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Best Albums of the Decade
Just what will we call this soon to be passing decade? The "Os"? Like O-9? That's what I usually call it- "back in O-6...."
So with the decade closing out I wanted to send out a request for Best Albums of the Decade. I realize just trying to think of that might give you a headache, but just start by listing any that come to mind, it doesn't have to be a top ten list or anything like that. Here's some of mine and I will add some later.
as you may note, this list is decidedly "Indie" rock.
TV On The Radio- "Return To Cookie Mountain"and "Dear Science"- a fascinating band that is really pushing boundaries without forgetting to rock, an American Radiohead if you will.
The National "Boxer"- an album with surprising depth despite sounding very one dimensional at first. They were channeling something with this one.
Deerhunter- "Microcastle"- what pop music should be in the "Os" if the radio stations played anything worth listening to. This band was my favorite discovery of the past 2 years. Check out the sister band Atlas Sound as well.
The Shins- "Wincing The Night Away"- this album didn't get as much love as "Chutes Too Narrow" but in my book it has much more depth and finds it way to my turntable twice as often.
Yo La Tengo- "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out"- this album just barely made the decade but it deserves to be on this list. It took me a while to get into it but I now see it as the band's high water mark and probably the best album made by a married couple around the theme of their relationship.
Amy Winehouse "Back To Black"- a classic despite the hype
Dirty Projectors- "Bitte Orca"- I usually don't go for "weird" stuff like this but this is such a great record I really had to add it to the list.
Spoon- "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"- really changed how I think about recording
Sufjan Stevens- "Illinois"- a masterpiece all around
Bright Eyes- "I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning"- emo grows up and writes great songs.
Radiohead- "Hail To The Thief" and "In Rainbows"- they were really the band of the decade in my eyes
Fleet Foxes- "Fleet Foxes"- I think this album will endure and grow in respect over time, timeless stuff.
The Strokes- "Is This It"- an undeniable classic, every song should have been a hit.
Of Montreal- "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?" - This is probably my favorite record from the decade at this point.
So with the decade closing out I wanted to send out a request for Best Albums of the Decade. I realize just trying to think of that might give you a headache, but just start by listing any that come to mind, it doesn't have to be a top ten list or anything like that. Here's some of mine and I will add some later.
as you may note, this list is decidedly "Indie" rock.
TV On The Radio- "Return To Cookie Mountain"and "Dear Science"- a fascinating band that is really pushing boundaries without forgetting to rock, an American Radiohead if you will.
The National "Boxer"- an album with surprising depth despite sounding very one dimensional at first. They were channeling something with this one.
Deerhunter- "Microcastle"- what pop music should be in the "Os" if the radio stations played anything worth listening to. This band was my favorite discovery of the past 2 years. Check out the sister band Atlas Sound as well.
The Shins- "Wincing The Night Away"- this album didn't get as much love as "Chutes Too Narrow" but in my book it has much more depth and finds it way to my turntable twice as often.
Yo La Tengo- "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out"- this album just barely made the decade but it deserves to be on this list. It took me a while to get into it but I now see it as the band's high water mark and probably the best album made by a married couple around the theme of their relationship.
Amy Winehouse "Back To Black"- a classic despite the hype
Dirty Projectors- "Bitte Orca"- I usually don't go for "weird" stuff like this but this is such a great record I really had to add it to the list.
Spoon- "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"- really changed how I think about recording
Sufjan Stevens- "Illinois"- a masterpiece all around
Bright Eyes- "I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning"- emo grows up and writes great songs.
Radiohead- "Hail To The Thief" and "In Rainbows"- they were really the band of the decade in my eyes
Fleet Foxes- "Fleet Foxes"- I think this album will endure and grow in respect over time, timeless stuff.
The Strokes- "Is This It"- an undeniable classic, every song should have been a hit.
Of Montreal- "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?" - This is probably my favorite record from the decade at this point.
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Comment by Todd Cravens on December 9, 2009 at 4:14pm - i've also heard it called "the noughties" (and "naughties").
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Comment by mike whybark on December 9, 2009 at 2:48pm -
seconding 'the oughts,' except it is properly spelled 'the aughts,' as the ou-spelling meads 'should have' while the au-spelling means 'nothing' or 'zero.'
no list here.
off the top of my head the records that stay with me over the past decade:
Winehouse, Back to Black
The Pieces, The Pieces
Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby (2000! really!)
Uh, this site's entire archive
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Comment by Todd Cravens on December 9, 2009 at 1:39pm
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tought call, as i have not heard every album released! still, i'll bite:
rowland s. howard - teenage snuff film AND pop crimes
beasts of bourbon - little animals
the drones - entire discog
rolling stones - bigger bang
iggy and the stooges - more power (remastered demos/rehearsals pre-raw power)
james mccann - last night i met the devil
stu spasm - popular male vocal EP
grinderman - s/t
mudhoney - under a billion suns
howling hex - you can't beat tomorrow
neil michael hagerty - plays that good ol' rock and roll
brian henry hooper - lemon, lime, and bitter
wilco - a ghost is born
black moses - royal stink
bird blobs - s/t
jim jones revue - s/t
pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea
BRMC - first album
the entrance band - s/t
cheap trick - rockford
the horrors - s/t EP
wovenhand - ten stones
hater - the 2nd
...and...the darkness - permission to land!
