Favourite Albums of the 00s

[decisionpending]

Have been reading pitchfork's lists for certain decades. Was thinking about this decade and what I would vote for:

10. Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face/Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
9. Mutemath - S/T
8. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
7. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets...
6. The Postal Service - Give Up
5. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In the Comatorium
4. Cursive - Happy Hollow
3. Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy/...Was A Real Boy
2. Brand New - Deja Entendu
1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...

Honourable mentions:

Iron and Wine - Our Endless...; Head Automatica - Decadance; Thrice - Alchemy 3+4; Brand New - Devil/God; City and Colour - Sometimes; CoCa - 2nd Stage; Dashboard Confessional - The Places...; Death Cab - Transatlanticism - DFA1979 - Woman/Machine; Gorillaz - S/T; John Butler Trio - 3; Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown; The Killers - Hot Fuss; Muse - Absolution; My Chemical Romance - 3 Cheers...; P!ATD - Fever; Radiohead - In Rainbows; Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell; Sparta - Wiretap Scars; Straylight Run - S/T; Gotye - Like Drawing Blood; TBS _ Tell All Your Friends; Thursday - War All The Time.

What am I missing? What's your top 10?

EDITED to add JEW.

[Regards]

This would be hard to do.

[3mpire]

You're missing a countless number of other amazing albums.

[EchoPark]

I wouldn't know where to begin.

Acceptance-Phantoms is one that sticks out as my favorite of the last 5 years. Rarely have I not played it every day since first getting it in 2005.

[3mpire]

I wouldn't know where to begin.

Acceptance-Phantoms is one that sticks out as my favorite of the last 5 years. Rarely have I not played it every day since first getting it in 2005.
Never even heard of the album. :shrug:

What type of music is it?

[decisionpending]

You're missing a countless number of other amazing albums.

I am sure that I am. This is why I wanted collaboration. Surely, there are a huge number of albums I either don't know about or have forgotten.

But also, this is a favourites list, not what I consider the 'best'. So, subjectivity is the name of the game. For me, these are albums that I can listen to without skipping a single track, which is why no Jimmy Eat World albums rate, for example. Wait, was Bleed American in 00s? If so, I would have to get that into top 10.

[EchoPark]

Never even heard of the album. :shrug:

What type of music is it?


flawless melodic rock with flawless production from Aaron Sprinkle.

Acceptance guitarist now plays in Anberlin(Christian McAlheny)

[decisionpending]

flawless melodic rock with flawless production from Aaron Sprinkle.

Acceptance guitarist now plays in Anberlin(Christian McAlheny)

This album was good, and Take Cover would definitely be one of my Top 10-20 songs from this decade.

[EchoPark]

decisionpending, I am surprised you didn't include your fellow Novocastrians Life.Love.Regret album Sick of Goodbyes

[EchoPark]

This album was good, and Take Cover would definitely be one of my Top 10-20 songs from this decade.



True That.

Last check it has over 600 plays on the ole iPod

[decisionpending]

decisionpending, I am surprised you didn't include your fellow Novocastrians Life.Love.Regret album Sick of Goodbyes

Never heard. Wanted to include Something With Numbers... am banking on the new being bsUIBFHAIBH awesome.

[EchoPark]

Yeah really keen to hear the new Something With Numbers,good call.

I think it was released last week,will have to drop into JB's tomorrow to pick it up.

[decisionpending]

Just found SWN online. Would love to support the guys but when you're livin' below the poverty line...

Meanwhile, this was really difficult to do. Only the top 4 fell into line for me. The rest kept changin' when I remembered a good album or somethin'. Gotye was originally #6!

[EchoPark]

After much consideration:

10.AFI-Sing The Sorrow
9.Brand New-Deja Entendu
8.Conditions-S/T
7.Alkaline Trio-Good Mourning
6.Off The Record-Remember When
5.Saves The Day-Stay What You Are
4.Jimmy Eat World-Bleed American
3.The Lawrence Arms-Apathy & Exhaustion
2.Eve 6-Horrorscope
1.Acceptance-Phantoms


I'm sure I will change my mind, but those are the albums I can really put down.

