Top 10 Albums of the Decade!

[Swish]

Okay, let's see...

Green Day--American Idiot
Amy Winehouse--Back To Black
Rosalia Souza--Garota Moderna
White Stripes--Get Behind Me Satan
Bob Dylan--Love And Theft
New York Dolls--One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
Bebel Gilberto--Tanto Tempo
Joe Strummer--Streetcore
Madeleine Peyroux--Careless Love
The Wondermints--Mind If We Make Love To You

R. Kelly--Trapped In The Closet (requires the video) deserves to be on the list, but doesn't make the cut since the music is so dependent on the visual.

Honorable mention to the Hives for Veni Vidi Vici & Black And White Album, the Libertines, the Ditty Bops, Beck for Guero & Sea Change, Nick Cave for his last 2, the Little Killers, the Raconteurs for Consolers, Nicole Atkins for Neptune City, Neil Young for -Greendale, Al Anderson (once of NRBQ) for After Hours, Nick Curran & the Nightlifes for Player!, Jet for Get Born, Ray LaMontagne for Trouble, Johnny Cash for American V, Nick Lowe for At My Age, Wilco for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Luka Bloom for Before Sleep Comes, Neil Diamond for 12 Songs, Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out.

Eminem for Curtain Call, though that gets an asterisk since it's the greatest hits.

Then there's stuff that was either recorded long ago or re-imagined, possibly with a release in a modified form. Like the soundtrack to flicks like The Aviator & Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woman On Top also, stuff like Tom Waits' Orphans, the Miles Davis Seven Steps box, Brian Wilson's Wondermint' version of SMiLE, the jump blues collection assembled by a fan in like Belgium (Dr. Boogie) from the collection of the guy from Canned Heat (Bob Hite?), the Beatles' Capitol Records albums versions--both boxes, the remasters of the Ramones & Replacements albums which sold jack sh*t, the recent Big Star box, and John Coltrane's recently discovered double live CD from late 1965, One Up One Down (much better than the solid but way-overly-hyped Thelonious Monk issue from Carnegie Hall in 1957, featuring Coltrane in between stints with Miles Davis), and...

Beatles remasters in a few days.

I also failed to list The Thrills - So Much for the City, a cd that few on here, if any, ever mentioned, but I think they caught lightning in a bottle.

[Jim Clark]

l. The National - pick one, love them all
2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
3. Iron&Wine/Calexico-In The Reins
4. Postal Service - Give Up
5. Moonbabies - June and Novas
6. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
7. The Legends - Up Against The Legends
8. Joe Strummer -Streetcore
9. Massive Attack - 100'th Window
10.Gary Numan - Pure

'course that leaves out electric President, Radio 4, Greenday, Arcade Fire, BSP, Shout Out Louds, Stars, Wheat, BSS, Doves, Shins, Notwist, The Stills, De/vision, Woven Hand, Lali Puna, and even The Dodos (you're right Davey - that's an awesome album), not to mention We Were Promised Jetpacks!

jc

[ForeverAutumn]

I also failed to list The Thrills - So Much for the City, a cd that few on here, if any, ever mentioned, but I think they caught lightning in a bottle.

Interesting that you mention that. I tried to get a few people here interested in The Thrills when Let's Bottle Bohemia came out. I thought that it would be right up people's alley, but it just never seemed to garner much interest.

I haven't heard So Much for the City.

[MasterCylinder]

Unless you're a schoolish pedant with an overweening sense of numerical propriety, this decade will be drawing to a close in just a few short months. I, for one, can't believe it's gone this quickly. But now comes the time to put up or shut up... your Top 10 Discs for the Decade of the Aughts!

I can't do it.................................first, I've got to figure out if you are telling me the first decade was years 1 through 9.

[Mr MidFi]

I can't do it.................................first, I've got to figure out if you are telling me the first decade was years 1 through 9.

Jan. 1, 2000 thru Dec. 31, 2009.

I mentioned the schoolish pedantry thing because some folks don't consider it a proper start of the decade until Jan. 1, 2001.

But that's the sort of foolishness up with I shall not put.

[MasterCylinder]

But that's the sort of foolishness up with I shall not put.

Is that so ?.......................Your "join date" reflects that you have been putting up with foolishness since Jan., 2003.

[Mr MidFi]

I've always been puzzled by that "join date" in my profile. Because I know I've been here far longer than that.

I hung out for years on the General board before I started posting here. I remember I was a regular there when 9/11/01 went down, for example.

Anyway, I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. And I apologize to the ghost of Winston Churchill for stealing his "up with I shall not put" line.

[dean_martin]

I've always been puzzled by that "join date" in my profile. Because I know I've been here far longer than that.

I hung out for years on the General board before I started posting here. I remember I was a regular there when 9/11/01 went down, for example.

Anyway, I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. And I apologize to the ghost of Winston Churchill for stealing his "up with I shall not put" line.

The system changed a couple of times back then. For one of the major changes I think we had to re-register which gave many of us a new "join date".

[MindGoneHaywire]

Well, I wasn't exactly IN Ground Zero, but I did write up a couple of emails that I guess would be similar to what we now know as blog posts. I was only down here a couple of times in the weeks following 9/11, but obviously something like that makes a rather profound impression. No more or less so than the shock most felt, regardless of the distance, by what they saw on television, but heck, seeing it with one's own eyes while the fires were still burning...I still don't really have words.

