Favorite Albums of the Decade

[fishingthe_sky]

I've been asking people what their favorite albums from the last 10 years are. I'm talking the ones that you'd save from your house if it were burning down. The only stipulations I have are that you can have up to but no more than 25 albums, and that you can only have one album from 2009 on it, because this isn't about the music you've been digging recently.

Mine are, in somewhat particular order:

The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
BT - This Binary Universe
Thrice - Vheissu
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Days Away - Mapping an Invisible World
Hey Mercedes - Everynight Fire Works
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
Hot Water Music - The New What Next
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
The Postal Service - Give Up
Audio Karate - Lady Melody
Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory
Osker - Idle Will Kill
P.O.S. - Audition
Something Corporate - North
Blink-182 - Blink-182
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Erik Mongrain - Fates
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!

[Macbeth.]

agree with your list - plus more radiohead, alexisonfire, godspeed you black emperor, and maybe muse.

then there's weezer and green day that deserve to be on the list, I just don't like them.

[bard]

glad to see m83

[Deadbolt23]

I'm pretty sure there's another thread like this.

[briewer]

Hail To The Thief and Before The Dawn Heals Us are not the best albums from this decade of their respective bands.

[ThePartialGlow]

I posted mine in another thread, but I"m all for posting it again:

20. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
19. Beck - Sea Change
18. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
17. Sigur Ros - ()
16. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
15. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
14. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
13. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Volumes I and II
12. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
11. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
10. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
9. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
7. The National - Boxer
6. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
5. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[zbrmike79]

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Limbeck - Hi, Everythings Great/Hey, Everythings Fine
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobodies Business - I Can Make a Mess Like Nobodies Business
Annuals - Be He Me
Margot and the Nuclear So & So - The Dust of Retreat
RX Bandits - ...And So the Battle Begun
Birdy Nam Nam - Birdy Nam Nam
Kanye West - Graduation
Sigur Ros - Takk...
Space Ghost Cowboys - The Sad Album
Kevin Devine - Make the Clocks Move
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago



something like that - in some random order

[TylerDurden911]

My very lenghty list:

-Against Me! "As The Eternal Cowboy"
-At The Drive-In "Relationship Of Command"
-The Blood Brothers "Burn, Piano Island, Burn!"
-Catch 22 "Alone In a Crowd"
-Choke "There's a Story To This Moral"
-Cursive "The Ugly Organ"
-Dashboard Confessional "The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most"
-David Gray "White Ladder"
-The Decemberists "The Crane Wife"
-Frank Turner "Love, Ire & Song"
-The Gaslight Anthem "The '59 Sound"
-Glassjaw "Worship and Tribute"
-Green Day "American Idiot"
-The Hives "Veni Vidi Vicious"
-Hot Hot Heat "Make Up The Breakdown"
-Jack's Mannequin "Everything In Transit"
-Justice "[Cross]"
-LCD Soundsystem "Sound Of Silver"
-Loco Locass "Amour Oral"
-Metric "Fantasies"
-MGMT "Oracular Spectacular"
-Murder By Death "Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left Of Them"
-NOFX "The War On Errorism"
-The Notwist "Neon Golden"
-Pierre Lapointe "La Forêt des mal-aimés"
-The Postal Service "Give Up"
-Propagandhi "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes"
-Protest The Hero "Kezia"
-Say Anything "...Is A Real Boy"
-The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
-Sparta "Wiretap Scars"
-The Streets "Original Pirate Material"
-Strung Out "An American Paradox"
-Thrice "The Artist In The Ambulance"
-Thursday "Full Collapse"
-UnderOath "They're Only Chasing Safety"
-Vincent Vallières "Chacun dans son espace"
-Vulgaires Machins "Regarde le monde"
-The Weakerthans "Reconstruction Site"

[fishingthe_sky]

I'm pretty sure there's another thread like this.
I looked for one but couldn't find any. Admittedly, I only looked through like, the first two pages. Sorry if I'm repeating this.
Hail To The Thief and Before The Dawn Heals Us are not the best albums from this decade of their respective bands.
But it's not about what that. It's about the music that you've really loved over the past 10 years. I'm well aware that 99% of people would choose Kid A for a Radiohead album, but I listen to Hail To The Thief way more because I enjoy it more.

[fishingthe_sky]

I posted mine in another thread, but I"m all for posting it again:

20. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
19. Beck - Sea Change
18. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
17. Sigur Ros - ()
16. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
15. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
14. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
13. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Volumes I and II
12. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
11. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
10. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
9. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
7. The National - Boxer
6. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
5. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yeah, sorry if I just went and made a thread that's already been done. The albums you have here for Bloc Party, The Appleseed Cast, The National, and Brand New all just barely missed my list. Especially The Appleseed Cast and The National. So goddamn good.
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Limbeck - Hi, Everythings Great/Hey, Everythings Fine
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobodies Business - I Can Make a Mess Like Nobodies Business
Annuals - Be He Me
Margot and the Nuclear So & So - The Dust of Retreat
RX Bandits - ...And So the Battle Begun
Birdy Nam Nam - Birdy Nam Nam
Kanye West - Graduation
Sigur Ros - Takk...
Space Ghost Cowboys - The Sad Album
Kevin Devine - Make the Clocks Move
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago



something like that - in some random order
Love that you included I Can Make A Mess. Not one of my favorites, but it's a great album nonetheless.
My very lenghty list:

-Against Me! "As The Eternal Cowboy"
-At The Drive-In "Relationship Of Command"
-The Blood Brothers "Burn, Piano Island, Burn!"
-Catch 22 "Alone In a Crowd"
-Choke "There's a Story To This Moral"
-Cursive "The Ugly Organ"
-Dashboard Confessional "The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most"
-David Gray "White Ladder"
-The Decemberists "The Crane Wife"
-Frank Turner "Love, Ire & Song"
-The Gaslight Anthem "The '59 Sound"
-Glassjaw "Worship and Tribute"
-Green Day "American Idiot"
-The Hives "Veni Vidi Vicious"
-Hot Hot Heat "Make Up The Breakdown"
-Jack's Mannequin "Everything In Transit"
-Justice "[Cross]"
-LCD Soundsystem "Sound Of Silver"
-Loco Locass "Amour Oral"
-Metric "Fantasies"
-MGMT "Oracular Spectacular"
-Murder By Death "Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left Of Them"
-NOFX "The War On Errorism"
-The Notwist "Neon Golden"
-Pierre Lapointe "La Forêt des mal-aimés"
-The Postal Service "Give Up"
-Propagandhi "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes"
-Protest The Hero "Kezia"
-Say Anything "...Is A Real Boy"
-The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
-Sparta "Wiretap Scars"
-The Streets "Original Pirate Material"
-Strung Out "An American Paradox"
-Thrice "The Artist In The Ambulance"
-Thursday "Full Collapse"
-UnderOath "They're Only Chasing Safety"
-Vincent Vallières "Chacun dans son espace"
-Vulgaires Machins "Regarde le monde"
-The Weakerthans "Reconstruction Site"
I don't care that you have more than 25 because I love every album you have on here (except the ones that appear to be French... are they French? Yeah, I've never heard those).

[threepunchjim]

In no particular order:

1. In Rainbows - Radiohead
2. The End Is Not The End - House of Heroes
3. Deja Entendu - Brand New
4. Commit This to Memory - Motion City Soundtrack
5. Everything Starts Where it Ends - Lovedrug
6. In Motion - Copeland
7. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
8. Absolution - Muse
9. Never Better - P.O.S. (my one '09)
10. Morning View - Incubus
11. American Gangster - Jay-Z
12. Once: Original Soundtrack - Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova
13. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
14. The Everglow - Mae
15. Graduation - Kanye West
16. Anthem - Less Than Jake
17. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
18. Under the Boards - Saves the Day
19. In Defense of the Genre - Say Anything
20. One Fell Swoop - The Spill Canvas
21. Make Believe - Weezer
22. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
23. Get Born - Jet
24. Cities - Anberlin
25. Volcano - Gatsbys American Dream

[fanberlinboy]

Mae - The Everglow
Anberlin - Cities
Cartel - Chroma
The Academy Is... - Almost Here, Santi

Those for sure. There are a lot more, though.

[fishingthe_sky]

In no particular order:

1. In Rainbows - Radiohead
2. The End Is Not The End - House of Heroes
3. Deja Entendu - Brand New
4. Commit This to Memory - Motion City Soundtrack
5. Everything Starts Where it Ends - Lovedrug
6. In Motion - Copeland
7. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
8. Absolution - Muse
9. Never Better - P.O.S. (my one '09)
10. Morning View - Incubus
11. American Gangster - Jay-Z
12. Once: Original Soundtrack - Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova
13. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
14. The Everglow - Mae
15. Graduation - Kanye West
16. Anthem - Less Than Jake
17. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
18. Under the Boards - Saves the Day
19. In Defense of the Genre - Say Anything
20. One Fell Swoop - The Spill Canvas
21. Make Believe - Weezer
22. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
23. Get Born - Jet
24. Cities - Anberlin
25. Volcano - Gatsbys American Dream
I had an extremely hard time picking Audition over Never Better.

[bard]

Hail To The Thief and Before The Dawn Heals Us are not the best albums from this decade of their respective bands.
which m83 album would you choose?

[briewer]

which m83 album would you choose?
Dead Cities, Red Seas, And Lost Ghosts by far. Before The Dawn... just seems like a hollowed out shell of DCRSALG, and Saturdays = Youth is just painfully boring, in my opinion.

[quicksilv001]

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. The National - Boxer
4. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
5. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
8. Converge - Jane Doe
9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
10. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

[Illadelphia]

College Dropout- Kanye West
The Minstrel Show- Little Brother
The Tipping Point- The Roots
Phantoms- Acceptance
Take This to Your Grave- Fall Out Boy
...Is a Real Boy- Say Anything
Doppelganger- Fall of Troy
Deja Entendu- Brand New
In Motion- Copeland
Downtown Battle Mountain- Dance Gavin Dance

[fishingthe_sky]

Dead Cities, Red Seas, And Lost Ghosts by far. Before The Dawn... just seems like a hollowed out shell of DCRSALG, and Saturdays = Youth is just painfully boring, in my opinion.
Honestly, I find Dead Cities to be a little grating sonically. I don't know what it is, but the tones used on most of their synths just bug me on that album. It's still a great album, though.

[threepunchjim]

I had an extremely hard time picking Audition over Never Better.

Haha I know, right? It pretty much came down to a coin flip for me.

[threepunchjim]

College Dropout- Kanye West
The Minstrel Show- Little Brother
The Tipping Point- The Roots
Phantoms- Acceptance
Take This to Your Grave- Fall Out Boy
...Is a Real Boy- Say Anything
Doppelganger- Fall of Troy
Deja Entendu- Brand New
In Motion- Copeland
Downtown Battle Mountain- Dance Gavin Dance

Glad to see someone else prefers this to their others.

