Your top albums of the decade?

Panfan · 12-30-2009, 02:23 PM

Predictable list from me...

10. The National - Boxer/Alligator (tie)
9. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
7. Kanye West - Late Registration
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5. Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster!
4. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3. The Strokes - Is This It
2. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
1. Radiohead - Kid A

Honorable Mentions:
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
Common - Be
OutKast - Stankonia
The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Interpol - Turn Off the Bright Lights
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
M.I.A. - Kala
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Mastodon - Leviathan
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

Auron · 12-31-2009, 03:51 PM

I limited my list to one CD per band. And this list is most definitely subject to change/growth until I listen to everything I plan on listening to from the last decade (which I probably won't. There's a lot).

Top Ten
10. Muse - "Black Holes and Revelations" (2006)
9. Suspyre - "A Great Divide" (2007)
8. Megadeth - "United Abominations" (2007)
7. Frost* - "Milliontown" (2006)
6. Threshold - "Subsurface" (2004)
5. Pagan's Mind - "Enigmatic: Calling" (2005)
4. Circus Maximus - "Isolate" (2007)
3. Darkwater - "Calling the Earth to Witness" (2006)
2. Dream Theater - "Octavarium" (2005)
1. Seventh Wonder - "Mercy Falls" (2008)

Honorable Mentions
Ayreon - "The Universal Migrator: The Dream Sequencer/Flight of the Migrator" (2000)
Dream Theater - "Train of Thought" (2003)
Guilt Machine - "On This Perfect Day" (2009)
Koyaanisqatsy - "From the Yearning to Burst the Perpetual Cycle" (2000)
Myrath - "Hope" (2007)
Star One - "Space Metal" (2002)
Symphony X - "V: The New Mythology Suite" (2000)

00TJ · 12-31-2009, 06:57 PM

Gonna be hard

1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
3. Common - Be
4. Outkast - Stankonia
5. Redman - Red Gone Wild
6. Dead Prez - Lets Get Free
7. Scarface - The Fix
8. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx II
9. Talib Kweli - Quality
10. Kanye West - The College Dropout

Honorable mentions :
Cormega - The Realness
AZ - The Format
Lil Wayne - The Carter 2
T.I. - King
Little Brother - The Listening
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Bun B - Trill
Nas - The Lost Tapes

Bomby · 01-01-2010, 12:09 AM

Maybe I'm just too excited, but I think Merriweather Post Pavilion is tops for me. How long has it been since I've fallen this in love with a piece of music?

Totally bringing in the new decade with "My Girls"

Honorable mentions go to:
OutKast for Stankonia & Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Deerhoof for Apple 'O
M.I.A. for Arular
Erykah Badu for Mama's Gun
Elliott Smith's New Moon and From a Basement on the Hill
Jay-Z's The Blueprint
Talib Kweli's Quality
Kanye West's The College Dropout
Ghostface Killah's Fishscale and Supreme Clientele
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Roots - Phrenology
Jon Brion - I Heart Huckabees OST
Portishead - Third
April March - Triggers
Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Faye Wong - Fable

My apologies to anyone I forgot.

**Galefore** · 01-02-2010, 02:17 PM

Pretty predictable list from myself as well.

10. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife/Picaresque (Tie)
9. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
6. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
5. The Antlers - Hospice
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. The National - Boxer/Alligator (tie)
1. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

THINGS THAT ARE ALSO AWESOME:

The Receiving End of Sirens' Between The Heart and the Synapse and At The Drive-in's Relationship of Command (tie for favorite post-hardcore album, both fine albums for rock-outitude)
Ghastly City Sleep's S/T
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Radiohead - Kid A (as awesome as this album is, I prefer In Rainbows overall)
Porcupine Tree's last few albums starting with In Absentia
Coheed and Cambria's stuff
Dredg - El Cielo
Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
Explosions in the Sky - Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

AND SO MANY MOOOOORE

Vapor · 01-02-2010, 04:12 PM

uh

I'm just gonna say a bunch of things I liked in this decade

Porcupine Tree and Pure Reason Revolution's respective releases of this decade; Kid A and Hail to the Thief by Radiohead, Black Holes and Revelations by Muse, De-Loused in the Comatorium and The Bedlam in Goliath by the Mars Volta, Discovery by Daft Punk, Insurgentes by Steven Wilson, Relationship of Command by At the Drive-In (wheee I'm on the ATDI train too), Toxicity by System of a Down, The Eraser by Thom Yorke, 10,000 Days by Tool A LOT OF STUFFF

***CaptHayfever*** · 01-02-2010, 09:56 PM

Also limiting to one per artist...

