terrible.

i'm glad that the internet, which has allowed greater access to more music than ever before, has encouraged so many ppl to dig deep for that good unpredictable shit

okay I dunno about a hundred, or even a twenty (honestly I feel like there must be so many 'best' albums I just haven't heard, in other genres, or circles of influence still to be involved in... still to discover, despite all I have heard & liked, but loved? really, really loved? hmmm.

without hesitation I would save in a housefire...

Kate Bush - Aerial
Björk - Vespertine
Ellen Allien - Berlinette
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa
Melt-Banana - Cell-scape

maybe I'll do the honorable mentions later, but those are the ones that either hit me dizzlyingly hard & never stopped giving, or simply crept up to unassailable classic status after a few years living with them :)

"they are all very consistent. consistently fucking terrible."

Hey just like anything posted by pipecock!

pipecock deliverin' the zings!

How are White Stripes consistently terrible pipecock? You suck.

At least there's now a few posts with substance amidst the 2kool4skool posturing. Nothing wrong with questioning people's picks, but to do it so snidely without laying your own out for scrutiny seems a bit weaselish. Care to share, J0rdan and Rev?

-- Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:52 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Naw, man. I think Vespertine is great. My post was directed at Jordo.

Whoa, I didn't know anyone had even heard about Asa outside Finland! What with the lyrics being in Finnish and all.

There's a lot of English language albums that are unintelligible enough that they might as well be in Finnish. Terveisiä Kaaoksesta made my '06 top 25 cuz I thought the music was brilliant, and the cadence and rhythm sounded great. Too bad I didn't learn any of the language when I had the chance (dated a Finnish girl a while back). It's usually possible to find translations online. I do that with a lot of Portuguese too.

I was actually thinking today about when I'm going to compose my list of this decade. This will probably only hasten my ability to make this list (which is a good thing).

"How are White Stripes consistently terrible pipecock? You suck.

-- Choose Leif"

they are consistently terrible in the way that makes me want to run screaming from the room when their music comes on.

DFA Remixes Volume 2 is pretty high up for me.

I MEANT: DFA Compilation #2 is pretty high up for me dudes.

great reasoning pipecock you loser.

Radiohead, most likely the Beatles of our generation.

How does a board full of music fans attract so many people who like the White Stripes and TV on the Radio?

My list:
none, the music industry has reached an all-time low. listen to more Gang of Four and Joy Divison or whatever.

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"great reasoning pipecock you loser.

-- Choose Leif"

i mean, the white stripes are different in that all the other artists on that list make me want to stab someone when their music comes on. it's all about those subtle differences in how terrible those artists are.

here are possible my 10 fav singles of the decade off the top of my head

1. kanye west- all falls down
2. nelly- country grammar
3. juvenile- back that azz up
4. jay-z- big pimpin
5. ludacris- what's your fantasy
6. lcd soundsystem- all my friends
7. clipse- grindin
8. nas ft. jada/luda- made you look
9. the strokes- you only live once
10. cam'ron ft. juelz santana- hey ma

i'm sure i left off some shit but that's a decent enough idea

"Radiohead, most likely the Beatles of our generation."

i can see that in many ways. they are similar in that they both made great use of technology (instead of relying on it like a crutch like so many other groups have) and that they both have started kinda cheesy and then proceeded to get better. that's not something that many bands can accomplish.

"How does a board full of music fans attract so many people who like the White Stripes and TV on the Radio?"

this is the kind of question i am interested in knowing the answer to.

"My list:
none, the music industry has reached an all-time low. listen to more Gang of Four and Joy Divison or whatever.

-- Super Subway Comedian"

hahaha, forreal. popular music has definitely never been so poor in the time i've been alive. even hiphop, which was something of a mainstay in my pop music listening for over 20 years no matter what underground shit i was into at the time, sucks totally at this point.

pipecock in not feeling d4l shocker

Fuck off pipecock

this thread is straight flagrino

There's a lot of English language albums that are unintelligible enough that they might as well be in Finnish. Terveisiä Kaaoksesta made my '06 top 25 cuz I thought the music was brilliant, and the cadence and rhythm sounded great.

Can't disagree with that, it's one of best rap albums ever by a Finnish artist even if you don't count the lyrics. Too bad you can't understand them though, they're some next level shit! Though Asa's wordplay and references on that album are so complex it'd take years of immersion into Finnish language, culture, and history to get them all. Hell, I don't think even most of his Finnish listeners get them all (at least I don't).

40 of my favorite albums...

Gas- Pop
Arthur Russell- Calling Out of Context
Radiohead- Kid A
Xiu Xiu- Knife Play
Daft Punk- Discovery
Junior Boys- Last Exit
DJ /Rupture- Minesweeper Suite
Jan Jelinek- Loop-finding Jazz Records
Labradford- fixed:content
Michael Mayer- Fabric 13
Jill Scott- Who is Jill Scott?
Mariah Carey- Emancipation of Mimi
Triple R- Friends
Deerhoof- Reveille
Dizzee Rascal- Showtime
Luomo- Vocalcity
Burial- Burial
Ghostface- The Pretty Toney Album
Dominik Eulberg- Kreucht & Fleucht
Clinic- Internal Wrangler
The Clientele- The Violet Hour
Broadcast- The Noise Made By People
Michael Mayer- Immer
Max Tundra- Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange
Melchior Producions Ltd.- No Disco Future
Lawrence- The Night Will Last Forever
DFA Compilation #2
Jim O'Rourke- Insignificance
Spoon- Girls Can Tell
Thomas Brinkmann- Tour de Traum
Aaliyah- Aaliyah
Kaito- Special Life
Farben- Textstar
Viktor Vaughn- Vaudeville Villain
Mu- Out of Breach
Smog- Dongs of Sevotion
Sam Prekop- Who's Your New Professor?
Richard Davis- Safety
Black Heart Procession- Three
Fennesz- Endless Summer

no painful consideration approach:

theo parrish - parallel dimensions
rhythm and sound with the artists
hototogisu - floating japanese oof gardens of the 21st century
ricardo villalobos - alcachofa
metro area
isolee - rest
moodymann - forevernevermore
broadcast - the noise made by people
david sylvian - blemish
fennesz - endless summer
stars of the lid and their refinement of the decline
double leopards - halve maen
grouper - cover the windows and the walls
boredoms - vision creation newsun (cheating?)

lots more

plus lots of what he ^^ said

some very good choices with the two lists above me.

cont. but not in any kind of order...

Scott Walker - The Drift
Mouse On Mars - Idiology
Luciano - Live @ Weetamix
Radiohead - Kid A (& the rest really)
TBA - Anulle
AGF - Westernization Completed
Isolee - Wearemonster
Apparat - Duplex
Asa Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost
Kevin Blechdom - Bitches Without Britches
Barbara Morgenstern - Fjorden
Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Kylie - Fever
Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS

+ weiss.mix/Immer/Superlongevity/Panoramabar 01/Boogy Bytes Vol.1/Nocturbulous Behavior & other predictably ILM-centric choices if CD mixes are counting as 'albums' (which they should really imo) :/

Thanks!

I'd really like to do this with singles...

don't listen to enough (ok, any really) hip-hop and grime, don't listen to nearly enough new guitar rock, pay a little too much attention to 'promising' trends sometimes, usually more turned off & bored than thrilled by new 'electro' (rough or refined) and splattersampling, unfortunately. feeling a bit out of step, old & un-with-it lately. In summary.

top drawer mixes I missed - Scion - Arrange & process.. Richie Hawtin DE9 (II & III, not heard 1), Tobias Thomas - Smallville

i listen to what i like. who cares about listening to hip hop or grime, really. i pay attention to about 3 types of new music and i'm very comfortable with that.

(obviously this -- "who cares about listening to hip hop or grime, really" -- means why should you have to listen to anything, not why would anyone listen to these genres)

Well, I care 'cos I feel like I've started to miss out a bit, based on where my ears have been for a lot of the 00s? Nothing more significant than that... I'm not trying to be cool about it. I find it hard to attempt to keep up with everything, but do that in any depth (of enjoyment) as well. I'm not a crit or dj. Just feeling like I got in a rut somewhere the last couple of years .. blah balh

These are probably the albums I've got the most mileage out of so far this decade, so I suppose they're my favourites:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
N*E*R*D - In Search Of
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
The Strokes - Is This It
Radiohead - Kid A
The Knife - Silent Shout
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
System of a Down - Toxicity
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Rival Schools - United By Fate
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - In Rainbows

^^great list.

xpost - and maybe closing my ears out of exhaustion with trying to seek out the best stuff, instead of letting it come to me however? for instance, just cannot find the care to even think about 'balearic' or bassline (and ilm in general these days, despite starting to post a bit again this last week!)

nate summarises the reasons for the first 5 I picked WAY more succinctly than I could :)

yeah well this board is strange because it's full of music critics. but if you "keep up" too hard you might begin believing things like that be your own pet made one of the best albums of the decade

well that really worked for M.I.A. and me lol.

