Top Albums of the Naughtiest Decade

[Dalton]

I wanted to call this the Top 25 albums of the decade, but I know some of you shit nuggets will never stop at 25. Here's mine. You know the drill. Yes, yes, yes we all know it's "way too soon" for you self-important artist types to try to evaluate an entire decade, but let me recommend that you stop being gaping pussies for a moment and remember that this is the internet and none of it matters.

1. Kid A - Radiohead
2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
3. Boxer - The National
4. Funeral - Arcade Fire
5. Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
6. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
7. Michigan - Sufjan Stevens
8. The Seldom Seen Kid- Elbow
9. The Stage Names - Okkervil River
10. In Rainbows - Radiohead
11. Alligator - The National
12. Youth and Youngmanhood - Kings of Leon
13. Elephant - The White Stripes
14. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
15. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
16. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
17. Armchair Apocrypha - Andrew Bird
18. Sea Change - Beck
19. You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
20. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
21. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos!
22. Stankonia - Outkast
23. All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone - Explosions in the Sky
24. Give Up - The Postal Service
25. Gold - Ryan Adams

 

[corianderstem]

Thanks for starting the thread. I'm working on a few lists for my favorite songs and albums, but they need some whittling down.

I was just yammering over on Facebook about putting U2 on these lists (a friend joked that my list of top songs would all be U2). It's like I'm such a big U2 fan that I struggle with comparing them to other music. I kind of compare them to other U2 songs and albums, but sometimes can't figure out where they fit in the larger picture.

Like, I'm thinking about putting ATYCLB on the fave albums list, even though I think No Line is better. It's like it belongs there because it set the tone for U2 in this decade (for better or worse), and hey, I sure did love it when it came out. Also, I think NLOTH is too new for it to end up in a "best of the decade" list. Maybe.

I know it doesn't matter, since it's just my list of shit I've dug over the past 10 years, but there you go.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

50 is probably an obnoxious number, sorry, but I was bored a few weeks back and put together a top 50 for the decade. Cest la vie. Here it is:

1. Is This It - The Strokes
2. Fearless - Taylor Swift
3. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
4. In Rainbows - Radiohead
5. Up The Bracket - The Libertines
6. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
7. Boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady
8. Room On Fire - The Strokes
9. Chemistry - Girls Aloud
10. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
11. Kid A - Radiohead
12. The Blueprint - Jay-Z
13. The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
14. Alright, Still - Lily Allen
15. Elephant - The White Stripes
16. Funeral - Arcade Fire
17. All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
18. Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey
19. Love And Theft - Bob Dylan
20. Into The Wild (Original Soundtrack) - Eddie Vedder
21. Give Up - Postal Service
22. College Dropout - Kanye West
23. The Black Album - Jay-Z
24. Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
25. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
26. Separation Sunday - The Hold Steady
27. Get Behind Me, Satan - The White Stripes
28. Out Of Control - Girls Aloud
29. The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
30. Picaresque - The Decemberists
31. Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
32. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Miranda Lambert
33. Alligator - The National
34. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
35. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
36. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
37. Anniemal - Annie
38. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
39. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
40. Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
41. Z - My Morning Jacket
42. Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
43. Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn
44. Take Them On, On Your Own - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
45. De Stijl - The White Stripes
46. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
47. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
48. The Guest - Phantom Planet
49. The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
50. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

 

[LemonMelon]

Top 50, pretty confident in this for the most part, although NLOTH will inevitably work its way down eventually:

1. Beck - Sea Change
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
7. The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
8. Madvillain - Madvillainy
9. Kanye West - Late Registration
10. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
11. Radiohead - Kid A
12. Deerhunter - Microcastle
13. Gorillaz - Demon Days
14. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
15. Spoon - Girls Can Tell
16. The White Stripes - Elephant
17. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
18. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
19. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
20. Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
21. Coldplay - Parachutes
22. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
23. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
24. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
25. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
26. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
27. The National - Boxer
28. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
29. The Strokes - Is This It
30. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
31. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
32. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
33. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
34. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
35. OutKast - Stankonia
36. My Morning Jacket - Z
37. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
38. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
39. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
40. The Format - Dog Problems
41. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
42. U2 - No Line On The Horizon
43. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
44. Doves - Lost Souls
45. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
46. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
47. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
48. Daft Punk - Discovery
49. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
50. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs

 

[Dalton]

My favorite thing about you, GAF, is that you put Taylor Swift above Radiohead without a hint of irony ... a whole wagon full of pedophilia ... but no irony.

