My Top Ten (or more) of The Decade
Where possible, I try to give credit where it's due
Until around the winter of 2002 I was mainly into pop-emo and pop-punk. Here are my best albums from 2000-2004 in these categories:
More Betterness-No Use For a Name
Punk in Drublic-NOFX
Pinkerton-Weezer
Through Being Cool-Saves the Day
Around 2002-2005 a combination of O'Brien's yearbook office, a chance song on the radio, some time at the Manor, and a ride to a Dodger game w/ Jesse got me going on my next four:
"O"-Damien Rice (KMOB)
Self-titled- Nickel Creek (KZLA)
American IV-Johnny Cash (Sycz)
Creek Drank the Cradle- Iron and Wine (Gloyd)
Ocean Avenue- Yellow Card (old habits die hard)
What got me through Peae Corps 2005-2007:
Chutes Too Narrow-the Shins
Parsely, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme- S & G
Grace-Jeff Buckley
2007-Present:
Self-titled-Grand Archives
Mountain Preacher's Child-Ralph Stanley
Still Crooked-Crooked Still (possibly the dumbest album name ever)
Self-titled-Old and in the Way
Plans-Deathcab for Cutie
Self-titled-Fleet Foxes
Picaresque-Decemberists
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Yes! I've been waiting for someone to post theirs. Excellent.
And mine (in no particular order):
1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
3. Fugazi - The Argument
4. Johnny Cash - Amercian III
5. The Red West - s/t
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. Tom Waits - Bawlers
10. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Very hard to narrow it down to 10. I'm sure that I'll be rethinking these for the next few weeks. Others that were vying for a spot: Sigur Ros - (), DJ Shadow - The Private Press, Postal Service - Give Up, Elliott Smith - Figure 8, Animal Collective - Feels, Grizzly Bear - Yellow House, Panda Bear - Person Pitch, Battles - Mirrored. I seem to be feeling fairly nostalgic as most of the albums appear Bayou-era, but it was a meaningful time.
Anyway, who's next?
I was wondering when this was going to go down. Yes, also hard to prune the list. In no particular order:
1. Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (2000) The Dandy Warhols
2. Amnesiac (2001) Radiohead
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) Wilco
4. Mirrored (2007) Battles
5. Talkie Walkie (2004) Air
6. Figure 8 (2000) Elliot Smith
7. Funeral (2004) Arcade Fire
8. White Blood Cells (2001) The White Stripes
9. Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
10. ( ) (2002) Sigur Ros
Others in the mix
Cease to Begin, Band of Horses
Illinois (2005) Sufjan Stevens
Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) Coldplay
Yeasayer (2007) All Hour Cymbals
The Beginning Stages of... (2002) Polyphonic Spree
Oh inverted world, The Shins
Sea Change (2002) Beck
Postal Service, Give up
(It is hard for me to make a call on anything in the last 3 years I guess.)
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Also, by virtue of missing the 00's deadline a few slamdunk choices missed the cut:
Brushfire Fairytales, Jack Johnson
Play, Moby
White Ladder, David Gray
Anything by DC Talk, Newsboys, Five Iron Frenzy and the Supertones.
Oops, sorry. Also on honorable mention: Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008).
Word.
Matts,
Collective Word on Fleet Foxes, Grand Archives, Red West, and Grizzly Bear.
Oh man. All such good albums. We may need to extend it to a top 20-25.
1. Avalanches - Since I Left you (Europe 2002)
2. Justice - Cross
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Battles - Mirrored
5. BRMC - Take Them On, On Your Own
6. M83 - Saturday=Youth
7. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
8. Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
9. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
(Got me through a rough time in MN)
funny, this is very early decade, but they seem to outway the more recent great albums. in general it's the old pre-decade albums that have made more of an impact late-decade
in no particular order:
u2-atyclb
tom waits-bawlers
blur-think tank
wilco-yhf
ryan adams-heartbreaker
coldplay-rush of blood to the head
spoon-ga ga ga ga ga
m. ward-post war
my morning jacket-it still moves
wilco-sky blue sky
after further deliberation and a bottle of wine:
danger mouse-grey album replaces my morning jacket-it still moves
I forgot one more: Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg and Wilco
C'mon. No one else? Kooter? J-Glo? Mr. Baby? Bueller?
My top albums
YHF - Wilco
Love and Theft - Dylan
Music From Big Pink - The Band
The Wind - Warren Zevon
Haih Or Amortecedor - Os Mutantes
Little Criminals - Randy Newman
Moonlight & Love Songs - Leon Russell (with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra)
The Legend of Blind Joe Death - Blind Joe Death
Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson
The Last DJ - Petty
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Big Slow Mover - Phil Cody
were these supposed to be albums we "listened to" this past decade or albums "released" this past decade. Cause if there was a re-released album of Pet Sounds, I missed it.
Whichever you'd like.
the last dj!
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