GQ Magazine's 40 Best Albums Of The 21st Century

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cuz i know how much you folx love lists. and i am bored. the new issue features a cat power crotch shot as well. i don't think the albums are in any order.

Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker
Beck-Sea Change
Bjork-Vespertine
Frank Black & The Catholics-Dog In The Sand
Bright Eyes-Lifted...
Solomon Burke-Don't Give Up On Me
Cat Power-You Are Free
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds-Nocturama
Common-Electric Circus
The Coup-Party Music
The Dandy Warhols-13 Tales From Urban Bohemia
Doves-The Last Broadcast
Bob Dylan-Love & Theft
Missy Elliott-Under Construction
Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP
50 Cent-Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
The Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Fountains Of Wayne-Welcome Interstate Managers
Four Tet-Rounds
Jay-Z-The Blueprint
Sondre Lerche-Faces Down
The Libertines-Up The Bracket
My Morning Jacket-It Still Moves
N.E.R.D.-In Search Of...
The New Pornographers-Electric Version
Orchestra Baobab-Specialist In All Styles
Outkast-Stankonia
Queens Of The Stone Age-Songs For The Deaf
Radiohead-Kid A
RJD2-Deadringer
The Roots-Phrenology
The Shins-Oh,Inverted World
The Soundtrack of Our Lives-Behind The Music
The Strokes-Is This It
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros-Global a Go-Go
Various Artists-The Best Bootlegs In The World Ever
Weezer-Weezer(Green Album)
Gillian Welch-Soul Journey
The White Stripes-White Blood Cells
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

i've heard ten out of the 40 and none of those ten would make any top list of mine, i don't think. i would like to hear the four tet album and the soundtrack of our lives album though. and someday i wouldn't mind hearing the rjd2 and the dandy warhols albums. they are probably pretty good. this is the american GQ by the way.

― scott seward, Monday, 22 September 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

well, they are in alphabetical order obviously, but no numbered order is what i mean.

― scott seward, Monday, 22 September 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the RJD2, it's still the only record I've bought solely based on ILX ravings.

I don't, pretty predictable list, though the inclusion of Kid A is weird, since most people who follow the near-canon above, consider it to be the weakest Radiohead alb. But maybe they wanted to be daring.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"I don't KNOW"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of ilx ravings, matos will be happy to know that based on his frothing at the mouth i plopped down 20 bucks for the Luomo album on vinyl. there is only one record store where i recently moved to, and i think i was so surprised that they had it that i couldn't resist. oh, and i like it a lot.

― scott seward, Monday, 22 September 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i would say their list is predictable except that i have no idea what a Sondre Lerche is.

― scott seward, Monday, 22 September 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker
Beck-Sea Change
Bjork-Vespertine
Cat Power-You Are Free
The Coup-Party Music
Missy Elliott-Under Construction
The Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
My Morning Jacket-It Still Moves
The New Pornographers-Electric Version
Queens Of The Stone Age-Songs For The Deaf
Radiohead-Kid A
RJD2-Deadringer
The Strokes-Is This It
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros-Global a Go-Go
The White Stripes-White Blood Cells
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Ha, I own all of the above. I quite like most of them, even the so-so albums (QOTSA, Beck, the Coup) have some good songs.

I could see White Blood Cells,YHF, You Are Free and maybe Heartbreaker making a top-15 or top-20 of the 21st century for me.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's still a little early for me to start compiling my best of the Century.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked the previous queens of the stone age a lot more than songs for the deaf i guess. i know i listened to it a lot more. and for the record, here are the albums i have heard off of that list:
Beck,Doves,Missy,Eminem,N.E.R.D.,Outkast,QOTSA,Radiohead,Weezer,White Stripes,Wilco. course, i've heard lotsa singles,comp tracks and stuff on the radio by those other people. just not the whole albums.

― scott seward, Monday, 22 September 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

it's never too early, Horace. a piano might fall on your head next week.

― scott seward, Monday, 22 September 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the Common. The Talib Kweli that came out around the same time last year is about 50 times better.

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that's why I wear a piano-proof hat at all times

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

sondra lerche is an awful. i think the guy who compiled this list works at the college station here, looks like their playlist.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty predictable list. But nice to see Orchestra Baobab on it.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly, they have some very cool people listening to music over at GQ. Sigh.

― David Gates of Delirium, Monday, 22 September 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

It seems reasonable

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all stuff my dad likes.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

well, not all...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

'Rooty' is better than all of those albums

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Global a Go Go

Scott I'm delighted you like Luomo so much!

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

haha too many records to bother mentioning, you have yours I have mine, whatever. god, I'm sick of lists. me! ME! Matos is officially SICK OF LISTS! what the fuck does this mean?!

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

woah. I hadn't even noticed they included Global A-Go-Go. That's pretty intolerable. I deem this list wack.

I'm definitely sick of lists written by more than one person. You lose any structure to the idiosyncrasy.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Bring back the 20th Century pls!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Various Artists-The Best Bootlegs In The World Ever

i am sick of the way this shoddy compilation is always picked ahead of both Never Mind The Bootlegs - Boom Selection 01 or the 2 Many DJs series - sure it's got some okay bootlegs on it but it was never THAT decent a representation of the cream of the crop

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

plus that Best of Boom Selector Vol. 2 quasi-sequel was better anyway

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

the year is GQ, dance music was never created but rather replaced with hairy non musical apes

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

No Pernice Brothers? No Goldfrapp?

Bag o'shite!

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

If Ronan keeps calling it "dance music," I'm going to go back to calling it electronica.

(I don't like this list though, but what do I know? How many 21st Century albums have I heard?)

― Al Andalous, Monday, 22 September 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(Not that it's really just Ronan. It is used that way pretty widely, but it still grates.)

― Al Andalous, Monday, 22 September 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

These albums are all horrible, even the ones that I like

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 22 September 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

That was a pretty fucking week list in all honesty. I mean come on, 50 Cent? As for the person that said the inclusion of Kid A was "weird", what planet are you on? Kid A is easily better than most albums on that list. Infact it's probably the third best album behind The Libertines and Eminem.

― Deano, Friday, 20 February 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

more of a month list than a week one, surely?

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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