Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade

So here you should list your top ten favorite singles and albums of this decade. Also, use this thread to suggest potential faves to others.

At the risk of the eternal ridicule of those perfect in every thought and deed, here's the kind of shit that would most likely end up in my decade top ten (suggest away):

1. Shameless samples
2. Several songs in one
3. Songs that sound like a song submerged in crud or shoegaze
4. Shtick
5. Novelty
6. House music that sounds like Shakedown: "At Night"
7. Irritating repetitions
8. Chirpy Danish/Scandinavian pop

Thank you

kjb, why ar you sober enough to start this thread?

I started this thread IN ORDER TO sober up

u were so sober when you started this

I mean I realize u are something like 3 hours ahead of me but still

low point of ilx career: complaining that othe ilxors are too sober

don't we have a year to go yet?

1. Shameless samples
2. Several songs in one
7. Irritating repetitions
8. Chirpy Danish/Scandinavian pop

This represents the worst of mainstream pop.

My top 10 is so boring.. no way.

Someone else do it first.

i was thinking about this in the shower last night actually - i think i've decided on

albums
1. kanye west - college dropout

singles
1. jay-z ft ugk - big pimpin

albums...dunno. aaliyah or new amerykah?

singles...no 1 is prob between ciara 'oh' and t.i. 'what you know'

and trina 'b r right'

albums probably:
1. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
2. Aaliyah - s/t
3. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
4. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Two People...Probably Talking About Me EP
5. The-Dream - Love vs. Money
6. Joanna Newsom - Ys
7. Britney Spears - Blackout
8. M.I.A. - Kala
9. Daft Punk - Discovery
10. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

singles?:
1. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River
2. Cassie - Me & U
3. Basement Jaxx - Romeo
4. Ciara - Oh
5. R. Kelly feat. T.I. and T Pain - I'm A Flirt (Remix)
6. Lil Wayne feat. Robin Thicke - Shooter
7. Ciara - Promise
8. Cassie - Is It You?
9. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Remix)
10. Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned/I Think That She Knows

Just thinking about this topic reminds me of how good a decade it's been for new music. I started a list (mostly rock-oriented, I'm afraid), and found it hard to whittle it below 25.

oooh, i forgot the knife :/

Yeah, that's on my list, too.

in no particular order:

hold steady - seperation sunday
animal collective - feels
panda bear - person pitch
a.c. newman - slow wonder
tv on the radio - cookie mountain
spoon - kill the moonlight
fugazi - the argument
shins - inverted world
wilco - a ghost is born
wolf parade - queen mary

acts that could be on my list any other day:
new pornographers,destroyer, boris,mountain goats,clientele,lightning bold,explosions in the sky

..no age,fiery furnaces,gbv,mission of burma and at least 5 acts i forgot

Couldn't get the list below 20 albums. Sue me:

• Richard Hawley – The Ocean
• Books – The Lemon of Pink
• Burial – Untrue
• Calexico – Feast Of Wine
• Clientele – Suburban Light
• Clinic – Internal Wrangler
• Ellen Alien & Apparat – Orchestra Of Bubbles
• Tinariwen – Aman Iman: Water Is Life
• Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego – The Sinking Of The Titanic
• GhostFace – FishScale
• The Hold Steady – Boys & Girls In America
• Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank The Cradle
• Lewis Taylor – The Lost Album
• Low – The Great Destroyer
• M.I.A. – KALA
• Wilco – Kicking Television
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust
• Studio – West Coast
• Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway
• The Knife – Silent Shout

Clientele – Suburban Light

Yay!

Just thinking about this topic reminds me of how good a decade it's been for new music.

