The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

Truer words were probably never spoken.

25 | Neon Golden by The Notwist | 2003 | 89

i really did like this album. see, my wanky indie side comes out in my love for stuff like this and the Doves. my euro-wank side.

28 | Miss E... So Addictive by Missy Elliott | 2001 | 89

loved this too. but why was it so of its time? why would i never play it in a million years. played out i guess. though it's not like i played it a million times. just hit the spot when the spot needed hitting. like sean paul!

If Mastodon and High On Fire wanted to "fun" they'd sound more like the Korpiklaani, Alestorm, Finntroll, Skyclad, and Sturmgeist albums in my house. (I.e. -- they'd drink more beer and dance more jigs.) As is, they're about as fun as my vacuum cleaner (which is really not that great a vacuum cleaner. Though it's competent, I guess. And loud.)

The Notwist might be one of my favorite bands of the late '90s, too, for whatever it's worth. (But they were more metal then.)

this being alright with modern country music is just not alright with me. what crappy music. no wonder some of you can come up with hundreds of albums, the quality level is not very high.

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wait did we stablish whether or not it had to be a new artist? like originating in the 00's? that would be ridiculous right?

40 | Return To Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio | 2006 | 88

i don't know if it's my fave so far , but from the metacritic list, it is

rateyourmusic top 50:

1 Radiohead
Kid A (2000)
2 Opeth
Blackwater Park (2001)
3 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
4 Converge
Jane Doe (2001)
5 Maudlin of the Well
Leaving Your Body Map (2001)
6 Tool
Lateralus (2001)
7 Arcade Fire
Funeral (2004)
8 Lenny Valentino
Uwaga! Jedzie Tramwaj (2001)
9 Agalloch
The Mantle (2002)
10 Mitch Hedberg
Mitch All Together (2003)
11 Ulver
Perdition City (2000)
12 Pearl Jam
North America 2003 (2003)
13 Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
14 Tom Waits
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)
15 Disillusion
Back to Times of Splendor (2004)
16 Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye (2003)
17 Pain of Salvation
The Perfect Element I (2000)
18 Maudlin of the Well
Bath (2001)
19 Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
20 Porcupine Tree
In Absentia (2002)
21 Pain of Salvation
Remedy Lane (2002)
22 Devin Townsend
Terria (2001)
23 Yann Tiersen
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie) (2001)
24 Orphaned Land
Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (2004)
25 Arcturus
The Sham Mirrors (2002)
26 Clint Mansell
The Fountain (2006)
27 Neurosis
A Sun That Never Sets (2001)
28 Drudkh
Autumn Aurora (2004)
29 Wilco
Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (2005)
30 Sufjan Stevens
Illinois (2005)
31 Moonsorrow
Verisäkeet (2005)
32 Electric Masada
At the Mountains of Madness (2005)
33 Circle Takes the Square
As the Roots Undo (2004)
34 Electric Wizard
Dopethrone (2000)
35 Lykathea Aflame
Elvenefris (2000)
36 Nine Inch Nails
Still (2002)
37 Interpol
Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
38 Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
39 Masada
Live in Sevilla 2000 (2000)
40 Bohren & der Club of Gore
Black Earth (2002)
41 Paysage d'Hiver
Paysage d'Hiver (2000)
42 Dredg
El Cielo (2002)
43 Gov't Mule
The Deepest End: Live in Concert (2003)
44 Isis
Panopticon (2004)
45 Coil
The Ape of Naples (2005)
46 Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
47 Nevermore
Dead Heart in a Dead World (2000)
48 Various Artists - Tribute Albums - George Harrison
Concert for George (2003)
49 Madvillain
Madvillainy (2004)
50 The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)

Playing catchup: Neon Golden retroactively added to my list. Plus Real New Fall LP. Plus Oh Sees Sucks Blood and Baroness EPs. Plus probly other stuff later on.

neon golden was quite good huh

I would think artists originating in the 00's would be ideal candidates.

for me, pretty stereotypical: Banhart, Animal Collective, Fiery Furnaces, Mum, Sleep, Fannypack, Nicole Mitchell, lots of others.

as far as artists who were active previously and continue to make great records, shit, there are probably hundreds.

