Well now that I'm entering the new decade with a brand new computer, I'm ready to re-enter an onslaught of bloggatory commentry. Here is, with no description, my top 100 albums of the Twenty-Oughts, in order, shame and sarcasm free.
1. Radiohead - Kid A2. My Morning Jacket - Z
3. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
4. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
5. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
6. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
7. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
8. Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
9. mu'm - Finally We Are No One
10. The Postal Service - Give Up
11. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
12. Radiohead - In Rainbows
13. Arcade Fire - Funeral
14. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
15. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
16. Dr. Dog - Fate
17. The Slip - Eisenhower
18. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
19. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
20. Mice Parade - Mice Parade
21. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
22. Beck - Sea Change
23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
24. The Black Keys - Attack and Release
25. Dan Deacon - Bromst
26. Peter, Bjorn, & John - Writer's Block
27. Ween - White Pepper
28. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
29. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
30. Danger Doom - The Mouse & The Mask
31. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
32. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
33. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
34. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
35. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib
36. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
37. Sigur Ros - ( )
38. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
39. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
40. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
41. Jay-Z - Unplugged
42. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
43. Radiohead - Amnesiac
44. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
45. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
46. The Dead Weather - Horehound
47. Drummer - Feel Good Together
48. Beck - Guero
49. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
50. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
51. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
52. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
53. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
54. Phish - Vegas 96
55. Talib Kweli & Hitek - Reflection Eternal
56. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
57. Ween - Quebec
58. Bjork - Medu'lla
59. Beck - The Information
60. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
61. Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
62. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
63. Mice Parade - Bem-Vinda Vontade
64. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
65. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Shake Your Bones
66. The Breeders - Mountain Battles
67. Tool - Lateralus
68. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
69. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
70. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
71. Cake - Comfort Eagle
72. Benevento/Russo Duo - Play, Pause, Stop
73. Jay-Z - The Black Album
74. Passion Pit - Manners
75. The Polyphonic Spree - Live From Austin
76. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
77. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
78. The White Stripes - Elephant
79. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
80. Marco Benevento - Invisible Baby
81. David Gilmore - On an Island
82. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
83. Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
84. I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
85. Tapes and Tapes - The Loon
86. The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
87. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
88. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
89. Secret Machines - Secret Machines
90. Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
91. God Speed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
92. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
93. Spiritualized - Songs in A and E
94. Beastie Boys - To The Five Boroughs
95. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days
96. Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire
97. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
98. Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue
99. Loney, dear - Loney, noir.
100. No Age - Nouns
BW
March 22, 2010
Interesting. Yes, brave call on putting a Ghost is Born ahead of Yankee.
March 22, 2010
Interesting. Yes, brave call on putting a Ghost is Born ahead of Yankee.
reamer
March 22, 2010
yeah fearless arguing about Wilco on this site
March 22, 2010
yeah fearless arguing about Wilco on this site
BW
March 22, 2010
You've inspired me to come up with my own list Adam King. Tons of Wilco included DC.
March 22, 2010
You've inspired me to come up with my own list Adam King. Tons of Wilco included DC.
shell
March 22, 2010
nice list. i got some downloading to do.
March 22, 2010
nice list. i got some downloading to do.
Scott Mohler
March 22, 2010
Great list...dont agree with the order necessarily...but really good choices!
March 22, 2010
Great list...dont agree with the order necessarily...but really good choices!
Son of Bill Brasky
March 22, 2010
order is a little random. but I think you covered it. Might have had a Johnny Cash American album in there somewhere.
March 22, 2010
order is a little random. but I think you covered it. Might have had a Johnny Cash American album in there somewhere.
Bushlow
March 23, 2010
Nice list. It brings back a lot of great memories and motivates me to pick up some things I missed. Thanks, man.
March 23, 2010
Nice list. It brings back a lot of great memories and motivates me to pick up some things I missed. Thanks, man.
reamer
March 23, 2010
BW:Behind Wilco?
DC? DeathCab4Cutie?...
March 23, 2010
BW:Behind Wilco?
DC? DeathCab4Cutie?...
archie cc delouisville
March 23, 2010
not bad. i agree the order is a tad whacked and some hot ones are missing, but you covered lots of gold sounds.
March 23, 2010
not bad. i agree the order is a tad whacked and some hot ones are missing, but you covered lots of gold sounds.
King
March 24, 2010
Hey I know, I'm aware of the Ghost over Yankee, the Trash over Lib, and the Fate over Belong, but they were the honest results of what I thought resonated the brightest for me the past decade. Gracias.
March 24, 2010
Hey I know, I'm aware of the Ghost over Yankee, the Trash over Lib, and the Fate over Belong, but they were the honest results of what I thought resonated the brightest for me the past decade. Gracias.
Evangelos
March 24, 2010
nice list man!
March 24, 2010
nice list man!
Some guy
March 25, 2010
Kid A best record of the past 10 years? Give me a break.
March 25, 2010
Kid A best record of the past 10 years? Give me a break.
Mike M.
March 25, 2010
^I agree. Kid A seems like an obvious choice. But Adam King thinks they're aliens. Deep down in his heart, I know that album is the one that got him.
Here's my two-cents on what I feel shouldn't be omitted from any list:
Brad Mehldau - Largo
Disco Biscuits - They Missed the Perfume (seriously, this album rules)
Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
String Cheese Incident - One Step Closer (yes, seriously. Malcolm Burn is a magician + Hunter/Lauderdale writing)
Apollo Sunshine (all three of their albums)
Akron/Family (all of their albums)
Nathan Moore - In His Own Worlds
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Antibalas - Who Is This America?
DJ Logic - Zen of Logic
The Slip - Angels Come On Time
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
moe. - Wormwood
moe. - The Conch
Mike Gordon - Inside In
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Brothers Past - This Feeling's Called Goodbye
Trey Anastasio - Trey Anastasio
The Who - Endless Wire
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
OK... there's a few.
March 25, 2010
^I agree. Kid A seems like an obvious choice. But Adam King thinks they're aliens. Deep down in his heart, I know that album is the one that got him.
Here's my two-cents on what I feel shouldn't be omitted from any list:
Brad Mehldau - Largo
Disco Biscuits - They Missed the Perfume (seriously, this album rules)
Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
String Cheese Incident - One Step Closer (yes, seriously. Malcolm Burn is a magician + Hunter/Lauderdale writing)
Apollo Sunshine (all three of their albums)
Akron/Family (all of their albums)
Nathan Moore - In His Own Worlds
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Antibalas - Who Is This America?
DJ Logic - Zen of Logic
The Slip - Angels Come On Time
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
moe. - Wormwood
moe. - The Conch
Mike Gordon - Inside In
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Brothers Past - This Feeling's Called Goodbye
Trey Anastasio - Trey Anastasio
The Who - Endless Wire
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
OK... there's a few.
King
March 26, 2010
^^Largo just missed my cut at about 103. And yes Mike, Kid A did completely change my life.
March 26, 2010
^^Largo just missed my cut at about 103. And yes Mike, Kid A did completely change my life.
Yark
March 29, 2010
Panda Bear #4?
March 29, 2010
Panda Bear #4?
King
March 30, 2010
Panda Bear sooooo #4
March 30, 2010
Panda Bear sooooo #4
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