Music: Your Favorite Albums of the 2000s (2000-2009)

Shareefruck

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I got some decent mileage out of the 2010s albums thread and grew appreciation for some that I had previously dismissed, but still, I suspect that it's a pretty weak decade in general. I'm curious what gems I'm missing from the 2000s, so let's discuss/compare our preferences/recommend each other things.

These are the ones that have more or less held up for me.

4.5 (Brilliant)
1. The Unseen by Quasimoto
2. Drukqs by Aphex Twin
3. In Rainbows by Radiohead
4. Mm.. Food by MFDoom


4.0 (Flawless)
5. Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
6. Madvillainy by Madvillain
7. The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox


3.5 (Great)
8. Amnesiac by Radiohead

9. Harmony in Ultraviolet by Tim Hecker
10. Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
11. Kid A by Radiohead


3.0 (Very Good)
12. Rushup Edge by The Tuss

13. Vision Creation Newsun by Boredoms
14. Pop by Gas


2.5 (Good)
15. Haunt Me Haunt Me Do it Again by Tim Hecker
16. Untrue by Burial
 
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kihei

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Top Twenty (Rock and Pop)

I
n Rainbows--Radiohead
Blackstar--David Bowie
A Moon Shaped Pool--Radiohead
Third--Portishead
Hail to the Thief--Radiohead
Fantasies--Metric
Absolution--Muse
Heathen Chemistry--Oasis
Corinne Bailey Rae--Corinne Bailey Rae
Alvvays--Alvvays
Kid A--Radiohead
X & Y--Coldplay
Morning Orbit--David Usher
Fallen--Evanescence
Deadwing--Porcupine Tree
Shotter's Nation--Babyshambles
Broken Social Scene--Broken Social Scene
Amnesiac--Radiohead
All That You Can't Leave Behind--U2
Images du futur--Suuns

Later: Oops, my list is for the century.
 
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Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior
Brandi Carlile - The Story
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Neil Young - Living with War
Warren Zevon - The Wind
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
 

Spring in Fialta

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Top Twenty (Rock and Pop)

I
n Rainbows--Radiohead
Blackstar--David Bowie
A Moon Shaped Pool--Radiohead
Third--Portishead
Hail to the Thief--Radiohead
Fantasies--Metric
Absolution--Muse
Heathen Chemistry--Oasis
Corinne Bailey Rae--Corinne Bailey Rae
Alvvays--Alvvays
Kid A--Radiohead
X & Y--Coldplay
Morning Orbit--David Usher
Fallen--Evanescence
Deadwing--Porcupine Tree
Shotter's Nation--Babyshambles
Broken Social Scene--Broken Social Scene
Amnesiac--Radiohead
All That You Can't Leave Behind--U2
Images du futur--Suuns

Do you like rap music?
 

todeskultes

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I don't think I'm going to do this in any particular order:

Lebenden Toten Near Dark - Hardcore is probably my favourite genre of music, the noisier the better. This band is untouchable in my eyes when it comes to insanely noisy hardcore. Check out the title track, great driving bass-line and amazing feedback and phaser-ridden guitar work. Insanely good drummer too.

Disclose A Mass of Raw Sound Assault - Japanese d-beat legends. I heard this before really getting into hardcore and d-beat so this didn't click at first. I did later though, big time. They don't have bad songs.

Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness - Just a brilliant genre-spanning record that seriously scratched an itch in my seeking out of dark music. "The Big Gloom" and "The Hunter" are great songs and "Earthmover" is a hell of an ending to the record.

Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein - Great lyricism and possibly my favourite instrumentals in a hip hop record. El-P is a genius. "Pigeon" may just be my favourite hip hop song ever.

Coil The Ape of Naples - Great, very haunting record. "Amber Rain" is such a beautiful and unnerving song. Definitely not on the industrial side as Horse Rotorvator was, but Coil can do no wrong in my eyes.

IRM Virgin Mind - I love power-electronics and this is easily one of my favourite projects out there. Nerve-wracking, noisy, and foreboding. "The Actor" is a highlight for me, excellent spoken-word/sample.

Yaphet Kotto Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love - I really don't listen to screamo much anymore but this record is still phenomenal in my eyes. Great from start to finish. "Highly Enlightened" and "Of Epic Proportions" are high points for me.

Buried Inside Chronoclast - Maybe my favourite concept record and one which actually has a very interesting thematic concept. The instrumentation is outstanding, particularly the drumming. It's atmospheric sludge metal at its best. "Time as Surrogate Religion" is easily my favourite track.

Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine Rampton - I think this was their only release, they took their name from Earth. A drone/doom metal supergroup featuring Lee Dorrian (Napalm Death/Cathedral) on vocals, Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson [Sunn O)))] on guitar, and Justin Greaves (Iron Monkey) on drums. The members say it all for me, super heavy, super good. "The Smiler" is the highlight for me.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Post-rock is one of the most boring, formulaic, and overdone genres in my opinion. This is coming from someone who was obsessed with post-rock for probably five years, it was all I listened to. GY!BE is one of the only post-rock bands that I still like. They're the best in mine and, I think, many others' opinion. They always make use of great samples while being masters of dynamics and contrast. "Sleep" is probably my favourite song on the record.

