Boards.ie Readers List: Best albums 1998-Present

Strumms

Ok, sheet this is hard but here be mine....

1) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2) Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
3) Mercury Rev - Deserter Songs
4) Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
5) Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production Of Eggs
6) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
7) Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
8) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
9) A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
10) Luke Doucet & The White Falcon - Blood's Too Rich

I know I'm gonna be kicking myself after I hit submit.. You left out what ????

AhrSkidar

1. Lift to Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
2. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
3. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
4. Silver Mount Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upwards
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Kayne West - The College Dropout
8. Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway
9. Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness
10. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin


No room for Mono, Low, Mercury Rev, Okkervil River, Wilco, Besnard Lakes, Midlake or The Czars/John Grant

Xavi6

1. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
3. King Adora - Vibrate You
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
6. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
8. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
9. Idlewild - The Remote Part
10. Doves - The Last Broadcast

Horrible to have to narrow it to ten! The National (Boxer), AFI (Sing the Sorrow), Brand New (The Devil and God...), The Shins (Wincing the Night Away), The Decemberists (The Crane Wife), Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am...), Bright Eyes (Fevers and Mirrors), Alkaline Trio (From Here to Infirmary) and The Killers (Hot Fuss) were all tough omissions.

Would've preferred a top 20

cranks

I'm gonna take 'best albums' to mean the ones I find myself falling back on the most - save tormenting myself.

In no particular order:

Flanger - Midnight Sound (1999)
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker (2004)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (2005)
Hot Chip - Coming on Strong (2004)
310 - The Dirty Rope (2000)
Fuxa - The Electric Sound of Summer (2012)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben (2012)
Faust - Faust is Last (2010)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
Lambchop - Is a Woman (2002)

Miguel_Sanchez

cranks wrote: »

I'm gonna take 'best albums' to mean the ones I find myself falling back on the most - save tormenting myself.

Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)

Here's a bit more torment for you - Grace is too early to be included.

Pighead

In no particular order and cheating slightly by putting a best of in the mix here are my ten.

JJ72-JJ72.
Sweet Ride- The Best of Belly.
Belle and Sebastian- The Life Pursuit.
Justin Timberlake- Future/Sex/Love/Sounds (DEAL WITH IT!)
Muse- Absolution.
The Killers- Hot Fuss.
Arctic Monkeys- WPSIATWIN.
Arcade Fire- Funeral.
Badly Drawn Boy- The Hour of Bewilderbeast.
Nick Cave- No More Shall We Part.

dots03

1. The Notwist - Neon Golden (2002)
2. Pinback - Pinback (1999)
3. Low - C'Mon (2011)
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
5. Built to Spill - Keep it like a secret (1999)
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
7. The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s (1998)
8. Mogwai - Mr Beast (2006)
9. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (2007)
10. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (2006)

cranks

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Here's a bit more torment for you - Grace is too early to be included.

Shyte.......! How'd I miss that one? I even put the date in!

Insert: Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (2000).

Rothko

1. From A Basement On The Hill - Elliott Smith
2. In Rainbows - Radiohead
3. Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
5. XO - Elliott Smith
6. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
7. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
8. Xtrmntr - Primal Scream
9. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
10. Beyond - Dinosaur Jr.

Irish Aris

kind off topic (my choices), at least I have the years right

1.Scissor Sisters-Scissor Sisters (2004)
2.Cranberries-Bury The Hatchet (1999)
3.Scissor Sisters-Night Work (2010)
4.Perry Blake-California (2002)
5.Franz Ferdinand-Franz Ferdinand (2004)
6.Deine Lakaien-April Skies (2005)
7.Travis-The Invisible Band (2001)
8.Roisin Murphy-Overpowered (2007)
9.Sigur Ros-Agaetis Byrjun (1999)
10.Wolfsheim-Casting Shadows (2003)

Thought this might be tricky, but it wasn't. Just thought of some of the best gigs I was at to jog my memory and went with the first ten records to come to mind.
Decided not to over-think it in other words, cos then I'd never stop at ten and would keep changing it forever. Most of the "rankings" would be fairly random too.

1. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Global-A-Go-Go
2. Interpol - Antics
3. American Steel - Rogue's March
4. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
5. Wire - Send
6. Fugazi - The Argument
7. Seachange - Lay of The Land
8. Mission of Burma - On Off On
9. Grinderman - Grinderman
10. Cool Kids of Death - CKOD

part time punk

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. The National - High Violet
4. Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
5. Nick Cave - Dig Lazurus Dig
6. Sigur Ros - Takk
7. Silver Jews - American Water
8. Low - Great Destroyer
9. Calexico - Feast of Wire
10.Sleater Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One

Will have changed my mind in an hour though. As an aside Radiohead always get mentioned in these polls (lots in the Pitchfork one!) Am I the only person who likes the Bends most out of all their albums?

Rothko

part time punk wrote: »

Will have changed my mind in an hour though. As an aside Radiohead always get mentioned in these polls (lots in the Pitchfork one!) Am I the only person who likes the Bends most out of all their albums?

