Boardsies Top 20 Albums of the Decade

DOC09UNAM

Kid V wrote: »

f music was judged on passion alone they'd be the biggest act on the planet imo.

Explain your reasoning for a statement like this.

Kid V

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Explain your reasoning for a statement like this.

Cant really tbh!! It wasnt a concrete statement. Just an opinion. I have seen them live and i was totally in awe of their passion for music. The songs they played were played with such an intense energy. A real celebration of music.

loveissucide

Arcade Fire-Funeral
Basement Jaxx-Rooty
Bat For Lashes-Two Suns
Beck-Sea Change
The Beta Band-Hot Shots II
Bright Eyes-Lifted,Or The Story Is In The Soil, I'm Wide Awake,It's Morning
British Sea Power-The Decline Of British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial-Untrue
Camera Obscura-Let's Get Out Of This Country,My Maudlin Career
Cat Power- The Greatest
Dizzee Rascal-Boy In Da Corner
Elliot Smith-Figure 8
The Fall-The Real New Fall LP
Fleet Foxes-S/T
Florence And The Machine-Lungs
Franz Ferdinand-S/T
Grizzly Bear-Veckatimest
Guillemots-Through The Windowpaine
The Invisible-S/T
Iron & Wine-Our Endless Numbered Days
Jay-Z-The Blueprint
LCD Soundsystem-Sound Of Silver
The Libertines-Up The Bracket
Low-Things We Lost In The Fire
M.I.A-Kala
Modest Mouse-The Moon And Antartica,Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The Mounatin Goats-The Sunset Tree
The National-Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers,Alligator,Boxer
Nick Cave-Dig Lazarus Dig!
OutKast-Stankonia
PJ Harvey-Stories From The City,Stories From The Sea
Portishead-Third
Radiohead-Kid A,Amnesiac,In Rainbows
Ryan Adams-Love Is Hell
The Shins-Chute Too Narrow
St Vincent-Actor
Stephen Malkmus-S/T
System Of A Down-Toxicity
Tindersticks-The Hungry Saw
TV On The Radio-Return To Cookie Mountain,Dear Science
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,A Ghost Is Born,Wilco
Wild Beasts-Two Dancers
The XX-S/T
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-It's Blitz
Yo La Tengo-And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

magma69

loveissucide wrote: »

Arcade Fire-Funeral
Basement Jaxx-Rooty
Bat For Lashes-Two Suns
Beck-Sea Change
The Beta Band-Hot Shots II
Bright Eyes-Lifted,Or The Story Is In The Soil, I'm Wide Awake,It's Morning
British Sea Power-The Decline Of British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial-Untrue
Camera Obscura-Let's Get Out Of This Country,My Maudlin Career
Cat Power- The Greatest
Dizzee Rascal-Boy In Da Corner
Elliot Smith-Figure 8
The Fall-The Real New Fall LP
Fleet Foxes-S/T
Florence And The Machine-Lungs
Franz Ferdinand-S/T
Grizzly Bear-Veckatimest
Guillemots-Through The Windowpaine
The Invisible-S/T
Iron & Wine-Our Endless Numbered Days
Jay-Z-The Blueprint
LCD Soundsystem-Sound Of Silver
The Libertines-Up The Bracket
Low-Things We Lost In The Fire
M.I.A-Kala
Modest Mouse-The Moon And Antartica,Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The Mounatin Goats-The Sunset Tree
The National-Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers,Alligator,Boxer
Nick Cave-Dig Lazarus Dig!
OutKast-Stankonia
PJ Harvey-Stories From The City,Stories From The Sea
Portishead-Third
Radiohead-Kid A,Amnesiac,In Rainbows
Ryan Adams-Love Is Hell
The Shins-Chute Too Narrow
St Vincent-Actor
Stephen Malkmus-S/T
System Of A Down-Toxicity
Tindersticks-The Hungry Saw
TV On The Radio-Return To Cookie Mountain,Dear Science
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,A Ghost Is Born,Wilco
Wild Beasts-Two Dancers
The XX-S/T
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-It's Blitz
Yo La Tengo-And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

It's the top 20 albums of the decade. Not the top 300.:rolleyes: I know it's tough to cut it down to twenty but doing what you did defeats the purpose of the thread.

