25 Best albums of the Decade!
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Well I made a list of my 25 best albums of the decade, feel free to post yours, even if its juts your top 3 or 5 or whatever you can churn out!
1.Radiohead-Kid A
2.Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
3.System of a Down-Toxicity
4.Tool-Lateralus
5.ISIS-Panopticon
6.Mastodon-Leviathan
7.A Perfect Circle-Thirteenth Step
8.At the Drive In-Relationship of Command
9.Nine Inch Nails- With Teeth
10.Pearl Jam-Binaural
11.Lamb of God-As the Palaces Burn
12.White Stripes - Elephant
13.Liam Finn-Ill be Lightning
14.Once-OST
15.Damien Rice-0
16.Gorillaz-Demon Days
17.K-Os-Joyful Rebellion
18.Mastodon-Crack the Skye
19.Radiohead-Amnesiac
20.Pearl Jam-Avocado
21.John Frusciante-To Record Only Water For 10 Days
22.High on Fire- Blessed Black Wings
23.Greenhornes-Dual Mono
24.John Butler Trio-Sunrise over Sea
25.Opeth-Blackwater Park
1.Radiohead-Kid A
2.Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
3.System of a Down-Toxicity
4.Tool-Lateralus
5.ISIS-Panopticon
6.Mastodon-Leviathan
7.A Perfect Circle-Thirteenth Step
8.At the Drive In-Relationship of Command
9.Nine Inch Nails- With Teeth
10.Pearl Jam-Binaural
11.Lamb of God-As the Palaces Burn
12.White Stripes - Elephant
13.Liam Finn-Ill be Lightning
14.Once-OST
15.Damien Rice-0
16.Gorillaz-Demon Days
17.K-Os-Joyful Rebellion
18.Mastodon-Crack the Skye
19.Radiohead-Amnesiac
20.Pearl Jam-Avocado
21.John Frusciante-To Record Only Water For 10 Days
22.High on Fire- Blessed Black Wings
23.Greenhornes-Dual Mono
24.John Butler Trio-Sunrise over Sea
25.Opeth-Blackwater Park
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1. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
2. The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow
3. Green Day- American Idiot
4. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
5. Arcade Fire- Funeral
6. Beck- Sea Change
7. Incubus- Morning View
8. The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
9. Pearl Jam- Pearl Jam
10. Thrice- Vheissu
11. Wilco- A Ghost Is Born
12. Radiohead- In Rainbows
13. Dashboard Confessional- The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
14. Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American
15. Rise Against- The Sufferer and the Witness
16. The Shins- Oh Inverted World
17. AFI- Sing the Sorrow
18. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
19. Incubus- A Crow Left of the Murder
20. Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
21. Idlewild- The Remote Part
22. Death Cab for Cutie- Plans
23. The Swell Season- Once Soundtrack
24. Ben Folds- Way to Normal
25. Mark Lanegan- Bubblegum
How in the world can you have Plans in your list and not Transatlanticism?
IMO, Plans is by far their worst album ... everyone has a different opinion, I know ... but, man, Plans ahead of Trans? I just don't get it.
btw ... see here for more album of the decade comments ... viewtopic.php?f=9&t=119457&p=2687332&hilit=death+cab#p2687332
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
2.Arcade Fire - Funeral
3.Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4.Bob Dylan - Modern Times
5.Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
6.The National - Boxer
7.Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
8.Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise
9.Radiohead - Kid A
10.Libertines - Up The Bracket
11.Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
12.Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
13.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
14.Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
15.Sigur Rós - ()
16.Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
17.Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
18.Pearl Jam - Binaural
19.Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
20.Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
That was kinda fun to do. Some of the placings could easily be changed around - I love all these albums and it's hard to rank them. I would say the first seven are the ones I listen to the most, though. I could have chucked another couple of Radiohead and Ryan Adams albums in there but tried to share the love a bit.