[decisionpending]

Haven't heard half the albums on that list, so I can only debate one: AFI?

Good call on Saves The Day. I remember hearing Nightingale for the first time and freaking out, putting on every mix tape for the next year.

[EchoPark]

Yeah I know a lot of people were not into the new direction AFI took with Sing the Sorrow, but I find that album to be killer.


Nightingale was my wedding song.

I have also just found SWN album.Different is all I can say.Good to hear Jake still sings with his Australian accent

[theguy77]

most of them. bad, i know. ive been getting into older music recently -- 60s pop, 70s folk, 90s punk...

[EchoPark]

I guess most musical purists/elitists would call my taste in music bland and predictable. That is what makes things interesting

[voncorn]

Botch kicked off the year 2000 with "We Are The Romans". Still amazing to this day.

Emery's "The Question" gave me a good kick in the ass upon first listen.

I'm very fond of both The Dear Hunter records that came out in '06-'07.

Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV is a straight up masterpiece. 36 of the most layered and beautiful instrumental tracks on two discs.

Not to mention all the Brand News, Taking Back Sundays, Thursdays, and Say Anythings that will be heavily listed in this thread.

[decisionpending]

Botch kicked off the year 2000 with "We Are The Romans". Still amazing to this day.

Emery's "The Question" gave me a good kick in the ass upon first listen.

I'm very fond of both The Dear Hunter records that came out in '06-'07.

Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV is a straight up masterpiece. 36 of the most layered and beautiful instrumental tracks on two discs.

Not to mention all the Brand News, Taking Back Sundays, Thursdays, and Say Anythings that will be heavily listed in this thread.

This is what I am looking for. I had never heard of Pavement before reading those pitchfork lists and now hopefully I have a mad find like that. Never heard of Botch and never listened to Emery so now I have a starting point.

I personally think that Ghosts was too much for me, and that Trent peaked with The Fragile.

[murrich]

10. Grizzly Bear - Yellow Housr
9. Xavier Rudd - White Moth
8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
7. Beach House - Devotion
6. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
4. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
3. Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show
2. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
1. Woven Hand - Blush Music

Top 10 was harder than I thought it would be, I feel like there is a ALOT of stuff I am forgetting. :-(

[decisionpending]

10. Grizzly Bear - Yellow Housr
9. Xavier Rudd - White Moth
8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
7. Beach House - Devotion
6. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
4. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
3. Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show
2. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
1. Woven Hand - Blush Music

Top 10 was harder than I thought it would be, I feel like there is a ALOT of stuff I am forgetting. :-(

That's the way! Nice work with ATD-I and Andrew Bird. A Nervous Tic Motion... is absolutely WOW. And I keep hearing about Boards of Canada and never listening. I have heard that if I like The Postal Service then BoC = win... yeah?

And Woven Hand, you say? Sounds like... what?

[mattmatumbo]

10. At The Drive In- Relationship of Command
9. Thursday- War All The Time
8. Hot Cross- Fair Trades and Farewells
7. Alison Ranger- Formula Imperative
6. Anathallo- Floating World
5. Hopesfall- The Satellite Years
4. Bear vs Shark- Right Now You're in The Best of Hands
3. Between the Buried and Me- Colors
2. Circle Takes the Square- As The Roots Undo
1. Funeral Diner- The Underdark

damn there has been alot of good stuff in the 00's, if still feels like 04 to me for some reason.

[decisionpending]

10. At The Drive In- Relationship of Command
9. Thursday- War All The Time
8. Hot Cross- Fair Trades and Farewells
7. Alison Ranger- Formula Imperative
6. Anathallo- Floating World
5. Hopesfall- The Satellite Years
4. Bear vs Shark- Right Now You're in The Best of Hands
3. Between the Buried and Me- Colors
2. Circle Takes the Square- As The Roots Undo
1. Funeral Diner- The Underdark

damn there has been alot of good stuff in the 00's, if still feels like 04 to me for some reason.