Nah I definitely know what you're saying, but it's not like that. Hmmm, isn't jess rather out on his own with BYOP anyway??

anyway ;-)

http://www.metacritic.com/music/
http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/

posting so Geir doesn't have to.

not sure how i managed to do a top 100 so quickly esp. seeing as i HAET albums (perhaps you can tell from the list).

yeah well this board is strange because it's full of music critics. but if you "keep up" too hard you might begin believing things like that radiohead made one of the best albums of the decade

fixed

all downhill from Pablo Honey...

yes yes, just joshing with the byop. (although i do find it funny that someone i learned so much about music from observing earlier in the decade could diverge so wildly from me as it progressed)

i quite like albums yet i'd struggle to find 100 albums i LOVE from the decade, i think.

These are the records I've probably listened to the most over the last 8 years. Plus current stuff that's on my mind. Some of 'em I'd have a hard time defending, and a few even embarass me, but they all did the job at the time. Numbering doesn't really mean anything, and I'm sure I'm leaving off TONS of stuff:

1) Louden Up Now - !!!
2) Tje Ni Musso - Amadou & Miriamm
3) Sung Tongs - Animal Collective
4) I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons
5) Wages of Sin - Arch Enemy
6) Mirrored - Battles
7) Grand Fury - The BellRays
8) Fingering the Devil - Sir Richard Bishop
9) Polytheistic Fragments - Sir Richard Bishop
10) Beaches and Canyons - Black Dice

11) Let It Bloom - Black Lips
12) Vision Creation Newsun - Boredoms
13) Seadrum/House of Sun - Boredoms
14) Amplifier Worship - Boris
15) Flood - Boris
16) Akuma No Uta - Boris
17) Burial (1) - Burial
18) Burial (2) - Burial
19) Cansei de ser Sexy - CSS
20) Sunrise - Circle

21) Lord Willin' - Clipse
22) La Maison de Mon Rêve - Cocorosie
23) Field Recording from the Sun - Comets On Fire
24) Discovery - Daft Punk
25) From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots - Dalek
26) Kenose - Deathspell Omega
27) Reville - Deerhoof
28) Apple O - Deerhoof
29) The Runners Four - Deerhoof
30) Ultraglide In Black - Dirtbombs

31) Gold Teeth Thief - dj/rupture
32) Ghetto Pop Life - DM & Jemini
33) Dopethrone - Electric Wizard
34) Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues - John Fahey
35) Red Cross - John Fahey
36) Endless Summer - Fennesz
37) Venice - Fennesz
38) Supreme Clientele - Ghostface
39) Fishscale - Ghostface
40) Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp

41) Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive - The Heads
42) The Art of Self Defense - High On Fire
43) The Warning - Hot Chip
44) Donuts - J Dilla
45) When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog… - Jens Lekman
46) Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
47) Kid Commando - Kid Commando
48) The Garbageman and the Prostitute - Kill Me Tomorrow
49) What's for Dinner - The King Khan & BBQ Show
50) Silent Shout - The Knife

51) Congotronics - Konono No. 1
52) LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
53) Deux Hot Dogs Moutard Chou - Les Georges Leningrad
54) The Tenth Sub-Level of Suicide - Leviathan
55) The Blind Wound - Leviathan
56) They Were Wrong, So We Drowned - Liars
57) Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice
58) Arular - M.I.A.
59) Kala - M.I.A.
60) Special Blends set - MF Doom

61) Madvilliany - Madvillian
62) Kill M.O.T.O. - Masters of the Obvious
63) The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
64) Instinct/Decay - Nachtmystium
65) In Search of… - N.E.R.D.
66) In Their Darkened Shrines - Nile
67) Variations On a Theme - Om
68) Convocation of the Birds - Om
69) Stankonia - OutKast
70) The Love Below (only) - OutKast

71) The Teaches of Peaches - Peaches
72) Laced With Romance - The Ponys
73) Mapmaker - Parts & Labor
74) Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
75) Are You Ready for an Organ Solo - Quintron
76) Electric Swamp - Quintron
77) Kid A - Radiohead
78) Kensington Blues - Jack Rose
79) Dark Noontide - Six Organs of Admittance
80) For Octavio Paz - Six Organs of Admittance

81) Dopesmoker - Sleep
82) Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo - Spank Rock
83) Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
84) Is This It - The Strokes
85) 00 Void - SunnO)))
86) Black One - SunnO)))
87) Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
88) Dying to Meet You - Vaz
89) Vaudeville Villian - Viktor Vaughan
90) The Drift - Scott Walker

91) Dead as Dreams - Weakling
92) Illuminated - Weird War
93) Elephant - White Stripes
94) Icky Thump - White Stripes
95) Witch - Witch
96) Dread - Wolf Eyes
97) Burned Mind - Wolf Eyes
98) Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
99) Nocturnal Poisoning - Xasthur
100) Yura Yura Teikoku - III

Forgot about the first couple A Frames records, Spits debut. Reigning Sound's Too Much Guitar. Listened to those a hell of a lot.

My Top 20 albums so far in alphabetical order:

Arcade Fire: Funeral
Beta Band: Heroes To Zeroes
Broadcast: The Noise Made By People
Clientele: Strange Geometry
Clinic: Walking With Thee
Eels: Blinking Lights...
Felix Da Housecat: Kittenz and Thee Glitz
Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights
Knife: Silent Shout
Ladytron: 604
LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem
New Pornographers: Mass Romantic
Of Montreal: Satanic Panic In The Attic
Panda Bear: Person Pitch
Scritti Politti: White Bread Black Beer
Shins: Oh Inverted World
Streets: Original Pirate Material
White Stripes: Elephant

The 2000s for me were great years for metal and reissues/boxed sets. i mean if you give me a good oh ok or liliput comp it's hard for me to get excited about the new squeaky sneaker cd on spinart or whatever the fuck you kids listen to. just glancing around the room i did find some things that i enjoyed a heck of a lot in the NON-metal and NON-reissue division:

Sand - Still Born Alive

Crunk Classics Comp on TVT (mainly cuz "Who Dat" is my favorite song of the decade and that's what I have it on)

Red Snapper - Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper

The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T EP

Deana Carter - The Story Of My Life

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Trans Am - Red Line

The Dragons - Rock n Roll Kamikaze

Phoenix - United

Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

Non Phixion - The Future Is Now

Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld

Go-Kart Mozart - Tearing Up The Album Chart

Ulan Bator - Ego:Echo

David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - 18 Monkeys On A Dead Man's Chest

Devin The Dude - Just Tryin Ta Live

Bring It On - Music From The Motion Picture

Pit Bull - Unleashed Vol.3

Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy - Adieu False Heart

Josie & The Pussycats - Music From The Motion Picture

Aterciopelados - Gozo Poderoso

Sun Kil Moon - Ghost Of The Great Highway

Kwisp - Teriyaki Vest Odyssey

Doves - Lost Souls

Cass McCombs - Prefection

JOMF - Liberation (and Fig.5 if that's not 1999)

Family Fodder - Water Shed

T.A.T.U. - 200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane

Tarentel - We Move Through Weather

Sunshine - Necromance

Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer

Green Velvet - s/t

Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues

Mo Money Crime Family - Life Of A Hustler

Android Lust - The Dividing

Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt

Wonwons - Original Punk Superstars

Keren Ann - Not Going Anywhere

The Gris Gris - S/T

Bosco - Action

Mellow - Another Mellow Spring

Omar Santana - Hardcore For The Headstrong - The New Testament

Mr.Oizo - Analog Worms Attack

Big & Rich - Horse Of A Different Color

Zeni Geva - 10,000 Light Years

Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit

But that's just the tip of the iceberg. And I would have to go searching for new vinyl too. And if I added metal, sheesh, it would be neverending. Artist of the decade for me: Um, probably Ulver. Label of the decade: Hmmm, Kompakt? Yeah, for real! I was just saying the other day, single-handedly the greatest tip I ever got from ILM. I've got, lemmesee, 13 or 14 Kompakt CDs and I like them ALL. That says something to me.

Would steal from Scott's list: Dungen, Hypnotic Underworld (maybe) & the Dragons record

Also spent a lot of time listening to Electric Eel Shock's Go Europe! CD & its American counterpart LP (rerecordings of most of the same tracks)

NNeck's Sticks & Stones... & Intonomancy

JOMF: Change LP

See, I could replace, like, Spank Rock and Strokes with that stuff, and then no one would have to know. Good plan.