 

[Imperor]

Well, I narrowed it down to a top 92. That's a start.

 

[Dalton]

If they're in order, post your list fool.

 

[onebloodonelife]

I'm going to attempt to come up with a list today, so I set up a playlist in iTunes with only 2000s music. Apparently, 13,064 of my 20,749 songs (or about 63%) are from this decade, which is a bit absurd when I think about it.

Anyway, hopefully the list doesn't end up with 92 albums on it...shooting for 50 or so.

 

[corianderstem]

So far, I have a list of about 45 albums, 70 or so songs, and 29 of my Big, Dumb Pop songs, because they're so beloved, they need their own list.

 

[Imperor]

If they're in order, post your list fool.

They're in alphabetical order for each release year. Hardly ready to be posted. But I'm working on it. I'm also going to add eight more to make it a cool 100.

 

[Dalton]

They're in alphabetical order for each release year. Hardly ready to be posted. But I'm working on it. I'm also going to add eight more to make it a cool douche 100.

thanks

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Man, doing a list of top songs of the decade would be insane. Way more difficult than albums. Off the top of my head I would be very tempted to say that "Wake Up" is the song of the decade. "Rebellion (Lies)" and "Neighborhood #1" are stunning, as well. I'm not even particularly a big fan of that band (mostly due to their personalities/nationality) but, yeah, I think "Wake Up" would maybe be my song of the decade.

 

[corianderstem]

The hardest part of my favorite songs list so far? Picking a song off Funeral. Hell, I don't think I can even pick two. There are a solid 4 that I love so much, I can't bear to leave them off any list.

 

[mikal]

1. Creed - Human Clay

 

[corianderstem]

:ban:

 

[mikal]

2. Coldplay - X&Y

 

[Imperor]

1999 release, Mikal. Feel free to include Weathered though.

"All My Friends" is my song of the decade, and it's really not even close. There's no way I'm doing that list though. It would push into the 500s easily.

 

[mikal]

doh!

 

[Dalton]

"All My Friends" is my song of the decade, and it's really not even close.

I didn't know you were an Amos Lee fan.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm going to see if I can keep my songs list to 50.

 

[Imperor]

I didn't know you were an Amos Lee fan.

I prefer Famous Amos.

Obviously.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

This is my favorite song of the decade. It's rather short, but it packs a serious emotional punch:

YouTube - We Have to Go Back

 

[corianderstem]

I have no idea what that is.

 

[Imperor]

I feel like I really need to watch that. Maybe starting from the beginning will be a good way to break in the BD player.

 

[onebloodonelife]

I didn't know you were an Amos Lee fan.

Hilariously enough, one of his albums is looking like it might make my list. Not the one with "All My Friends" on it though.

However, LCD's "All My Friends" kicks the Amos Lee song's ass all over the place, without a doubt.

 

[lazarus]

This is my favorite song of the decade. It's rather short, but it packs a serious emotional punch:

YouTube - We Have to Go Back

Quite possibly the greatest pop culture moment of the decade? Where an entire nation of TV viewers jumped up from their sofas screaming WTF????

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Yeah, that's kinda what I was getting at. I was also in a goofy mood and felt like posting a clip from Lost in a music thread for some reason. Anyway...

This is certainly not any sort of finalized list but just off the top of my head some of my favorite songs of the decade from some of my favorite artists. And a few that I feel sort of define the 2000s:

"Pyramid Song" and "Reckoner" by THE HEAD!
"Wake Up" and "Rebellion (Lies)" by Arcade Fire
"We Don't Care" by Kanye West
"Imitation of Life" by R.E.M.
"Take A Bow" and "Umbrella" by Rihanna
"Someday" and "Last Nite" by The Strokes
"Paper Planes" by M.I.A.
"Beautiful Day" and "City of Blinding Lights" by U2
"Hey Ya!" by THE KAST!
"Chicago" and "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens
"Fake Empire" by THE NASH!
"Ball and Biscuit" and "Fell In Love Wif A Girl" by The White Stripes
"Such Great Heights" by Postal Service
"One Day Like This" by Elbow
"LDN" by Lily Allen
"Helicopter" by Bloc Party
"Touch Me I Think I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2" and "One Big Holiday" by My Morning Jacket
"Stan" by Eminem
"Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand
"Maps" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Stuck Between Stations" by The Hold Steady

And I will stop now because I could probably keep listing shit for a long time and I have to go eat dinner.