Bubs101

In order

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Brand New - The Devil and God are raging inside me
3. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter II
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantacism
5. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
6. Ryan Adams - heartbreaker
7. The Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
8. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
9. The Lonely Island - Incredibad
10. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash
11. Yeah yeah Yeah's - Fever to Tell
12. Muse - Origin of S(pelling)
13. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
14. Tenacious D- Tenacious D
15. Electric 6 - Fire
16. Ryan Adams - Gold
17. The National - the Boxer
18. Spoon - GaGaGa
19. We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
20. M. Ward. - Post War

jill_valentine

patchmck wrote: »

You indie-kids make me sick with your arcade fire, I haven't heard their music nor their name spoken since their gig in 2007. Test of time my arse.

Nonsensical post is nonsensical.

"I'm sick of hearing you people talk about Arcade Fire. I haven't heard anybody talk about Arcade Fire."

I can't think of any album I love more than Funeral. Neon Bible, for it's part, was flawed; but it was ambitious, it struck out in a very different direction to it's predecessor, and some of those songs really are beasts.

I'd say they're certainly one of the few definitive bands of this decade. Maybe even the last of the great big indies.

DOC09UNAM

jill_valentine wrote: »

Nonsenscial post is nonsensical.

"I'm sick of hearing you people talk about Arcade Fire. I haven't heard anybody talk about Arcade Fire."

I can't think of any album I love more than Funeral. Neon Bible, for it's part, was flawed; but it was ambitious, it struck out in a very different direction to it's predecessor, and some of those songs really are beasts.

I'd say they're certainly one of the few definitive bands of this decade. Maybe even the last of the great big indies.

Wrong, killers are way better, as are the jesus and mary chain, interpol, the flaming lips, tortoise, blur, and death cab for cutie.

All this Arcade fire talk is unsettling, they're not that good.

column

I can't believe someone thinks Bloc Party are abysmal. Have you heard the breath of musical putput they managed over three albums? Second one is a bit dogy in my opinion but the other two are quite something.

1.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2.Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatarium
3.Muse - Absolution
4.Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
5.Bloc Party - Intimacy
6.Blur - Think Tank
7.Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
8.Muse - Origin of Symetry
9.Daft Punk - Discovery
10.Arcade Fire - Funeral
11.Radiohead - Amnesiac
12.Bady Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewildered Beast
13.Primal Scream - XTRMTR
14.REM - Reveal
15.Joanna Newsome - Ys
16.Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
17.Doves - The Last Broadcast
18.Bjork - Vespertine
19.The Killers - Hot Fuss
20.Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

tempted to put in Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood

DOC09UNAM

column wrote: »

I can't believe someone thinks Bloc Party are abysmal. Have you heard the breath of musical putput they managed over three albums? Second one is a bit dogy in my opinion but the other two are quite something.

1.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2.Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatarium
3.Muse - Absolution
4.Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
5.Bloc Party - Intimacy
6.Blur - Think Tank
7.Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
8.Muse - Origin of Symetry
9.Daft Punk - Discovery
10.Arcade Fire - Funeral
11.Radiohead - Amnesiac
12.Bady Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewildered Beast
13.Primal Scream - XTRMTR
14.REM - Reveal
15.Joanna Newsome - Ys
16.Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
17.Doves - The Last Broadcast
18.Bjork - Vespertine
19.The Killers - Hot Fuss
20.Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

tempted to put in Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood

Nice list, but going by your taste I would have expected some Foo's in their somewhere.

Anyone here ever listened to "The Cat Empire - Live on Earth" album, fantastic, but then Ska isn't a massively wide genre, so it's not going to make many lists.

jill_valentine

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Wrong, killers are way better, as are the jesus and mary chain, interpol, the flaming lips, tortoise, blur, and death cab for cutie.

