BEST 30 or so ALBUMS OF THE DECADE (in my opinion)
This was posted on my Facebook page because friends wanted to know what I thought. I figured I would post it here just for fun and maybe hear what a few people on MOG would have to say.
There are no 2009 albums included because that was going to be a different post (for there. Not here)
Libertines - Up The Bracket - They could have been one of the greats
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours - Amphetamine Reptile meet Billy Childish down under
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm - The Cure, Big Black and Prince walk into a bar...
Sleater - Kinney - The Woods - Their fullest, heaviest, best and sadly their last album
Cinerama - Torino -The perfect sound of Cinerama turning back into the Wedding Present
Explosion - Flash Flash Flash- Punk Rock with melody and so much fun to sing along with
From Ashes Rise - Nightmares - This album gave me them for weeks
Shellac - 1000 Hurts - The song "Prayer to God" is better than any song on any album on this list
Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men - Anyone remember the music term "Pigfuck"? Well these guys are bringing it back
Nada Surf - Proximity Effect - No longer "Popular", they are free to put out a great guitar driven album
Fucked Up - Chemistry Of Common Life - Hardcore/Punk like no one has ever done it before. But all will try
JR Ewing - Ride Paranoia - Best band at CMJ fest 2003
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning - Maybe their last great album but definitely their most evil one
Easy Action - s/t - John Brannon goes Detroit Rock and Roll but still has that voice every singer wishes they could have
Longwave - The Strangest Things - Not all NYC bands from the early '00s has to try to sound like the Strokes
Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site - Propagandhi who?
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes - The sound of a band when they are young an there are no expectations
Tragedy - s/t - His Hero Is Gone just got a little heavier
Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Commatorium - Not sure what drugs these guys were on but I would like to know where I can get some
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell - To be totally honest it took me 6 years to realize how good this album is
The Thermals - Fuckin A - 12 songs in 28 minutes of FM ready Power-Pop with a little bit of THE FALL thrown in
The Kills - Keep On your mean side - Alison from Discount grows up....a lot.
Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance - To quote a review I read "The best Talking Heads album Bikini Kill never recorded"
Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight - Drive Like Jehu for the new Millenium
Converge - You Fail Me -Converge sets Stoner Metal a new bar
Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish - Coner Oberst at his least pretentious
Lucero - That much further West - Everything they do is great. This is their best.
Mission Of Burma - onoffon - First album in 22 years does not miss even one beat
Postal Service - Give Up - Death Cab becomes more boring and suffocating each year. This was fresh air
Deehoof - Milkmen - Very noisy, very intense and very cute at the same time
William Shatner - Has Been - Maybe his is, maybe he isn't but this album's version of "Common People" was the best cover song of the decade
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Comments (12)
I'll accept everything except the last one. Common People is still EXTREMELY revelant, yet the people who it applies to can only cite the Shatner version now.
Wow, a list without Animal Collective; let's freakin' frame it ;)
Haha seriously Anna
LOL! ...and I thought I was the only one on Mog who has not got Animal Collective on a Hard Drive....
Again, great list. Love the obscurity of some of these and the relavance of others. Nada Surf is still in my opinion one heck of an underrated band.
I didn't even know that Animal Collective was from Baltimore (sort of my home town) until this year.
PS - is Lucero the one that covered Kiss the Bottle? I LOVE that version.
I dint know Animal Collectie was from Baltimore unti you said it right now! I knew the album "Merriweather Post Pavillion" was named after the concert venue across the street from where I grew up in Columbia, MD (where I saw R.E.M., Soul Asylum, The Kinks in the 90s and also where my high achool graduation was) but I did not know they were from there.
Actually Dave Sitek from TV on the Radio is from Columbia Md. I grew up with him He was a year older then me and we went to school together from elementry school through High School. I actually have his High School band AKAMILI's demo tape and I am looking for a way to put it on disc if anyone knows how to do it, The Drummer Nate Morton is now a acomplished drummer. He also played drums on that INXS reality show from a few years back.
I have tried over and over again but just cannot get into Animal Collective. The same also goes for the Decemberist. Except for the song that was in Mad Men it just doesnt click for me.
The same also goes for, dare I say it, The Arcade Fire. I keep on giving them another shot and it is well done but just not anything fantastic
There have been a few bands in the past that just were not fr me that al of a sudden clicked (Sleater-Kinney,Kid Dynamite) so maybe in the future I will be A.C. and A.F. biggest fans
Eric: Lucero did the Jawbreaker cover. It's on the "Attic Tapes" cd but I think was originally on a b-side to a single
so glad to see Lucero on someones list, love those guys!
yay, De-Loused In The Commatorium and Reconstruction Site.
Blurb on Milkmen - true. Blurb on TVOTR - sad and true.
I didn't know that about you and TVOTR dude. The closest I got to them was seeing them hanging out in front of the Bowery before a headlining Cafe Tacuba gig in '03. I didn't know who they were and I was clueless. Said 'hi' to em and asked where they were from.
Have Sleater "Hot Rocks" - don't like it. Finally got into Arcade Fire after Neon Bible came out. It took me a while. Funeral didn't grab me at first - same boat as you.
Decemberists finally clicked during the last album for me. Took me a while on that too but the lyrics are just too dark and good to overlook it - The Rake song - look it up and read the lyrics while listening to the song.
I have as much room on my hard drive for Decemberists as I have for Animal Collective....