There has been a lot of good stuff. Can someone gimme a description on Bear vs. Shark? They are another band that I have heard a lot about but never listened too for some reason.

[kearn1tm]

As a caveat, the title of the thread is "favorite," so this is by no means a definitive "Best and Most Inclusive/Expansive/Diverse Albums of the Last Eight Years" list. It's not a comprehensive, (as) objectively (as possible) formulated look at the luminary works of the decade (though I find a few that I would include in such a list). This is merely the twenty five albums from the 2000-2008 I enjoyed the most.

Also keep in mind that, due to the fact we're still entrenched in this decade, many of my decisions are skewed toward more recent works, because I can't properly analyze the entire decade in the context of what happened before, after and as a whole.

---EDIT: Slight Revision ---

[decisionpending]

As a caveat, the title of the thread is "favorite," so this is by no means a definitive "Best and Most Inclusive/Expansive/Diverse Albums of the Last Eight Years" list. It's not a comprehensive, (as) objectively (as possible) formulated look at the luminary works of the decade (though I find a few that I would include in such a list). This is merely the twenty five albums from the 2000-2008 I enjoyed the most.

Also keep in mind that, due to the fact we're still entrenched in this decade, many of my decisions are skewed toward more recent works, because I can't properly analyze the entire decade in the context of what happened before, after and as a whole.




Bob Dylan -- Modern Times
Cursive -- The Ugly Organ
the Arcade Fire -- Funeral
Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead -- Hail to the Thief
At the Drive-In -- Relationship of Command
Sean Lennon -- Friendly Fire
Battles -- Mirrored

Ryan Adams -- Gold
Of Montreal -- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Iron & Wine -- The Shepherd's Dog
Destroyer -- Destroyer's Rubies
The White Stripes -- Get Behind Me Satan
The Apples in Stereo -- New Magnetic Wonder
Q and not U -- Power
Bruce Springsteen -- Magic
Joana Newsom -- Ys
Thursday -- Full Collapse
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- Good Health
Les Savy Fav -- Let's Stay Friends
Fall Out Boy -- Take This to Your Grave
Vijay Iyer -- Blood Sutra
Sunset Rubdown -- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Saetia -- A Retrospective
Phosphorescent -- Pride

I was hoping music forum guys like you would post when I made this thread. And now I have to ask the following Q:

Why did you choose Full Collapse over War All The Time? And same for White Stripes (over Icky), Ryan Adams (Love is Hell), Radiohead (Rainbows or even Kid), and Cursive? Mainly, 'cause I consider to love other albums by the same band?

[Getup and Dance]

No order.

1. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
2. Method Man - 4:21... The Day After
3. Converge - Jane Doe
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
5. Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
6. Redman - Malpractice
7. Mo Thugs - Mo Thugs III
8. Thursday - Full Collapse
9. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
10. Masta Killa - No Said Date

[kearn1tm]

I was hoping music forum guys like you would post when I made this thread. And now I have to ask the following Q:

Why did you choose Full Collapse over War All The Time? And same for White Stripes (over Icky), Ryan Adams (Love is Hell), Radiohead (Rainbows or even Kid), and Cursive? Mainly, 'cause I consider to love other albums by the same band?

Full Collapse is on this list purely out of nostalgia.

Get Behind Me Satan was Jack indulging many of his various genre loves without become too self-indulgent in his experimenting with these sounds and straying away from the "garage rock" template (which Icky Thump did, in my humble opinion) that made me fall in love with this band initially.

Hail to the Thief is by no means better than Kid A, which is arguably their best work. However, songwriting-wise (lyrically), it's one of their more disciplined and best of the gluttony of albums/artists to comment on the sociopolitical climate of the US post-9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Cursive is a band that lives and dies by Tim Kasher's lyrics, and while Domestica was a heartbreaking, pathos-appealing (crushing) concept-album that (not-so) loosely told the tale of his divorce, The Ugly Organ, lyrically, was so inspired in its range - meta commentary on the derivative nature of songwriting and the niche he's fallen in, the creative process of lyric writing, the riff between his daughter and himself as a result of his divorce, the sexual nomadic existence and neediness of such actions - coupled with Gretta's cello, which meshes wonderfully with the band's compositions.

