Music My 50 favorite albums of the past decade. - Page 2

Direckshun · 09-28-2009, 10:09 PM

The decade's coming to a close. I've got another website where I list this stuff, but I felt I might as well list it here, too. I go five at a time, randomly, so don't expect regular updates.

This is just for me, so feel free to let this thread slide.

Thanks for any comments, though.

50. Earth, Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005)

Hex is to be lost in the woods. It is the sound of resignation. It is the sound of a knowing traveler, with any destination as his destination, and civilization nowhere close. Yes, it does tease the imagination: if you were perpetually lost, what would you become? Exactly how much of your humanity can you retain, isolated and hopeless? Hex is a hell of a concept album: it strips down the notion of rock music to such extreme measures that the songs barely exist. It's an awfully nihilist sound, and it's incredibly easy to fall into when you're depressed. This is the music you look forward to when you have nothing else to look forward to.

49. Man Man, Six Demon Bag (2006)

If there were ever a bar that was so fiendishly cool as to ritually use Man Man as their cheery drinking songs for every patron to swing their pints to, I don't know if I'd ever go home. Six Demon Bag is, for my money, the best Man Man album. Full of nickolodean madness, genuine humor, and a little piss and vinegar, the band also dials up the pathos on this album. Their usual clown car antics aside, Six Demon Bag shows that while they may not have a way with words, Man Man are truly great lyricists. Perfect combination of oddball music and good ol' American heart 'n' soul.

48. Feist, Let It Die (2005)

"The saddest part of a broken heart, isn't the ending, so much as the start. Losing your mind for the sake of your heart." In a decade of ADHD, it's lyrics by the likes of Feist that are worth slowing down for. Let It Die's gentle rock explores the grey lines that surround any relationship, successful or fleeting. The time you start to let go. The snowballing effect of two people engrossed with one another. Attempting to put Humpty back together again. Before the limelight engulfed her, Feist's words were what mattered. And when all the attention fades, her lyrics will be there to buoy her.

47. Prefuse 73 / The Books, Prefuse 73 Reads the Books EP (2005) [EP]

For a fleeting twenty minutes, this union between an experimental hip hop producer (Prefuse 73) and experimental doo-dadders (the Books) is nothing short of magic. The Books' constant knick-knacking with their various found sounds turns out to be a great canvass for Prefuse 73 to play with and rearrange like magnetic lettering on a refridgerator. Prefuse underscores the entire venture with conventional 4/4 beatwork to keep everything from straying too far, and the result is a pop album that sounds like virtually nothing else. There are not two boring seconds on Prefuse 73 Reads The Books, one of the best pure listens of the past 10 years.

46. Lali Puna, Tridecoder (1999)

Tricoder, Lali Puna's debut, is one of the most incredibly intimate albums where you have absolutely no idea what's going on. Though the indie-tronica outfit meticulously calculates their albums, they always tend to have a stream-of-consciousness aspect to them. As a result, you don't listen to their music as much as you do absorb it. The album is punctuated throughout with miniature beats and Valerie Trebeljahr's whispered, 6-inch voice, as if you're almost listening in on a secret. You'd never notice this tiny, quiet band if you weren't actively seeking them out, but their sound is capable of cradling you, like a beanbag chair, when discovered. "If you want to know who I am, just ask me."

Brock · 09-30-2009, 04:28 PM

supernerd alert

Pablo · 09-30-2009, 04:28 PM

Damn...that's a lot of work brah.

I can probably list a few from the 2000's I dig.

Radiohead - Amnesiac
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
Sigur Ros - ( )
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Q and Not U - Different Damage
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Eminem - The Marshall Matthers LP
The Game - Documentary
Kanye West - College Dropout

I really need to start buying CD's again. I listen to lots of singles and collections from artists; but I've sort of lost appreciation for an album as a complete work of art because I download pretty much everything I listen to anymore.

MoreLemonPledge · 09-30-2009, 09:08 PM

Radiohead - Kid A
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
White Stripes - Elephant
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

Top 5, but I could go 50 easily. Maybe if I find the time I will.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 09-30-2009, 09:21 PM

As PRP said, that's a shitton of work.

