10 best albums of new millenium
 

Hey guys, what are your top 10 albums of the new millenium so far?

What do you think?

I don't want to jump the gun too much. We still have 991 years to go before we start compiling best-of-millennium lists.

Here are my favorites of the new millenium
 

1. Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
2. The Walkmen - "Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone"
3. Coldplay - "Parachutes"
4. Radiohead - "In Rainbows"
5. Fleet Foxes - "Fleet Foxes"
6. The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife"
7. Travis - "The Man Who"
8. Mono - "Walking Cloud & Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered & The Sun Shined"
9. Sea Wolf - "Leaves In The River"
10. The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots"

Didn't we just have this thread a few weeks ago?

We have this thread like... once every few weeks.

Hopefully the pattern doesn't continue for the next nine centuries.

Parkway Drive - Horizons
Parkway Drive - Killing with a Smile
Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison
Trivium - Ascendancy
Killswitch Engage - Alive or just Breathing
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
It Dies Today - The Caitiff Choir
Shadows Fall - The War Within

Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive make up almost half of the 10 best albums in the past decade huh....

Edit - Wow I'm a bit of an ass at this time of night. I also just realized he said your favorites.

No he didn't.

Another Arcade Fire fan? Nice. Funeral is probably my favorite album from the last 10 years as well.

1. Shellac-1000 hurts
2. low-things we lost in the fire
3. bonnie prince billy-superwolf
3. mclusky-...do dallas
4. vee dee-public mental health system
5. propagandhi-todays empires, tommorows ashes

...I honestly can't think of any others. **** this millennium.

I have been thinking out my top 10 albums of the noughties, since we're near the end of the decade

1. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
5. Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
6. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
7. Sigur Ros - '()'
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. M83 - Saturday=Youth
10. Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin

Not forgetting other great albums:
Sigur Ros - Takk, Autolux - Future Perfect, Electric Wizard - Dopethrone, Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time, Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines Of God, Silversun Pickups - Swoon, The White Stripes - Elephant, Tool - Lateralus, Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi, Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps

The only thing mentioning more than one Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros and Silversun Pickup album in the same post shows is that you really have no clue at just how much great stuff has come out of this decade.

To be honest most of the music that has come out of this decade doesn't interest me whatsoever.

Eh? That's kinda sad for some reason. :(

I've hardly listened to any new stuff for the past couple of years.

Not because there's nothing good, but because it's becoming harder & harder to find. Even the internet has become awash with awful trends & gimmicks and here today gone tomorrow crap with no appeal whatsoever. Quite frankly i'm bored of slogging through 30 odd albums in the hope I find one good one.

From now on it's only stuff with a proven track record or stuff that's held up against the test of time for me. i don't have any interest in being first to find something anymore.
If it's any good it'll still be good in a few years time as well.

Urban has said it all for me

Most music this decade is either over-hyped, trendy sh!t or bands that are too pretentious and self-important for their own good (65daysofstatic and Sunn0))) i'm looking at you). I know there's tons of great bands out there that i haven't come across, but jesus christ there's a ton of sh!t to wade through.

My top 10 list is my personal top 10 of the decade, not THE definitive top 10. They're the 10 albums which i have enjoyed listening to the most and i have great memories attached to them,

So don't you think its a little unfair to call most music of this decade overhyped tripe when you just admitted you've only heard of a small portion that's been released? I have no problem at all finding new music that I enjoy, it really isn't that hard to dig through a small pile of shit when there are some real gems buried in the center.

it's easier to separate the wheat from the chaff too when most new music is streamable, on Myspaz at the very least. It's like the modern equivalent of a listening booth but you know, lamer.
If i take any new music recommendations seriously they are word of mouth - MB for one and RYM is brilliant, even if the userbase to some degree reflects the opinions of the music press they are quite a discerning bunch.
It is the same old problem though that we all moan about when shopping in the local air hangar/supermarket - too much choiiiice, it's hard work just to find what you went in for

glassjaw, everything you ever wanted to know about silence no1.

I'll give it a shot:

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the comatorium
Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf
My morning jacket - Z
Radiohead - In rainbows
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now
The Knife - Silent shout
System of a down - Hypnotize/Mezmerize
TV on the Radio - Return to cookie mountain
Ryan Adams - Cold roses
Arcade fire - Funeral

apart from the ones i've not heard (and Arcade Fire :nono:) that's the beginnings of a pretty bitchin' list... although i'd have Toxicity instead, aint heard the neu stuff. could spend hours brain racking here and get nowhere. damn brain rot

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/c...ut-leaving.jpg

No one's included this?