 

[Bono's shades]

I suck at ranking things in order, so I didn't.

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
The White Stripes - Elephant
Antony and the Johnsons - I’m a Bird Now
Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
Warren Zevon - The Wind
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Muse - Black Holes and Revealations
Green Day - American Idiot
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus Dig!
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Ambulance Ltd - LP
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
R.E.M. - Reveal
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Favorite albums of the 2000s

1a. Radiohead - In Rainbows
1b. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Rest of the top 10, in no particular order:
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Once
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Arcade Fire - Funeral
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
The Beatles - Love
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Rest of the top 50, in no particular order:
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Wilco - Wilco
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Beck - Sea Change
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Radiohead - Amnesiac
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Ryan Adams - Gold
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
R.E.M. - Reveal
George Harrison - Brainwashed
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
Paul McCartney (The Fireman) - Electric Arguments
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Feist - The Reminder
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All The Roadrunning
Sheryl Crow - Wildflower
Dave Matthews - Some Devil
Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Aimee Mann - Lost In Space
Peter Gabriel - Up
Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
The Swell Season - Strict Joy
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Some favorite songs, in no particular order (except Beautiful Day is number 1):
(Sure I'm forgetting some)

U2 - Beautiful Day
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
U2 - Magnificent
U2 - City of Blinding Lights
TV On The Radio - Halfway Home
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Radiohead - You and Whose Army?
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Radiohead - All I Need
Sarah McLachlan - World on Fire
Afro-Celt Sound System with Peter Gabriel -- When You're Falling
The Decemberists -- Yankee Bayonet
Peter Gabriel - Signal To Noise
Peter Gabriel with Blind Boys of Alabama - Sky Blue
Animal Collective -- Summertime Clothes
Bruce Springsteen -- The Rising
Bruce Springsteen -- Devil's Arcade
Wilco - Via Chicago
Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
Coldplay - Daylight
Coldplay - Warning Signs
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Wilco - Remember the Mountain Bed
R.E.M. - Imitation of Life
Tori Amos - I Can't See New York
Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale
Strokes - Hard To Explain
Strokes - Take It Or Leave It
Ryan Adams - La Cienega Just Smiled
Mark Knopfler - What It Is
Belle & Sebastian - The Blues are Still Blue
George Harrison - Any Road
Sting - Desert Rose
Peter Gabriel - Downside Up
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Please Read the Letter
PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
PJ Harvey - We Float
Dave Matthews - Trouble
Feist - I Feel It All
Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun
Andrew Bird - Heretics
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Paul Simon - Wartime Prayers
Muse - Map of the Problematique
Bruce Springsteen - Pay Me My Money Down
Sia - Breathe Me
Snow Patrol - Spitting Games
White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
Elbow - One Day Like This
Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
Belle & Sebastian - Sukie In The Graveyard
MGMT - Time To Pretend
Spoon - The Underdog
The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
Spoon - Don't You Evah
Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl
Bob Dylan - Spirit on the Water
Corrs with Bono - Summer Wine


Some other artists I'm getting into, but not ready to rank:

Doves
Nationals
M. Ward
Elbow
Beirut
The Killers
Kasabian
Franz Ferdinand
Earlimart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Frames
Animal Collective
Death Cab for Cutie
Yo La Tengo
The Submarines

 

[corianderstem]

Cori's 30 favorite albums of the decade (more or less in this order):

Madonna - Confessions On a Dance Floor
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Dixie Chicks - Home
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
U2 - No Line On the Horizon
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Green Day - American Idiot
The Strokes - Is This It
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
kd lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Joan Osborne - Righteous Love
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls
Interpol - Antics
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
LCD Soundsysem - Sound of Silver
Elbow - Leaders Of the Free World
The Killers - Hot Fuss