Straight Outta Lynwood ~Weird Al
Songs for Dustmites ~Steve Burns
The Spine ~They Might Be Giants
Volume One ~She & Him
Flashlights ~Y-O-U
Get Behind Me Satan ~White Stripes
Come Away with Me ~Norah Jones
Introducing Joss Stone ~Joss Stone
The Fragile Army ~Polyphonic Spree
Dinosaurchestra ~Lemon Demon
The Graduate ~MC Lars
Good News for People Who Love Bad News ~Modest Mouse
Barenaked Ladies Are Me/Men ~BNL
Mr. A-Z ~Jason Mraz
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ~Flaming Lips

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Panfan · 01-02-2010, 10:01 PM

^ Have you picked up Embryonic by the Flaming Lips yet? It's probably their best of the decade and second-best of their career, after The Soft Bulletin

***CaptHayfever*** · 01-03-2010, 02:14 AM

^I've actually only heard one song from it.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

12-30-2009, 02:23 PM	#1
Panfan AND HE PRAYS Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Grayskull Gender: Posts: 18,806 Thanks: 1,405 Thanked 2,247 Times in 1,337 Posts Blog Entries: 15	Your top albums of the decade? Predictable list from me... 10. The National - Boxer/Alligator (tie) 9. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command 7. Kanye West - Late Registration 6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 5. Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster! 4. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3. The Strokes - Is This It 2. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 1. Radiohead - Kid A Honorable Mentions: Spoon - Kill the Moonlight Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America Common - Be OutKast - Stankonia The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Interpol - Turn Off the Bright Lights Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose M.I.A. - Kala Porcupine Tree - In Absentia The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Arcade Fire - Funeral Mastodon - Leviathan The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree Last edited by Panfan; 12-31-2009 at 04:13 PM.

12-31-2009, 03:51 PM	#2
Auron Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Inside Gender: Posts: 6,743 Thanks: 5 Thanked 325 Times in 198 Posts	This is harder than I thought it would be I limited my list to one CD per band. And this list is most definitely subject to change/growth until I listen to everything I plan on listening to from the last decade (which I probably won't. There's a lot). Top Ten 10. Muse - "Black Holes and Revelations" (2006) 9. Suspyre - "A Great Divide" (2007) 8. Megadeth - "United Abominations" (2007) 7. Frost* - "Milliontown" (2006) 6. Threshold - "Subsurface" (2004) 5. Pagan's Mind - "Enigmatic: Calling" (2005) 4. Circus Maximus - "Isolate" (2007) 3. Darkwater - "Calling the Earth to Witness" (2006) 2. Dream Theater - "Octavarium" (2005) 1. Seventh Wonder - "Mercy Falls" (2008) Honorable Mentions Ayreon - "The Universal Migrator: The Dream Sequencer/Flight of the Migrator" (2000) Dream Theater - "Train of Thought" (2003) Guilt Machine - "On This Perfect Day" (2009) Koyaanisqatsy - "From the Yearning to Burst the Perpetual Cycle" (2000) Myrath - "Hope" (2007) Star One - "Space Metal" (2002) Symphony X - "V: The New Mythology Suite" (2000)

12-31-2009, 06:57 PM	#3
00TJ Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Gender: Posts: 185 Thanks: 4 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Gonna be hard 1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 3. Common - Be 4. Outkast - Stankonia 5. Redman - Red Gone Wild 6. Dead Prez - Lets Get Free 7. Scarface - The Fix 8. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx II 9. Talib Kweli - Quality 10. Kanye West - The College Dropout Honorable mentions : Cormega - The Realness AZ - The Format Lil Wayne - The Carter 2 T.I. - King Little Brother - The Listening Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens Bun B - Trill Nas - The Lost Tapes Last edited by 00TJ; 12-31-2009 at 07:03 PM.