All this Arcade fire talk is unsettling, they're not that good.

Killers, Kaiser Chiefs (really? really?) and Franz Ferdinand aside, few of the bands you listed are "of this decade", and most have their best output well in the past. I'll be honestly surprised if Interpol ever make anything of interest again. Whether you like them more is a subjective issue, although plenty do I'm sure - but I can think of few other currently ongoing bands of the last ten years who've had the same kind of impact on the musical landscape around them or influence on their peers as Arcade Fire.

DOC09UNAM

Bubs101 wrote: »

In order

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Brand New - The Devil and God are raging inside me
3. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter II
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantacism
5. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
6. Ryan Adams - heartbreaker
7. The Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
8. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
9. The Lonely Island - Incredibad
10. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash
11. Yeah yeah Yeah's - Fever to Tell
12. Muse - Origin of S(pelling)
13. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
14. Tenacious D- Tenacious D
15. Electric 6 - Fire
16. Ryan Adams - Gold
17. The National - the Boxer
18. Spoon - GaGaGa
19. We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
20. M. Ward. - Post War

These = awesome.

loveissucide

magma69 wrote: »

It's the top 20 albums of the decade. Not the top 300.:rolleyes: I know it's tough to cut it down to twenty but doing what you did defeats the purpose of the thread.

Fine,to put them in order
1.Alligator-The National
2.Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco
3.Dear Science-TV On The Radio
4.Stankonia-OutKast
5.Let's Get Out Of This Country-Camera Obscura
6.Funeral-Arcade Fire
7.The Moon And Antartica-Modest Mouse
8.Two Dancers-Wild Beasts
9.In Rainbows-Radiohead
10.Up The Bracket-The Libertines
11.The Sophtware Slump-Grandaddy
12.Veckamiest-Grizzly Bear
13.Fleet Foxes-S/T
14.Stories From The City,Stories From The Sea-PJ Harvey
15.Untrue-Burial
16.Boy In Da Corner-Dizzee Rascal
17.Hot Shots II-The Beta Band
18.The Blueprint-Jay Z
19.I'm Wide Awake It's Morning-Bright Eyes
20.Rooty-Basement Jaxx

lordgoat

column wrote: »

I can't believe someone thinks Bloc Party are abysmal. Have you heard the breath of musical putput they managed over three albums? Second one is a bit dogy in my opinion but the other two are quite something

Yep i've suffered through all of their musical output, i find that the remixes of their songs tend to be much more listenable to than the original. Gang of Four do Bloc Party better than Bloc Party ever could. Final Fantasys cover of Moder nLove to me is so much better than the original. I think it's a lack of passion form them that doesn't do it for me. But there you go, i hate them and you have them no one on your list such is the way things are.

patchmck

Ok I take a small part of it back, I do like the band and that.

Just don't buy into this 'arcade fire are the be-all and end-all of contemporary music' ****e, they had a unique sound (let's face it a pre-requisite for a great band at this stage) and a few very radio-friendly tunes which got them out there. Come on, when they first appeared on the scene phantom was having chronic wet dreams.

That IS the band in nut shell. The extreme excitement over them is just completely lost one me.

And anyway, I just hope people realize that when they made the lists above entitled 'albums of the decade' what they really meant to say was 'indie-nob albums of the decade'.
And furthermore (apologies man, rant over soon) R.E.M. Accelerate was definitely better than most of the albums listed, you'd think people who are really into indie wouldn't have forgotten it, those dudes are the best indie band in the world for god's sake.

loveissucide

patchmck wrote: »

Ok I take a small part of it back, I do like the band and that.

Just don't buy into this 'arcade fire are the be-all and end-all of contemporary music' ****e, they had a unique sound (let's face it a pre-requisite for a great band at this stage) and a few very radio-friendly tunes which got them out there. Come on, when they first appeared on the scene phantom was having chronic wet dreams.

