Sidewinder's Top 10 Albums from Every Year (1965-)

sidewinder · 12-15-2014, 12:55 PM

1996
I am a person that likes On Avery Island better than In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. And that reminds me, I'm supposed to have purchased tickets to see NMH next June. I bet now they are sold out. Ok they still have balcony seats, cool. I don't think I really need to spend much time explaining the rest. Some favorites of the time have gone down a bit in the list - Download for example. A mind-blowing post-Skinny Puppy album that to me was "like a bass CD from the future" in addition to just being amazing destroyed techno, just doesn't get as much play as it used to. Two other mind-blowing favorites of the time, Tool and Aphex Twin, remain high on the list. The rest of the list is populated with really great albums I didn't discover until the 2000s. Other notable releases from the year include those from A Tribe Called Quest, Squarepusher, Tortoise, Orbital, Beck, Underworld, Meat Beat Manifesto, Polvo, Nas, Pulley, The Roots, UGK, DJ Shadow, DJ Vadim, Swingin' Utters, Snuff, Stone Temple Pilots (probably the one album from them I would still be interested in listening to), Ween, Strung Out, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and the list goes on. I could stand to get far more familiar with a lot of those, and there are 20 additional on my wish list I've yet to hear. A very solid year indeed.

1. Tool - Ænima
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
3. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
4. Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
5. Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain
6. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
7. Sebadoh - Harmacy
8. Failure - Fantastic Planet
9. June of 44 - Tropics and Meridians
10. Unwound - Repetition

sidewinder · 12-18-2014, 01:31 PM

1997
Such a good year. The best album from several artists are on display here, namely Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Ween, Squarepusher, and Mosue on Mars. Pavement's Brighten the Corners doesn't often come up when talking about their best releases, but it's my second favorite. The Misfits' would-be debut album Static Age was recorded in 1978 but not released as a whole, on its own until 1997. Obviously it deserves a spot here. Plaid and Faith No More also released great albums this year - unfortunately FNM's last (until the forthcoming reunion album in 2015).

Honorable mentions? Why yes, check the bottom of the post.

1. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
2. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Ween - The Mollusk
5. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
6. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
7. Misfits - Static Age
8. Plaid - Not For Threes
9. Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker
10. Faith No More - Album of the Year

Honorable mentions (in no particular order):

Deftones - Around the Fur
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy [EP]
Pulley - 60 Cycle Hum
Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just as Good
Refused - Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
Shiner - Lula Divinia
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back!
Regulator Watts - The Aesthetics of No-Drag
Amon Tobin - Bricolage
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
No Knife - Hit Man Dreams
Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life
Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum
Download - III
Three Mile Pilot - Another Desert, Another Sea
Death in Vegas - Dead Elvis
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward
µ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness
Helmet - Aftertaste
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
Pennywise - Full Circle

sidewinder · 12-22-2014, 04:45 PM

1998
Another quite fantastic year. What is there to say? The first 6 I shouldn't have to explain. Number 7 - Autechre's LP5 - strikes me as one of their best if I'm actually in the mood. Tortoise's TNT is certainly one of their best, if not the best. The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore - to me - was underrated after the overindulgence of Mellon Collie and the few irritating singles it produced (1979 and Tonight, Tonight are the two peak-era SP songs I most loathe). I liked the darker, more gothic direction they went here, started by the track "Eye" from The Lost Highway soundtrack. The album is a bit long but really good IMO. Refused put out a great punk album, though several other albums could have taken its place for me in the 10th slot. Check below the images for some honorable mentions.

1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
2. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Silver Jews - American Water
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
6. Beck - Mutations
7. Autechre - LP5
8. Tortoise - TNT
9. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
10. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

Honorable mentions:

Swingin’ Utters - Five Lessons Learned
Fugazi - End Hits
June of 44 - Four Great Points
Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language
Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Staring Right Now
Two Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down
Snuff - Tweet Tweet My Lovely
Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Strung Out - Twisted by Design
Unwound - Challenge for a Civilized Society
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Elliott Smith - XO
Elliott - U.S. Songs
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
The Black Heart Procession - 1
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
DMX Krew - New Romantix
Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision

sidewinder · 01-09-2015, 11:46 AM

1999
What an amazing fucking year! What can I say about any of these? Maybe you don't know No Knife or Marmoset. No Knife is like smart pop punk/indie, one of their best albums. Marmoset channels lo-fi indie rock and stoney 60s psychedelic pop. Very good album.

1. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
2. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
3. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Madonna
4. Mr. Bungle - California
5. Pinback - Pinback
6. Marmoset - Today It’s You
7. No Knife - Fire in the City of Automatons
8. MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday
9. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
10. Beck - Midnite Vultures

Honorable mentions:

Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!
Les Savy Fav - The Cat and the Cobra
Super_Collider - Head On
Autechre - EP7
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote!
Seaweed - Actions and Indications
Melvins - The Maggot
Squarepusher - Selection Sixteen

OccultHawk · 01-10-2015, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

1969
Another fantastic year as we close out the 60s. However, I'm a little less passionate about this set as a whole compared to the previous few years. The top two of course are fantastic and some of the best from The Beatles and The Kinks, but the rest are "merely" great versus amazing. In the previous few years I think everything on my lists warranted 4.5 or 5 stars, here they're mostly 4 stars - aside from the first two. Great year as a whole though, there are at least another 10 worth mentioning beyond this.

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road
2. The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
3. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
5. Humble Pie - Town & Country
6. Love - Four Sail
7. Pink Floyd - More
8. Spirit - Clear
9. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Like you said, there's many more worth mentioning. In my opinion, if you add these it's hard to narrow it down to which 5 star records would make the cut:

Kick Out the Jams - MC5

Tommy- The Who

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart

Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead

In a Silent Way- Miles Davis

The Stooges- The Stooges

Blind Faith- Blind Faith

Five Leaves Left- Nick Drake

The Band - The Band

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

Ummagumma - Pink Floyd

Live Dead- the Grateful Dead

Liege and Leaf - Fairpoint Convention

sidewinder · 01-28-2015, 04:43 PM

2000

Welcome to the 2000s! I have a fuckton of albums from this year, and this decade in fact. 75 this year, at last count. My incessant obsession with discovering new and different music certainly hasn't slowed down with age. Yet. These are what I would consider the best of the year, and let's see, I'll do a quick check of my entire list and make sure I haven't changed my mind about anything since I compiled this last summer, or fall, whenever that was. Well not really, just the usual internal debate of whether I still really like that one album or if I'm just putting it here because it was my favorite back then, or because it's a favorite band, etc. Ween, for example. I love Ween, though my enjoyment of them has gone downhill in the 5-10 years. I've matured - somewhat. Should I put something else there in its place? Maybe, but why, if I really loved that album? The same could be said for Self - an immature but really fun and well-crafted album. I think the struggle with this year is that there are really 20 excellent albums and a lot of pretty good ones. So this should be a top 20. Fuck it, I'm leaving it as-is, with 10 great honorable mentions below. I revisited most of this stuff when I made the list, and chose them for a reason.

Spotify Playlist - 2000 Top 10+

1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Dillinger Four - Versus God
4. Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
5. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
6. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
7. Ween - White Pepper
8. The White Stripes - De Stijl
9. Self - Gizmodgery
10. Clinic - Internal Wrangler

Very good honorable mentions:

Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
Swingin’ Utters - Swingin’ Utters
Tortoise - Standards
Air - The Virgin Suicides
Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Deftones - White Pony
Aesop Rock - Float
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

**Goofle** · 01-29-2015, 09:32 AM

Good stuff man.

sidewinder · 01-29-2015, 05:34 PM

^ Thanks. I forgot that I was making Spotify playlists to go along with these, starting in 1976. I've edited the most recent post to add the link.

sidewinder · 02-06-2015, 03:38 PM

2001
Damn, I just drafted an entire post and then realized it was for 2002. Well that's another one done, saved for later. Now for 2001...let's have a look. A yes, a fantastic year that needs little explanation. Plaid release one of their best albums. Radiohead releases more songs from the Kid A sessions and the album is almost better. Tool's third is an undeniable masterpiece, even if I still prefer the previous two albums. The White Stripes release their best album. Prefuse 73 pretty much invents glitch hop. The Shins change your life. This actually did really impress me back then, I wasn't listening to a lot of stuff like this and it really touched me. This was before Juno (the movie), of course. I didn't discover Pinback until a little bit later, and have loved them since. You don't know Marmoset? Funny enough, I just posted about them in another thread. If you like lo-fi and moody 90s indie rock, check it out. Aesop Rock's Labor Days is on of my favorites from him, though I might like Float a little better. And Juno...you don't know Juno? Well have a listen then. An underappreciated Seattle band mixing 90s post-hardcore and post-rock. A great year with way more than 10 amazing albums. See bottom for some honorable mentions - what a great year.

