I want to see some serious lists if you choose to participate AND I'd like to see as many people as possible post lists, like the 2005 year-end list (which, recently looking through that thread, was really awesome).

Some things to consider, if you will:

1) Overall quality (i.e.: content)

2) Significance (i.e.: context)

3) Impact that these records will have/have had/is having on the latter half of this ongoing decade.

There's a Best Songs: '00 - '04 thread here in Best of 2004, but General Discussion seemed like a better place for this discussion. That was my call. MODS: If it needs to be moved, then let it be moved post-haste.

I will post my list this weekend. Hope to see some good input from you smart, smart folks.

There's a "Best of Decade So Far" thread already here. Isn't this sort of the same thing? Maybe not, since I had a couple of 2005 releases on my list.

Either way, I think this thread is more specific. Let me post some lists of others':

P4K's list

A student's response to P4K's list

Stylus' list

...and of course, Metacritic's list

Alright, here's my top 25:

1. Modest Mouse-"The Moon and Antarctica"
2. Richard Buckner- "The Hill"
3. Radiohead-"Kid A"
4 Wilco-"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
5. Interpol- "Turn on the Bright Lights"
6. Spoon- "Kill the Moonlight"
7. Reigning Sound- "Time Bomb High School"
8. Cat Power- "You Are Free"
9. Broken Social Scene- "You Forgot It in People"
10. Ryan Adams- "Heartbreaker"
11. Radiohead- "Amnesiac"
12. The Shins- "Oh, Inverted World"
13. The White Stripes- "White Blood Cells"
14. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "B.R.M.C."
15. Spoon- "Girls Can Tell"
16. Mark Lanegan- "Bubblegum"
17. The White Stripes- "Elephant"
18. Clem Snide- "Your Favorite Music"
19. Danger Mouse- "The Grey Album"
20. Bright Eyes- "Lifted, or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground"
21. The Walkmen- "Bows and Arrows"
22. Idlewild- "100 Broken Windows"
23. Mark Kozelek- "What's Next to the Moon"
24. Guided by Voices- "Isolation Drills"
25. Frank Black and the Catholics- "Dog in the Sand"

Never seen this topic before...

This list is...general, in the ballpark of my real list. Off the top of my head.

And, I think I'll inflate the importance of impact because it's what you asked for. Normally I would only take my own feelings into account.

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. White Stripes - Elephant
4. Flaming Lips - Yoshime Battles the Pink Robots
5. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
6. Loretta Lynn - Van Year Rose
7. The Strokes - Is This It?
8. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrgun
9. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
10. Arcade Fire - Funeral
11. Radiohead - Amnesiac
12. Outkast - Stankonia
13. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
15. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
16. Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
17. Outkast - Speakerboxx/Love Below
18. New Pornogrpahers - Mass Romantic
19. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
20. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight

I'll Bite...

1. Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan.
2. Kid A - Radiohead.
3. Elephant - White Stripes.
4. Lateralus - Tool.
5. A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets.
6. Franz Ferdinand.
7. American Idiot - Green Day.
8. Funeral - Arcade Fire.
9. The College Dropout - Kayne West.
10. Love Songs for Patriots - American Music Club.
11. Amnesiac - Radiohead.
12. God Says No - Monster Magnet.
13. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay.
14. A Ghost is Born - Wilco.
15. All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2.
16. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse.
17. Final Straw - Snow Patrol.
18. Sea Change - Beck.
19. Yankee Foxtrot Hotel - Wilco.
20. Speakerbox/The Love Below - Outkast.
21. The Libertines.
22. Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age.
23. Hail to the Thief - Radiohead.
24. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes.
25. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins.

I decided to try something different.

Context: The Strokes, Is This It?
No brainer, even if their public act is a little stale now. They started a trend with more than a few wannabe torchbearers still releasing debuts.

Content: Super Furry Animals, Rings Around the World
A near perfect union of technical ability and artistic vision. They seem like the kind of band that makes exactly what they meant to — no happy accidents.

Convergence: Danger Mouse, The Grey Album
Now we can't get rid of him. First Gorillaz, then DangerDoom, now Gnarls Barkley. He's to the 00s what Automator was to the 90s.

Con: The Arcade Fire, Funeral
Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Only one of these would make my Top 25 if I sat down to make one. No, it's not The Arcade Fire.

Man, I love lists....


