Top 50 albums of the noughties...?

[HevyDevy]

50 albums and no more than 3 chords among them ...

 

[half]

my list

the wrens - the meadowlands
broken social scene - broken social scene
the notwist - neon golden
bloc party - a weekend in the city
broken social scene - you forgot it in people
wilco - a ghost is born
junior boys - so this is goodbye
queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
madvillain - madvillainy
arcade fire - neon bible

stars - set yourself on fire
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
lali puna - faking the books
les savy fav - inches
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
clipse - hell hath no fury
pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea
annie - don't stop
death from above 1979 - you're a woman, i'm a machine

m83 - saturdays=youth
the new pornographers - twin cinema
bon iver - for emma, forever ago
arcade fire - funeral
bloc party - silent alarm
the streets - original pirate material
the streets - a grand don't come for free
sufjan stevens - illinois
black kids - partie traumatic
dizzee rascal - showtime

stars - heart
mew - frengers
m.i.a. - arular
okkervil river - the stage names
the shins - chutes too narrow
the icarus line - penance soiree
mirah - c'mon miracle
santigold - santigold
kanye west - 808s and heartbreak
electric president - electric president
css - cansei de ser sexy

the rosebuds - life like
the knife - silent shout
burial - untrue
archer prewitt - wilderness
peter bjorn and john - writer's block
caribou - up in flames
lil wayne - tha carter iii
eagles of death metal - death by sexy
sufjan stevens - seven swans
the clientele - strange geometry
drive-by truckers - the dirty south

not enough rap tbh. hard to compare rap and rock though

 

[CC_Eagle]

That Avalanches album is an absolute work of art. That'd be near my favourite of the decade. They put in the wrong Shins album though! "Chutes Too Narrow" is miles better than "Wincing.."

Chutes is good, but Wincing The Night Away is absolutely brilliant.

In Rainbows over Kid A? Kid A is the most influential album of the decade, without doubt.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

You like 808s and Heartbreak Mark? Find it pretty unbearable tbh

 

[half]

pretty sure kanye made it just for me. i can see why everyone else hates it

btw, bullies can be influential but that doesn't mean i'd put a bully in my top 50 people list. stupid buzzword

 

[simmo1]

50 albums and no more than 3 chords among them ...

I think you're being generous.

 

[LESStar58]

Like any list, it's never going to hit the mark for everyone... but sometimes the discussion they create is worth it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/17/nme-top-albums-decade-noughties

This is the NME's list for the decade - favours UK and US artists, but we got one Oz album in there at 45. I've put the ones that have made it into my collection in bold... not a lot. :sarcasm:



Thoughts about their list? Comments? Recommendations? Omissions? Other lists as they are published?

I stopped reading after I saw it was an NME poll. Hate that magazine! Biggest waste of paper EVER!

 

[Flapper]

pretty sure kanye made it just for me. i can see why everyone else hates it

I feel basically the same way about it. I've never really been a Kanye fan, but 808's blew me away. Yet everyone else I know hates it :lol:

The thing is, the people complaining about the list need to read a bit of NME and see how it fits in with the general focus of the magazine. Same as a list from a magazine like Kerrang would be totally different, and Source totally different again.

I should give my own top 50 a crack though. Maybe when I'm actually at home.

 

[bartman]

I'm sure some other magazines/websites will do their own lists in the coming month or two. Will be interested to read other people's top 50s here too, if people get the chance... I love music and am pretty open to hearing other genres, you never know when something good might catch your ear.

 

[fish eel]

I reckon a list by Uncut mag would be pretty darn good.

 

[Danish]

I thought about writing a whinging and complaining post about what bands should have been there and which shouldn't.... but I thought of something better.


I am going to download/purchase the albums I don't have (41) and listen to them.

 

[Red Bear]

You know what, I'd actually rate TISM's The White Albun above everything in every top 50 list posted in this thread.

Gonna get off my Face! Gonna get off my Face!

 

[Cliffhanger]

I think it’s hard to pick a best of the noughties list because there weren’t really any definitive albums. In the 90s you had some of the most groundbreaking and amazing hip hop albums like Illmatic and Enter the Wu, you had grunge really coming of age and you had these new really unique sounding genres. The noughties have been piss poor in comparison a lot the genres which produce great music are going downhill and the amount of generic sounding sh*t keeps increasing and you have to dig even deeper to find anything artistic.

You still get good music coming out every now and then but nothing which stands out like some of the banging albums of the last decade.

 

[Firey_Dragon]

I think it’s hard to pick a best of the noughties list because there weren’t really any definitive albums. In the 90s you had some of the most groundbreaking and amazing hip hop albums like Illmatic and Enter the Wu, you had grunge really coming of age and you had these new really unique sounding genres. The noughties have been piss poor in comparison a lot the genres which produce great music are going downhill and the amount of generic sounding sh*t keeps increasing and you have to dig even deeper to find anything artistic.

You still get good music coming out every now and then but nothing which stands out like some of the banging albums of the last decade.

Mainstream music has gone downhill, without question. But there are certainly some definitive indie, alt rock and progressive rock albums that have come to the fore in the 00's. It's just a matter of whether those genres continue to gain momentum as to whether we'll look back at those albums in the same light.

 

[Cliffhanger]

I can see Blakroc being the album of the decade though

 

[Johns Magic]

I feel basically the same way about it. I've never really been a Kanye fan, but 808's blew me away. Yet everyone else I know hates it :lol:

I liked some of his old stuff but I really liked 808s and Heartbreaks.

Robocop is a personal fave.

 

[Ridders]

Can't stand 808's and Heartbreaks. Tbh I don't really like anything that has been by auto-tuned. Just sounds so un-natural.

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Hip Hop-wise you'd have to include Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein, Aesop Rock's Labor Days and Immortal Technique's Revolutionary Volume II. Possibly CunninLynguists' A Piece of Strange.

Probably the most complete Hip Hop albums of the 00s imho.

 

[Cliffhanger]

Hip Hop-wise you'd have to include Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein, Aesop Rock's Labor Days and Immortal Technique's Revolutionary Volume II. Possibly CunninLynguists' A Piece of Strange.

Probably the most complete Hip Hop albums of the 00s imho.

Definitely agree in regards to Revolutionary vol 2

 

[choc_soldier]

Good to see Absolution there - it is by far the best album by Muse, but a bit surprised that it didn't poll higher... maybe somewhere in the 20-30's.