Example of "other stuff, later on": Fucked Up - Hidden World

Fuck, I'm sorry to just keep piling it on, bad form I know, but this is the first time I've thought about this, and stuff keeps occurring to me.

Plastic Soul with the White Apes - Beehive & the Barracudas
Easily one of my top ten for the decade. Love every song.

can i tell you how surprised i am that pipecock's only rap is dilla? exactly 0% surprised

Not rank-ordered, except number one is really number one, and number two is probably number two, and the next four are probably really up there somewhere, for me.

Shiina Ringo: Karuki Zamen no Hana
Tokyo Jihen: Adult
Kate Bush: Aerial
Miguel Anga Diaz: Echu Mingua
Michael Stuart: Back to the Barrio
Ned Rothenberg: Inner Diaspora
Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: America
Lansing-Dreiden: Incomplete Triangle
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
Shiina Ringo: Shouso Strip
Boris: Feedbacker
Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
John Fahey: Red Cross
Dave Fox: Dedication Suite
Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Kayhan Kalhor: Night Silence Desert
Rahim AlHaj: When the Soul is Settled - Music of Iraq
Sunny Jain Collective: Avaaz
Si Soy Llanero: Joropo Music from the Orinoco Plains of Colombia
Ali Aldik: Aloush

That’s a stupid-looking list. Misses out completely on my reggaeton listening, because I can't really put any albums on this list, although there are some I haven't heard all the way through, or that I need to go back to, that I think would be candidates (Mas Flow, Pa'l Mundo, etc.). There are other albums I think were great that I'm not listing because however great I think they are, I hardly ever listen to them.

At least this exercise reminded me how good that Al Aldik album is.

(Ali)

I like most, if not all, of those bands that you listed, Chuck! Your summary dismissal just rankled me. I didn't say anything about your choices, did I? Even though I don't particularly like a lot of the things on your list. I was just listing bands that I thought had a run of good albums.

That should be: Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana. (I planned on double-checking the title but forgot.)

"24 Orphaned Land
Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (2004)"

on zeno's list , this stuck out. definitely one of my faves of the decade. and an album that i haven't stopped playing since 2004.

some more
11. unwound - leaves turn inside you (thx for reminder, Z.S)
12. wu-tang clan - the W
13. earth - hex: or printing in the infernal method
14. mare - s/t
15. mastodon - blood mountain
16. the tuss - rushup edge
17. clinic - internal wrangler
18. fennesz - endless summer
19. eminem - the eminem show
20. the streets - a grand don't come for free

hey if you have any lists that don't suck feel free to post them here: 21st Century House and Techno POX

ps - no drum, no machine, no service

that's not fair, i like fandango's picks and scott seward's too (the ones i know, anyway). and i like that somebody took the time to write a list for louis.

Where's Life Without Buildings' Any Other City amongst all this chatter?

No no, I cut and pasted that louis list.

from where? is he following ilx that closely?

My Picks (off the top of my head, obv.)
1. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
2. Aaliyah - s/t
3. Daft Punk - Discovery
4. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Two People...Probably Talking About Me EP
5. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
6. Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
7. Britney Spears - Blackout
8. M.I.A. - Kala
9. Clipse - Lord Willin'
10. Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko (Score)
11. RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
12. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
13. The I Love You But I'm Not In Love With Yous - Long Live Jimmy Tango
14. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
15. Burial - Untrue
16. Arcade Fire - Funeral
17. Beyonce - B'Day
18. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
19. Jon Sheffield - It's Been So Long Since I've Seen the Ocean
20. Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now

xpost he posted an "item" on facebook.

ok so:

It would help if I pressed Ctrl-V wouldn't it?

