Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade

So here you should list your top ten favorite singles and albums of this decade. Also, use this thread to suggest potential faves to others.

At the risk of the eternal ridicule of those perfect in every thought and deed, here's the kind of shit that would most likely end up in my decade top ten (suggest away):

1. Shameless samples
2. Several songs in one
3. Songs that sound like a song submerged in crud or shoegaze
4. Shtick
5. Novelty
6. House music that sounds like Shakedown: "At Night"
7. Irritating repetitions
8. Chirpy Danish/Scandinavian pop

Thank you

kjb, why ar you sober enough to start this thread?

I started this thread IN ORDER TO sober up

u were so sober when you started this

I mean I realize u are something like 3 hours ahead of me but still

low point of ilx career: complaining that othe ilxors are too sober

don't we have a year to go yet?

1. Shameless samples
2. Several songs in one
7. Irritating repetitions
8. Chirpy Danish/Scandinavian pop

This represents the worst of mainstream pop.

My top 10 is so boring.. no way.

Someone else do it first.

i was thinking about this in the shower last night actually - i think i've decided on

albums
1. kanye west - college dropout

singles
1. jay-z ft ugk - big pimpin

albums...dunno. aaliyah or new amerykah?

singles...no 1 is prob between ciara 'oh' and t.i. 'what you know'

and trina 'b r right'

albums probably:
1. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
2. Aaliyah - s/t
3. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
4. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Two People...Probably Talking About Me EP
5. The-Dream - Love vs. Money
6. Joanna Newsom - Ys
7. Britney Spears - Blackout
8. M.I.A. - Kala
9. Daft Punk - Discovery
10. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

singles?:
1. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River
2. Cassie - Me & U
3. Basement Jaxx - Romeo
4. Ciara - Oh
5. R. Kelly feat. T.I. and T Pain - I'm A Flirt (Remix)
6. Lil Wayne feat. Robin Thicke - Shooter
7. Ciara - Promise
8. Cassie - Is It You?
9. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Remix)
10. Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned/I Think That She Knows

Just thinking about this topic reminds me of how good a decade it's been for new music. I started a list (mostly rock-oriented, I'm afraid), and found it hard to whittle it below 25.

oooh, i forgot the knife :/

Yeah, that's on my list, too.

in no particular order:

hold steady - seperation sunday
animal collective - feels
panda bear - person pitch
a.c. newman - slow wonder
tv on the radio - cookie mountain
spoon - kill the moonlight
fugazi - the argument
shins - inverted world
wilco - a ghost is born
wolf parade - queen mary

acts that could be on my list any other day:
new pornographers,destroyer, boris,mountain goats,clientele,lightning bold,explosions in the sky

..no age,fiery furnaces,gbv,mission of burma and at least 5 acts i forgot

Couldn't get the list below 20 albums. Sue me:

• Richard Hawley – The Ocean
• Books – The Lemon of Pink
• Burial – Untrue
• Calexico – Feast Of Wine
• Clientele – Suburban Light
• Clinic – Internal Wrangler
• Ellen Alien & Apparat – Orchestra Of Bubbles
• Tinariwen – Aman Iman: Water Is Life
• Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego – The Sinking Of The Titanic
• GhostFace – FishScale
• The Hold Steady – Boys & Girls In America
• Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank The Cradle
• Lewis Taylor – The Lost Album
• Low – The Great Destroyer
• M.I.A. – KALA
• Wilco – Kicking Television
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust
• Studio – West Coast
• Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway
• The Knife – Silent Shout

Clientele – Suburban Light

Yay!

Just thinking about this topic reminds me of how good a decade it's been for new music.

OTM. would it be hyperbolic to proclaim best decade ever?

in no particular order and criminally incomplete:

Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Jaylib - Champion Sound
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Arcade Fire - Funeral

Singles:

Conway - "Lisa's Got Hives"
The Strokes - "The Modern Age"
Fischerspooner - "Emerge"
OutKast - "Hey Ya"
Vitalic - "Poney"
Girls Aloud - "Biology"
that cover of "I Kill Everything I Fuck"
!!! - "Me and Guiliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story)"
Matias Aguayo - "Minimal"
Mogwai - "Hunted by a Freak"

Albums:

the Boom Selection thingy
Ween - Quebec
Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Strokes - Is This It
Coldplay - Parachutes
OutKast - SB/TLB
Gonzales - Solo Piano
The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love

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ALBUMS:

Daft Punk - Discovery
Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag
Luomo - Vocalcity
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The-Dream - Love/Hate
V/A: Target - Aim High Volume 2
V/A: Shanks & Bigfoot - Ayia Napa 2000
Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Luomo - The Present Lover

SINGLES:

Sticky & Ms Dynamite - Boo
Nelly - Hot In Herre
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
Cosmos - Take Me With You
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers (Sunship Remix)
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight

i can't tell if whiney is bemoaning mr snrub or if he's trying to pretend like he's above pointless narcissistic list making - surely hope it's the former

i'll be first in line for pointless narcissistic end-of-decade list making when the decade starts actually being over

off the top of the dome, i'll probably really regret this but

(in no order)

albums
kanye west - the college dropout
the-dream - love/hate
los campesinos! - hold on now youngster
lil wayne - tha carter II
the strokes - is this it?
bloc party - silent alarm
the clipse - lord willin
be your own pet - s/t
phoenix - it's never been like that
the exploding hearts - guitar romantic

runners up: jay-z - the blueprint, girl talk - night ripper, lcd soundsystem - sound of silver, the strokes - room on fire, young jeezy - the recession

singles (this is such a crapshoot)
jay-z ft ugk - big pimpin
nelly - country grammar
lcd soundsystem - all my friends
wiley - wearin my rolex
clipse - grindin
kanye west - all falls down
freeway ft jay-z & beanie sigel - what we do
ludacris - what's your fantasy?
fabolous - young'n
the killers - mr brightside

knock out uh "wearin my rolex" and add big tymers - still fly

singles are too hard, i love lots of songs

This end of the decade stuff is fun, but still really surreal to look at. Was it really eight or nine years ago when the Strokes were supposed to be heirs to some rock and roll throne with their, admittedly impressive, debut? This kind of thing strengthens narratives surrounding the trends of the decade (The decline of This Genre, the rise That) for better or worse.

Aaliyah Aaliyah
Outkast Stankonia
Jill Scott Words and Sounds
Sleater-Kinney The Woods
The New Pornos The Electric Version
Aimee Mann Bachelor No. 2
T.I. King
Los Campesinos! Hold On Now Youngster
Cat Power The Covers Record
Ludacris Back For The First Time

Wookie 'Battle'
Dizzee 'I Luv U'
Missy 'Get Yr Freak On'
Outkast 'B.O.B'
Wiley 'Wearing My Rolex'
Electrelane 'To The East'
T2 'Heartbroken'
UGK 'International Players Anthem'
Yh Yh Yh's 'Cheat Hearts'
Bloc Party 'The Present'

^off the top of my head.

Cheated*

Does Red Cross count as this decade?

I know my albums would include a few of these, but I'm sure I'm missing loads:

John Fahey: Red Cross
Kelley Polar: I need you to hold on while the sky is falling
Britney Spears: Blackout
Black Dice: Creature Comforts
Chris Brown: Exclusive
Junior Boys: Last Exit
Jana Hunter: Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom
Animal Collective - Hollindagain
Li'l Wayne - Tha Carter III
cLOUDDEAD - ten
Matmos - A Chance To Cut is a Chance to Cure
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
The Strokes- Room on Fire
Fujiya and Miyagi - Transparent Things

i'm disappointed people are doing this so early. disappointed!

yeah the new wilco album isn't even out yet!!

It is early for these lists. But it also seems pretty laid-back at this point, and all subject to change. At this point, it feels more like an early nominations thread, with the real arguing to come later.

And J0rdan's right, too. There's a lot of good material left to release this year (e.g., Wilco, Annie, Sonic Youth, Grizzy Bear, Clientele, The Books, The New Pornographers, Roxy Music, Amy Winehouse). But still. Besides, this thread already reminded me of some great stuff that I'd forgotten, and need to revisit (e.g., The Streets and (can't believe I forgot) Kanye West and The Exploding Hearts) or that I've slept-on, and need to explore (e.g., Fujiya and Miyagi).