OTM. would it be hyperbolic to proclaim best decade ever?

in no particular order and criminally incomplete:

Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Jaylib - Champion Sound
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Arcade Fire - Funeral

Singles:

Conway - "Lisa's Got Hives"
The Strokes - "The Modern Age"
Fischerspooner - "Emerge"
OutKast - "Hey Ya"
Vitalic - "Poney"
Girls Aloud - "Biology"
that cover of "I Kill Everything I Fuck"
!!! - "Me and Guiliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story)"
Matias Aguayo - "Minimal"
Mogwai - "Hunted by a Freak"

Albums:

the Boom Selection thingy
Ween - Quebec
Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Strokes - Is This It
Coldplay - Parachutes
OutKast - SB/TLB
Gonzales - Solo Piano
The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love

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ALBUMS:

Daft Punk - Discovery
Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag
Luomo - Vocalcity
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The-Dream - Love/Hate
V/A: Target - Aim High Volume 2
V/A: Shanks & Bigfoot - Ayia Napa 2000
Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Luomo - The Present Lover

SINGLES:

Sticky & Ms Dynamite - Boo
Nelly - Hot In Herre
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
Cosmos - Take Me With You
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers (Sunship Remix)
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight

i can't tell if whiney is bemoaning mr snrub or if he's trying to pretend like he's above pointless narcissistic list making - surely hope it's the former

i'll be first in line for pointless narcissistic end-of-decade list making when the decade starts actually being over

off the top of the dome, i'll probably really regret this but

(in no order)

albums
kanye west - the college dropout
the-dream - love/hate
los campesinos! - hold on now youngster
lil wayne - tha carter II
the strokes - is this it?
bloc party - silent alarm
the clipse - lord willin
be your own pet - s/t
phoenix - it's never been like that
the exploding hearts - guitar romantic

runners up: jay-z - the blueprint, girl talk - night ripper, lcd soundsystem - sound of silver, the strokes - room on fire, young jeezy - the recession

singles (this is such a crapshoot)
jay-z ft ugk - big pimpin
nelly - country grammar
lcd soundsystem - all my friends
wiley - wearin my rolex
clipse - grindin
kanye west - all falls down
freeway ft jay-z & beanie sigel - what we do
ludacris - what's your fantasy?
fabolous - young'n
the killers - mr brightside

knock out uh "wearin my rolex" and add big tymers - still fly

singles are too hard, i love lots of songs

This end of the decade stuff is fun, but still really surreal to look at. Was it really eight or nine years ago when the Strokes were supposed to be heirs to some rock and roll throne with their, admittedly impressive, debut? This kind of thing strengthens narratives surrounding the trends of the decade (The decline of This Genre, the rise That) for better or worse.

Aaliyah Aaliyah
Outkast Stankonia
Jill Scott Words and Sounds
Sleater-Kinney The Woods
The New Pornos The Electric Version
Aimee Mann Bachelor No. 2
T.I. King
Los Campesinos! Hold On Now Youngster
Cat Power The Covers Record
Ludacris Back For The First Time

Wookie 'Battle'
Dizzee 'I Luv U'
Missy 'Get Yr Freak On'
Outkast 'B.O.B'
Wiley 'Wearing My Rolex'
Electrelane 'To The East'
T2 'Heartbroken'
UGK 'International Players Anthem'
Yh Yh Yh's 'Cheat Hearts'
Bloc Party 'The Present'

^off the top of my head.

Cheated*

Does Red Cross count as this decade?

I know my albums would include a few of these, but I'm sure I'm missing loads:

John Fahey: Red Cross
Kelley Polar: I need you to hold on while the sky is falling
Britney Spears: Blackout
Black Dice: Creature Comforts
Chris Brown: Exclusive
Junior Boys: Last Exit
Jana Hunter: Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom
Animal Collective - Hollindagain
Li'l Wayne - Tha Carter III
cLOUDDEAD - ten
Matmos - A Chance To Cut is a Chance to Cure
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
The Strokes- Room on Fire
Fujiya and Miyagi - Transparent Things

i'm disappointed people are doing this so early. disappointed!

yeah the new wilco album isn't even out yet!!

It is early for these lists. But it also seems pretty laid-back at this point, and all subject to change. At this point, it feels more like an early nominations thread, with the real arguing to come later.

And J0rdan's right, too. There's a lot of good material left to release this year (e.g., Wilco, Annie, Sonic Youth, Grizzy Bear, Clientele, The Books, The New Pornographers, Roxy Music, Amy Winehouse). But still. Besides, this thread already reminded me of some great stuff that I'd forgotten, and need to revisit (e.g., The Streets and (can't believe I forgot) Kanye West and The Exploding Hearts) or that I've slept-on, and need to explore (e.g., Fujiya and Miyagi).