Here's a short list:

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

American Princes - Other People

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Dr Dre - Chronic 2001

Kanye West - College Dropout

The White Stripes - Elephant

sportsman1 · 09-30-2009, 11:04 PM

Who the hell are half of these bands? *Goes back to the ranch....

**Reaper16** · 10-01-2009, 12:21 AM

I'll post the top 5 of my top 10 lists for each year of this decade. It won't be the most accurate favorite 50 of this decade for me, as I may like one year's 6th and 7th albums more than another year's 4th or 5th. But its going to be close enough.

In order of year & preference in that year, not in preference of 50-1:

2009 (so far)
1.) Kalisia - Cybion
2.) Porcupine Tree - The Incident
3.) maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
4.) Brother Ali - Us
5.) Devin Townsend Project - Ki

2008
Opeth - Watershed
The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
Ayreon - 01011001
Tech N9ne - Killer
Agalloch - The White (EP)

2007
Cage - Hell Destroyer
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Hardworlder
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring (EP)
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth

2006 (I could put this whole year's top 10 in my fav 50, alas)
UneXpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
Tool - 10,000 Days
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Deadsy - Phantasmagore

2005
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Felt - A Tribute to Lisa Bonet
Dark Tranquility - Character

2004
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Pain of Salvation - BE
Angra - Temple of Shadows
Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor

2003
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients
Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
Kamelot - Epica
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

2002
Agalloch - The Mantle
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Deadsy - Commencement
Falconer - Chapters From A Vale Forlorn

2001
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Kamelot - Karma
Falconer - Falconer
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper

2000
Symphony X - V: The New Mythological Suite
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element (Pt. 1)
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenfris
MuDvAyNe - L.D. 50
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Jenson71 · 10-01-2009, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Reaper16

That makes me sad.

Really, it does.

I'm with Rain Man. Unfortunately, aside from Dylan and Nino Rota, I have little idea of what it feels like to be passionate about music. I do love Mozart, and listen to him in my car. I also have some Gregorian chant on my mp3 I listen to on campus that puts me in the right mood. But it makes up a small part of my existence. The only reason I could name 50 albums is because Dylan has about 40 alone.

**Reaper16** · 10-01-2009, 12:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jenson71

I'm with Rain Man. Unfortunately, aside from Dylan and Nino Rota, I have little idea of what it feels like to be passionate about music. I do love Mozart, and listen to him in my car. I also have some Gregorian chant on my mp3 I listen to on campus that puts me in the right mood. But it makes up a small part of my existence. The only reason I could name 50 albums is because Dylan has about 40 alone.

Dag, yo. I get so much enjoyment out of music that I couldn't tolerate life without it.

Jenson71 · 10-01-2009, 01:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Dag, yo. I get so much enjoyment out of music that I couldn't tolerate life without it.

I think it's cool how some people have their independent music they love. The music scene is pretty nice for that kind of particularism. That's harder to do with movies, for example. For instance, I've heard of two groups on your list - Bob Dylan and Mudvayne. There's like an entire ocean of music I've never listened to.

Are you familiar with anticon? I like some of the stuff they produce, like Alias.

Great Expectations · 10-01-2009, 07:39 AM

Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonley
White Lies - To Lose my Life
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

Demonpenz · 10-01-2009, 07:56 AM

i like the guitar and keys on children of bodom, but the screaming turns it off. How can I hear the lyrical genious if i have no idea what they are saying.

Demonpenz · 10-01-2009, 07:57 AM

Not my favorite by far, but I am surprised Green day's american idiot hasn't made an apprence.

Demonpenz · 10-01-2009, 08:28 AM

ok significant other by limp bizkit came out in 1999 but look at this when you google them

beach tribe · 10-01-2009, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reaper16

You call Death Magnetic terrible yet you name a Creed album? GTFO

And Limp Bizkit.