[bard]

Dead Cities, Red Seas, And Lost Ghosts by far. Before The Dawn... just seems like a hollowed out shell of DCRSALG, and Saturdays = Youth is just painfully boring, in my opinion.
i'd rank 'em this way:

1. digital shades, vol. 1
2. dead cities, red seas, and lost ghosts = before the dawn heals us
3. m83
4. saturdays = youth

before the dawn heals us introduced me to m83, so i still hold it up high. easily their most accessible album though

[frozenphoenix32]

Let's see:

blink-182: blink-182
Radiohead: Kid A
Jack's Mannequin: Everything In Transit
Thrice: Vheissu
Green Day: American Idiot
Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Midtown: Forget What You Know
Saosin: Saosin
Say Anything: is a Real Boy
Third Eye Blind: Out of the Vein

[walshknilb281]

My favorites:
Brand New-The Devil and God
Brand New-Deja Entendu
Taking Back Sunday-Tell All Your Friends
Thursday-Full Collapse
TREOS-Between the Heart and the Synapse
Kevin Devine-Brothers Blood
mewithoutYou-Brother, Sister
Death Cab for Cutie-Transatlanticism
Saves the Day-Stay What You Are
Jack's Mannequin-Everything in Transit
Say Anything-...Is a Real Boy
Blink 182-Blink 182

The Best: (Albums that I felt were really original and a breath of fresh air to the music scene)
Brand New-Deja Entendu
At the Drive-In-Relationship of Command
Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica
The Postal Service-Give Up
Death Cab for Cutie-Transatlanticism
Thursday-Full Collapse
Thrice-Vheissu
Explosions in the Sky-How Strange, Innocence
Taking Back Sunday-Tell All Your Friends
mewithoutYou-Brother, Sister

Eventually I'd like to do a little write up about how each album shaped the music that would come later in the decade but I'll save that for later

[kbi the crowing]

Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 & Second Stage Turbine Blade
The Fall of Troy - Doppleganger
Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
Portugal. The Man - Waiter: "Your Vultures!"
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Fear Before The March of Flames -The Always Open Mouth
The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South and the River North
mewithoutYou - [A-->B] Life & Catch Us For the Foxes

probably more

[xJesusFreakx]

The National - Boxer

This is easily my favorite album of the decade. I'd probably expand this into a list if I weren't supposed to be writing my last paper of the semester.

[oddwithoutend]

This (http://sunonthesand.com/2009/top-albums-of-the-decade-50-41-2/) is what sunonthesand thought.

[fishingthe_sky]

Let's see:

blink-182: blink-182
Radiohead: Kid A
Jack's Mannequin: Everything In Transit
Thrice: Vheissu
Green Day: American Idiot
Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Midtown: Forget What You Know
Saosin: Saosin
Say Anything: is a Real Boy
Third Eye Blind: Out of the Vein
Yes on FWYK and Out of the Vein.
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 & Second Stage Turbine Blade
The Fall of Troy - Doppleganger
Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
Portugal. The Man - Waiter: "Your Vultures!"
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Fear Before The March of Flames -The Always Open Mouth
The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South and the River North
mewithoutYou - [A-->B] Life & Catch Us For the Foxes

probably more
Interesting choice for a TSOAF album. That'd be my last choice. Why's it your first and on this list, out of curiosity?
The National - Boxer

This is easily my favorite album of the decade. I'd probably expand this into a list if I weren't supposed to be writing my last paper of the semester.
Boxer just barely missed my list. It'd be my 26th choice.

[kbi the crowing]

Interesting choice for a TSOAF album. That'd be my last choice. Why's it your first and on this list, out of curiosity?

I really like the mood the album portrays, the other ones have good songs, but to me they don't feel as complete like The Ocean and the Sun does. The song writing is superb as well.

[gjpinizz]

relient k- mmhmm

[fishingthe_sky]

This (http://sunonthesand.com/2009/top-albums-of-the-decade-50-41-2/) is what sunonthesand thought.
I think this is a great list except for the fact that there's 4 Radiohead albums on it. Not that Radiohead isn't an amazing band worthy of recognition, but no best albums of the decade list should have almost a tenth of it be from one band.

[SassyPhalanges]

I'm gonna have to go with a brief list, but all the albums have brought me through this decade, some older, some newer, but I'll never stop listening to them.

The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me- Brand New
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning- Bright Eyes
On Letting Go- Circa Survive
Horehound- The Dead Weather
Get Behind Me, Satan- The White Stripes
Your a Woman, I'm a Machine- Death From Above 1979
I am Hollywood- He Is Legend
The Shepherd's Dog- Iron and Wine
Hail To the Thief- Radiohead
Carnavas- Silversun Pickups
Wincing The Night Away- The Shins
Shake The Sheets- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Artist in the Ambulance- Thrice
Show Your Bones- Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Consolers of the Lonely- The Raconteurs
Ekklesia- For Today

[fishingthe_sky]

I really like the mood the album portrays, the other ones have good songs, but to me they don't feel as complete like The Ocean and the Sun does. The song writing is superb as well.
See, I find The Ocean and the Sun a bit boring. There are some solid tunes, but I couldn't get into it at all.

[kbi the crowing]

See, I find The Ocean and the Sun a bit boring. There are some solid tunes, but I couldn't get into it at all.

all in the ear of the beholder, i suppose

[oddwithoutend]

I think this is a great list except for the fact that there's 4 Radiohead albums on it. Not that Radiohead isn't an amazing band worthy of recognition, but no best albums of the decade list should have almost a tenth of it be from one band.
While I disagree in that I think there's nothing wrong with featuring any number of albums from one band given that they are deserving of the praise, I agree the Radiohead acclaim is somewhat unwarranted. With that said, the list is pretty good. It's a collaboration of ten or tweleve people that shaped up in a fine depiction of the last ten years, and The Glow Pt. 2 made the list so I really can't complain.