I'm happy that I am not the only person on this thread who remembers these:

Kill Me Tomorrow - The Garbageman and the Prostitute
The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T EP
Deana Carter - The Story Of My Life
The Dragons - Rock n Roll Kamikaze
Ulan Bator - Ego:Echo
Kwisp - Teriyaki Vest Odyssey
T.A.T.U. - 200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane
Bosco - Action

....And there are lots and lots of other obscure albums just that good. Which is why it would take me forever to construct a best-albums-of-the-decade list. Bosco and the Dragons and Deana Carter have actually each made a couple real good albums this decade. So have, I dunno, the Starvations. And Red Swan. But none of the artists on this list have many as many good-to-great albums as the artists I mentioned up above, and I don't think anybody else on this thread does, either. It's sad that so many acts on my list are country; if I went further down, I'd probably add Gary Allan and Kenny Chesney too (well, also maybe Gogol Bordello, actually. And Black Lips. And Opeth. And Hold Steady. So that's more variety, I guess). Metal and electronic dance music and indie rock should produce more good albums than country fucking music, at least in theory. I just haven't heard the artists doing it. And I hear a hell of a lot of albums, including lots of ones other people are listing.

oops, meant:

none of the artists on this list have made as many good-to-great albums as the artists I mentioned up above, and I don't think anybody else on this thread has, either

I'm really trying to think of what other metal bands, besides Opeth, I should be naming. I.e., the Gathering own the late '90s, as far as I'm concerned, but I just don't hear their '00s stuff as stacking up. I wish I liked Katatonia or Ulver as much as Scott does! There must be some other metal band besides Opeth which has made just three '00s albums I like, right?

Oh wait, you know who I'd name among the top 10 '00s artists, probably? Oneida! Okay, that's better.

don't you like all three Witchcraft albums? not, um, you know, "metal" metal, but, whatever.

I HAVE DISCOVERED LJ'S ON FACEBOOK:

1) Ulver - Blood Inside
2) SFA - Rings Around The World
3) Oceansize - Frames
4) Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
5) GY!BE - Yanqui U.X.O.
6) Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra
7) Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts
8) Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti In Ignem Aeternum
9) Oceansize - Effloresce
10) My Computer - No CV
11) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
12) The Electric Soft Parade - The American Adventure
13) The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
14) 65DaysOfStatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas
15) Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
16) Foetus - Love
17) Elbow - Asleep In The Back
18) Six By Seven - Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel
19) Caribou - Andorra
20) Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

He must be lurking.

Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Viva Emptiness are albums I like by Katatonia from the 2000's. But they are hardly my favorite Katatonia albums. And I am not a big fan of the last album. Though it's okay and I gave it a good review. So, they would be more of a 90's list artist for me too. Like The Gathering. Even though I still like them a bunch!

Rate Your Music's highest rated albums of the decade

1. Radiohead- Kid A
2. Opeth- Blackwater Park
3. GSY!BE- LYSFLATH
4. Converge- Jane Doe
5. Maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map
6. Tool- Lateralus
7. Arcade Fire- Funeral
8. Lenny Valentino- Uwaga! Jedzie Tramwaj
9. Agolloch- The Mantle
10. Mitch Hedberg- Mitch All Together

don't you like all three Witchcraft albums?

I have only heard two of them! (I've also only two Electric Six albums, for whatever that's worth.) But yeah, either of those bands might qualify if I heard all their stuff. (Though the two Electic Six albums I've heard, and the two Witchcraft albums I've heard, are still nowhere near as good as, say, the three Gore Gore Girls albums I've heard or the five Montgomery Gentry albums I've heard or the six Toby Keith albums I've heard this decade. Just being honest!) (Well, okay, maybe the first Electric Six one is. I need to pull back out their second one.)

And as far as Neurosis goes, a band i friggin' ADORE, they haven't made an album as good as A Sun That Never Sets since that album. Which was 2001. I've enjoyed the albums since, and the Jarboe collab, but they aren't as good. So, a case could be made that their strongest decade was the 90's too, depending on how much you like their earlier stuff. And there are plenty of people who will tell you that souls at zero or through silver in blood is as good as they got.

"5. Maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map"

definitely be on any comprehensive list i made of the decade. along with Bath. I kinda think of them as one entity anyway.

I think my favorite Neurosis album is State of Grace from 1999. And yeah, after A Sun that Never Sets, I really don't care about them very much. (And Isis have been even more boring lately.)

Oops, Times of Grace, I meant.

jane doe/you fail me/no heroes is another amazing 00's trio for me. Love all three a ton.

Yeah, I never got Converge...at all, really.

Wait, you know who else (though she's not metal) has made four good albums this decade (though I don't love love love any of them)? Pink! So she belongs up there, probably.

did you hear No Heroes, chuck? there is stuff on there you might like.

Er...maybe? If I did, it didn't leave much of an impression. Maybe I'll check it out again sometime, though.

And Yolanda Perez has made three good ones (though I didn't like her most recent one at all.)

And then there's jazz people, though I'm definitely no expert --James Carter, Dave Douglas, David Ware, Jason Moran? Who else?

This thread is full of hipster-indie. What happened to the people who liked pop music? Where have they gone?

didnt bother with this thread

http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/

They are fastidiously avoiding this hellhole. xxp

ooh, and i forgot the Most Valuable Playaz Soundtrack. that belongs on my list. that's a whole bunch of people; tnt, e-vicious, too short, pimp c, lil buddah, al kapone, shuga shaft, b-legit, etc, etc.

i better stop. i'll be here all night.

"What happened to the people who liked pop music? Where have they gone?"

i was just listing albums that i own. if i listed all the SONGS i liked in the last 8 years i'd really be here forever. cuz i don't own any kelly clarkson CDs. as much as i love her. or as much as i love beyonce or britney. and i love them a ton too.

same with country. i've loved at least a zillion country songs in the last near-decade, but i don't own the albums.

there's some pop on my list. no country or metal tho.

unless white stripes really are country metal. but i should've put elephant and wbc.

since u been gone by kelly might be my fave rock/pop song of the decade.

come to think of it, maybe Beyonce is the artist of the decade. I love everything she's done. Either Beyonce or Ulver. It's a toss-up.

Okay, then what pop people have made three albums I like this decade?

1. I already mentioned Pink. She wins, I think. Which I would not have expected.
2. Britney probably deserves to be on the list, but I only have two albums by her on my shelf.
3. Justin, if *NSync's Greatest Hits counts.
4. Wait, I just remembered Leann Rimes! But she's country, allegedly.
5. Ashlee, when her next album (which I've heard about half of, and liked) comes out.
6. Um....

1. jay reatard - blood visions
2. deerhoof - reveille
3. blonde redhead - melody of certain damaged lemons
4. jay-z - the black album
5. fennesz, vainio & zanési - GRM experience
6. the fall - the real new fall LP
7. keith fullerton whitman - playthroughs
8. comets on fire - blue cathedral
9. LCD soundsystem - s/t
10. deerhoof - apple O

Yuh I rilly like Deerhoof's Reveille.

fave Deerhooff album.

I do not love Beyonce. At all. Obviously, I suck.

Well, I guess I like her more than I like Converge. Destiny's Child's #1s is a good album.

1. jay reatard - blood visions
2. deerhoof - reveille
3. blonde redhead - melody of certain damaged lemons
4. jay-z - the black album
5. fennesz, vainio & zanési - GRM experience
6. the fall - the real new fall LP
7. keith fullerton whitman - playthroughs
8. comets on fire - blue cathedral
9. LCD soundsystem - s/t
10. deerhoof - apple O

-- 6335, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

^^more of this dude

i dont even really like much of anything on that list but it's better than another list with arcade fire and interpol on it

That's the type of stuff you like tho i thought.

Arcade Fire etc?

What was that tai chi album Lou Reed put out last year? Because that should be on any list.

<i>there's some pop on my list

-- blueski, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:39 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link</i>

The only list I've liked so far.

Dammit, those italics

i like indie (not arcade fire) (interpol yeah) just saying all the other lists are like rote indie albums that aren't really that good or like house albums i've never heard of

6335's list is interesting as far as just listing albums goes is all

xp to walter

yeah sure. But 6335's list is fairly rote indie i think.