DJJasonp · 10-01-2009, 02:11 PM

Just a sample that would make my top 50:

Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
New Order - Substance
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Stabbing Westward - Ungod
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Crystal Method - Vegas
The Cure - Staring at the Sea
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
Prince - Sign o' the times
Boston - Boston
Soundtrack - The Crow

09-28-2009, 10:09 PM
Direckshun __ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Springpatch Casino cash: $4173447	My 50 favorite albums of the past decade. The decade's coming to a close. I've got another website where I list this stuff, but I felt I might as well list it here, too. I go five at a time, randomly, so don't expect regular updates. This is just for me, so feel free to let this thread slide. Thanks for any comments, though. *50. Earth, Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method* (2005)** Hex is to be lost in the woods. It is the sound of resignation. It is the sound of a knowing traveler, with any destination as his destination, and civilization nowhere close. Yes, it does tease the imagination: if you were perpetually lost, what would you become? Exactly how much of your humanity can you retain, isolated and hopeless? Hex is a hell of a concept album: it strips down the notion of rock music to such extreme measures that the songs barely exist. It's an awfully nihilist sound, and it's incredibly easy to fall into when you're depressed. This is the music you look forward to when you have nothing else to look forward to. *49. Man Man, Six Demon Bag* (2006)** If there were ever a bar that was so fiendishly cool as to ritually use Man Man as their cheery drinking songs for every patron to swing their pints to, I don't know if I'd ever go home. Six Demon Bag is, for my money, the best Man Man album. Full of nickolodean madness, genuine humor, and a little piss and vinegar, the band also dials up the pathos on this album. Their usual clown car antics aside, Six Demon Bag shows that while they may not have a way with words, Man Man are truly great lyricists. Perfect combination of oddball music and good ol' American heart 'n' soul. *48. Feist, Let It Die* (2005)** "The saddest part of a broken heart, isn't the ending, so much as the start. Losing your mind for the sake of your heart." In a decade of ADHD, it's lyrics by the likes of Feist that are worth slowing down for. Let It Die's gentle rock explores the grey lines that surround any relationship, successful or fleeting. The time you start to let go. The snowballing effect of two people engrossed with one another. Attempting to put Humpty back together again. Before the limelight engulfed her, Feist's words were what mattered. And when all the attention fades, her lyrics will be there to buoy her. *47. Prefuse 73 / The Books, Prefuse 73 Reads the Books EP* (2005) [EP]** For a fleeting twenty minutes, this union between an experimental hip hop producer (Prefuse 73) and experimental doo-dadders (the Books) is nothing short of magic. The Books' constant knick-knacking with their various found sounds turns out to be a great canvass for Prefuse 73 to play with and rearrange like magnetic lettering on a refridgerator. Prefuse underscores the entire venture with conventional 4/4 beatwork to keep everything from straying too far, and the result is a pop album that sounds like virtually nothing else. There are not two boring seconds on Prefuse 73 Reads The Books, one of the best pure listens of the past 10 years. *46. Lali Puna, Tridecoder* (1999)** Tricoder, Lali Puna's debut, is one of the most incredibly intimate albums where you have absolutely no idea what's going on. Though the indie-tronica outfit meticulously calculates their albums, they always tend to have a stream-of-consciousness aspect to them. As a result, you don't listen to their music as much as you do absorb it. The album is punctuated throughout with miniature beats and Valerie Trebeljahr's whispered, 6-inch voice, as if you're almost listening in on a secret. You'd never notice this tiny, quiet band if you weren't actively seeking them out, but their sound is capable of cradling you, like a beanbag chair, when discovered. "If you want to know who I am, just ask me."
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Pablo Ultrabanned Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: KCMO Casino cash: $1639356	Damn...that's a lot of work brah. I can probably list a few from the 2000's I dig. Radiohead - Amnesiac Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica Sigur Ros - ( ) Bright Eyes - Lifted Cursive - The Ugly Organ Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends At The Drive In - Relationship of Command The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium Q and Not U - Different Damage Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me Eminem - The Marshall Matthers LP The Game - Documentary Kanye West - College Dropout I really need to start buying CD's again. I listen to lots of singles and collections from artists; but I've sort of lost appreciation for an album as a complete work of art because I download pretty much everything I listen to anymore.
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DJJasonp My work speaks for itself!!! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: So Cal Casino cash: $1605200	Just a sample that would make my top 50: Nine Inch Nails - Broken Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique New Order - Substance Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Stabbing Westward - Ungod Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust Crystal Method - Vegas The Cure - Staring at the Sea U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky Prince - Sign o' the times Boston - Boston Soundtrack - The Crow __________________ Its easier to fool a man, than to convince a man he's been fooled.
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