Nope, The Bends is my favourite album of theirs too.

SimpleLogic

Top ten at the moment. In no particular order.

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
The White Stripes Elephant - White Blood Cells
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For A Free
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Jamie T - Kings & Queens
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Kasabian - Kasabian
Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring

jefreywithonef

^ Beautiful Freak was a '96 release.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

1. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
2. The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
5. Sigur Ros - Takk
6. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanicism
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever ago
8. We were promised jetpacks - These four walls
9. Elliott Smith - XO
10. God is an astronaut - All is Violent All is Bright

Blisterman

Plenty of lists still coming through, so I'll leave it another week or so.

My not very indie or alternative list:

1. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
2. Kanye West - Late Registration
3. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
4. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
5. Common - Be
6. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
8. Daft Punk - Discovery
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
10. Friendly Fires - Pala

iamanengine

1.Elliott Smith - XO
2.Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3.The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
4.The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5.Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
6.John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People
7.Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
8.Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
9.Strokes - Is This It?
10.Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

Found this tough enough to pick more so because I don't listen to much stuff post '98, still had to leave off a few gud'uns!

Easy Rod

1.The National - Alligator
2. Bloc Party - Silent alarm
3. Jimmy eat world - Bleed American
4. Jamie T - Panic Prevention
5. Wild Beasts- Smother
6. Brand New - The Devil and God are raging inside me
7. The Horrors - Primary colours
8. KOL - Aha shake heartbreak
9. Tv on the Radio - Return to Cookie mountain
10 . Vampire weekend - Vampire weekend.


...I think.

TheWarrior

1.The national - Alligator
2.Arcade Fire- Funeral
3.Interpol- Antics
4.Sigur Ros - Takk
5.Editors- An End has a Start
6.Bon Iver- Bon Iver
7.The Killers- Sams Town
8.Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
9.Beach House - Teen Dream
10.Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

Tombo2001

Whats the definition of alternative and indie?

Anyway.

1. Toumani Diabate - New Ancient Strings
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. The Frames - For the Birds
5. David Gray - White Ladder
6. David Kitt - The Big Romance
7. Ryan Adams - Gold
8. Sigur Ros - Takk
9. REM - UP
10. Rokia Traore - Bowmboi

flyswatter

Blisterman wrote: »

1. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
2. Kanye West - Late Registration
3. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
4. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
5. Common - Be
6. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Whats the definition of alternative and indie?

I don't know but it seems to be very loose whatever it is!

Tombo2001

flyswatter wrote: »

I don't know but it seems to be very loose whatever it is!

OP actually mentions it doesnt have to be alternative/ indie. Only spotted that afterwards.

In which case I go for James Blunt.

notnumber

This is the alt/indie section hence it will be an alt/indie list...For it to be anything else it would need to posted in the other forums to be truly representative of boards.ie.
Does the OP wish to make this a general forum wide music list? Id say most posters here have posted by now and most of the lists are alt/indie type music like it or not.

flyswatter

notnumber wrote: »

This is the alt/indie section hence it will be an alt/indie list...For it to be anything else it would need to posted in the other forums to be truly representative of boards.ie.
Does the OP wish to make this a general forum wide music list? Id say most posters here have posted by now and most of the lists are alt/indie type music like it or not.

Yeah, I noted the name of the forum when doing my list and responded accordingly within the boundaries.

Can't imagine it would be too different if I had of known other genres were permitted (Blistermans top 6 for example) but there would have been the odd one or two that would have made it. I left them out cos I worked within the confines of the genre by and large.

smokedeels

I guess the issue with leaving the poll open to all genres is that it will be harder to reach a consensus, I imagine there will be a lot of albums tied at positions.

Blisterman

It's for the indie alternative forum, but open to all genres. Mostly because it's hard to pin down what exactly indie or alternative means, and also because a lot of people here's music tastes are quite broad. Additionally, there were no restrictions on the Pitchfork Poll, which inspired this. Hence why Kanye West scored so highly.

eyeball kid

My top ten in no particular order...

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Calexico - Feast of Wire
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Nick Case & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down in the Light
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Modest Mouse - The Moon & the Antartica

That would probably change if I was to compile the list again tomorrow.

Haven't read anyone else's pick so very interested to see what everyone else has selected.

Miguel_Sanchez

Can we not let this descend into what is/isn't alt/indie again please. That's the most boring of conversations.

As stated, the albums can be from any genre that you like.

Thundercats Ho

The Strokes - Is This It? - 2000
The National - Sad Songs For Drity Lovers - 2002
Beck - Guero - 2005
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm - 2005
Fionn Regan - End of History - 2006
Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger - 2006
Radiohead - In Rainbows - 2007
Bon Iver - For Emma.... - 2008
Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely - 2008
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can - 2010

Almost
Air - Moon Safari
PJ Harvey - Songs From The City...
Manics - This Is My Truth...
Joan As Policewoman - Real Life
Foals - TLF