Albums of the Decade

[azaghal1981]

Yoshimi = most overrated album of the last 30 years.

[nkotb]

I don't know if I'd go that far, but I definitely don't understand people's fascination with it.  Yeah, it's a pretty good album, but it's nowhere near as good as probably 4 other Lips' albums.  Of course, if you had to include one of their albums from the last decade, it would have to be that, no?  I mean, At War With The Mystics was pretty subpar, and while I love Embryonic, it's way too new to make that kind of list.

Yoshimi = most overrated album of the last 30 years.

[sweetcell]

it's way too new to make that kind of list.

you bring up an interesting point: albums released in the last year of the decade are unfairly disadvantaged in these lists, we haven't had time to appreciate them as fully as an album that's been around longer (i.e. do we go back to it, or is it one and done).  the KEPX list only has 2 albums from 2009, out of 91... doesn't seem right (and Phoenix seems unfairly low on the list).

[thirsty moore]

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

First thing I thought. A Grand Don't Come for Free is awful.

[Driveway]

My top 15:

1. Nada Surf - Let Go
2. Pedro The Lion - Control
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Bell
5. Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
6. Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times
7. Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
8. Plus/Minius - Holding Patterns EP
9. Rogue Wave - Asleep at Heaven's Gate
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
11. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
12. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
13. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
14. Interpol - Antics
15. Destroyer - Rubies

this is limiting one album per artist.

[azaghal1981]

Any top 10 list that doesn't have McLusky Do Dallas on it is meaningless.

[nkotb]

Any top 10 list that doesn't have McLusky Do Dallas on it is meaningless.

This ^^^^^

[imbecile]

Any top 10 list that doesn't have McLusky Do Dallas on it is meaningless.

This ^^^^^

I was about to comment on that as well.. #67 seems a might bit low for that gem.

[nkotb]

If I weren't too lazy to do a best shows of the Aughts, their set at the Velvet Lounge would be close to #1 or #2.  They destroyed that place, and there was free beer, to boot!

Any top 10 list that doesn't have McLusky Do Dallas on it is meaningless.

This ^^^^^

I was about to comment on that as well.. #67 seems a might bit low for that gem.

[James Ford]

Forgive me for not putting any Arcade Fire, White Stripes, or Radiohead on my list. And please forgive the length. It was a long decade.

1. Drive By Truckers, Southern Rock Opera (2002)
2. Nada Surf, Let Go (2002)
3. Wilco, Sky Blue Sky (2007)
4. Brendan Benson, Lapalco(2002)
5. Beulah, Coast is Never Clear,(2001)
6. The Libertines, Up the Bracket (2002)
7. My Morning Jacket,Z (2005)
8. Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)
9. Devotchka, How It Ends, (2004)
10. Pernice Brothers, World Won't End (2001)
11. Drive By Truckers, Decoration Day (2004)
12. Josh Rouse, 1972 (2003)
13. Bobby Bare Jr, Young Criminals Starvation LEaugue (2002)
14. The Shins, Oh Inverted World (2001)
15. Pernice Brothers, Yours Mine and Ours (2003)
16. Jens Lekman, Night Falls Over Kortedela (2007)
17. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black (2007)
18. Richard Hawley, Cole's Corner (2005)
19. Band of Horses, Cease to Begin (2007)
20. The Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (2003)
21. Drive By Truckers, The Dirty South (2004)
22. Old 97's, Satellite Rides (2001)
23. Son Volt, Okemah and the Melody or Riot (2005)
24. Thad Cockrell, Warmth and Beauty (2003)
25. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
26. Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America (2006)
27. Okkervil River, The Stage Names (2007)
28. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes (2008)
29. BR549, Tangled in the Pines (2004)
30. Apples in Stereo, #1 Hits Explosion (2009)
31. Fountains of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers (2003)
32. Joan as Police Woman, Real Life (2006)
33. Sondre Lerche, Hearbeat Radio (2009)
34. Justin Earle, Midnight at the Movies (2009)
35. Kasey Chambers/Shane Nicholson Rattling Bones (2008)
36. The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
37. Shearwater, Rook (2008)
38. M. Ward, Post War (2006)
39. Joseph Arthur, Nuclear Daydream (2006)
40. Camera Obscura, Let's Get Out of This Country (2006)
41. The Long Winters, When I Pretend To Fall(2002)
42. Rilo Kiley, The Execution of All Things (2002)
43. Robbie Fulks, Georgia Hard (2005)
44. Stars, Heart (2003)
45. Keren Ann, Nolita (2005)   
46. Nick Lowe, The Convincer (2001)
47. Josh Rouse, Nashville (2005)
48. M. Ward, Hold Time (2009)
49. Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha (2007)
50. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009) 
51. Avett Brothers, I and Love and You (2009)
52. St. Vincent Marry Me (2008)
53. Frightened Rabbit, Midnight Organ Flight (2008)
54. Nellie Mckay, Get Away From Me (2004)
55. Drive By Truckers, Brighter Than Creations Dark (2008)
56. Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand (2004)
57. Belle and Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
58. Drive By Truckers, Alabama Ass Whoopin (2002)
59. Super Furry Animals, Dark Days/Light Years (2009)
60. Hot Hot Heat, Elevator (2005)
61. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
62. Velvet Crush, Soft Spot (2002)
63. Joe Henry, Scar (2001)
64. Josh Rouse, Under Cold Blue Stars (2002)
65. Andrew Bird, Noble Beast (2009)
66. Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle (2009)
67. Ron Sexsmith, Retriever (2003)
68. Merle Haggard, Roots (2001)
69. Wilco, A Ghost is Born (2004)
70. Comas, Conductor (2004) 
71. The Strokes, Is This It? (2001)
72. Spoon, Gimme Fiction (2005)
73. Yo La Tengo,I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat You Ass (2006)
74. Paul Weller, As is Now (2005)
75. Laura Cantrell, Not the Tremblin' Kind (2000)
76. Gotan Project, Lunatico (2006)
77. The High Strung, These Are Good Times (2003)
78. Bettye Lavette, Scene of the Crime (2007)
79. Jolie Holland, Escondida (2004)
80. My Morning Jacket, Okonos (2006)
81. Ben Kweller, Ben Kweller (2006)
82. Slobberbone, Everything...(2000)
83. What Made Milwaukee Famous, Trying to Never Catch Up (2006)
84. Feist, The Reminder (2007)
85. Charlotte Gainsbourg, 5:55 (2006)
86. Josh Ritter, Animal Years (2006)
87. Death Cab For Cutie, Narrow Stairs (2008)
88. Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter (2009)
89. Okkervil River, The Stand Ins (2008)
90. Elvis Perkins in Dearland (self titled) (2009)
91. Of Montreal, Satanic Panic in the Attic (2004)
92. Yo La Tengo, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000)
93. M. Ward Transistor Radio(2005)
94. Arlo, Stab the Unstoppable Hero (2002)
95. Sweetheart 2004 (2004)
96. Santogold,s/t (2008)
97.  Hayes Carll, Trouble in Mind (2008)
98. Teddy Thompson, A Piece of What You Need (2008)
99. The Walkmen, You and Me (2008)
100. Jim O'Rourke, Insignificance (2001)
101. A.A, Bondy, American Hearts (2008)

