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Originally posted by Bobthespirit:

Greatest hits records don't really count. That culls from Splendor Soils, Edges of Twighlight, Transmission, and Triptych.

True. Although there is some new material on it, Tangents shouldn't qualify and I won't argue the point. It's always nice to meet someone who appreciates what they have done. The Seven Circles was a huge disappointment though and I'm afraid that the creative well may have run dry.

There have been so many great records this decade. I narrowed it down to ten, although my mind probably already changed on a few of them:

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Coldplay - X & Y
4. White Stripes - Elephant
5. Brian Wilson - Smile
6. Strokes - Is This It?
7. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
8. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
9. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

A few honorable mentions:
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan / Illinois
Radiohead - Kid A
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Dave Matthews Band - The Lillywhite Sessions (not really an actual album, but miles better than anything else they've ever recorded)

I guess I'm approaching this as "ten albums I'm still in love with from the 00's," as opposed to "the Best Albums of the 00's." Anyway, this is my 10 plus some:

1. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
2. Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast
3. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
4. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
5. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
6. The White Stripes - Elephant
7. Kanye West - The College Dropout
8. The Strokes - Is This IT?
9. Outkast - Stankonia
10. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

And here are some others that should be on the list if 10 was comprised of more numerals:
Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
Radiohead - Kid A
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV

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1. modest mouse - the moon and antarctica.

nothing else matters

lol

1. Endless Summer ~ Fennesz
2. Kid A ~ Radiohead
3. You Forgot It In People ~ Broken Social Scene
4. Discovery ~ Daft Punk
5. The Cold Vein ~ Cannibal Ox
6. A Ghost is Born ~ Wilco
7. Arular ~ M.I.A.
8. Kill the Moonlight ~ Spoon
9. Madvillainy ~ Madvillain
10. Since I Left You ~ The Avalanches


Hon. Mention:
11. Vocalcity ~ Luomo
12. Thunder, Lightning, Strike! [UK Edition] ~ The Go! Team
13. Ágætis Byrjun ~ Sigur Rós
14. Evolution Fight ~ Cyne
15. Is This It? ~ The Strokes

I've made a top 25 list already and a lot of it shifts around but these top 10 are pretty static. The top 5 or so never change, or at least haven't since I made my list.

Furthermore, I don't think Endless Summer will EVER be dethroned - at least not for me. It's so layered and filled with little nuances that every listen reveals something new. I went through a phase where I listened to it in its entirety at least once a day. It's the most organic record I've ever heard. I remember how difficult it was initially listening to it, and then strangely coming back to it for more. Now, it's one of the most indispensible recordings I own.

Radiohead Kid A
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire The Swimming Hour

1. dredg - El Cielo
2. Cave In - Jupiter
3. Sparta - Porcelain
4. Incubus - Morning View
5. Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
6. dredg - Leitmotif
7. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. Team Sleep - Team Sleep
10. Gorillaz - Demon Days

many honorable mentions (or albums that could be top ten if I changed my mind);
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Coldplay - Parachutes
Cave In - Antenna, Tides of Tomorrow (fine, it's an EP)
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tages and Codes
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
dredg - Catch Without Arms
Deftones - White Pony
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Incubus - ACLOTM

Iron CLad has an interesting list. Here is mine in no order:

1) Eluvium - Talking Amongst the Trees
2) Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son
3) GY!BE - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae To Heaven
4) Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
5) Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
6) Arcade Fire - Funeral
7) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
8) The Books - Lemon of Pink
9) Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
10) Joanna Newsom - Milk-Eyed Mender
11) Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

Um...I need all eleven. I tried cutting one of these and couldn't. Sorry.

Oh, and why does everyone like Spoon? I don't want to get too off topic but I never understood their popularity. They just seem really straight forward and bland. I don't see how they could rank.

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Originally posted by Sicnarf:
Oh, and why does everyone like Spoon? I don't want to get too off topic but I never understood their popularity. They just seem really straight forward and bland. I don't see how they could rank.

Just a matter of taste. Personally, I don't see the appeal of any of the artists on your list, with the exception of Arcade Fire and Bonnie Prince Billy.

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Oh, and why does everyone like Spoon? I don't want to get too off topic but I never understood their popularity. They just seem really straight forward and bland. I don't see how they could rank.

I only saw Spoon in Eric's list, maybe one other. This hardly constitutes "everyone."