I would have liked this thread better if people had posted their favorite music into categories

I am mostly interested in Dad Rock or close variations thereof (perhaps John Fahey, Aimee Mann, Clientele, and Wilco) exceptions - Johanna Newson's voice annoys me to no end. So no category can be perfect - especially for an "aspie" sailor like me. Oh and don't get me started on Devendra Banhart's voice. Makes me sad that Natalie Portman isn't the kind of girl I used to imagine her as.

Generally, if your top ten albums includes a token artist I hate, I'm going to dismiss that list as a whole (by quickly scrolling down to a new list to get away from said artist). I'm such a bastard in that way. It's like when people get upset because someone includes ____ with _____ in the same sentence.

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I will fall in love with a hippie and make you listen to limp indie rock ergo I am dead inside.

oops.

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I don't want to stray from topic but there are a lot better hippies she could have picked. Banhart must have swindled her. He must be some sort of alpha male hippie that got first dibs because he was a persistent asshole.

I like "dad-rock," too, but maybe people have diverse tastes?

That's why I suggested categories. People have the right to diverse tastes and I respect that. I like a little of every genre too but alas it is just that, a little. Anyways, please don't stop making top 10 lists because of me.

I'd like to see a list on genres I don't know anything about like jazz or country actually.

Oh man it's beginning.

can't wait to read all your awesome addendums and corrections to these lists in 6 months

Haha. You think there wouldn't be 6 months of addendums and corrections if people waited until December?

kinda thought this thread was more "at this point what kinda stuff will be on your end of year lists." That's how I was answering anyway and that's how most ppl seem to be from how they are phrasing it.

^^^ This. Exactly!

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

needed to get that off my chest

I already hate my albums list that I posted here.

i know my #1 hasn't changed since i first heard it on 9/11 - Love & Theft
stories from the city..... - P.J. - top five.
oh, and one day it will please us to remember even this, ~definitely~ top 5
think i'll leave it at that

shite, forgot to say my fave song of the decade is "no children" by our beloved MG's

These 10 albums probably meant the most to me for a whole host of irrational reasons:

1. Atmosphere, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers), 2008
2. Madvillain, Madvillainy (Stones Throw), 2004
3. The Owls, Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker), 2007
4. Low, Things We Lost in the Fire (Kranky), 2000
5. David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo), 2008 [re-sequenced version on my computer]
6. K'NAAN, Troubadour (A&M/Octone), 2009 [advance version, which was pretty different]
7. Bruce Springsteen, Working on a Dream (Columbia), 2009
8. Fugazi, The Argument (Dischord), 2001
9. P.O.S., Ipecac Neat (Doomtree), 2004
10. Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner Bros.), 2005

This is pathetic, tl/dr, but I just couldn't do 10. Short list was like 150 fucking records. Here's a top 50, which could probably be cut down, but still leaves me aching for all the stuff I left off. Sorted by year/artist (i.e., no particular order). Includes LOTS of dubious shit I love dearly:

Boredoms - Vison Creation Newsun (2000)
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000)
Outkast - Stankonia (2000)

Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black (2001)
Fennesz - Endless Summer (2001)
Ludacris - Word of Mouf (2001)
Yura Yura Teikoku - III (2001)

Beehive and the Barracudas - Plastic Soul with the White Apes (2002)
Clipse - Lord Willin (2002)
Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (2002)
Les Georges Leningrad - Deux Hot-Dogs Moutarde Chou (2002)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (2002)
Xasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning (2002)

Boris - Akuma No Uta (2003)
John Fahey - Red Cross (2003)
M.O.T.O. - Kill M.O.T.O. (2003)
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
Peaches - Fatherfucker (2003)
Quintron - Are You Ready for an Organ Solo? (2003)
Sleep - Dopesmoker (2003)
The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (2004)
Black Dice - Creature Comforts (2004)
Black Lips - Let It Bloom (2004)
Electrelane - The Power Out (2004)
M.I.A. - Piracy Funds Terrorism (2004)
Monoshock - Running Ape-Like from the Backwards Superman (2004)
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (2004)

