Brilliant Albums of the past 15 years?

Grand Don't Come for Free
Parachutes
Stone Roses
Paul's Boutique
Laughing Stock
The Five EPs
DI Go Pop!
Soft Bulletin
The Mollusk
Chocolate and Cheese
OK Computer
The Bends
Is This It
Let It Come Down (Spiritualized's, not James Iha's)
Fat of the Land
Uneasy Listening Volume One
Erlend Oye's DJ Kicks
dubnobasswithmyheadman

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There are plenty of albums that I think are great and would rank in a top whatever list, but I would not call them brilliant. Most of my favorite albums, in fact albums I would say I love more than my example SMiLE, don't fall into this category. Say, for example, Unknown Pleasures. I would be more likely to cite it in a best/favorite/whatever list. However, I can easily wear the album out, and if I'm not in the right mood it strikes me as totally inappropriate. Or take Aphex Twin or a lot of Eno's ambient work. When I first throw it on, I'm amazed by the brilliance, but after heavy rotation that feeling falls apart.

When I say "enduring" I don't mean over the course of many years, that wouldn't make sense. I mean more, over the course of many listens and especially for people who care a lot about music, have strong opinions about music, and can sometimes be (dare I say?) hyper-critical of music. I think most of the folks 'round here fall into that category. I know I do.

Drugstore -- Drugstore
Hollowphonic -- Majestic
Spiritualized -- Let It Come Down
Plastikman -- Closer
Sigur Ros -- {}

Radiohead - "OK Computer" and "Kid A"
Talk Talk - "Laughing Stock"
Flaming Lips - "Soft Bulletin"
Clinic - "Internal Wrangler" (my vinyl is basically unplayable at this point)
Saint Etienne - "Too Young to Die"
Archer Prewitt - "White Sky"
Dntel - "Life Is Full of Possibilities"
Fennesz - "Endless Summer"
Interpol - "Turn on the Bright Lights"
Underworld - "Everything, Everything"
U2 - "Achtung Baby"
Wrens - "The Meadowlands"
The Verve, "Urban Hymns"
Songs:Ohia: "Magnolia Electric Co."

These are not my favorite albums even from 1989 to the present, but they're probably what I listen to the most, crazy as that might be. I never get tired of them and I continually this "holy shit, this is good!" even when I've heard it a thousand times (and even when it's kind of lame).

De La Soul 'Three Feet High & Rising'
808 State '90'
Happy Mondays 'Pills, Thrills & Bellyache'
Public Enemy 'Fear Of A Black Planet'
808 State 'Ex:El'
Altern 8 'Full On...Mask Hysteria'
Prodigy 'Experience'
Massive Attack 'Blue Lines'
Primal Scream 'Screamadelica'
Orbital 'Untitled (brown album)'
Bjork 'Debut'
Beastie Boys 'Check Your Head'
Prodigy 'Music For The Jilted Generation'
Portishead 'Glory Box'
Massive Attack 'Protection'
Oasis 'Definitely Maybe'
Beastie Boys 'Ill Communication'
Tricky 'Maxinquaye'
Underworld 'Dubnobasswithmyheadman'
Goldie 'Timeless'
Leftfield 'Leftism'
Bjork 'Post'
Underworld 'Second Toughest In The Infants'
Carl Craig 'Landcruising'
L.F.O. 'Advance'
Chemical Brothers 'Dig Your Own Hole'
DJ Shadow 'Endtroducing...'
Orbital 'In Sides'
Roni Size Reprazent 'New Forms'
Primal Scream 'Vanishing Point'
Radiohead 'OK Computer'
David Holmes 'Let's Get Killed'
Daft Punk 'Homework'
Coldcut 'Let Us Play'
Air 'Premiers Symptomes'
Beastie Boys 'Hello Nasty'
Basement Jaxx 'Remedy'

no Wu-Tang cos i never bought or listened to the actual albums, no stuff i loved at the time but would be embarassed about and hard pushed to defend now (uh, 'Achtung Baby', 'Ten')

might need more time to think of 'original pirate material' and 'boy in da corner' as up there, ditto 'x factor' and 'kish kash'.

Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Cornelius - 69/96, Fantasma and CM/CM2
Basement Jaxx - Rooty and Kish Kash
Flipper's Guitar - Doctor Head's World Tower
Kiley Dean - Simple Girl
Paul's Boutique
Endtroducing
Fight Club
Since I Left You
X-Factor Vol. 1
Vanishing Point/XTRMNTR
Experience
Parklife
The London Funk Allstars - Flesh Eating Disco Zombies vs The Bionic Hookers From Mars
V/A - Trattoria Records Presents Anchor

And others.

- The Airbag EP is about all I still put on from Radiohead and really appreciate in full
- dubnobasswithmyheadman still does it for me
- In Sides is in
- Disintegration
- The Low End Theory
- Oddly enough Zooropa sounds better to me now than Achtung. Although I still enjoy the second half of Achtung.
- Bluelines
- Post
- Moon Safari
- Violator for sure
- The Orb's Adventures Beyond Ultraworld
- Midnight Vultures (I know, I know..)
- I'll venture to say, actually, Sonic Nurse (worst title ever)
- Turn On the Bright Lights barely makes the cut
- Stone Roses
- Mars Audiac Quintet

It's interesting. I just flipped through a bunch of CDs and I see bands I love, and even albums I love, but not much from them that fits into this, or meets the timeframe requirement (Pixies, etc.).

Now it's time to throw on some CDs that have gathered dust and try them on again. Also need to buy used copies or something of some discs I lost in college, and try out some things I haven't hear from some of your lists.

Now I'm noticing that most of the "happy" music I love is pre-1980, while the more "down" stuff is post-1980.... Hmmm. Anyone else that way?

I was hopping back and forth between work and ILM! That is a glaring oversight, but then you have to wonder if the glaring oversight isn't actually _Ultra_...