[EvilZeppelin]

My very lenghty list:

-Against Me! "As The Eternal Cowboy"
-At The Drive-In "Relationship Of Command"
-The Blood Brothers "Burn, Piano Island, Burn!"
-Catch 22 "Alone In a Crowd"
-Choke "There's a Story To This Moral"
-Cursive "The Ugly Organ"
-Dashboard Confessional "The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most"
-David Gray "White Ladder"
-The Decemberists "The Crane Wife"
-Frank Turner "Love, Ire & Song"
-The Gaslight Anthem "The '59 Sound"
-Glassjaw "Worship and Tribute"
-Green Day "American Idiot"
-The Hives "Veni Vidi Vicious"
-Hot Hot Heat "Make Up The Breakdown"
-Jack's Mannequin "Everything In Transit"
-Justice "[Cross]"
-LCD Soundsystem "Sound Of Silver"
-Loco Locass "Amour Oral"
-Metric "Fantasies"
-MGMT "Oracular Spectacular"
-Murder By Death "Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left Of Them"
-NOFX "The War On Errorism"
-The Notwist "Neon Golden"
-Pierre Lapointe "La Forêt des mal-aimés"
-The Postal Service "Give Up"
-Propagandhi "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes"
-Protest The Hero "Kezia"
-Say Anything "...Is A Real Boy"
-The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
-Sparta "Wiretap Scars"
-The Streets "Original Pirate Material"
-Strung Out "An American Paradox"
-Thrice "The Artist In The Ambulance"
-Thursday "Full Collapse"
-UnderOath "They're Only Chasing Safety"
-Vincent Vallières "Chacun dans son espace"
-Vulgaires Machins "Regarde le monde"
-The Weakerthans "Reconstruction Site"

That one an amazing fun album to listen to, I wish they still had it.

[fishingthe_sky]

The National - Boxer

This is easily my favorite album of the decade. I'd probably expand this into a list if I weren't supposed to be writing my last paper of the semester.
BTW, do you contribute to The Decomposed Blog, or just promote it? David (The Personist) and I are tight from back when the poetry/lyrics forum wasn't totally shit.

[fishingthe_sky]

all in the ear of the beholder, i suppose
Beauty of music.
While I disagree in that I think there's nothing wrong with featuring any number of albums from one band given that they are deserving of the praise, I agree the Radiohead acclaim is somewhat unwarranted. With that said, the list is pretty good. It's a collaboration of ten or tweleve people that shaped up in a fine depiction of the last ten years, and The Glow Pt. 2 made the list so I really can't complain.
I didn't realize it was a collaboration of that many people. I just think having that many albums from one band shows a lack of... I don't know, creativity. Doesn't sound like the right word, but hopefully you get what I mean. I totally get Kid A for being what it was when it came out, I totally get In Rainbows for its impact on music for decades to come, and I'm predisposed to Hail To The Thief. I didn't get having Amnesiac on it, though, even with the rationale.

But I'm nitpicking. It's a good list. Definitely the best list I've seen published from a collective so far.

[oddwithoutend]

I didn't realize it was a collaboration of that many people. I just think having that many albums from one band shows a lack of... I don't know, creativity. Doesn't sound like the right word, but hopefully you get what I mean. I totally get Kid A for being what it was when it came out, I totally get In Rainbows for its impact on music for decades to come, and I'm predisposed to Hail To The Thief. I didn't get having Amnesiac on it, though, even with the rationale.
And see, In Rainbows and Hail To the Thief didn't make my list. haha This is what seems to happen when people discuss Radiohead. I guess you could assume it's a lack of exposure/creativity, or you could simply disagree with the list. I mean, I don't agree with the list either, but that's an inevitable result of any collaboration.
But I'm nitpicking. It's a good list. Definitely the best list I've seen published from a collective so far.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

[cwya]

wincing the night away by the shins

if i had to choose just one.

[Spenny]

Thrice - Vheissu
Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave
Radiohead - Kid A
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

[fishingthe_sky]

wincing the night away by the shins

if i had to choose just one.
Ahh but you don't! You can choose 24 more, if you'd like.

[rditzler]

in no particular order

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
At the Drive-In - The Relationship of Command
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Muse - Absolution
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Converge - Axe to Fall
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot In People
Fugazi - The Argument
Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso
Death From Above 1979 - You're a woman, I'm a Machine
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

[xJesusFreakx]

BTW, do you contribute to The Decomposed Blog, or just promote it? David (The Personist) and I are tight from back when the poetry/lyrics forum wasn't totally shit.

I've only contributed to one post thus far, the 10 favorite albums of the year (with blurbs for Bradley Hathaway and Thrice), but I'll be contributing more in the future.

[jbertclassic]

13. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Volumes I and II

Bless your soul.

But it's not about what that. It's about the music that you've really loved over the past 10 years.
Amen

Saturdays = Youth is just painfully boring, in my opinion.
Out of general curiousity, do you enjoy We Own The Sky?

relient k- mmhmm
Good to see this name tossed around. Nostalgia band for me.
My favorite will always be Anatomy though!

[Ismael182]

I thought about this for awhile, but this is pretty accurate for me.

In order from most meaningful to least (out of my favorite albums of the decade)

1 - Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
2 - Brand New - Deja Entendu
3 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
4 - Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
5 - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
6 - Blink 182 - (Untitled)
7 - Brand New - Daisy
8 - Yellowcard - Lights & Sounds
9 - A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
10 - Radiohead - Kid A

[GhostFight]

I thought about this for awhile, but this is pretty accurate for me.

In order from most meaningful to least (out of my favorite albums of the decade)

1 - Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
2 - Brand New - Deja Entendu
3 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
4 - Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
5 - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
6 - Blink 182 - (Untitled)
7 - Brand New - Daisy
8 - Yellowcard - Lights & Sounds
9 - A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
10 - Radiohead - Kid A

what? did you just throw kid a on there because everyone else is? i dont get this list..

[StiXFactor]

No particular order

Incubus-Light Grenades
Alter Bridge- Blackbird
New Found Glory- Catalyst
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium
Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patiene, and Grace
Yellowcard- Paper Walls
10 Years- Division
Anberlin- Cities
Relient K- Forget and Not Slow Down (that's my one, it's that good)
Rise Against- Sufferer and the Witness
Breaking Benjamin- We Are Not Alone
Audioslave- Out of Exile
Hoobastank- Every Man For Himself
Jimmy Eat World- Chase This Light
The Starting Line- Say it Like You Mean It
The Vines- Highly Evolved
Finch- What It Is to Burn
Weezer- Maladroit
Story of the Year- Page Avenue
Sparta- Porcelain
Lostprophets- Start Something
The Graduate- Anhedonia
Evan's Blue- The Pursuit
Mae-The Everglow

[SassyPhalanges]

what? did you just throw kid a on there because everyone else is? i dont get this list..

