Albums of the Decade

[Sage 703]

Well, I guess it is about that time.  Anybody have a list yet?  I don't, but I'm starting to see them crop up.

I've never seen a list that negated the credibility of a publication in my mind as quickly as this one did:

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/08/albums-of-decade-2000-2009.html

gorilla vs. bear's favorite albums of the decade | 2000-2009

01 panda bear | person pitch (2007)
02 the strokes | is this it (2001)
03 ghostface killah | supreme clientele (2000)
04 outkast | stankonia (2000)
05 radiohead | kid A (2000)
06 j dilla | donuts (2006)
07 sufjan stevens | michigan (2003)
08 burial | untrue (2007)
09 joanna newsom | the milk-eyed mender (2004)
10 m.i.a. + diplo | piracy funds terrorism vol. I (2004)
11 sigur ros | Ágætis Byrjun (2000*)
12 the arcade fire | funeral (2004)
13 white denim | fits (2009)
14 animal collective | feels (2005)
15 the streets | a grand don't come for free (2004)
16 grizzly bear | veckatimest (2009)
17 clipse | hell hath no fury (2006)
18 beach house | devotion (2007)
19 madvillain | madvillainy (2004)
20 the knife | silent shout (2006)

[walkonby]

franz ferdinand / you can have it so much better - franz ferdinand
system of a down - toxicity
mars volta - francis the mute
lcd sound system - sound of silver
white stripes - elephant

god, of the whole decade?! . . . that could take another decade to list!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

It's about time someone acknowledges Michigan was far, far superior to Illinois.

I haven't really started on my list yet, but I will. But I will tell everyone that Source Tags and Codes is going to be very high on it. Most backlashed amazing record of the decade for sure.

[nkotb]

I'd agree...Madonna is the better record, but as it was 1999, it loses out.  Still, what the fuck were they thinking post ST&C?  Anyone that likes those records if flat out wrong.

It's about time someone acknowledges Michigan was far, far superior to Illinois.

I haven't really started on my list yet, but I will. But I will tell everyone that Source Tags and Codes is going to be very high on it. Most backlashed amazing record of the decade for sure.

[redsock]

I'd agree...Madonna is the better record, but as it was 1999, it loses out.  Still, what the fuck were they thinking post ST&C?  Anyone that likes those records if flat out wrong.

It's about time someone acknowledges Michigan was far, far superior to Illinois.

I haven't really started on my list yet, but I will. But I will tell everyone that Source Tags and Codes is going to be very high on it. Most backlashed amazing record of the decade for sure.

Dude, that is BS. I don't understand people who don't appreciate their later stuff somewhat at least. Sure, it is different, but it is all very very good....

[azaghal1981]

I like Feels but choosing that over Sung Tongs or even Spirit They're Gone is laughable.

[nkotb]

Just listen to their horrendous GBV cover.  That should say it all.

Dude, that is BS. I don't understand people who don't appreciate their later stuff somewhat at least. Sure, it is different, but it is all very very good....

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

I like Feels but choosing that over Sung Tongs or even Spirit They're Gone is laughable.

This.

Sung Tongs is the best thing they'll ever do.

[JohnnyBaconbitz]

Off the top of my head and in no particular order......

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sufjan - Illinois
Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Strokes - Is This It
Shins - On Inverted World
White Stripes - DeStijl/Elephant
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Spoon - GaGaGaGaGa
Wilco - YHF (numero uno)
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi
Decemberists - Picaresque
SM + Jicks - Face the Truth
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
DFA1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac/In Rainbows
New Pornos - Mass Romantic
Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon

[Justin Tonation]

My favorites, copied from my FB posts:

1. Sun - Sun (Oren Ambarchi and Chris Townend) (Staubgold, 2003)
2. Fennesz - Venice (Touch, 2004)
3. Wire - Send (Pinkflag, 2003)
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino, 2009)
5. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (DFA, 2005)
6. David Sylvian - Blemish (Samadhi Sound, 2003)
7. Autechre - Confield (Warp, 2001)
8. Dälek - Absence (Ipecac, 2004)
9. M.I.A. - Arular (XL, 2005)
10. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote, 2009)
11. Kinky - Kinky (Sonic360, 2002)
12. Oval - Ovalprocess (Thrill Jockey, 2000)

[azaghal1981]

Putting A Grand Don't Come for Free over Original Pirate Material is laughable/stupid/nonsensical, too.

[Vas Deferens]

putting anything by the Streets in the top 20 of the decade is laughable.
and grizzly bear's last album? haha.

Putting A Grand Don't Come for Free over Original Pirate Material is laughable/stupid/nonsensical, too.

[Vas Deferens]

nothing by Ted Leo + the Pharmacists?!  insane.