2000.
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Cave In - Jupiter
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Luomo - Vocalcity
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
OutKast - Stankonia
Paradox - The Musician As Outsider
Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

2001.
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Bardo Pond - Dilate
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies Of The Future
Converge - Jane Doe
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Jonny L - Magnetic
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Mogwai - My Father My King
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening And Closing
stars of the lid - the tired sounds of
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Strokes - Is This It
Tool - Lateralus
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

2002.
Agalloch - The Mantle
Akufen - My Way
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Secret Rhythms
Digital - Dubzilla (add 'Ras 78' as a bonus track)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Isis - Oceanic
Mastodon - Remission
Michael Mayer - Immer
Nine Inch Nails - Still
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Sigur Ros - ( )
The Rum Diary - Noise Prints
The Mothman Prophecies OST

2003.
Beehive and the Barracudas - In Dark Love (!!!)
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Calibre - Musique Concrete
Cat_Power - You Are Free
Eluvium - Lambent Material
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Madlib - Shades of Blue
Matmos - The Civil War
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven
Rhythm and Sound - With The Artists
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Sub Oslo - The Rites of Dub
Supersilent - 6
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Tie These Hands & Mr. 1986 - Collective Efforts
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

2004.
Air - Talkie Walkie
Andrew Weatherall - Fabric 19
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Autolux - Future Perfect
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Konono No 1 - Congotronics
Destroyer - Your Blues
ISIS - Panopticon
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Junior Boys - Last Exit (Adding Last Exit [Fennesz mix])
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Meshuggah - I
MIA & Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1
Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow
Seu Jorge - Cru
Wilco - A Ghost is Born

2005.
Akron-Family - Akron-Family
Daft Punk- Human After All
Deaf Centre - Pale Ravine
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Ewan Pearson - Sci.fi.Hi.fi. Vol 1
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Isolee - We Are Monster
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Kate Bush - Aerial
LCD Soundsystem - Self Titled
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Lindstrom - It's a Feedelity Affair
Low - The Great Destroyer
My Morning Jacket - Z
Open Hand - You and Me
Ricardo Villalobos - Achso EP
Soulwax - Nite Versions
Tera Melos - Self Titled
The National - Alligator

2006.
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Ali Farka Touré - Savane
Booka Shade - Movements
Burial - Burial
Cat Power - The Greatest
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Destroyer - Rubies
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
His Name Is Alive - Detrola
Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
M.A.N.D.Y. - At the Controls Mix
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah Remixes
Skream - Skream!
Tarrus Riley - Parables
The Knife - Silent Shout
Various Production - The World Is Gone
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

2007.
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Apparat - Walls
Burial - Ghost Hardware EP (add 'Archangel' to this)
Doc Scott - End of the Beginning EP
Efdemin - Efdemin
Faze Action - In The Trees (C2 Remix)
Junior Boys - Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
M.I.A. - Kala
Map of Africa - Self Titled
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism mix
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Studio - West Coast
Supermayer - Save The World
Tinariwen - Aman Iman Leau Cest La Vie
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions

^^thanks that's really edifying

Louis Jagger (Cambridge) wrote
at 9:28pm yesterday
ok ILM and that top records of the 00's thread in particular is starting to resemble not so much the vanity of small differences as the complete fucking moronity of small-minded fucking imbeciles

Not quite the same, but a few months ago when Stylus closed I did this on my blog;

http://sickmouthy.blogspot.com/2007/10/fifty-from-five.html

These are, as of Tuesday 30th October 2007, my fifty favourite records released during the existence of Stylus Magazine. Only three rules exist for this list; things must have been released between June 3rd 2002 and October 29th 2007, only one album from any given artist, and no reissues or compilations. Oh, and I must like it. A lot.

As a result you won’t find Is A Woman, Point, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Tallahassee or Original Pirate Material on this list; they all came out in the first six months of 2002. There’s no Can or Sly remasters and no Tropicalia either. And there’s definitely no fucking Blueberry Boat. Just fifty new records that I have loved during the life of Stylus. I was going to just do twenty, but it was too hard.

Here they are, in a very vague semblance of preference.

