Albums of the Decade Survey

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Hi All,

How about we do a chart of our favoutite Indie/Alternative albums of the decade?

Each of use vote for our favourite 40 albums (or as many as you want up to 40) that have been released since Jan 1 2000 and order them best to, erm, least best and I'll do the maths....

Then we could announced the Top 40 in reverse order with some reviews of the albums. I'd need help withe the reviews as it's possible I wouldn't have heard all of them.

Here's mine to start with...I've added my fave track from each album too

01 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm - Helicopter
02 Mars Volta - De-loused in the Commatarioum - Inertiatic ESP
03 Muse - Absolution - Hysteria
04 Muse - Origin of Symmetry - Citizen Erased
05 Bloc Party - Intimacy - Signs
06 Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk - Virginia
07 Blur - Think Tank - Caravan
08 REM - Reveal - I'll Take the Rain
09 Chequarboard - Penny Black - Staking Couple
10 The Killers - Hot Fuss - Somebody Told Me

11 Radiohead - Amnesiac - Like Spinning Plates
12 Daft Punk - Discovery - Harder Better Faster Stronger
13 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations - Map of the Problematique
14 Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewildered Beast - Everybody's Stalking
15 Jimmy Eat World - Jimmy Eat World - Get It Faster
16 Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres - FEAR
17 Arcade Fire - Funeral - Haiti
18 Radiohead - Hail to the Theif - Backdrifts
19 Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV - Stars of CCTV
20 Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood - A Song for Departure

21 Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy - Dead Martyrs
22 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - Hands Away
23 Doves - The Last Broadcast - The Last Broadcast
24 Primal Scream - Xtrmtr - Swastika Eyes
25 Bat for Lashes - Two Suns - Two Planets
26 Hard-Fi - One Upon a Time in the West - The King
27 Purescence - Planet Helpless - How Does It Feel?
28 Manic Street Preachers - Journal of Plague Lovers - Marlon J.D
29 New Order - Get Ready - Primitive Notion
30 Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City - Hunting for Witches

31 Idlewild - The Remote Part - American English
32 Joanna Newsome - Ys - Cosmia
33 Garbage - Beautiful Garbage - Parade
34 Antony and The Johnsons - I am a Bird Now - Hope There's Someone
35 Keane - Hopes and Fears - Everybody's Changing
36 Libertines - Up the Bracket - Up the Bracket
37 Interpol - Antics - Take You on A Cruise
38 Bjork - Vespertine - Pagan Poetry
39 Sigur Ros - ( ) - Untitled 4
40 Coldplay - Viva la Vida - Viva la Vida

quarryman

40 is a lot, people will probably just not bother putting that much effort into it. How about 10?

Creamy Goodness

^^ this

plus hard-fi? come on dude, especially when they higher up the list than sigur ros.

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quarryman wrote: »

40 is a lot, people will probably just not bother putting that much effort into it. How about 10?

Put as many as you like. The top one will get 40 points, the number 2 will get 39 and so on. I've edited the first post.

40 albums from 10 years isn't asking too much is it?

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Creamy Goodness wrote: »

^^ this

plus hard-fi? come on dude, especially when they higher up the list than sigur ros.

you know how to re-dress the balance.

Vote!

loveissucide

I'll do it later when i think of them.

whatawaster

1. The Strokes - Is this it
2. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
3. 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
4. Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age
5. Up the Bracket - The Libertines
6. Funeral - Arcade Fire
7. Whatever People Say I am - Arctic Monkeys
8. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
9. I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning - Bright Eyes
10. Primary Colours - The Horrors
11. Hour of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy
12. The Coral - The Coral
13. Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey
14. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
15. Elephant - The White Stripes
16. Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
17. Highly Evolved - The Vines
18. Chutes too Narrow - The Shins
19. Kid A - Radiohead
20. The Decline of British Sea Power - British Sea Power
21. Let's Get out of this Country - Camera Obscura
22. The Libertines - The Libertines
23. Room on Fire - The Strokes
24. Magic and Medicine - The Coral
25. Stay Positive - Hold Steady
26. Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers
27. Youth and Young Manhood - Kings of Leon
28. Amnesiac - Radiohead
29. Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
30. Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
31. Songs in A&E - Spiritualized
32. Love is Hell - Ryan Adams
33. De Stijl - The White Stripes
34. Weezer (Green) - Weezer
35. About a Boy - Badly Drawn Boy
36. Morning Tide - The Little Ones
37. BRMC - BRMC
38. A Rush of Blood to the head - Coldplay
39. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
40. Fever to Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

