best FOUR ALBUM RUN of the 2000s (aka the Stevie Awards)

Tell me which of the lists above doesn't have at least one obvious weak link.

Agreed on Spoon, The Hold Steady, The Clientele and Tim Hecker.

Everyone Who Pretended to Like me is Gone
Bows + Arrows
A Hundred Miles Off
You and Me

for me, it's the mountain goats

all hail west texas
tallahassee
we shall all be healed
the sunset tree

Folktronic
Oskar Tennis Champion
Otto Spooky
Ocky Milk

lol

Sparks

2000-Balls
2002-Lil' Beethoven
2006-Hello Young Lovers
2008-Exotic Creatures Of the Deep

The last three are so good they make up for Balls being a bit average.

Four Tet, narrowly missing the 2009 cutoff:

Pause (2001)
Rounds (2003)
Everything Ecstatic (2005)
There Is Love in You (2010)

Of course, dude’s released a shitload of excellent material in between these “proper” Four Tet albums – four collaborative albums with Steve Reid, remixes/reinterpretations (many of which are on his Remixes 2xCD set), a couple EPs (Paws, Ringer, Everything Ecstatic 2xCD bonus tracks), a LateNightTales catalog entry, among others – so perhaps the 2009 vs. 2010 thing is overly restrictive in his case?

OOIOO just made my top ten after finally getting their early albums this weekend.

2000 Gold And Green
2002 Kila Kila Kila
2006 Taiga
2009 Armonico Hewa

Can't believe I didn't think of SFA.

2000 Mwng
2001 Rings Around the World
2003 Phantom Power
2005 Love Kraft
2007 Hey Venus!
2009 Dark Days/Light Years

Bonnie Prince Billy
2001 - Ease Down the Road
2003 - Master and Everyone
2006 - The Letting Go
2008 - Lie Down in the Light
(I skipped the Greatest Palace Music reinterpritation record)

as i was saying:

2002 Aldhils Arboretum (Kindercore)
2004 Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)
2005 The Sunlandic Twins (Polyvinyl)
2007 Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)

and yes this is their last great album:

2008 Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)

whiney repped for the white stripes? guess i missed the 10th anniversary oral history of elephant

2000 Ágætis byrjun (UK/US release dates)
2002 ( )
2005 Takk
2008 Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

for me, it's the mountain goats

all hail west texas
tallahassee
we shall all be healed
the sunset tree

― kaygee, Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:14 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao @ whiney insisting spoon are part of the canon (and that the canon matters)

since this thread ended we have:

mama's gun (2000)
worldwide underground (2003)
new amerykah part one: 4th world war (2008)
new amerykah part two: return of the ankh (2010)

(yes i know you have to squint a bit to include 2000 and 2010 as part of the same decade but really it's a very arbitrary thing to demand in the first place)
(man i wish circus wasn't as mediocre as it is otherwise britney would walk this)

i vote for erykah too (though part two was pretty patchy) though kanye is the first one that came to mind.

Gravity (2001)
Cinemascope (2001)
Momentum (2003)
Polygon Cities (2005)

there ain't no insisting about it, spoon are part of the canon

happens when all you do is release classic records

I was listening to "The Complete Recollection" just the other day and thinking that this:

If It Was You (2002)
So Jealous (2004)
The Con (2007)
Sainthood (2009)

and then Heartthrob (2013)

Is a pretty amazing run. They're all great, and they also progress pretty logically towards the commercial breakout. It's like a throwback to the way artists used to develop.

I second Converge. A run of greatness that's still ongoing.

Think of all the ways Whiney would call somebody a Brony if they started this exact thread today

Trouble Over Bridgwater
Cammell Pairs Social Club
Achtung Bono
CSI: Ambleside

*Laird, fucken autocorrect

Hardly anyone outside American indie fans gives a shit about Spoon, but as they're pretty much the only people who care about canon these days they might as well let anyone in no matter how insignificant in the wider world.

Autechre a good shout too tho I need to get into Quaristice

This is actually really hard because hardly anyone releases four albums in a row without one of them being underwhelming at best - ie I would have thought the YYYs were nailed on for this but then Mosquito happened.

Like it's really annoying that Paper Tigers exists because Vocalcity -> The Present Lover -> something better than Paper Tigers -> Convivial would equal pretty much any artist of the 00s.

Porcupine Tree:

In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
The Incident

really? The Incident was post-2009 anyway

I tell a lie. But still.

Think of all the ways Whiney would call somebody a Brony if they started this exact thread today

― some dude

lol at first i thought it was a joke thread and stevie meant 'steve hyden'

to help prove that Spoon is the best band from this last decade:

Our top overall artist of the decade: Spoon

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-music-of-the-decade

settled

lock thread

lol, not saying that but some people is this thread are dismissing them. i wanted the counter argument and hey i was able to back it up.

spoon are classic, fuiud

DJ Quik

Balance & Options (2000)
Under tha Influence (2002)
Trauma (2005)
BlaQKout (2009)

oh shit

Influence is kind of the weak link but still

yeah obv but still awesome

This kind of cheating but I'd like to add The Go-Betweens.

The Friends of Rachel Worth (2000)
Bright Yellow Bright Orange (2003)
Oceans Apart (2005)
The Evangelist (2008)

The last one was obviously a Robert Forster solo album but it did feature contributions from Grant and was a tribute to him so I'm counting it. Really great set of albums that are not far off the quality of the run they had in the 80s.

I guess i need to hear Convivial.

certainly

paper tigers is unaccountably disfavored, too

Yeah I never got why paper tigers was so bad and hated

one touch (2000)
angel with dirty faces (2002)
three (2003)
taller in more ways (2005)

sung tongs
feels
strawberry jam
merriweather post pavilion

Wussy deserve some mention here even though the last one came out in 2011.

Funeral Dress 2005
Left for Dead 2007
Wussy 2009
Strawberry 2011

If you add the last two Ass Ponys albums from 2000 and 2001 Chuck Cleaver has a Stevie and a half going.

lambchop

Is a woman
Aw cmon/No you cmon
Damaged
Ohio
Mr. M

i still think EPs (or mini-albums or whatever you wanna call them) should count for this especially if they are considered among the artist's strongest output (like "Young Liars" for example) and especially if the EP was crafted by the artist as a self-contained sequence of music (as opposed to b-sides collections like "Airbag/How Am I Driving" or remix albums like "Further Down The Spiral"). within certain contexts, i think this exception makes perfect sense.

my reasoning is that the initial stevie wonder 4-in-a-row that inspired this idea was built from 4 consecutive releases without EPs or shorter releases scattered in between. and plus they were all released within a 4-year span as opposed to getting spread across all 10 years of the 70s like many of the 2000s artists mentioned in this thread. (stevie had 8 albums throughout the 70s.)

Would be interested in a 90s version of this.