Top 50 albums of the noughties...?

[Alex28]

In my opinion, music elitism is a wank. Unless you're willing to post your own list or you're David Bowie STFU.

So you are saying a forum isn't a place to debate topics?

He put his list out there for others to judge. He got judged. If you don't like it, don't f***ing read it. Simple.

 

[Eelementary]

You're all wrong anyway because Devin Townsend > all.

 

[CC_Eagle]

Takk > ( ) *

* imo.


Tbh I'm surprised their most recent release (way too much effort to type it) hasn't been mentioned at all. Whilst it doesn't deserve top 50 status, it certainly is underrated. A lot of the time I feel like the only person who actually enjoyed it.

 

[Moffo]

You're an idiot. You're trying to depict us as one of those music elitists - "Oh you're popular so you've sold out."

Nobody ever accused Nirvana of that. They just weren't that good in an era when there were a heap of high quality grunge bands around - soundgarden, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone etc.

That's not to say they weren't important - they were easily the most important grunge band - but they definitely were not the best.

what makes a band high quality?

you are the dickhead....it comes back to a matter of opinion. i just know plenty of people that trot out the same arguments that you are trotting out...with no real substance to it

 

[Big Pete]

So you are saying a forum isn't a place to debate topics?

He put his list out there for others to judge. He got judged. If you don't like it, don't f***ing read it. Simple.

:lol: I love tough guys who use cuss words over the internet to show how 'intimidating' they are. Bet you're a regular on YouTube as well.

In saying, you're right but I wasn't refering to you specifically, rather everybody who's failed to offer any solid reasoning behind why certain lists aren't fantastic. I mean, music is such a subjective social commedity, it's nearly impossible to dispute a music related issue because there are a lot of factors you have to consider (appeal, sales, lyrics, music etc.).

With that said, I do agree with your opinion. RtCM was superior to DS - which in no shape or form was a bad album (It was one of the better albums of 2008). I would be interested in seeing your list though, not to criticise specifically but rather see what your taste has to offer.

 

[Alex28]

I'm actually in the middle of drafting my list - hard to criticise one's list without having the balls to put their own up for everyone to judge. Either tonight or tomorrow.

And I swore because I get frustrated with people on this forum - every critique is taken so personally and criticised for speaking out. It is a bloody forum - it is an exchange of thoughts and ideas. Are we supposed to say "Oh yeah...great list...bravo" to everything?

 

[HevyDevy]

what makes a band high quality?

you are the dickhead....it comes back to a matter of opinion. i just know plenty of people that trot out the same arguments that you are trotting out...with no real substance to it

There is probably a reason they're trotting out that argument Moffo.

 

[Alex28]

OK...so after some refinement here is my Top 50 albums of the decade. Discuss, critique, whinge because it isn't your taste...do whatever.

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
6. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
7. The Panics - Sleeps Like A Curse
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
10. Eddy Current Supression Ring - Primary Colours
11. Beck - Seachange
12. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
13. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
14. Radiohead - In Rainbows
15. Future of the Left - Curses!
16. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
17. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
18. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
19. Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
20. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
21. Cat Power - You Are Free
22. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
23. Iron & Wine - Woman King
24. The Panics - Cruel Guards
25. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
26. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
27. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus Dig!
28. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
29. Doves - The Last Broadcast
30. The Drones - Wait Long By The River and the Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
31. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
32. Gotye - Like Drawing Blood
33. Black Francis - Bluefinger
34. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
35. Robert Plant/Allison Krauss - Raising Sand
36. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
37. Antony & the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
38. Kid Sam - Kid Sam
39. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
40. The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
41. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Gurrumul
42. Gomez - Liquid Skin
43. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
44. Sigur Ros - ( )
45. QOTSA - Rated R
46. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
47. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
48. Pivot - Make Me Love You
49. QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
50. The National - Boxer

 

[pennywisealfie]

as bad as before

 

[Alex28]

Says the guy with the picture of the Zit Remedy in his signature

 

[HevyDevy]

Sorry Alex, no Devin Townsend = no credibility!

