The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

Okay, here's my top 20 for the 00's:

Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
Pole: Steingarten
AZ: Aziatic
Eve: Eve-olution
M.O.P.: Warriorz
Dead Prez: Let's Get Free
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein
Two Lone Swordsmen: Tiny Reminders
Readymade: Bold
Allou: Allou
Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players: Can't Cool
Cheikha Rimitti: N'ta Goudami
Readymade: Bold
Asa: Terveisiä kaaoksesta
310: After All
Nas: God's Son
Monolake: Cinemascope
Wu-Tang Clan: The W
S.I. Futures: The Mission Statement

Generally I wanted to include only one album per artist, but I just couldn't choose between the two great Cee-Lo LPs, so I had to include them both.

00s = thank you blog people for bringing back teh Girl Talk Dr. Demento shit.

Okay, here's my top 20 for the 00's:

Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
Pole: Steingarten
AZ: Aziatic
Eve: Eve-olution
M.O.P.: Warriorz
Dead Prez: Let's Get Free
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein
Two Lone Swordsmen: Tiny Reminders
Readymade: Bold
Allou: Allou
Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players: Can't Cool
Cheikha Rimitti: N'ta Goudami
Readymade: Bold
Asa: Terveisiä kaaoksesta
310: After All
Nas: God's Son
Monolake: Cinemascope
Wu-Tang Clan: The W
S.I. Futures: The Mission Statement

Generally I wanted to include only one album per artist, but I just couldn't choose between the two great Cee-Lo LPs, so I had to include them both.

-- Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:55 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sterling Clover RIP

tuomas listens to rap albums so i don't have to

jay dilla did both "donuts" and "welcome 2 detroit" in the 00's, i cant believe no one mentioned them. i find it hard to think about the 00's as a whole, im not so sure that the early stuff wasnt more 90's than 00's judging by the way things have panned out.

Best Albums of the 00s

Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) 00
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope) 06
Björk Vespertine (Elektra) 01
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go) 04
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Capitol) 03

^^i can get w/ tvotr to an extent but this is unspeakable

Don't front on Vespertine.

Yeah I know this is total ethanbait, but I want Three 6 Mafia to sample the intro of "Pagan Poetry".

blueski i'm giving you an atta boy on a very good list but some parts are weird to me. Por exampel:

burial's 2nd album > burial's 1st ???
Immer, Kid A and Speakerboxx = #31, #32, #33 ???

my shitty list to follow. rest assured, dear readers, carl craig's remixing prowess will be give its due!

burial's 2nd album >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> burial's 1st

Wow, I didn't actually expect a top 100 list, thanks blueski. Did you compile it just now? I hadn't thought about Senor Coconut in years, will have to dig some up. Need to re-listen to Mylo again, as I don't remember anything from the album. Tuomas, you may be the one who I learned about Asa from, it was one of my favorites that year.

At least there's now a few posts with substance amidst the 2kool4skool posturing. Nothing wrong with questioning people's picks, but to do it so snidely without laying your own out for scrutiny seems a bit weaselish. Care to share, J0rdan and Rev?

the purpose of my post was to state that i thought it was insane that someone could think that tvotr have made two of the four beat albums of the decade

i don't think that's that snide tbh

as for my own top w/e of the 2000s, i'll think about it

i hate how every track on Untrue uses the exact same beat and is boring and dumb*

*except for Archangel

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Tuomas, you may be the one who I learned about Asa from, it was one of my favorites that year.

Whoa, I didn't know anyone had even heard about Asa outside Finland! What with the lyrics being in Finnish and all.

"i don't think that's that snide tbh"

That's because you are what 12 years old. It's snide. If you wanted to be snide, good on you, but pretending it's not is naive.

