I Can't Help Myself! I'm Gonna Post A List! God Help Me! Jess Delete Me! But WTF? The Rough Guide To The Music Of The Sahara? That's Some Rad Shit!

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1. Kanye West, Late Registration

2. The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang

3. White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan

4. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine

5. Bruce Springsteen, Devils and Dust

6. My Morning Jacket, Z

7. Beck, Guero

8. Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

9. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois

10. 50 Cent, The Massacre

11. M.I.A., Arular

12. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods

13. Various Artists, Run the Road

14. Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall

15. Gorillaz, Demon Days

16. John Legend, Get Lifted

17. Van Morrison, Magic Time

18. Kings of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak

19. The Magic Numbers, The Magic Numbers

20. System of a Down, Mezmerize/Hypnotize

21. Common, Be

22. Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor

23. Paul McCartney, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

24. The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute

25. Young Jeezy, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101

26. Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze

27. Stevie Wonder, A Time to Love

28. The Hold Steady, Separation Sunday

29. Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better

30. Foo Fighters, In Your Honor

31. Amadou and Mariam, Dimanche a Bamako

32. The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightening, Strike

33. Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now

34. Paul Wall, The Peoples Champ

35. LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem

36. The Perceptionists, Black Dialogue

37. Missy Elliott, The Cookbook

38. Dungen, Ta Det Lugnt

39. Annie, Anniemal

40. Neil Young, Prairie Wind

41. Keyshia Cole, The Way It Is

42. Living Things, Ahead of the Lions

43. Mariah Carey, The Emancipation of Mimi

44. Daddy Yankee, Barrio Fino

45. The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara

46. The Willowz, Talk In Circles

47. Wide Right, Sleeping on the Couch

48. Kaiser Chiefs, Employment

49. Damian Marley, Welcome to Jamrock

50. Stars, Set Yourself on Fire

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

no peter wolf though :(

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, that's rolling stone's list in case you couldn't tell. i didn't see it posted anywhere.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Rolling Stone in being completely out of touch non-shockah. Seriously old duders, just because you named your shitty rag after them doesn't mean you need to continue fellating them well after they stop being able to rise to the occasion.

― jonviachicago, Friday, 30 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Hahahah, Scott I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

did you cook this up in yr indie workshop?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM DELETE DELETE DELETE

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised I haven't seen that Dungen album on more lists -- seems like everyone was talking about it for a while and then everyone forgot it.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

OMG. The Stones at #2?! WTF? How can they do that with a straight face?

― Mitya (mitya), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Christgau liked that Sahara thing and actually it looks pretty promising. Maybe you weren't being sarcastic.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

How is this list so different from the other ones (other than Rolling Stones in the number 2 spot)?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

(Me citing Christgau as an authority: total hypocrisy.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

what Rockist Scientist said.

this is the consensus.mainstream.middlebrow.something4everybody list.

does Rolling Stone still have the power to piss people off? amazing.

Stones @ #2 instead of #1 (behind a "rap" album!)= sea change

fwiw Madonna is now officially an Old Fart. new album so boring and retro-retread her place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is assured.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

that Monk/Coltrane album slays everything in sight

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised I haven't seen that Dungen album on more lists -- seems like everyone was talking about it for a while and then everyone forgot it.

It was first released in 2004 outside of the U.S. (which is why you also won't see Annie, Feist, and Stars on as many lists as you otherwise might).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

SCOTT I WILL NOT DELETE THIS THO I AM TEMPTED

ONE DAY I MAY ASK A FAVOR OF YOU

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually I'm kinda surprised to see that Wide Right album there, I hadn't realized it had gotten as much attention as it has.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

SAme here - actually never got around to getting the Wide Right though meant to. Is it good?

And yeah, the Rough GD to Music of Sahara is excellent.

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

No Game! I am totally bummed!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

all i needed to see was this - 18. Kings of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak - to know the list was a joke.

― deadair (deadair), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

gawd, i love seward's thread titles.

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

he alternates between no capitalization at all and capitalizing every single first letter

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

At least someone has the sense to big-up Perceptionists.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

gawd, i love seward's thread titles.

I guess faux-histrionics never go out of style here. *Yawn*

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Rockist, I Love You Even Though You Refuse To Listen To The Bounty That Is Indian Classical Music!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Where is the Entertainment Weekly list?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I have been listening to some Carnatic classical (which goes surprisingly neglected).

(Sorry, our love can never be, but I do respect you and your encyclopedic mind.)

x-post

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

if yoo need a bodyguard, i will be yer hindi pal, bhangra rocks like reggaeton, you can call meeeeeeee al! (with apologies to julio down by the schoolyard)

punjabi folk will save your life!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

actually never got around to getting the Wide Right though meant to. Is it good?

Scarily enough (for me), it's a case where the lyrics make it work. The music is functional in a post-bar band way, but in ways that's the point. The lyrics, though, are simply great -- I found a Christgau piece where he compared them to King Missile (?!) but I just thought that the lead singer/songwriter had a perfect way around capturing a late-thirties married rock-mom mindset which beats the fuck out of Sheryl Crow eight ways to Sunday.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

David Browne

1. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
2. Beck, Guero
3. Kanye West, Late Registration
4. Kathleen Edwards, Back to Me
5. Caesars, Paper Tiger
6. Neil Diamond, 12 Songs
7. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
8. M.I.A., Arular
9. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Worlds Apart
10. Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now

Chris Willman

1. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
2. Robbie Fulks, Georgia Hard
3. Bruce Springsteen, Devils and Dust
4. Bettye LaVette, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
5. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
6. Rodney Crowell, The Outsider
7. Kanye West, Late Registration
8. Lee Ann Womack, There's More Where That Came From and Martina McBride, Timeless
9. Depeche Mode, Playing the Angel
10. LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm pleased to see Willman mention Depeche and horrified at most of the rest of his list.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Ballsy choice with the Caesars. Probably should've listed "jerk it out" somewhere on my singles. Hours of SSX2 brainwashed me.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

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