I would have liked this thread better if people had posted their favorite music into categories

I am mostly interested in Dad Rock or close variations thereof (perhaps John Fahey, Aimee Mann, Clientele, and Wilco) exceptions - Johanna Newson's voice annoys me to no end. So no category can be perfect - especially for an "aspie" sailor like me. Oh and don't get me started on Devendra Banhart's voice. Makes me sad that Natalie Portman isn't the kind of girl I used to imagine her as.

Generally, if your top ten albums includes a token artist I hate, I'm going to dismiss that list as a whole (by quickly scrolling down to a new list to get away from said artist). I'm such a bastard in that way. It's like when people get upset because someone includes ____ with _____ in the same sentence.

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I will fall in love with a hippie and make you listen to limp indie rock ergo I am dead inside.

oops.

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I don't want to stray from topic but there are a lot better hippies she could have picked. Banhart must have swindled her. He must be some sort of alpha male hippie that got first dibs because he was a persistent asshole.

I like "dad-rock," too, but maybe people have diverse tastes?

That's why I suggested categories. People have the right to diverse tastes and I respect that. I like a little of every genre too but alas it is just that, a little. Anyways, please don't stop making top 10 lists because of me.

I'd like to see a list on genres I don't know anything about like jazz or country actually.

Oh man it's beginning.

can't wait to read all your awesome addendums and corrections to these lists in 6 months

Haha. You think there wouldn't be 6 months of addendums and corrections if people waited until December?

kinda thought this thread was more "at this point what kinda stuff will be on your end of year lists." That's how I was answering anyway and that's how most ppl seem to be from how they are phrasing it.

^^^ This. Exactly!

First of all, I'm glad this thread finally got bumped. Second, haters chill. If you read the first post, this thread is more about Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade so far. Your entire top ten won't come from the next six months no matter how many riches they burp up. So tell us your fave albums/singles so far. And find me an Aughties metal band as amazing as The Angelic Process.

Tim F, surprised to see The Knife missing from your top ten albums.

2. Several songs in one
This represents the worst of mainstream pop.

Wait a minute, Geir. Aren't you on fire for "several songs in one?" Isn't that precisely what "Supper's Ready" and acres of prog are all about?

Surprising to me how little I'm really enthusiastic. Can certainly get behind:

Arcade Fire, Funeral (seems much older; had to double-check it was released after 1999.)
New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
The Mountain Goats, All Hail West Texas
Belle and Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The White Stripes, Elephant

And beyond that, I'm not sure! Maybe the first Man Man record, maybe Widow City, maybe Talkie Walkie, maybe What's Happening in Pernambuco... but much as I liked these records when I got them I haven't really returned to them.

KJB,

So when we're gonna this for real, can we start a new thread?

i'm disappointed people are doing this so early. disappointed!

I think it's understood that these are supposed to be the favorites SO FAR.. they're going to change over time anyway.

single of the decade imo..

80's and 60's were better, but 00's was not bad.

important question: was "Say My Name" this decade or 90's?

Allmusic says it was a single in 2000 but the album came out in 1999.

Maybe should have included Voodoo in my list.

k.. as of now..

01 Daft Punk “One More Time”
02 The White Stripes “Dead Leaves On The Dirty Ground”
03 T.I.”What You Want”
04 Clipse “Grindin’”
05 Outkast “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)”
06 Yo Majesty “Club Action”
07 Daft Punk “Digital Love”
08 M.O.P. “Ante Up”
09 Jay-Z “Girls Girls Girls”
10 Radiohead “Pyramid Song”
11 At.The.Drive.In “One Armed Scissor”
12 The Strokes “Hard To Explain”
13 The Rapture “House Of Jealous Lovers”
14 Jay-Z “99 Problems”
15 System Of A Down “Chop Suey!”
16 Three 6 Mafia “Stay Fly”
17 PJ Harvey “This Is Love”
18 Jimmy Eat World “Bleed American”
19 Ne-Yo “Because Of You”
20 Kylie Minogue “Come Into My World”

Ante Up! I can't believe I forgot M.O.P. Whatever happened to those guys?

I think it's understood that these are supposed to be the favorites SO FAR.. they're going to change over time anyway.

er, people saying this are missing the point. obviously it is 'so far', what else could it be? i mean just why not wait another 6 months at least.

M.O.P. Preps 3 Albums in Next 12 Months
theyve been busy

single of the decade

Beyoncé ft. Jay Z - Crazy in Love

"Tim F, surprised to see The Knife missing from your top ten albums."

It's in the top 20 definitely. Basically anything in my top 20 could be top 10.

I cant scroll any further down, this is so frustrating :p

just kidding

holy shit, i forgot "umbrella"!

1. Playing The Angel - Depeche Mode
2. The Invisible Band - Travis
3. Life On Earth - Crowded House
4. X&Y - Coldplay
5. Sounds Of The Universe - Depeche Mode
6. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
7. sMiLe - Brian Wilson
8. Phantom Power - Super Furry Animals
9. Chaos And Creation In The Backyard - Paul McCartney
10.Sea Change - Beck

(Have to think of singles somewhat more, but one very strong contender would be Electric Soft Parade's "Silent To The Dark")

wow, this is very loose and in no order, but the list would definitely feature some of the following. i haven't thought about putting a list like this together previously.

alain bashung - l'imprudence
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
radiohead - kid a
daft punk - discovery
mclusky - mcklusky do dallas
shiina ringo - karuki zamen kuri no hana
converge - jane doe
cursive - the ugly organ
the blood brothers - ...burn, piano island, burn

1. Shameless samples
2. Several songs in one
4. Shtick
5. Novelty
6. House music that sounds like Shakedown: "At Night"
7. Irritating repetitions

Girl Talk.

Yeah, Girl Talk's Night Ripper will probably end up on a lot of lists. It sounds so contemporary, winking ironically but lovingly back toward the past.

(and maybe not so ironically)

um... here's a try (off top of head):

Albums:
Brandy Full Moon
Broadcast Tender Buttons
Britney Blackout
Mary J. Blige The Breakthrough
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One
Bjork Vespertine
Mariah The Emancipation of Mimi
The-Dream Love Me All Summer...
R. Kelly Chocolate Factory
Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine (Leak)

Singles:
Ciara "Promise"
Roisin Murphy "Let Me Know"
Britney "I'm A Slave 4 U"
Aaliyah "Rock The Boat"
Kelis & Andre 3000 "Millionaire"
Omarion "Icebox"
Alicia Keys "You Don't Know My Name"
Amerie "1 Thing"
Jazmine Sullivan "In Love With Another Man"
Lady GaGa "Just Dance"

>_<

The-Dream Love Me All Summer...

^^^what's this?

also, good call on vespertine.

That Broadcast album is very good. I also forgot Destroyer's Rubies, the best David Bowie-homage, and among the best shambolic 70s-sounding rock albums, of the decade.

Love/Hate's full title is Love Me All Summer Hate Me All Winter

never knew that :)

thread's interesting just to sort of be reminded of what's been out. not sure about a solid 10 on either, but things likely to place for me:

m.i.a. kala (or possibly piracy funds terrorism)
t.i. king
marnie stern -- one or the other, i go back and forth. probably the second one
outkast stankonia
lumo vocalcity
first DFA comp

things that could possibly, i don't know: sean paul, amadou and mariam, konono no. 1, keren ann, times new viking, jay-z black album, lots i'm sure i'm not thinking of.

singles would be even harder, but some things i'd hate to leave off:

"gasolina" daddy yankee
"oye mi canto" n.o.r.e./nina sky/etc (i prefer the mix with tego to the one with daddy yankee)
"pull shapes" pipettes
"oh" ciara
"umbrella" rihanna
beyonce track to be named later (seriously, how do you choose?)

oh, and

(Have to think of singles somewhat more, but one very strong contender would be Electric Soft Parade's "Silent To The Dark")

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 25 May 2009 10:20 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

sometimes i fucking love geir

"gasolina" daddy yankee
"oye mi canto" n.o.r.e./nina sky/etc (i prefer the mix with tego to the one with daddy yankee)

OMG YES to both!!! and lumidee, nina sky 'move ya body' etc

Love/Hate's full title is Love Me All Summer Hate Me All Winter

!!!

Haven't really given this that much thought, but here we go anyway:

Albums

Pole - Steingarten
AZ - Aziatic
Fever Ray - s/t
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
Meshell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams
S.I.Futures - The Mission Statement
M.O.P - Warriorz
310 - After All
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Sussan Deyhim - Madman of God

Singles

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
All Saints - Chick Fit (Kissy Sell Out's Excellent Adventure Remix)
Nas - One Mic
Luomo - Tessio
Beyoncé - Crazy in Love
Wu-Tang Clan - I Can't Go to Sleep
Grace Jones - Williams' Blood
Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie (original version)
Eve - Who's That Girl?
Pole - Raum 1 (Burnt Friedman Remix)

KJB,

So when we're gonna this for real, can we start a new thread?