Just because other people have it on their's doesn't mean he can't like it. Kid A is a brilliant album. I do realize it is slightly overblown but it is adored by many people, so it's not surprising that it's showing up on a lot of people's list.

[aerofan11]

I have a very cliche list, but meh.

Arcade Fire - Funeral. Some of the songs on this album are my all time favourite. "In The Backseat" is one of the best album closers I've ever heard.

Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely. Jack White is one of my favourite musicians, and this album shows how great he is.

Radiohead - Kid A. It was a raining day and a trip on a crappy bus when I realised the greatness of this album. Not sure what my favourite track is, I love all of them. The last track annoys me though. It stops at around 3 minutes in, then a minute later it returns for a few seconds.

Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave. I always use this album as an example to prove people wrong when they mock Fall Out Boy. Such a great album! "Patrons Saints of Liars and Fakes" is such a good song too. Also the perfect breakup album. ;-)

Other favourites
Brand New - The Devil and God Inside Me Are Raging.
Muse - Absolution
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Thrice - Vheissu

[myplanforescape]

Just a rough list, I'm sure I'm forgetting things, but oh well. Also its not in any order.

Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
The Catalyst - Swallow Your Teeth
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Pygmy Lush - Mount Hope
Pygmy Lush - Bitter River
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
The Catalyst - Marianas Trench
Doomtree - False Hopes
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You - Believes In Patterns
Dangers - Anger
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Takaru/ A Light in the Attic Split
Glifted - Under and In
Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving
City of Caterpillar - s/t
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery Repetition and Noise
Mean Red Spiders - Starsandsons
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower- Love in the Fascist Brothel
Malady - s/t

[fishingthe_sky]

Just a rough list, I'm sure I'm forgetting things, but oh well. Also its not in any order.

Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
The Catalyst - Swallow Your Teeth
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Pygmy Lush - Mount Hope
Pygmy Lush - Bitter River
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
The Catalyst - Marianas Trench
Doomtree - False Hopes
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You - Believes In Patterns
Dangers - Anger
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Takaru/ A Light in the Attic Split
Glifted - Under and In
Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving
City of Caterpillar - s/t
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery Repetition and Noise
Mean Red Spiders - Starsandsons
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower- Love in the Fascist Brothel
Malady - s/t
El-P is great. What False Hopes album? Or do you mean the self-titled from last year, which is a fantastic album.

[Troggy]

Did this quickly but forgot to keep it saved, I'll see if I can remember. No order.

Nickel Creek - This Side
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Get Up Kids - Guilt Show
Iron and Wine - The Sheperd's Dog
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
David Crowder Band - A Collision
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Pretty hard to do and I'm leaving way too many records I love out :[

[myplanforescape]

El-P is great. What False Hopes album? Or do you mean the self-titled from last year, which is a fantastic album.

This one
http://store.doomtree.net/product/false-hopes-doomtree

I enjoy the self-titled a lot, and it was actually a toss up between the two. I just listen to the False Hopes one more.

[beth danger]

This was really tough getting it down to just 25

Radiohead - Kid A
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Fugazi - The Argument
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Piebald - We are the Only Friends that We Have
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Brand New - Deja Entendu
The Postal Service - Give Up
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them
Say Anything - ... Is a Real Boy
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat
Langhorne Slim - When the Sun's Gone Down
The Decemberists - the Crane Wife
The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

[doyouhas?]

Did this quickly but forgot to keep it saved, I'll see if I can remember. No order.

Nickel Creek - This Side
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Get Up Kids - Guilt Show
Iron and Wine - The Sheperd's Dog
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
David Crowder Band - A Collision
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Pretty hard to do and I'm leaving way too many records I love out :[

That's a random Nickel Creek pick. A wonderful album, but probably my least favorite.

[poppa Q]

I think this is a great list except for the fact that there's 4 Radiohead albums on it. Not that Radiohead isn't an amazing band worthy of recognition, but no best albums of the decade list should have almost a tenth of it be from one band.

I'm gonna have to disagree with this. When it's the best albums of the decade, it shouldn't matter who wrote the album and should be based solely on the album's contents.

[SophGod]

Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American.
Thursday - War All The Time
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
Thursday - Full Collapse
Thursday - Common Existence

yeah, thursday changed my life.

[mulcahy67]

im still discovering a lot of music that will probaby make this list in the future, but here is what i have so far.

Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
Midtown - Save the World, Lose the Girl
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Against Me! - New Wave
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night

[fishingthe_sky]

I'm gonna have to disagree with this. When it's the best albums of the decade, it shouldn't matter who wrote the album and should be based solely on the album's contents.
No, you're right, it should be on content. I guess where I disagree with that particular list is that Radiohead had 4 albums that should be included. If we're going with the most objective approach we can with a best of the decade list, then Kid A and In Rainbows should be on it. I can think of a lot of albums that should be on it before Hail To The Thief and Amnesiac (especially Amnesiac), though.

But again, I was just nitpicking the list, and didn't realize at first that it was a list made by like 10 people. Plus, the whole point of this thread is to focus on everyone's personal favorites.

[fishingthe_sky]

Did this quickly but forgot to keep it saved, I'll see if I can remember. No order.