01-01-2010, 12:09 AM	#4
Bomby You just freaking blew Joe Biden's mind! Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: WHAT?house Gender: Posts: 19,491 Thanks: 513 Thanked 1,449 Times in 849 Posts Blog Entries: 5	Maybe I'm just too excited, but I think Merriweather Post Pavilion is tops for me. How long has it been since I've fallen this in love with a piece of music? Totally bringing in the new decade with "My Girls" Honorable mentions go to: OutKast for Stankonia & Speakerboxx/The Love Below Deerhoof for Apple 'O M.I.A. for Arular Erykah Badu for Mama's Gun Elliott Smith's New Moon and From a Basement on the Hill Jay-Z's The Blueprint Talib Kweli's Quality Kanye West's The College Dropout Ghostface Killah's Fishscale and Supreme Clientele Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Panda Bear - Person Pitch Radiohead - OK Computer The Roots - Phrenology Jon Brion - I Heart Huckabees OST Portishead - Third April March - Triggers Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances Faye Wong - Fable My apologies to anyone I forgot.

01-02-2010, 02:17 PM	#5
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,275 Thanks: 1,361 Thanked 826 Times in 535 Posts Blog Entries: 5	Pretty predictable list from myself as well. 10. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife/Picaresque (Tie) 9. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight 8. Radiohead - In Rainbows 7. TV on the Radio - Dear Science, 6. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City 5. The Antlers - Hospice 4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 2. The National - Boxer/Alligator (tie) 1. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy THINGS THAT ARE ALSO AWESOME: The Receiving End of Sirens' Between The Heart and the Synapse and At The Drive-in's Relationship of Command (tie for favorite post-hardcore album, both fine albums for rock-outitude) Ghastly City Sleep's S/T Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness Radiohead - Kid A (as awesome as this album is, I prefer In Rainbows overall) Porcupine Tree's last few albums starting with In Absentia Coheed and Cambria's stuff Dredg - El Cielo Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals Explosions in the Sky - Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver AND SO MANY MOOOOORE

01-02-2010, 04:12 PM	#6
Vapor Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: WHERE IT'S AT Gender: Posts: 5,211 Thanks: 314 Thanked 413 Times in 249 Posts	uh I'm just gonna say a bunch of things I liked in this decade Porcupine Tree and Pure Reason Revolution's respective releases of this decade; Kid A and Hail to the Thief by Radiohead, Black Holes and Revelations by Muse, De-Loused in the Comatorium and The Bedlam in Goliath by the Mars Volta, Discovery by Daft Punk, Insurgentes by Steven Wilson, Relationship of Command by At the Drive-In (wheee I'm on the ATDI train too), Toxicity by System of a Down, The Eraser by Thom Yorke, 10,000 Days by Tool A LOT OF STUFFF

01-02-2010, 09:56 PM	#7
*CaptHayfever* Smash SuperMod Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: (n) - the place where I am Gender: Posts: 27,659 Thanks: 1,991 Thanked 2,486 Times in 1,513 Posts	Also limiting to one per artist... Straight Outta Lynwood ~Weird Al Songs for Dustmites ~Steve Burns The Spine ~They Might Be Giants Volume One ~She & Him Flashlights ~Y-O-U Get Behind Me Satan ~White Stripes Come Away with Me ~Norah Jones Introducing Joss Stone ~Joss Stone The Fragile Army ~Polyphonic Spree Dinosaurchestra ~Lemon Demon The Graduate ~MC Lars Good News for People Who Love Bad News ~Modest Mouse Barenaked Ladies Are Me/Men ~BNL Mr. A-Z ~Jason Mraz Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ~Flaming Lips And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

01-02-2010, 10:01 PM	#8
Panfan AND HE PRAYS Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Grayskull Gender: Posts: 18,806 Thanks: 1,405 Thanked 2,247 Times in 1,337 Posts Blog Entries: 15	^ Have you picked up Embryonic by the Flaming Lips yet? It's probably their best of the decade and second-best of their career, after The Soft Bulletin

01-03-2010, 02:14 AM	#9
*CaptHayfever* Smash SuperMod Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: (n) - the place where I am Gender: Posts: 27,659 Thanks: 1,991 Thanked 2,486 Times in 1,513 Posts	^I've actually only heard one song from it. And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"