Amadou & Miriam - Dimanche a Bamako (2005)
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now (2005)
CSS - Cansei de ser Sexy (2005)
Deerhoof - The Runners Four (2005)
Electric Eel Shock - Go USA! (2005)
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (2005)
The Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control (2005)
The Knife - Silent Shout (2005)

Boris - Rainbow (w/ Michio Kurihara) (2006)
Hot Chip - The Warning (2006)
Indian Jewelry - Invasive Exotics (2006)
Nachtmystium - Instinct/Decay (2006)
Om - Conference of the Birds (2006)
Spank Rock - Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo (2006)

King Khan and His Shrines - What Is?! (2007)

Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass (2008)
Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game In Town (2008)

Fresh and Onlys - Fresh and Onlys (2009)
Thee Oh Sees - The Hounds of Foggy Notion (2009)

Ludacris - Word of Mouf (2001)

really underrated album, good lookin

Yeah, but I mean, what about Milk-Eyed Mender, 28 After, that Frenchy-sounding CocoRosie record, DM and Jemini, cLOUDDEAD, The BellRays, Vaz, Rick Bishop, The Spits, Kanye, Lost Sounds, Magik Markers, Country Teasers, Major Stars, The Kills, PJ Harvey, Leviathan, Mclusky and Oneida? Etc., etc., etc...

jesus h christ

Oh yeah, plus I liked Ghetto Report Card. Dunno if it goes in the list or what, but I got a lot of use out of it.

DM and Jemini

^^^this is like the most underrated rap record of the decade which crazy considering its freaking danger mouse, most overrated producer in music atm.

can i just say...top two albums(?) of the decade:

Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (DVD)

i am not proud. :^(

On waking up and looking at that slapped together, late night list, I mostly wonder where the 1st A Frames record went. Then I start thinking about DJ /rupture and Burial. All of which means I have some kind of problem...

Right now it looks like this (not in order):

Daft Punk, "Digital Love"
Cherish, "Do It To It"
Ciara, "Oh"
Natasha Bedingfield, "Unwritten"
Miranda Lambert, "Kerosene"
Girls Aloud, "Biology"
Rihanna, "Don't Stop the Music"
Gwen Stefani, "Early Winter"
Los Campesinos, "You! Me! Dancing!"
JoJo, "Too Little Too Late"

1.Radiohead
2.Jonny Greenwood
3.Thom Yorke
4.Joanna Newsom – Ys
5.George - The Magic Lantern
6.Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
7.Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia - My Elixir; My Poison
8.Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
9.Scott Walker - The Drift
10.Piano Magic - I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow EP
11.Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
12.Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
13.Portishead - Third
14.Clinic - Internal Wrangler
15.Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
16.Akira Rabelais - Eisoptrophobia
17.Beth Gibbons - Out of Season
18.The Tiger Lilies & Kronos Quartet - The Gorey End
19.Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
20.Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
21.Autechre - Confield
22.Hood - Outside Closer
23.Herbert - Bodily Functions
24.The Matthew Herbert Big Band - Goodbye Swingtime
25.Josephine Foster - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
26.Islaja - Ulual Yyy
27.Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
28.Final Fantasy - fuck you guys I'm not writing down this album title
29.Blonde Redhead - 23
30.Phonophani - Oak or Rock
31.Sylvie Courvoisier – Abaton
32.Aaliyah – s/t
33.Maja Ratkje – Voice
34.Broadcast & The Focus Group - Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
35.Barbara Morgenstern – Fjorden
36.Caribou - Andorra
37.David Sylvian - Blemish
38.Björk – Medúlla
39.Serafina Steer - Cheap demo bad science
40.The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
41.Marissa Nadler – Ballads of Living and Dying
42.Haco/Sakamoto Hiromichi – Ash In the Rainbow
43.Mara Carlyle – The Lovely
44.Anja Lechner / Vassilis Tsabropoulos - Chants, Hymns And Dances
45.Niobe - White Hats
46.Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Született
47.Zeena Parkins – Necklace
48.Jamie Lidell – Multiply
49.Cyann & Ben - Sweet Beliefs
50.Espers – II
51.Suzy Mangion – The Other Side of the Mountain
52.Susan Alcorn – Curandera
53.Islaja – Meritie
54.Hans Appelqvist - Att Möta Verklighetenv
55.Black Forest/Black Sea - Forcefields and Constellations
56.Retribution Gospel Choir – s/t
57.Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
58.A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms
59.The Delgados - Hate
60.Colleen - Et Les Boites A Musique
61.PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
62.Bogdan Raczynski - MyLoveILove
63.Charalambides – A Vintage Burden
64.Missy Elliot - Miss E So Addictive
65.Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding-jazz-records
66.Paul Lansky – Alphabet Book
67.Lali Puna – Scary World Theory
68.Erik Friedlander & Teho Teardo – Giorni rubati
69.Outkast – Stankonia
70.Modeselektor – Happy Birthday
71.Burial – Untrue
72.Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles
73.Matt Elliott – Drinking Songs
74.Diamanda Galás – Guilty Guilty Guilty
75.Sybille Baier – Colour Green
76.Electrelane – The Power Out
77.Tom Waits - Alice
78.Various Production – The World is Gone
79.Belbury Poly - The Owl's Map
80.Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel
81.M.I.A. – Kala

