The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

Bad reviews of Sgt Pepper written in 1967 to thread please.

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:48 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

One notable critic who did not like the album was Richard Goldstein, a critic for The New York Times, who wrote, "Like an over-attended child, "Sergeant Pepper" is spoiled. It reeks of horns and harps, harmonica quartets, assorted animal noises, and a 41-piece orchestra," and added that it was an "album of special effects, dazzling but ultimately fraudulent" [5]. On the other hand, Goldstein called "A Day in the Life" "a deadly earnest excursion in emotive music with a chilling lyric," and that "it stands as one of the most important Lennon-McCartney compositions, and it is a historic Pop event."[6]

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/column2.php

i think the 00s should be called the meme decade.

Best albums of the '00s (in roughly chronological order):

Myra Melford - Dance Beyond the Color
Sussan Deyhim - Madman of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble - Dreams
FM Knives - Useless & Modern
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Mihály Dresch - Egyenes Zene (Straight Music)
Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
Jenny Scheinman - Shalagaster
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
Jewels & Binoculars - Floater
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa
Vinícius Cantuária - Silva
Misha Mengelberg - Senne Sing Song
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Missy Elliott - The Cookbook
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
Espers - Espers II
M.I.A. - Kala
Lily Allen - Alright, Still

Where's Life Without Buildings' Any Other City amongst all this chatter?

-- Cunga, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:20 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Link

There are some days when I think that Any Other City by Life Without Buildings is my favorite album from this decade.

-- jaymc, Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:22 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

remember this:

ILM Poll vote for the first half of the decade: ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

1. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
2. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
3. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (2002)
4. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (2003)
5. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2001)
6. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (1008)
7. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (983)
8. Jay-Z - The Blueprint (948)
9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (904)
10. Basement Jaxx - Rooty (830)
11. Radiohead - Amnesiac (804)
12. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (751)
13. Kanye West - The College Dropout (703)
14. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (682)
15. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (681)
16. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (679)
17. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive (573)
18. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi (566)
19. The Rapture - Echoes (554)
20. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City Stories From The Sea (545)
21. The Junior Boys - Last Exit (536)
22. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (529)
23. The White Stripes - Elephant (517)
24. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (513)
25. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (494)
26. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of... (486)
27. The Notwist - Neon Golden (479)
28. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (469)
29. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (466)
30. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (465)
31. The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird Bark (440)
32. Justin Timberlake - Justified (437)
33. Le Tigre - Le Tigre (436)
34. Fugazi - The Argument (403)
35. Broadcast - Haha Sound (401)
36. Lambchop - Nixon (398)
37. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR (398)
38. Fennesz - Endless Summer (394)
39. The Scissor Sisters - The Scissor Sisters (381)
40. Cat Power - You Are Free (365)
41. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (364)
42. The Clientele - Suburban Light (3??)
43. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire (352)
44. Richard X presents - X-Factor Vol. 1 (337)
45. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (337)
46. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance (335)
47. Luomo - Vocalcity (327)
48. Ladytron - Light And Magic (326)
49. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (321)
50. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz (311)
51. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts Of Oak (305)
52. Lifter Puller - Fiestas & Fiascos (293)
53. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (289)
54. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas (286)
55. Andrew WK - I Get Wet (280)
56. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II (279)
57. Royksopp - Melody AM (276)
58. Aaliyah - Aaliyah (275)
59. The RZA/Various Artists - Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (OST) (270)
60. The Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (266)
61. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (265)
62. Sonic Youth - Murray Street (265)
63. Madvillain - Madvillainy (264)
64. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan (264)
65. Big & Rich - Horse Of A Different Colour (263)
66. Cornelius - Point (262)
67. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (254)
68. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (252)
69. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album (252)
70. The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (245)
71. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel The Summer In My Heart (227)
72. Shellac - 1000 Hurts (227)
73. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (221)
74. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (218)
75. The New Pornographers - Electric Version (214)
76. Michael Mayer presents - Immer (214)
77. The Wrens - The Meadowlands (210)
78. Junior Senior - D-d-don't Stop The Beat (209)
79. D'Angelo - Voodoo (209)
80. New Order - Get Ready (207)
81. Atmosphere - Lucy Ford (206)
82. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (204)
83. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib (202)
84. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R (191)
85. Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus (191)
86. Calexico - Feast Of Wire (186)
87. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight (176)
88. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (172)
89. Mogwai - Rock Action (170)
90. Johnny Greenwood - Bodysong (OST) (168)
91. The Microphones - The Glow (Part 2) (167)
92. Low - Trust (163)
93. The Delgados - Hate (162)
94. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (160)
95. David Banner - Mississippi: The Album (160)
96. Emma Bunton - Free Me (157)
97. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (156)
98. Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice (155)
99. Bob Dylan - Love And Theft (153)
100. Max Tundra - Mastered By Guy At The Exchange (144)