"all the other lists are like rote indie albums that aren't really that good or like house albums i've never heard of"

um, mine isn't like that at all.

and where's the pop? i've got friggin' t.a.t.u. and the friggin' bring it on soundtrack on my list. both of which still rule.

yeah you're right and i just realized i was railing against the one sockpuppet list in this thread

Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You

My own favorites--

Alan Jackson- Like Red on a Rose
Big & Rich- Horse of a Different Color
Brother Ali- Shadows on the Sun
Camron- Purple Haze
Carrie Underwood- Some Hearts
Hawksley Workman- Last Night We Were the Delicious Wolves
Masta Ace- Disposable Arts
Tim McGraw- Live Like You Were Dying
El-P- Fantastic Damage
Non-Phixion- The Future is Now
Gary Allan- Tough All Over, See If I Care
Keith Urban- Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
Lee Ann Womack- There's More Where That Came From
Miranda Lambert- Kerosene
Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Pat Green- Cannonball
Prefuse 73- One Word Extinguisher
Ghostface- The Pretty Toney Album
Rodney Atkins- If You're Going Through Hell
Sugarland- Twice the Speed of Life
Toby Keith- White Trash With Money, Honkeytonk U
Todd Snider- The Devil You Know
UGK- Underground Kingz
Willie Nile- The Streets of New York
Avril Lavigne- The Best Damn Thing

"all the other lists are like rote indie albums that aren't really that good or like house albums i've never heard of"

Yes, especially mine.

Jordan S, I think you owe xhuxk and scott an apology now.

i mean i thought it went without saying that they were excluded from that

bring it on soundtrack

I didn't notice this! Yeah, probably easily in my top 50 of the decade. Maybe even 40. Or 30. Or....?

T.A.T.U. have two really good '00s albums, too.

Daphne and Celeste have one great one! Then they fell off the face of the earth.

I think Damone's Out Here All Night might be my favorite album of the decade, weirdly enough. At least, that's the one that comes to mind instantly.

ftr since i've been talking a lot of shit in this thread my favorite album of the decade is tha carter II with is this it? coming up 2nd and after that i don't even really know

Both M2M albums are this decade too, right? (And M and M each has a good solo album, so either of them could fit the three-good-albums requirement too.)

Flogging Molly had four good albums this decade!

Metacritic top 50:

1 | SMiLE by Brian Wilson | | 2004 | 97
2 | Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn | 2004 | 97
3 | How The West Was Won by Led Zeppelin | 2003 | 97
4 | Stankonia by OutKast | 2000 | 95
5 | Savane by Ali Farka Toure | 2006 | 94
6 | Madvillainy by Madvillain | 2004 | 93
7 | The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Version] by Talking Heads | 2004 | 93
8 | Love And Theft by Bob Dylan | 2001 | 93
9 | Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards by Tom Waits | 2006 | 92
10 | Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal | 2004 | 92
11 | Elephant by The White Stripes | 2003 | 92
12 | A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets | 2004 | 91
13 | Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OutKast | 2003 | 91
14 | Canto by Los Super Seven | 2001 | 91
15 | Untrue by Burial | 2007 | 91
16 | From Here We Go Sublime by The Field | 2007 | 90
17 | Illinois by Sufjan Stevens | 2005 | 90
18 | Original Pirate Material by The Streets | 2002 | 90
19 | Alice by Tom Waits | 2002 | 90
20 | Is This It? by The Strokes | 2001 | 90
21 | Funeral by The Arcade Fire | 2004 | 90
22 | XTRMNTR by Primal Scream | 2000 | 90
23 | Z by My Morning Jacket | 2005 | 90
24 | Since I Left You by The Avalanches | 2001 | 89
25 | Neon Golden by The Notwist | 2003 | 89
26 | Rounds by Four Tet | 2003 | 89
27 | Modern Times by Bob Dylan | 2006 | 89
28 | Miss E... So Addictive by Missy Elliott | 2001 | 89
29 | HoboSapiens by John Cale | 2004 | 89
30 | Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo) by Aimee Mann | 2000 | 89
31 | Last Exit by Junior Boys | 2004 | 89
32 | Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age | 2002 | 89
33 | Wearemonster by Isolée | 2005 | 89
34 | Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse | 2006 | 89
35 | Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins | 2003 | 88
36 | Yours, Mine & Ours by Pernice Brothers | 2003 | 88
37 | Hypermagic Mountain by Lightning Bolt | 2005 | 88
38 | 69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields | 1999 | 88
39 | Ta Det Lugnt by Dungen | 2004 | 88
40 | Return To Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio | 2006 | 88
41 | Wicked Grin by John Hammond | 2001 | 88
42 | Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey | 2000 | 88
43 | Up In Flames by Manitoba | 2003 | 88
44 | College Dropout by Kanye West | 2004 | 88
45 | Where Shall You Take Me by Damien Jurado | 2003 | 88
46 | Rejoicing In The Hands by Devendra Banhart | 2004 | 88
47 | Vespertine by Bjork | 2001 | 88
48 | From A Basement On The Hill by Elliott Smith | 2004 | 88
49 | The Blueprint by Jay-Z | 2001 | 88
50 | In Rainbows by Radiohead | 2007 | 88

Mastodon and High on Fire also had three good records. And Arch Enemy. Machine Head had two.

Not in my house they don't!

Actually, though, Dropkick Murphys have a bunch, come to think of it. They may be in my top ten. Unless they're not.

Your house doesn't sound very fun, then.

Truer words were probably never spoken.

25 | Neon Golden by The Notwist | 2003 | 89

i really did like this album. see, my wanky indie side comes out in my love for stuff like this and the Doves. my euro-wank side.

28 | Miss E... So Addictive by Missy Elliott | 2001 | 89

loved this too. but why was it so of its time? why would i never play it in a million years. played out i guess. though it's not like i played it a million times. just hit the spot when the spot needed hitting. like sean paul!

If Mastodon and High On Fire wanted to "fun" they'd sound more like the Korpiklaani, Alestorm, Finntroll, Skyclad, and Sturmgeist albums in my house. (I.e. -- they'd drink more beer and dance more jigs.) As is, they're about as fun as my vacuum cleaner (which is really not that great a vacuum cleaner. Though it's competent, I guess. And loud.)

The Notwist might be one of my favorite bands of the late '90s, too, for whatever it's worth. (But they were more metal then.)

this being alright with modern country music is just not alright with me. what crappy music. no wonder some of you can come up with hundreds of albums, the quality level is not very high.

http://www.legaljuice.com/sausage.jpg

wait did we stablish whether or not it had to be a new artist? like originating in the 00's? that would be ridiculous right?

40 | Return To Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio | 2006 | 88

i don't know if it's my fave so far , but from the metacritic list, it is

rateyourmusic top 50:

1 Radiohead
Kid A (2000)
2 Opeth
Blackwater Park (2001)
3 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
4 Converge
Jane Doe (2001)
5 Maudlin of the Well
Leaving Your Body Map (2001)
6 Tool
Lateralus (2001)
7 Arcade Fire
Funeral (2004)
8 Lenny Valentino
Uwaga! Jedzie Tramwaj (2001)
9 Agalloch
The Mantle (2002)
10 Mitch Hedberg
Mitch All Together (2003)
11 Ulver
Perdition City (2000)
12 Pearl Jam
North America 2003 (2003)
13 Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
14 Tom Waits
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)
15 Disillusion
Back to Times of Splendor (2004)
16 Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye (2003)
17 Pain of Salvation
The Perfect Element I (2000)
18 Maudlin of the Well
Bath (2001)
19 Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
20 Porcupine Tree
In Absentia (2002)
21 Pain of Salvation
Remedy Lane (2002)
22 Devin Townsend
Terria (2001)
23 Yann Tiersen
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie) (2001)
24 Orphaned Land
Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (2004)
25 Arcturus
The Sham Mirrors (2002)
26 Clint Mansell
The Fountain (2006)
27 Neurosis
A Sun That Never Sets (2001)
28 Drudkh
Autumn Aurora (2004)
29 Wilco
Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (2005)
30 Sufjan Stevens
Illinois (2005)
31 Moonsorrow
Verisäkeet (2005)
32 Electric Masada
At the Mountains of Madness (2005)
33 Circle Takes the Square
As the Roots Undo (2004)
34 Electric Wizard
Dopethrone (2000)
35 Lykathea Aflame
Elvenefris (2000)
36 Nine Inch Nails
Still (2002)
37 Interpol
Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
38 Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
39 Masada
Live in Sevilla 2000 (2000)
40 Bohren & der Club of Gore
Black Earth (2002)
41 Paysage d'Hiver
Paysage d'Hiver (2000)
42 Dredg
El Cielo (2002)
43 Gov't Mule
The Deepest End: Live in Concert (2003)
44 Isis
Panopticon (2004)
45 Coil
The Ape of Naples (2005)
46 Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
47 Nevermore
Dead Heart in a Dead World (2000)
48 Various Artists - Tribute Albums - George Harrison
Concert for George (2003)
49 Madvillain
Madvillainy (2004)
50 The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)

Playing catchup: Neon Golden retroactively added to my list. Plus Real New Fall LP. Plus Oh Sees Sucks Blood and Baroness EPs. Plus probly other stuff later on.

neon golden was quite good huh

I would think artists originating in the 00's would be ideal candidates.

for me, pretty stereotypical: Banhart, Animal Collective, Fiery Furnaces, Mum, Sleep, Fannypack, Nicole Mitchell, lots of others.

as far as artists who were active previously and continue to make great records, shit, there are probably hundreds.