Yes but ONLY if YOU tell us your top tens SO FAR here. :)

I don't care for much for albums and I haven't even listened to many this decade, so I guess I shouldn't even bother. Fav singles then (in no particular order)...

Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
Britney Spears - Toxic
Girls Aloud - Biology
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
Goldfrapp - Utopia
Kelis - Milkshake
The Go! Team - Ladyflash
The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
Rachel Stevens - Negotiate With Love
Rihanna - Umbrella

03 T.I.”What You Want”

I mean "What You Know" ..

02 The White Stripes “Dead Leaves On The Dirty Ground”

I mean "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground" ..

albums:

Fugazi - The Argument
Daft Punk - Discovery
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Scott Walker - The Drift
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
A Mountain of One - Collected Works
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Bang on a Can - Renegade Heaven
Katamari Fortissimo Damacy

I read that too quickly as Snakes on a Can.

'the argument' might crack my top 10 if i thought long and hard about it actually. black dice - 'beaches and canyons' is also up there somewhere. add those two to the records i listed previously.

Nice to see Fever Ray on someone's list already, despite being so new. It'll def be on mine.

This is a preliminary off the dome rough draft of sorts, albums only, can't remember all the singles becuase i'm too stoned...

01. Madvillain - Madvillainy
02. Radiohead - Kid A
03. The Notwist - Neon Golden
04. Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
05. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
06. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
07. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
08. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
09. Brand New - Deja Entendu
10. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

clicking through all the "best of 200*" lists online to help jog my memory made me realize how mainstream my tastes were this decade. but with the naughty's rap renaissance being so great i'm not sure i care.

top 10 singles:

slave 4 u - britney
never leave you (uh ooh) - lumidee
baby boy - beyonce
digital love - daft punk
music - madonna
get ur freak on - missy elliott
the streets - original pirate material
drop it like it's hot - snoop dogg
me & u - cassie
wait (the whisper song) - yin yang twins

top 10 albums:

snoop dogg - r&g
jay z - black album
dr. dre - chronic 2001
voodoo - d'angelo
sambass 1&2 (brazilian drum and bass comp) <--- counts as one cause i bought them at the same time
ludacris - word of mouf
postal service - give up
kanye west - college dropout
kanye west - graduation
kanye west - 808s and heatbreaks

fwiw these charts would be more reflective of my tastes if i we were allowed to put essential mixes recorded off the radio in the album section.

ALBUMS
1. Triple R, Friends
2. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. Lifter Puller, Fiestas + Fiascos
4. The Go-Betweens, Oceans Apart
5. Ne-Yo, Year of the Gentleman
6. Luomo, Vocalcity
7. The Avalanches, Since I Left You
8. M.I.A., Kala
9. The Mountain Goats, The Sunset Tree
10. Basement Jaxx, Rooty

SINGLES
1. Moony, "Dove (I'll Be Loving You)"
2. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"
3. R. Kelly, "Ignition Remix"
4. Nas, "Made You Look"
5. Ada, "Maps (Michael Mayer/Tobias Thomas Remix)"
6. Dubtribe Sound System, "Do It Now"
7. Daft Punk, "Digital Love"
8. Dntel ft. Ben Gibbard, "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt Remix)"
9. Beyonce, "Irreplaceable"
10. Three 6 Mafia, "Stay Fly"

special bonus round

ARTISTS
1. Kanye West
2. Craig Finn
3. Madlib
4. Missy Elliott
5. Michael Mayer

Moony, really Matos?

Nas, "Made You Look"

def

Yep--I love it.

This is a great thread. It's gotten me into some awesome music I've never heard before.

The short radio edit to be specific.

Oh fuck, cut the above No. 10 single and put Brandy ft. Kanye West, "Talk About Our Love" in at 8th. I knew I forgot something.

I like DustyLoops' list--very congruent group of records.

Albums, not in order

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Radiohead - Kid A
N*E*R*D - In Search Of
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
The Knife - Silent Shout
System of a Down - Toxicity
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Arcade Fire - Funeral

special bonus round

ARTISTS
1. Kanye West
2. Craig Finn
3. Madlib
4. Missy Elliott
5. Michael Mayer

― Matos W.K., Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Artists of the decade is also an interesting thread topic. Kanye and Craig Finn! Good Nos. 1 -- 2. No GhostFace?

(I remember Alfred saying GhostFace is the best album artist of the decade. I think he may be right).

My favourite album artist of the decade would probably be Meshell Ndegeocello: she's released three r'n'b/soul albums and one jazz album during this decade, all of them good or great, and all of them also different from each other.

It's been a long decade that seems to have gone by very quickly, if that makes sense. It's quite freaky to think that Nixon by Lambchop is from the same decade as Merriweather Post Pavilion, but it also doesn't seem like five minutes since I bought XTRMNTR.

"Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice"

Yes

Albums:

1. Scott Walker - The Drift
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3. Pinback - Summer In Abaddon
4. Bjork - Medulla
5. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
6. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
7. Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
8. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
9. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
10. Kanye West - The College Dropout

Singles:

1. Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
2. Cassie - Me&U
3. Phoenix - Too Young
4. Amerie - Why Don't We Fall In Love?
5. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
6. Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
7. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
8. Feist - One Evening
9. Cat Power - He War
10. The Bug ft. Warrior Queen - Poison Dart

For some reason I've always thought Supreme Clientele is a 1999 album, but Wikipedia says it's from 2000. It came out in January though, maybe that explains it.

I'm sure I'll be obsessively revising these lists for the next few months, but for now this is what I'll go with:

ALBUMS
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Spymob - Sitting Around Keeping Score
Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Apollo Sunshine - Apollo Sunshine
T.I. - Trap Muzik
Enon - Believo!
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II

SINGLES
Kelly Clarkson - "Since U Been Gone"
R. Kelly - “Step In The Name of Love” (Step remix)
Ludacris - "What's Your Fantasy?"
Jay-Z f/ Pharrell - "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
Three 6 Mafia f/ Young Buck and 8Ball & MJG - "Stay Fly"
Amerie - "1 Thing"
Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx - “Slow Jamz”
Chop Suey! - System of a Down
Mya - "Case of the Ex"
Dr. Dre f/ Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg - "The Next Episode"

4. Amerie - Why Don't We Fall In Love?

^^^man i loved this but it seems sooooooooo long ago. this decade seems incredibly confusing.

i dunno...i think decades are always kind of vast and hugely varied when you look at them through the lens of something that moves as quickly as pop music.

Yeah but it's the first one I've really lived through and paid intense attention to for the whole time.

hmm, nobody's mentioned dylan yet. modern times would probably make mine. love and theft in contention too.

This is a preliminary off the dome rough draft of sorts, albums only, can't remember all the singles becuase i'm too stoned...

01. Madvillain - Madvillainy
02. Radiohead - Kid A
03. The Notwist - Neon Golden
04. Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
05. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
06. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
07. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
08. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
09. Brand New - Deja Entendu
10. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

― DustyLoops, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:19 AM (7 hours ago)

shit, seeing brand new on this list puts me on this crazy trip; i'm very familiar with the record, being a 15 years old when that came out. for a lot of reasons, i can't really deal with emo at all anymore, but i feel like that was one of the records that at least did it right.

Reflection Eternal would be probably in my top 20

argh ten is SO HARD for albums. It was tough getting down from 25.