It's THEIR list,not yours.You're supposed to respond with one of your own,not make jabs at theirs with no list of your own to back it up.

That IS the band in nut shell. The extreme excitement over them is just completely lost one me.

Why is it just this lot that're being singled out as being beneficaries of hype?The Strokes,The White Stripes,The Libertines,Franz Ferdinand,The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and MGMT were every bit as hyped to oblivion.

And anyway, I just hope people realize that when they made the lists above entitled 'albums of the decade' what they really meant to say was 'indie-nob albums of the decade'.

Heaven forbid people posting in an indie/alternative forum should be into indie/alternative.

And furthermore (apologies man, rant over soon) R.E.M. Accelerate was definitely better than most of the albums listed, you'd think people who are really into indie wouldn't have forgotten it, those dudes are the best indie band in the world for god's sake.

And I eagerly await seeing your list.

Kid V

patchmck wrote: »

R.E.M. Accelerate was definitely better than most of the albums listed, you'd think people who are really into indie wouldn't have forgotten it, those dudes are the best indie band in the world for god's sake.

I'm a big R.E.M fan but Accelerate would be nowhere near my top 20 of the decade. Its still a good album but it pales in comparison to some of their earlier work. I listened to it a lot when it was released but i haven't revisited it that often.

patchmck

Haha, I assure you it will be filled all sort of progressive free jazz fusion and ****e, the likes of which will knock your socks off!

I must relent, you're right I'm not into indie, prob shouldn't really be posting on this page. I suppose what it really stems from is years of listening to indie kids speak so relentlessly about music as a ****ing whole, and yet the spectrum of it that actually engage with it so tiny, and so often dictated by Hotpress and Channel 4 and the like (you know what I mean).

Realistically, it's not that far removed from being an X factor fan.

Nice argument, think you won it. Hitting up pearl jam in june?
I really should be studying

lordgoat

patchmck wrote: »

Haha, I assure you it will be filled all sort of progressive free jazz fusion and ****e, the likes of which will knock your socks off!

I must relent, you're right I'm not into indie, prob shouldn't really be posting on this page. I suppose what it really stems from is years of listening to indie kids speak so relentlessly about music as a ****ing whole, and yet the spectrum of it that actually engage with it so tiny, and so often dictated by Hotpress and Channel 4 and the like (you know what I mean).

Realistically, it's not that far removed from being an X factor fan.

Nice argument, think you won it. Hitting up pearl jam in june?
I really should be studying

Oh i can't wait for more of your generalisations, please keep them coming along with that list of yours, not sure what i am looking forward to more.

Kid V

Looks like 'Funeral' is boards alt/indie album of the decade. No surprises there.

Gillington

Kid V wrote: »

Looks like 'Funeral' is boards alt/indie album of the decade. No surprises there.

I know its Elaelaelano's thread but I said in an earlier post I could tot them all up if Ela or no-one else objects? I'd give it another week or so before things start gettin busier with Xmas and all.I'd do it by Bands with most votes aswell as Album's,probably do Top 10 of both maybe 20.

ElaElaElano

Gillington wrote: »

I know its Elaelaelano's thread but I said in an earlier post I could tot them all up if Ela or no-one else objects? I'd give it another week or so before things start gettin busier with Xmas and all.I'd do it by Bands with most votes aswell as Album's,probably do Top 10 of both maybe 20.

Sounds good to me.

homerun_homer

At a glance through the Ipod this is a quick list of my favourite albums of the last decade. I could have duplicated bands but I decided to pick my favourite of each to let others get a look in.

These are not in any order but if I was to pick a #1 & 2 then it's the top 2.

Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
Arcade Fire – Funeral
BRMC – BRMC
The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
The Horrors – Primary Colours
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Santogold – Santogold
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
Jape – Ritual
The Strokes – Is this It
Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
The Raveonettes – Chain Gang of Love
The Sleepy Jackson – Lovers
TV On The Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of the Bewilderbeast

mercuroman

Okay - here's my list. Its numbered but its not in order. Looking back at the albums there were some brilliant albums this decade - and really diverse. I don't know if its my age or that the internet has opened up more cross pollination of musical genres.

1. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
3. Spoon – Ga ga ga ga
4. The Decemberists – Picaresque
5. Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet (I know its not cool but I love it!)
6. System of a Down – Toxicity
7. The Sleepy Jackson – Lovers
8. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, the machine
9. Kanye West – Late Registration
10. Brand New – Deja Entendu
11. The Kicks – Hello King Kong
12. Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
13. Bright Eyes – Lifted
14. The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
15. Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
16. Band of Horses – Everything All The Time
17. Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
18. The Unicorns – Who will cut your hair when we’re gone
19. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
20. Fugazi – The Argument

JaneyMc

That was difficult. I started off with 54. Im not even sure I am happy with it.

• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
• Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever ago
• Brand New – Deja Entendu
• Brand New – Your Favourite Weapon
• Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
• Florence and The Machine – Lungs
• Goldfrapp _ Supernature
• The Kills – Keep on Your Mean Side
• The Kills – Midnight Boom
• Rage Against the Machine- Renegades
• Modeselektor – Happy Birthday!
• Muse – Origin Of Symmetry
• Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
• Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
• Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
• Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
• Sigur Ros – Takk
• Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
• We Are Scientists – With Love and Squalor

• Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Fever To Tell

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Fr Pat Noise

1. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2. The National - Boxer
3. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Tom Waits - Real Gone
6. The Strokes - Is This It
7. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
8. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
9. The National - Alligator
10. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
11. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
12. Interpol - Antics
13. The Libertines - The Libertines
14. Radiohead - Amnesiac
15. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
16. Doves - The Last Broadcast
17. Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
18. Sigur Ros -Takk
19. We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
20. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

deeks

Took a bit of work to narrow it down and still not 100% happy but here goes:

1. Kid A - Radiohead.
2. Leaders of the Free World - Elbow.
3. Third - Portishead.
4. Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol.
5. Deloused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta.
6. Hail to the Thief - Radiohead.
7. Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age.
8. Funeral - Arcade Fire.
9. Elbow - Cast of Thousands.
10. Boxer - The National.
11. In Rainbows - Radiohead.
12. I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes.
13. með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - Sigur Ros
14. Glasvegas - Glasvegas.
15. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes.
16. Black Holes and Revelations - Muse.
17. Antics - Interpol.
18. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party.
19. Speakerboxx / The Love Below - Outkast.
20. For Emma Forever Ago - Bon Iver.

gustavo

Coldplay -Rush of Blood to the Head
Killers - Hot Fuss
Killers - Sam's Town
Strokes - Is this it ?
Strokes - First Impresssions of Earth
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Interpol - Antics
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People say I am..
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Editors - The Back Room
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Elbow -Seldom Seen Kid
Robbie Williams - Sing when you're winning
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
u2 All that you can't leave behind
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Fr Pat Noise

gustavo wrote: »

Coldplay -Rush of Blood to the Head
Killers - Hot Fuss
Killers - Sam's Town
Strokes - Is this it ?
Strokes - First Impresssions of Earth
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Interpol - Antics
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People say I am..
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Editors - The Back Room
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Elbow -Seldom Seen Kid
Robbie Williams - Sing when you're winning
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
u2 All that you can't leave behind
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

sineadgalway

1. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
2. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
3. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
4. Feist - Let it Die
5. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. The Radio Dept. Pet Grief
8. Iron and Wine - The Shepard's Dog
9. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
10. Santogold - Santogold
11. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
12. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
13. Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango
14. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
15. Athlete - Vehicles and Animals
16. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
17. Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
18. Elliot Smith - Figure 8
19. Sigur Ross - Takk
20. Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers

phew...that was tough...my list will probably be completely different next week....