etc.

Can anyone recommend me some hip-hop singles? Since I'm not an native English speaker most of the time I don't get hip-hop because I rarely focus on the lyrics, so my attention is almost completely drawn to the production techniques. The only hip-hop which enthuses me this decade so far is those with production similar by J Dilla or MF Doom. Sort of big immersive beats with a dash of psychedelia, something which I can play without focusing on the lyrics so much...I suppose not focusing on the lyrics when listening to hip-hop is sort of missing the point... but still, I love the sound.

Any song recommendations please?

I'm not the biggest hip-hop fan around (by any stretch). But I think GhostFace is maybe/probably the best album artist of the decade. Up through the new disc (which I haven't heard), you can't go wrong sampling his songs, e.g., Shakey Dog, Walk Around, the first non-skit song from the Ironman album (title escapes me).

Sorry if those aren't "singles," per se. I listed what I know/recall.

Yeah I like Ghostface. Jellyfish and Walk Around are some of my favorites of his.

Yeah, Jellyfish is great, too.

Oddly enough I do understand and get most of the lyrics when listening to artists like Madvillian or Ghostface Killah. So asides having a wicked production in their songs I love their lyrics.
Must be they sound like they're stoned most of the time which makes it easier to understand them since they speak slower.

lol

1. The Notwist – Neon Golden
2. Alcest – Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
3. Lambchop – Nixon
4. The Goslings – Grandeur Of Hair
5. VA – Nigeria 70
6. Lamb – What Sound
7. Clutch – From Beale Street To Oblivion
8. Man Man – Six Demon Bag
9. Joe Henry – Tiny Voices
10. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

Alternate list:
Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Jenny Scheinman - 12 Songs
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Ellen Allien - Flieg Mit Ellen Allien
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Opeth - Watershed

as of right now

25. my chemical romance - the black parade
24. cam'ron - purple haze
23. lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
22. young jeezy - the recession
21. electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
20. the hold steady - boys and girls in america
19. be your own pet - be your own pet
18. fall out boy - folie a deux
17. the clipse - we got it 4 cheap vol. 2
16. lil wayne - da drought 3
15. the-dream - love vs money
14. young dro - best thang smokin
13. girl talk - night ripper
12. phoenix - it's never been like that
11. the clipse - lord willin'
10. outkast - stankonia
09. the exploding hearts - guitar romantic
08. bloc party - silent alarm
07. jay-z - the blueprint
06. lil wayne - tha carter II
05. the strokes - room on fire
04. the-dream - love/hate
03. los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster
02. the strokes - is this it
01. kanye west - the college dropout

In no order:

Sun City Girls- Sumatran Electric Chair
Richard Youngs- Airs Of The Ear or maybe Naive Shaman
Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
Ghostface- Supreme Clientele or Fishscale
Jerry Goldsmith- Hollow Man [film score]
Scott Walker- The Drift
Hold Steady- Separation Sunday
Daft Punk- Live
Howard Shore- Fellowship Of The Ring or maybe The Cell [film scores]
The Knife- Silent Shout
Current 93- Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain or maybe Halo
Hyphy Hitz
Von Sudenfed- Tromatic Reflexxions
George Crumb- American Songbook Books 1 through 4
Kajia Saariaho- Cinq Reflets or maybe Notes On Light
Michael Nyman- The Claim [film score]

But these are awesome and might make it:

Mastodon- Leviathan
LCD- Sound o' Silver
Tyr- Land
Madder Mortem- Eight Ways
Cuban Linx vol. 2
Slough Feg- Atavism
Micranots- Emperor And The Assassin

Yeah, I slighted Mastodon and Slough Feg on my list.