1. Plaid - Double Figure
2. Radiohead - Amnesiac
3. Tool - Lateralus
4. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
5. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
6. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
7. Pindback - Blue Screen Life
8. Marmoset - Record in Red
9. Aesop Rock - Labor Days
10. Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense

Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Fantômas - The Director’s Cut
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Brothomstates - Claro
Les Savy Fav - Go Forth
Fugazi - The Argument
Bad Astronaut - Acrophobe
Deviates - Time Is the Distance
Tortoise - Standards
Chris Clark - Clarence Park
Burning Airlines - Identikit
Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Mouse on Mars - Idiology

sidewinder · 02-09-2015, 11:51 AM

2002
Ramble ramble ramble! What am I going to say about this 2002 list today? Let's have a look...a yes, quite a good year! Clearly I was getting into some post-hardcore and underground emo at this point in time. Not all have stood the test of time, of course, particularly the emo and screamo type releases. Other later discoveries such as Sonic Youth have taken their place. One such example would be City of Caterpillar - what a fantastic album. However, I'm just not in the mood for that stuff anymore. mewithoutYou's debut is also quite aggressive in its emo-ness, but it's held up better for me, particularly because I also enjoyed their next few releases. This album was just perfect. Minus the Bear really impressed with their debut but didn't deliver on future releases. Not a mature album as far as lyrical content is concerned, but I like the light math sound and playfulness. I think Q and Not U's sophomore album is underrated, and I really enjoy it. Bad Astronaut is a band that emerged shortly after I was over a lot of the 90s Fat Wreck pop punk I used to listen to. Lagwagon was a favorite, and Bad Astronaut is like a more mature, more indie rock-oriented evolution with the same singer. It really worked for me, as did their subsequent albums. The Jazz June is a funny one - they're not that well-known, but it seems they're better known for their other albums, which to me are far inferior to this one. This is a really good and moody midwestern emo/indie album. Oh what about Sixtoo? An underrated instrumental hip-hop producer from Halifax, Canada. Really good stuff and great atmospheres, better than Blockhead I might say. Do the rest need any explanation? I think not. Honorable mentions at bottom.

1. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2. mewithoutYou - [A—>B] Life
3. Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
4. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
6. Q and Not U - Different Damage
7. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
8. Sixtoo - Duration
9. Bad Astronaut - Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem
10. The Jazz June - Better Off Without Air

Clinic - Walking With Thee
No Knife - Riot for Romance!
Dillinger Four - Situationist Comedy
Super_Collider - Raw Digits
City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Download - III Steps Forward
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
Download - Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995
Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Supersoul - 40 Acres and a Moog
Mastodon - Remission
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
The Coral - The Coral
Rumah Sakit - Obscured by Clowns
Eight Frozen Modules - Thought Process Disorder
Boom Bip - Seed to Sun
Seven Storey - Dividing by Zero
platEAU - Iceolator
31Knots - A Word Is Also a Picture of a Word
Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction
Isis - Oceanic

12-15-2014, 12:55 PM	#71 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1996 I am a person that likes On Avery Island better than In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. And that reminds me, I'm supposed to have purchased tickets to see NMH next June. I bet now they are sold out. Ok they still have balcony seats, cool. I don't think I really need to spend much time explaining the rest. Some favorites of the time have gone down a bit in the list - Download for example. A mind-blowing post-Skinny Puppy album that to me was "like a bass CD from the future" in addition to just being amazing destroyed techno, just doesn't get as much play as it used to. Two other mind-blowing favorites of the time, Tool and Aphex Twin, remain high on the list. The rest of the list is populated with really great albums I didn't discover until the 2000s. Other notable releases from the year include those from A Tribe Called Quest, Squarepusher, Tortoise, Orbital, Beck, Underworld, Meat Beat Manifesto, Polvo, Nas, Pulley, The Roots, UGK, DJ Shadow, DJ Vadim, Swingin' Utters, Snuff, Stone Temple Pilots (probably the one album from them I would still be interested in listening to), Ween, Strung Out, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and the list goes on. I could stand to get far more familiar with a lot of those, and there are 20 additional on my wish list I've yet to hear. A very solid year indeed. 1. Tool - Ænima 2. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island 3. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album 4. Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons 5. Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain 6. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About 7. Sebadoh - Harmacy 8. Failure - Fantastic Planet 9. June of 44 - Tropics and Meridians 10. Unwound - Repetition __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