Charalambides - Likeness
Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Kate Bush - Aerial
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Bob Dinners
Coil - Ape Of Naples
Sun City Girls - Hi Asia/lo Pacific
Biota - Half A True Day
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Panda Bear - Person Pitch

kills me to leave out great albums by Eyvind Kang, Es, Mum, Volcano The Bear, etc.

top five singles maybe are

A-Frames - Neutron Bomb
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Missy Elliot - Work It
Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation...
Pixeltan - Get Up/Say What

ship good lookin out on tha carter II

What's are the big canon mixtapes of the decade? Da Drought III, 50 Cent Is The Future and We Got It For Cheap 2? Anything else?

and what are the big canon mixes of the decade? i'm totally out of my depth there, but michael mayer's fabric mix is one of my favorite things.

i'm not totally sure about C2 in top 10, most likely to be bumped down the list later on.

only mixtapes i would think about maybe putting in the list over their companion albums are one of Kanye's pre-College Dropout tapes and Jadakiss's Kiss My Ass. but then i'm kind of virulantly anti-mixtapes-equal-albums stuff.
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albums

daft punk - discovery
radiohead - kid a
the studio - west side
lambchop - ohio
sonic youth - murray st
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
the go betweens - oceans apart
junior boys - last exit
the clientele - suburban light (most listened to album this year, didnt check it out when it 1st came out)
fever ray - s\t

singles

daft punk - digital love
dizzee rascal - i luv u
wayne wonder - no letting go
missy elliot - get your freak on
eminem - stan
the rapture - house of jealous lovers
jay-z - 99 problems
the strokes - hard to explain
lcd soundsystem - losing my edge
the streets - weak become heroes

wayne wonder - no letting go

man i love this song

album runner ups:

half man half biscuit - 'cammell laird social club'
pulp - 'we love life'

song runner ups:

audion - mouth to mouth
radiohead - house of cards

maybe we should count this thread as nominations for 00s poll

Mixtapes, DJ mixes, the like VERY much count.

of course they do, i wasn't saying they shouldn't. just that for me personally i tend not to count them.

omg yeah, madvillainy!

1. joanna newsom, ys
2. life without buildings, any other city
3. mountain goats, sunset tree
4. daft punk, discovery
5. erykah badu, new amerykah pt 1
6. marit larsen, under the surface
7. robyn, s/t
8. the-dream, love vs. money
9. new pornographers, twin cinema
10. fannypack, see you next tuesday

1. r kelly, step in the name of love remix
2. robyn/kleerup, with every heartbeat
3. daft punk, digital love
4. annie, heartbeat
5. amerie, 1 thing
6. new pornographers, letter from an occupant
7. t.i., what you know
8. aaliyah, we need a resolution
9. gwen stefani, early winter
10. pantha du prince, saturn strobe

maybe we should count this thread as nominations for 00s poll

blueski otm

2000-2008 albums, chronologically

Paradox - The Musician As Outsider
Daft Punk - Discovery
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Michael Mayer - Immer
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Arcade Fire - Funeral
My Morning Jacket - Z
The Knife - Silent Shout
Studio - Yearbook 1
Move D and Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive

tracks via last.fm

The Hold Steady – Slapped Actress
Skream – Midnight Request Line
My Morning Jacket – Off the Record
Burial - Unite
Ricardo Villalobos – Dexter
Hercules and Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Matthew Dear – Don & Sherri
Broken Social Scene – Cause = Time
Destroyer – European Oils

mclusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness
Chris Brown – With You
Chris Brown – Forever
Aaliyah – More Than a Woman
Chris Brown – Throwed
Chris Brown – Kiss Kiss (feat. T-Pain)
Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is the Move
Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries
Animal Collective – Brother Sport
Lil' Wayne – Lollipop (feat. Static Major)

this is my last.fm top ten tracks, this is only really relevant since september.

a:

m.i.a. - kala
britney spears - blackout
daft punk - discovery
girl talk - night ripper
the streets - a grand don't come for free
luomo - vocalcity
m mayer - fabric 13
basement jaxx - kish kash
clientele - suburban light
optimo - how to kill the DJ (part 2)

s:

daft punk - one more time
t.i. - what you know
missy elliott - work it
rihanna - umbrella
beyonce/jay-z - crazy in love
vitalic - la rock 01
sweet female attitude - flowers (sunship mix)
basement jaxx - romeo
lcd soundsystem - beat connection
r. kelly - ignition (remix)

1 the seldom seen kid - elbow
2 kid a - radiohead
3 dimanche à bamako - amadou & mariam
4 savane - ali farka touré
5 the unfairground - kevin ayers
6 mississauga goddam - hidden cameras
7 heartbreaker - ryan adams
8 where you go i go too - lindstrøm
9 sound of silver - lcd soundsystem
10 amassakoul - tinariwen
11 i am a bird now - antony & the johnsons
12 fantasy black channel - late of the pier
13 the bairns - rachel unthank & the winterset
14 hercules & love affair - hercules & love affair
15 stay positive - the hold steady

1 ignition (remix) - r.kelly
2 hurt - johnny cash
3 weak become heroes - the streets
4 milkshake - kelis
5 umbrella - rihanna ft jay-z
6 if i were a boy - beyoncé
7 get ur freak on - missy elliott
8 can't get you out of my head - kylie minogue
9 digital love - daft punk
10 lola's Theme - shapeshifters
11 hey ya! - outkast
12 losing my edge – lcd soundsystem
13 biology - girls aloud
14 paper planes - mia
15 slow jamz - kanye west ft twista & jamie foxx
16 with every heartbeat - robyn with kleerup
17 stan - eminem
18 crazy - gnarls barkley
19 patience - take that
20 williams' blood - grace jones
21 blind - hercules & love affair
22 happy house - the juan maclean
23 my red hot car (girl) - squarepusher
24 romeo - basement jaxx
25 what's it gonna be - h "two" o ft platnum
26 sometimes you can't make it on your own - u2
27 you! me! dancing! - los campesinos!
28 no letting go - wayne wonder
29 a&e - goldfrapp
30 home and dry - pet shop boys

Okay, 11. No order yet. Just albums.

Bark Psychosis - ///Codename:Dustsucker
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
Goslings - Grandeur Of Hair
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
Piano Magic - Disaffected
Portishead - Third
Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Studio - West Coast

not really in order but sorta
01 Daft Punk "Discovery"
02 Madvillian "Madvilliany"
03 Outkast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
04 Modest Mouse "The Moon And Antarctica"
05 Spoon "Gimme Fiction"
06 Radiohead "Kid A"
07 Justin Timberlake "Justified"
08 N*E*R*D "In Search Of"
09 The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
10 Phoenix "It's Never Been Like That"
11 Death From Above 1979 "You're A Woman I'm A Machine"
12 Pinback "Summer In Abaddon"
13 Of Montreal "The Sunlandic Twins"
14 C.S.S. "Cansai De Ser Sexy"
15 Wolf Parade "At Mount Zoomer"

i dont have nearly the same knowledge of music pre-like 2007 as i do of today's, but these would def be on the shortlist

radiohead - kid a
of montreal - hissing fauna/skeletal lamping
aaliyah - aaliyah
beyonce - bday
panda bear - person pitch
erykah badu - new amerykah pt 1
the-dream - love vs money
fiery furnaces - gallowsbird's bark

rihanna - "umbrella"
clinic - "distortions"
beyonce - "get me bodied"
r kelly - "ignition (remix)"
yeah yeah yeahs - "maps" "turn into"
ciara - "echo" (not a single but w/e)
idk doing tracks is dumb there's too many of them

iTunes most-played tracks (I think this is 2003-09):

1. Jurgen Paape, "So Weit Wie Noch Nie"
2. Annie, "Heartbeat"
3. Sonic Youth, "Incinerate"
4. Jon Brion, "Phone Call"
5. Kelley Polar, "Here in the Night"
6. Justin Timberlake, "Rock Your Body"
7. Kelley Polar, "My Beauty in the Moon"
8. Lindsay Lohan, "First"
9. Robyn, "Be Mine!"
10. Britney Spears, "Toxic"

Interesting, but I'm not sure I'd list more than a couple of those on an actual top 10.

yeah, don't think my top ten would have 4 Chris Brown tracks anyway

Fully sick top 30 action:

ALBUMS:

Daft Punk - Discovery
Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag
Luomo - Vocalcity
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The-Dream - Love/Hate
V/A: Target - Aim High Volume 2
V/A: Shanks & Bigfoot - Ayia Napa 2000
Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Luomo - The Present Lover
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
V/A: Michael Mayer - Immer
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
The Knife - Silent Shout
Studio - West Coast
Kelis - Kaleidoscope
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
The-Dream - Love vs Money
V/A: Michael Mayer - Fabric23
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Elephant Man - Higher Level
Kate Bush - Aerial
V/A: M.A.N.D.Y. - Get Physical 2nd Anniversary
V/A: Zed Bias - The Sound of the Pirates
Animal Collective - Feels
V/A: Mei Lwun - Uno Records
Missy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive
V/A: M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language Vol 1
T.I. - Trap Muzik

SINGLES:

Sticky & Ms Dynamite - Boo
Nelly - Hot In Herre
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
Cosmos - Take Me With You
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers (Sunship Remix)
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood
Booka Shade - In White Rooms
Britney Spears - Born To Make You Happy
Beyonce - Irreplaceable
Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go
Ada - Lovelace
Vybz Kartel - Picture Me & You
Cassie - Is It You
Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
Shakedown - At Night
T.I. - Rubberband Man
Sizzla - Love & Affection
Cassie - Me & U
TJ Cases - One By One
Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts (Studio Remix)
Rihanna - Umbrella
Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
Riko & Target - Chosen One

40 albums (only numbered so I know how many there are) (and no artists appears more than once):

1. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
2. Caribou – Andorra
3. Patrick Wolf – Wind In The Wires
4. Bark Psychosis – ///Codename:Dustsucker
5. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
6. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
7. Roots Manuva – Awfully Deep
8. The Field – Yesterday & Today
9. Outkast – Stankonia
10. Embrace – Drawn From Memory
11. Shearwater – Rook
12. Polar Bear – Held On The Tips Of Fingers
13. The Notwist – Neon Golden
14. Four Tet – Pause
15. Elbow – A Cast Of Thousands
16. Fennesz – Venice
17. Studio – West Coast
18. Stars Of The Lid – And The Refinement Of Their Decline
19. Spoon – Kill The Moonlight
20. Electrelane – The Power Out
21. Battles – Mirrored
22. Califone – Roomsound
23. Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
24. The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
25. Lambchop – Nixon
26. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
27. Midlake – Then Trials Of Van Occupanther
28. The Delgados – Hate
29. Augie March – Strange Bird
30. Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power
31. Six.By Seven – The Way I Feel Today
32. Lift To Experience – The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
33. Fugazi – The Argument
34. Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
35. Acoustic Ladyland – Skinny Grin
36. The Dismemberment Plan – Change
37. The Beta Band – Hot Shots II
38. Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You & I Will Beat Your Ass
39. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
40. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Not sure I can chop down to 10 from here. Can't even fathom trying to start singles.

I'm amazed that XTRMNTR came out this decade. It seems a lifetime ago.

And already I've thought of about five albums I missed. Kate Bush! Boards Of Canada! Argh.

i posted an albums 100 nearly 18 months ago so in December i'll just add about 15 albums since and shuffle the order

hmmm i'd probably want to make room somewhere for unwound's 'leaves turn inside you' as well as the kate bush. a top 20 list would be a much easier feat than narrowing it down to 10. that way i might even be able to squeeze in 'blackwater park' somewhere and possibly blonde redhead's '23'.

i'll post a revised list sometime soon

This is why I never have any influence upon the consensus:

Isolee - Rest
Suba - Sao Paulo Confessions
Zoot Woman - Living in a Magazine
Akufen - My Way
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue
The Knife - Silent Shout
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Autodrone - Strike a Match (check if you loved the 90's Medicine)
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

Singles (problably guilty of tokenism, but no worse than the eventual canon will be):

Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Freelance Hellraiser - A Stroke of Genius (Strokes vs. C Aguilera)
Kelis - Milkshake
!!! (Chk chk chk) - Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard
Kylie Minogue - Come into My World (Fischerspooner Mix)
M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun (perhaps)
Royksopp - What Else is There (Trentemoller remix)
Crystal Castles - Crimewave
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane remix)

Isolee - Rest

This reminds me; that Isolee disc with the song Shrapnel is outstanding, too.

Nick, why you choose worst Six By Seven album? :(

Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)

Woah, I can't believe I forgot this. Single of the decade.

Can't really go wrong with Tim's list, tho no mentions of e.g. Fall Out Boy or Jacques Lu Cont or Andrew WK on the thread so far.

eligible for the 90s too ha xp

etc - The Killers' "Mr Brightside (Thin White Duke Mix)" should be on my list somewhere given it was my favourite song of 2005!

Also I've curiously forgotten 2008 - I'd want to find a way to squeeze in "Bongo Jam", "Untouched", "Love Story" and "Whispers"...

whose "love story"?

Nick, why you choose worst Six By Seven album? :(

― sad blue nose hybrid with shit football crew (country matters), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:34 PM (50 minutes ago)

I didn't.

tim, did you hear any of the various cassie leaks over the past year and a bit? 'is it you?' is great but a curious choice

and 'born to make you happy' surely wasn't from the 00s!!!

personally i find it difficult enough to do this for any given year, can't imagine being able to do it in any meaningful sense for a decade. albums will be easier obv.

Hmm I was thinking "Born To Make You Happy" came out at the beginning of 2000 but maybe not.

I heard some of the Cassie leaks ("Turn The Lights Off", "Soldier 4 Your Love", "I'm In Love With You") but the universal teen-drama simplicity of "Is It You" really gets to me.

"Love Story" is Taylor Swift.

'Born To Make You Happy' was the 2nd #1 of 2000 in the UK iirc

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Benoit Pioulard - Precis
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Max Tundra - Mastered By Guy at the Exchange
Akufen - My Way
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Mu - Afro Finger & Gel
Jason Forrest - Shamelessly Exciting

Max Tundra - Which Song
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Alan Braxe/Fred Falke - Rubicon
Battles - Atlas
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
Still Going - Still Going Theme
Martyn - Right?Star!
Principle Participant - Wonderful
Jason Forrest - 10 Amazing Years
Portishead - The Rip

i dont think i can do this, every time i try i end up picking middle of the road consensus picks which makes the final result the ten albums i never want to hear again

if this thread is really gonna be referred to for nominations, here is my complete top 25 albums fwiw:

Charalambides - Likeness
Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Kate Bush - Aerial
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Bob Dinners
Coil - Ape Of Naples
Sun City Girls - Hi Asia/lo Pacific
Biota - Half A True Day
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Eyvind Kang - Live Low To Earth, In The Iron Age
Es - Sateenkaarisuudelma
Volcano The Bear - Amidst The Noise And Twigs
Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic...
The Fall - The Unutterable
Sir Richard Bishop - Fingering The Devil
The Kleptones - A Night At The Hip-Hopera
Six Organs Of Admittance - Dark Noontide
Einsturzende Neubauten - Alles Weider Offen
Tall Dwarfs - The Sky Above, The Mud Below
Nicole Mitchell & Black Earth Ensemble - Hope, Future, And Destiny
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Legendary Pink Dots - Chemical Playschool 11/12/13
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Good album, but you people need to go back and hear Girls Can Tell and then revise your lists.

I like Girls Can Tell alot, but not as much as Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.

Sleeve: though my list would look nothing like yours (apart from Aerial), I kinda really really want your record collection.

Nicole Mitchell & Black Earth Ensemble - Hope, Future, And Destiny

I guess I could google, but what is this? Some sort of Jesus Acedo project?

I prefer Kill The Moonlight. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Gimme Fiction come in second (for this decade - SoS probably equals them).

you people need to go back and hear Girls Can Tell and then revise your lists.

No I don't.

Eh, somebody from the indie ghetto worried that others don't have expansive enough listening habits?

NickB, Nicole Mitchell is current president of the AACM and my favorite jazz artist of the decade. She has like 4 or 5 fantastic albums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Mitchell_(musician)

XP Sorry that last vent. I wasn't considering who wrote the comment I was replying to. But color me decidedly underwhelmed by the band Spoon (in general). The music is just too polite for me, I guess - I've nary a clue as to what the fans are responding to.

Sometimes I wish American fans pursued the Japanese course: when they fall in love with juju music or bossanova or goa trance they form bands that emulate the feel of the original so closely as to rival their inspirations, and then perhaps surpass them in their own way. Or the British, misunderstanding the context and conventions of (usually) black American music enough to return with music that, again, rivals its inspirations (at an oblique angle). Here in America, we get polite colorations with textures or rhythms that wouldn't offend the Starbucks sound system, and it crowds the critical canon, while meanwhile there's this extraordinary stuff that is just over the borders of what's permissible in consensus lists. And that from a band presumably inspired by Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebzeit. I guess I don't want novelty - history and my collection is too large - I want hypernovelty.

32. Lift To Experience – The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
i need to hear this

nice to see a mention of afro finger and gel up there. that's a pretty fascinating album.

10 albums. Everything could change tomorrow, except album 1.