Kill the Moonlight will probably be in my list, if I ever make one.

Kill the Moonlight will probably be in my list, if I ever make one.[/QUOTE]

Screw it, "Kill the Moonlight" should be everyone's list.

I think there's still a place in this snobbish circle for the Spoons of the world. Yeah, they're not doing anything too far out there, but on the other hand, they're awesome.

Just curious. I see their name around a lot (maybe not just in this topic) and I've tried to listen to a couple of their cds and didn't do very well. Maybe I'm just ADD. I hope I'm not a snob for not liking Spoon...I'm sure they're nice guys.

1. Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac (I'm counting them as one since they were recorded at the same time. Like Kill Bill is one movie
2. The Notwist - Neon Golden
3. Deerhoof - Apple O
4. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5. The Roots - Phernology
6. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
7. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
8. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
10. M.I.A. - Arular

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Originally posted by Sicnarf:
Just curious. I see their name around a lot (maybe not just in this topic) and I've tried to listen to a couple of their cds and didn't do very well. Maybe I'm just ADD. I hope I'm not a snob for not liking Spoon...I'm sure they're nice guys.

To each his own... based on your list you like your music experimental. Actually I think that there's no way you're ADD, it's impossible for me to focus through a Books album. We're all listening to albums of three-minute pop ditties. Spoon just happens to be about as good as it gets at that kind of music.

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I hope I'm not a snob for not liking Spoon...I'm sure they're nice guys.

Actually, from the stories I've heard, Spoon can be pretty hard to deal with. Not the most pleasant people from what I hear.

My best albums... this order could be completely shuffled and probably be valid.

1. The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens
2. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
4. Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II - Billy Bragg & Wilco
5. A Ghost Is Born - Wilco
6. The Glow, Pt. 2 - Microphones
7. Blinking Lights And Other Revelations - Eels
8. Amnesiac - Radiohead
9. Thy Is A Word + Feet Need Lamps - Half-Handed Cloud
10. The Sunset Tree - Mountain Goats
11. We Shall Be Healed - Mountain Goats
12. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
13. 'Sno Angel Like You - Howe Gelb
14. Ships - Danielson
15. Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
16. Return To The Sea - Islands
17. Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - Unicorns
18. Lift Your Skinny Fist Like Antennas To Heaven - GY!BE
19. Funeral - Arcade Fire
20. Engineers - Engineers
21. Halos + Lassos - Half-Handed Cloud
22. The Creek Drank The Cradle - Iron & Wine
23. Kid A - Radiohead
24. The Greatest - Cat Power
25. Michigan - Sufjan Stevens
26. The Drift - Scott Walker
27. Enjoy Your Rabbit - Sufjan Stevens
28. Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine
29. A Sun Came - Sufjan Stevens
30. Talkie Walkie - Air
31. The Boxing Mirror - Alejandro Escovedo
32. The Life Pursuit - Belle & Sebastian
33. Pressure Chief - Cake
34. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
35. Picaresque - Decemberists
36. Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer
37. The Winter Is Coming - Elf Power
38. Coquelicot Asleep In The Poppies - Of Montreal
39. It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water - Microphones
40. The Future Is Always Perfect - Minders
41. At War With The Mystics - Flaming Lips
42. Chutes Too Narrow - Shins
43. Z - My Morning Jacket
44. You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
45. Oh, Inverted World - Shins
46. Maladroit - Weezer
47. Lost Time - 12 Rods
48. Velocity Of Sound - Apples In Stereo
49. Tallahassee - Mountain Goats
50. The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone - Apples In Stereo

I'm quite sure that I missed a number of deserving albums. When I count it out, these artists had multiple albums in the top 50:

5 - Sufjan Stevens
3 - Wilco
2 - Mountain Goats
2 - Flaming Lips
2 - Shins
2 - Apples In Stereo
2 - Microphones
2 - Iron & Wine
2 - Half-Handed Cloud
2 - Radiohead

This message has been edited. Last edited by: L. R. William Spencer,

Interesting list, but some of those are from the 1990s. For example, Crooked Rain, etc. ('94) and Mermaid Avenue ('98)

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Originally posted by Logan Spencer:

1. The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens
2. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens

Whaaa???

The b-sides ahead of the main album? I like The Avalanche, but, man, it doesn't compare to Illinois.