Boards.ie Readers List: Best albums 1998-Present

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1 Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP (2001)
2 Elbow - Asleep In The Back (2001)
3 Fionn Regan - The End of History (2006)
4 Doves - Lost Souls (2000)
5 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
6 Stereophonics - Performance & Cocktails (1999)
7 Stephen Fretwell - Magpie (2004)
8 Travis - The Man Who (1999)
9 Badly Drawn Boy- The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
10 The Rifles - No Love Lost (2006)

Prettyblack

1. Sigur Ros - Valtari (2012)
2. Susumu Yokota - Sakura (2000)
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (1998)
4. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5.55 (2006)
5. Paul McCartney - Chaos & Creation in the Backyard (2005)
6. Salvatore - Fresh (2004)
7. Ian Brown - Music Of The Spheres (2001)
8. Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey (2001)
9. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
10. Beta Band - 3 Eps (1999)

Sinfonia

1) Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)
2) Elliott Smith - XO (1998)
3) Sigur Rós - Ágaetis byrjun (1999)
4) Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
5) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009)
6) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
7) Field Music - Field Music (Measure) (2010)
8) Rufus Wainwright - Poses (2001)
9) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
10) QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf (2002)


I guess..

Morrison J

1. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
4. The Charlatans - Us and Us Only
5. Ian Brown - Music Of The Spheres
6. The Strokes - Is This It
7. The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
8. The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
9. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
10. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

Gillington

1 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2 - Editors - The Back Room
3 - The National - High Violet
4 - LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
5 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
6 - Hot Chip - The Warning
7 - Interpol - Antics
8 - Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
9 - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
10 - Damien Rice - O

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jakobgallagher

1. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
4. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
5. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
6. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
7. The Bees - Sunshine Hit Me
8. Gillian Welch - Time
9. Four Tet - There Is Love In You
10. Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness

Almost made it - lcd soundsystem sound of silver - flying lotus cosmogramma - todd snider east nashville skyline - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club brmc - Arcade Fire - Funeral

ElaElaElano

This is nearly impossible, even a top 100 would be hard to narrow down.

1. Elliott Smith - XO (1998)
2. The National - Alligator (2005)
3. Beach House - Bloom (2012)
4. Fionn Regan -The End of History (2006)
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
6. Minus the Bear - Menos el Oso (2005)
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2005)
8. Menomena - Mines (2010)
9. Explosions in the Sky - Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place (2003)
10. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)

So difficult! Leaving out Belle&Sebastian, Carissa's Weird, Caribou, Villagers, Mountain Goats, James V McMorrow, Mogwai, Grails, At the Drive-In, Tallest Man on Earth, Modest Mouse, Postal Service, Twilight Sad, Owen..it goes on and on. I feel dirty

johnny_ultimate

Joanna Newsom - Ys
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Plumtree - This Day Won't Last at All
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Various - Lost in Translation OST

I don't even care if the last one doesn't count, that's how crazy I am for including a compilation album.

I was half-tempted to included Set Yourself on Fire by Stars because it includes my single-most favourite song from the period with Your Ex-Lover is Dead, but I'm sufficiently indifferent to the most of the rest of the album that it seems inappropriate.

Blisterman

I haven't forgotten about this. I've just been busy with exam revision.

I'm going to close the poll next Thursday the 4th October, so you have until then to put your votes in.

I'm beginning to realise there's a slight flaw with assigning 1 point to a 10th place album and 10 points to a 1st place album, in that an album which is ranked 10th by 9 people has less weight than one ranked number 1 by a single person, and it's a fairly small sample size as it is.

I know, for me, there's not a whole lot of difference between my 1st and 10th ranked albums, they're still my top ten out of hundreds of albums I own, and the rankings are mostly arbitrary.

So instead, I think a fairer way to rank it, in order to get a fairer reflection of boards.ie reader's tastes, it to rank them by number of lists they appear on, using the rankings as a tiebreaker.

I know it's a bit bad changing it so late in the game, but I think it's a better way of doing it, and I honestly haven't looked at the lists that have been submitted yet.

Miguel_Sanchez

I for one did not put mine in order so I think that's fairer.

Upstream

Just 5 so far from me

1. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (1998)
2. Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (2001)
3. Shack - H.M.S. Fable (1999)
4. Turin Brakes - The Optimist (2001)
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1998)

Table Top Joe

I love these threads!



