top (favorite) 33 albums of the first 1/3rd of the decade

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ok, fuck it, i'm doing it anyway. dance, you arbitrary-list-making motherfuckers, dance!

in vaguely descending order, but not certain enough to be numbered, mine:

Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Chris Lee Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches
Lake Trout - Another One Lost
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Radiohead - Kid A
Cex - Tall, Dark and Handcuffed
Two Dollar Guitar - Weak Beats & Lame Ass Rhymes
J Mascis & The Fog - More Light
Faraquet - A View From This Tower
Ken Stringfellow - Touched
Freeway - Philadelphia Freeway
Enon - Believo!
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
Firewater - Psychopharmacology
Sparklehorse - It’s A Wonderful Life
Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive
Destroy All Nels Cline - Destroy All Nels Cline
Cex - Being Ridden
D’Angelo - Voodoo
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Lake Trout - Alone At Last
Youngblood Brass Band - Unlearn
Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
Jay-Z - The Dynasty
Pulp - We Love Life
The Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Kanye West - Get Well Soon
Nels Cline - The Inkling

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:44 (twenty years ago) link

tall dark and handcuffed? hmmm...do you think it is hilarious?

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:49 (twenty years ago) link

i don't really think of it as a comedy album, that's not the mind with which i listen to it, no. there's some sharp one-liners, but no more than the average rap album.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:56 (twenty years ago) link

(I knew you'd go though with it. Tomorrow.)

― b.R.A.d. (Brad), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

If you're going to let me define the canon, don't blame me for being canonical:

1. The Marshall Mathers LP
2. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
3. Lucinda Williams - Essence
4. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City
5. Dylan - Love and Theft
6. Youssou N'Dour - Nothing's in Vain
7. A mash-up collection of your choice
8. Daft Punk - Discovery
9. Sonic Youth - nyc ghosts & flowers
10. Stankonia
11. Original Pirate Material
12. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion Esperanza
13. Wu-Tang - The W
14. Atmosphere - Lucy Ford
15. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
16. Rachid Taha - Made in Medina
17. The Moldy Peaches
18. Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
19. Mekons - OOOH!
20. Blackalicious - NIA
21. Basement Jaxx - Rooty
22. The Coup - Party Music
23. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
24. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
25. N*E*R*D - In Search of…
26. PRML SCRM - XTRMNTR
27. King Kapisi - Savage Thoughts
28. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
29. Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in All Styles
30. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
31. Luna - Romantica
32. P-Money - Big Things
33. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2

Total number not ripped off Pazz & Jop and/or Xgau: 3 (#s 27, 31, 32)

― b.R.A.d. (Brad), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

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