tFSers' 50 Favorite Albums Of The Decade

[Scott]

so i'm going ahead and starting this because i just find so little validity in many of such lists at the moment. and although i say 20,you can include your own hon. mentions.

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[Scott]

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*all images amazon.com except two suns from wikipedia.com

 

[Scott]

i also would like to give some hon. mentions to kate bush's ariel,siouxsie's mantaray,the shortwave set's the debt collection,the duke spirit cuts across the land,trentemoller's the last resort,ladytron's 604 & Light and Magic,nick cave & the bad seeds no more shall we part,bent's programmed to love,air's talkie walkie,charlotte gainsbourg's 5:55 & joanna newsom's Y's and milk-eyed mender.

 

[Filipe]

It's impossible for me to say what are the 20 best albums of the decade, because for that I had to listen to every single one, or let's say the ones from the good bands/singers. I'd definitely include Back to black by Amy Winehouse, it was definitely one of the best, also Through the Devil Softly by Hope Sandoval, also Black Holes & Revelations by MUSE and probably also Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson, kinda of enjoyed this one.

 

[xerq]

my Top 20...in no particular order.

Radiohead:

Outkast:

the Strokes:

the Vines:

half a dollar:

Red Hot Chilli Peppers:

Incubus:

the Kills:

all images:amazon

 

[xerq]

continued...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:

Aaliyah:

Kings of Leon:

Amy Winehouse:

Circa Survive:

Duke Spirits:

honorable mentions to:
Muse,PJ Harvey, Noonday Underground,Alicia Keys, Frou Frou,Tool,Franz Ferdinand,Wolfmother,TSOAF,Velvet Revolver,Sia,Thom Yorke,Bloc Party,Company of thieves and many I'm pretty sure I've forgotten.

images:amazon

 

[MulletProof]

Just 20, Scott? 50+ lists should be mandatory

an amazing decade .. I'll need to think more about this.

 

[Scott]

can we change the title and such? just as soon as i posted that i begin thinking of more albums.....apart from those hon. mentions...battles,sonic youth,animal collective all begin popping into my head.

 

[MulletProof]

^ sure. you pick the number, scott.!
I was wondering, could we also use 'favorite' instead of greatest? I think it'd be more comfortable.. for me anyway!, I'd feel a little guilty coming up with a list of personal faves and appearing as if I thought they were really the best of the best (even though they are of course ).

 

[Scott]

oh of course! yeah i think that would appear a bit more logical.

 

[Psylocke]

My favorite albums of the decade, in no order.

1. Only By The Night, Kings of Leon
2. Because Of The Times, Kings of Leon
3. One Cell In The Sea, A Fine Frenzy
4. This Is The Life, Amy MacDonald
5. For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver
6. A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Coldplay
7. Into The Wild, Eddie Vedder
8. Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp
9. Morning View, Incubus
10. Origin Of Symmetry, Muse
11. Absolution, Muse
12. Black Holes & Revelations, Muse
13. The Resistance, Muse
14. Everybody Got Their Something, Nikka Costa
15. Come Away With Me, Norah Jones
16. Damnation, Opeth
17. Back & Forth, Pete Yorn
18. In Blue, The Corrs
19. Borrowed Heaven, The Corrs
20. A Mouthful, The Do

Honorable mention: The Twilight OSTs

 

[vivalavida]

My top 20 in no order:

1. Bliss - Vanessa Paradis
2. Divinidylle - Vanessa Paradis
3. Viva La Vida - Coldplay
4. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
5. Whatever you say i am that's what i'm not - Arctic Monkeys
6. Alright, Still - Lily Allen
7. Costello Music - The Fratellis
8. The Man Who - Travis
9. Midnight Boom - The Kills
10. Stars of CCTV - Hard-Fi
11. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
12. Inside In/Inside Out - The Kooks
13. Dark Passion Play - Nightwish
14. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
15. Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
16. Employment - Kaiser Chiefs
17. Off with their Heads - Kaiser Chiefs
18. Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera
19. Alice - Tom Waits
20. The Libertines - The Libertines

 

[Scott]

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(sigur ros agætis byrijun)

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[Scott]

mullet i went and did the 50 faves....

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[Scott]

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*amazon.com

 

[MulletProof]

I was almost forgetting Misery is a Butterfly.. easily in my top 20, what a great record.

 

[Scott]

^i almost did....but unfortunately i had already posted top 20. but they'd all be Nº1,imo.

