The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

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.

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.

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.

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.

don't you like all three Witchcraft albums? not, um, you know, "metal" metal, but, whatever.

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.

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!

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

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.)

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.

"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.

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.)

Oops, Times of Grace, I meant.

jane doe/you fail me/no heroes is another amazing 00's trio for me. Love all three a ton.

Yeah, I never got Converge...at all, really.

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.

did you hear No Heroes, chuck? there is stuff on there you might like.

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?

This thread is full of hipster-indie. What happened to the people who liked pop music? Where have they gone?

didnt bother with this thread

http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/

They are fastidiously avoiding this hellhole. xxp

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.

"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.

same with country. i've loved at least a zillion country songs in the last near-decade, but i don't own the albums.

there's some pop on my list. no country or metal tho.

unless white stripes really are country metal. but i should've put elephant and wbc.

since u been gone by kelly might be my fave rock/pop song of the decade.

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.

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....

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

Yuh I rilly like Deerhoof's Reveille.

fave Deerhooff album.

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.

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, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

^^more of this dude

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.

Arcade Fire etc?

What was that tai chi album Lou Reed put out last year? Because that should be on any list.

<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.

Dammit, those italics

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

xp to walter

yeah sure. But 6335's list is fairly rote indie i think.

"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.

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.

yeah you're right and i just realized i was railing against the one sockpuppet list in this thread

Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You

My own favorites--

Alan Jackson- Like Red on a Rose
Big & Rich- Horse of a Different Color
Brother Ali- Shadows on the Sun
Camron- Purple Haze
Carrie Underwood- Some Hearts
Hawksley Workman- Last Night We Were the Delicious Wolves
Masta Ace- Disposable Arts
Tim McGraw- Live Like You Were Dying
El-P- Fantastic Damage
Non-Phixion- The Future is Now
Gary Allan- Tough All Over, See If I Care
Keith Urban- Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
Lee Ann Womack- There's More Where That Came From
Miranda Lambert- Kerosene
Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Pat Green- Cannonball
Prefuse 73- One Word Extinguisher
Ghostface- The Pretty Toney Album
Rodney Atkins- If You're Going Through Hell
Sugarland- Twice the Speed of Life
Toby Keith- White Trash With Money, Honkeytonk U
Todd Snider- The Devil You Know
UGK- Underground Kingz
Willie Nile- The Streets of New York
Avril Lavigne- The Best Damn Thing

"all the other lists are like rote indie albums that aren't really that good or like house albums i've never heard of"

Yes, especially mine.