12-18-2014, 01:31 PM	#72 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1997 Such a good year. The best album from several artists are on display here, namely Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Ween, Squarepusher, and Mosue on Mars. Pavement's Brighten the Corners doesn't often come up when talking about their best releases, but it's my second favorite. The Misfits' would-be debut album Static Age was recorded in 1978 but not released as a whole, on its own until 1997. Obviously it deserves a spot here. Plaid and Faith No More also released great albums this year - unfortunately FNM's last (until the forthcoming reunion album in 2015). Honorable mentions? Why yes, check the bottom of the post. 1. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On 2. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West 3. Radiohead - OK Computer 4. Ween - The Mollusk 5. Pavement - Brighten the Corners 6. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy 7. Misfits - Static Age 8. Plaid - Not For Threes 9. Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker 10. Faith No More - Album of the Year Honorable mentions (in no particular order): Deftones - Around the Fur Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy [EP] Pulley - 60 Cycle Hum Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just as Good Refused - Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent Shiner - Lula Divinia The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back! Regulator Watts - The Aesthetics of No-Drag Amon Tobin - Bricolage Autechre - Chiastic Slide No Knife - Hit Man Dreams Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum Download - III Three Mile Pilot - Another Desert, Another Sea Death in Vegas - Dead Elvis Hum - Downward Is Heavenward µ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness Helmet - Aftertaste Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club Pennywise - Full Circle __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

12-22-2014, 04:45 PM	#73 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1998 Another quite fantastic year. What is there to say? The first 6 I shouldn't have to explain. Number 7 - Autechre's LP5 - strikes me as one of their best if I'm actually in the mood. Tortoise's TNT is certainly one of their best, if not the best. The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore - to me - was underrated after the overindulgence of Mellon Collie and the few irritating singles it produced (1979 and Tonight, Tonight are the two peak-era SP songs I most loathe). I liked the darker, more gothic direction they went here, started by the track "Eye" from The Lost Highway soundtrack. The album is a bit long but really good IMO. Refused put out a great punk album, though several other albums could have taken its place for me in the 10th slot. Check below the images for some honorable mentions. 1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children 2. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead 3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 4. Silver Jews - American Water 5. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age 6. Beck - Mutations 7. Autechre - LP5 8. Tortoise - TNT 9. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore 10. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Honorable mentions: Swingin’ Utters - Five Lessons Learned Fugazi - End Hits June of 44 - Four Great Points Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Staring Right Now Two Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down Snuff - Tweet Tweet My Lovely Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note Amon Tobin - Permutation Strung Out - Twisted by Design Unwound - Challenge for a Civilized Society Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes Elliott Smith - XO Elliott - U.S. Songs Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On The Black Heart Procession - 1 Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves Spoon - A Series of Sneaks At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out DMX Krew - New Romantix Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

01-09-2015, 11:46 AM	#74 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1999 What an amazing fucking year! What can I say about any of these? Maybe you don't know No Knife or Marmoset. No Knife is like smart pop punk/indie, one of their best albums. Marmoset channels lo-fi indie rock and stoney 60s psychedelic pop. Very good album. 1. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret 2. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork 3. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Madonna 4. Mr. Bungle - California 5. Pinback - Pinback 6. Marmoset - Today It’s You 7. No Knife - Fire in the City of Automatons 8. MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday 9. The Roots - Things Fall Apart 10. Beck - Midnite Vultures Honorable mentions: Burning Airlines - Mission: Control! Les Savy Fav - The Cat and the Cobra Super_Collider - Head On Autechre - EP7 Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote! Seaweed - Actions and Indications Melvins - The Maggot Squarepusher - Selection Sixteen __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

01-28-2015, 04:43 PM	#76 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	2000 Welcome to the 2000s! I have a fuckton of albums from this year, and this decade in fact. 75 this year, at last count. My incessant obsession with discovering new and different music certainly hasn't slowed down with age. Yet. These are what I would consider the best of the year, and let's see, I'll do a quick check of my entire list and make sure I haven't changed my mind about anything since I compiled this last summer, or fall, whenever that was. Well not really, just the usual internal debate of whether I still really like that one album or if I'm just putting it here because it was my favorite back then, or because it's a favorite band, etc. Ween, for example. I love Ween, though my enjoyment of them has gone downhill in the 5-10 years. I've matured - somewhat. Should I put something else there in its place? Maybe, but why, if I really loved that album? The same could be said for Self - an immature but really fun and well-crafted album. I think the struggle with this year is that there are really 20 excellent albums and a lot of pretty good ones. So this should be a top 20. Fuck it, I'm leaving it as-is, with 10 great honorable mentions below. I revisited most of this stuff when I made the list, and chose them for a reason. Spotify Playlist - 2000 Top 10+ 1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 2. Radiohead - Kid A 3. Dillinger Four - Versus God 4. Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons 5. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 6. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 7. Ween - White Pepper 8. The White Stripes - De Stijl 9. Self - Gizmodgery 10. Clinic - Internal Wrangler Very good honorable mentions: Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep Swingin’ Utters - Swingin’ Utters Tortoise - Standards Air - The Virgin Suicides Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea Deftones - White Pony Aesop Rock - Float Amon Tobin - Supermodified At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures. Last edited by sidewinder; 01-29-2015 at 05:36 PM.