Example of "other stuff, later on": Fucked Up - Hidden World

Fuck, I'm sorry to just keep piling it on, bad form I know, but this is the first time I've thought about this, and stuff keeps occurring to me.

Plastic Soul with the White Apes - Beehive & the Barracudas
Easily one of my top ten for the decade. Love every song.

can i tell you how surprised i am that pipecock's only rap is dilla? exactly 0% surprised

Not rank-ordered, except number one is really number one, and number two is probably number two, and the next four are probably really up there somewhere, for me.

Shiina Ringo: Karuki Zamen no Hana
Tokyo Jihen: Adult
Kate Bush: Aerial
Miguel Anga Diaz: Echu Mingua
Michael Stuart: Back to the Barrio
Ned Rothenberg: Inner Diaspora
Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: America
Lansing-Dreiden: Incomplete Triangle
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
Shiina Ringo: Shouso Strip
Boris: Feedbacker
Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
John Fahey: Red Cross
Dave Fox: Dedication Suite
Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Kayhan Kalhor: Night Silence Desert
Rahim AlHaj: When the Soul is Settled - Music of Iraq
Sunny Jain Collective: Avaaz
Si Soy Llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia
Ali Aldik: Aloush

That’s a stupid-looking list. Misses out completely on my reggaeton listening, because I can't really put any albums on this list, although there are some I haven't heard all the way through, or that I need to go back to, that I think would be candidates (Mas Flow, Pa'l Mundo, etc.). There are other albums I think were great that I'm not listing because however great I think they are, I hardly ever listen to them.

At least this exercise reminded me how good that Al Aldik album is.

(Ali)

I like most, if not all, of those bands that you listed, Chuck! Your summary dismissal just rankled me. I didn't say anything about your choices, did I? Even though I don't particularly like a lot of the things on your list. I was just listing bands that I thought had a run of good albums.

That should be: Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana. (I planned on double-checking the title but forgot.)

"24 Orphaned Land
Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (2004)"

on zeno's list , this stuck out. definitely one of my faves of the decade. and an album that i haven't stopped playing since 2004.

some more
11. unwound - leaves turn inside you (thx for reminder, Z.S)
12. wu-tang clan - the W
13. earth - hex: or printing in the infernal method
14. mare - s/t
15. mastodon - blood mountain
16. the tuss - rushup edge
17. clinic - internal wrangler
18. fennesz - endless summer
19. eminem - the eminem show
20. the streets - a grand don't come for free

hey if you have any lists that don't suck feel free to post them here: 21st Century House and Techno POX

ps - no drum, no machine, no service

that's not fair, i like fandango's picks and scott seward's too (the ones i know, anyway). and i like that somebody took the time to write a list for louis.

Where's Life Without Buildings' Any Other City amongst all this chatter?

No no, I cut and pasted that louis list.

from where? is he following ilx that closely?

My Picks (off the top of my head, obv.)
1. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
2. Aaliyah - s/t
3. Daft Punk - Discovery
4. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Two People...Probably Talking About Me EP
5. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
6. Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
7. Britney Spears - Blackout
8. M.I.A. - Kala
9. Clipse - Lord Willin'
10. Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko (Score)
11. RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
12. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
13. The I Love You But I'm Not In Love With Yous - Long Live Jimmy Tango
14. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
15. Burial - Untrue
16. Arcade Fire - Funeral
17. Beyonce - B'Day
18. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
19. Jon Sheffield - It's Been So Long Since I've Seen the Ocean
20. Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now

xpost he posted an "item" on facebook.

ok so:

It would help if I pressed Ctrl-V wouldn't it?

2000.
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Cave In - Jupiter
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Luomo - Vocalcity
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
OutKast - Stankonia
Paradox - The Musician As Outsider
Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

2001.
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Bardo Pond - Dilate
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies Of The Future
Converge - Jane Doe
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Jonny L - Magnetic
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Mogwai - My Father My King
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening And Closing
stars of the lid - the tired sounds of
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Strokes - Is This It
Tool - Lateralus
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

2002.
Agalloch - The Mantle
Akufen - My Way
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Secret Rhythms
Digital - Dubzilla (add 'Ras 78' as a bonus track)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Isis - Oceanic
Mastodon - Remission
Michael Mayer - Immer
Nine Inch Nails - Still
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Sigur Ros - ( )
The Rum Diary - Noise Prints
The Mothman Prophecies OST

2003.
Beehive and the Barracudas - In Dark Love (!!!)
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Calibre - Musique Concrete
Cat_Power - You Are Free
Eluvium - Lambent Material
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Madlib - Shades of Blue
Matmos - The Civil War
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven
Rhythm and Sound - With The Artists
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Sub Oslo - The Rites of Dub
Supersilent - 6
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Tie These Hands & Mr. 1986 - Collective Efforts
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

2004.
Air - Talkie Walkie
Andrew Weatherall - Fabric 19
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Autolux - Future Perfect
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Konono No 1 - Congotronics
Destroyer - Your Blues
ISIS - Panopticon
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Junior Boys - Last Exit (Adding Last Exit [Fennesz mix])
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Meshuggah - I
MIA & Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1
Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow
Seu Jorge - Cru
Wilco - A Ghost is Born

2005.
Akron-Family - Akron-Family
Daft Punk- Human After All
Deaf Centre - Pale Ravine
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Ewan Pearson - Sci.fi.Hi.fi. Vol 1
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Isolee - We Are Monster
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Kate Bush - Aerial
LCD Soundsystem - Self Titled
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Lindstrom - It's a Feedelity Affair
Low - The Great Destroyer
My Morning Jacket - Z
Open Hand - You and Me
Ricardo Villalobos - Achso EP
Soulwax - Nite Versions
Tera Melos - Self Titled
The National - Alligator

2006.
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Ali Farka Touré - Savane
Booka Shade - Movements
Burial - Burial
Cat Power - The Greatest
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Destroyer - Rubies
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
His Name Is Alive - Detrola
Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
M.A.N.D.Y. - At the Controls Mix
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah Remixes
Skream - Skream!
Tarrus Riley - Parables
The Knife - Silent Shout
Various Production - The World Is Gone
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

2007.
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Apparat - Walls
Burial - Ghost Hardware EP (add 'Archangel' to this)
Doc Scott - End of the Beginning EP
Efdemin - Efdemin
Faze Action - In The Trees (C2 Remix)
Junior Boys - Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
M.I.A. - Kala
Map of Africa - Self Titled
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism mix
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Studio - West Coast
Supermayer - Save The World
Tinariwen - Aman Iman Leau Cest La Vie
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions

^^thanks that's really edifying

Louis Jagger (Cambridge) wrote
at 9:28pm yesterday
ok ILM and that top records of the 00's thread in particular is starting to resemble not so much the vanity of small differences as the complete fucking moronity of small-minded fucking imbeciles

Not quite the same, but a few months ago when Stylus closed I did this on my blog;

http://sickmouthy.blogspot.com/2007/10/fifty-from-five.html

These are, as of Tuesday 30th October 2007, my fifty favourite records released during the existence of Stylus Magazine. Only three rules exist for this list; things must have been released between June 3rd 2002 and October 29th 2007, only one album from any given artist, and no reissues or compilations. Oh, and I must like it. A lot.

As a result you won’t find Is A Woman, Point, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Tallahassee or Original Pirate Material on this list; they all came out in the first six months of 2002. There’s no Can or Sly remasters and no Tropicalia either. And there’s definitely no fucking Blueberry Boat. Just fifty new records that I have loved during the life of Stylus. I was going to just do twenty, but it was too hard.

Here they are, in a very vague semblance of preference.