The Point - Oct 26, 1996
The Point - Jun 01, 2000
The Point - Aug 23, 2006
M.E.N. Arena - Aug 17, 2009
The 02 - Jun 22, 2010
Odyssey Arena - Jun 23, 2010
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Company of Thieves - Ordinary Riches
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Strokes - Is This It
White Stripes - Elephant
Black Crowes - Before the Frost
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Okay, this is tougher than I thought. I'm going to cut it short here, and I know I'm missing tons of stuff I really loved this decade. Going home to check my music and I'll get back to ya ;-)
2. Get Behind Me Satan - White Stripes
3. Into the Wild - Eddie Vedder
4. White Blood Cells - White Stripes
5. Backspacer - Pearl Jam
6. Riot Act - Pearl Jam
7. Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
8. Warpaint - Black Crowes
9. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants - Oasis
10. Shine On - Jet
11. Murray Street - Sonic Youth
12. Get Born - Jet
13. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
14. Icky Thump - White Stripes
15. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Various Artists
16. Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace - Foo Fighters
17. Comfort Eagle - Cake
18. Everyday - Dave Matthews Band
19. Binaural - Pearl Jam
20. Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis
21. Out of Exile - Audioslave
22. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
23. Elephant - White Stripes
24. By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
25. Raising Sand - Robert Plant, Allison Krauss
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1. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
3. Pearl Jam - Binaural
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6. The Strokes - Is This It
7. White Stripes = Elephant
8. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
9. Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
10. Marah - Kids in Philly
11. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
12. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
13. Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
14. Company of Thieves - Ordinary Riches
15. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
16. Eddie Vedder - Into the WIld
17. Cat Power - You Are Free
18. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
19. The Darkness - Permission to Land
20. Supergrass - Supergrass
21. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
22. Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend
23. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
24. REM - Accelerate
25. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
I love Transatlanticism. I really do. It was the album that introduced me to Death Cab. But I think Plans is a better album from start to finish. Just brilliant, catchy songs. I love Narrow Stairs too.
1. Mark Lanegan- Bubblegum
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Pearl Jam - Binaural
5. My Morning Jacket - Z
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Beck- Sea Change
8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
9. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
10. Nine Inch Nails- With Teeth
11. Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
12. Sigur Rós - ()
13. Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
14. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
15. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
16. Audioslave - Audioslave
17. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
18. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
19. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
20. Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise
21. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
22. Janes Addiction - Strays
23. Jerry Cantrell - Degredation Trip (1&2)
24. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
25. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
Honorable Mention (I know, its a total cop out... but I can't leave these out completely)
1. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
2. Neil Young - Greendale
3. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast
4. Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
6. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
7. Robert Randolph - Unclassified
8. Sigur Rós - Takk
9. Soulsavers - Its not how far you fall, Its the way you Land
10. Weezer - Green Album
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Sigur Ros- () [2002]
The Black Angels- Passover [2006]
The Mars Volta- Frances The Mute [2005]
Radiohead- Kid A [2000]
Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven [2000]
Alela Diane- The Pirate's Gospel [2006]
Yo La Tengo- I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass [2006]
Portishead- Third [2008]
Peter Gabriel- Up [2002]
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss- Raising Sand [2007]
Entrance- Prayer Of Death [2006]
Secret Machines- Now Here Is Nowhere [2004]
Cloud Cult- Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus [2005]
Common- Be [2005]
The Black Heart Procession- Amore Del Tropico [2002]
UNKLE- Never, Never Land [2003]
Augie March- Strange Bird [2002]
Eminem- The Eminem Show [2002]
Seamonster¹- Tsunamin Audio Prism [2000]
Johnny Cash- American IV: The Man Comes Around [2003]
School Of Seven Bells- Alpinisms [2008]
TV On The Radio- Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes [2004]
Explosions In The Sky- Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever [2001]
My Morning Jacket- Okonokos [2006]