Sigur Rós ( ) - Wow, two post rock albums. The only other post-rock band I particularly like. Beautiful album that could make the list solely due to the second half of "Track 8".

Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights - Amazing post-punk revival. A debut album that the band will likely never be able to surpass. It actually took me a long time to finally listen to this whole album but when I did I was kicking myself for taking so long. I have a bad tendency to get turned off by what I perceive as bad tracks and can then take a while to give it a proper listen. Once I finally got past NYC I was blown away. "PDA" and "Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down" are the highlights for me. I particularly adore the outro to "PDA".

Radiohead Kid A - For the longest time I thought Radiohead was the most overrated band ever. I never gave them a proper shot as I had only heard "Creep", "Just", "Karma Police", and "Reckoner". I assumed they were just boring alternative rock. Finally, on the urging of two of my friends, I gave Kid A a shot and at once I felt like I got it. It's a great record, still haven't listened to any of their others in their entirety, I love art rock so this was a no-brainer to start with. "The National Anthem" and "Morning Bell" are highlights for me.

Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers - This kind of has a weird place on my list. I see this called slowcore, which I can see but it certainly has a much more experimental quality to it that most other slowcore I've listened to. I don't really know if I would rate it as one of my favourites compared to the others but it's just such a unique album to me. It sounds like it was recorded while making use of the Remain in Light method of stitching together sounds. It has a certain jarring quality to it which I just love. "Gin Over Sour Milk" is one of my favourite songs right now (which is a big reason this made the list). I adore the, I think guitar, going in the background with what sounds like a delay just on the cusp of going into self-oscillation.

Boris Feedbacker - My favourite Boris record. "Pt. 2" when Wata comes in around the eight minute mark all the way through to the end is the highlight for me. Especially the beginning of "Pt. 3" where it sounds like the guitar is being run through an octave fuzz or something, totally insane.

That's it, I may add more later.
 
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1. Keane - Hopes & Fears (2004)
2. kent - Du & Jag Döden (2005)
3. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows (2000)
4. Keane - Under The Iron Sea (2006)
5. The National - Boxer (2007)
6. Puressence - Don't Forget To Remember (2007)
7. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
8. kent - Tillbaka Till Samtiden (2007)
9. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
10. Oceansize - Frames

Others I'd' recommend:
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Hey Rosetta - Into Your Lungs & Around Your Heart
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Idlewild - Post-Electric Blues
Metric - Fantasies
Tocotronic - Tocotronic
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Amplifier - Amplifier
kent - Vapen & Ammunition
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Sportfreunde Stiller - Die Gute Seite
Sportfreunde Stiller - Burli
Treble Charger - Detox
Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood
Coldplay - X&Y
Thirteen Senses - The Invitation
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Editors - The Back Room
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Field Music - Field Music
White Lies - To Lose My Life
Kasabian - Kasabian
The Kooks - Konk
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of The Understatement
The Libertines - The Libertines
Muse - Absolution
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
The Strokes - Is This It
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
 

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Top Ten

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Global A Go Go
the Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform
Paul Weller - Days of Speed
the Soundtrack of our Lives - Behind the Music
Cracker - In the Land of Milk and Honey
the Doves - The Last Broadcast
Manic Street Preachers - Forever Delayed
the Stereophonics - You Gotta go There to Get Back
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore
Ocean Colour Scene - Songs From the Front Row

The Rest

British Sea Power - Open Season
the Beautiful Girls - Learn Yourself
Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills
Rob Dickinson - Fresh Wine for the Horses
Echo & the Bunnymen - Siberia
the Stranglers - Norfolk Coast
the Warlocks - Phoenix
Sinead O'Connor - Throw Down Your Arms
the Mountain Goats - We Shall all be Healed
the International Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness
the Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
Pulp - Hits
 
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Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

To the Nameless Dead by Primordial
Kenose by Deathspell Omega
Deliverance by Opeth
Gateways to Annihilation by Morbid Angel
1184 by Windir
Those Whom the Gods Detest by Nile
With Oden on our Side by Amon Amarth
 

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1) Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance-Rick Springfield
2) American III: Solitary Man-Johnny Cash
3) Magic-Bruce Springsteen
4) This Is Just Where I Came In-Bee Gees
5) Around The Sun-R.E.M.
6) Love. Angel. Music. Baby.-Gwen Stefani
7) Venus In Overdrive-Rick Springfield
8) Home Before Dark-Neil Diamond
9) American IV: The Man Comes Around-Johnny Cash
10) Reveal-R.E.M.
11) The Rising-Bruce Springsteen
12) The Sweet Escape-Gwen Stefani
13) American V: A Hundred Highways-Johnny Cash
14) Time The Conquerer-Jackson Browne
15) Rock Steady-No Doubt
16) Devils And Dust-Bruce Springsteen
17) The Day After Yesterday-Rick Springfield
18) After Everything Now This-The Church
19) The Lou Gramm Band-Lou Gramm
20) Working On A Dream-Bruce Springsteen

My Best-Carey
 
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I knew I haven't listened to much new music this past decade, but I went through my library and was surprised by just how little it was. I only have 7 full albums from the 2010's in my library (this excludes, say, 5-song EP's). For context, I have about 330 albums on my computer. Talk about lack of variety - two of them are Iron Maiden, and the other five are albums from current/former members.

