My Best of the Naughts List (And Yours Too)

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Well, everyone's weighing in on the Best of the Decade Lists, and I thought I might have my say. I listened to a lot of music this decade, but most of it was old. MP3 allowed me to discover tons of forgotten and obscure bands that I now love. This makes compiling a list of new(ish) music extremely difficult. The past century of recorded music is now all blurred together in my head. I'm sure there are albums I love that came out in the last decade that I have mistakenly assumed were from previous decades. So this list is not exhaustive, and it is also not representative of my tastes. This list, ultimately, represents the new albums I discovered this decade that I found myself returning to, or albums that surprised me with their strength. In some cases, it's just one song that gets me. In other cases, its the whole package. This list is also heavily weighted to the first half of the decade, as I genuinely think music got worse and worse over the course of the decade. This was also the decade when a lot of bands released very promising demos and pre-album EPs, but then turned out very lackluster albums. (See Voxtrot, Long Blondes, Pulp) and the decade when some great bands eschewed albums altogether. 1- Happy Supply - Crucial Cuts 2- The Delgados - The Great Eastern 3- Baxendale - You Will Have Your Revenge 4- Hefner - We Love the City 5- Postal Service - Give Up (I think I need to justify this one because there's a lot of hate out there for this band. It took me years to admit it myself, and all the commercialization made it hard, but I think 'Such Great Heights' is the best song of the decade. If you disagree, you're probably wrong.) 6- Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens 7- Jarvis - The Jarvis Cocker Solo Album (I'll admit, it has 3 or 4 great songs) 8- Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock n Roll 9- Arcade Fire - Funeral 10- M.I.A. - Kala OK, not a great list... but it's better than Jarvis' list. Yours? -- Edited by Fuss Free on Thursday 10th of December 2009 12:58:55 PM __________________

Mike

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For some reason, the idea of compiling a best-albums-of-the-decade doesn't appeal to me, so I'm going to write out the Best Songs of the '00s playlist I made on iTunes. 1. "Big Exit," PJ Harvey 2. "The Cigarette Girl From the Future," Beauty Pill 3. "Honeymoon with You," Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 4. "Bought Your Ghost," The Bigger Lovers 5. "Paint's Peeling," Rilo Kiley 6. "The Reasons," The Weakerthans 7. "There She Goes, My Beautiful World," Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 8. "First of the Gang to Die," Morrissey 9. "Good Weekend," Art Brut 10. "Feel Good Inc," Gorillaz 11. "Star Witness," Neko Case 12. "I Will Kill Again," Jarvis Cocker 13. "Pink Steam," Sonic Youth 14. "Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)," Beyonce 15. "Rigor Mortis," Wussy 16. "Paper and Glue," Emma Pollock 17. "Key to the House," Mono in VCF 18. "The World is in the Terlet," Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 19. "Esketa Dance," Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics 20. "Norman Bleik," I Was a King __________________ Back from the dead -- Music From a Bachelor's Den!

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Mike wrote: For some reason, the idea of compiling a best-albums-of-the-decade doesn't appeal to me, so I'm going to write out the Best Songs of the '00s playlist I made on iTunes. Probably the smarter way to go seeing as 'the album' as a pop music institution is dead. There are a lot of songs out there that I like on albums I otherwise can't stand. But trying to compile a list of songs from the thousands I heard this decade can be very intimidating, and would consume way more time than it's actually worth. Maybe I'll give it a try once I'm on holiday break. __________________

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It's funny though. I still like albums. I have a best of '09 album list. But for the some reason, the whole best-of-'00 album list thing... I can't be bothered, for whatever reason. __________________ Back from the dead -- Music From a Bachelor's Den!

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Jarvis has a list? Where? __________________

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1 Radiohead - Kid A 2 Arcade Fire - Funeral 3 Sigur Ros - ( ) 4 Asobi Seksu - Citrus 5 Pulp - We Love Life 6 Portishead - Third 7 The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls 8 Radiohead - In Rainbows 9 St. Vincent - Actor 10 The Knife - Silent Shout 11 Beck - Sea Change 12 Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis 13 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights 14 Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill 15 Muse - Origin of Symmetry 16 The Strokes - Is This It? 17 Cat Power - The Covers Record 18 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 19 M83 - M83 20 Tool - Lateralus 21 Ladytron - Witching Hour 22 Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly 23 Scott Walker - The Drift 24 Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM 25 Radiohead - Amnesiac 26 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell 27 Blonde Redhead - 23 28 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 29 Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 30 Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons 31 Deerhunter - Microcastle 32 Thom Yorke - The Eraser 33 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 34 Muse - Absolution 35 The White Stripes - Elephant 36 Bat for Lashes - Two Suns 37 Air - Talkie Walkie 38 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 39 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 40 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 41 Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? 42 Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 43 Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back 44 Asobi Seksu - Hush 45 Ladytron - Velocifero 46 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 47 Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer? 48 Islands - Return to the Sea 49 Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People 50 Feist - Let It Die __________________

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Bort wrote: Jarvis has a list? Where? Check out this post: http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=93104&p=3&topicID=32779909 __________________ Back from the dead -- Music From a Bachelor's Den!