Gorillaz- Demon Days [2005]
The Good Life- Album Of the Year [2004]
The Black Keys- Rubber Factory [2004]
Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere [2006]
Poe- Haunted [2000]
Jedi Mind Tricks- Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell [2006]
Particle- Launchpad [2004]
The Decemberists- The Crane Wife [2006]
Caribou- Milk Of Human Kindness [2005]
Headless Heroes- The Silence Of Love [2008]
Set Fire To Flames- Sings Reign Rebuilder [2001]
Ween- Quebec [2003]
Unwound- Leaves Turn Inside You [2001]
The Mountain Goats- Tallahassee [2002]
LCD Soundsystem- Sound Of Silver [2007]
The Ponys- Celebration Castle [2005]
Solid Gold- Bodies Of Water [2008]
Alicia Keys- Songs In A Minor [2001]
A Perfect Circle- Mer De Noms [2000]
Sade- Lovers Rock [2000]
Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan- Ballad Of The Broken Seas [2006]
Zero 7- Simple Things [2001]
Tenacious D- Tenacious D [2001]
Heiruspecs- A Tiger Dancing [2004]
Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther [2006]
Robert Wyatt- Cuckooland [2003]
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1. Our Lady Peace, Spiritual Machines
2. Joe Strummer & The Mescalaros, Streetcore
3. The Weakerthans, Reconstruction Site
4. Idlewild, Warnings/ Promises
5. Clutch, Robot Hive: Exodus
6. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
7. Social Distortion, Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll
8. The Black Keys, Attack & Release
9. Matt Mays, When the Angels Make Contact
10. Jimmy Eat World, Bleed American
11. Kid Dakota, A Winner’s Shadow
12. The Kills, Midnight Boom
13. Franz Ferdinand Tonight
14. Splender, To Whom It May Concern
15. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam
16. Green Day, Warning
17. The Weakerthans, Left and Leaving
18. Sam Roberts, We Were Born In a Flame
19. Weezer, Maladroit
20. Eve 6 Horrorscope
21. Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Matt Mays
22. Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
23. American Hi-Fi, American Hi-Fi
24. Ash, Free All Angels
25. Sinclaire, Attention Teenage Girls
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I actually love the self-titled album. Probably my fourth favorite Pearl Jam album. And I don't think it's been a shitty decade. Actually, it's been a fantastic one. Just really different from the 90s, and different to me is good. I suppose it has been, in lieu of a better term, the decade of "indie rock." Most of the albums on my list didn't near a million copies sold. The average mainstream rock fan probably has never listened to many of them, at least not all the way through. Things have changed.
As for the person defending Binaural, I totally get that other people enjoy the album. And I enjoy parts of it. But for me, it is the worst Pearl Jam album. I think the band even referred to it as their black sheep. In a decade where there's been so much great music, it's hard for me to fathom Binaural being in the top 25, or even top 50 or 100. But again, this is all about opinion. I am sure people would question many of my choices.
How could I forget to include Nothing as it Seems in my list of great songs from that album?? Meant to include it - killer song.
1. broken social scene - you forgot it in people
2. neko case - middle cyclone
3. wilco - a ghost is born
4. bright eyes - i'm wide awake it's morning
5. my morning jacket - z
6. arcade fire - funeral
7. the shins - chutes too narrow
8. wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
9. sonic youth - rather ripped
10. of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
11. neko case - furnace room lullaby
12. my morning jacket - it still moves
13. m. ward - post war
14. radiohead - in rainbows
15. the strokes - is this it?
16. queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
17. my morning jacket - at dawn
18. broken social scene - broken social scene
19. bright eyes - lifted or the story is the soil keep your ear to the ground
20. neko case - fox confessor brings the flood
21. califone - roots and crowns
22. bob dylan - modern times
23. grizzly bear - vecketamist
24. flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
25. radiohead - hail to the theif
honorable mentions
pearl jam - riot act
wilco - sky blue sky
neko case - blacklisted
sonic youth - murray street and sonic nurse
kevin drew - spirit if...
white stripes - get behind me satan
bob dylan - love and theft
liam finn - i'll be lightning
eddie vedder - into the wild
monsters of folk
yo la tengo - i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass, popular songs
m. ward - transfiguration of vincent
animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
deer tick - war elephant
the antlers - hospice
deerhunter - microcastle
dan auerbach - keep it hid
the killers - hot fuss
what do you mean less depth in terms of great albums. are you saying there weren't 25 great albums in the past 10 years? maybe you just haven't bothered to listen to enough music to find the ones you like.
I meant really GREAT albums. Albums that will really be remembered forever. There are a few of these lists floating around at the moment on the net and I tried to make one just for fun but it has been a very mediocre decade. Albums that make a lot of the top 50s in this decade wouldn't stand a chance in many other decades. You are right that I haven't explored as much this decade, but I did spend three years working in record stores during that period and the best of it still doesn't match up. It's only my opinion but only the 80s were worse...