Need to hear:

New Flaming Lips
Heaven & Hell album
Judas Priest- Nostradamus
Freak Of Araby

And forgot about:

Clipse- Hell Hath No Fury
Alexandre Desplat- Girl With A Pearl Earring or maybe The Golden Compass [film scores]
Mountain Goats- The Sunset Tree
Elmer Bernstein- Far From Heaven [film score]

I'll probably never be happy with this, but my top 20 albums list is lookin like:

1. Discovery – Daft Punk
2. In Rainbows – Radiohead
3. Supreme Clientele – Ghostface Killah
4. Stankonia – OutKast
5. (s/t) – Broken Social Scene
6. New Amerykah Part One – Erykah Badu
7. (s/t) - Fever Ray
8. Alive 2007 – Daft Punk
9. Donuts – J Dilla
10. Pick a Bigger Weapon – The Coup
11. Is this It – The Strokes
12. Kid A – Radiohead
13. The Milk-Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom
14. De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta
15. It’s Never Been Like That - Phoenix
16. Late Registration – Kanye West
17. Night Ripper – Girl Talk
18. Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
19. The Blueprint – Jay-Z
20. Kala – M.I.A.

Now to work on a singles list.

FWIW I could have easily put Fishscale and maybe even Pretty Toney on there, but Supreme Clientele is already there and I wanted to give some other rappers some shine. I know I have 2 albums each from Daft Punk and Radiohead, but in both cases they seem like such different records, both essential in their own way. I think LCD SS deserves a spot too, but I couldn't decide on one. I think 43:55 is my favorite, but it doesn't seem like enough of an ALBUM, y'know?

the Coup album is a nice (and unexpected) pick.

Jon Lewis OTM about these two :
Alexandre Desplat- Girl With A Pearl Earring
Elmer Bernstein- Far From Heaven
The two best soundtracks of this decade imo

top 15 (not in order)
1. John Shough - Ultra Vega
2. Radiohead - Amnesiac
3. Thingy - To the Innocent
4. Archer Prewitt - Three
5. Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
6. King Creosote - Kenny and Beth's Musakal Boat Rides
7. King Creosote - Rocket D.I.Y.
8. King Creosote - KC Rules OK
9. Califone - All My Friend's Are Funeral Singers
10. Sin Ropas - Trickboxes on the Pony Line
11. The Sea and Cake - Glass EP
12. Kevin Ayers - Unfairground
13. Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
14. Jim Guthrie - Now More Than Ever
15. Death in June - All Pigs Must Die
(granted that all of these albums have klunkers on them. I just press skip and enjoy a shorter album if need be)

top 10 honorable mentions:
The Sea and Cake - Oui
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Pinback - Offcell EP
Radiohead - Kid A
Tortoise - It's All Around You
Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
Autechre - Confield
Brian Wilson - Smile
Quasi - Hot Shit
Archer Prewitt - Wilderness

notice that of the 25 albums I mentioned only 4 of them made Pitchfork's top 200: Brian Wilson, Radiohead, Radiohead, Jim O'Rourke (plz correct me if or if I'm wrong or missing one)

Man I want to make a singles list, but it's gonna be so tough! There are just a ridiculous number of songs I love from the last 10 years, just in hip hop alone! Not nearly as easy to quantify as albums IMO.

Likely my top pick though, a true all-time incredible classic, is "Le Retournille" by Sébastien Tellier. I hope it gets its due on the ILX poll (was it even on the Pitchfork list at all?)

Couldn't get the list below 20 albums. Sue me:

•Richard Hawley – The Ocean

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― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, May 24, 2009

Messed up. Richard Hawley's disc is Cole's Corner (The Ocean is the first single from it). What a fantastic disc, especially as summer fades into autumn.