Forgot about the first couple A Frames records, Spits debut. Reigning Sound's Too Much Guitar. Listened to those a hell of a lot.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
My Top 20 albums so far in alphabetical order:
Arcade Fire: Funeral Beta Band: Heroes To Zeroes Broadcast: The Noise Made By People Clientele: Strange Geometry Clinic: Walking With Thee Eels: Blinking Lights... Felix Da Housecat: Kittenz and Thee Glitz Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights Knife: Silent Shout Ladytron: 604 LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem New Pornographers: Mass Romantic Of Montreal: Satanic Panic In The Attic Panda Bear: Person Pitch Scritti Politti: White Bread Black Beer Shins: Oh Inverted World Streets: Original Pirate Material White Stripes: Elephant
― zeus, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
The 2000s for me were great years for metal and reissues/boxed sets. i mean if you give me a good oh ok or liliput comp it's hard for me to get excited about the new squeaky sneaker cd on spinart or whatever the fuck you kids listen to. just glancing around the room i did find some things that i enjoyed a heck of a lot in the NON-metal and NON-reissue division:
Sand - Still Born Alive
Crunk Classics Comp on TVT (mainly cuz "Who Dat" is my favorite song of the decade and that's what I have it on)
Red Snapper - Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper
The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T EP
Deana Carter - The Story Of My Life
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Trans Am - Red Line
The Dragons - Rock n Roll Kamikaze
Phoenix - United
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Non Phixion - The Future Is Now
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Go-Kart Mozart - Tearing Up The Album Chart
Ulan Bator - Ego:Echo
David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - 18 Monkeys On A Dead Man's Chest
Devin The Dude - Just Tryin Ta Live
Bring It On - Music From The Motion Picture
Pit Bull - Unleashed Vol.3
Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy - Adieu False Heart
Josie & The Pussycats - Music From The Motion Picture
Aterciopelados - Gozo Poderoso
Sun Kil Moon - Ghost Of The Great Highway
Kwisp - Teriyaki Vest Odyssey
Doves - Lost Souls
Cass McCombs - Prefection
JOMF - Liberation (and Fig.5 if that's not 1999)
Family Fodder - Water Shed
T.A.T.U. - 200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane
Tarentel - We Move Through Weather
Sunshine - Necromance
Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer
Green Velvet - s/t
Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
Mo Money Crime Family - Life Of A Hustler
Android Lust - The Dividing
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
Wonwons - Original Punk Superstars
Keren Ann - Not Going Anywhere
The Gris Gris - S/T
Bosco - Action
Mellow - Another Mellow Spring
Omar Santana - Hardcore For The Headstrong - The New Testament
Mr.Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
Big & Rich - Horse Of A Different Color
Zeni Geva - 10,000 Light Years
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
But that's just the tip of the iceberg. And I would have to go searching for new vinyl too. And if I added metal, sheesh, it would be neverending. Artist of the decade for me: Um, probably Ulver. Label of the decade: Hmmm, Kompakt? Yeah, for real! I was just saying the other day, single-handedly the greatest tip I ever got from ILM. I've got, lemmesee, 13 or 14 Kompakt CDs and I like them ALL. That says something to me.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Would steal from Scott's list: Dungen, Hypnotic Underworld (maybe) & the Dragons record
Also spent a lot of time listening to Electric Eel Shock's Go Europe! CD & its American counterpart LP (rerecordings of most of the same tracks)
NNeck's Sticks & Stones... & Intonomancy
JOMF: Change LP
See, I could replace, like, Spank Rock and Strokes with that stuff, and then no one would have to know. Good plan.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm happy that I am not the only person on this thread who remembers these:
Kill Me Tomorrow - The Garbageman and the Prostitute The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T EP Deana Carter - The Story Of My Life The Dragons - Rock n Roll Kamikaze Ulan Bator - Ego:Echo Kwisp - Teriyaki Vest Odyssey T.A.T.U. - 200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane Bosco - Action
....And there are lots and lots of other obscure albums just that good. Which is why it would take me forever to construct a best-albums-of-the-decade list. Bosco and the Dragons and Deana Carter have actually each made a couple real good albums this decade. So have, I dunno, the Starvations. And Red Swan. But none of the artists on this list have many as many good-to-great albums as the artists I mentioned up above, and I don't think anybody else on this thread does, either. It's sad that so many acts on my list are country; if I went further down, I'd probably add Gary Allan and Kenny Chesney too (well, also maybe Gogol Bordello, actually. And Black Lips. And Opeth. And Hold Steady. So that's more variety, I guess). Metal and electronic dance music and indie rock should produce more good albums than country fucking music, at least in theory. I just haven't heard the artists doing it. And I hear a hell of a lot of albums, including lots of ones other people are listing.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
