The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

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.

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"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.

These are the records I've probably listened to the most over the last 8 years. Plus current stuff that's on my mind. Some of 'em I'd have a hard time defending, and a few even embarass me, but they all did the job at the time. Numbering doesn't really mean anything, and I'm sure I'm leaving off TONS of stuff:

1) Louden Up Now - !!!
2) Tje Ni Musso - Amadou & Miriamm
3) Sung Tongs - Animal Collective
4) I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons
5) Wages of Sin - Arch Enemy
6) Mirrored - Battles
7) Grand Fury - The BellRays
8) Fingering the Devil - Sir Richard Bishop
9) Polytheistic Fragments - Sir Richard Bishop
10) Beaches and Canyons - Black Dice

11) Let It Bloom - Black Lips
12) Vision Creation Newsun - Boredoms
13) Seadrum/House of Sun - Boredoms
14) Amplifier Worship - Boris
15) Flood - Boris
16) Akuma No Uta - Boris
17) Burial (1) - Burial
18) Burial (2) - Burial
19) Cansei de ser Sexy - CSS
20) Sunrise - Circle

21) Lord Willin' - Clipse
22) La Maison de Mon Rêve - Cocorosie
23) Field Recording from the Sun - Comets On Fire
24) Discovery - Daft Punk
25) From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots - Dalek
26) Kenose - Deathspell Omega
27) Reville - Deerhoof
28) Apple O - Deerhoof
29) The Runners Four - Deerhoof
30) Ultraglide In Black - Dirtbombs

31) Gold Teeth Thief - dj/rupture
32) Ghetto Pop Life - DM & Jemini
33) Dopethrone - Electric Wizard
34) Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues - John Fahey
35) Red Cross - John Fahey
36) Endless Summer - Fennesz
37) Venice - Fennesz
38) Supreme Clientele - Ghostface
39) Fishscale - Ghostface
40) Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp

41) Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive - The Heads
42) The Art of Self Defense - High On Fire
43) The Warning - Hot Chip
44) Donuts - J Dilla
45) When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog… - Jens Lekman
46) Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
47) Kid Commando - Kid Commando
48) The Garbageman and the Prostitute - Kill Me Tomorrow
49) What's for Dinner - The King Khan & BBQ Show
50) Silent Shout - The Knife

51) Congotronics - Konono No. 1
52) LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
53) Deux Hot Dogs Moutard Chou - Les Georges Leningrad
54) The Tenth Sub-Level of Suicide - Leviathan
55) The Blind Wound - Leviathan
56) They Were Wrong, So We Drowned - Liars
57) Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice
58) Arular - M.I.A.
59) Kala - M.I.A.
60) Special Blends set - MF Doom

61) Madvilliany - Madvillian
62) Kill M.O.T.O. - Masters of the Obvious
63) The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
64) Instinct/Decay - Nachtmystium
65) In Search of… - N.E.R.D.
66) In Their Darkened Shrines - Nile
67) Variations On a Theme - Om
68) Convocation of the Birds - Om
69) Stankonia - OutKast
70) The Love Below (only) - OutKast

71) The Teaches of Peaches - Peaches
72) Laced With Romance - The Ponys
73) Mapmaker - Parts & Labor
74) Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
75) Are You Ready for an Organ Solo - Quintron
76) Electric Swamp - Quintron
77) Kid A - Radiohead
78) Kensington Blues - Jack Rose
79) Dark Noontide - Six Organs of Admittance
80) For Octavio Paz - Six Organs of Admittance

81) Dopesmoker - Sleep
82) Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo - Spank Rock
83) Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
84) Is This It - The Strokes
85) 00 Void - SunnO)))
86) Black One - SunnO)))
87) Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
88) Dying to Meet You - Vaz
89) Vaudeville Villian - Viktor Vaughan
90) The Drift - Scott Walker

91) Dead as Dreams - Weakling
92) Illuminated - Weird War
93) Elephant - White Stripes
94) Icky Thump - White Stripes
95) Witch - Witch
96) Dread - Wolf Eyes
97) Burned Mind - Wolf Eyes
98) Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
99) Nocturnal Poisoning - Xasthur
100) Yura Yura Teikoku - III

Forgot about the first couple A Frames records, Spits debut. Reigning Sound's Too Much Guitar. Listened to those a hell of a lot.

