Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

or 30 records, even.

but that's just me. i listened to hundreds of records that came out this decade and LOTS of them were better than that moldy peaches album. or even that shadow album.

right, i'm not saying the moldy peaches don't suck. i'd be fine with the list being all obvious choices, as long as they were good records.

I know I was ragging on his pics upthread but, you know, taste is a motherfucker.

basically

I'm sure my taste will be irrelevant in 2040 -- and maybe already is today -- but that is one weird list.

Is Xgau the only critic who still admits he likes the Moldy Peaches? I mean, that record did well P&J right.

I think Momus has defended them in the past.

I still like them fine.

The Dean has some uh, unique pet artists that he champions. Amy Rigby, Northern State, Moldy Peaches/Kimya Dawson, Fluffy, Buck 65, Imperial Teen, etc. But out of all his A or A- records in a given year, at least 70% are right up my musical alley, which makes the consumer guide essential reading.

I do wish, just for the sake of this exercise, Xgau had limited himself to one album per artist. Then again, since his annual top tens are online and he doesn't second-guess himself much, there's no way a decade list of his could be surprising.

he's kind of a crank. does crank equal oddball? as far as what he likes, he's in line with a lot of other trad/boring critics, isn't he? putting two wussy albums on your list is like putting two hold steady or two paul westerberg albums on your list. the only people who ever listened to ass ponys were rock critics and the long-suffering women who loved(tolerated) them.

it's BECAUSE he listens to so much music that i wish his lists/likes were a little more left field. not saying he doesn't champion stuff that nobody knows about... i dunno, after all this time and after a zillion records listened to and the moldy peaches album is one of the greatest recordings of the decade? okay, he's an oddball. he's perverse anyway.

― scott seward

basically otm

the 2000s stopped at 2001, I see

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even if you look at the rest of the list there's like nothing from the past few years. apparently music died sometime in 2005?

What are the ethics of making a top 100 list with an extra 20 or 40 albums on it? I CANNOT CHOOSE AND IT IS DRIVING ME KRAZEE.

Well, some people have always done that weird thing where they have a top "ten," but with, say, three albums (or movies -- a NY Times film critic did this last week I think!) tied for sixth place, and three more tied for "seventh," etc.; in other words, they just pretend ties have no effect on what the next placement would be. Totally unethical, if you ask me (plus it looks weird), but hardly unprecedented. That way, 120 or 140 albums in your top 100 should be easy!

I'm already hella cheating by only having one album per artist. Might as well go all the way.

See, I totally believe in the one-album-per-artist rule. The last thing I want to look at is a list filled with the same artists over and over again. Just tell me which album is the best, how much you like it, and move on. If you can't come up with 100 artists who you think were relevant over the course of a decade, you should lose your list-making privileges imo.

Better yet: One album per record label! (If you're gonna make arbitrary limitations, go whole hog, I say!)

This museum has too much Picasso.

http://www.madaboutmadrid.com/photos/uncategorized/reina_sofia.jpg
This museum has too much Picasso.

putting multiple albums by one artist can have an effect. i finially listened to wussy just cuz he had two on his list. one probably wouldn't have done it.

i don't know how much more wussy i'll listen to, but at least he got me to do that. pretty much the most any enthusiast can hope for.

The double Wussy had the same effect on me too, with the same results. (Although I complained about Dylan being on the list twice, I don't have anything against critics listing one artist more than once on lists like these. I don't think Dylan deserved it for those albums, one of which I regret to say I actually bought, but I'm not much of a Dylan lover.)

It was pretty much just for my own self-preservation, as I would have melted down trying to decide between albums by artists I love. I will guarantee that Wussy will not be on my list.

I've avoided doing a best of the decade list, partially for that reason. (I submitted an unordered Top 50 and an ordered Top 20 to a couple places that asked for them, and one of those is actually seeable in some remote corner of the Internet, but ever since I sent them in all I'm thinking of is all the albums I haven't listened to for eight years that might've been good enough for the lists. So I'm finally relistening to those. I'll have a definitive list in, like, 2020 maybe.)

no mention at all of Lindus by the Shadow Ring?!?!!

ever since I sent them in all I'm thinking of is all the albums I haven't listened to for eight years that might've been good enough for the lists

co-sign x 10000000

heyg uys heres a list of my ballz

( )( )

^ best list

I think you should see someone about yr ballz (xp)

There are only two? And they are both the same?