1. Bark Psychosis - ///Codename:Dustsucker
2. Manitoba / Caribou – Up In Flames
3. Electrelane – The Power Out
4. Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
5. Califone – Roots And Crowns
6. Acoustic Ladyland – Skinny Grin
7. Battles – Mirrored
8. The Necks – Drive By
9. Augie March – Strange Bird
10. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
11. 65daysofstatic – The Destruction of Small Ideas
12. Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
13. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
14. Roots Manuva – Awfully Deep
15. Working For A Nuclear Free City – Working For A Nuclear Free City
16. The Clientele – The Violet Hour
17. LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
18. Kate Bush – Aerial
19. Lift To Experience – The Texas–Jerusalem Crossroads
20. Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World
21. Embrace – Out Of Nothing
22. Guillemots – From The Cliffs
23. Polar Bear – Held On The Tips Of Fingers
24. Stars Of The Lid – And The Refinement of Their Decline
25. King Biscuit Time – Black Gold
26. Loose Fur – Loose Fur
27. Spoon – Kill The Moonlight
28. Four Tet – Rounds
29. The Delgados – Hate
30. TV On The Radio – Young Liars EP
31. Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds
32. Fennesz – Venice
33. British Sea Power – Open Season
34. Two Lone Swordsmen – From The Double Gone Chapel
35. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – Out Of Season
36. Ghostface Killah – The Pretty Toney Album
37. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
38. Missy Elliott – Under Construction
39. Studio – West Coast
40. The Notwist – Neon Golden
41. Boredoms – Seadrum / House Of Sun
42. Scott Walker – The Drift
43. Sugababes – Three
44. N*E*R*D – In Search Of
45. Akufen – My Way
46. Vitalic – OK Cowboy
47. Rufus Wainwright – Want One
48. OutKast – Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
49. Boards Of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
50. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm

It'd be a very different list if I did it for the whole decade. I may just do that though.

<i>"What happened to the people who liked pop music? Where have they gone?"

i was just listing albums that i own. if i listed all the SONGS i liked in the last 8 years i'd really be here forever.

</i>Scott OTM.
And hipster indie rules, you saddos.

some lunacy on that metacritic top 50 list
puts into perspective the knee-jerk tendency of soulless music critics to jump on the bandwagon

Louis Jagger (Cambridge) wrote
at 9:28pm yesterday
ok ILM and that top records of the 00's thread in particular is starting to resemble not so much the vanity of small differences as the complete fucking moronity of small-minded fucking imbeciles

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lj otm

dude Macallan, 'Magnetic' is from '98!

Some album possibilities (extremely incomplete list)

'07
Little Big Town – A Place To Land (Equity Music Group)
Flynnville Train – Flynnville Train (Show Dog Nashville)
Trigger Renegade – Destroy Your Mind (Black Top Fade)
Aly & AJ – Insomniatic (Hollywood)
Miranda Lambert – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Columbia)
Gore Gore Girls – Get The Gore (Bloodshot)
The Sirens – More Is More (MuSick)

'06
Montgomery Gentry – Some People Change (Columbia)
Damone – Out Here All Night (Island)
Toby Keith – White Trash With Money (Show Dog Nashville/Universal)
Taylor Swift – Taylor Swift (Big Machine)
Alan Jackson – Like Red On A Rose (Arista Nashville)
Victory Brothers – Kowboyz De Loz Angeleez (victorybrothers.net)
The Spunks – Yellow Fever Blues (Gearhead)
Dale Watson – Whiskey Or God (Palo Duro)

'05
Miranda Lambert – Kerosene (Epic)
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (French Kiss)
Deana Carter – The Story Of My Life (Vanguard)
Little Big Town – The Road To Here (Equity)
Fannypack – See You Next Tuesday (Tommy Boy)
M.I.A. – Arular (Interscope)
Bang Sugar Bang – Thwak Thwak Go Crazy!! (SOS)
Hard Skin – Same Meat Different Gravy (TKO)
Gary Allan – Tough All Over (MCA Nashville)
Lil’ Wayne – Tha Carter II (Cash Money/Universal)

'04
Big & Rich – Horse Of A Different Color (Warner Bros.)
Montgomery Gentry – You Do Your Thing (Columbia)
M.I.A. – Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1 (unlabeled promo mix album)
Wolf – Evil Star (Prosthetic)
The Living Things – Black Skies In Broad Daylight (Dreamworks promo)
Heart – Jupiter’s Darling (Sovereign Artists)
Nagg – Nagg (Dollar Record)

'03
Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road (Arista Nashville)
Toby Keith – Shock’N Y’all (Dreamworks)
Mensen - Oslo City (Gearhead)
Kenny Chesney – When The Sun Goes Down (BNA)
Buck 65 – Talkin’ Honky Blues (Warner Music Canada)
(Various) – (Sic) The Broklyn Beats 7” Series (Broklyn Beats)
A.R.E. Weapons – A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade)
The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)
Clone Defects – Shapes Of Venus (In The Red)
Mu-ziq – Bilous Paths (Planet Mu)
Merle Haggard – Like Never Before (Hag)
FM Knives – Useless And Modern (Broken Rekkids)
Fannypack – So Stylistic (Tommy Boy)
Electric Six – Fire (Beggars XL)

'02
Lifter Puller – Soft Rock (The Self-Starter Foundation reissue)
Toby Keith – Unleashed (Dreamworks)
Gore Gore Girls – Up All Night (Get Hip)
Field Mob – From Tha Roota To Tha Toota (MCA)
(Various) – Global Hits 2002 (Universal)

'01
Montgomery Gentry – Carrying On (Columbia)
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera (Soul Dump)
(Various) – Epop Version_01 (Epic)
Gore Gore Girls – Gore Gore Girls (Get Hip)
Mensen – Delusions Of Grandeur (Gearhead)
Brooks & Dunn – Steers & Stripes (Arista Nashville)
Gary Allan – Alright Guy (MCA Nashville)

'00
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers Album (Aftermath/Interscope)
I-F – Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1 (Panamamix)
(Various) – Bring It On (Playtone/Epic/Sony Music Soundtrax)
Kandi – Hey Kandi… (Columbia)
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (The Music Cartel)
DJ P and Z-Trip - Uneasy Listening Against The Grain Vol. 1 (ZTrip)
D.A.D. – Everything Glows (EMI)
Lifter Puller – Fiestas + Fiascos (The Self-Starter Foundation)
Mammoth Volume – Noara Dance (The Music Cartel)
(Various) – Brassic Beats (Skint)
(Various) – Bhangra Beatz (Naxos World)
M2M – Shades Of Purple (Atlantic)

rateyourmusic top 50:

(snip)

Rate your Black Metal more like.....

the knife - silent shout
broadcast - tender buttons
bjork - vespertine
fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
animal collective - sung tongs
lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow
robert wyatt - comicopera
clipse - hell hath no fury
the clientele - suburban light
deerhoof - friend opportunity

I find it weird no one else has The Cold Vein by Can Ox on their lists, I thought it was the one undie rap album everyone agreed was great.

There has never been an album in the history of mankind that "everyone agreed was great," and there never will be.

(Fwiw, my list should have more hip-hop in general, probably -- Trick Daddy, Lil Wayne, the second Ying Yang Twins album. But like I said, it's incomplete.)

oh yea. i love The Cold Vein.

Also wrongly absent from mine (among several other late-in-the-alphabet artists, probably):

Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
Skye Sweetnam - Noise From the Basement
ZZ Top - Mescalero

+

Red Swan - After the Barn Goes
Shakira - Laundry Service

There has never been an album in the history of mankind that "everyone agreed was great," and there never will be.

Bad reviews of Sgt Pepper written in 1967 to thread please.

Ha ha, ask Metal Mike Saunders what he thought of Sgt. Pepper's in 1967, guy.

Not sure what Bangs or Meltzer thought of it either, off hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had mixed feelings, at least.

And that's only critics (who may or may not have been writing yet.) Plenty of parents and teachers didn't love it, either, from what I've heard.

In the absence of tangible and concrete evidence, I rest my case, fawkes.

Er, obviously I didn't mean every person in the world loves The Cold Vein, but based on the threads I've read most ILXors who've heard it seem to find it great. (Except Ethan, apparently.)

dude Macallan, 'Magnetic' is from '98!

-- blueski,

my whole list is ruined now :(

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http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/superd_7278689.jpg

there's always that second Reprazent album, Macallan...

i haven't heard 'The Cold Vein' even tho i probably would've liked it at the time.

http://www.blinne.org/photos/uncategorized/siren.gif

Louis wrote on your Wall:

"to clarify: i was mostly talking about that pipecock/choose leif/white stripes indie bitchfest. i actually have more anger towards the 'bands with no clunkers' thread."

http://www.blinne.org/photos/uncategorized/siren.gif

Digging up (and cherry-picking other people's lists for) more shit I forgot about the first time around. Up to, what, about 130 now?

Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Agalloch - The Mantle
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Electrelane – The Power Out (like Beehive, an easy top ten contender I completely forgot about)
Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (...aaaand another one)
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
M.I.A. – Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1 (better than Arular)
Mogwai - My Father My King

P.S. re: Orphaned Land - Mabool

...on zeno's list , this stuck out. definitely one of my faves of the decade. and an album that i haven't stopped playing since 2004.

- scott seward

Goddam, I tried with that thing. Really I did. Dunno that I've ever seen a record get such unanimous praise on metal archives. But I couldn't hack it. Too cornball, overripe, dripping with molten cheese. And sometimes it's good cheese, and sometimes it's not cheese at all, but DAMN, a lot of it sounds like Lightning Crashes.

yeah, some people find it corny. but what some people find corny i find thrilling for some reason.

