I have no idea. I think i'll say The Organ, or something. You?
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Relationship of Command for me
Horse of the Dog...
...hmmm?
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Kid A
Surely?
def
kid a
Amen
'Kid A' and 'Funeral' are both fine choices.
kid a?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
hallo
You can haha all you like...but the laughter doesn't stop your Mum dieing at the end of the week.
Completely obvious DiS approved answer:
Alligator
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Just edges it over Broken Social Scene's self titled & Apologies to the Queen Mary for me.
Maybe,
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
Maybe.
yes
or relationship of command.
x
through-and-through masterpieces of human creativity
Parades by Efterklang (incredibly complicated, yet entirely engaging...the timbres and textures they get! so well thought-out and beautifully successful. i just can't say enough for this album)
None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock (Aes is just a genius: disciplined, varied, prolific. plain and simple. you listen to other MCs after listening to him, and you realise to what extent he is a master of the english language and putting phonemes into rhythms (not to mention his storytelling).)
I'd like to throw these in the pool too:
Lost and Safe by The Books
Speaks Volumes by Nico Muhly
Michigan by Sufjan Stevens (really..Illinoise too)
Control by Pedro The Lion
55:12
I knew you liked that album lyle
but didn't realise you liked it that much. Maybe in my top 10, certaily that last track is one of the songs of the decade.
amazing album.
One of the few albums from this decade which can be in my TOP30 ever.
Relationship Of Command
The Marshall Mathers LP
You're A Woman I'm A Machine
Lifted....To The Ground
Is This It by The Strokes
is the best.
It is not my favourite, but it is the best.
^^
This
but it might be MY favourite
good call san
it was the first one that flashed into my mind anyway
yeah well done san
The Great Eastern - The Delgados
definitely
Hmmmm.
Relationship of Command.
Yes?
Sure.
Source Tags & Codes
For me.
Turn On The Bright Lights
is DEFINITELY up there.
But obviously Kid A
Bows + Arrows
Possibly Sound Of Silver
I've a sneaky feeling (I know its early) that people will be talking about New Amerykah by Erykah Badu for some time yet.
Speakerboxx/Love Below
You Forgot It In People
Sorry if that's too many
Actually replace Sound Of Silver with
A Ghost Is Born.
Funeral
Elephants, White Stripes
Gorillaz-Demon Days?
Arcade Fire-Neon Bible.
The Strokes-Is This It.
*shrugs*
Taking 'best' to mean favourite
From a Basement on the Hill by Elliott Smith. I couldn't confidently suggest the best album of the decade without knowing the purpose of an album. To entertain? To be complex/intellectual? Whatever
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Personally
I'm Wide Awake Its Morning
The Sunset Tree
Lifted
Agreee with most mentioned but would also add
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Rated R
and i'll fight to the death anyone who disagrees.
Greetings From Michigan
Oh, Inverted World
The Argument
Supreme Clientele
Wonderful Rainbow
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Slow Wonder
Loads really.
Ohgod
I forgot Wonderful Rainbow...
hmm
I'll probably still go with Funeral.
Because it's just constant brilliance. With Wonderful Rainbow the end (whilst still very, very good) doesn't match the unspeakable brilliance of the rest of the album.
It's definitely second favourite though.
Oh wait, and the Glow Pt. 2 was released in 2001...
Fuck it. I quit.
Now, y'see
I don't really rate Funeral all that much. I do like it and it has some wonderful songs, I just find it incessantly cold. I find it difficult to love something that seems to be quite detached and distant.
Of course Neon Bible was just plain dreadful.
But I digress. Wonderful Rainbow. YEAH!
And i'll throw 'High Society' by Enon and 'Alternation' by Excepter into the pool as well.
Hmm
I wouldn't really agree with cold. I'd agree with abstract, because the songs are never particularly personal. But I always get the feeling that I know where the lyrics have been drawn from... and the music itself is never cold, especially so on songs like Haiti or In the Backseat, where it's incredibly heartfelt.
But yes, Wonderful Rainbow: two thumbs up.
Feels
hmmm..
yes!.. 'feels' or 'sung tongs' or 'strawberry jam' by animal collective
or..
dizzee 'boy in da corner'
outkast 'stankonia'
beta band 'hot shots 2'
panda bear 'person pitch'
tv on the radio 'cookie mountain'
hot chip 'the warning'
m.i.a 'arular'
clipse 'hell hath no fury'
spank rock 'yoyoyoyoyo'
foals
I'm gonna go with
Funeral as well
LOL
Illinoise.
was Texas Jerusalem Crossroads this decade?
either that, Fourteen Summers or The Midgnight Organ Fight for second
for me
TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS
owls
but plenty of stuff listed here too
read music speak spanish
or fevers & mirrors
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
I think Illinois is.
close contenders are
Lifted
Is This It
Turn On The Bright Lights
Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
Heartbreaker
Transatlanticism
And loads of others. Good decade I reckon.
Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
is a fantastic, fantastic album. For me, Bows + Arrows JUST shades it. But only just.
Bows & Arrows?
Surely not. The singles were good and the rest painful.
HEARTBREAKER!
You're right dag nab it.
Rings Around The World
agreed
rings around the worl is up there although they have done better.
fuck.good call on sfa.
that's a rad album.
That would be
near the top of my list. Astounding album.
Probably my favourite
or maybe funeral.
Pleased so many people like this album, seem to remember the general consensus at the time of release being "Meh, not as good as radiator or guerrilla".
It's my favourite SFA album
and therefore probably my favourite album, it might be partly due to it being the one that holds the fondest memories for me but i'd say it holds together as an album the best and has some of their strongest songs/compositions on it. At the time i was unsure about it too but after seeing it live it made complete sense.
Ys.
Amnesiac
or Silent Shout
or Funeral.
Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite
another good call!
fun game this.
good call on ys I meant.
funeral is really good though.
Y[a]s!
That or Illinoise or Frances The Mute or Aha Shake Heartbreak or No More Shall We Part or Abattoir Blues or Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! or...
yeh i haven't put a lot of thought into it...
Relationship of command
Kid A
Feel Good Lost
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
i would say
bright eyes - im wide awake its morning
atd-i - relationship of command
fugazi - the argument
beirut - the flying club cup
lcd - sound of silver
would be my top five 2000-2008
TVOTR-Return to cookie mountain
Arcade Fire-Funeral
Interpol-TOTBL
Kid A
For many reasons the most primary being it affected me in a unique way. Close seconds for me are original pirate material and a weekend in the city.
my favourite
probably rock action, by mogwai. its the one i listen to most.
Bloc Party
Silent Alarm. Wow.
so far
I'm giving it to
Leviathan
Stankonia
Frances the Mute
Funeral
and Here Comes the Indian
not in that order
The Argument
Happy Songs For Happy People
totbl is too easy
WOLFMOTHER
deloused in the comatorium
songs for the deaf
geogaddi...
by boards of canada. did someone say yankee hotel foxtrot? maybe that too.
SORRY GUYZ
2000 isn't part of this decade.
so no Relationship of Command
and no Kid A
i say Funeral.
Why isn't 2000 part of this decade?
I'll agree it's not part of this century. Wasn't 1990 part of the 90s?
do you really want to know?
if so...
Year 2000 is 2000 A.D. 'Year of the Lord'. 1 A.D was the first 'year of the lord', there was never a 0 A.D. As a millenium require 1000 years to pass the first millenium ran from 1 AD to the end of 1000 AD with the second millenium starting in 1001. The next millenium started in 2001 (this is why the film/novel 2001 is given this date Kubrick and Clark wanted to designate the start of a new period in earth's development).
People who celebrated the start of a millenium in 2000 were being misinformed cretins.
To return to your question - the same principle applies to decades although as 'decade' in the question is ambigous (it could cover the last 10 years 98-08) I wouln't worry about it.
oh and 'as the roots undo'
by Circle takes the Square
Yes, agree about there being no year 0
and that 2000 wasn't the first year of the new millenium, hence my comment anout 2000 not being part of this century. But when people refer to decades I take it to mean the 80s or the 90s or whatever. I'm all for ultra pendantry but this is taking it too far.
i don't think
you can EVER take pedantry too far.
OK, you've convinced me
*laughs at all the people choosing Kid A and Relationship of Command*
^ In that case 69 Love Songs
<3
Sorry, I know I'm hours late and should be
grown up enough not to post but this is pretty funny.
The millennium has nothing to do with it, whatsoever. A decade, in the sense we are discussing, starts with a zero not a one irrespective of whether we had a year zero or not.
The notion that 1960 wasn't part of the sixties but that 1970 was is just a gem.
that wasn't what I was suggesting
don't know about anyone else...
A decade can cover any 10 year period so I'm still not sure whether the question refers to 98-08 or 00-08.
Anyway... I threw in the Millenium bit to stir things up and distract from the Kid A thing.
In Rainbows is better than Kid A
*runs for hills*
Fine then
Strawberry Jam
Ys
Origin of Symmetry
- Muse
&
Cat Power - The Greatest
one time for all time
65 days of static
.
Akron/Family - Love is Simple
lol
2000 IS part of this decade
Which means that the best album is quite comfortably 100 Broken Windows. Thanks for playing.