[kosmo vinyl]

No Idlewild or Ash on anyone's lists?

[vansmack]

Here's The OC Top 50:

http://soundcheck.freedomblogging.com/2010/01/08/oc-oughties-the-50-best-albums-of-the-00s/17285/

No surprise who's at the top....

[sweetcell]

Here's The OC Top 50:

http://soundcheck.freedomblogging.com/2010/01/08/oc-oughties-the-50-best-albums-of-the-00s/17285/

No surprise who's at the top....

if the authors of that craplist (except for SD, obvs) wanna start padding their best-of-the-'10s list, here's a prime candidate:

Now on to the bad. The really, really spectacularly bad.

Ladies and gentlemen, 2010 is only 12 days old and it gives me absolutely no pleasure at all to announce we already have an undisputed champion for worst album of the year (actually, unless Sarah Palin decides to go into hip-hop or Nancy Pelosi finds her inner club diva, it'll probably end up the worst album of the decade).

I now present for your extreme discomfort and displeasure, "I'll Do It," the first track from Heidi Montag's debut album, Superficial. (Ya' gotta love truth in advertising.)

Now can someone please tell me why she sounds like a contestant from "RuPaul's Drag Race"? Is that on purpose? I'm not sure I've EVER heard a female singer who sounds like a man trying to sound like a woman. (I just gave myself a headache.)

As anyone in the Pollstar office can tell you, I can listen to just about anything and I actually enjoy some music that would send most people screaming for the exits. But I?m drawing the line here. Whoever is responsible for allowing this album to be released on an unsuspecting public needs to be strapped into a chair and forced to listen to it repeatedly for the next year or until their brain burns out.

What?s really amazing is that this abomination took three years to make. Wow. All that time and it still sounds like this? Somebody call the people at the ?Guinness Book of World Records.?

Without a trace of irony, Montag told People magazine, ?"I want to make the new 2010 version of a pop star. I want to become a galaxy star.?

Heidi hon, you definitely made something, but people usually attach the phrase ?steaming pile of? to things like this.

So here?s the track in all its glory, streaming at People?s Web site. Check it out for yourself. (Please note the "empowering" lyrics the Heid-ster composed for this piece of audio spam.) And don?t say you weren?t warned.

Oh, look at the time. 15 minutes just don't seem to last as long as they used to, do they?

http://pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/01/12/705010.aspx

[Relaxer]

Let's not jump to conclusions here
Even Paris had a pretty solid track, Stars are Blind or something or other, on her album
I think Heidi Montag deserves our attention to her art

[kosmo vinyl]

Here's a list that includes some of my favorite songs of the last decade...

http://littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/Coolest50Songs.html