1. Love and Theft - Bob Dylan
2. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
3. Arular - MIA
4. Meadowlands - The Wrens
5. Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
6. The Glands - The Glands
7. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal
8. Decoration Day - Drive-By Truckers
9. Know Your Enemy - Manic Street Preachers
10. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst

Love that Glands album! And that's my fave Manic Street Preachers.

i don't think i could do singles. these are the albums that come to mind when i think of records i truly loved from this decade:

cranebuilders - sometimes you hear through someone else
for against - coalesced
outrageous cherry - supernatural equinox
rainer maria - long knives drawn
kubichek! - not enough night
charmparticles - alive in the hot spell
section 25 - part primitiv
maximo park - a certain trigger
stars - heart
crashland - glued

there are others i was completely obsessed with at the time that just haven't held up at all - hefner, the first badly drawn boy album, crap like that

bit sad that none of them are australian. a 90s list would be half aussie

Which reminds me; I forgot Drive-By by The Necks!

Luomo - Vocalcity
Radiohead - Kid A
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fennesz - Endless Summer
The Strokes - Is This It
The Delgados - Hate
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Curtis Roads - Point Line Cloud
My My - Songs for the Gentle
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

oooh, nice call on Schnauss. bigups to libcrypt for telling me about that one!

7. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal

Is this really a genuine album title?! What were they thinking?!?

It always sounded like a potential Ween progrock parody.

singles/tracks:

bloc party - helicopter
daft punk - digital love
les savy fav - the sweat descends
missy elliott - get ur freak on
gnarls barkley - crazy
morgan geist - most of all
css - let's make love and listen to death from above
rhianna - umbrella (no jay-z mix)
secret machines - it's a bad wind that don't blow somebody some good
lightning bolt - assassins

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.

ightning bolt - assassins

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

here is my top 30. while the 2000s were formative years for me, they have nowhere near as much resonance for me musically as the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

yet, without further ado here it is. in order.

1. radiohead - kid a
2. sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
3. mclusky - mclusky do dallas
4. wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
5. daft punk - discovery
6. converge - jane doe
7. shiina ringo - karuki zamen kuri no hana
8. alain bashung - l'imprudence
9. fugazi - the argument
10. the blood brothers - ...burn piano island, burn
11. black dice - beaches and canyons
12. cursive - the ugly organ
13. boredoms - vision creation newsun
14. sun kil moon - april
15. unwound - leaves turn inside you
16. opeth - blackwater park
17. asobi seksu - citrus
18. kate bush - aerial
19. radiohead - in rainbows
20. the strokes - is this it
21. blonde redhead - 23
22. ISIS - oceanic
23. cannibal ox - the cold vein
24. fennesz - endless summer
25. katatonia - last fair deal gone down
26. animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
27. tom waits - alice
28. panda bear - person pitch
29. mu - afro finger and gel
30. interpol - turn on the bright lights

this thread is stupid and impossible.
that said it boggles the mind how much great music was released in just this decade.
Music fucking rules.

7. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal

Is this really a genuine album title?! What were they thinking?!?

― Tuomas, Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:02 AM (7 hours ago)

they were thinking they made an incredibly awesome album

Maybe, but with a rubbish title.

"here is my top 30. while the 2000s were formative years for me, they have nowhere near as much resonance for me musically as the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. "

Maybe the 00s was a bad decade for serious cat serious music.

music used to mean something, maan

here is my top 30. while the 2000s were formative years for me, they have nowhere near as much resonance for me musically as the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s

Oy. I guess I can't say "most," but I sure hate a lot of 60s music.

Ex. A: If you're going . . . to San Fran---cisco/Be sure to wear flowers in your hair

Based on the short list from my computer:

The Rants—Get Back Into It
Aaliyah—s/t
Dabenport—s/t
El Guapo—Super/System
Deadly Snakes—Ode to Joy
Exploding Hearts—Guitar Romantic
MIA—Kala
TV on the Radio—Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
A Frames—s/t
Indian Jewelery—Invasive Exotics
Nomo—Ghost Rock

No doubt some more jazz and punk when I go through my physical albums.

Yea, Exploding Hearts! That disc needs some love in these decade-end lists. (Nomo's good, too)

The 00's were awesome, partially because of the influx of DIY that the indie explosion & internet created.. DIY probably increased more this decade than any since the 70s. (Maybe i'm wrong, but thats how it looks to me)

i'm happy mclusky was loved.. i tried pushing it on lots of kids, but nobody i know seemed to care.

word. and the fact that i put them so high on my list would suggest that i'm not a "serious cat" all of the time. :)

and daniel, i hate a lot of 60s music too. but the stuff i truly love from that era gets the nod over a lot of the stuff on my 00s list

good thing about these threads is I get reminded of things, I forgot that Boredoms VCN was from '00. I think Indian Jewelry's Free Gold should probably be in my top 25 as well.

Plus, from this showing Aaliyah's self titled album is going to win our decade poll :)

Albums:

Lily Allen - Alright, Still (2006)
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction (2001)
Mihaly Dresch - Egyenes Zene (2004)
Bob Dylan - Modern Times (2006)
Espers - Espers II (2006)
FM Knives - Useless & Modern (2002)
Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa (2005)
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005)
Papa Noel - Cafe Noir (2007)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)

I haven't even begun thinking about singles.

What's are the big canon mixtapes of the decade? Da Drought III, 50 Cent Is The Future and We Got It For Cheap 2? Anything else?

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:52 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the 1st jeezy

Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Daft Punk - Discovery
Britney Spears - Blackout
Robyn - Robyn
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Radiohead - Amnesiac

boring as fuck list but i've never been much of an album person anyway. could prob go up into the hundreds for singles though - so many great ones this decade.

Such as...

haven't thought abt it that much but lots listed in this thread alr

plus i'm likely to rep for the corniest of corny indie ("New Slang", "Rebellion (Lies)", "Lover I Don't Have to Love" etc) even if i can't stand to listen to a full album by any of these guys.

Alternative list:

Dilated Peoples - Worst Come To Worst
Gang Starr - Rite Where U Stand
Tha Liks - Best U Can
Klashnekoff - Murda
Talib Kweli - The Blast
Rosco P Coldchain - Hot
Jadakiss - We Gon Make It
Cam'rom - Oh Boy
Memphis Bleek - Is That Yo Chick (the one w/ Twista)
Mobb Deep - Burn

'Cos hip-hop existed before Get Low :)

Ashamed I made two lists that didn't have Apollo Kids. Single of the decade.

Albums (in no order):

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone...
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Themselves - The No Music of Aiff's (The No Music Remixed)
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Koop - Waltz For Koop
Cat Power - You Are Free

been thinking about this lately. most of the music i heard in the 2000s especially the last half has been older stuff, so my list is pretty happenstance. albums in no order:

Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
Howling Hex - XI
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
Luomo - Vocalcity
Rocket From the Tombs - Rocket Redux
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura - Weather Sky
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (sort of a token since i haven't heard a lot of rap but it got me into it and it's fucking awesome so)
Harvey Milk - Singles (yeah this is cheating a little bit but whatevs)
Scott Walker - The Drift

Singles

Sara Evans- Real Fine Place to Start
Miranda Lambert- What About Georgia?
Pat Green- Wayback, Texas
Alan Jackson- The Firefly's Song
Keith Urban- Once in a Lifetime
Little Big Town- Boondocks
Jamey Johnson- High Cost of Livin'
Trace Adkins- The Stubborn One
Toby Keith- As Good As I Once Was
Tim McGraw- Drugs or Jesus
LeeAnn Rimes- Nothing Better to Do
Sugarland- Want To
Josh Turner- The Way He Was Raised
Big & Rich- Wild West Show
Todd Snider- Lookin' For a Job
Ashton Shepard- Sounds So Good
Dierks Bentley- A Lot of Leavin' Left To Do
George Strait- Give It Away
Gary Allan- Smoke Rings in the Dark
Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road

Yes! Some country! Thank you!!!

Yes, thanks, President Keyes--I'm going to check some of those out.

Is it really, really weird for anybody else seeing all this music (that seem to come out so recently too!) getting rounded up together finally?

I was too young to go through this with the entire 1990s so this is my first "wow, I can't believe this decade is almost over and I remember all of this" decade.

Yes, it's incredibly weird. That said, after getting annoyed having a genuine argument with someone who refused to believe anything other than "music was better in the sixties", I am quite enjoying making lists of fucking amazing music i love from this decade.

