Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade

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.