Ok, looking at my collection, here's an attempt to pick out my favorites from the 00s in reverse chronological.
Tim Exile - Listening Tree
Bogdan Raczynski - Alright!
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Lamb - What Sound
cEvin Key + Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall - The Dragon Experience
Panacea - Underground Superstardom
Panacea / Needle Sharing / Tarmvred - Panacea Shares Needles With Tarmvred
Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
Conjure One - Conjure One
KMFDM - Attak
Orbital - The Altogether
Hybrid - Wider Angle - Special Edition
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Ultraspank - Progress
Scorn - Greetings From Birmingham
Pitchshifter - Deviant
Coil - Time Machines
Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
I expect 2 or 3 people to nod their head in agreement at some of the choices, a few others to wonder how some of those fit in the list, and most people to be sitting there going "who?"
dsheinem wrote:
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Kanye West - Late Registration
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac (same recording sessions), In Rainbows
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Tom Waits - Orphans Box Set
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost is Born
Nice ^
OK...this is hard. For starters:
1. Clinic - Internal Wrangler
One of my absolute #1 essential albums of the decade If you've never heard Internal Wrangler, do so. The 30-ish minute ride is terribly short but ohhh so sweet.
2. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
3. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
4. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something
5. Radiohead - KID A (obviously)
6. Les Savy Fav - Inches
7. Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
8. Songs: Ohia Magnolia Electric Co.
10.The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
11. Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge/American Water...tough call
12. Pavement - Terror Twilight
This is by no means complete! These are selections off the top of my head.
Hobie-wan wrote:Ok, looking at my collection, here's an attempt to pick out my favorites from the 00s in reverse chronological.
Tim Exile - Listening Tree
Bogdan Raczynski - Alright!
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Lamb - What Sound
cEvin Key + Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall - The Dragon Experience
Panacea - Underground Superstardom
Panacea / Needle Sharing / Tarmvred - Panacea Shares Needles With Tarmvred
Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
Conjure One - Conjure One
KMFDM - Attak
Orbital - The Altogether
Hybrid - Wider Angle - Special Edition
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Ultraspank - Progress
Scorn - Greetings From Birmingham
Pitchshifter - Deviant
Coil - Time Machines
Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
I expect 2 or 3 people to nod their head in agreement at some of the choices, a few others to wonder how some of those fit in the list, and most people to be sitting there going "who?"
Ok, big post. I didn't bother to narrow down to much or even attempt to rank. Here's a few of my favorite albums that I purchased this decade.
Hip Hop
Two Fingers- Two Fingers
The Bug- London Zoo
The Bug- Pressure
Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere
Blue Scholars- Blue Scholars
Outkast- The Love Below/Speakerboxxx
Talib Kweli- Quality
Prefuse 73- Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
DJ Z-Trip & DJ P: Uneasy Listening- Against the Grain
Deltron- Deltron 3030
cLOUDEAD-cLOUDEAD
Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
Aesop Rock- Labor Days
Aesop Rock- Float
Outkast- Stankonia
Jurassic 5- Quality Control
Boom Bip and Dose One- Circles
Electronic and Dance
Goldie- Sine Tempus
Justice- Cross
edit- Certified Air Raid Material
Burial- Untrue
Squarepusher- Hello Everything
Squarepusher- Go Plastic
Kode9 & The Space Ape- Memories of the Future
Boxcutter- Oneiric
Vex’D- Degenerate
Venetian Snares- Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
Venetian Snares- Winter in the Belly of a Snake
Pendulum- Hold Your Colour
Skinny Puppy- The Greater Wrong of the Right
High Contrast- High Society
High Contrast- True Colors
DJ /Rupture- Special Gunpowder
DJ /Rupture- Minesweeper Suite
Tipper- Surrounded
Royksopp- Melody AM
Aphex Twin- Drukqs
LTJ Bukem- Journey Inwards
Dieselboy- The 6ixth Session
Amon Tobin- Supermodified
Rock
Tori Amos- American Doll Posse
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss- Raising Sand
Nine Inch Nails- Year Zero
System of a Down- Hypnotize/Memorize
Imogen Heap- Speak For Yourself
Gogol Bordello- Gypsy Punks (Underdog World Strike)
Cloud Cult- Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus
Prince- Musicology
Radiohead- Hail to the Thief
The Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatorium
James Mathus and His Knockdown Society- Stop and Let the Devil Ride
Sigur Ros- ( )
The Postal Service- Give Up
Pearl Jam- Pearl Jam (the avocado album)
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
Tool- Lateralus
Tenacious D- Tenacious D
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- Grand Opening and Closing
Faun Fables- Mother Twilight
Bjork- Vespertine
Poe- Haunted
A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms
World Music
Amadou & Miriam- Dimancho A Bamako
Manu Chao- Proxima Estacion: Esperenza
Varttina- Ilmatar
Gary Burton- Libertango
Jazz Music:
Guillermo E. Brown- Soul at the Hands of the Machine
Jaga Jazzist- A Livingroom Hush
Jonas Hellborg- Good People in Times of Evil
The Brian Setzer Orchestra- Vavoom
J T wrote:
Aesop Rock- Labor Days
Aesop Rock- Float
Have you heard "Evil Nine feat. Aesop Rock - Crooked". You should if you haven't and the video is cool. I was wondering if the Aesop albums are somewhat similiar. Obviously the music bits could be different, but I meant to check them out.
