The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

"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.

Jordan S, I think you owe xhuxk and scott an apology now.

i mean i thought it went without saying that they were excluded from that

bring it on soundtrack

I didn't notice this! Yeah, probably easily in my top 50 of the decade. Maybe even 40. Or 30. Or....?

T.A.T.U. have two really good '00s albums, too.

Daphne and Celeste have one great one! Then they fell off the face of the earth.

I think Damone's Out Here All Night might be my favorite album of the decade, weirdly enough. At least, that's the one that comes to mind instantly.

ftr since i've been talking a lot of shit in this thread my favorite album of the decade is tha carter II with is this it? coming up 2nd and after that i don't even really know

Both M2M albums are this decade too, right? (And M and M each has a good solo album, so either of them could fit the three-good-albums requirement too.)

Flogging Molly had four good albums this decade!

Metacritic top 50:

1 | SMiLE by Brian Wilson | | 2004 | 97
2 | Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn | 2004 | 97
3 | How The West Was Won by Led Zeppelin | 2003 | 97
4 | Stankonia by OutKast | 2000 | 95
5 | Savane by Ali Farka Toure | 2006 | 94
6 | Madvillainy by Madvillain | 2004 | 93
7 | The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Version] by Talking Heads | 2004 | 93
8 | Love And Theft by Bob Dylan | 2001 | 93
9 | Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards by Tom Waits | 2006 | 92
10 | Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal | 2004 | 92
11 | Elephant by The White Stripes | 2003 | 92
12 | A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets | 2004 | 91
13 | Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OutKast | 2003 | 91
14 | Canto by Los Super Seven | 2001 | 91
15 | Untrue by Burial | 2007 | 91
16 | From Here We Go Sublime by The Field | 2007 | 90
17 | Illinois by Sufjan Stevens | 2005 | 90
18 | Original Pirate Material by The Streets | 2002 | 90
19 | Alice by Tom Waits | 2002 | 90
20 | Is This It? by The Strokes | 2001 | 90
21 | Funeral by The Arcade Fire | 2004 | 90
22 | XTRMNTR by Primal Scream | 2000 | 90
23 | Z by My Morning Jacket | 2005 | 90
24 | Since I Left You by The Avalanches | 2001 | 89
25 | Neon Golden by The Notwist | 2003 | 89
26 | Rounds by Four Tet | 2003 | 89
27 | Modern Times by Bob Dylan | 2006 | 89
28 | Miss E... So Addictive by Missy Elliott | 2001 | 89
29 | HoboSapiens by John Cale | 2004 | 89
30 | Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo) by Aimee Mann | 2000 | 89
31 | Last Exit by Junior Boys | 2004 | 89
32 | Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age | 2002 | 89
33 | Wearemonster by Isolée | 2005 | 89
34 | Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse | 2006 | 89
35 | Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins | 2003 | 88
36 | Yours, Mine & Ours by Pernice Brothers | 2003 | 88
37 | Hypermagic Mountain by Lightning Bolt | 2005 | 88
38 | 69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields | 1999 | 88
39 | Ta Det Lugnt by Dungen | 2004 | 88
40 | Return To Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio | 2006 | 88
41 | Wicked Grin by John Hammond | 2001 | 88
42 | Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey | 2000 | 88
43 | Up In Flames by Manitoba | 2003 | 88
44 | College Dropout by Kanye West | 2004 | 88
45 | Where Shall You Take Me by Damien Jurado | 2003 | 88
46 | Rejoicing In The Hands by Devendra Banhart | 2004 | 88
47 | Vespertine by Bjork | 2001 | 88
48 | From A Basement On The Hill by Elliott Smith | 2004 | 88
49 | The Blueprint by Jay-Z | 2001 | 88
50 | In Rainbows by Radiohead | 2007 | 88

Mastodon and High on Fire also had three good records. And Arch Enemy. Machine Head had two.

Not in my house they don't!

Actually, though, Dropkick Murphys have a bunch, come to think of it. They may be in my top ten. Unless they're not.