 

[Flapper]

Nice list Alex, nice to see someone pay Gurrumul some respect. That'll be a lot higher up my list, but nice to see it in someone elses!

 

[Big Pete]

Alex...

I think it's a pretty awesome Top 50. I'll have to check out some artists on the list.

Psst, Zit Remedy is the best thing to come out of Canada...ever! Forget Neil Young, Zit Remedy is where it's at.

 

[Angry_eel]

Misses one of my all time favourite albums

Jay-Z Linkin Park - Collision Course

Plus I don't know half the bands on that list.

 

[Alex28]

Sorry Alex, no Devin Townsend = no credibility!

Missed it by that much Hevy...if it was a Top 51 he'd be all over it.

Psst, Zit Remedy is the best thing to come out of Canada...ever! Forget Neil Young, Zit Remedy is where it's at.

Arcade Fire > Zit Remedy (only just)

 

[pennywisealfie]

Says the guy with the picture of the Zit Remedy in his signature

LOL good point

 

[pennywisealfie]

Im still waiting for their 2nd song to come out. until then everybody wants something is the best song of all timez

 

[bigfoot]

This sounds like fun.
For this list, I limited myself to only full-length albums, not EPs, demos, etc. Also, I tried not to get too obscure, and stick to mainly better-known stuff.
This is my metal list. I've split it off from other genres since it is my favourite. I might do another list later if I can be bothered.

Metal list (No particular order):

Immolation - Close to a World Below
Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Anata - The Conductor's Departure
Gorod - Leading Vision
The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siécles - Panégyrique De La Dégénérescence
Absu - Tara
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
1349 - Hellfire
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Destroyer 666 - Cold Steel... for an Iron Age
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know (gets included by default because it's Dio era Black Sabbath)
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
Warbringer - Walking Into Nightmares
Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn
Sodom - M16
Agalloch - The Mantle
Wintersun - Wintersun

Got lazy so just made it a 31 album list. :lol:
Ask me again later and the list will probably be different. It's just off the top of my head.

 

[Charlie124]

*edit*

 

[bartman]

Top Fifty list from UK paper The Guardian/Observer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/albums-of-the-decade

1. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
4. The Strokes - Is This It
5. Arcade Fire - Funeral
6. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
7. The White Stripes - Elephant
8. Jay-Z - The Black Album
9. Salif Keita - Moffou
10. Burial - Untrue

11. GORILLAZ - Demon Days
12. JOHNNY CASH American III: Solitary Man
13. JAMIE T Panic Prevention
14. DIZZEE RASCAL Boy in Da Corner
15. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound of Silver
16. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Songs for the Deaf
17. PRIMAL SCREAM Xtrmntr
18. ALI FARKA TOURE Savane
19. KANYE WEST Late Registration
20. LILY ALLEN Alright, Still

21. KINGS OF LEON Aha Shake Heartbreak
22. RADIOHEAD In Rainbows
23. BOB DYLAN Love and Theft
24. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
25. TOM WAITS Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
26. ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS I Am a Bird Now
27. GOTAN PROJECTLa Revancha del Tango
28. SUFJAN STEVENS Come on Feel the Illinoise
29. EMINEM The Marshall Mathers LP
30. THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN The Good, the Bad & the Queen

31. MIA Kala
32. EST Seven Days of Falling
33. FRANZ FERDINAND Franz Ferdinand
34. SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity
35. ELBOW The Seldom Seen Kid
36. JAY-Z The Blueprint
37. BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
38. KONONO NO 1 Congotronics
39. AMADOU AND MARIAM Dimanche à Bamako
40. PJ HARVEY Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
41. SIGUR ROS ( )
42. BADLY DRAWN BOY The Hour of Bewilderbeast
43. THE STREETS A Grand Don't Come for Free
44. ANDY PALACIO & THE GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE Wátina
45. OUTKAST Stankonia
46. THE LIBERTINES Up the Bracket
47. THE WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells
48. RACHEL UNTHANK AND THE WINTERSET The Bairns
49. DESTINY'S CHILD Survivor
50. DANGER MOUSE The Grey Album