[SamEyes]

10. Give Up - The Postal Service.
9. Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance.
8. Crisis - Alexisonfire.
7. If These Streets Could Talk - Just Surrender.
6. Sometimes - City & Colour.
5. Cities - Anberlin.
4. Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation - Funeral for a Friend.
3. Plans - Death Cab for Cutie.
2. ...Is A Real Boy - Say Anything.
1. The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me - Brand New.

The order of that is very debatable, but it's close. I guess that's not right because I've not really counted the stuff I was really into in the early, early noughties, but that's the stuff I've enjoyed the most and has influenced me the most.

[mattandlater]

too hard man...

[Machu505]

1. Kid A

[Troggy]

As a caveat, the title of the thread is "favorite," so this is by no means a definitive "Best and Most Inclusive/Expansive/Diverse Albums of the Last Eight Years" list. It's not a comprehensive, (as) objectively (as possible) formulated look at the luminary works of the decade (though I find a few that I would include in such a list). This is merely the twenty five albums from the 2000-2008 I enjoyed the most.

Also keep in mind that, due to the fact we're still entrenched in this decade, many of my decisions are skewed toward more recent works, because I can't properly analyze the entire decade in the context of what happened before, after and as a whole.


Bob Dylan -- Modern Times
Cursive -- The Ugly Organ
the Arcade Fire -- Funeral
Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead -- Hail to the Thief
At the Drive-In -- Relationship of Command
Sean Lennon -- Friendly Fire
Battles -- Mirrored

Ryan Adams -- Gold
Of Montreal -- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Iron & Wine -- The Shepherd's Dog
Destroyer -- Destroyer's Rubies
The White Stripes -- Get Behind Me Satan
The Apples in Stereo -- New Magnetic Wonder
Devendra Banhart -- Cripple Crow

Bruce Springsteen -- Magic
Joana Newsom -- Ys
Thursday -- Full Collapse
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- Good Health
Les Savy Fav -- Let's Stay Friends
Fall Out Boy -- Take This to Your Grave
Vijay Iyer -- Blood Sutra
Sunset Rubdown -- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Saetia -- A Retrospective
Phosphorescent -- Pride

This is a nice variety, I like it. :appl:

Except I like The New Romance better than Good Health.

[ForeverDelayed]

Ridiculously hard to do. But a few really stand out to me, in that I can listen to them over and over and they get better each time...

Radiohead - Kid A
Cool Hand Luke - I Fought Against Myself and Tore Myself To Pieces
Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear
The Gloria Record - Start Here
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Caedmon's Call - Share the Well
Straylight Run - The Needles The Space

[Until The Bombs]

Was their ever going to be a thread to follow up the 90's for this same purpose?

[Bobby Tucker]

I'll put down ten, but aside from #1 the order is really blurry for me:

10.Person L- Initial
9. Acceptance- Phantoms
8. Something Corporate- Leaving Through The Window
7. Augustana- All the Stars and Boulevards
6. Something Corporate- North
5. The Starting Line- Say It Like You Mean It
4. The Format- Interventions and Lullabies
3. Jack's Mannequin- Everything In Transit
2. The Starting Line- Direction
1. The Starting Line- Based On a True Story

With a ton of honoroable mentions: Valencia- This Could Be a Possibilty; The Used- ILAD; The Starting Line- Make Youself At Home; Saves The Day- Stay What You Are and Under the Boards; Mae- The Everglow and Destination Beautiful; The Juliana Theory- Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat; The Reign of Kindo EP; Houston Calls- A Collection of Short Stories; Cartel- Chroma; Dashboard Confessional- TPYHCTFTM and AMAMABAS; Hidden in Plain View- Resolution; Taking Back Sunday- Tell All Your Friends

God that's fucking long...