Pearl Jam 10.30.2009
oh wait, i thought this was top albums not released
i think you might be right in a way. i think there have been a lot of great albums released this decade, but i agree that a lot of them might not be remembered forever. hell, some people have forgotten about them already. i think the fans of said albums however, will remember them forever. i think there are two major factors to blame for this. one being that the great albums of today aren't really part of the mainstream. i'm sure there were a lot of great records from the other decades that flew under the radar, but you also had great albums that had huge success in the mainstream. the 60's and 70's had the beatles, dylan, the stones, the dead, velvet underground, zeppelin, the clash, hendrix, the who, floyd, springsteen, the doors etc. the 80's had prince, the talking heads, a lot of carry overs fromt he previous decades (don't listen to a lot of 80's music) and the early 90's had the grunge movement. these artists were pumping out classics and also happened to be huge mainstream acts. i don't know too many people that don't know the names i've just mentioned, but i bet if you asked people if they ever heard of wilco, 80% would ask you if you were talking about a gas station.
i think the other factor is that the internet has really exploded this decade. it's almost like an overload of music, and it makes it harder for certain bands to gain that recognition of greatness from media, which might skew the public perception. a lot of people don't listen to albums anymore. people shuffle their i pods and albums are downloaded without artwork and often not even put onto their own disc by the owner. i can see how someone who isn't actively searching new music could think this decade has been pretty weak. you have the mainstream media trying to convince you that the new u2, coldplay, green day and springsteen albums are worthy of 5 star reviews, and that kanye west is a genius. you have great bands from the 90's like pearl jam and oasis who have, in my opinion, put out a rather boring collection of albums this decade (aside from riot act!). i think if some of the great albums this decade were a little more well known, the past ten years would look pretty great. anyway, i'm gonna cut this short because i'm a bit busy and shouldn't really be playing on a message board right now, but i think you get the point. maybe over time, some of this music will get the respect it deserves.
Good point and I think that the internet is changing music so quickly it is difficult for us to keep up. However, a lot of the great albums from the 60s and 70s surfaced some years later as real classics and got the recognition they deserved - like Can, Love, Beefheart, Television, New York Dolls, Neu, Johnathon Richman, Pere Ubu, etc. Not great commercial sucesses but good stuff always gets found out eventually. Hopefully, some of the great stuff from this decade will get recognised instead of just the mainstream stuff.
I rate the 90s very highly because I'm British and we had our own explosion after grunge was dethroned and 'Brit Pop' really did produce some amazing work. Blur 'Parklife' and 'Modern Life Is Rubbish', Suede "dog Man Star' and the first album, Underworld, Portishead, Massive Attack, Longpigs 'The Sun Is Often Out', The Las, MSPs masterpiece "The Holy Bible', Pulp, The Verve, Oasis and so on. The list really does go on and on. It really was an exciting time to be British and although there was some dross about at the time, plenty of those albums still stand up as works of real artistic merit. Perhaps my own opinion is a little Anglophilic as I don't see the British music scene as having done much during the last ten years. Sure, there have been bits and pieces, plenty of Libertines rip off bands, but nothing like the excitement of that era. It was jam packed with great bands and I think that the tag Brit POP put a lot of people off, it was a real and very valid rock scene.
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Into the Wild - EV
Binaural - PJ
Whatever People Say I Am .. Arctic Monkeys
Lifted or the Story is in the Soil.. - Bright Eyes
2 - Billy Talent
Lapalco - Brendan Benson
Plans - Death Cab for Cutie
Songs from an American Movie Vol 1 - Everclear
American Idot - Green Day
Bleed America - Jimmy Eat World
Sams Town - The Killers
Because of the Times - Kings of Leon
Up the Bracket - Libertines
Start Something - Lost Prophets
I'm Not Dead - Pink
Odyssey No. 5 - Powderfinger
Consolers of the Lonely - Raconteurs
By The Way - RHCP
Room on Fire - The Strokes
Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday
With Love & Squalor - We Are Scientists
White Blood Cells - White Stripes
Sha Sha - Ben Kweller
Feeler - Pete Murray
I restricted it to one from each artist
Folks these days just don't do nothing simple for the love of it
Avocado is on my list because it came out at a life changing time for me and is really more about where i was and what i was going through at that time and how that album played into that and affected me at the time, cheesy i know. I saw 14 shows on that tour so that helps as well.
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