oops, meant:
none of the artists on this list have made as many good-to-great albums as the artists I mentioned up above, and I don't think anybody else on this thread has, either
I'm really trying to think of what other metal bands, besides Opeth, I should be naming. I.e., the Gathering own the late '90s, as far as I'm concerned, but I just don't hear their '00s stuff as stacking up. I wish I liked Katatonia or Ulver as much as Scott does! There must be some other metal band besides Opeth which has made just three '00s albums I like, right?
Oh wait, you know who I'd name among the top 10 '00s artists, probably? Oneida! Okay, that's better.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
don't you like all three Witchcraft albums? not, um, you know, "metal" metal, but, whatever.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I HAVE DISCOVERED LJ'S ON FACEBOOK:
1) Ulver - Blood Inside 2) SFA - Rings Around The World 3) Oceansize - Frames 4) Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place 5) GY!BE - Yanqui U.X.O. 6) Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra 7) Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts 8) Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti In Ignem Aeternum 9) Oceansize - Effloresce 10) My Computer - No CV 11) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat 12) The Electric Soft Parade - The American Adventure 13) The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere 14) 65DaysOfStatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas 15) Oceansize - Everyone Into Position 16) Foetus - Love 17) Elbow - Asleep In The Back 18) Six By Seven - Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel 19) Caribou - Andorra 20) Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
He must be lurking.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Viva Emptiness are albums I like by Katatonia from the 2000's. But they are hardly my favorite Katatonia albums. And I am not a big fan of the last album. Though it's okay and I gave it a good review. So, they would be more of a 90's list artist for me too. Like The Gathering. Even though I still like them a bunch!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Rate Your Music's highest rated albums of the decade
1. Radiohead- Kid A 2. Opeth- Blackwater Park 3. GSY!BE- LYSFLATH 4. Converge- Jane Doe 5. Maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map 6. Tool- Lateralus 7. Arcade Fire- Funeral 8. Lenny Valentino- Uwaga! Jedzie Tramwaj 9. Agolloch- The Mantle 10. Mitch Hedberg- Mitch All Together
― mulla atari, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
don't you like all three Witchcraft albums?
I have only heard two of them! (I've also only two Electric Six albums, for whatever that's worth.) But yeah, either of those bands might qualify if I heard all their stuff. (Though the two Electic Six albums I've heard, and the two Witchcraft albums I've heard, are still nowhere near as good as, say, the three Gore Gore Girls albums I've heard or the five Montgomery Gentry albums I've heard or the six Toby Keith albums I've heard this decade. Just being honest!) (Well, okay, maybe the first Electric Six one is. I need to pull back out their second one.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link
And as far as Neurosis goes, a band i friggin' ADORE, they haven't made an album as good as A Sun That Never Sets since that album. Which was 2001. I've enjoyed the albums since, and the Jarboe collab, but they aren't as good. So, a case could be made that their strongest decade was the 90's too, depending on how much you like their earlier stuff. And there are plenty of people who will tell you that souls at zero or through silver in blood is as good as they got.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"5. Maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map"
definitely be on any comprehensive list i made of the decade. along with Bath. I kinda think of them as one entity anyway.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I think my favorite Neurosis album is State of Grace from 1999. And yeah, after A Sun that Never Sets, I really don't care about them very much. (And Isis have been even more boring lately.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Oops, Times of Grace, I meant.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
jane doe/you fail me/no heroes is another amazing 00's trio for me. Love all three a ton.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I never got Converge...at all, really.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, you know who else (though she's not metal) has made four good albums this decade (though I don't love love love any of them)? Pink! So she belongs up there, probably.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
did you hear No Heroes, chuck? there is stuff on there you might like.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Er...maybe? If I did, it didn't leave much of an impression. Maybe I'll check it out again sometime, though.
