The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

"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.

http://www.counterpoint-music.com/specialties/images/williamhung.jpg

"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...

don't listen to enough (ok, any really) hip-hop and grime, don't listen to nearly enough new guitar rock, pay a little too much attention to 'promising' trends sometimes, usually more turned off & bored than thrilled by new 'electro' (rough or refined) and splattersampling, unfortunately. feeling a bit out of step, old & un-with-it lately. In summary.

top drawer mixes I missed - Scion - Arrange & process.. Richie Hawtin DE9 (II & III, not heard 1), Tobias Thomas - Smallville

i listen to what i like. who cares about listening to hip hop or grime, really. i pay attention to about 3 types of new music and i'm very comfortable with that.

(obviously this -- "who cares about listening to hip hop or grime, really" -- means why should you have to listen to anything, not why would anyone listen to these genres)

Well, I care 'cos I feel like I've started to miss out a bit, based on where my ears have been for a lot of the 00s? Nothing more significant than that... I'm not trying to be cool about it. I find it hard to attempt to keep up with everything, but do that in any depth (of enjoyment) as well. I'm not a crit or dj. Just feeling like I got in a rut somewhere the last couple of years .. blah balh

These are probably the albums I've got the most mileage out of so far this decade, so I suppose they're my favourites:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
N*E*R*D - In Search Of
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
The Strokes - Is This It
Radiohead - Kid A
The Knife - Silent Shout
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
System of a Down - Toxicity
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Rival Schools - United By Fate
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - In Rainbows

^^great list.

xpost - and maybe closing my ears out of exhaustion with trying to seek out the best stuff, instead of letting it come to me however? for instance, just cannot find the care to even think about 'balearic' or bassline (and ilm in general these days, despite starting to post a bit again this last week!)

nate summarises the reasons for the first 5 I picked WAY more succinctly than I could :)

yeah well this board is strange because it's full of music critics. but if you "keep up" too hard you might begin believing things like that be your own pet made one of the best albums of the decade

well that really worked for M.I.A. and me lol.

Nah I definitely know what you're saying, but it's not like that. Hmmm, isn't jess rather out on his own with BYOP anyway??

anyway ;-)

http://www.metacritic.com/music/
http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/

posting so Geir doesn't have to.

not sure how i managed to do a top 100 so quickly esp. seeing as i HAET albums (perhaps you can tell from the list).

yeah well this board is strange because it's full of music critics. but if you "keep up" too hard you might begin believing things like that radiohead made one of the best albums of the decade

fixed

all downhill from Pablo Honey...

yes yes, just joshing with the byop. (although i do find it funny that someone i learned so much about music from observing earlier in the decade could diverge so wildly from me as it progressed)

i quite like albums yet i'd struggle to find 100 albums i LOVE from the decade, i think.