01-29-2015, 05:34 PM	#78 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	^ Thanks. I forgot that I was making Spotify playlists to go along with these, starting in 1976. I've edited the most recent post to add the link. __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

02-06-2015, 03:38 PM	#79 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	2001 Damn, I just drafted an entire post and then realized it was for 2002. Well that's another one done, saved for later. Now for 2001...let's have a look. A yes, a fantastic year that needs little explanation. Plaid release one of their best albums. Radiohead releases more songs from the Kid A sessions and the album is almost better. Tool's third is an undeniable masterpiece, even if I still prefer the previous two albums. The White Stripes release their best album. Prefuse 73 pretty much invents glitch hop. The Shins change your life. This actually did really impress me back then, I wasn't listening to a lot of stuff like this and it really touched me. This was before Juno (the movie), of course. I didn't discover Pinback until a little bit later, and have loved them since. You don't know Marmoset? Funny enough, I just posted about them in another thread. If you like lo-fi and moody 90s indie rock, check it out. Aesop Rock's Labor Days is on of my favorites from him, though I might like Float a little better. And Juno...you don't know Juno? Well have a listen then. An underappreciated Seattle band mixing 90s post-hardcore and post-rock. A great year with way more than 10 amazing albums. See bottom for some honorable mentions - what a great year. 1. Plaid - Double Figure 2. Radiohead - Amnesiac 3. Tool - Lateralus 4. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 5. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives 6. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World 7. Pindback - Blue Screen Life 8. Marmoset - Record in Red 9. Aesop Rock - Labor Days 10. Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By Tomahawk - Tomahawk Fantômas - The Director’s Cut Squarepusher - Go Plastic Brothomstates - Claro Les Savy Fav - Go Forth Fugazi - The Argument Bad Astronaut - Acrophobe Deviates - Time Is the Distance Tortoise - Standards Chris Clark - Clarence Park Burning Airlines - Identikit Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush Aphex Twin - Drukqs Spoon - Girls Can Tell Mouse on Mars - Idiology __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

02-09-2015, 11:51 AM	#80 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	2002 Ramble ramble ramble! What am I going to say about this 2002 list today? Let's have a look...a yes, quite a good year! Clearly I was getting into some post-hardcore and underground emo at this point in time. Not all have stood the test of time, of course, particularly the emo and screamo type releases. Other later discoveries such as Sonic Youth have taken their place. One such example would be City of Caterpillar - what a fantastic album. However, I'm just not in the mood for that stuff anymore. mewithoutYou's debut is also quite aggressive in its emo-ness, but it's held up better for me, particularly because I also enjoyed their next few releases. This album was just perfect. Minus the Bear really impressed with their debut but didn't deliver on future releases. Not a mature album as far as lyrical content is concerned, but I like the light math sound and playfulness. I think Q and Not U's sophomore album is underrated, and I really enjoy it. Bad Astronaut is a band that emerged shortly after I was over a lot of the 90s Fat Wreck pop punk I used to listen to. Lagwagon was a favorite, and Bad Astronaut is like a more mature, more indie rock-oriented evolution with the same singer. It really worked for me, as did their subsequent albums. The Jazz June is a funny one - they're not that well-known, but it seems they're better known for their other albums, which to me are far inferior to this one. This is a really good and moody midwestern emo/indie album. Oh what about Sixtoo? An underrated instrumental hip-hop producer from Halifax, Canada. Really good stuff and great atmospheres, better than Blockhead I might say. Do the rest need any explanation? I think not. Honorable mentions at bottom. 1. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 2. mewithoutYou - [A—>B] Life 3. Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates 4. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes 5. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf 6. Q and Not U - Different Damage 7. Sonic Youth - Murray Street 8. Sixtoo - Duration 9. Bad Astronaut - Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem 10. The Jazz June - Better Off Without Air Clinic - Walking With Thee No Knife - Riot for Romance! Dillinger Four - Situationist Comedy Super_Collider - Raw Digits City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice Download - III Steps Forward Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where Download - Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade Supersoul - 40 Acres and a Moog Mastodon - Remission Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights The Coral - The Coral Rumah Sakit - Obscured by Clowns Eight Frozen Modules - Thought Process Disorder Boom Bip - Seed to Sun Seven Storey - Dividing by Zero platEAU - Iceolator 31Knots - A Word Is Also a Picture of a Word Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction Isis - Oceanic __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.