Eamonn

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The tracks I've chosen aren't in order of best/favourite, cos that would take too long to muse over. Instead, choosing my artists by ''year'' in Windows Media Player these are my faves...no doubt I've left a few out. I have managed to choose an album for each year though. Similar to FussFree, this decade was one in which I discovered and listened to a hell of a lot of singers and bands that released stuff from before this decade. I was 15 on the 1st of Jan 2000 so most of my musical education has come in this past decade. In fact when the millenium bug was due to strike the only Pulp album I knew (albeit inside-out) was Different Class. That New Year's Eve, December 31st 1999, an Irish tv station broadcast the ''The Park Is Mine'' film from Pulp's gig at Finsbury Park in the summer of '98. I taped it ( I spent Millenium Eve helping my Dad out at a gig he was playing in a pub...think I got roped into singing Don't Look Back In Anger). Little did I know at the time just how much that band would occupy my thoughts and soundtrack my life over the next decade. Anyway...this thread isn't about Pulp but music in general, so this is some of my favourite contemporary stuff that kept me smiling (or feeling sad) and humming over the past ten years. Songs: 2000 Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness Outkast - Ms Jackson The White Stripes - Pretty Good Looking For A Girl Sugababes - Overload Black Rebel Motorcyle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock'n'Roll Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block 2001 Weezer - Island In The Sun Daft Punk - Aerodynamic Eminem - Guilty Conscience White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl System Of A Down - Toxicity The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist Pulp - Wickerman Super Furry Animals - Juxtaposed With You The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So 2002 Badly Drawn Boy - How? The Coral - Dreaming of You McAlmont & Butler - Falling Johnny Cash - I Hung My Head Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Can't Stop Supergrass - Prophet 15 The Libertines - Time For Heroes 2003 The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun Blur - Out of Time Goldfrapp - Strict Machine TaTu - All The Things She Said Radiohead - Drunken Punch-Up At A Wedding Richard Hawley - Run For Me The Thrills - Big Sur The Strokes - Under Control Nick Cave - He Wants You 2004 Ash - Evil Eye Morrissey - Come Back To Camden Franz Ferdinand - Dark of the Matinee Interpol - C'mere The Long Blondes - Appropriation By Any Other Name Girls Aloud - Love Machine 2005 Antony and the Johnsons - Spiralling Maximo Park - Acrobat Bloc Party - Banquet Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc Supergrass - St Petersberg The Tears - The Asylum 2006 The Strokes - Ize of The World CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum The Long Blondes - Swallow Tattoo The Killers - When You Were Young Jarvis - Cunts Are Still Running The World Lily Allen - Nan You're A Window Shopper Morrissey - Dear God, Please Help Me Pulp - It's A Dirty World from a re-issue 2007 Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours Klaxons - Golden Skans Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm/Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend Arcade Fire - Intervention Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights PJ Harvey - Grow Grow Grow 2008 Portishead - The Rip Lisa Hannigan - Lille The Long Blondes - Going To Hell Girls Aloud - The Promise Weezer - Troublemaker 2009 Jarvis - Discosong/Girls Like It Too Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone The Noisettes - Never Forget You Lady Gaga - Papparazzi Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life White Lies - Death ALBUMS: 2000 The Avalanches - Since I Left You 2001 The Strokes - Is This It 2002 The Streets - Original Pirate Material 2003 The White Stripes - Elephant 2004 Arcade Fire - Funeral 2005 Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner 2006 Jarvis - Jarvis 2007 Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future 2008 Portishead - Third 2009 Let's Wrestle - In The Court of Wrestling, Lets -- Edited by Eamonn on Tuesday 15th of December 2009 02:41:06 AM __________________ Tell mester to fck off!*

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Top 25 albums of the last decade. 1 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses \| 2005 2 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part \| 2001 3 Stereophonics - You Gotta Go There To Come Back \| 2003 4 Richard Ashcroft - Human Conditions \| 2002 5 Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell \| 2004 6 Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen \| 2007 7 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights \| 2005 8 Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody \| 2000 9 Beck - Sea Change \| 2002 10 Einstürzende Neubauten -Silence Is Sexy \| 2000 11 Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants \| 2000 12 Blur - Think Tank \| 2003 13 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! \| 2008 14 Ryan Adams - 29 \| 2005 15 Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5.55 \| 2006 16 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head \| 2002 17 Einstürzende Neubauten - Grundstueck \| 2005 18 A Heavy Nite With... Relaxed Muscle \| 2003 19 Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform \| 2001 20 Beck - Modern Guilt \| 2008 21 Wolfmother - Wolfmother \| 2006 22 The Strokes - Room On Fire \| 2003 23 Radiohead - Kid A \| 2000 24 Ray LaMontagne - Trouble \| 2004 25 Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia \| 2000 __________________ This is the sound of someone losing the plot, making out that they are okay when they are not. You're gonna like it, but not a lot.