The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

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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