Nickel Creek - This Side
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Get Up Kids - Guilt Show
Iron and Wine - The Sheperd's Dog
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
David Crowder Band - A Collision
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Pretty hard to do and I'm leaving way too many records I love out :[
Props on Nickel Creek, R y G, and The Black Keys. Bands I need to listen to more.
This was really tough getting it down to just 25

Radiohead - Kid A
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Fugazi - The Argument
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Piebald - We are the Only Friends that We Have
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Brand New - Deja Entendu
The Postal Service - Give Up
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them
Say Anything - ... Is a Real Boy
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat
Langhorne Slim - When the Sun's Gone Down
The Decemberists - the Crane Wife
The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
I'm really happy you put down Terrorhawk. I forgot how good that album is. Catamaran is such a jam.

[fishingthe_sky]

This one
http://store.doomtree.net/product/false-hopes-doomtree

I enjoy the self-titled a lot, and it was actually a toss up between the two. I just listen to the False Hopes one more.
I have a lot of the False Hopes records, but not that one. I'll have to check it out.

[tottivillarossi]

Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed
La Dispute - Somewhere...
As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Thrice - Air and Earth
Sleepmakeswaves - in today already walks tomorrow
This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain

[fishingthe_sky]

The Best: (Albums that I felt were really original and a breath of fresh air to the music scene)
Brand New-Deja Entendu
At the Drive-In-Relationship of Command
Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica
The Postal Service-Give Up
Death Cab for Cutie-Transatlanticism
Thursday-Full Collapse
Thrice-Vheissu
Explosions in the Sky-How Strange, Innocence
Taking Back Sunday-Tell All Your Friends
mewithoutYou-Brother, Sister

Throw in Kid A, (), Worship & Tribute, and either We Are The Romans or Jane Doe and I think this list is pretty dead on for this music scene.

[quicksilv001]

Throw in Kid A, (), Worship & Tribute, and either We Are The Romans or Jane Doe and I think this list is pretty dead on for this music scene.

For a second there I thought you were referring to the band of that name. I thought you were a complete idiot for a good 10 seconds and then I realized you were talking about Botch. FUCK YEA BOTCH!

[fishingthe_sky]

For a second there I thought you were referring to the band of that name. I thought you were a complete idiot for a good 10 seconds and then I realized you were talking about Botch. FUCK YEA BOTCH!
Haha no no, toooootally talking about Botch. I didn't even know there was a band named that, actually.

[quicksilv001]

Haha no no, toooootally talking about Botch. I didn't even know there was a band named that, actually.

Oh, they are terrible. That's all you need to know.

[beth danger]

Props on Nickel Creek, R y G, and The Black Keys. Bands I need to listen to more.

I'm really happy you put down Terrorhawk. I forgot how good that album is. Catamaran is such a jam.

I was psyched to see Idle Will Kill on your list. It was on mine for a good 10 minutes, but had to cut it to get down to 25. That album was the soundtrack to me being 18 years old and confused about my future.

[fishingthe_sky]

I was psyched to see Idle Will Kill on your list. It was on mine for a good 10 minutes, but had to cut it to get down to 25. That album was the soundtrack to me being 18 years old and confused about my future.
Amen. Such a good punk album.

[Troggy]

That's a random Nickel Creek pick. A wonderful album, but probably my least favorite.

Doesn't seem random to me, I have all of their records and This Side is just my favorite. I have been really into Why Should the Fire Die? lately, though.

Props on Nickel Creek, R y G, and The Black Keys. Bands I need to listen to more.

Certainly, all among my favorite bands. I'll admit I don't have a cool guy top 10 list, and in reality NFG self-titled should be on there.

[Ismael182]

what? did you just throw kid a on there because everyone else is? i dont get this list..

Not at all. I can see why putting something like Yellowcard over Kid A is pretty wrong, but the list is from most meaningful to least, and Lights & Sounds though lightyears away from being as good as Kid A is better to me is because of what I was going through at the time, and when I hear it I get back to that place and most the songs on there have special meaning. Kid A is incredible, but no real backstory for me.

[GhostFight]

Not at all. I can see why putting something like Yellowcard over Kid A is pretty wrong, but the list is from most meaningful to least, and Lights & Sounds though lightyears away from being as good as Kid A is better to me is because of what I was going through at the time, and when I hear it I get back to that place and most the songs on there have special meaning. Kid A is incredible, but no real backstory for me.
i see what you mean. i was being kind of sarcastic, obviously you didnt throw on an album youve never heard, i was just commenting on how constrasting it is to the rest of the albums on your list.

[ThePartialGlow]

Did this quickly but forgot to keep it saved, I'll see if I can remember. No order.

Nickel Creek - This Side
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Get Up Kids - Guilt Show
Iron and Wine - The Sheperd's Dog
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
David Crowder Band - A Collision
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Pretty hard to do and I'm leaving way too many records I love out :[

That's got to be the first time I've seen Nickel Creek mentioned on this site. I love them.

[murrich]

1. Woven Hand - Mosaic
2. Woven Hand - Blush Music
3. 16 Horsepower - Folkore
4. Woven Hand - Consider the Birds
5. 16 Horsepower - Secret South
6. Woven Hand - Woven Hand
7. Woven Hand - Ten Stones
8. Woven Hand - Puur
9. 16 Horsepower - Olden
10. 16 Horsepower - Hoarse

[DanielleI328]

Everything Brand New and Coheed & Cambria released. Amen.

[Kneeka]

Some my favorites:

The Kooks - Konk
Tegan & Sara - The Con
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Bayside - The Walking Wounded
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
She & Him - Volume One
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Decemberist - The Crane Wife
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

[fishingthe_sky]

Everything Brand New and Coheed & Cambria released. Amen.
Really? Everything Co&Ca has released? I strongly disagree with that.
Some my favorites:

The Kooks - Konk
Tegan & Sara - The Con
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Bayside - The Walking Wounded
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
She & Him - Volume One
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Decemberist - The Crane Wife
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
My friend and I were just talking about how, in hindsight, Hot Fuss is a pretty quality record.

[Spenny]

Really? Everything Co&Ca has released? I strongly disagree with that.

