Best albums of the decade (2000-2009) lists

[path12]

Where's that quote from? We agree that non-musical phenomena shouldn't color the ranking of a particular album.

[whomario]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

It's less about that - I said catering to an audience is fine as long you're not pretending to include other genres - and more that they picked the same 3 albums for their top 20's out of all the hip-hop options.

have to admit i haven´t looked closely at the lists in question due to a lack of time, so i didn´t realize them all being Top20 and not just "on the list".
I have to admit that i haven´t listened to "the blueprint" (know it by name, but that´s it) but have listened to Stankonia and Late registration a lot.
For me, those were 2 albums that a) were introduced to me due to a lot of airplay and mentioning outside of hip hop channels, they were b) fairly accessible even for a guy not actively listening to/searching for Hip Hop music because they were c) not "real" hip hop albums in a way.

Again, i may be totally off here but both those albums also apealed to a lot of people that normally don´t listen/like Rap/Hip Hop. Which is why they were included i guess.

There aren´t many Rap/Hip Hop albums apealing to people not interested in that genre, but those two you could play to people that would say "i don´t like hip hop" and might still like those records.

Me personally, i´m falling under that lable clearly. There´s exceptions, but by and large even the mainstream artists you named are too extreme in being Hip Hop albums (profanities and other to me pointless things included) , although i really like Eminem´s 2nd album (and only that, all others don´t apeal to me at all).

Whome else i would have expected to be included are the Roots obviously with their plethora of musical influences they display, but they might feature higher on a "Rock" centred list as that´s the area they ventured into with quite a few tracks.
The Seed 2.0 is among my Top 10 tracks of the century, would listen to it like 20 times a day when it came out.

Originally Posted by path12

Where's that quote from? We agree that non-musical phenomena shouldn't color the ranking of a particular album.

i know that´s not what is meant in that quote, but artists situation should imo. Like Johnny Cash´s version of "Hurt". If he weren´t an old man on the verge of dying it´d be pointles, the way it is it´s just incredible.

[Passacaglia]

Rolling Stone has released their list:

100 Best Albums of the Decade : Rolling Stone

[Passacaglia]

(Sorry Lathum, American Idiot did not make the Top 20)

[cartman]

One of my favorite albums of the decade was never sold. It was the Beastles, the Beastie Boys/Beatles mashup done by DJ bc. It still is in my regular listening rotation.

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

(Sorry Lathum, American Idiot did not make the Top 20)

At least it was #22

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

At least it was #22

Doesn't matter. I stopped reading the list at #20, when I realized it had no credibility.

[ISiddiqui]

It actually wasn't that horrible of a list... especially for Rolling Stone.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Rolling Stone has released their list:

100 Best Albums of the Decade : Rolling Stone

They sure like U2.

[Butter]

I don't have the patience to do a full decade ranking, but my top 3 would probably be something like:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Avalanches - Since I Left You

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

I don't have the patience to do a full decade ranking, but my top 3 would probably be something like:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Avalanches - Since I Left You

It's supposed to be based on how much you like them, not alphabetically.

[Butter]

D'oh!

[whomario]

Originally Posted by cartman

One of my favorite albums of the decade was never sold. It was the Beastles, the Beastie Boys/Beatles mashup done by DJ bc. It still is in my regular listening rotation.

is that available anywhere in full ? just listened to a track on youtube and sounds interesting.

There was also sth called american edit by someone called Dean Gray a couple years back mashing up Green Days american idiot with a variety of songs, i really, really liked that : American Edit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



boulevard of broke dreams + oasis (wonderwall) + travis + eminem (which itself samples aerosmith)

sorry for the off topic.

[kwpit79]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

I had a buddy who was a huge Ben Folds Five fan, so I knew all these albums just being a passenger in his car. Wasn't nearly as big as a fan as he was.

BUT, I really liked his solo record, Rocking in the Suburbs.

[Easy Mac]

Finally got around to rating/compiling my list of top 25 (technically 26 with ties) albums of the decade. A couple surprised me, and I was surprised some were left off, but below is my unofficial list.

1.  Franz Ferdinand - Frand Ferdinand (2004)
2.  The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse (2007)
3.  My Morning Jacket - Z (2005)
4.  Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (2008)
4.  The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)
4.  The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006)
7.  Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (2006)
8.  TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
9.  Okkervil River - The Stage Names (2007)
9.  The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
11. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon (2005)
11. The Strokes - is This It (2001)
13. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (2008)
14. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
15. The National - Boxer (2007)
16. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (2007)
17. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
18. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
18. The Strokes - Room on Fire (2003)
20. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (2007)
20. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009)
22. The Dodos - Visiter (2008)
23. !!! - Myth Takes (2007)
24. Los Campesiños! - We're Beautiful, We're Doomed (2008)
25. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004)
25. The Zutons - Who Killed..... The Zutons? (2004)

This does not include any EPs/compilations, or some I never got around to listening to until recently (I'm really loving Wilco's YHF, but I never listened to it until recently for some reason).