101. Villalobos - Alcahofa (143)
102. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (143)
103. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyranny Of Distance (142)
104. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder (139)
105. Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid (137)
106. Smog - Dongs Of Sevotion (137)
107. Rufus Wainwright - Want One (136)
108. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Cast Of - Once More With Feeling (OST) (133)
109. Bersuit Vergabarat - Hijos Del Culo (127)
110. Saturday Looks Good To Me - All Your Summer Songs (120)
111. The Walkmen - Everybody Who Pretended To Like Me Has Gone (119)
112. Lawrence - The Absence Of Blight (119)
113. Wire - Send (117)
114. Oneida - Each One Teach One (117)
115. Spoon - Girls Can Tell (116)
116. Ellen Allien - Weissmix (116)
117. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (114)
118. David Sylvain - Blemish (114)
119. Fog - Ether Teeth (113)
120. The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (110)
121. DJ Rupture - Minesweeper Suite (109)
122. M83 - M83 (104)
123. Akufen - My Way (103)
124. Cassette Boy - The Parker Tapes (102)
125. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power (93)
126. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me (91)
127. TI - Trap Muzik (91)
128. Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons (90)
129. Underworld - A Hundred Days Off (88)
130. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (88)
131. The Bees - Sunshine Hit Me (85)
132. Okkervil River - Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See (81)
133. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish (80)
134. Mission Of Burma - Onoffon (79)
135. Spray - Living In Neon (78)
136. Kaito - Special Love (74)
137. Blak Twang - Kik Off (70)
138. John Fahey - Red Cross (69)
139. Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (69)
140. The Futureheads - The Futureheads (64)
141. The Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (63)
142. Cave In - Jupiter (61)
143. Various Artists - Lord Of The Decks: The Fellowship Of The Mic (61)
144. Converge - Jane Doe (58)
145. Saian Supa Crew - X-Raisons (57)
146. Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party? (55)
147. Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (54)
148. Miss Kittin - I Com
149. Jandek - The Gone Wait (50)
150. Eve - Eve-O-Lution (47)
151. The Deadly Snakes - Ode To Joy (45)
152. Beaumont - This Is Beaumont (45)
153. The Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat (45)
154. Killing Joke - Killing Joke (44)
155. Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue (42)
156. Stephen Jones - Almost Cured Of Sadness (42)
157. Crydamoure presents - Waves (40)
158. My Favorite - The Happiest Days Of Our Lives (38)
159. Comets On Fire - Field Recordings From The Sun (36)
160. The Wrangler Brutes - The Wrangler Brutes (32)
161. The Cure - The Cure (31)
162. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (26)
163. Xiu Xiu - A Promise (23)
164. Rancid - Rancid (20)
165. Fennesz - Live In Japan (16)
166. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (14)
167. Joy Zipper - American Whip (14)
168. The Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit (13)
169. Bangkok Impact - Traveller (10)
170. Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker (9)
171. Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (8)
172. Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue (7)
173. Raphael Saddiq - Instant Vintage (7)
174. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets (7)
175. DJ Krush - Zen (5)
176. Neurosis/Jarboe - Neurosis/Jarboe (3)
177. Girl Talk - Unstoppable (1)
178. Destroyer - Your Blues (-1)
179. Smashing Pumpkins - Machina: The Machines

yeah I'm with pipecock, get off jock. Also ban pipecock.

try again: ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

ILbadM

ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

Destroyer - Your Blues (-1)

haha

Besides the clear Fennesz favorite, Endless Summer, only Venice got votes. Does anyone like Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56' 37" Minus Sixteen Degrees 51' 08? The lists reminded me to try to find these:

Amadou & Mariam - Tje Ni Mousso (Circular Moves) 00
The Dragons – Rock N Roll Kamikaze (Junk) 01
Electrelane – The Power Out (Too Pure) 04
Lansing-Dreiden – The Incomplete Triangle (Kemado) 04

Of the rest of my top 100, here's some that weren't on many other lists:

Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires (Tomlab) 05
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal) 03
Kassin +2 - Futurismo (Video Arts Japan/Luaka Bop) 06
Apparat - Walls (Bpitch Control) 07
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free) 07
Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters (CramWorld) 00
Hawksley Workman - For Him And The Girls (Isadora/Ba Da Bing) 00
Mastodon - Leviathan (Relapse) 04
My Computer - No CV (Tesla UK) 05
Rob - Satyred Love (Source/Virgin Fr) 02
My Computer - Vulnerabilia (13 Amp UK) 02
Arto Lindsay - Invoke (Righteous Babe) 02
The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows (Record Collection) 04
Arto Lindsay - Salt (Righteous Babe) 04
Sketch Show - Loophole (Third Ear) 04
Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go) 02
Robyn (Konichiwa Records) 05
Nação Zumbí - Fome De Tudo (Deck Disk Brazil) 07
Plush - Fed (After Hours Jpn) 02
Tom Waits - Alice (Anti/Epitaph) 02
Field Music (Memphis Industries UK) 05
Otto - Sem Gravidade (Trama) 03
Shack - Here's Tom With The Weather (North Country UK) 03
Annie - Anniemal (679) 04
Benoît Pioulard - Précis (Kranky) 06
Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon) 06
Nação Zumbí (Trama) 02
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy (Tomlab) 04
Nação Zumbí - Radio S.AMB.A. (Stern's Brasil) 00
Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere (Astralwerks/Heaven) 03
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream (V2) 01
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone) 01
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters (Virgin) 01
Ampop - Nature Is Not A Virgin (R&R Iceland) 00
16 Horsepower - Secret South (Razor & Tie) 00
Cappablack - Facades and Skeletons (Scape Germany) 06
Nação Zumbí - Futura (Trama) 06
Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island (Kemado) 06
Various Productions - The World Is Gone (XL) 06
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power (XL/Beggars) 03
Pulp - We Love Life (Uni/Island) 01
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (Fat Possum) 04

no-one cares btw

ILbadM

-- Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:26 (Yesterday) Link

Starting to look more and more like the case each day.

I Love BM's

PEW PEW

I'm just going to list some artists I think deserve consideration. I'm sure all of them have been mentioned above, but nevertheless . . . These are in no particular order. The list is heavily-weighted toward indie rock, since it's what I know and like best. There are a ton of pop acts I also like, but I tend to experience those as individual songs, making it harder to assess those acts' historical significance.

Okay, enough qualifiers. Here's my list:

• Radiohead
• My Morning Jacket
• New Pornographers
• Justin Timberlake
• Timberland
• M.I.A.
• Arcade Fire
• Burial
• Dizzie Rascal
• Ellen Allien
• Ghostface Killa
• Junior Boys
• Wilco
• J Dilla
• LCD Soundsystem
• Lindstrom
• Low
• Spoon
• OutKast
• The Clientele
• The Knife
• The Shins
• Amadou Et Mariam
• Manu Chao
• Animal Collective
• White Stripes
• Iron & Wine
• Drive-By Truckers
• Hold Steady
• TV On The Radio
• Sufjan Stevens
• Kanye West
• The Books
• Broken Social Scene
• Britney Spears
• Eminem
• The Streets

Anyway, I suppose it's a bit premature to make pronouncements on the decade, but I think this kind of thread is totally worthwhile and an enjoyable read.

I love lots of what's unfairly labelled "world music," too, but I don't think much of it is from the oughts, and those that are I tend to experience like pop songs (i.e., as individual songs). Rachid Taha has been dynamite, with his 2006 disc Diwan 2, so maybe I should have listed him.

1. soulja boy
2. ...

Best stuff I've heard has been by Wire and Mission of Burma.