Albums:
Nu Amerykah Pt 1+Mama's Gun-Erykah Badu
Afrodisiac-Brandy
Deep Cuts+Silent Shout-The Knife
Fever Ray-Fever Ray
Arular+Kala-M I A
Back to Black-Amy Winehouse
FutureSex/LoveSounds-Justin Timberlake
Soviet Kitsch-Regina Spektor
In Rainbows-Radiohead
Amnesiac-Radiohead
Demon Days-Gorillaz
Graduation-Kanye West
St. Elsewhere-Gnarls Barkley
From Here We Go Sublime-The Field
Loose-Nelly Furtado
Body Language-Kylie Minogue
The Emancipation of Mimi-Mariah Carey
Robyn-Robyn

Singles:
Not Ready To make Nice-Dixie Chicks
Shake It Off-Mariah Carey
Lovestoned/I think she knows+What Goes Around...-Justin Timberlake
Digital Love_Daft Punk
Hollerback Girl-Gwen Stefani
Hey Ya!-Outkast
Rehab-Amy Winehouse
Danger-Erykah Badu
Silent Shout-The Knife
Paper Planes-M I A
Shooter-Lil Wayne feat Robin Thicke
Toxic-Britney Spears
Freak Like Me-Sugababes
Anonymous-Bobby Valentino
More Than A woman-Aaliyah
When I Grow Up-Fever Ray
Violet Stars Happy Hunting!+Many Moons-Janelle Monae
Get Ur Freak On+One Minute man-Missy Elliott
Promiscuous+Turn Off The Light Remix-Nelly Furtado

I'm just as guilty as everyone else for not mentioning him enough here but Ludacris needs to be remembered when we come round to doing this properly. Two of the best albums and like a million great singles. Think votes might get split by trying to figure out whether Southern Hospitality is better than Saturday is better than P Poppin is better than YOOOOOOOOOOOOUS A HOOOOOOOOO is better than Act A Fool is better than etc. Did we ever do a Luda singles poll?

"What's Your Fantasy" is in my top 10 singles of the decade, and Back For The First Time is probably in my top 100 albums, but he peaked pretty early and hasn't really been that consistent. "Southern Hospitality" and "Move" and a couple non-remix guest spots are classics for me, but he's got like 20 singles that are garbage too.

a lot of my favourite singles this decade are early decade timba/2step stuff fyi

also mclusky

needed to get that off my chest

I already hate my albums list that I posted here.

i know my #1 hasn't changed since i first heard it on 9/11 - Love & Theft
stories from the city..... - P.J. - top five.
oh, and one day it will please us to remember even this, ~definitely~ top 5
think i'll leave it at that

shite, forgot to say my fave song of the decade is "no children" by our beloved MG's

These 10 albums probably meant the most to me for a whole host of irrational reasons:

1. Atmosphere, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers), 2008
2. Madvillain, Madvillainy (Stones Throw), 2004
3. The Owls, Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker), 2007
4. Low, Things We Lost in the Fire (Kranky), 2000
5. David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo), 2008 [re-sequenced version on my computer]
6. K'NAAN, Troubadour (A&M/Octone), 2009 [advance version, which was pretty different]
7. Bruce Springsteen, Working on a Dream (Columbia), 2009
8. Fugazi, The Argument (Dischord), 2001
9. P.O.S., Ipecac Neat (Doomtree), 2004
10. Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner Bros.), 2005

This is pathetic, tl/dr, but I just couldn't do 10. Short list was like 150 fucking records. Here's a top 50, which could probably be cut down, but still leaves me aching for all the stuff I left off. Sorted by year/artist (i.e., no particular order). Includes LOTS of dubious shit I love dearly:

Boredoms - Vison Creation Newsun (2000)
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000)
Outkast - Stankonia (2000)

Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black (2001)
Fennesz - Endless Summer (2001)
Ludacris - Word of Mouf (2001)
Yura Yura Teikoku - III (2001)

Beehive and the Barracudas - Plastic Soul with the White Apes (2002)
Clipse - Lord Willin (2002)
Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (2002)
Les Georges Leningrad - Deux Hot-Dogs Moutarde Chou (2002)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (2002)
Xasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning (2002)

Boris - Akuma No Uta (2003)
John Fahey - Red Cross (2003)
M.O.T.O. - Kill M.O.T.O. (2003)
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
Peaches - Fatherfucker (2003)
Quintron - Are You Ready for an Organ Solo? (2003)
Sleep - Dopesmoker (2003)
The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (2004)
Black Dice - Creature Comforts (2004)
Black Lips - Let It Bloom (2004)
Electrelane - The Power Out (2004)
M.I.A. - Piracy Funds Terrorism (2004)
Monoshock - Running Ape-Like from the Backwards Superman (2004)
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (2004)

Amadou & Miriam - Dimanche a Bamako (2005)
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now (2005)
CSS - Cansei de ser Sexy (2005)
Deerhoof - The Runners Four (2005)
Electric Eel Shock - Go USA! (2005)
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (2005)
The Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control (2005)
The Knife - Silent Shout (2005)

Boris - Rainbow (w/ Michio Kurihara) (2006)
Hot Chip - The Warning (2006)
Indian Jewelry - Invasive Exotics (2006)
Nachtmystium - Instinct/Decay (2006)
Om - Conference of the Birds (2006)
Spank Rock - Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo (2006)

King Khan and His Shrines - What Is?! (2007)

Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass (2008)
Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game In Town (2008)

Fresh and Onlys - Fresh and Onlys (2009)
Thee Oh Sees - The Hounds of Foggy Notion (2009)

Ludacris - Word of Mouf (2001)

really underrated album, good lookin

Yeah, but I mean, what about Milk-Eyed Mender, 28 After, that Frenchy-sounding CocoRosie record, DM and Jemini, cLOUDDEAD, The BellRays, Vaz, Rick Bishop, The Spits, Kanye, Lost Sounds, Magik Markers, Country Teasers, Major Stars, The Kills, PJ Harvey, Leviathan, Mclusky and Oneida? Etc., etc., etc...

jesus h christ

Oh yeah, plus I liked Ghetto Report Card. Dunno if it goes in the list or what, but I got a lot of use out of it.

DM and Jemini

^^^this is like the most underrated rap record of the decade which crazy considering its freaking danger mouse, most overrated producer in music atm.

can i just say...top two albums(?) of the decade:

Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (DVD)

i am not proud. :^(

On waking up and looking at that slapped together, late night list, I mostly wonder where the 1st A Frames record went. Then I start thinking about DJ /rupture and Burial. All of which means I have some kind of problem...

Right now it looks like this (not in order):

Daft Punk, "Digital Love"
Cherish, "Do It To It"
Ciara, "Oh"
Natasha Bedingfield, "Unwritten"
Miranda Lambert, "Kerosene"
Girls Aloud, "Biology"
Rihanna, "Don't Stop the Music"
Gwen Stefani, "Early Winter"
Los Campesinos, "You! Me! Dancing!"
JoJo, "Too Little Too Late"

1.Radiohead
2.Jonny Greenwood
3.Thom Yorke
4.Joanna Newsom – Ys
5.George - The Magic Lantern
6.Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
7.Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia - My Elixir; My Poison
8.Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
9.Scott Walker - The Drift
10.Piano Magic - I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow EP
11.Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
12.Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
13.Portishead - Third
14.Clinic - Internal Wrangler
15.Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
16.Akira Rabelais - Eisoptrophobia
17.Beth Gibbons - Out of Season
18.The Tiger Lilies & Kronos Quartet - The Gorey End
19.Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
20.Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
21.Autechre - Confield
22.Hood - Outside Closer
23.Herbert - Bodily Functions
24.The Matthew Herbert Big Band - Goodbye Swingtime
25.Josephine Foster - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
26.Islaja - Ulual Yyy
27.Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
28.Final Fantasy - fuck you guys I'm not writing down this album title
29.Blonde Redhead - 23
30.Phonophani - Oak or Rock
31.Sylvie Courvoisier – Abaton
32.Aaliyah – s/t
33.Maja Ratkje – Voice
34.Broadcast & The Focus Group - Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
35.Barbara Morgenstern – Fjorden
36.Caribou - Andorra
37.David Sylvian - Blemish
38.Björk – Medúlla
39.Serafina Steer - Cheap demo bad science
40.The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
41.Marissa Nadler – Ballads of Living and Dying
42.Haco/Sakamoto Hiromichi – Ash In the Rainbow
43.Mara Carlyle – The Lovely
44.Anja Lechner / Vassilis Tsabropoulos - Chants, Hymns And Dances
45.Niobe - White Hats
46.Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Született
47.Zeena Parkins – Necklace
48.Jamie Lidell – Multiply
49.Cyann & Ben - Sweet Beliefs
50.Espers – II
51.Suzy Mangion – The Other Side of the Mountain
52.Susan Alcorn – Curandera
53.Islaja – Meritie
54.Hans Appelqvist - Att Möta Verklighetenv
55.Black Forest/Black Sea - Forcefields and Constellations
56.Retribution Gospel Choir – s/t
57.Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
58.A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms
59.The Delgados - Hate
60.Colleen - Et Les Boites A Musique
61.PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
62.Bogdan Raczynski - MyLoveILove
63.Charalambides – A Vintage Burden
64.Missy Elliot - Miss E So Addictive
65.Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding-jazz-records
66.Paul Lansky – Alphabet Book
67.Lali Puna – Scary World Theory
68.Erik Friedlander & Teho Teardo – Giorni rubati
69.Outkast – Stankonia
70.Modeselektor – Happy Birthday
71.Burial – Untrue
72.Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles
73.Matt Elliott – Drinking Songs
74.Diamanda Galás – Guilty Guilty Guilty
75.Sybille Baier – Colour Green
76.Electrelane – The Power Out
77.Tom Waits - Alice
78.Various Production – The World is Gone
79.Belbury Poly - The Owl's Map
80.Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel
81.M.I.A. – Kala

etc.

