Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade

Eh, somebody from the indie ghetto worried that others don't have expansive enough listening habits?

NickB, Nicole Mitchell is current president of the AACM and my favorite jazz artist of the decade. She has like 4 or 5 fantastic albums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Mitchell_(musician)

XP Sorry that last vent. I wasn't considering who wrote the comment I was replying to. But color me decidedly underwhelmed by the band Spoon (in general). The music is just too polite for me, I guess - I've nary a clue as to what the fans are responding to.

Sometimes I wish American fans pursued the Japanese course: when they fall in love with juju music or bossanova or goa trance they form bands that emulate the feel of the original so closely as to rival their inspirations, and then perhaps surpass them in their own way. Or the British, misunderstanding the context and conventions of (usually) black American music enough to return with music that, again, rivals its inspirations (at an oblique angle). Here in America, we get polite colorations with textures or rhythms that wouldn't offend the Starbucks sound system, and it crowds the critical canon, while meanwhile there's this extraordinary stuff that is just over the borders of what's permissible in consensus lists. And that from a band presumably inspired by Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebzeit. I guess I don't want novelty - history and my collection is too large - I want hypernovelty.

32. Lift To Experience – The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
i need to hear this

nice to see a mention of afro finger and gel up there. that's a pretty fascinating album.

10 albums. Everything could change tomorrow, except album 1.

1. Love and Theft - Bob Dylan
2. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
3. Arular - MIA
4. Meadowlands - The Wrens
5. Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
6. The Glands - The Glands
7. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal
8. Decoration Day - Drive-By Truckers
9. Know Your Enemy - Manic Street Preachers
10. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst

Love that Glands album! And that's my fave Manic Street Preachers.

i don't think i could do singles. these are the albums that come to mind when i think of records i truly loved from this decade:

cranebuilders - sometimes you hear through someone else
for against - coalesced
outrageous cherry - supernatural equinox
rainer maria - long knives drawn
kubichek! - not enough night
charmparticles - alive in the hot spell
section 25 - part primitiv
maximo park - a certain trigger
stars - heart
crashland - glued

there are others i was completely obsessed with at the time that just haven't held up at all - hefner, the first badly drawn boy album, crap like that

bit sad that none of them are australian. a 90s list would be half aussie

Which reminds me; I forgot Drive-By by The Necks!

Luomo - Vocalcity
Radiohead - Kid A
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fennesz - Endless Summer
The Strokes - Is This It
The Delgados - Hate
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Curtis Roads - Point Line Cloud
My My - Songs for the Gentle
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

oooh, nice call on Schnauss. bigups to libcrypt for telling me about that one!

7. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal

Is this really a genuine album title?! What were they thinking?!?

It always sounded like a potential Ween progrock parody.

singles/tracks:

bloc party - helicopter
daft punk - digital love
les savy fav - the sweat descends
missy elliott - get ur freak on
gnarls barkley - crazy
morgan geist - most of all
css - let's make love and listen to death from above
rhianna - umbrella (no jay-z mix)
secret machines - it's a bad wind that don't blow somebody some good
lightning bolt - assassins

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.

ightning bolt - assassins

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

here is my top 30. while the 2000s were formative years for me, they have nowhere near as much resonance for me musically as the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

yet, without further ado here it is. in order.

1. radiohead - kid a
2. sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
3. mclusky - mclusky do dallas
4. wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
5. daft punk - discovery
6. converge - jane doe
7. shiina ringo - karuki zamen kuri no hana
8. alain bashung - l'imprudence
9. fugazi - the argument
10. the blood brothers - ...burn piano island, burn
11. black dice - beaches and canyons
12. cursive - the ugly organ
13. boredoms - vision creation newsun
14. sun kil moon - april
15. unwound - leaves turn inside you
16. opeth - blackwater park
17. asobi seksu - citrus
18. kate bush - aerial
19. radiohead - in rainbows
20. the strokes - is this it
21. blonde redhead - 23
22. ISIS - oceanic
23. cannibal ox - the cold vein
24. fennesz - endless summer
25. katatonia - last fair deal gone down
26. animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
27. tom waits - alice
28. panda bear - person pitch
29. mu - afro finger and gel
30. interpol - turn on the bright lights

this thread is stupid and impossible.
that said it boggles the mind how much great music was released in just this decade.
Music fucking rules.

7. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal

Is this really a genuine album title?! What were they thinking?!?

― Tuomas, Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:02 AM (7 hours ago)

they were thinking they made an incredibly awesome album

Maybe, but with a rubbish title.

"here is my top 30. while the 2000s were formative years for me, they have nowhere near as much resonance for me musically as the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. "

Maybe the 00s was a bad decade for serious cat serious music.

music used to mean something, maan

here is my top 30. while the 2000s were formative years for me, they have nowhere near as much resonance for me musically as the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s

Oy. I guess I can't say "most," but I sure hate a lot of 60s music.

Ex. A: If you're going . . . to San Fran---cisco/Be sure to wear flowers in your hair

Based on the short list from my computer:

The Rants—Get Back Into It
Aaliyah—s/t
Dabenport—s/t
El Guapo—Super/System
Deadly Snakes—Ode to Joy
Exploding Hearts—Guitar Romantic
MIA—Kala
TV on the Radio—Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
A Frames—s/t
Indian Jewelery—Invasive Exotics
Nomo—Ghost Rock

No doubt some more jazz and punk when I go through my physical albums.

Yea, Exploding Hearts! That disc needs some love in these decade-end lists. (Nomo's good, too)

The 00's were awesome, partially because of the influx of DIY that the indie explosion & internet created.. DIY probably increased more this decade than any since the 70s. (Maybe i'm wrong, but thats how it looks to me)

i'm happy mclusky was loved.. i tried pushing it on lots of kids, but nobody i know seemed to care.

word. and the fact that i put them so high on my list would suggest that i'm not a "serious cat" all of the time. :)

and daniel, i hate a lot of 60s music too. but the stuff i truly love from that era gets the nod over a lot of the stuff on my 00s list

good thing about these threads is I get reminded of things, I forgot that Boredoms VCN was from '00. I think Indian Jewelry's Free Gold should probably be in my top 25 as well.

Plus, from this showing Aaliyah's self titled album is going to win our decade poll :)

Albums:

Lily Allen - Alright, Still (2006)
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction (2001)
Mihaly Dresch - Egyenes Zene (2004)
Bob Dylan - Modern Times (2006)
Espers - Espers II (2006)
FM Knives - Useless & Modern (2002)
Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa (2005)
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005)
Papa Noel - Cafe Noir (2007)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)

I haven't even begun thinking about singles.

What's are the big canon mixtapes of the decade? Da Drought III, 50 Cent Is The Future and We Got It For Cheap 2? Anything else?

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:52 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the 1st jeezy

Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Daft Punk - Discovery
Britney Spears - Blackout
Robyn - Robyn
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Radiohead - Amnesiac

boring as fuck list but i've never been much of an album person anyway. could prob go up into the hundreds for singles though - so many great ones this decade.

Such as...

haven't thought abt it that much but lots listed in this thread alr

plus i'm likely to rep for the corniest of corny indie ("New Slang", "Rebellion (Lies)", "Lover I Don't Have to Love" etc) even if i can't stand to listen to a full album by any of these guys.

Alternative list:

Dilated Peoples - Worst Come To Worst
Gang Starr - Rite Where U Stand
Tha Liks - Best U Can
Klashnekoff - Murda
Talib Kweli - The Blast
Rosco P Coldchain - Hot
Jadakiss - We Gon Make It
Cam'rom - Oh Boy
Memphis Bleek - Is That Yo Chick (the one w/ Twista)
Mobb Deep - Burn

'Cos hip-hop existed before Get Low :)

Ashamed I made two lists that didn't have Apollo Kids. Single of the decade.