loveissucide

1.Alligator-The National
2.Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco
3.Dear Science-TV On The Radio
4.Kid A-Radiohead
5.Stankonia-OutKast
6.In Rainbows-Radiohead
7.Veckitamest-Grizzly Bear
8.Let's Get Out Of This Country-Camera Obscura
9.Funeral-Arcade Fire
10.Actor-St Vincent
11.Hot Shots II-The Beta Band
12.xx-The xx
13.Franz Ferdinand-Franz Ferdinand
14.Boxer-The National
15.The Moon And Antartica-Modest Mouse
16.Toxicity-System Of A Down
17.Whatever People Say I Am,That's What I'm Not-Arctic Monkeys
18.Up The Bracket-The Libertines
19.Boy In Da Corner-Dizzee Rascal
20.Third-Portishead
21.Two Dancers-Wild Beasts
22.Fleet Foxes-S/T
23.I'm Wide Awake,It's Morning-Bright Eyes
24.SOund Of Silver-LCD Soundsystem
25.Stories From The City,Stories From The Sea-PJ Harvey
26.Primary Colours-The Horrors
27.The Eraser-Thom Yorke
28.The Warning-Hot Chip
29.Two Suns-Bat For Lashes
30.The Blueprint-Jay Z
31.It's Blitz-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
32.Do You Like Rock Music-British Sea Power
33.Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers-The National
34.A Ghost Is Born-Wilco
35.Is This It?-The Strokes
36.Favourite Worst Nightmare-Arctic Monkeys
37.Through The Windowpaine-Guillemots
38.The Grey Album-Danger Mouse
39.The Ecstatic-Mos Def
40.Dear Catastrophe Waitress-Belle & Sebastian

Hasn't been a great decade,although I'd imagine the good will out if given 5 years and the obligatory reevaluations and gaps in my listening.

Bubs101

Seriously, 40 is ridiculous. Started mine and stopped at 3

MagicMarker

lol, I can't see this getting very far.

Notorious

We're going to be left with a massive list if we all name 40 albums. Not to mention that a lot of albums would only be mentioned once or twice. I'd say naming 20 would be too much. Narrow it down to 10. I haven't put a lot of thought into this but here goes:

1 Beck - Modern Guilt
2 Ween - Quebec
3 The Mars Volta - Amputechture
4 Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
5 The National - Alligator
6 New Order - Get Ready
7 Radiohead - In Rainbows
8 Arcade Fire - Funeral
9 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
10 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

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Bubs101 wrote: »

Seriously, 40 is ridiculous. Started mine and stopped at 3

You couldn't think of more than 3 albums you liked from this decade?

Fair enough.


I've done this on other sites and it has worked fine.

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Notorious wrote: »

We're going to be left with a massive list if we all name 40 albums.

We would only be announcing the Top 40.

Notorious wrote: »

Not to mention that a lot of albums would only be mentioned once or twice.

..and will be mentioned even fewer times if we only vote for ten.

Bubs101

column wrote: »

We would only be announcing the Top 40.


..and will be mentioned even fewer times if we only vote for ten.

If you get 7 people to do 10 albums each you'll probably get a top 40. Nobody is interested in writing down 40 albums

Sútalún

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - Kid A
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Bellx1 - Flock
Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Lightyears in the belly of a Mountain
Editors - The Back Room
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Thom Yorke - Eraser
Ketch Harbour Wolves - Dead Calm Horizon
Hot Chip - The Warning

NapoleonInRags

I intended to just list 10 but there were so many I couldn;t leave out that I had to go to the full 40! And then trying to order them :eek:

For what it's worth, No.1 is the only one I'm sure is in the right spot...

1. Arcade Fire – Funeral
2.The National – Alligator
3. Radiohead – Kid A
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy
6. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
7. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People
8. Iron and Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
9. Sigur Ros = Takk
10. The Antlers – Hospice
11. The Postal Service – Give Up
12. Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
13. Joanna Newsome – Ys
14. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
15. Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
16. Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites
17. Sufjan Stevens – Come on Feel the Illinoise
18. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
19. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I am That’s what I’m Not
20. Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
21. The Knife – Silent Shout
22. M. Ward – Post War
23. The Builders and The Butchers - The Builders and the Butchers
24. The Field – From Here we go Sublime
25. Menomena – Friend or Foe
26. The National – Boxer
27. Yo La Tengo – And then nothing turned itself inside out
28. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
29. The Snake, the Cross, The Crown – Cotton Teeth
30. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
31. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarus Dig
32. Samamidon – All is Well
33. Low – Things we lost in the fire
34. Elbow – Cast of Thousands
35. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
36. Interpol – Turn on the bright lights
37. Sunset Rubdown – Dragon Slayer
38. Beach House – Devotion
39.The Tallest Man on Earth – Shallow Graves
40. The XX - XX (steadily climbing the charts!)

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Bubs101 wrote: »

Nobody is interested in writing down 40 albums

you mean, apart from the three people who have done so already?

What a silly statement to make given that it had already been proven wrong by the time you posted it.