[versus_god]

Dillinger Four - Versus God
The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told
Hot Water Music - Caution
Dead To Me - Cuban Ballerina
The Ergs! - Dork Rock Cork Rod
Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Bad Astronaut - 12 Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Tyranny Of Distance
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Bomb The Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
The Slackers - Wasted Days
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World
Latterman - No Matter Where We Go..!

boo-urns

[allhourcymbals]

This would probably take me a while to narrow it down to 20. Maybe tomorrow. For now:

1.
2. Tim Finn - Say It Is So
3. Nada Surf - Let Go

[thesafeword]

Brand New- Deja Entendu and Your Favorite Weapon
Throw Me the Statue- Moonbeams
Saves the Day- Stay What You Are
Circle Takes the Square- As the Roots Undo
Bear Vs. Shark- Terrorhawk
Taking Back Sunday- Tell All Your Friends
At the Drive-In- Relationship of Command
Saetia- A Retrospective

No particular order and a good amount of stuff missing.

[IWasaCamera]

And I keep hearing about Boards of Canada and never listening. I have heard that if I like The Postal Service then BoC = win... yeah?
Boards Of Canada slaughters The Postal Service by an unimaginably large margin.


Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - Kid A
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Burial - Untrue
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
The National - Boxer
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Master And Everyone
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Mercury Program - A Data Learn The Language
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs

[Stephen Chamberlain]

1. Battles - Mirrored
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Botch - We Are the Romans
4. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
6. The Mercury Program - A Data Learn the Language
7. Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
8. The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
9. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
10. Envy - All of the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
11. Isis - Oceanic / Panopticon
12. Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
13. Don Caballero - American Don
14. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
15. Radiohead - Amnesiac
16. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
17. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
18. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
19. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
20. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele / Fishscale
21. Radiohead - In Rainbows
22. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
23. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
24. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
25. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

[Stephen Chamberlain]

Boards Of Canada slaughters The Postal Service by an unimaginably large margin.

The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
The Mercury Program - A Data Learn The Language


Yes about the BoC bit. Also, along with a lot of other nice picks, especially refreshing to see those two.

[chipdip18]

I'll make this tomorrow. Lots of good artists mentioned so far.

[decisionpending]

Boards Of Canada slaughters The Postal Service by an unimaginably large margin.


Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - Kid A
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Burial - Untrue
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
The National - Boxer
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Master And Everyone
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Mercury Program - A Data Learn The Language
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs

Haha, awesome, will check out. I enjoy your list. Haven't had Bon Iver long enough to make that much of an impression though. Oh, and Wilco - Jesus Etc., I am Trying to break your Heart are absolutely amazing.

[nicgiovanni]

Fugazi - The Argument
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Strokes - Is This It
The Strokes - Room On Fire
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - EP
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be
Converge - You Fail Me
Converge - Jane Doe
Converge - No Heroes
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra La La Band - This Is Our Punk Rock
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra La La Band - Horses In The Sky
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade
The Faint - Danse Macabre
Fear Before The March Of Flames - Art Damage
Fear Before The March Of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
Fear Before The March Of Flames - Odd How People Shake
Every Time I Die - Last Night In Town
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
The Gossip - Movement
The Gossip - Arkansas Heat
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
Erase Errata - At Crystal Palace
Erase Errata - Other Animals
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
American Nightmare/GUTG - Background Music
Give Up The Ghost/AN - We're Down Til We're Underground
Atom And His Package - Redefining Music
Bratmobile - Girls Get Busy
Bratmobile - Ladies, Women and Girls
Deerhoof - Apple O'
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Deerhoof - The Runner's Four
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbows
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Tv On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Xiu Xiu - A Promise
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Xiu Xiu - La Foret
Elliott Smith - From A Basement
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls Of America
Cocorosie - Noah's Ark
Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Ryan Adams - Gold
Ryan Adams - 29
Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Daniel Striped Tiger - Condition
Thursday - Full Collapse
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided


that's all i got right now...

[Ouch]

1. Kid A

amen.

[Kid B]

Kid A, In Rainbows
Vheissu
Discography - Iron & Wine
Funeral
Sea Change

[s.t.e.v.e.n.]

Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Arcade Fire - Funeral, Neon Bible
Radiohead - Kid A, In Rainbows
Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety, Define the Great Line (too soon to list Lost in the Sound)
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Jay-Z - The Black Album
The National - Boxer
mewithoutYou- Brother, Sister
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Format - Interventions and Lullabies
The Snake, The Cross, The Crown - Cotton Teeth

Off the top of my head

[loveisdead]

Bleed American, Deja Entendu, Tell All Your Friends, North, Take This To Your Grave, The Marshal Mathers LP, Say It Like You Mean It, Enema Of The State, Stick and Stones, Futures.

That's without putting much thought into it, but those were the first 10 that came to mind. I'll fully admit I need to branch out more.

[fadedmemories]

This will be difficult for me

[AtFullSpeed]

Bleed American- JEW

Everything In Transit- Jack's Mannequin

[captainamazing4]

oh, this will be quite difficult...

[IWasaCamera]

Yes about the BoC bit. Also, along with a lot of other nice picks, especially refreshing to see those two.
Good list on your end as well.

[A Love American]

After much consideration:

10.AFI-Sing The Sorrow
9.Brand New-Deja Entendu
8.Conditions-S/T
7.Alkaline Trio-Good Mourning
6.Off The Record-Remember When
5.Saves The Day-Stay What You Are
4.Jimmy Eat World-Bleed American
3.The Lawrence Arms-Apathy & Exhaustion
2.Eve 6-Horrorscope
1.Acceptance-Phantoms


I'm sure I will change my mind, but those are the albums I can really put down.
Really?

[Nourez]

In no particular order

Relationship of Command - At the Drive-in (may have been late 1999, but it's close enough)
Blink 182 - Blink-182
American Idiot - Green Day
Futures - Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World
Chase This Light - Jimmy Eat World (Can these guys make a CD that ISN'T good?)
Hot Fuss - The Killers
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
All We Know is Falling - Paramore
Riot! - Paramore
Chuck - Sum 41
One X - Three Days Grace
Contraband - Velvet Revolver
Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard

Actually, there was an order there, alphabetical by band. Actually that list is a pretty good representation of my musical taste. If you don't like it, don't bother trolling, I really don't give a shit.

[A Love American]

Radiohead - Kid A
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (I think this came out in 00? Can't remember right now.)
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The National - Boxer
Battles - Mirrored
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Till We're Underground
Explosions In The Sky - Earth Is Not A Cold, Dead Place
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Brian Wilson - Smile

[kearn1tm]

Final revision in the Top 50 post (and that's it, I promise).

[A Love American]

---Slight Revisions--- 10-12-08
Bob Dylan -- Love and Theft

Cursive -- The Ugly Organ
the Arcade Fire -- Funeral
Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Death From Above 1979 -- You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Radiohead -- Hail to the Thief

At the Drive-In -- Relationship of Command
Sean Lennon -- Friendly Fire
Battles -- Mirrored

Ryan Adams -- Gold
The Phoenix Foundation -- Horsepower

Iron & Wine -- The Shepherd's Dog
Destroyer -- Destroyer's Rubies
The White Stripes -- Get Behind Me Satan
Spoon -- Gimmie Fiction

Devendra Banhart -- Cripple Crow

Bruce Springsteen -- Magic
Joana Newsom -- Ys
Thursday -- Full Collapse
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- Good Health
Les Savy Fav -- Let's Stay Friends
Fall Out Boy -- Take This to Your Grave
Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa -- Raw Materials

Sunset Rubdown -- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Saetia -- A Retrospective
Phosphorescent -- Pride
Radiohead -- Kid A
of Montreal -- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Jurassic 5 -- Quality Control
Liars -- Drum's Not DeadMy top 30.
Love and Theft is really that good? I've heard good things but never listened. Does it even pose a candle to Dylan's older stuff? Also, good to see the White Stripes getting some recognition for once.