1. Bark Psychosis - ///Codename:Dustsucker
2. Manitoba / Caribou – Up In Flames
3. Electrelane – The Power Out
4. Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
5. Califone – Roots And Crowns
6. Acoustic Ladyland – Skinny Grin
7. Battles – Mirrored
8. The Necks – Drive By
9. Augie March – Strange Bird
10. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
11. 65daysofstatic – The Destruction of Small Ideas
12. Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
13. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
14. Roots Manuva – Awfully Deep
15. Working For A Nuclear Free City – Working For A Nuclear Free City
16. The Clientele – The Violet Hour
17. LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
18. Kate Bush – Aerial
19. Lift To Experience – The Texas–Jerusalem Crossroads
20. Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World
21. Embrace – Out Of Nothing
22. Guillemots – From The Cliffs
23. Polar Bear – Held On The Tips Of Fingers
24. Stars Of The Lid – And The Refinement of Their Decline
25. King Biscuit Time – Black Gold
26. Loose Fur – Loose Fur
27. Spoon – Kill The Moonlight
28. Four Tet – Rounds
29. The Delgados – Hate
30. TV On The Radio – Young Liars EP
31. Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds
32. Fennesz – Venice
33. British Sea Power – Open Season
34. Two Lone Swordsmen – From The Double Gone Chapel
35. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – Out Of Season
36. Ghostface Killah – The Pretty Toney Album
37. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
38. Missy Elliott – Under Construction
39. Studio – West Coast
40. The Notwist – Neon Golden
41. Boredoms – Seadrum / House Of Sun
42. Scott Walker – The Drift
43. Sugababes – Three
44. N*E*R*D – In Search Of
45. Akufen – My Way
46. Vitalic – OK Cowboy
47. Rufus Wainwright – Want One
48. OutKast – Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
49. Boards Of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
50. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm

It'd be a very different list if I did it for the whole decade. I may just do that though.

<i>"What happened to the people who liked pop music? Where have they gone?"

i was just listing albums that i own. if i listed all the SONGS i liked in the last 8 years i'd really be here forever.

</i>Scott OTM.
And hipster indie rules, you saddos.

some lunacy on that metacritic top 50 list
puts into perspective the knee-jerk tendency of soulless music critics to jump on the bandwagon

Louis Jagger (Cambridge) wrote
at 9:28pm yesterday
ok ILM and that top records of the 00's thread in particular is starting to resemble not so much the vanity of small differences as the complete fucking moronity of small-minded fucking imbeciles

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lj otm

dude Macallan, 'Magnetic' is from '98!

Some album possibilities (extremely incomplete list)

'07
Little Big Town – A Place To Land (Equity Music Group)
Flynnville Train – Flynnville Train (Show Dog Nashville)
Trigger Renegade – Destroy Your Mind (Black Top Fade)
Aly & AJ – Insomniatic (Hollywood)
Miranda Lambert – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Columbia)
Gore Gore Girls – Get The Gore (Bloodshot)
The Sirens – More Is More (MuSick)

'06
Montgomery Gentry – Some People Change (Columbia)
Damone – Out Here All Night (Island)
Toby Keith – White Trash With Money (Show Dog Nashville/Universal)
Taylor Swift – Taylor Swift (Big Machine)
Alan Jackson – Like Red On A Rose (Arista Nashville)
Victory Brothers – Kowboyz De Loz Angeleez (victorybrothers.net)
The Spunks – Yellow Fever Blues (Gearhead)
Dale Watson – Whiskey Or God (Palo Duro)

'05
Miranda Lambert – Kerosene (Epic)
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (French Kiss)
Deana Carter – The Story Of My Life (Vanguard)
Little Big Town – The Road To Here (Equity)
Fannypack – See You Next Tuesday (Tommy Boy)
M.I.A. – Arular (Interscope)
Bang Sugar Bang – Thwak Thwak Go Crazy!! (SOS)
Hard Skin – Same Meat Different Gravy (TKO)
Gary Allan – Tough All Over (MCA Nashville)
Lil’ Wayne – Tha Carter II (Cash Money/Universal)