Can anyone recommend me some hip-hop singles? Since I'm not an native English speaker most of the time I don't get hip-hop because I rarely focus on the lyrics, so my attention is almost completely drawn to the production techniques. The only hip-hop which enthuses me this decade so far is those with production similar by J Dilla or MF Doom. Sort of big immersive beats with a dash of psychedelia, something which I can play without focusing on the lyrics so much...I suppose not focusing on the lyrics when listening to hip-hop is sort of missing the point... but still, I love the sound.

Any song recommendations please?

I'm not the biggest hip-hop fan around (by any stretch). But I think GhostFace is maybe/probably the best album artist of the decade. Up through the new disc (which I haven't heard), you can't go wrong sampling his songs, e.g., Shakey Dog, Walk Around, the first non-skit song from the Ironman album (title escapes me).

Sorry if those aren't "singles," per se. I listed what I know/recall.

Yeah I like Ghostface. Jellyfish and Walk Around are some of my favorites of his.

Yeah, Jellyfish is great, too.

Oddly enough I do understand and get most of the lyrics when listening to artists like Madvillian or Ghostface Killah. So asides having a wicked production in their songs I love their lyrics.
Must be they sound like they're stoned most of the time which makes it easier to understand them since they speak slower.

lol

1. The Notwist – Neon Golden
2. Alcest – Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
3. Lambchop – Nixon
4. The Goslings – Grandeur Of Hair
5. VA – Nigeria 70
6. Lamb – What Sound
7. Clutch – From Beale Street To Oblivion
8. Man Man – Six Demon Bag
9. Joe Henry – Tiny Voices
10. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

Alternate list:
Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Jenny Scheinman - 12 Songs
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Ellen Allien - Flieg Mit Ellen Allien
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Opeth - Watershed

as of right now

25. my chemical romance - the black parade
24. cam'ron - purple haze
23. lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
22. young jeezy - the recession
21. electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
20. the hold steady - boys and girls in america
19. be your own pet - be your own pet
18. fall out boy - folie a deux
17. the clipse - we got it 4 cheap vol. 2
16. lil wayne - da drought 3
15. the-dream - love vs money
14. young dro - best thang smokin
13. girl talk - night ripper
12. phoenix - it's never been like that
11. the clipse - lord willin'
10. outkast - stankonia
09. the exploding hearts - guitar romantic
08. bloc party - silent alarm
07. jay-z - the blueprint
06. lil wayne - tha carter II
05. the strokes - room on fire
04. the-dream - love/hate
03. los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster
02. the strokes - is this it
01. kanye west - the college dropout

In no order:

Sun City Girls- Sumatran Electric Chair
Richard Youngs- Airs Of The Ear or maybe Naive Shaman
Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
Ghostface- Supreme Clientele or Fishscale
Jerry Goldsmith- Hollow Man [film score]
Scott Walker- The Drift
Hold Steady- Separation Sunday
Daft Punk- Live
Howard Shore- Fellowship Of The Ring or maybe The Cell [film scores]
The Knife- Silent Shout
Current 93- Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain or maybe Halo
Hyphy Hitz
Von Sudenfed- Tromatic Reflexxions
George Crumb- American Songbook Books 1 through 4
Kajia Saariaho- Cinq Reflets or maybe Notes On Light
Michael Nyman- The Claim [film score]

But these are awesome and might make it:

Mastodon- Leviathan
LCD- Sound o' Silver
Tyr- Land
Madder Mortem- Eight Ways
Cuban Linx vol. 2
Slough Feg- Atavism
Micranots- Emperor And The Assassin

Yeah, I slighted Mastodon and Slough Feg on my list.

Need to hear:

New Flaming Lips
Heaven & Hell album
Judas Priest- Nostradamus
Freak Of Araby

And forgot about:

Clipse- Hell Hath No Fury
Alexandre Desplat- Girl With A Pearl Earring or maybe The Golden Compass [film scores]
Mountain Goats- The Sunset Tree
Elmer Bernstein- Far From Heaven [film score]

I'll probably never be happy with this, but my top 20 albums list is lookin like:

1. Discovery – Daft Punk
2. In Rainbows – Radiohead
3. Supreme Clientele – Ghostface Killah
4. Stankonia – OutKast
5. (s/t) – Broken Social Scene
6. New Amerykah Part One – Erykah Badu
7. (s/t) - Fever Ray
8. Alive 2007 – Daft Punk
9. Donuts – J Dilla
10. Pick a Bigger Weapon – The Coup
11. Is this It – The Strokes
12. Kid A – Radiohead
13. The Milk-Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom
14. De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta
15. It’s Never Been Like That - Phoenix
16. Late Registration – Kanye West
17. Night Ripper – Girl Talk
18. Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
19. The Blueprint – Jay-Z
20. Kala – M.I.A.

Now to work on a singles list.

FWIW I could have easily put Fishscale and maybe even Pretty Toney on there, but Supreme Clientele is already there and I wanted to give some other rappers some shine. I know I have 2 albums each from Daft Punk and Radiohead, but in both cases they seem like such different records, both essential in their own way. I think LCD SS deserves a spot too, but I couldn't decide on one. I think 43:55 is my favorite, but it doesn't seem like enough of an ALBUM, y'know?

the Coup album is a nice (and unexpected) pick.

Jon Lewis OTM about these two :
Alexandre Desplat- Girl With A Pearl Earring
Elmer Bernstein- Far From Heaven
The two best soundtracks of this decade imo

top 15 (not in order)
1. John Shough - Ultra Vega
2. Radiohead - Amnesiac
3. Thingy - To the Innocent
4. Archer Prewitt - Three
5. Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
6. King Creosote - Kenny and Beth's Musakal Boat Rides
7. King Creosote - Rocket D.I.Y.
8. King Creosote - KC Rules OK
9. Califone - All My Friend's Are Funeral Singers
10. Sin Ropas - Trickboxes on the Pony Line
11. The Sea and Cake - Glass EP
12. Kevin Ayers - Unfairground
13. Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
14. Jim Guthrie - Now More Than Ever
15. Death in June - All Pigs Must Die
(granted that all of these albums have klunkers on them. I just press skip and enjoy a shorter album if need be)

top 10 honorable mentions:
The Sea and Cake - Oui
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Pinback - Offcell EP
Radiohead - Kid A
Tortoise - It's All Around You
Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
Autechre - Confield
Brian Wilson - Smile
Quasi - Hot Shit
Archer Prewitt - Wilderness

notice that of the 25 albums I mentioned only 4 of them made Pitchfork's top 200: Brian Wilson, Radiohead, Radiohead, Jim O'Rourke (plz correct me if or if I'm wrong or missing one)

Man I want to make a singles list, but it's gonna be so tough! There are just a ridiculous number of songs I love from the last 10 years, just in hip hop alone! Not nearly as easy to quantify as albums IMO.

Likely my top pick though, a true all-time incredible classic, is "Le Retournille" by Sébastien Tellier. I hope it gets its due on the ILX poll (was it even on the Pitchfork list at all?)

Couldn't get the list below 20 albums. Sue me:

•Richard Hawley – The Ocean

* * * *

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, May 24, 2009

Messed up. Richard Hawley's disc is Cole's Corner (The Ocean is the first single from it). What a fantastic disc, especially as summer fades into autumn.