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Comment by David Barajas on December 9, 2009 at 12:27pm -
Beck – Sea Changes
Bjork - Medulla
Café Tacuba – Cuatro Caminos
Cloroform – Cracked Wide Open
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Daft Punk – Discovery
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
David Gilmour – On An Island
Desert Sessions – Vol. 7 & 8
Emirsian – Yelq
Fantomas – Delirium Cordia
Headphones – self titled
Jurrasic 5 – Quality Control
KAADA – Music For Moviebikers
Manu Chao – Próxima Estación: Esperanza
Oukast – Speakerboxxx/ Love Below
Papas Fritas – Far From An Answer
Paul McCartney – Memory Almost Full
Prince – The Rainbow Children
Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf/Lullabies To Paralyze
Radiohead – Kid A
Red Fang – self titled
Stone Temple Pilots – Shangri La Dee Da
The Pillows – Happy Bivouac
The Sea and Cake – OUI
The Strokes – Is This It?
Tomahawk – self titled
Trans Am – Liberation
Ween – White Pepper
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Comment by Jack Shepler on December 9, 2009 at 12:15pm - Jeb, where is Lady Gaga on your list???
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Comment by Mike Emmett on December 9, 2009 at 11:51am -
This is by no means comprehensive nor does it include every great record of the past decade. These are just some of the ones that I can recall being on heavy iPod/ turntable rotation.
Tiger Army – 'III: Ghost Tigers Rise' (2004)
Anti-Flag – ‘For Blood And Empire' (2006)
Flogging Molly – 'Drunken Lullabies' (2002)
Against Me! – 'Searching For a Former Clarity' (2005)
Rancid – ‘Rancid (2000)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros –‘Streetcore’ (2003)
Murder By Death – ‘Red of Tooth and Claw’ (2008)
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Comment by Editor B on December 9, 2009 at 11:27am - I don't have a list — yet — but I say we call this decade the oughts.
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Comment by Sean McCloud on December 9, 2009 at 11:26am -
I love procrastinating with this kind of stuff. Here is a start, no order or top 10, but what I would place in the top 100 or so:
Boris, "Pink" and "Smile" and "Amplfier Worship"
School of Seven Bells, "Alpinisms"
Keren Ann, "Keren Ann" and "la Disparation"
M.I.A. "Kala" and "Arular"
Jesu, "Conqueror"
Girl in a Coma, "Both Before I'm Gone"
Interpol, "Turn on the Birght Lights"
Moss, "Sub Templum"
Jucifer, 'L' autrichienne"
Liars, "Drums not Dead"
Grouper, "Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill"
Various, "The Roots of Chicha"
Melt Banana, "cellscape"
Boris and Sunn 0))), "Altar"
Soap and Skin, "Lovetune for Vacuum"
HTRK, "Marry Me Tonight" and "Nostalgia"
Torche, "In Return"
Lori McKenna, "The Kitchen Tapes"
Earth, "The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull"
Sunn 0))), "Monoliths and Dimesions"
Sonna, "Smile and the World Smiles with You"
Scott Walker, "The Drift"
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Comment by Kurt/Yukki on December 9, 2009 at 11:24am -
Futureheads- debut, Area ep
Hives-Vedi Vini Vicious , Tyrannosaurus Hives
Exploding Hearts-Guitar Romantics
Jay Reatard-Blood Vision
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds-The Lyre of Orpheus, Dig Lazarus, Dig!!! No More Shall We Part
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions-Bavarian Fruit Bread
Neko Case-Blacklisted
Apache-Boomtown Gems
So Cow-s/t
Lost Patrol Band-s/t
Lovetones-Dimensions
Peggy Honeywell-Faint Humms
Fresh & Only’s-s/t
Earthmen & Strangers-s/t
Ponys-Laced with Romance
Mr. Airplane Man-Moanin’, Shakin’ Around ep
Mareva Galanter-UkuYeYe
Oh Sees-Help
Kurt Vile-Constant Hitmaker
White Stripes-something, maybe...
Wire-Send, Object 47
King Khan BBQ Show-Fish Fight
Billy Childish Buff Medways
Spiritualized-Let It Come Down, Amazing Grace
Bare Wires
Black Angels-Directions To See A Ghost
Clinic-Walking With Thee
The Spits
Crash Normal
Dirtbombs-Ultraglide in Black
BRMC-
Hex Dispensers-Winchester Mystery House
Sister Vanilla-Little Pop Rock
Cosmic Psychos-Off Ya Cruet
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