Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade

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!

First of all, I'm glad this thread finally got bumped. Second, haters chill. If you read the first post, this thread is more about Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade so far. Your entire top ten won't come from the next six months no matter how many riches they burp up. So tell us your fave albums/singles so far. And find me an Aughties metal band as amazing as The Angelic Process.

Tim F, surprised to see The Knife missing from your top ten albums.

2. Several songs in one
This represents the worst of mainstream pop.

Wait a minute, Geir. Aren't you on fire for "several songs in one?" Isn't that precisely what "Supper's Ready" and acres of prog are all about?

Surprising to me how little I'm really enthusiastic. Can certainly get behind:

Arcade Fire, Funeral (seems much older; had to double-check it was released after 1999.)
New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
The Mountain Goats, All Hail West Texas
Belle and Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The White Stripes, Elephant

And beyond that, I'm not sure! Maybe the first Man Man record, maybe Widow City, maybe Talkie Walkie, maybe What's Happening in Pernambuco... but much as I liked these records when I got them I haven't really returned to them.

KJB,

So when we're gonna this for real, can we start a new thread?

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

I think it's understood that these are supposed to be the favorites SO FAR.. they're going to change over time anyway.

single of the decade imo..

80's and 60's were better, but 00's was not bad.

important question: was "Say My Name" this decade or 90's?

Allmusic says it was a single in 2000 but the album came out in 1999.

Maybe should have included Voodoo in my list.

k.. as of now..

01 Daft Punk “One More Time”
02 The White Stripes “Dead Leaves On The Dirty Ground”
03 T.I.”What You Want”
04 Clipse “Grindin’”
05 Outkast “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)”
06 Yo Majesty “Club Action”
07 Daft Punk “Digital Love”
08 M.O.P. “Ante Up”
09 Jay-Z “Girls Girls Girls”
10 Radiohead “Pyramid Song”
11 At.The.Drive.In “One Armed Scissor”
12 The Strokes “Hard To Explain”
13 The Rapture “House Of Jealous Lovers”
14 Jay-Z “99 Problems”
15 System Of A Down “Chop Suey!”
16 Three 6 Mafia “Stay Fly”
17 PJ Harvey “This Is Love”
18 Jimmy Eat World “Bleed American”
19 Ne-Yo “Because Of You”
20 Kylie Minogue “Come Into My World”

Ante Up! I can't believe I forgot M.O.P. Whatever happened to those guys?

I think it's understood that these are supposed to be the favorites SO FAR.. they're going to change over time anyway.

er, people saying this are missing the point. obviously it is 'so far', what else could it be? i mean just why not wait another 6 months at least.

M.O.P. Preps 3 Albums in Next 12 Months
theyve been busy

single of the decade

Beyoncé ft. Jay Z - Crazy in Love

"Tim F, surprised to see The Knife missing from your top ten albums."

It's in the top 20 definitely. Basically anything in my top 20 could be top 10.

I cant scroll any further down, this is so frustrating :p

just kidding

holy shit, i forgot "umbrella"!

1. Playing The Angel - Depeche Mode
2. The Invisible Band - Travis
3. Life On Earth - Crowded House
4. X&Y - Coldplay
5. Sounds Of The Universe - Depeche Mode
6. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
7. sMiLe - Brian Wilson
8. Phantom Power - Super Furry Animals
9. Chaos And Creation In The Backyard - Paul McCartney
10.Sea Change - Beck

(Have to think of singles somewhat more, but one very strong contender would be Electric Soft Parade's "Silent To The Dark")

wow, this is very loose and in no order, but the list would definitely feature some of the following. i haven't thought about putting a list like this together previously.

alain bashung - l'imprudence
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
radiohead - kid a
daft punk - discovery
mclusky - mcklusky do dallas
shiina ringo - karuki zamen kuri no hana
converge - jane doe
cursive - the ugly organ
the blood brothers - ...burn, piano island, burn

1. Shameless samples
2. Several songs in one
4. Shtick
5. Novelty
6. House music that sounds like Shakedown: "At Night"
7. Irritating repetitions

Girl Talk.

Yeah, Girl Talk's Night Ripper will probably end up on a lot of lists. It sounds so contemporary, winking ironically but lovingly back toward the past.

(and maybe not so ironically)

um... here's a try (off top of head):

Albums:
Brandy Full Moon
Broadcast Tender Buttons
Britney Blackout
Mary J. Blige The Breakthrough
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One
Bjork Vespertine
Mariah The Emancipation of Mimi
The-Dream Love Me All Summer...
R. Kelly Chocolate Factory
Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine (Leak)

Singles:
Ciara "Promise"
Roisin Murphy "Let Me Know"
Britney "I'm A Slave 4 U"
Aaliyah "Rock The Boat"
Kelis & Andre 3000 "Millionaire"
Omarion "Icebox"
Alicia Keys "You Don't Know My Name"
Amerie "1 Thing"
Jazmine Sullivan "In Love With Another Man"
Lady GaGa "Just Dance"

>_<

The-Dream Love Me All Summer...

^^^what's this?

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

* * * *

― 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.