I've avoided doing a best of the decade list, partially for that reason. (I submitted an unordered Top 50 and an ordered Top 20 to a couple places that asked for them, and one of those is actually seeable in some remote corner of the Internet, but ever since I sent them in all I'm thinking of is all the albums I haven't listened to for eight years that might've been good enough for the lists. So I'm finally relistening to those. I'll have a definitive list in, like, 2020 maybe.)

xhuxk-
Could you post your decade list? I'd be interested in seeing it.

heyg uys heres a list of my ballz

There better be some hip hop on them.

Hey jetfan -- The top 20 is at rocksbackpages.com (along with lots of other people's) if you really wanna see it, but like I said, I'm already rethinking it -- pretty sure I listed the wrong Gore Gore Girls album, probably should've bumped Miranda Lambert for Noir Desir, etc. I was thinking of just posting the country albums from my list(s) on Rolling Country; will try to get around to that sometime before 2020.

Thanks, I'll check it out. Rethinking is a common problem with me, as well. Usually, I try to move on once I make a list.

heyg uys heres a list of my ballz

There better be some hip hop on them.

Can we talk about the structural constraints that have limited the ballz list to exclusively male ballz? And how at some level P4K is to blame for this? I think there is a great deal of valuable discussion to be mined from this topic.

In all seriousness, though, I'm really digging MattDC's list. Familiar enough that I don't have any signposts with regards to where my taste sits relative to the list, but lots and lots of good stuff that I haven't gotten much of a chance to sample. (At least thus far). That Devdas re-imagining is something that I had no idea existed and def. want to check out (both the movie and the soundtrack)

*Familiar enough that I HAVE signposts, rather.

putting multiple albums by one artist can have an effect. i finially listened to wussy just cuz he had two on his list. one probably wouldn't have done it.

Put this in the context of, say, a 60s list. Would you have wished they'd only list one each by Beatles/Stones/Dylan/VU/Coltrane/Hendrix. Overwhelmed by the multiple choices, will you never get around to listening to any of them?

A list w/ only one artist by each of those would probably be a lot less boring and eyeroll-worthy, yes.

i kinda limited myself to no more than 2 albums by the same artist on my top 100, although it was more that seeming just right than me deciding on that as a rule -- lots of artists made 2 albums i really loved in the last decade, but noone really made 3, or at least the third best wasn't so great that i had a hard time excluding it. previous decades are definitely more homogenous as far as the same artists popping up, but part of that's just a lot less people making records before.

Please to excuse my ignorance but where oh where is the Matt DC list archived? And is this the Dev.D soundtrack we're talking about because that album is freaking amazing and is in my top 5 for 2009 for sure.

Shit. Mixed up my Matt's. Fuuuuck.

That was your list, Cave17Matt. I blame posting while inebriated.

Feel even worse having seen that 29.5 is the magnificently strange and wonderful Sunday Love

Hahaha I AM MY OWN AWESOME

thanks alex, you just made my night perfect for real :)

The Top 25 Norwegian Albums of the 2000’s
http://norskmusikk.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/best-norwegian-albums-of-the-2000s/

can't believe you posted a list of norwegian albums that doesn't have ulver on it

that shining album is epic btw

yay for biosphere's "dropsonde", arctic blasts ahoy!

2 more lists:

2000-2009 in twenty albums « mapsadaisical
http://mapsadaisical.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/2000-2009-in-twenty-albums/

10 YEARS IN 20 RECORDS | themilkfactory
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2010/01/10-years-in-20-records/

can't believe you posted a list of norwegian albums that doesn't have ulver on it

John Justen arranged it so that Dan couldn't catch him out again.

Enjoying the Maximum Rocknroll staff decade Top Tens. Aside from the Observers and Dillinger Four, I don't recognize much outside of what eventually went to Matador and Sub Pop--Fucked Up, Jay Reatard, Pissed Jeans (none of which I'm a huge fan of, but I buy the idea that they made better recordings earlier).

http://blog.allmusic.com/2010/01/11/andy-kellmans-100-favorite-albums-of-2000-2009/