Louis wrote on your Wall:

no-one cares btw

Scott: I think I might have been willing to accept the cheese, 'cuz the good parts are GREAT, but my girlfriend mocked it so cruelly that I turned tail and ran. Maybe this belongs in that other thread.

"Louis wrote on your Wall:

"to clarify: i was mostly talking about that pipecock/choose leif/white stripes indie bitchfest. i actually have more anger towards the 'bands with no clunkers' thread."

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it"

peeps still need to get off the jock.

I WOULD HAVE TO SAY LIL WAYNE

Bad reviews of Sgt Pepper written in 1967 to thread please.

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:48 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

One notable critic who did not like the album was Richard Goldstein, a critic for The New York Times, who wrote, "Like an over-attended child, "Sergeant Pepper" is spoiled. It reeks of horns and harps, harmonica quartets, assorted animal noises, and a 41-piece orchestra," and added that it was an "album of special effects, dazzling but ultimately fraudulent" [5]. On the other hand, Goldstein called "A Day in the Life" "a deadly earnest excursion in emotive music with a chilling lyric," and that "it stands as one of the most important Lennon-McCartney compositions, and it is a historic Pop event."[6]

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/column2.php

i think the 00s should be called the meme decade.

Best albums of the '00s (in roughly chronological order):

Myra Melford - Dance Beyond the Color
Sussan Deyhim - Madman of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble - Dreams
FM Knives - Useless & Modern
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Mihály Dresch - Egyenes Zene (Straight Music)
Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
Jenny Scheinman - Shalagaster
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
Jewels & Binoculars - Floater
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa
Vinícius Cantuária - Silva
Misha Mengelberg - Senne Sing Song
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Missy Elliott - The Cookbook
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
Espers - Espers II
M.I.A. - Kala
Lily Allen - Alright, Still

Where's Life Without Buildings' Any Other City amongst all this chatter?

-- Cunga, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:20 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Link

There are some days when I think that Any Other City by Life Without Buildings is my favorite album from this decade.

-- jaymc, Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:22 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

remember this:

ILM Poll vote for the first half of the decade: ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

1. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
2. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
3. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (2002)
4. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (2003)
5. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2001)
6. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (1008)
7. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (983)
8. Jay-Z - The Blueprint (948)
9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (904)
10. Basement Jaxx - Rooty (830)
11. Radiohead - Amnesiac (804)
12. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (751)
13. Kanye West - The College Dropout (703)
14. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (682)
15. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (681)
16. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (679)
17. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive (573)
18. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi (566)
19. The Rapture - Echoes (554)
20. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City Stories From The Sea (545)
21. The Junior Boys - Last Exit (536)
22. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (529)
23. The White Stripes - Elephant (517)
24. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (513)
25. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (494)
26. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of... (486)
27. The Notwist - Neon Golden (479)
28. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (469)
29. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (466)
30. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (465)
31. The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird Bark (440)
32. Justin Timberlake - Justified (437)
33. Le Tigre - Le Tigre (436)
34. Fugazi - The Argument (403)
35. Broadcast - Haha Sound (401)
36. Lambchop - Nixon (398)
37. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR (398)
38. Fennesz - Endless Summer (394)
39. The Scissor Sisters - The Scissor Sisters (381)
40. Cat Power - You Are Free (365)
41. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (364)
42. The Clientele - Suburban Light (3??)
43. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire (352)
44. Richard X presents - X-Factor Vol. 1 (337)
45. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (337)
46. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance (335)
47. Luomo - Vocalcity (327)
48. Ladytron - Light And Magic (326)
49. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (321)
50. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz (311)
51. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts Of Oak (305)
52. Lifter Puller - Fiestas & Fiascos (293)
53. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (289)
54. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas (286)
55. Andrew WK - I Get Wet (280)
56. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II (279)
57. Royksopp - Melody AM (276)
58. Aaliyah - Aaliyah (275)
59. The RZA/Various Artists - Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (OST) (270)
60. The Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (266)
61. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (265)
62. Sonic Youth - Murray Street (265)
63. Madvillain - Madvillainy (264)
64. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan (264)
65. Big & Rich - Horse Of A Different Colour (263)
66. Cornelius - Point (262)
67. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (254)
68. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (252)
69. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album (252)
70. The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (245)
71. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel The Summer In My Heart (227)
72. Shellac - 1000 Hurts (227)
73. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (221)
74. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (218)
75. The New Pornographers - Electric Version (214)
76. Michael Mayer presents - Immer (214)
77. The Wrens - The Meadowlands (210)
78. Junior Senior - D-d-don't Stop The Beat (209)
79. D'Angelo - Voodoo (209)
80. New Order - Get Ready (207)
81. Atmosphere - Lucy Ford (206)
82. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (204)
83. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib (202)
84. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R (191)
85. Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus (191)
86. Calexico - Feast Of Wire (186)
87. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight (176)
88. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (172)
89. Mogwai - Rock Action (170)
90. Johnny Greenwood - Bodysong (OST) (168)
91. The Microphones - The Glow (Part 2) (167)
92. Low - Trust (163)
93. The Delgados - Hate (162)
94. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (160)
95. David Banner - Mississippi: The Album (160)
96. Emma Bunton - Free Me (157)
97. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (156)
98. Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice (155)
99. Bob Dylan - Love And Theft (153)
100. Max Tundra - Mastered By Guy At The Exchange (144)

101. Villalobos - Alcahofa (143)
102. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (143)
103. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyranny Of Distance (142)
104. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder (139)
105. Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid (137)
106. Smog - Dongs Of Sevotion (137)
107. Rufus Wainwright - Want One (136)
108. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Cast Of - Once More With Feeling (OST) (133)
109. Bersuit Vergabarat - Hijos Del Culo (127)
110. Saturday Looks Good To Me - All Your Summer Songs (120)
111. The Walkmen - Everybody Who Pretended To Like Me Has Gone (119)
112. Lawrence - The Absence Of Blight (119)
113. Wire - Send (117)
114. Oneida - Each One Teach One (117)
115. Spoon - Girls Can Tell (116)
116. Ellen Allien - Weissmix (116)
117. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (114)
118. David Sylvain - Blemish (114)
119. Fog - Ether Teeth (113)
120. The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (110)
121. DJ Rupture - Minesweeper Suite (109)
122. M83 - M83 (104)
123. Akufen - My Way (103)
124. Cassette Boy - The Parker Tapes (102)
125. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power (93)
126. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me (91)
127. TI - Trap Muzik (91)
128. Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons (90)
129. Underworld - A Hundred Days Off (88)
130. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (88)
131. The Bees - Sunshine Hit Me (85)
132. Okkervil River - Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See (81)
133. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish (80)
134. Mission Of Burma - Onoffon (79)
135. Spray - Living In Neon (78)
136. Kaito - Special Love (74)
137. Blak Twang - Kik Off (70)
138. John Fahey - Red Cross (69)
139. Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (69)
140. The Futureheads - The Futureheads (64)
141. The Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (63)
142. Cave In - Jupiter (61)
143. Various Artists - Lord Of The Decks: The Fellowship Of The Mic (61)
144. Converge - Jane Doe (58)
145. Saian Supa Crew - X-Raisons (57)
146. Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party? (55)
147. Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (54)
148. Miss Kittin - I Com
149. Jandek - The Gone Wait (50)
150. Eve - Eve-O-Lution (47)
151. The Deadly Snakes - Ode To Joy (45)
152. Beaumont - This Is Beaumont (45)
153. The Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat (45)
154. Killing Joke - Killing Joke (44)
155. Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue (42)
156. Stephen Jones - Almost Cured Of Sadness (42)
157. Crydamoure presents - Waves (40)
158. My Favorite - The Happiest Days Of Our Lives (38)
159. Comets On Fire - Field Recordings From The Sun (36)
160. The Wrangler Brutes - The Wrangler Brutes (32)
161. The Cure - The Cure (31)
162. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (26)
163. Xiu Xiu - A Promise (23)
164. Rancid - Rancid (20)
165. Fennesz - Live In Japan (16)
166. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (14)
167. Joy Zipper - American Whip (14)
168. The Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit (13)
169. Bangkok Impact - Traveller (10)
170. Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker (9)
171. Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (8)
172. Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue (7)
173. Raphael Saddiq - Instant Vintage (7)
174. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets (7)
175. DJ Krush - Zen (5)
176. Neurosis/Jarboe - Neurosis/Jarboe (3)
177. Girl Talk - Unstoppable (1)
178. Destroyer - Your Blues (-1)
179. Smashing Pumpkins - Machina: The Machines

yeah I'm with pipecock, get off jock. Also ban pipecock.