Albums (in no order):

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone...
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Themselves - The No Music of Aiff's (The No Music Remixed)
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Koop - Waltz For Koop
Cat Power - You Are Free

been thinking about this lately. most of the music i heard in the 2000s especially the last half has been older stuff, so my list is pretty happenstance. albums in no order:

Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
Howling Hex - XI
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
Luomo - Vocalcity
Rocket From the Tombs - Rocket Redux
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura - Weather Sky
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (sort of a token since i haven't heard a lot of rap but it got me into it and it's fucking awesome so)
Harvey Milk - Singles (yeah this is cheating a little bit but whatevs)
Scott Walker - The Drift

Singles

Sara Evans- Real Fine Place to Start
Miranda Lambert- What About Georgia?
Pat Green- Wayback, Texas
Alan Jackson- The Firefly's Song
Keith Urban- Once in a Lifetime
Little Big Town- Boondocks
Jamey Johnson- High Cost of Livin'
Trace Adkins- The Stubborn One
Toby Keith- As Good As I Once Was
Tim McGraw- Drugs or Jesus
LeeAnn Rimes- Nothing Better to Do
Sugarland- Want To
Josh Turner- The Way He Was Raised
Big & Rich- Wild West Show
Todd Snider- Lookin' For a Job
Ashton Shepard- Sounds So Good
Dierks Bentley- A Lot of Leavin' Left To Do
George Strait- Give It Away
Gary Allan- Smoke Rings in the Dark
Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road

Yes! Some country! Thank you!!!

Yes, thanks, President Keyes--I'm going to check some of those out.

Is it really, really weird for anybody else seeing all this music (that seem to come out so recently too!) getting rounded up together finally?

I was too young to go through this with the entire 1990s so this is my first "wow, I can't believe this decade is almost over and I remember all of this" decade.

Yes, it's incredibly weird. That said, after getting annoyed having a genuine argument with someone who refused to believe anything other than "music was better in the sixties", I am quite enjoying making lists of fucking amazing music i love from this decade.

Albums:
Nu Amerykah Pt 1+Mama's Gun-Erykah Badu
Afrodisiac-Brandy
Deep Cuts+Silent Shout-The Knife
Fever Ray-Fever Ray
Arular+Kala-M I A
Back to Black-Amy Winehouse
FutureSex/LoveSounds-Justin Timberlake
Soviet Kitsch-Regina Spektor
In Rainbows-Radiohead
Amnesiac-Radiohead
Demon Days-Gorillaz
Graduation-Kanye West
St. Elsewhere-Gnarls Barkley
From Here We Go Sublime-The Field
Loose-Nelly Furtado
Body Language-Kylie Minogue
The Emancipation of Mimi-Mariah Carey
Robyn-Robyn

Singles:
Not Ready To make Nice-Dixie Chicks
Shake It Off-Mariah Carey
Lovestoned/I think she knows+What Goes Around...-Justin Timberlake
Digital Love_Daft Punk
Hollerback Girl-Gwen Stefani
Hey Ya!-Outkast
Rehab-Amy Winehouse
Danger-Erykah Badu
Silent Shout-The Knife
Paper Planes-M I A
Shooter-Lil Wayne feat Robin Thicke
Toxic-Britney Spears
Freak Like Me-Sugababes
Anonymous-Bobby Valentino
More Than A woman-Aaliyah
When I Grow Up-Fever Ray
Violet Stars Happy Hunting!+Many Moons-Janelle Monae
Get Ur Freak On+One Minute man-Missy Elliott
Promiscuous+Turn Off The Light Remix-Nelly Furtado

I'm just as guilty as everyone else for not mentioning him enough here but Ludacris needs to be remembered when we come round to doing this properly. Two of the best albums and like a million great singles. Think votes might get split by trying to figure out whether Southern Hospitality is better than Saturday is better than P Poppin is better than YOOOOOOOOOOOOUS A HOOOOOOOOO is better than Act A Fool is better than etc. Did we ever do a Luda singles poll?

"What's Your Fantasy" is in my top 10 singles of the decade, and Back For The First Time is probably in my top 100 albums, but he peaked pretty early and hasn't really been that consistent. "Southern Hospitality" and "Move" and a couple non-remix guest spots are classics for me, but he's got like 20 singles that are garbage too.

a lot of my favourite singles this decade are early decade timba/2step stuff fyi

also mclusky