2. arab

3. D4L (as a group)
4. Fabo
5. Shawty lo

6. JIZZLE MAN

excuse me JIZZAL

7. BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

I just want to extend my thanks to assholes in general. You make life worth living.

save the victory speech for when we nominate you, contenderizer

8. robin thicke

hoos could probably get a verse the album dfb to for koch in 2 years

9. 40 cal

No, really, to all the assholes, a toast. They have this beer now with clam juice in it. Top notch.

whois contenderizer? Seems like a good guy.

10. NOW thats what I call music ... whatever the one from '03 was

deej otm

. Crazy In Love - Beyonce Featuring Jay-Z Listen Listen
2. Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas Feat. Justin Timberlake Listen Listen
3. My Love Is Like...Woah - Mya Listen Listen
4. Never Leave You (uh ooh, uh ooh!) - Lumidee Listen Listen
5. Right Thurr - Chingy Listen Listen
6. Wat Da Hook Gon Be - Murphy Lee Featuring Jermaine Dupri Listen Listen
7. Thoia Thoing - R. Kelly Listen Listen
8. Let's Get Down - Bow Wow (Feat. Baby) Listen Listen
9. Senorita - Justin Timberlake Listen Listen
10. I Want You - Thalia Featuring Fat Joe Listen Listen
11. Suga Suga - Baby Bash Listen Listen
12. In Those Jeans - Ginuwine Listen Listen
13. Walked Outta Heaven - Jagged Edge Listen Listen
14. (There's Gotta Be) More To Life - Stacie Orrico Listen Listen
15. Why Can't I - Liz Phair Listen Listen
16. Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne Listen Listen
17. Girls & Boys - Good Charlotte Listen Listen
18. The Boys Of Summer - The Ataris Listen Listen
19. Someday - Nickelback Listen Listen
20. Here Without You - 3 Doors Down

Stacy's Mom by Fountains Of Wayne Listen Listen is a good song.

11. cam'ron "dreams" freestyle

12. andrew wk

Whoa, it seems like Listen Listen is totally you favourite band of the 00's, Jordan.

Are they an offshoot of Talk Talk?

booooo you suck booooo

Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters

Pleasantly surprised to see that I wasn't the only person to name this. A fusion of a traditional non-Western music style, modern technology, and avant-garde sensibility that works.

I thought it fell short. (Of something. I forget what exactly, since I sold my copy.)

(Not that getting rid of a CD automatically wipes out my memory of it, but the point is I don't have it to listen to any more, to refresh my memory.)

Well, I suppose it may not be to every taste. I like her voice on it.

Maybe I have your copy - since I bought mine at a used CD shop.

beaumont 'this is...'
monica queen 'return of the sacred heart'
mum 'yesterday was dramatic, today is ok'
aislers set 'how i learnt to write backwards'
chut! 'collector'
baskervilles 'baskervilles'
belle and sebastian 'dear catastrophe waitress'
birdie 'triple echo'
bows 'cassidy'
pearlfishers 'sky meadows'
brunettes 'mars loves venus'
cloudboy 'down at the end of the garden'
scarlet's well 'isle of blue flowers'
Siesta travel trilogy
la buena vida 'hallelujah!'
electronic tomato 's/t'
fonda 500 'the spectrumatronicalogical sounds of fonda 500'
tears in x-ray eyes 'wonderfully made'
frankie machine 'francis albert machine and friends'
hood 'cold house'
girlfrendo 'so you are here again shadow?'
love is all 'nine times the same song'
gorky's 'how i long to feel that summer in my heart'
greg davis 'curling pond woods'
harper lee 'everything is going to be ok'
humphreys and keen 'the overflow
july skies 'where the days go'
ladybug transistor 'albermarle sound'
ladytron '604'
le futur pompiste 'your stories and your thoughts'
mahogany 'connectivity'
majestic 'wake up come out and play'
malory 'not here not now'
marine time keepers 'perfect knowledge of dreams'
marumari 'wolves hollow'
modesty blaise 'melancholia'
murcof 'remembranza'
notre dame 'comment l'amour est mort'
orwell 'archipel'
panda bear 'person pitch'
the playwrights 'english self storage'
pluxus 'european onion'
the projects 'let's get static'
randomnumber 'towards the forlorn society'
roy montgomery 'allegory of hearing'
screen prints 'perfect city'
stereo total 'musique atomatique'
swirlies 'cats of the wild'
tompaulin 'into the black'
would be goods 'the morning after'
poptics compilation
clientele 'strange geometry'

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