try again: ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

ILbadM

ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

Destroyer - Your Blues (-1)

haha

Besides the clear Fennesz favorite, Endless Summer, only Venice got votes. Does anyone like Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56' 37" Minus Sixteen Degrees 51' 08? The lists reminded me to try to find these:

Amadou & Mariam - Tje Ni Mousso (Circular Moves) 00
The Dragons – Rock N Roll Kamikaze (Junk) 01
Electrelane – The Power Out (Too Pure) 04
Lansing-Dreiden – The Incomplete Triangle (Kemado) 04

Of the rest of my top 100, here's some that weren't on many other lists:

Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires (Tomlab) 05
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal) 03
Kassin +2 - Futurismo (Video Arts Japan/Luaka Bop) 06
Apparat - Walls (Bpitch Control) 07
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free) 07
Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters (CramWorld) 00
Hawksley Workman - For Him And The Girls (Isadora/Ba Da Bing) 00
Mastodon - Leviathan (Relapse) 04
My Computer - No CV (Tesla UK) 05
Rob - Satyred Love (Source/Virgin Fr) 02
My Computer - Vulnerabilia (13 Amp UK) 02
Arto Lindsay - Invoke (Righteous Babe) 02
The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows (Record Collection) 04
Arto Lindsay - Salt (Righteous Babe) 04
Sketch Show - Loophole (Third Ear) 04
Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go) 02
Robyn (Konichiwa Records) 05
Nação Zumbí - Fome De Tudo (Deck Disk Brazil) 07
Plush - Fed (After Hours Jpn) 02
Tom Waits - Alice (Anti/Epitaph) 02
Field Music (Memphis Industries UK) 05
Otto - Sem Gravidade (Trama) 03
Shack - Here's Tom With The Weather (North Country UK) 03
Annie - Anniemal (679) 04
Benoît Pioulard - Précis (Kranky) 06
Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon) 06
Nação Zumbí (Trama) 02
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy (Tomlab) 04
Nação Zumbí - Radio S.AMB.A. (Stern's Brasil) 00
Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere (Astralwerks/Heaven) 03
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream (V2) 01
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone) 01
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters (Virgin) 01
Ampop - Nature Is Not A Virgin (R&R Iceland) 00
16 Horsepower - Secret South (Razor & Tie) 00
Cappablack - Facades and Skeletons (Scape Germany) 06
Nação Zumbí - Futura (Trama) 06
Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island (Kemado) 06
Various Productions - The World Is Gone (XL) 06
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power (XL/Beggars) 03
Pulp - We Love Life (Uni/Island) 01
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (Fat Possum) 04

no-one cares btw

ILbadM

-- Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:26 (Yesterday) Link

Starting to look more and more like the case each day.

I Love BM's

PEW PEW

I'm just going to list some artists I think deserve consideration. I'm sure all of them have been mentioned above, but nevertheless . . . These are in no particular order. The list is heavily-weighted toward indie rock, since it's what I know and like best. There are a ton of pop acts I also like, but I tend to experience those as individual songs, making it harder to assess those acts' historical significance.

Okay, enough qualifiers. Here's my list:

• Radiohead
• My Morning Jacket
• New Pornographers
• Justin Timberlake
• Timberland
• M.I.A.
• Arcade Fire
• Burial
• Dizzie Rascal
• Ellen Allien
• Ghostface Killa
• Junior Boys
• Wilco
• J Dilla
• LCD Soundsystem
• Lindstrom
• Low
• Spoon
• OutKast
• The Clientele
• The Knife
• The Shins
• Amadou Et Mariam
• Manu Chao
• Animal Collective
• White Stripes
• Iron & Wine
• Drive-By Truckers
• Hold Steady
• TV On The Radio
• Sufjan Stevens
• Kanye West
• The Books
• Broken Social Scene
• Britney Spears
• Eminem
• The Streets

Anyway, I suppose it's a bit premature to make pronouncements on the decade, but I think this kind of thread is totally worthwhile and an enjoyable read.

I love lots of what's unfairly labelled "world music," too, but I don't think much of it is from the oughts, and those that are I tend to experience like pop songs (i.e., as individual songs). Rachid Taha has been dynamite, with his 2006 disc Diwan 2, so maybe I should have listed him.

1. soulja boy
2. ...

Best stuff I've heard has been by Wire and Mission of Burma.

2. arab

3. D4L (as a group)
4. Fabo
5. Shawty lo

6. JIZZLE MAN

excuse me JIZZAL

7. BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

I just want to extend my thanks to assholes in general. You make life worth living.

save the victory speech for when we nominate you, contenderizer

8. robin thicke

hoos could probably get a verse the album dfb to for koch in 2 years

9. 40 cal

No, really, to all the assholes, a toast. They have this beer now with clam juice in it. Top notch.

whois contenderizer? Seems like a good guy.

10. NOW thats what I call music ... whatever the one from '03 was

deej otm

. Crazy In Love - Beyonce Featuring Jay-Z Listen Listen
2. Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas Feat. Justin Timberlake Listen Listen
3. My Love Is Like...Woah - Mya Listen Listen
4. Never Leave You (uh ooh, uh ooh!) - Lumidee Listen Listen
5. Right Thurr - Chingy Listen Listen
6. Wat Da Hook Gon Be - Murphy Lee Featuring Jermaine Dupri Listen Listen
7. Thoia Thoing - R. Kelly Listen Listen
8. Let's Get Down - Bow Wow (Feat. Baby) Listen Listen
9. Senorita - Justin Timberlake Listen Listen
10. I Want You - Thalia Featuring Fat Joe Listen Listen
11. Suga Suga - Baby Bash Listen Listen
12. In Those Jeans - Ginuwine Listen Listen
13. Walked Outta Heaven - Jagged Edge Listen Listen
14. (There's Gotta Be) More To Life - Stacie Orrico Listen Listen
15. Why Can't I - Liz Phair Listen Listen
16. Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne Listen Listen
17. Girls & Boys - Good Charlotte Listen Listen
18. The Boys Of Summer - The Ataris Listen Listen
19. Someday - Nickelback Listen Listen
20. Here Without You - 3 Doors Down

Stacy's Mom by Fountains Of Wayne Listen Listen is a good song.

11. cam'ron "dreams" freestyle

12. andrew wk

Whoa, it seems like Listen Listen is totally you favourite band of the 00's, Jordan.

Are they an offshoot of Talk Talk?

booooo you suck booooo

Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters

Pleasantly surprised to see that I wasn't the only person to name this. A fusion of a traditional non-Western music style, modern technology, and avant-garde sensibility that works.

I thought it fell short. (Of something. I forget what exactly, since I sold my copy.)

(Not that getting rid of a CD automatically wipes out my memory of it, but the point is I don't have it to listen to any more, to refresh my memory.)

Well, I suppose it may not be to every taste. I like her voice on it.

Maybe I have your copy - since I bought mine at a used CD shop.

beaumont 'this is...'
monica queen 'return of the sacred heart'
mum 'yesterday was dramatic, today is ok'
aislers set 'how i learnt to write backwards'
chut! 'collector'
baskervilles 'baskervilles'
belle and sebastian 'dear catastrophe waitress'
birdie 'triple echo'
bows 'cassidy'
pearlfishers 'sky meadows'
brunettes 'mars loves venus'
cloudboy 'down at the end of the garden'
scarlet's well 'isle of blue flowers'
Siesta travel trilogy
la buena vida 'hallelujah!'
electronic tomato 's/t'
fonda 500 'the spectrumatronicalogical sounds of fonda 500'
tears in x-ray eyes 'wonderfully made'
frankie machine 'francis albert machine and friends'
hood 'cold house'
girlfrendo 'so you are here again shadow?'
love is all 'nine times the same song'
gorky's 'how i long to feel that summer in my heart'
greg davis 'curling pond woods'
harper lee 'everything is going to be ok'
humphreys and keen 'the overflow
july skies 'where the days go'
ladybug transistor 'albermarle sound'
ladytron '604'
le futur pompiste 'your stories and your thoughts'
mahogany 'connectivity'
majestic 'wake up come out and play'
malory 'not here not now'
marine time keepers 'perfect knowledge of dreams'
marumari 'wolves hollow'
modesty blaise 'melancholia'
murcof 'remembranza'
notre dame 'comment l'amour est mort'
orwell 'archipel'
panda bear 'person pitch'
the playwrights 'english self storage'
pluxus 'european onion'
the projects 'let's get static'
randomnumber 'towards the forlorn society'
roy montgomery 'allegory of hearing'
screen prints 'perfect city'
stereo total 'musique atomatique'
swirlies 'cats of the wild'
tompaulin 'into the black'
would be goods 'the morning after'
poptics compilation
clientele 'strange geometry'

Dial Records

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