My friend and I were just talking about how, in hindsight, Hot Fuss is a pretty quality record.
In Keeping Secrets and Apollo 1 were both brilliant. The other two were pretty good overall.

And yeah, I sometimes feel like I'm one of the few people out there that thinks Hot Fuss is the only album the Killers have made that is worthwhile.

[fishingthe_sky]

In Keeping Secrets and Apollo 1 were both brilliant. The other two were pretty good overall.

And yeah, I sometimes feel like I'm one of the few people out there that thinks Hot Fuss is the only album the Killers have made that is worthwhile.
I disagree about Apollo. Only a few songs are really worthwhile, the rest is just fluff. Second Stage and In Keeping Secrets are the only Coheed albums worth owning. I thought the last one was pretty forgettable, though. I always felt that between In Keeping Secrets and Apollo 1 they got some weird inflated ego and decided to go... idk, uber-rock ala Rush and shit, and it just sounded sort of tacky to me.

I actually like all of their albums. Not nearly enough to put on a list like this, but enough to throw on every once in a while. They're more of a 'put on shuffle' band for me.

[Deadbolt23]

The first half of Hot Fuss is amazing, then it dips a little.

[Spenny]

I disagree about Apollo. Only a few songs are really worthwhile, the rest is just fluff. Second Stage and In Keeping Secrets are the only Coheed albums worth owning. I thought the last one was pretty forgettable, though. I always felt that between In Keeping Secrets and Apollo 1 they got some weird inflated ego and decided to go... idk, uber-rock ala Rush and shit, and it just sounded sort of tacky to me.

I actually like all of their albums. Not nearly enough to put on a list like this, but enough to throw on every once in a while. They're more of a 'put on shuffle' band for me.
I dunno. I'm not into the fact that SSTB is so much more raw and unrefined. I know some people would love that aspect about it, but it isn't for me. Though Everything Evil is far and away one of the band's best songs. Love it. I think Good Apollo 1 is their second best for me, simply because it feels like a journey from start to finish. There isn't one song on it that is bad, in my opinion. Good Apollo 2 was hit and miss for me. But it's indesputable that In Keeping Secrets is their best album. The Crowing is my favourite Coheed song, with The Light and the Glass and the title track coming in close behind.

[fishingthe_sky]

I dunno. I'm not into the fact that SSTB is so much more raw and unrefined. I know some people would love that aspect about it, but it isn't for me. Though Everything Evil is far and away one of the band's best songs. Love it. I think Good Apollo 1 is their second best for me, simply because it feels like a journey from start to finish. There isn't one song on it that is bad, in my opinion. Good Apollo 2 was hit and miss for me. But it's indesputable that In Keeping Secrets is their best album. The Crowing is my favourite Coheed song, with The Light and the Glass and the title track coming in close behind.
See, I got SSTB when it came out, so for me it's Coheed in their purest sense. It's not so much about the raw or unrefined nature, but about the fact that it's them before they got obsessed with the idea of being the most progressive rock band in the scene. There's no bullshit, which I felt the two Apollos had. IKS is their best album by far, which I feel is much more of a journey than Apollo 1. I was sort of put off on Apollo 1 from the start. Having "Always & Never" between the opening track and "Welcome Home" left a bad taste in my mouth from the second I heard it. Totally destroyed the instrumental-to-awesome song thing from SSTB and IKS, plus has no flow whatsoever. I also find the final quartet of Apollo 1 to be mostly a wank-fest, with the exception of the second half of III when they go into the "Blood Red Summer" allusive part. But I totally agree with you that "Everything Evil" is their best track.

[Spenny]

See, I got SSTB when it came out, so for me it's Coheed in their purest sense. It's not so much about the raw or unrefined nature, but about the fact that it's them before they got obsessed with the idea of being the most progressive rock band in the scene. There's no bullshit, which I felt the two Apollos had. IKS is their best album by far, which I feel is much more of a journey than Apollo 1. I was sort of put off on Apollo 1 from the start. Having "Always & Never" between the opening track and "Welcome Home" left a bad taste in my mouth from the second I heard it. Totally destroyed the instrumental-to-awesome song thing from SSTB and IKS, plus has no flow whatsoever. I also find the final quartet of Apollo 1 to be mostly a wank-fest, with the exception of the second half of III when they go into the "Blood Red Summer" allusive part. But I totally agree with you that "Everything Evil" is their best track.
Well it's their fourth best for me, behind The Crowing, The Light and the Glass, and In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3.

[theguy77]

Radiohead - Kid A
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Caribou - Andorra
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Beck - Sea Change
Radiohead - In Rainbows

[Chromefox]

1) Radiohead - Kid A
2) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3) The Decemberists - Picaresque
4) Radiohead - In Rainbows
5) Broken Social Scene - S/T
6) Arcade Fire - Funeral
7) The Antlers - Hospice
8) Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
9) Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
10) William Doyle - Born in the USB

[theguy77]

no fair. i cant put born in the USB because it makes me look biased.

but i honestly think its at least a runner-up, that album fucking rules

[Chromefox]

USB and Hospice are probably questionable, but without them I would not have a top 10, so um. Suck my dick.

[theguy77]

hospice is definitely questionable. ;-)

[Chromefox]

YOU'RE questionable. /reverse heckle

[theguy77]

i know one thing, im listening to my avatar right now and im not fucking questioning that decision. incredible album.

[Troggy]

That's got to be the first time I've seen Nickel Creek mentioned on this site. I love them.

Amazing band, they should get more love. I have seen a few other fans on here, but not enough to keep an Official thread alive for long. Doesn't help that they have been on hiatus for quite some time :[

Radiohead - Kid A
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Caribou - Andorra
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Beck - Sea Change
Radiohead - In Rainbows

The real question is, what are 2008 Ryan's albums of the decade?

And this may cause trouble but In Rainbows is better than Kid A.

