With only a few months left of this decade what do you think were the best albums? I’d go with the following.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: ‘Lift Your Skinny Fists…’
jesu: ‘Jesu’
Radiohead: ‘Kid A’
Godflesh: ‘Hymns’
Boards of Canada: ‘The Campfire Headphase’
King Crimson: ‘The Power To Believe’
Mogwai: ‘Happy Songs for Happy People’
Tom Waits: ‘Real Gone’
Opeth: ‘Watershed’
Tomahawk: ‘Anonymous’
I’d also mention ‘Heart Ache’ & NIN’s ‘Still’ as worthy releases.
Damn. Tough call. I’m gonna need a while. Some paper and a pen too. I’ll be back.
Hmm… in alphabetical order, and likely to change tomorrow:
400 Blows - Black Rainbow
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Fever Ray - s/t
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
The National - Boxer
The The - NakedSelf
Throbbing Gristle - TG-Now
And the entire discography of TV on the Radio, the band which I think has artistically dominated the decade.
In no order…
Amon Tobin “Supermodified”
Amon Tobin “Out From Out Where”
Amon Tobin “Foley Room”
Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
Aceyalone “Accepted Eclectic”
Zeph & Azeem “Rise Up”
Roots Manuva “Run Come Save Me”
Akron/Family “Love Is Simple”
Animal Collective “Strawberry Jam”
Meursault “Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues”
here’s my pick, in no order:
Lull- Like a Slow River
Dead Voices on Air- From Labrador to Madegscar
Outkast- Stankonia
Primal Scream- XTRMNTR
Pop Levi- Never Never Love
Amon Tobin- Out From Out Where
Legendary Pink Dots- Plutonium Blonde
Meat Beat Manifesto- Autoimmune
Beehatch- Brood
Final- Dead Air
Oops!
Better add…
Akron Family/Angels Of Light split album
Jesu “Heart Ache”
Jesu “Conqueror”
Hrmmm… Best albums of the '00’s?
I’d say (in no particular order) :
** Ministry - Animositisomina (shameful that none of you put this in your lists!)
** Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Lift Your Fists…
** Jesu - Heartache
** Norma Jean - Oh God! The Aftermath
** Pelican - City Of Echoes
** Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
** My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
** Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
** Between The Buried And Me - Colours
** Godflesh - Hymms
And don’t flame me. I like a little bit of everything but there wasn’t a plethora of great music this decade in my opinion.
[size 2]Best of the Zeroes, thus far…
Flowering Blight: “The Perfect Pair”
Mona Mur & En Esch: “120 Tage: The Fine Art of Beauty and Violence”
Halo: “Body of Light”
Halo: “Guattari: From the West Flows Grey Ash and Pestilence”
Paradise Lost: “Paradise Lost”
Whitehouse: “Bird Seed”
Dessau: “The Truth Hurts”
Jesu: “Heartache”
Pig Destroyer: “Natasha”
Ministry: “Animositisomina”[/size]
…but there wasn’t a plethora of great music this decade in my opinion.
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Whitehouse - Asceticists 2006
Scott Walker - The Drift
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark 2
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Sunn O))) - White 2
Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste
Einsturzende Neubauten - The Jewels
Faust/Nurse With Wound - Disconnected
Aaron Dilloway - Rotting Nepal
Iannis Xennakis - Persepolis Remixes
Grails - Doomsdayers Holiday
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
Troum - AIWS
New Risen Throne - Whispers Of The Approaching Wastefulness
Prurient - Cocaine Death
John Zorn - Film Works XIX: The Rain Horse
Fennesz - Black Sea
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Jim O’Rourke - I’m Happy And I’m Singing And A 1,2,3,4
Nurse With Wound - Huffin’ Rag Blues
Tool - Lateralus
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Ginnungagap - Remeindre
Current 93 - The Inmost Light Trilogy
fuck i don’t think i can do this… will try… post later…
fuck i don’t think i can do this… will try… post later…
I hear ya’ brother!
If I were to do this I’m pretty sure that Nikki Sixx’s “Life Is Beautiful” would be some where on that list toward the top, right behind the Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah”
Late,
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And don’t flame me. I like a little bit of everything but there wasn’t a plethora of great music this decade in my opinion.
That’s because you’ve heard fuck all music this decade obviously[cool]
Tool - Lateralus
How the hell did I forget that one… shameful. That is definitely one of the best of 2000s.
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Yeah great album although I thought Strawberry Jam was much stronger. There was also ALOT of hype surrounding MPP so I guess I was expecting something better than Strawberry Jam which imho didn’t happen.
Have you heard Akron/Family Peligro? If not check out the following albums…if you dig those go backwards to their first which is a very mellow affair.
Akron/Family/Angels Of Light split album
Love Is Simple
Set’em Wild, Set’em Free
Can’t easily do a top 10 list, be here are 10 favorites in no particular order:
The Knife “Silent Shout”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Show Your Bones”
MIA “Arular”
Cliff Martinez “Soundtrack to Solaris”
Goldfrapp “Black Cherry”
M83 “Saturdays = Youth”
Cut Copy “In Ghost Colours”
Aesthetic Perfection “A Violent Emotion”
Primal Scream “Evil Heat”
Modernist “Kangmei”
Oy vey, I can’t do it. But here’s the ol’ college try in no particular order…
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Mogwai - Happy songs for happy people
Men’s Recovery Project - Bolides over Basra
Coil - Black Antlers
Death in June - Alarm Agents
Converge - Jane Doe
Duchess Says - Anthologie
Aesthetic Perfection - A Violent Emotion
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
The Knife “Silent Shout”
I hated this album. Really hated it.
This is a hard task. There’s been so much good music in the last 5 or 6 years it makes my head spin.
The latest Throbbing Gristle would be right up there as would the last few Coil albums. A heap of black/dark ambient metal too. Not to mention a ton of releases off Southern Lord.
Primal Scream “Evil Heat”
Their last two albums are horrendous - especially Riot City Blues. Utterly atrocious music. And this is coming from someone who has Screamadelica on vinyl and on cd and who has seen them in concert 3 times.
The little I heard of the last Primal Scream didn’t do it for me, but Evil Heat is awesome, my friend! Kevin Shields does a great job on production, it sounds like an electro-industrial bastard MBV with PS vox and I think the album holds up better than does Xterminator, which is still quite fine.
I should have included Coil’s “Ape of Naples”, loved that. The new TG was good, but didn’t really get a lot of listens from me, I’d have rather it been Chris, Peter and Cosey sans Gen. Gen can be a bit much.
Nearly impossible, but i’m just going to go with whatever comes to mind first, and in no particular order:
Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle
Ghosts - Nine Inch Nails
Devils In My Details - ohGr
Bloodflowers - The Cure
Yanqui U.X.O - Godspeed You Black Emperor
Future Perfect - Autolux
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
Fear Of A Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
Takk - Sigur Ros
and on a whim…
Love - Foetus
Actually, considering the next decade starts in 2011, there is still plenty of time left to make a list like this.