I have to go back to 2004 to find a (non Maiden) album in my library that I listen to on a semi-regular basis.

That's not to say that I haven't listened to any new (non Maiden) albums over the past decade - just that the "new" music I've been listening to is stuff many decades old that I haven't listened to before (Rush is my latest project).
 

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10 years out from having made my first top albums of the year list, I'd still probably say It's Blitz from Yeah Yeah Yeahs is still fantastic and important album at least to me, along with Radiohead's In Rainbows. Of course, Radiohead defined greatness in that decade
 

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
The Strokes - Is This It
Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Blink 182 - Blink 182
Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim
Dr. Dre - 2001
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

HM:
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (if you take the best songs off both albums it makes for a great single album)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Gorillaz - Demon Days
System of a Down - Toxicity
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta!
Rise Against - Siren Songs of the Counterculture
Sum 41 - All Killer, No Filler
 

Babe Ruth

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My opinion, this was a very weak decade for rock.. but I liked:
The Last Kind Words (Devildriver) 2007.

White Pepper (Ween) 2000.

Ashes of the Wake (Lamb of God) 2004.

And Danzig had a couple albums that I thought were ok..
 

Mikeaveli

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10/10:
Sweet Trip - Velocity: Design: Comfort.
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

9/10:
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
J Dilla - Donuts
MF DOOM - MM..FOOD
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Autechre - Confield
Aesop Rock - Float
Aphex Twin - drukqs
Radiohead - Kid A
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

 

Spring in Fialta

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10/10:
Sweet Trip - Velocity: Design: Comfort.
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

9/10:
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
J Dilla - Donuts
MF DOOM - MM..FOOD
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Autechre - Confield
Aesop Rock - Float
Aphex Twin - drukqs
Radiohead - Kid A
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele



Important to note that Viktor Vaughn is also MF DOOM. :teach:
 
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Pranzo Oltranzista

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1) Fantomas - Director's Cut
2) Jean Derome - Le magasin de tissu
3) Kaada/Paton - Romances
4) Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
5) Traditionalists (Secret Chiefs 3) - Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini
6) Fantomas - Suspended Animation
7) Benjamin Biolay - La superbe
8) Tub Ring - Zoo Hypothesis
9) Morceaux de Machine - Liberum Arbitrium
10) Tom Waits - Real Gone
11) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing
12) The Matches - Decomposer

(Lots of Patton - was listening to Lovage and pushed it to 4th, such a fun album)

Of course, I won't agree with this list in 4 days and might come back and edit it...
 
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Ceremony

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Binaural - Pearl Jam
Blackened Sky - Biffy Clyro
Rock Action - Mogwai
Absolution - Muse
Alligator - The National
American Idiot - Green Day *
Hot Fuss - The Killers *
Futures - Jimmy Eat World
Untitled - Wintersleep
Give Me a Wall - ¡Forward, Russia!
The Sufferer and the Witness - Rise Against
Happy Songs For Happy People - Mogwai
I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child - Manchester Orchestra
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
With Love and Squalor - We Are Scientists
Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters - The Twilight Sad
In Rainbows - Radiohead *
Riot! - Paramore *
Welcome to the Night Sky - Wintersleep
Life Processes - ¡Forward, Russia!
The Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit
The Hawk is Howling - Mogwai
In the Cold Wind We Smile - The Xcerts *
Mean Everything to Nothing - Manchester Orchestra
These Four Walls - We Were Promised Jetpacks
This is War - Thirty Seconds to Mars *
Forget the Night Ahead - The Twilight Sad

* I listened to when they came out.

I find it interesting that, right now, my absolute favourites from this decade are ones I didn't listen to at the time. Several that I would have held as the best in a particular year at the time aren't on this list.
 
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Saturated Fats

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Mostly tried to get this in order, though it gets a little ragged after the top 12. A lot of nostalgia here, though I keep discovering great records from the decade regularly.

1. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
6. Gorillaz - Demon Days
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
9. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
10. Joanna Newsom - Ys
11. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
12. Madvillain - Madvillainy
13. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
14. MIA - Kala
15. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
16. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
17. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
18. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
19. The White Stripes - Elephant
20. Black Keys - Attack and Release
21. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
22. Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
23. Burial - Untrue
24. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
25. Converge - Jane Doe
26. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
27. Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
28. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
29. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
30. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
 
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