1.Brian Wilson - Smile(2004)
2.Bob Dylan - Love & Theft(2001)
3.Mercury Rev - Deserter Songs(1998)
4.Radiohead - In Rainbows(2007)
5.Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation(2010)
6.Richard Hawley - Trueloves Gutter(2009)
7.The National - High Violet(2010)
8.Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes(2008)
9.Johnny Cash - A Hundred Highways(2006)
10.Beach House - Teen Dream(2010)



Had to edit to include Beach House's "Teen Dream"...which meant Tom Waits "Real Gone" had to leave,funnily enough most of my favourite artists didnt appear here despite releasing very stong material during the time period,R.E.M is my favourite band,"Collapse.." and "Up" both came close...but not close enough,Leonard Cohen,Tom Waits,David Bowie and Dylan are my heroes,id take them over anyone....but only Bob made it,Toms released some amazing albums since 98,Bowie made the fantastic "Heathen" and some other fine records too,Cohen had "Ten New Songs" and "Old Ideas" but what can i say?!......probably should have made it a top 50!

larrykinney

1 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
2 Sleater Kinney - The Hot Rock (1999)
3 ...and you will know us by the trail of dead - Source Tags and Codes (c2002)
4 Loose Fur - Loose Fur (2003)
5 Jim 'O Rourke - Insignificance (2001)
6 Steven Malkmus - Steven Malkmus (2001)
7 Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo (2010)
8 Mogwai - Come On Die Young (1999)
9 Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1999)
10 Lambchop - Is A Woman (2002)

ironictoaster

1. Sigur Ros - Takk (2005)
2. The Avalanches - Since I left you (2000)
3. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002)
4. DJ Shadow - The private press (2002)
5. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
6. Explosions in the sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2007)
7. Doves - Lost souls (2002)
8. Incubus - Make yourself (1999)
9. Deftones - White pony (2002)
10. Air - Talkie Walkie (2004)

cherryghost

Took me ages to decide...

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Blur - 13
3. Beck - Modern Guilt
4. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
5. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
6. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
7. The Maybes? - Promise (can't believe they never made it to the big time)
8. Ash - Meltdown
9. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
10. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations


EDIT: Almosts, The Strokes - Is This It, Arcade Fire - Funeral, The Holloways - So this is Great Britain, The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious, Blur - Think Tank, Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand, The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan, Bonobo - Black Sands

Choochtown

1. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
2. Hamell on Trial - Choochtown (good name!)
3. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
4. Josh Rouse- 1972
5. The Mendoza Line- Lost in Revelry
6. January- I heard myself in you
7. Jinx Lennon- Know your Station Gouger Nation
8. Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I am, that's what I'm Not
9. David Kitt - The Big Romance
10. Ballboy- Club Anthems 2001

JamJamJamJam

Indefinite and in no particular order because that's impossible.. Also I have a tendency to spend ages listening to just a handful of bands before moving on, so these aren't necessarily the best albums, but I only have so many!

Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
Beach House - Teen Dream
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Battles - Mirrored
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am..
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
James Vincent McMorrow - Early in the Morning


Would have liked to include these but I haven't been listening to them for long enough or they didn't come to mind quickly enough. You snooze, you lose..!
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
The White Stripes - Elephant
Admiral Fallow - Boots Met My Face
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
The National - Boxer

bogmanfan

In no particular order:

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of ...
Ben Frost - By the Throat
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
American Football - American Football
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Rachel's - Systems/Layers
Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship, The Landlord is Dead

dots03

bogmanfan wrote: »

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

a modern masterpiece!

In fact, I'm going to go and listen to it right now.

fluke

1. Pearl Jam – Binaural (2000)
2. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
3. Elliott Smith – From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
4. Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
5. The Killers – Sam’s Town (2006)
6. The Frames – For The Birds (2001)
7. Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew (2008)
8. Queens Of The Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyse (2005)
9. Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
10. Chris Cornell – Euphoria Morning (1999)

Honourable mentions:
Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump (2000)
Ray Lamontagne – Till The Sun Turns Black (2006)
Jimmy Eat World – Futures (2004)
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)
Eddie Vedder – Into the Wild (2007)
Regina Spektor – Begin To Hope (2006)

Blisterman

And the winners are:


1 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
3 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
5 - Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
6 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7 - Radiohead - Kid A
8 - Sigur Ros - Takk
9 - The National - Alligator
10 -Beach House - Teen Dream

Thanks for taking part everyone!

S.M.B.

Solid (and probably quite predictable) list with all 10 being in my own music collection and 6 out of 10 being in my personal top 25 of the past 14 years.

Sinfonia

Blisterman wrote: »

And the winners are:

Rothko

Blisterman wrote: »

And the winners are:


1 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
3 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5 - Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
6 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7 - Radiohead - Kid A
8 - Sigur Ros - Takk
9 - The National - Alligator
10 -Beach House - Teen Dream

Thanks for taking part everyone!

Pretty good list. Reminds that I have to listen to that Bon Ivor album

Blisterman

Blisterman wrote: »

And the winners are:


1 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
3 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5 - Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
6 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7 - Radiohead - Kid A
8 - Sigur Ros - Takk
9 - The National - Alligator
10 -Beach House - Teen Dream

Thanks for taking part everyone!

For comparison, the Pitchfork top 10, excluding albums from 1996 and 1997 is

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. The Strokes - Is This It
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
8. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
10. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Surprised The Strokes did so badly in the Boards poll. I think they only got one vote.

cherryghost

Decent list though surprised Sound of Silver wasn't up there. I seen 4 votes for it

Blisterman

To get into the top 10, an album needed at least 5 votes.

flyswatter

Predictable list and no surprises whatsoever but some great music on it no doubt. I've heard 5/6 of those in full and songs here and there off the rest.

Gonzovision

The only one I don't own is Interpol, must check it out.