 

[MulletProof]

Tried to do the 50s, Scott but just couldn't!, too many great albums, even a hundred doesn't seem like enough.
I made a list of my 100 favorites.. mostly favorites out of memories, sentimental value and how relevant and fresh these albums still are to my ears (and will probably remain so for years to come)..

1. Sparklehorse - It’s a wonderful life
2. Radiohead - Kid A / Amnesiac
3. Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
4. Sonic Youth- Sonic Nurse
5. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
6. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
7. My Morning Jacket - Z
8. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the hands
9. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
10. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain

11. Radiohead - Hail to the thief
12. Jack Rose- Kensington Blues
13. Tom Waits - Alice
14. Fennesz - Endless Summer
15. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
16. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
17. Radiohead - In Rainbows
18. Blonde Redhead - Mysery is a butterfly
19. Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Standing in the stillness of the day
20. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

21. Murcof- Martes
22. Sebastien Tellier - Politics
23. Explosions in the sky - Those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever
24. Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news
25. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles | Dark Night of the Soul
26. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops (I, II, III & IV)
27. Mogwai - Happy songs for happy people
28. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
29. Múm - Finally we are no one
30. Air- Talkie Walkie

31. Jack Rose - Dr. Ragtime & Pals
32. Tom Waits - Real Gone
33. Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango
34. Coldplay - Parachutes
35. Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible - Tijuana Sound Machine/ Nortec Collective- Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3
36. Phosphorescent- Pride
37. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
38. Cocorosie- La maison de mon rêve
39. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
40. Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille

41. Low - The Great Destroyer
42. Six Organs of Admittance - For Octavio Paz
43. A Silver Mt. Zion - He has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms
44. Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport
45. Josephine Foster - All leaves are gone
46. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
47. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
48. White Magic - Through the sun door
49. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
50. Tom Waits - Bloodsport

51. Joanna Newsom - The milk-eyed mender
52. Sigur Rós - ()
53. Doves- The Last Broadcast/ Some Cities
54. Múm- Summer make good
55. Golden Apples of the sun
56. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
57. Clinic - Internal Wrangler
58. Blonde Redhead - 23
59. Scout Niblett - I am
60. Fennesz - Venice

61. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi battles the pink robbots
62. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
63. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
64. Clann Zú - Rúa
65. Sir Richard Bishop - Improvika
66. The Strokes - Is this it
67. Spoon - Kill the moonlight/ Gimme Fiction
68. Patrick Wolf - Lycantrophy
69. Madvillain - Madvillainy
70. Liars - They were wrong, so we drowned

71. Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
72. Hrsta - Stem stem in electro
73. Destroyer - Destroyer’s rubies
74. Thievery Corporation - The mirror conspiracy
75. Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the new loud
76. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
77. Broken Social Scene - You forgot it in people
78. Phosphorescent - A hundred times or more
79. Pinback - Blue Screen Life
80. Nouvelle Vague - Bande a part

81. Gotan Project - Lunático
82. Interpol- Antics
83. Murcof- Cosmos
84. The Walkmen- Bows & Arrows
85. Bob Dylan - Beyond here lies nothin’
86. Cerberus Shoal - Chaiming the knoblessone
87. ... and you will know us by the trail of dead - Source tags & codes
88. Air - 10 000 Hz Legend/ Pocket Symphony
89. Sebastien Tellier - L’Incroyable Vérité

90. Bajofondo Tango Club - Mar Dulce
91. Charalambides- A vintage burden
91. Darc Mind - Symptomatic of a greater Ill
93. Tim Hecker- Harmony in ultraviolet
94. Wilco - Sky blue sky
95. The Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California
96. Iron & Wine- The creek drank the cradle
97. William Basinski - El Camino Real
98. Jane Birkin- Rendez-Vous
99. Viking Moses- Croses
100. Caribou- Andorra

Now I'll run before I regret the order.. or the entire list ..

 

[Scott]

^ and now i regret not adding jane birkin....thought about that very hard but it probably would have looked a bit funny at 63. and forgetting thom yorke and gotan project

alas....honourable mentions they shall be

 

[MulletProof]

^ well she's at that nonsense 98 in my list ..
I do love Rendez-Vous more than it appears.


I just remembered that I forgot to include The Chemical Brothers' Come with us. I LOVE that album and it was my good companion from 02-06.. ugh.