[fishingthe_sky]

Well it's their fourth best for me, behind The Crowing, The Light and the Glass, and In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3.
Ah, well the disagreements continue haha

[Troggy]

Ah, well the disagreements continue haha

In Keeping Secrets is by far their best record, but there will always be disagreement on favorite tracks. After several years I still don't know what to make of Good Apollo. Some days I quite like it, and some days I can only stand a few songs.

[fishingthe_sky]

In Keeping Secrets is by far their best record, but there will always be disagreement on favorite tracks. After several years I still don't know what to make of Good Apollo. Some days I quite like it, and some days I can only stand a few songs.
I really can only stand "Welcome Home," "Once Upon Your Dead Body," and "The Lying Lies" (which is such horrendous grammar that it pisses me off to write it) most days. Everything else is sort of meh to me, especially when IKS or SSTB are just a short scroll down the Itunes library.

[Spenny]

I really can only stand "Welcome Home," "Once Upon Your Dead Body," and "The Lying Lies" (which is such horrendous grammar that it pisses me off to write it) most days. Everything else is sort of meh to me, especially when IKS or SSTB are just a short scroll down the Itunes library.
Welcome Home and Once Upon... are two of the weakest on the album for me honestly. >_>
I may only feel like that for Welcome Home because it's so overplayed, between me listening to the album, playing the original Rock Band, my friend having it on repeat pretty much when I'm at his house, etc.

[theguy77]

The real question is, what are 2008 Ryan's albums of the decade?

i'd have not likely answered this thread because i was aware of my ignorance. now, 2007 ryan on the other hand...

And this may cause trouble but In Rainbows is better than Kid A.

and gyarados is better than dragonite, right? :-p

[sean-reid]

Has anyone considered 'Funeral' by Arcade Fire? (http://www.alterthepress.com/search/label/Albums%20of%20the%20Decade)

[kwsqd]

Has anyone considered 'Funeral' by Arcade Fire? (http://www.alterthepress.com/search/label/Albums%20of%20the%20Decade)
I'm not sure which list is better/worse: this or pitchfork's.

[sean-reid]

I'm not sure which list is better/worse: this or pitchfork's.

To be fair, that Top 30 lists is my personal favourite albums, rather than an actual Top 30, if that makes sense.

[kwsqd]

To be fair, that Top 30 lists is my personal favourite albums, rather than an actual Top 30, if that makes sense.
ahhh okay

[Troggy]

i'd have not likely answered this thread because i was aware of my ignorance. now, 2007 ryan on the other hand...

hahahah okay what is 2007 ryan's list then?
and gyarados is better than dragonite, right? :-p

In current Gen terms, Gyara is better, so what are you saying here?

[xJesusFreakx]

Speaking of Pokemon, I haven't played in forever, but I'm so pumped for the Gold and Silver remakes.

[fishingthe_sky]

Welcome Home and Once Upon... are two of the weakest on the album for me honestly. >_>
I may only feel like that for Welcome Home because it's so overplayed, between me listening to the album, playing the original Rock Band, my friend having it on repeat pretty much when I'm at his house, etc.
I agree that "Welcome Home" has definitely been overplayed, but it's still a bitchin' rock song.

[fishingthe_sky]

Has anyone considered 'Funeral' by Arcade Fire? (http://www.alterthepress.com/search/label/Albums%20of%20the%20Decade)
Very happy to see Is Dead on there. One of those albums that just barely missed my list.

[Troggy]

Speaking of Pokemon, I haven't played in forever, but I'm so pumped for the Gold and Silver remakes.

Yeah they look pretty promising ;D

[Blakebear]

hahahah okay what is 2007 ryan's list then?


In current Gen terms, Gyara is better, so what are you saying here?
I mean, he's faster and can learn ice beam right?

No contest.

Coheed is probably my favorite band. I didn't love NWFT, but I still got a huge nostalgia kick out of it, and there were still a good 5 or 6 songs that I love.

It goes back and forth between SSTB and IKS for me. I used to not really care for GA either, but now I really dig it. Its just kind of different.

[Troggy]

I mean, he's faster and can learn ice beam right?

No contest.

Yes and yes, but that really has very little to do with it. Dragonite also gets Ice Beam, by the way.

[Blakebear]

Yes and yes, but that really has very little to do with it. Dragonite also gets Ice Beam, by the way.
yeahbut... dragonite has like a double weakness to it, no?

I guess I wasn't talking about as a piece of your party, but more like a one on one kind of thing.

[Troggy]

yeahbut... dragonite has like a double weakness to it, no?

I guess I wasn't talking about as a piece of your party, but more like a one on one kind of thing.

Oh, well in that case it depends on the set of each, but remember Gyara is 4x weak to Electric and Dragonite has Thunderbolt. Gyara has bad Special Attack so its Ice Beam would be pretty weak. It gets Ice Fang though, which would do a lot of damage to Dragonite. But like I said, who would win would only depend on the set of each. If both are Max Speed Jolly then Gyara would have the advantage, but if Dragonite was faster or EV'd Defensive enough to survive an Ice Fang then Dnite would probably come out on top. ;D

[Blakebear]

Oh, well in that case it depends on the set of each, but remember Gyara is 4x weak to Electric and Dragonite has Thunderbolt. Gyara has bad Special Attack so its Ice Beam would be pretty weak. It gets Ice Fang though, which would do a lot of damage to Dragonite. But like I said, who would win would only depend on the set of each. If both are Max Speed Jolly then Gyara would have the advantage, but if Dragonite was faster or EV'd Defensive enough to survive an Ice Fang then Dnite would probably come out on top. ;D
Well if you wanted me to be elaborate I would have went there ;-)

[Troggy]

Well if you wanted me to be elaborate I would have went there ;-)

haha, it's not really a head to head matchup you see very often. Neither is really a counter for the other using their normal sets. Interesting to theorymon about, I suppose.