'04
Big & Rich – Horse Of A Different Color (Warner Bros.)
Montgomery Gentry – You Do Your Thing (Columbia)
M.I.A. – Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1 (unlabeled promo mix album)
Wolf – Evil Star (Prosthetic)
The Living Things – Black Skies In Broad Daylight (Dreamworks promo)
Heart – Jupiter’s Darling (Sovereign Artists)
Nagg – Nagg (Dollar Record)

'03
Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road (Arista Nashville)
Toby Keith – Shock’N Y’all (Dreamworks)
Mensen - Oslo City (Gearhead)
Kenny Chesney – When The Sun Goes Down (BNA)
Buck 65 – Talkin’ Honky Blues (Warner Music Canada)
(Various) – (Sic) The Broklyn Beats 7” Series (Broklyn Beats)
A.R.E. Weapons – A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade)
The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)
Clone Defects – Shapes Of Venus (In The Red)
Mu-ziq – Bilous Paths (Planet Mu)
Merle Haggard – Like Never Before (Hag)
FM Knives – Useless And Modern (Broken Rekkids)
Fannypack – So Stylistic (Tommy Boy)
Electric Six – Fire (Beggars XL)

'02
Lifter Puller – Soft Rock (The Self-Starter Foundation reissue)
Toby Keith – Unleashed (Dreamworks)
Gore Gore Girls – Up All Night (Get Hip)
Field Mob – From Tha Roota To Tha Toota (MCA)
(Various) – Global Hits 2002 (Universal)

'01
Montgomery Gentry – Carrying On (Columbia)
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera (Soul Dump)
(Various) – Epop Version_01 (Epic)
Gore Gore Girls – Gore Gore Girls (Get Hip)
Mensen – Delusions Of Grandeur (Gearhead)
Brooks & Dunn – Steers & Stripes (Arista Nashville)
Gary Allan – Alright Guy (MCA Nashville)

'00
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers Album (Aftermath/Interscope)
I-F – Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1 (Panamamix)
(Various) – Bring It On (Playtone/Epic/Sony Music Soundtrax)
Kandi – Hey Kandi… (Columbia)
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (The Music Cartel)
DJ P and Z-Trip - Uneasy Listening Against The Grain Vol. 1 (ZTrip)
D.A.D. – Everything Glows (EMI)
Lifter Puller – Fiestas + Fiascos (The Self-Starter Foundation)
Mammoth Volume – Noara Dance (The Music Cartel)
(Various) – Brassic Beats (Skint)
(Various) – Bhangra Beatz (Naxos World)
M2M – Shades Of Purple (Atlantic)

rateyourmusic top 50:

(snip)

Rate your Black Metal more like.....

the knife - silent shout
broadcast - tender buttons
bjork - vespertine
fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
animal collective - sung tongs
lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow
robert wyatt - comicopera
clipse - hell hath no fury
the clientele - suburban light
deerhoof - friend opportunity

I find it weird no one else has The Cold Vein by Can Ox on their lists, I thought it was the one undie rap album everyone agreed was great.

There has never been an album in the history of mankind that "everyone agreed was great," and there never will be.

(Fwiw, my list should have more hip-hop in general, probably -- Trick Daddy, Lil Wayne, the second Ying Yang Twins album. But like I said, it's incomplete.)

oh yea. i love The Cold Vein.

Also wrongly absent from mine (among several other late-in-the-alphabet artists, probably):

Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
Skye Sweetnam - Noise From the Basement
ZZ Top - Mescalero

+

Red Swan - After the Barn Goes
Shakira - Laundry Service

There has never been an album in the history of mankind that "everyone agreed was great," and there never will be.

Bad reviews of Sgt Pepper written in 1967 to thread please.

Ha ha, ask Metal Mike Saunders what he thought of Sgt. Pepper's in 1967, guy.

Not sure what Bangs or Meltzer thought of it either, off hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had mixed feelings, at least.

And that's only critics (who may or may not have been writing yet.) Plenty of parents and teachers didn't love it, either, from what I've heard.