Now that I live here, around the corner, let's just say the frustration is multiplied that not only can nothing be built, they still can't seem to take down the two buildings that were too contaminated to save. That there was a fire in the Deutsche Bank Building was an absolute disgrace; that two firefighters died because the hoses had been cut is enough to make one rather angry, let's just say.

I wrote a lot of things in emails following 9/11, to friends and family, all of it archived; I have not looked at most of it in a long time. The two pieces from when I came down here in the weeks following the attack are fairly easily accessible and I could share them upon request, if anyone wants to read that sort of thing. I also have a photo of 5 WTC when it was still standing,, but that's the only one, as I wasn't too into bringing the camera down with me from uptown, where I then lived--too ghoulish. Obviously this board, and this thread in particular, aren't the place for this sort of thing, but if you have interest in what I've got, send me a PM. My only request would be that you refrain from re-posting--I'm not particularly interested in seeing this stuff put up anywhere in particular. It just wasn't what I had in mind. But I'd be happy to share what I've got if anyone wants to see it.

The photos I have from recent years that I do actually enjoy sharing are of the annual "Tribute In Light," which is beamed from the top of the Battery Garage, across West St. from where I live. It's an impressive sight.

[MindGoneHaywire]

I don't know how eager folks are to collaborate on comps with Moderators...

[bobsticks]

I don't know how eager folks are to collaborate on comps with Moderators...

Seriously?

I have a couple year history of sending out well thought out, artistic, flowing pieces that peeps generally hate. Knock me around but I ain't that lawdawg...

I'm just the guy that deletes SPAM...

[MindGoneHaywire]

Yeah, but you've got Steve Borden in yr avatar & Swish sez you're a weirdo.

Just sayin'...

[bobsticks]

Yeah, but you've got Steve Borden in yr avatar & Swish sez you're a weirdo.

Just sayin'...

LMAO!!...it's Brandon Lee, dammit...and Swish is a weirdo...lol, y'all do what ya want...there will be good music available...

[Slosh]

I know I can knock out a bunch of these comps in no time flat. The problem is when you're talking about a best of decade mix then all the songs are well-known (at least by this group) and will generate zero interest.

A few days ago I had a little reunion with most of my college roommates and most of them were clueless per music released since we graduated so I filled up a CD-R with V0 mp3s yesterday in an attempt to bring them somewhat up to speed (97 songs).

I can't understand how anyone who likes music could not have heard of Spoon, Wilco, etc. especially when a few of them were in or had their own bands.

[bobsticks]

I know I can knock out a bunch of these comps in no time flat. The problem is when you're talking about a best of decade mix then all the songs are well-known (at least by this group) and will generate zero interest.
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I don't know about zero interest. I recognize your point but at the same time would contend that a comp is a progression. Yes, I might already own a fair degree of the overall catelogue but take interest in the manner in which y'all mix it up.

I like to examine the choices and the flow of people's mixes. I prefer it when the selections are a bit out of the ordinary, complilations of songs that i might not necessarily put together myself. In any case, I choose to proceed....we gotta start somewhere...

[noddin0ff]

I know I can knock out a bunch of these comps in no time flat. The problem is when you're talking about a best of decade mix then all the songs are well-known (at least by this group) and will generate zero interest.

....

I can't understand how anyone who likes music could not have heard of Spoon, Wilco, etc. especially when a few of them were in or had their own bands.

So what I hear you saying is you're not up to the challenge?

Aside from that dig, I like music but still could not name a single Spoon song with confidence. Granted, I'm not quite the livin'-in-the-river-of-music type that many on this board are. I don't get out much I suppose. But, I do think you've got a point in that this board has a set of focused musical interests that dominate. It's hard to step too far out side of the currents here.

Well...it's not hard, steppin out just gets ignored. critical mass and all. Still, the rare choice selections I find here drive a fair amount of my music purchases and I'm always game for something new, either sound or perspective. Hit me with you best shot, worst is it could be ignored. Lord knows, I put a bunch of my comps in that category.

[Slosh]

So what I hear you saying is you're not up to the challenge?

All right, here's the deluxe 2-disc set.




Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

[Slosh]

I finally got around to burning these songs to CD-R yesterday. I had to alter the sequencing slightly to get everything on two discs. Disc 1 looks like this:

As you can see this will require a slight overburn (which Nero did without any fuss).

Disc 2 was a little easier:


Needless to say these must be burned gaplessly (which is how you should always burn anyway).

Am I pissing in the wind?

[noddin0ff]

...and Slosh throws down.

[noddin0ff]

I can make a 1 disk mini CD that will please me. But, I remain undeterred.

[Slosh]

Yeah, I'm stupid. Note to self: 2000 was the final year of the 20th century.

[02audionoob]

Yeah, I'm stupid. Note to self: 2000 was the final year of the 20th century.

If that's the case, we're a year early on this discussion.

[Slosh]

If that's the case, we're a year early on this discussion.

Yes and no. This thread is really about the 00's thus 2000-2009 = ten years.

[02audionoob]

Yes and no. This thread is really about the 00's thus 2000-2009 = ten years.

But the subject line said "decade". If the century starts in 2001, then surely the decade starts in 2001.

[Traveller]

OK, here's a list that'll change in 10 minutes

Neko Case, Fox Confessor
Bob Dylan, Modern Times
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Rodney Crowell, The Houston Kid
Spoon, Kill The Moonlight
White Stripes, Elephant
Flaming Lips, Yoshimi...
Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Green Day, American Idiot
Bruce Springsteen, The Rising
Beck, Sea Change

Yea, there's more than ten but hey, that's the way I roll ;>