Music My 50 favorite albums of the past decade. - Page 4

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."

Omaha · 08-16-2010, 09:13 AM

Some of my favorites:

The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
The Kooks - Konk
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonley
Beck - Guero
Beck - Modern Guilt
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Spoon - Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
White Stripes - Get Behind Me, Satan
Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
KOL - Because of the Times
KOL - Only By the Night
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
REM - Accelerate

**Baby Lee** · 02-02-2011, 01:20 PM

White Stripes officially no more.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-w...reak-up,51227/

NewChief · 02-02-2011, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

White Stripes officially no more.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-w...reak-up,51227/

Anyone needing a really crappy female drummer for their band? (sorry, Meg, I love ya.. but it's the truth).

**QuikSsurfer** · 02-02-2011, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

White Stripes officially no more.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-w...reak-up,51227/

Gives people another reason to jump on the other project - The Dead Weather

MoreLemonPledge · 02-02-2011, 02:08 PM

This is a damn shame. Say what you want, but Meg brought a visceral quality to the band. She sure as shit wasn't a technical drummer, but it worked.

"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" was the song that woke me up to a new world of music after years of listening to Creed, Blink 182, and so much other shit. They are my Nirvana. They'll always be one of my favorite bands.

If you didn't like them before, watch this video and tell me they don't ****ing rock.

Omaha · 02-03-2011, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

White Stripes officially no more.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-w...reak-up,51227/

That sucks. I never got to see them live. We had plans to see them a few years ago when Meg had her anxiety issues & canceled the tour.

Omaha · 02-03-2011, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Gives people another reason to jump on the other project - The Dead Weather

Is that any good? I've heard a few songs, but I wasn't impressed. Any reason to give them another shot?

patteeu · 02-03-2011, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Omaha

Is that any good? I've heard a few songs, but I wasn't impressed. Any reason to give them another shot?

I've heard their debut CD 2 or 3 times and I wasn't impressed.

MoreLemonPledge · 02-03-2011, 03:55 PM

Their second album is much better.

Demonpenz · 02-03-2011, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by PostRockPablo

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.

this is is nice.

Red Brooklyn · 02-10-2011, 10:18 PM

I suppose it sounds like hyperbole, but now one of the greatest regrets of my life will be that I never got to see The White Stripes in concert.

Sucks.

I promised myself that the next tour would be the one, no ifs ands or buts... damn.

MoreLemonPledge · 02-11-2011, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn

I suppose it sounds like hyperbole, but now one of the greatest regrets of my life will be that I never got to see The White Stripes in concert.

Sucks.

I promised myself that the next tour would be the one, no ifs ands or buts... damn.

There will be a reunion in a few years.

At least I keep telling myself that. I have the same regret.

Red Brooklyn · 05-24-2012, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn

wow... this thread just died right out... Direckshun, if you ever feel like finishing your list, I'd love to read it.

My top 50 of the past decade (2000-2010)

1. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
2. Cease To Begin - Band Of Horses
3. Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
4. Home – Dixie Chicks
5. Riot Act – Pearl Jam
6. From A Basement On A Hill - Elliott Smith
7. Sea Change - Beck
8. In Rainbows - Radiohead
9. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
10. Rockin’ The Suburbs – Ben Folds
11. Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Glen Hansard
12. Sugarcoating - Martin Sexton
13. Infinite Arms - Band Of Horses
14. The Hazards Of Love - The Decemberists
15. Backspacer - Pearl Jam
16. Consolers Of The Lonely – The Raconteurs
17. Wincing The Night Away - The Shins
18. Haunted - Poe
19. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
20. The Marshall Matthers LP - Eminem
21. Elephant - The White Stripes
22. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
23. Modern Guilt - Beck
24. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
25. Her Majesty - The Decemberists
26. Amnesiac – Radiohead
27. The Else - They Might Be Giants
28. Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
29. Figure 8 - Elliott Smith
30. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
31. American Idiot - Green Day
32. Binaural - Pearl Jam
33. Hate - The Delgados
34. The Eminem Show – Eminem
35. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
36. Life In Cartoon Motion - Mika
37. Under The Black Light - Rilo Kiley
38. Flavors Of Entanglement - Alanis Morissette
39. Gold - Ryan Adams
40. The Repulsion Box - Sons And Daughters
41. The Con - Tegan and Sara
42. Scarlet’s Walk – Tori Amos
43. O - Damien Rice
44. Hot Fuss - The Killers
45. Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple
46. Chrome Dreams II - Neil Young
47. The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
48. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal
49. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
50. The Woods - Sleater-Kinney

I'm way late to the game, but over the last two years, I've been devouring Tom Waits. The guy is a revelation. A true, literal, genius.

So, I'd like to officially bump my number one. Gotta put Blood Money by Tom Waits in that top spot.

Pablo · 05-24-2012, 10:02 PM

I'd like to throw the album 'Boxer' by The National out there for some serious love.

I just found it in my car after like 2 years of loneliness and I've been digging the shit out of it again.

Omaha · 05-24-2012, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn

I'm way late to the game, but over the last two years, I've been devouring Tom Waits. The guy is a revelation. A true, literal, genius.

So, I'd like to officially bump my number one. Gotta put Blood Money by Tom Waits in that top spot.

Dude, your list has some great stuff on it.

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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