John

The decade's not over yet, who knows what gem will be released between now and the new year.

ChumpStain

The list except the top 3 will change alot though.

1 - Amnesiac - Radiohead
2 - Funeral - Arcade Fire
3 - In Rainbows - Radiohead
4 - Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
5 - Muse - Absolution
6 - Parachutes - Coldplay
7 - Modern Guilt - Beck
8 - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
9 - Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
10 - Youth and Young Manhood - Kings of Leon
11 - Is This It - The Strokes
12 - The Eraser - Thom Yorke
13 - White Blood Cells - White Stripes
14 - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
15 - Takk - Sigur Ros
16 - Fever to Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
17 - Talkie Walkie - Air
18 - Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
19 - Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
20 - Dear Science - TV on the Radio
21 - Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
22 - Mr Beast - Mogwai
23 - A Rush of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
24 - The Big Come Up - The Black Keys
25 - Because of the Times - Kings of Leon
26 - Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
27 - Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
28 - Attack and Release - The Black Keys
29 - Apologies to Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
30 - Rubber Factory - The Black Keys
31 - Simple Things - Zero 7
32 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
33 - Figure 8 - Elliott Smith
34 - De Stijl - White Stripes
35 - Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
36 - Elephant - White Stripes
37 - Antics - Interpol
38 - Kid A - Radiohead
39 - It's Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
40 - Humbug - Arctic Monkeys

Wanted to put in Animal Collective, The National, Bloc Party, more Flaming Lips, more Muse, more Zero 7, Elliott Smith, and Broken Social Scene. I probably could have put about 70 down.

lynamhairycake

40 is insane. Here's 1014.

1. Juana Molina: Son
2. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
3. Nouvelle Vague: Nouvelle Vague
4. Bonnie Prince Billy: The Letting Go
5. Scott Walker: The Drift
6. Caribou: Andorra
7. Tom Waits: Alice
8. Radiohead: Kid A
9. Rufus Wainwright: Poses
10. godspeed you black emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
11. Fleet Foxes
12. Eliott Smith: From a Basement
13. Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped
14. Bloc PArty: Silent Alarm

BornToRun88

40 is WAY too much!

here are my albums of the decade ( in no particular order)

Coldplay-Parachutes
Stereophonics-Language, Sex, Violence, Other
Oasis- Don't Believe The Truth
Manic Street Preachers- Journal For Plague Lovers
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What Im Not
Snow Patrol- Eyes Open
Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
Arctic Monkeys-Favourite Worst Nightmare
Coldplay-Viva La Vida
Editors-The Back Room

being honest that's all i can think of, i know there are bands repeated twice in that list. Im just not a big fan of modern music.

fikay

here are 39 in no particular order
Kevin drew- Spirit If…
Elliott Brood- Ambassador
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Tool- Lateralus
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Giveamanakick- We Are The Way Forward
Minus The Bear- Planet of Ice
Elliott Smith: From a Basement on a Hill
Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
Grinderman- Grinderman
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever to Tell
The National- Boxer
Sufjan Stevens- Seven Swans
Mogwai- Mr. Beast
Unkle- War Stories
Queens of the Stone Age- Rated R
PJ Harvey- White Chalk
Mars Volta - De-loused in the Commatarioum
The Redneck Manifesto- Cut Your Heart off From Your Head
Hot Chip- The Warning
Minus the Bear- Highly Refined Pirates
Feist- The Reminder
The Gutter Twins- Saturnalia
Les Savy Fav- Let’s Stay Friends
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Muse- Origin of Symmetry
Radiohead- Kid A
Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet
Porpicehead- Third
Sigur Ros- ( )
Broken Social Scene- Broken Social Scene
Jetplane Landing- Once Like a Spark
At the Drive-In- Relationship of Command
Nick Cave…- Dig Lazarus Dig
The Desert Sessions- Vols. 9 to 10
Mono- You Are There
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip- Angles

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This is great.

junior joo

very hard to come up with 40 (in order) Although I'm sure I've forgotten stuff here's 20 great albums from 2000 on .. the only position I can really be sure of is that Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is my favourite of the decade ....

1. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Arcade Fire – Funeral
3. Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
4. Sleater-Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One
5. Low – The Great Destroyer
6. Clap Your hands Say yeah - Clap Your hands Say yeah
7. Sigur Ros – Takk
8. Wedding present – Take Fountain
9. Sparkelhorse – Dreamt for Light years in the Belly Of a Mountain
10. Nick Cave – Dig Lazarus Dig
11. Calexico – Feast of Wire
12. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
13. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
14. Iron & Wine and Calexico – In the Reins (EP)
15. Radiohead – In Rainbows
16. Silver Jews – Bright Flight
17. Elliot Smith – From a basement on the hill
18. Portishead – Third
19. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
20. Retribution Gospel Choir - Retribution Gospel Choir