So Scumbo. You'velisted Takk and Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust. What did ( ) kill your dog or something? What did it ever do to you?
Holy crap, I swear I had BSB and Stage Names in there right up top! Must have accidentally deleted. They're there now.
Haha. I actually was just thinking I should have put in () and left Med Sud off. It's a toss up though, as I like both. I didn't list any artist more than twice, or you would likely have seen all three and seen more Radiohead.
Also, I just realized The Photo Album wasn't '99. It's been added.
Then, all is right in the universe once more. Which Idlewild album would you suggest starting with? I've been meaning to give them a listen for some time now, since (I think) they're one of your favorite bands.
That makes sense. I shamelessly included Okkervil River's entire discography in my top 100, so obviously the two-per-band rule wasn't really registering with me.
I find your lack of We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes disturbing.
We should probably bump the Death Cab thread considering tangents are emerging in this and the Best of 2009 thread. Seems like good timing since I'm finally remembering how much I used to love them.
Making the favorites of the decade list sorta bring me back to a few things I absolutely loved at the first of decade, but sorta shunned later on. Kinda nice to reconcile yourself with music that you may not love as much as you once did, but still had a major impact on what type of music you like now.
I turned 13 in 2000.
It made me feel old, Cori.
Another thing to consider, at least for most of the younger posters here, is the fact that we were pretty damn young at the beginning of the decade. I turned 13 in 2000. Obviously my scope of the entire thing was much different back then. But to leave out things I loved just because they're not as "cool" in hindsight would be doing a tremendous disservice to how my tastes have evolved over ten years.
They are. Definitely the two I listed, 100 Broken Windows and In Remote Part. 100 Broken Windows is more "raw" and closer to their original punk leanings, and In Remote Part was their first album to receive better production and an effort to push them into the mainstream (which it did quite well in the UK). They opened for REM (on more than one tour I think), Pearl Jam, and U2. Strangely, when I first became a Bang and Clatter regular, they were one of the most popular bands on here. That was one of the reasons I became a regular, to talk Idlewild.
Here's an example (probably the biggest single from 100 Broken Windows):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg0mehFTr0I
On a sad note, this was the first time I've made a year end list where they had a new album released, and I didn't include it. It had some great singles, but I couldn't get into it as a proper album.
Nice to see Emmylou on your list - Red Dirt Girl got whittled off my final list.
Just realized I meant to put Elephant, but wrote in White Blood Cells instead. Whoopsie.
Did anyone see Metacritic's Best of the Decade lists? The album list is what you'd expect, and suffers from the same problems they always do for music, but I found the Artists lists really interesting, as they base it on overall reviews and total number of releases that artist had for the decade. i think you'll be impressed with what artists made the top 35:
The Best Music of the Decade - Metacritic