My Top 20 albums so far in alphabetical order:

Arcade Fire: Funeral
Beta Band: Heroes To Zeroes
Broadcast: The Noise Made By People
Clientele: Strange Geometry
Clinic: Walking With Thee
Eels: Blinking Lights...
Felix Da Housecat: Kittenz and Thee Glitz
Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights
Knife: Silent Shout
Ladytron: 604
LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem
New Pornographers: Mass Romantic
Of Montreal: Satanic Panic In The Attic
Panda Bear: Person Pitch
Scritti Politti: White Bread Black Beer
Shins: Oh Inverted World
Streets: Original Pirate Material
White Stripes: Elephant

The 2000s for me were great years for metal and reissues/boxed sets. i mean if you give me a good oh ok or liliput comp it's hard for me to get excited about the new squeaky sneaker cd on spinart or whatever the fuck you kids listen to. just glancing around the room i did find some things that i enjoyed a heck of a lot in the NON-metal and NON-reissue division:

Sand - Still Born Alive

Crunk Classics Comp on TVT (mainly cuz "Who Dat" is my favorite song of the decade and that's what I have it on)

Red Snapper - Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper

The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T EP

Deana Carter - The Story Of My Life

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Trans Am - Red Line

The Dragons - Rock n Roll Kamikaze

Phoenix - United

Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

Non Phixion - The Future Is Now

Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld

Go-Kart Mozart - Tearing Up The Album Chart

Ulan Bator - Ego:Echo

David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - 18 Monkeys On A Dead Man's Chest

Devin The Dude - Just Tryin Ta Live

Bring It On - Music From The Motion Picture

Pit Bull - Unleashed Vol.3

Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy - Adieu False Heart

Josie & The Pussycats - Music From The Motion Picture

Aterciopelados - Gozo Poderoso

Sun Kil Moon - Ghost Of The Great Highway

Kwisp - Teriyaki Vest Odyssey

Doves - Lost Souls

Cass McCombs - Prefection

JOMF - Liberation (and Fig.5 if that's not 1999)

Family Fodder - Water Shed

T.A.T.U. - 200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane

Tarentel - We Move Through Weather

Sunshine - Necromance

Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer

Green Velvet - s/t

Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues

Mo Money Crime Family - Life Of A Hustler

Android Lust - The Dividing

Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt

Wonwons - Original Punk Superstars

Keren Ann - Not Going Anywhere

The Gris Gris - S/T

Bosco - Action

Mellow - Another Mellow Spring

Omar Santana - Hardcore For The Headstrong - The New Testament

Mr.Oizo - Analog Worms Attack

Big & Rich - Horse Of A Different Color

Zeni Geva - 10,000 Light Years

Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit

But that's just the tip of the iceberg. And I would have to go searching for new vinyl too. And if I added metal, sheesh, it would be neverending. Artist of the decade for me: Um, probably Ulver. Label of the decade: Hmmm, Kompakt? Yeah, for real! I was just saying the other day, single-handedly the greatest tip I ever got from ILM. I've got, lemmesee, 13 or 14 Kompakt CDs and I like them ALL. That says something to me.

Would steal from Scott's list: Dungen, Hypnotic Underworld (maybe) & the Dragons record

Also spent a lot of time listening to Electric Eel Shock's Go Europe! CD & its American counterpart LP (rerecordings of most of the same tracks)

NNeck's Sticks & Stones... & Intonomancy

JOMF: Change LP

See, I could replace, like, Spank Rock and Strokes with that stuff, and then no one would have to know. Good plan.