And Yolanda Perez has made three good ones (though I didn't like her most recent one at all.)
And then there's jazz people, though I'm definitely no expert --James Carter, Dave Douglas, David Ware, Jason Moran? Who else?
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread is full of hipster-indie. What happened to the people who liked pop music? Where have they gone?
― daavid, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
didnt bother with this thread
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
They are fastidiously avoiding this hellhole. xxp
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh, and i forgot the Most Valuable Playaz Soundtrack. that belongs on my list. that's a whole bunch of people; tnt, e-vicious, too short, pimp c, lil buddah, al kapone, shuga shaft, b-legit, etc, etc.
i better stop. i'll be here all night.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"What happened to the people who liked pop music? Where have they gone?"
i was just listing albums that i own. if i listed all the SONGS i liked in the last 8 years i'd really be here forever. cuz i don't own any kelly clarkson CDs. as much as i love her. or as much as i love beyonce or britney. and i love them a ton too.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
same with country. i've loved at least a zillion country songs in the last near-decade, but i don't own the albums.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
there's some pop on my list. no country or metal tho.
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
unless white stripes really are country metal. but i should've put elephant and wbc.
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
since u been gone by kelly might be my fave rock/pop song of the decade.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
come to think of it, maybe Beyonce is the artist of the decade. I love everything she's done. Either Beyonce or Ulver. It's a toss-up.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, then what pop people have made three albums I like this decade?
1. I already mentioned Pink. She wins, I think. Which I would not have expected. 2. Britney probably deserves to be on the list, but I only have two albums by her on my shelf. 3. Justin, if *NSync's Greatest Hits counts. 4. Wait, I just remembered Leann Rimes! But she's country, allegedly. 5. Ashlee, when her next album (which I've heard about half of, and liked) comes out. 6. Um....
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
1. jay reatard - blood visions 2. deerhoof - reveille 3. blonde redhead - melody of certain damaged lemons 4. jay-z - the black album 5. fennesz, vainio & zanési - GRM experience 6. the fall - the real new fall LP 7. keith fullerton whitman - playthroughs 8. comets on fire - blue cathedral 9. LCD soundsystem - s/t 10. deerhoof - apple O
― 6335, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Yuh I rilly like Deerhoof's Reveille.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
fave Deerhooff album.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I do not love Beyonce. At all. Obviously, I suck.
Well, I guess I like her more than I like Converge. Destiny's Child's #1s is a good album.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 6335, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
^^more of this dude
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i dont even really like much of anything on that list but it's better than another list with arcade fire and interpol on it
That's the type of stuff you like tho i thought.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Arcade Fire etc?
What was that tai chi album Lou Reed put out last year? Because that should be on any list.
― novaheat, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>there's some pop on my list
-- blueski, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:39 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link</i>
The only list I've liked so far.
― daavid, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Dammit, those italics
― daavid, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i like indie (not arcade fire) (interpol yeah) just saying all the other lists are like rote indie albums that aren't really that good or like house albums i've never heard of
6335's list is interesting as far as just listing albums goes is all
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
xp to walter
yeah sure. But 6335's list is fairly rote indie i think.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"all the other lists are like rote indie albums that aren't really that good or like house albums i've never heard of"
um, mine isn't like that at all.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
and where's the pop? i've got friggin' t.a.t.u. and the friggin' bring it on soundtrack on my list. both of which still rule.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah you're right and i just realized i was railing against the one sockpuppet list in this thread
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You
― Z S, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link