Most consistent album artists, off the top of my head, in alphabetical order:

Brooks & Dunn
Dixie Chicks
Gore Gore Girls
Toby Keith
Lil Wayne
Montgomery Gentry
Trick Daddy

I am probably missing some. And albums are harder.

oh yeah, also:

Tim McGraw

And what the hell, probably:

White Stripes

a repost from 21st Century House and Techno POX

unranked list:

booka shade - mandarine girl
daft punk - discovery
donnacha costello - the colour series
efdemin - self titled lp
isolee - we are monster
the knife - silent shout
luomo - vocal city
ricardo villalobos - achso ep
rhythm & sound - see mi yah boxset
various - a dozen or so odd tracks remixed by carl craig/c2

a non-synthesizer generated type stuff to follow. i think i will look back on the 00s as the decade i listened to way fucking more music than i did previously

Oasis

1. Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
2. The Rapture - Echoes
3. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the queen mary
4. White Stripes - White blood Cells
5. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
9. Band of horses - Everything all the time
10. Interpol - Antics

"Most consistent album artists, off the top of my head, in alphabetical order:

Brooks & Dunn
Dixie Chicks
Gore Gore Girls
Toby Keith
Lil Wayne
Montgomery Gentry
Trick Daddy

oh yeah, also:

Tim McGraw

And what the hell, probably:

White Stripes

-- xhuxk"

they are all very consistent. consistently fucking terrible.

i'm glad that the internet, which has allowed greater access to more music than ever before, has encouraged so many ppl to dig deep for that good unpredictable shit

okay I dunno about a hundred, or even a twenty (honestly I feel like there must be so many 'best' albums I just haven't heard, in other genres, or circles of influence still to be involved in... still to discover, despite all I have heard & liked, but loved? really, really loved? hmmm.

without hesitation I would save in a housefire...

Kate Bush - Aerial
Björk - Vespertine
Ellen Allien - Berlinette
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa
Melt-Banana - Cell-scape

maybe I'll do the honorable mentions later, but those are the ones that either hit me dizzlyingly hard & never stopped giving, or simply crept up to unassailable classic status after a few years living with them :)

"they are all very consistent. consistently fucking terrible."

Hey just like anything posted by pipecock!

pipecock deliverin' the zings!

How are White Stripes consistently terrible pipecock? You suck.

At least there's now a few posts with substance amidst the 2kool4skool posturing. Nothing wrong with questioning people's picks, but to do it so snidely without laying your own out for scrutiny seems a bit weaselish. Care to share, J0rdan and Rev?

-- Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:52 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Naw, man. I think Vespertine is great. My post was directed at Jordo.

Whoa, I didn't know anyone had even heard about Asa outside Finland! What with the lyrics being in Finnish and all.

There's a lot of English language albums that are unintelligible enough that they might as well be in Finnish. Terveisiä Kaaoksesta made my '06 top 25 cuz I thought the music was brilliant, and the cadence and rhythm sounded great. Too bad I didn't learn any of the language when I had the chance (dated a Finnish girl a while back). It's usually possible to find translations online. I do that with a lot of Portuguese too.

I was actually thinking today about when I'm going to compose my list of this decade. This will probably only hasten my ability to make this list (which is a good thing).

"How are White Stripes consistently terrible pipecock? You suck.

-- Choose Leif"

they are consistently terrible in the way that makes me want to run screaming from the room when their music comes on.

DFA Remixes Volume 2 is pretty high up for me.

I MEANT: DFA Compilation #2 is pretty high up for me dudes.

great reasoning pipecock you loser.

Radiohead, most likely the Beatles of our generation.

How does a board full of music fans attract so many people who like the White Stripes and TV on the Radio?

My list:
none, the music industry has reached an all-time low. listen to more Gang of Four and Joy Divison or whatever.

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"great reasoning pipecock you loser.

-- Choose Leif"

i mean, the white stripes are different in that all the other artists on that list make me want to stab someone when their music comes on. it's all about those subtle differences in how terrible those artists are.

here are possible my 10 fav singles of the decade off the top of my head

1. kanye west- all falls down
2. nelly- country grammar
3. juvenile- back that azz up
4. jay-z- big pimpin
5. ludacris- what's your fantasy
6. lcd soundsystem- all my friends
7. clipse- grindin
8. nas ft. jada/luda- made you look
9. the strokes- you only live once
10. cam'ron ft. juelz santana- hey ma

i'm sure i left off some shit but that's a decent enough idea

"Radiohead, most likely the Beatles of our generation."

i can see that in many ways. they are similar in that they both made great use of technology (instead of relying on it like a crutch like so many other groups have) and that they both have started kinda cheesy and then proceeded to get better. that's not something that many bands can accomplish.

