The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

Let us say that one would need 3 great LPs released in the decade to qualify for our project.

With that in mind, we hereby nominate:

Drive-By Truckers
White Stripes

MIA and Bob Dyaln both need one more to qualify, then they'll top the list.

White Stripes are awful - Black Keys all the way!

3 LPs? That'd discriminate against SOOOOO many bands with obvious talent that have jus started (and even some going for a while, like franz).

^^^ smart guy

What about - the 3 LP's or the Black Keys?

The Black Keys are #64 for me, would have been higher if it weren't for Magic Potion. Super Furry Animals had a good run, but I couldn't get into Love Kraft and Hey Venus!.

I excluded artists who had only one album from my list, and I did give more weight to those who had three to five consistently great albums. Technically going just by points Radiohead would have topped it, but I also consider the fact that they're more on an artistic downswing, while I'm betting that TVOTR have yet to peak. Hopefully I'll find out later this year. I counted their EPs too.

well this blows but it's still better than those stupid idolator/p&j threads

Villalobos

In a sick way, I was hoping someone would start a thread like this.

blueski's quasi-racist-hipster-moi?-roflist:

1. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. Basement Jaxx - Rooty
4. Broadcast - The Future Crayon
5. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
6. Daft Punk - Discovery
7. Richard X - ...Presents His X-Factor Vol 1
8. The Knife - Deep Cuts
9. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
10. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
11. Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cuts
12. Feist - The Reminder
13. Kraftwerk - Tour De France
14. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
15. Feist - Let It Die
16. Broadcast - Haha Sound
17. Ladytron - 604
18. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz
19. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
20. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
21. Annie - Anniemal
22. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
23. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
24. Hot Chip - The Warning
25. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
26. Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour
27. Ellen Allien - Berlinette
28. Britney Spears - Blackout
29. Casette Boy - The Parker Tapes
30. Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It
31. LFO - Sheath
32. Erlend Oye - DJ Kicks
33. Ladytron - Light And Magic
34. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
35. Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue
36. The Bird And The Bee - The Bird And The Bee
37. Medicine8 - Iron Stylings
38. Michael Mayer Presents - Immer
39. Radiohead - Kid A
40. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
41. Cassius - Au Reve
42. Royksopp - Melody AM
43. Herbert - Bodily Functions
44. Girls Aloud - Chemistry
45. MIA - Kala
46. Kelis - Tasty
47. Hystereo - Corporate Crimewave
48. Prodigy - Dirtchamber Sessions 1
49. Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
50. Gus Gus - Attention
51. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up
52. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Sustain Decay Release
53. Wiley - Treddin On Thin Ice
54. The Rapture - Echoes
55. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
56. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
57. Senor Coconut - El Baile Aleman
58. The Strokes - Room On Fire
59. MIA - Arular
60. Kelis - Kaleidoscope
61. St Etienne - Finisterre
62. Teddybears Sthlm - Fresh
63. The Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
64. Doves - Lost Souls
65. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
66. Anti-Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia
67. Justice - +
68. Zero 7 - Simple Things
69. Tok Tok Vs Soffy O - Tok Tok Vs Soffy O
70. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
71. FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
72. Outkast - Stankonia
73. Bjork - Vespertine
74. Air - Talkie Walkie
75. Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens
76. Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
77. Manitoba - Up In Flames
78. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
79. Etienne De Crecy - Tempovision
80. Gonzales - Gonzales Uber Alles
81. Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3
82. John B - Future Reference
83. St Etienne - The Sound Of Water
84. Orbital - The Altogether
85. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
86. Doves - Lost Sides
87. Phoenix - Alphabetical
88. Missy Elliott - Under Construction
89. Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth
90. Roots Manuva - Dub Come Save Me
91. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
92. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies And Uprock Narratives
93. Space Cowboy - Across The Sky
94. !!! - Louden Up Now
95. Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor
96. Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say?
97. Crydamoure Presents - Waves 2
98. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
99. Mylo - Destroy Rock N' Roll
100. Burial - Untrue

(And I am going to post a list later.)

re: White Stripes: right city, wrong band...Electric Six own the 00's...

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Three of the original four band members, bassist Jamie Krents, vocalist/drummer Nick Stumpf, and vocalist/guitarist Matthew Stinchcomb, are from Washington, D.C. They were heavily influenced by the hardcore scene that flourished during their youth in the D.C. area. They began playing together in a series of bands while in their teens and then all attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where they continued to play together. The three friends then moved to Brooklyn, New York after college, where the French Kicks were formed with vocalist/guitarist Josh Wise, a Princeton grad who originally hailed from Huntsville, Alabama.

In 1999 they released a self titled EP The French Kicks under the label My Pal God. Soon, after a lot of touring, the band signed to Startime International. They soon released the Young Lawyer EP in 2001. The group then embarked on a tour with fellow garage rockers The Vue and The Walkmen. In 2002 they released their first full length album, One Time Bells. Jamie Krents departed the band the next year, and was replaced on bass by Lawrence Stumpf, Nick's younger brother. In 2004, their next album, The Trial of the Century was released. Another personnel change occurred when Nick stopped playing drums at live shows to concentrate on his lead singing. A series of temporary drummers filled his spot until the band settled on Aaron Thurston, a Massachusetts native.

In late 2005, Stinchcomb announced that he was leaving the band. A new album was released on July 18, 2006 titled Two Thousand.

Their video for their single "So Far We Are" also features actress Olivia Wilde.

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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).

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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Discovery

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