This is not the 10 Greatest Albums of 2000-2009, this is just a tribute - by henke
steo on 4/12/2009 at 01:06
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won. Okay, so it might've been recorded in 1972, but still.
Aja on 4/12/2009 at 03:10
Good lists so far.
Mine are too hard for me to order so I'll just list em as I remember em:
Steely Dan - Two Against NatureInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X5H5G79NL._SL500_AA240_.jpgReleased at the very beginning of the decade, my favourite album of all time naturally belongs at the top of this list, too.
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the LidInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/310Y9QAWCNL._SL500_AA240_.jpgDrone music at its most emotionally affective... now if only we could discern what these emotions really are.
Refinement of the Decline sits just behind it.
Midlake - Bamnan and SlivercorkInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PfDv6yMVL._SL500_AA240_.jpgThe album by which my own band is most influenced. Beautiful songs that somehow transcend their own painstakingly constructed natures. And a few of them consistently bring tears to my eyes (for reasons unknown).
Grizzly Bear - Yellow HouseInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TKcqCnqxL._SL500_AA240_.jpgAlso a major influence. It's not my favourite but it espouses a style of indie-rock that I've never quite heard anywhere else, and of which I'd love to be the torch-bearer.
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of SilverInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tC3W1JGmL._SL500_AA240_.jpgDance music is good, dance music that provokes a cerebral response is listworthy. And dance music that provokes a cerebral response using vintage analogue equipment is, well, sublime.
Liars - Drum's Not DeadInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/612NF75NR6L._SL500_AA240_.jpgLiars take the primacy of their excellent
They Were Wrong So We Drowned and turn it into something even greater.
Opeth - Blackwater ParkInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wh2otbdqL._SL500_AA240_.jpgDiscovered it in high school, and it remains one of the few metal albums to survive my transition out of metalhood.
Katamari Fortissimo DamacyInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61TAFScMuDL._SL500_AA240_.jpgBar none, the greatest game soundtrack compilation. Spans genres from lounge-jazz to experimental ambient/glitch with seemingly effortless cohesion.
Adam Pacione - From Stills To MotionInline Image:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e2/83/6744e03ae7a07ea46eb4e110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpgOn the ambient/experimental ladder, Pacione is only a step down from Stars of the Lid in terms of breaking convention and crafting something truly stirring.
Tosca - SuzukiInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K6J45Z1ML._SL500_AA240_.jpgStrong contender for Best Downtempo Album EVER, but when the only other contenders are yourself and one of your side-projects, does this award really matter? In any case,
Suzuki is like
Tired Sounds in that it evokes unnameable emotions—possibly sadness, but of the more mediative kind.
and a bonus album (cause I love it so much)
Eluder - The Most Beautiful BlueInline Image:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31767Q7EZIL._SL500_AA150_.jpgMaybe not as innovative as some of the others on my list, but don't you remember a time when innovation wasn't a requisite for enthusiasm? I feel like this record was made just for me.
And there are some strong runners up—ones that I might even list depending on my mood, but who really gives a shit about that, right? ;)
Stitch on 4/12/2009 at 03:13
Christ, I just assembled a rough list--nothing ordered--and I've got at least 30 albums.
Need to work on this one a bit.
ercles on 4/12/2009 at 04:13
I've started a list about 6 times now, and everytime I skim through this thread or my iTunes and am just like, shit I forgot that one?
frozenman on 4/12/2009 at 04:38
Considering this is the decade where I found out what music is and what it should never be this is more of a sentimental list than a greatest greatest-
Firstly, I fully agree with the previously stated:
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
godspeed you black emperor! - Lift yr etc..
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Merriweather has completely obliterated my sense of music and I believe should be ranked up there with Geogaddi as far as easter eggs and hallucination induction (from the 'I'm a dancer' magic-eye loop to the Obama speech in Summertime Clothes, I feel you could pry this album open from every seam and find more...and more...the only band out there today that gives me hope for our generation.
on top of this I would like to add:
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn - this album is just perfect from start to finish- it's poise is almost literary, the great canadian novel (is there such a thing?)
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Oneida - Rated O - got into this band in 2001 and it took them 8 years to finally hit their stride
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide - the whole psych-folk deal, which I notice hasn't made anyone's list save for Newsom (kinda), can and should be traced back to this album.
and oh yeah
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Tocky on 4/12/2009 at 05:03
I'm just going to mention one because nobody is going to mention it and my other favs either have been or will be at some point.
Forever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five.
Aja on 4/12/2009 at 06:04
I really should've included Refinement of the Decline on my list.
Actually, now that I think about, it's still to early to compile a list like this. I need more distance from the albums of the last couple years. I love everything I listed, but the list still seems incomplete, somehow, like there's so much more that—while not individually as important—as a whole, makes up a significant part of my life.
