Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

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

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^ 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/

awesome, thanks andy

yes totally awesome

thirded

4th'd - love to go to a party at Andy's house.

That could very well be my favorite decade list.

Y'all can come over to watch The Upside Down Show, trip over my son's Batcave, and change my daughter's diapers any time.

sick list, lots of stuff I haven't heard either

dope list! i need to check out that king midas sound

I never realized Andy K into R&B to the extent that it would dominate his decade list.

not sure why u wouldnt realize that

yea thats weird

andy k is rnb criti #1

xgau:

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Dean-s-List-The-Best-Albums-of-2009/ba-p/2031

Whoops, that's 09 only, sorry.

this is the best i could come up with for me

1. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
2. OutKast – Stankonia
3. David Banner – Mississippi: The Album
4. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
5. Kanye West – The College Dropout
6. Buck 65 – Talkin’ Honky Blues
7. Andrew WK – I Get Wet
8. SunnO))) – Flight Of The Behemoth
9. My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
10. Portishead – Third
11. Battles – Mirrored
12. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
13. Black Dice – Beaches And Canyons
14. Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
15. Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
16. Low – Things We Lost In The Fire
17. White Stripes – White Blood Cells
18. Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
19. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
20. Animal Collective – Feels
21. Mastodon – Leviathan
22. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
23. Jay-Z – The Black Album
24. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
25. Prurient – Pleasure Ground
26. Ludacris – Back For The First Time
27. Keith Fullerton Whitman – Lisbon
28. LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
29. Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma
30. Deftones – White Pony
31. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
32. Eyvind Kang – Virginal Co Ordinates
33. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
34. Orthrelm – Ov
35. El-P – Fantastic Damage
36. Torche - Torche
37. SunnO))) – Monoliths And Dimensions
38. Devin The Dude – Just Tryin’ Ta Live
39. Dälek – Absence
40. N.E.R.D. – In Search Of…
41. Against Me! – New Wave
42. T.I. – King
43. Girl Talk – Night Ripper
44. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
45. Torche - Meanderthal
46. Scarface - The Fix
47. Earth – Hex: Or Printing In The Infernal Method
48. Missy Elliott – Miss E… So Addictive
49. cLOUDDEAD - Ten
50. System Of A Down – Hypnotize
51. The Field – From Here We Go Sublime
52. Opeth - Deliverance
53. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
54. Isis – Oceanic
55. Boris - Flood
56. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
57. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
58. The Roots – Game Theory
59. Cee-Lo Green – Is The Soul Machine
60. Jesu – Jesu
61. Quasimoto – The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
62. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
63. Young People – Young People
64. Hella – Hold Your Horse Is
65. Hyphy Hits
66. White Stripes – Elephant
67. Melvins – A Senile Animal
68. Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go To
69. Tim Hecker – Harmony In Ultraviolet
70. Mannie Fresh – The Mind Of Mannie Fresh
71. Lil Jon And The Eastside Boyz – Kingz Of Crunk
72. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
73. Eluvium – Talk Amongst The Trees
74. Beanie Sigel – The B. Coming
75. Oren Ambarchi – Triste
76. Clipse – We Got It For Cheap Vol. 2
77. Kaada – Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time
78. Mogwai – Rock Action
79. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
80. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
81. Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
82. Converge - Jane Doe
83. Destiny’s Child – Number 1’s
84. UGK – Underground Kingz
85. Aphex Twin – Druqks
86. Boom Bip – Seed To Sun
87. Killer Mike - Monster
88. Lichens – The Psychic Nature Of Being
89. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
90. 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’
91. Beck – Sea Change
92. Baroness – The Red Album
93. Growing – His Return
94. The Roots – Rising Down
95. J. Dilla - Donuts
96. King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader
97. Pig Destroyer – Prowler In The Yard
98. Liars – Drums Not Dead
99. Young Dro – Best Thing Smokin
100. Trick Daddy – Thug Matrimony

Not bad at t'all.