Top 10 Albums of the Decade!

[3LB]

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid - I've been spinning this, at least, weekly since I picked this up earlier this year. Great disk!

I agree, and I may even go back and add it to my list. It is a great album.

I'm really liking Andrew Bird's latest offering and struggle with not having it on a decade's list.

I woulda put Wilco's Sky Blue Sky on the list, except that they released a new one. I haven't taken it out of the car CD player.

[ForeverAutumn]

I agree, and I may even go back and add it to my list. It is a great album.

I'm really liking Andrew Bird's latest offering and struggle with not having it on a decade's list.

I woulda put Wilco's Sky Blue Sky on the list, except that they released a new one. I haven't taken it out of the car CD player.

Sky Blue Sky was on my long list, but didn't quite make the final cut. It was a close call but I just couldn't take one of the other disks off. Whose idea was only 10 disks anyway?!

Wincing the Night Away over Chutes Too Narrow, eh? Also a great album.

I knew that Ritual disk would be on your list.

[jonnyhambone]

Just a list...maybe get more verbose on it later and change it up but I'll start with the 'fer sures'...

Angels of Light - Sing Other People
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues (almost Songs:Ohia - Mag. Elec Co...)
Neko Case - Fox Confessor
Joanna Newsom - Ys.
Grizzly Bear - Veckatamist
Madvilliany
Antony & the Johnsons - Crying Light
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Ray LaMontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
The National - Boxer
Shearwater - Rook
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Elbow - Seldom Scene Kid
Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
...sorta some obvious ones as I write them down but they're the new ones that I come back to with excitement.

[Davey]

I wanna get some of that juice Monkey Bones has running in the veins. But in the meantime, the Ex Lion Tamer is of course totally and inconrtrovertibly correct in saying that the Wrens put out one of the absolutely fucking greatest records of the decade. And if today is the playlist, Wrens are the player.

[Swish]

I wanna get some of that juice Monkey Bones has running in the veins. But in the meantime, the Ex Lion Tamer is of course totally and inconrtrovertibly correct in saying that the Wrens put out one of the absolutely fucking greatest records of the decade. And if today is the playlist, Wrens are the player.

Hmmm. Well, I do like it, but not quite that much.

[Davey]

Hmmm. Well, I do like it, but not quite that much.

Well yea, that's what I thought too, and maybe it was just a good day all around, but sure sounded nice. The beauty of music, there's always a new way to hear it, and sometimes a new appreciation comes when everything is in the right place.

[Swish]

Well yea, that's what I thought too, and maybe it was just a good day all around, but sure sounded nice. The beauty of music, there's always a new way to hear it, and sometimes a new appreciation comes when everything is in the right place.

I get that. In fact, I wasn't a big fan of 'It's a Wonderful Life' when I first played it, but it has a permanent place on my top 10 of all time.

[Snowbunny]

Just realized this list was from the '00's.

Had my Ipod on shuffle while working in the yard today and a few songs rose to the surface and I gotta say they are as fresh as the day I unwrapped their shrink.

One was Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Radio Cure

Cheer up, honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me
My mind is filled with silvery stars
Honey, kisses, clouds of fog
Shoulders shrugging off

Tweedy's lyric are pure poetry.

And maybe someone can tell me which album included Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell's song, Ramblin' Man.

This song sounds timeless, much like songs by Nick Drake. But the only album in his discography that I slightly recognized was Field Songs from 2001. What is his best album?

Picking apples for kings and queens of things I have never seen
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable.

Snowbuns

[Davey]

Picking apples for kings and queens of things I have never seen
Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable.

That's so last decade. So what was your favorite album of the 2000s? Lot's of good ones.

But Mark Lanegan has a bunch of very good albums, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost is the best, but that Bubblegum record with PJ Harvey was very good too. All those records with Isobell Campbell (after she left Belle & Sebastian) are good, but especially that first one with the Hank Williams song you mention. The others are less memorable. Great voice.

[Snowbunny]

Thanks! You never fail to deliver the goods, do you, Davey.

With all these vintage threads bubbling to the surface lately, I'm going to have to pay more attention.

And speaking of radios, you can say what you want about Bill Gates, but Marconi invented the one technology that is still as relevant in song lyrics today, as it was 100 years ago.

Future generations will never witness tangles of black plastic tape tossed out the windows of brightly coloured muscle cars by frustrated motorists with overheated dashboards. Toys in the Attic anyone?

Oh, the memories...

[Davey]

Thanks! You never fail to deliver the goods, do you, Davey. Oh, the memories...

Oh well, the memories are still good ... that '95 comp is gonna be a good one ... some vintage lines from Richard Buckner and Mark Linkous below ...

And christ, how this life
from mud to miracle
is just the prettiest little burden
...
Yes your hair
smelled like sunshine, today
gasoline horseys
will take us, away

[Mr MidFi]

Whose idea was only 10 disks anyway?!

Oh, hush. If I'd made it 20, that would have made it even harder. Seriously... if I'm down to picking no. 20 on a list and deciding between (say) Band of Horses or Rogue Wave, that's pretty much a coin flip at that point. Just sayin'...

[ForeverAutumn]

Oh, hush. If I'd made it 20, that would have made it even harder. Seriously... if I'm down to picking no. 20 on a list and deciding between (say) Band of Horses or Rogue Wave, that's pretty much a coin flip at that point. Just sayin'...

Yeah, well, judging by the responses, it's not like anyone around here can count anyhow.