"How does a board full of music fans attract so many people who like the White Stripes and TV on the Radio?"

this is the kind of question i am interested in knowing the answer to.

"My list:
none, the music industry has reached an all-time low. listen to more Gang of Four and Joy Divison or whatever.

-- Super Subway Comedian"

hahaha, forreal. popular music has definitely never been so poor in the time i've been alive. even hiphop, which was something of a mainstay in my pop music listening for over 20 years no matter what underground shit i was into at the time, sucks totally at this point.

pipecock in not feeling d4l shocker

Fuck off pipecock

this thread is straight flagrino

There's a lot of English language albums that are unintelligible enough that they might as well be in Finnish. Terveisiä Kaaoksesta made my '06 top 25 cuz I thought the music was brilliant, and the cadence and rhythm sounded great.

Can't disagree with that, it's one of best rap albums ever by a Finnish artist even if you don't count the lyrics. Too bad you can't understand them though, they're some next level shit! Though Asa's wordplay and references on that album are so complex it'd take years of immersion into Finnish language, culture, and history to get them all. Hell, I don't think even most of his Finnish listeners get them all (at least I don't).

40 of my favorite albums...

Gas- Pop
Arthur Russell- Calling Out of Context
Radiohead- Kid A
Xiu Xiu- Knife Play
Daft Punk- Discovery
Junior Boys- Last Exit
DJ /Rupture- Minesweeper Suite
Jan Jelinek- Loop-finding Jazz Records
Labradford- fixed:content
Michael Mayer- Fabric 13
Jill Scott- Who is Jill Scott?
Mariah Carey- Emancipation of Mimi
Triple R- Friends
Deerhoof- Reveille
Dizzee Rascal- Showtime
Luomo- Vocalcity
Burial- Burial
Ghostface- The Pretty Toney Album
Dominik Eulberg- Kreucht & Fleucht
Clinic- Internal Wrangler
The Clientele- The Violet Hour
Broadcast- The Noise Made By People
Michael Mayer- Immer
Max Tundra- Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange
Melchior Producions Ltd.- No Disco Future
Lawrence- The Night Will Last Forever
DFA Compilation #2
Jim O'Rourke- Insignificance
Spoon- Girls Can Tell
Thomas Brinkmann- Tour de Traum
Aaliyah- Aaliyah
Kaito- Special Life
Farben- Textstar
Viktor Vaughn- Vaudeville Villain
Mu- Out of Breach
Smog- Dongs of Sevotion
Sam Prekop- Who's Your New Professor?
Richard Davis- Safety
Black Heart Procession- Three
Fennesz- Endless Summer

no painful consideration approach:

theo parrish - parallel dimensions
rhythm and sound with the artists
hototogisu - floating japanese oof gardens of the 21st century
ricardo villalobos - alcachofa
metro area
isolee - rest
moodymann - forevernevermore
broadcast - the noise made by people
david sylvian - blemish
fennesz - endless summer
stars of the lid and their refinement of the decline
double leopards - halve maen
grouper - cover the windows and the walls
boredoms - vision creation newsun (cheating?)

lots more

plus lots of what he ^^ said

some very good choices with the two lists above me.

cont. but not in any kind of order...

Scott Walker - The Drift
Mouse On Mars - Idiology
Luciano - Live @ Weetamix
Radiohead - Kid A (& the rest really)
TBA - Anulle
AGF - Westernization Completed
Isolee - Wearemonster
Apparat - Duplex
Asa Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost
Kevin Blechdom - Bitches Without Britches
Barbara Morgenstern - Fjorden
Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Kylie - Fever
Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS

+ weiss.mix/Immer/Superlongevity/Panoramabar 01/Boogy Bytes Vol.1/Nocturbulous Behavior & other predictably ILM-centric choices if CD mixes are counting as 'albums' (which they should really imo) :/

Thanks!

I'd really like to do this with singles...