Or this one:

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Toxicity is a really good album, but I have to say there's some incredible songs on the Hypnotize/Mesmerize albums. Tho I never could choose a favorite System of a Down album.

I look at them as two parts of a whole, not two albums. As such, it's definitely the pinnacle of their career.

Which ones have you not heard?

Ehhhh.


10. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast
9. Program Music I - Kashiwa Daisuke
8. Funeral - Arcade Fire
7. Sea Change - Beck
6. Reveal - R.E.M.
5. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
4. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
3. Smile - Brian Wilson
2. Discovery - Daft Punk
1. Amnesiac - Radiohead

They are a kind of a double-album, I know.

Ryan Adams (used to have Gold on CD and lost track after the 'rock n roll' album, it had a really good Jeff Buckley-like single though)
And My Morning Jacket, never got round to them.
I only borrowed the Knife album but it was sweet as.
ALSO i'd probably go with the first TV On the Radio album instead. Each album of theirs after that you are told is a 'grower' and the second album hadnt even finished growing when their newer one came out. It's all so confusing

interesting, i always thought Reveal was underrated as an REM album... MM LP is a straight up classic.

Reveal is actually totally underrated. Imitation of Life might be the best song of the decade, not even exaggerating. Critics cast the record off as a U2-like attempt at commercialism, and then bash it further for failing at finding that commercial sound, noting all the little bells, whistles, blips and dings that beautifully adorn the album (see I've Been High) as dated and irrelevant. I disagree with this. Rather than trying to conform, I think R.E.M. was taking the retro sound of Up one step further; upping the electronic beats and adding more and more synths until it became sort of however close R.E.M. could get to a Kid A like album (I've Been High would fit right at home on the latter if Thom sang it). A noble failure at changing the popular sound, as opposed to a noble failure at conforming to a pre-established popular sound is what Reveal is, in essence. But still, viewed out of that context it's a beautifully lively album that deserves much more respect than it has been given.

1.Alligator-The National
2.Stankonia-OutKast
3.Dear Science-TV On The Radio
4.Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco
5.Boy In Da Corner-Dizzee Rascal
6.Let's Get Out Of This Country-Camera Obscura
7.Veckamiest-Grizzly Bear
8.Actor-St Vincent
9.Two Dancers-Wild Beasts
10.It's Blitz!-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Huge gaps in my listening though.

very good improptu review, will have to dig out the CD tomorrow because it was a big hit round these parts when it came out, great summer album with a cosy sense of nostalgia to it

good call on raskit, best british album forever and the most experimental UK 'urban' record, this will be in my top 3 if i put together a list. He is dead to me after this album

Thanks Molecules! Shame it didn't even make commercial impact over here.


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Except:



His verse on this Fatboy Slim track with David Byrne is absolutely ill.

1. Outkast- Stankonia
2.TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Gorrilaz
5. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
6. Sigur Rox - () (chosen for its impact and depth, Takk is mostly superior)
7. Kanye West - Graduation (massive impact, Grammy winning album, cut and paste style puts it over Late Registration soul heavy themes).
8. Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
9. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
10. Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica

In no order, because I'm lazy:

Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Ros - ()
Archive - Controlling Crowds
GY!BE - Skinny Fists
Portishead - Third
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Valley of the Giants - S/T
Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Circulatory System - S/T
Alias - The Other Side of the Looking Glass (I forget who it was on here that got me on this album, but once again, thank you)

Pssst..

Psyence Fiction came out in 98

My iTunes has lied to me!

Fix coming shortly

:D I'm pretty sure it was me during the time you were getting me into post rock stuff.

As for my list, in no order whatsoever:

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Dinosaur Jr - Farm (even though it's new, I think I have to put it on here)
Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade
Dirty Elegance - Finding Beauty in the Wretched
Mt. Eerie - Wind's Poem
Xploding Plastix - Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
TV on the Radio - Desparate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

After those, it's a tie between a lot of stuff: Through the Looking Glass by Alias, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Operation Doomsday, Mm..Food, Deltron 3030, Beautiful Freak by the Eels, The Great Depression by Defiance, Ohio; and Everything Ecstatic are some of the things that jump to mind.