[kearn1tm]

Love and Theft is really that good? I've heard good things but never listened. Does it even pose a candle to Dylan's older stuff? Also, good to see the White Stripes getting some recognition for once.

Love and Theft is the best thing Dylan's done since Blood on the Tracks. Modern Times is also excellent. Neither touch Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61, but Love and Theft is a career resurgence for the greatest singer-songwriter in modern music.

[Chromefox]

Mine are all albums from the same three/four artists. Boring.

My top 30. I find it interesting that you'd place Hail to the Thief so far above Kid A. Your thoughts?

[SwiftSilentDead]

I need some time to make my list.

[kearn1tm]

I find it interesting that you'd place Hail to the Thief so far above Kid A. Your thoughts?

Kid A is the better album, but as per the caveat that I placed in my first post in this thread, this is merely my list of favorites (Fall Out Boy, Thursday and, to a lesser extent, DFA 1979 and Sean Lennon don't have a place on a 'best of' list).

Hail is also much better lyrically. It's one of the few albums that commented on the sociopolitical climate of post-9/11 America well, and while not subtle, they were tremendous lyrics and truly some of Yorke's best songwriting.

Kid A, again as the subversive piece of production it was is the better album as a whole, but from a purely songwriting standpoint, Hail is superior and that's what I gravitated to in relation to which I prefer.

[Anderson]

Boy Sets Fire - After The Eulogy would certainly be my number one. After that I'd have to give it some serious thought.

[El_Jeffe]

ooo boy, i'll have a crack. my list will probably be chopped & changed a number of times as i realize more & more favourites i've forgotten. always the case, but so far:

1. tim finn - feeding the gods
2. finn brothers - everyone is here
3. the slackers - wasted days
4. tinariwen - aman iman: water is life
5. the skatalites - on the right track
6. groundation - each one teach one
7. van morrison - magic time
8. nick cave & the bad seeds - abattoir blues/the lyre of orpheus
9. beres hammond - music is life
10. crowded house - time on earth
11. the black seeds - on the sun
12. xavier rudd - food in the belly
13. the derek trucks band - songlines
14. trinity roots - home, land & sea
15. john brown's body - spirits all around us
16. joe strummer & the mescaleros - streetcore
17. ted leo & the pharmacists - the tyranny of distance
18. powderfinger - odyssey number five
19. béla fleck & the flecktones - outbound
20. hot water music - caution
21. the roots - game theory
22. bic runga - beautiful collision
23. john jorgenson quintet - ultraspontane
24. michael jackson - invincible
25. seun kuti & egypt 80 - many things
26. lucky dube - soul taker
27. b.b. king & eric clapton - riding with the king
28. tom waits - bloody money
29. rx bandits - the resignation
30. norah jones - come away with me

[Stephen Chamberlain]

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Battles - Mirrored
4. Brian Wilson - Smile
5. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
6. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
7. Autechre - Confield
8. Avalanches - Since I Left You
9. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
10. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
11. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
12. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
13. Radiohead - Amnesiac
14. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
15. The National - Boxer
16. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
17. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
18. Burial - Untrue
19. Steve Earle - Jerusalem
20. Radiohead - In Rainbows

I can't believe I left The Avalanches off my list! So good!

Useless trivia: only act to ever get Madonna's permission for a sample.

Only act ever

[ugman_2000]

ooo boy, i'll have a crack. my list will probably be chopped & changed a number of times as i realize more & more favourites i've forgotten. always the case, but so far:

1. tim finn - feeding the gods
2. finn brothers - everyone is here
3. the slackers - wasted days
4. tinariwen - aman iman: water is life
5. the skatalites - on the right track
6. groundation - each one teach one
7. van morrison - magic time
8. nick cave & the bad seeds - abattoir blues/the lyre of orpheus
9. beres hammond - music is life
10. crowded house - time on earth
11. the black seeds - on the sun
12. xavier rudd - food in the belly
13. the derek trucks band - songlines
14. trinity roots - home, land & sea
15. john brown's body - spirits all around us
16. joe strummer & the mescaleros - streetcore
17. ted leo & the pharmacists - the tyranny of distance
18. powderfinger - odyssey number five
19. béla fleck & the flecktones - outbound
20. hot water music - caution
21. the roots - game theory
22. bic runga - beautiful collision
23. john jorgenson quintet - ultraspontane
24. michael jackson - invincible
25. seun kuti & egypt 80 - many things
26. lucky dube - soul taker
27. b.b. king & eric clapton - riding with the king
28. tom waits - bloody money
29. rx bandits - the resignation
30. norah jones - come away with me