I'm happy that I am not the only person on this thread who remembers these:

Kill Me Tomorrow - The Garbageman and the Prostitute
The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T EP
Deana Carter - The Story Of My Life
The Dragons - Rock n Roll Kamikaze
Ulan Bator - Ego:Echo
Kwisp - Teriyaki Vest Odyssey
T.A.T.U. - 200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane
Bosco - Action

....And there are lots and lots of other obscure albums just that good. Which is why it would take me forever to construct a best-albums-of-the-decade list. Bosco and the Dragons and Deana Carter have actually each made a couple real good albums this decade. So have, I dunno, the Starvations. And Red Swan. But none of the artists on this list have many as many good-to-great albums as the artists I mentioned up above, and I don't think anybody else on this thread does, either. It's sad that so many acts on my list are country; if I went further down, I'd probably add Gary Allan and Kenny Chesney too (well, also maybe Gogol Bordello, actually. And Black Lips. And Opeth. And Hold Steady. So that's more variety, I guess). Metal and electronic dance music and indie rock should produce more good albums than country fucking music, at least in theory. I just haven't heard the artists doing it. And I hear a hell of a lot of albums, including lots of ones other people are listing.

oops, meant:

none of the artists on this list have made as many good-to-great albums as the artists I mentioned up above, and I don't think anybody else on this thread has, either

I'm really trying to think of what other metal bands, besides Opeth, I should be naming. I.e., the Gathering own the late '90s, as far as I'm concerned, but I just don't hear their '00s stuff as stacking up. I wish I liked Katatonia or Ulver as much as Scott does! There must be some other metal band besides Opeth which has made just three '00s albums I like, right?

Oh wait, you know who I'd name among the top 10 '00s artists, probably? Oneida! Okay, that's better.

don't you like all three Witchcraft albums? not, um, you know, "metal" metal, but, whatever.

I HAVE DISCOVERED LJ'S ON FACEBOOK:

1) Ulver - Blood Inside
2) SFA - Rings Around The World
3) Oceansize - Frames
4) Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
5) GY!BE - Yanqui U.X.O.
6) Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra
7) Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts
8) Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti In Ignem Aeternum
9) Oceansize - Effloresce
10) My Computer - No CV
11) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
12) The Electric Soft Parade - The American Adventure
13) The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
14) 65DaysOfStatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas
15) Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
16) Foetus - Love
17) Elbow - Asleep In The Back
18) Six By Seven - Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel
19) Caribou - Andorra
20) Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

He must be lurking.

Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Viva Emptiness are albums I like by Katatonia from the 2000's. But they are hardly my favorite Katatonia albums. And I am not a big fan of the last album. Though it's okay and I gave it a good review. So, they would be more of a 90's list artist for me too. Like The Gathering. Even though I still like them a bunch!

Rate Your Music's highest rated albums of the decade

1. Radiohead- Kid A
2. Opeth- Blackwater Park
3. GSY!BE- LYSFLATH
4. Converge- Jane Doe
5. Maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map
6. Tool- Lateralus
7. Arcade Fire- Funeral
8. Lenny Valentino- Uwaga! Jedzie Tramwaj
9. Agolloch- The Mantle
10. Mitch Hedberg- Mitch All Together

don't you like all three Witchcraft albums?

I have only heard two of them! (I've also only two Electric Six albums, for whatever that's worth.) But yeah, either of those bands might qualify if I heard all their stuff. (Though the two Electic Six albums I've heard, and the two Witchcraft albums I've heard, are still nowhere near as good as, say, the three Gore Gore Girls albums I've heard or the five Montgomery Gentry albums I've heard or the six Toby Keith albums I've heard this decade. Just being honest!) (Well, okay, maybe the first Electric Six one is. I need to pull back out their second one.)

And as far as Neurosis goes, a band i friggin' ADORE, they haven't made an album as good as A Sun That Never Sets since that album. Which was 2001. I've enjoyed the albums since, and the Jarboe collab, but they aren't as good. So, a case could be made that their strongest decade was the 90's too, depending on how much you like their earlier stuff. And there are plenty of people who will tell you that souls at zero or through silver in blood is as good as they got.