1 - Notwist – Neon Golden
2 - Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
3 - Radiohead – Kid A
4 - Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
5 - Wrens – Meadowlands
6 - Grandaddy – Sophtware Slump
7 - Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
8 - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Tyranny of Distance
9 - Adem – Homesongs
10 – Songs: Ohia – Didn’t It Rain
Modest Mouse – Moon and Antarctica
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
Radiohead – Amnesiac
David Francey – Far End of Summer
15 - Beck – Sea Change
Ms John Soda – No P or D
Explosions in the Sky – Those Who Tell the Truth...
Califone – Roomsound
20 - Four Tet – Rounds
Delgados – Hate
Songs: Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co.
Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
Counting Crows – Hard Candy
Junior Boys – Last Exit
Jason Molina – Pyramid Electric Co.

1. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
5. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
6. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
7. Outkast - Stankonia (Minus the Skits)
8. Frog Eyes - The Golden River
9. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
10. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
11. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
12. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
13. Brian Wilson - Smile
14. Fennesz - Endless Summer
15. Madvillain - Madvillainy
16. Arcade Fire - Funeral
17. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
18. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
19. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
20. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
21. Avalanches - Since I Left You
22. The Books - The Lemon of Pink
23. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher/Extinguished
24. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
25. The Books - Thought for Food
26. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
27. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
28. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
29. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
30. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

That's, like, a rushed Top 30 list.

quote:

1) Overall quality (i.e.: content)

2) Significance (i.e.: context)

3) Impact that these records will have/have had/is having on the latter half of this ongoing decade.

INDIE ROCK / SONGWRITERS
microphones, the glow pt. 2
wilco, yankee hotel foxtrot
fiery furnaces, blueberry boat
modest mouse, the moon & antarctica
low, trust
INDIE HIP HOP
clouddead, clouddead
el-p, fantastic damage
antipop consortium, arrhythmia
dalek, from filthy tongue of gods and griots
POP / INDIETRONICA
radiohead, kid a
notwist, neon golden
four tet, pause
dntel, life is full of possibilities
GLITCH / EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONICS
books, thought for good
fennesz, endless summer
matmos, a chance to cut is a chance to cure
pan sonic, kesto
IDM / MINIMAL
thomas brinkmann, klick
herbert, bodily functions
prefuse 73, one world extinguisher
super collider, raw digits
ELECTRO / PUNK FUNK
various artists, dfa compilation # 2
hell, ny muscle
two lone swordsmen, from the double gone chapel
!!!, loaden up now
BLACK / MAINSTREAM
outkast, stankonia
missy elliott, miss e.. so addictive
kanye west, the college dropout
nerd, fly or die
BASTARD POP / MASH UPS
richard x, x factor vol 1
2 many djs, as heard on radio soulwax
dangermouse, the grey album
UK GARAGE / GRIME
streets, original pirate material
audio bullys, ego war
dizzee rascal, boy in da corner
MAINSTREAM ROCK
white stripes, white blood cells
franz ferdinand, franz ferdinand
interpol, turn on the bright lights
NU WAVE
el guapo, fake french
xiu xiu, knife play
trans am, the red line
GARAGE / NOISE ROCK
oneida, each one teach one
liars, they were wrong so we drowned
sightings, arrived in gold
hospitals, hospitals
NEOPRIMITIVISM / AVANT ROCK
animal collective, here comes the indian
black dice, beaches and canyons
no neck blues band, intonomancy
storm and stress, under thunder and fluorescent light
PSYCH / NEOKRAUT
boredoms, seadrum / house of sun
comets on fire, field recordings from the sun
FREE FOLK / DRONES
charalambides, joy shapes
sunroof!, bliss
six organs of admittance, dark noontide
double leopards, halve maen
IMPRO / FREE JAZZ
supersilent, 5
chicago underground duo, synesthesia
stangl / kurzmann, schnee
various artists, improvised music from japan



edited =)

bye

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This definitely may change; I'm doing it quickly and I don't doubt I'll forget a lot. The order, besides the top 4 or 5, could pretty much be flipped however and it wouldnt matter - I suck at making lists.

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. The Microphones - The Glow, pt. 2
4. Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
5. The Notwist - Neon Golden
6. The White Stripes - Elephant
7. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
8. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
9. Radiohead - Hail To The Theif
10. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
11. Madvillain - Madvillainy
12. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
13. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
14. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
15. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
16. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
17. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
18. Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - The Swimming Hour
19. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
20. ...And You Will Know Us... - Source Tags & Codes

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dekobra, you are amazing

Sorry, Yay, I know you wanted a comprehensive list, but I have neither the time nor energy to comb through five years worth of albums right now. At least this wll give you some more to look at. I don't think I have included anything prior to 2000 or later than 2004. I think maybe the top 5 are pretty close to how I would rank them, but after that there is no order.

1. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
2. Franz Ferdinand - FF
3. A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets
4. Madvillainy - Madvillain
5. Stankonia - Outkast
6. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
7. Rounds - Four Tet
8. Boy in da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
9. Turn On the Bright Lights - Interpol
10. Vespertine - Bjork
11. Cold House - Hood
12. Kill the Moonlight - Spoon
13. Grey Album - Danger Mouse
14. Bows & Arrows - Walkmen
15. Is This It - The Strokes
16. The Futureheads - Futureheads
17. Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave...Bad Seeds
18. Yours, Mine, and Ours - Pernice Brothers
19. Stumble Into Grace - Emmylou Harris
20. Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains of Wayne
21. Phrenology - Roots
22. We Love Life - Pulp

I have nothing to do, so here's my painstaking list. More emphasis on influence than quality.

01 Radiohead - Kid A
02 The Postal Service - Give Up
03 Kanye West - The College Dropout
04 Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
05 Jay-Z - The Black Album
06 Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
07 Outkast - Stankonia
07 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
09 Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
10 Bjork - Vespertine
11 Four Tet - Rounds
12 Mastodon - Leviathan
13 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
14 System of a Down - Toxicity
15 Tool - Lateralus
16 Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
17 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
18 Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not A Cold, Dead Place
19 Mogwai - Rock Action
20 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
21 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
21 Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
23 Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
24 The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
25 The Darkness - Permission to Land

If I were to really get serious, I'd have to take a week off from work and tell my family to move out because I only have time to listen to music for that week. Instead, I spent some time today remembering, considering and trying to find all my albums after my move last month. I'm sure I'm missing stuff, but this is my monochromatic list as of now, and I only used one criteria: quality.

1. Kid A by Radiohead
2. The Swimming Hour by Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire
3. Behind the Music by the Soundtrack of Our Lives
4. Songs From the City, Songs From the Sea by PJ Harvey
5. Love and Theft by Bob Dylan
6. Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn
7. White Blood Cells by the White Stripes
8. Sea Change by Beck
9. Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
10. A Ghost is Born by Wilco
11. Elephant by the White Stripes
12. At Dawn by My Morning Jacket
13. New Roman Times by Camper van Beethoven
14. Amnesiac by Radiohead
15. Chutes Too Narrow by the Shins
16. Speakerboxx/The Love Below by Outkast
17. Magic and Medicine by the Coral
18. One Beat by Sleater-Kinney
19. Mermaid Avenue Vol. II by Billy Bragg and Wilco
20. Stephen Malkmus
21. Ways and Means by Paul Kelly
22. B.R.M.C. by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
23. Life on Other Planets by Supergrass
24. Rings Around the World by Super Furry Animals
25. Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
25. Since I Left You by the Avalanches

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quote:

Originally posted by Yay!:
More emphasis on influence than quality.

25 The Darkness - Permission to Land

Who is The Darkness influencing? I don't see alot of borderline-parody hair metal bands out there, unless you count the fact that Buckcherry just released another album.

Nice lists all. Mine was pretty much the same, but then thought of all the albums no body had mentioned. When I came up with the list - Well, I reakon its as good as any one elses

1. McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas
2. Josh Rouse - 1972
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf
4. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
5. Calexico - Feast Of Wire
6. Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales….
7. Air - Moon Safari
8. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
9. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
10. System of a Down - Toxicity
Dallas Crane - Dallas Crane
Fugazi - The Argument
Muse - Absolution
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Feaver To Tell
Wagons - Draw Blood
Blur - Think Tank
Neil Young - Greendale
M. Ward - Trasfiguration of Vincent
20. Doves - Lost Souls

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quote:

Originally posted by Backcountry:
Nice lists all. Mine was pretty much the same, but then thought of all the albums no body had mentioned. When I came up with the list - Well, I reakon its as good as any one elses

Blur - Think Tank

This is a good one. I had sort of forgotten this, and it should probably be on my list. "Think Tank" is a fantastic album.

quote:

Originally posted by Yay!:
dekobra, you are amazing

yo!

quote:

Originally posted by Backcountry:
Nice lists all. Mine was pretty much the same, but then thought of all the albums no body had mentioned. When I came up with the list - Well, I reakon its as good as any one elses


2. Josh Rouse - 1972
Blur - Think Tank

These are a couple good additions. I completely forgot about Blur.