[Mobius]

Daft Punk Alive 2007

Radiohead  Kid A / Amnesiac / In Rainbows

Strokes  Is This It / Room on Fire

White Stripes  The Peel Sessions

[James Ford]

Here's the KEXP listener list:

1 Arcade Fire Funeral Merge (2004) 
2 Radiohead Kid A Capitol (2000) 
3 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Nonesuch (2002) 
4 Radiohead In Rainbows ATO (2007) 
5 Sufjan Stevens Illinois Asthmatic Kitty (2005) 
6 Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism Barsuk (2003) 
7 The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Warner Bros (2002) 
8 Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica Epic (2000) 
9 Band of Horses Everything All the Time Sub Pop (2006) 
10 Fleet Foxes  Fleet Foxes  Sub Pop  (2008) 
11 The Strokes Is This It RCA (2001) 
12 The National  Boxer  Beggars Banquet (2007) 
13 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow Sub Pop (2003) 
14 Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights Matador (2002) 
15 The White Stripes Elephant V2 (2003) 
16 The Postal Service Give Up Sub Pop (2003) 
17 LCD Soundsystem  Sound of Silver  Capitol (2007) 
18 Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Anti- (2006) 
19 Arcade Fire  Neon Bible  Merge (2007) 
20 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Domino (2009) 
21 PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From the Sea Island (2000) 
22 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People Arts & Crafts/Paper Bag (2003) 
23 The Wrens The Meadowlands Absolutely Kosher (2003) 
24 The White Stripes White Blood Cells  Sympathy for the Record Industry (2001) 
25 Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun Fatcat (2001) 
26 Sigur Ros Takk Geffen (2005) 
27 Radiohead Amnesiac Capitol (2001) 
28 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell Interscope (2003) 
29 Beck Sea Change DGC (2002) 
30 Radiohead Hail to the Thief Capitol (2003) 
31 Bjork Vespertine Elektra (2001) 
32 Elliott Smith Figure 8 Dreamworks (2000) 
33 Amy Winehouse  Back to Black  Universal Republic (2007) 
34 Beck Guero Interscope (2005) 
35 TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain Touch and Go (2006) 
36 Neko Case Blacklisted Bloodshot (2002) 
37 Shins Oh, Inverted World Sub Pop (2001) 
38 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Saddle Creek (2005) 
39 Bloc Party Silent Alarm Vice (2005) 
40 Ryan Adams Heartbreaker Bloodshot (2000) 
41 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America Vagrant (2006) 
42 Death Cab for Cutie Plans Atlantic (2005) 
43 Outkast Stankonia LaFace / Arista (2000) 
44 Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News Epic (2004) 
46 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah self-released (2005) 
47 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Domino (2006) 
48 Sigur Ros ( ) Fat Cat (2002) 
49 The Decemberists The Crane Wife Capitol (2006) 
50 M.I.A. Arular XL (2005) 
51 Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary Sub Pop (2005) 
52 Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak RCA (2005) 
53 Spoon Gimme Fiction Merge (2005) 
54 Spoon Kill the Moonlight Merge (2002) 
55 Devotchka How It Ends Cicero (2004) 
56 Nada Surf Let Go Barsuk (2003) 
57 My Morning Jacket Z ATO/ RCA (2005) 
58 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend XL (2008) 
59 Band of Horses  Cease to Begin  Sub Pop  (2007) 
60 Beirut The Flying Club Cup Ba Da Bing (2007) 
61 M.I.A. Kala Interscope (2007) 
62 TV on the Radio  Dear Science  Interscope  (2008) 
63 The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree 4AD (2005) 
64 The Knife Silent Shout Mute (2006) 
65 Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Saddle Creek (2002) 
66 Beirut Gulag Orkestar Ba Da Bing! (2006) 
67 Mclusky Mclusky Do Dallas Too Pure (2002) 
68 Interpol Antics Matador (2004) 
69 The Decemberists Picaresque Kill Rock Stars (2005) 
70 The Black Keys Rubber Factory Fat Possum (2004) 
71 The Black Angels Passover Light in the Attic (2006) 
72 Grizzly Bear Yellow House Warp (2006) 
73 Andrew Bird  Armchair Apocrypha  Fat Possum (2007) 
74 Silversun Pickups Carnavas Dangerbird (2006) 
75 Wilco  Sky Blue Sky  Nonesuch (2007) 
76 My Morning Jacket It Still Moves ATO/RCA (2003) 
77 Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Merge (2007) 
78 The Shins  Wincing the Night Away  Sub Pop (2007) 
79 Panda Bear  Person Pitch  Paw Tracks (2007) 
80 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Glassnote (2009) 
81 Built to Spill You in Reverse Warner Bros (2006) 
82 Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days Sub Pop (2004) 
83 The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics Warner Bros (2006) 
84 Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere Downtown (2006) 
85 The Thermals The Body The Blood The Machine Sub Pop (2006) 
86 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Domino (2004) 
87 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago Jagjaguwar (2008) 
88 Tom Waits Orphans Anti- (2006) 
89 Animal Collective Strawberry Jam Domino (2007) 
90 Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block Wichita (2006) 
90.3 Portishead Third Mercury (2008)