Best Album(s) of the Decade

[J T]

With all the electronic stuff I listen to, I should like BoC, but I keep trying and there's some little something in there that I just don't like.

I feel similar. I do kind of like them, but not to the degree that other electronic music junkies do. I get that the whole thing about how their sound has a sort of future-primitive feel to it, like they are ancient dug up recordings from some advanced alien race that left them on our planet millions of years ago... it's just that I ultimately find them a little boring. I mainly just listen to them to study to and have something good, but not distracting in the background.

[soniklife]

My natural inclination is think that all of the music I listen to is from the 90s and that I don't enjoy new music. And after jogging my mind it is obvious, to me, that there have been some great albums released this decade. In recent years I am getting very excited with new music as there seems to be a rekindled interest in lo fi/indie pop/rock and labels like Slumberland are having a renassiance of sorts. Bands like Vivian girls, Brilliant Colors, Grass Widow, Wavves, Cause Co-Motion, Sandy City, Only Ghost in Town, etc. etc. have all released some really awesome music but some of it is too new for me to add to a greatest of the decade list.

In no particular order here is my list, though I set a rule for myself-one album per band.

-Sun Kil Moon "Ghosts of the Great Highway"
-Explosions in the Sky "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place"
-Sonic Youth "Murray Street"
-M83 "Before the Dawn Heals Us"
-Cease Upon the Capitol "untitled" (2nd album)
-Beachwood Sparks "Once We Were Trees"
-The Mountain Goats "All Hail West Texas"
-Karate "Some Boots"
-North of America "Brothers, Sisters"
-Mission of Burma "OnOffOn"
-The Shins "Oh Inverted World"
-The Good Good "A Fem Era"
-I Hate Myself "3 Songs"
-The Twilight Singers "Powder Burns"
-Life at These Speeds "To Your Health"
-Pedro the Lion "Control"
-The Softies "Holiday in Rhode Island"
-Blonde Redhead "Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons"
-Sigur Ros "Takk"
-United States "Divorce Songs" (biased because I released this on my label,, but I stand behind it firmly)
-Loma Prieta "Last City" (same as above)
-The Holy Shroud "Ghost Repeaters"
-Unwound "Leaves Turn Inside You"
-Big Business "Head For the Shallow
-Daitro "Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes"
-Yo La Tengo "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out"
-Latterman "No Matter Where We Go"
-Converge "Jane Doe"
-Half Handed Cloud "We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved"
-And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead "Source Tags and Codes"
-Yaphet Kotto "Syncopated Synthetic Laments For Love"
-Les Savy Fav "Go Forth"
-Rainer Maria "Long Knives Drawn"
-Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
-The Tyde "Twice"

[Hobie-wan]

With all the electronic stuff I listen to, I should like BoC, but I keep trying and there's some little something in there that I just don't like.

I feel similar. I do kind of like them, but not to the degree that other electronic music junkies do. I get that the whole thing about how their sound has a sort of future-primitive feel to it, like they are ancient dug up recordings from some advanced alien race that left them on our planet millions of years ago... it's just that I ultimately find them a little boring. I mainly just listen to them to study to and have something good, but not distracting in the background.

Not that I need reinforcement to feel better, but that makes me feel better. Every other friend I have that listens to warp/rephlex/idm/whatnot like I do loves them and I just don't.

[UnpluggedClone]

Threads like this are kind of retarded only because it's peoples personal taste so it's just going to be peoples taste in music.

[J T]

Threads like this are kind of retarded only because it's peoples personal taste so it's just going to be peoples taste in music.

That's why I like best of lists. I'm not sure why so many people get bothered because no one can come up with the perfect "best of" list that everyone will agree on. I just like to see what other people thiink is good and see where our tastes overlap. From reading these kinds of lists on the forums I have found that I like a lot of similar stuff as Hobie-Wan and Luke, so I pay closer attention when they recommend something that I haven't heard of, because it's probably going to be right up my alley.

[Hobie-wan]

Hey now, some of are having discussions and might get some new music because of it. Yes there are lots of differing opinions, but if you see someone else with a lot of things you like in their list, you might find something new.

You could argue that video game lists are just as stupid. I don't like platform games. This means a large portion of people's BEST VIEDO GAMS EVAR!!!! lists are useless to me because I don't like Sonic or Mario games which will always be on them. But hey, unless you want to make a top 2 list of things every human needs and put breathing and eating on it, I think there's gonna be some people's opinion in there.

[Ack]

Hobie, drinking water is way more important than eating man, your opinion is way off.

[Hobie-wan]

Hobie, drinking water is way more important than eating man, your opinion is way off.

Food contains water. Water does not necessarily contain nutrients.

Anyway, where were we?

[Ack]

Lack of food can take roughly a month to kill you, but dehydration can kill in only a few days!

Sorry, just being difficult. As I've admitted many times before, I'm not very knowledgeable about popular music, and while I tend to like a lot of music, what I want to listen to changes on a monthly basis. Currently, I'm listening to lots of metal, but next month I may be back to funk or 80s rap. Who knows?

[Snickerd00dle]

I would say

Arcade Fire- Funeral
Queens of the Stone Age-Songs for the Deaf
Slayer-Christ Illusion
The Faint- Wet from Birth
Once Sountrack
Bright Eyes- I'm wide awake its morning
Elliott Smith- New Moon
Arctic Monkeys- Favorite Worst Nightmare
Tv on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain or Dear Science

so many more, those are just what came to mind