All these albums are great in my mind, I haven't heard too many of the others though

I've heard Phrenology by the roots which I love but I've yet to check out anything else by this lot

[Chris Fallon]

Ask me in about five years.

[kearn1tm]

Once I got home from the library last night, spent time listening to some albums and making a Top 50 of the decade so far, as I'm quite ambitious. I was actually able to search through my iTunes and collection and give things a much better ranking. Here goes:


Bob Dylan -- Love and Theft

Cursive -- The Ugly Organ
the Arcade Fire -- Funeral
Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Death From Above 1979 -- You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Radiohead -- Hail to the Thief

At the Drive-In -- Relationship of Command
Sean Lennon -- Friendly Fire
Battles -- Mirrored

Ryan Adams -- Gold
The Phoenix Foundation -- Horsepower
Jens Lekman -- Night Falls Over Kortedala
Iron & Wine -- The Shepherd's Dog
Destroyer -- Destroyer's Rubies
Booka Shade -- Movements
The White Stripes -- Get Behind Me Satan
Spoon -- Gimmie Fiction

Devendra Banhart -- Cripple Crow

Bruce Springsteen -- Magic
Joana Newsom -- Ys
The Flaming Lips -- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Thursday -- Full Collapse
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- Good Health
Les Savy Fav -- Let's Stay Friends
Fall Out Boy -- Take This to Your Grave
Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa -- Raw Materials

Sunset Rubdown -- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Saetia -- A Retrospective
Phosphorescent -- Pride
Yo La Tengo -- I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Radiohead -- Kid A
The Good Life -- Album of the Year
Clinic -- Internal Wrangler
of Montreal -- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Jurassic 5 -- Quality Control
Liars -- Drum's Not Dead
Cursive -- Domestica
Bob Dylan -- Modern Times
Kaki King -- Legs to Make Us Longer
J Dilla -- The Shining
Rilo Kiley -- The Execution of All Things
Chromatics -- Night Drive
Devendra Banhart -- Nino Rojo
The Decemberists -- Her Majesty the Decemberists
Sonic Youth -- Sonic Nurse
Boards of Canada -- Geogaddi
The Elected -- Sun, Sun, Sun
Bonnie "Prince" Billy -- The Letting Go
Blonde Redhead -- 23
The Streets -- Original Pirate Music

[Rodeo]

NO order... just in the order I thought of them...

Hot Water Music - Flight and a Crash
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Thursday - Full Collapse
Frank Turner - Love Ire and Song
Circle Takes the Square - ...As the Roots Undo
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
Polar Bear Club - The Redder the Better EP
Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive...

[El_Jeffe]

kearn, nice list, lots of interesting & deserving picks. also very nice to see the phoenix foundation on there. i hoped to get people into them last year when happy ending was released. not many bothered, which was a shame as they could garner a decent following here

All these albums are great in my mind, I haven't heard too many of the others though

I've heard Phrenology by the roots which I love but I've yet to check out anything else by this lot

sweet as. based on what you highlighted, i could really see you getting into that nick cave & the bad seeds album mate. are you familiar with any of their material?

[brokenmixtape]

Bad Religion- The Process of Belief

[DilesMavis]

Everything on this page so far is great.

[doyouhas?]

this was a lot harder to do than i thought it would be. im pretty happy with my list though.


10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
8. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
7. The Early November - The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path
6. Sufjan Stevens - Come On, Feel The Illinoise
5. Sigur Ros - Takk...
4. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Ryan Adams - Gold
1. Radiohead - Kid A