Albums of the decade

[credoimprobus]

To accompany the song of the decade polling, let's have an albums of the decade thread! What have your favourite albums over the last 9,5 years been? Feel free to bring up non-pop albums, obv, and make sure to rep for any hidden gems!

Comments

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily my absolute favorites (several of which Frank already touched on, including his top four and the Ying Yang Twins -- I'll try to avoid redundancy), and not in any order whatsoever, and undoubtedly incomplete (since I haven't really been keeping a running list -- I culled these from a bunch of different lists) but all worth nominating anyway (we are nominating these for some kinda poll, right?), so what the heck:


I-F – Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1 (Panamamix)
Lifter Puller – Fiestas + Fiascos (The Self-Starter Foundation)
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera (Soul Dump)
(Various) – Epop Version_01 (Epic)
Gore Gore Girls – Gore Gore Girls (Get Hip)
Gary Allan – Alright Guy (MCA Nashville)
Toby Keith – Pull My Chain (Dreamworks)
Toby Keith – Unleashed (Dreamworks)
Gore Gore Girls – Up All Night (Get Hip)
Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road (Arista Nashville)
Toby Keith – Shock’N Y’all (Dreamworks)
Montgomery Gentry – You Do Your Thing (Columbia)
Little Big Town – The Road To Here (Equity)
Montgomery Gentry – Some People Change (Columbia)
Toby Keith – White Trash With Money (Show Dog Nashville/Universal)
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (French Kiss)
Skye Sweetnam – Noise from the Basement (Capitol)
Field Mob – From Tha Roota To Tha Toota (MCA)
Brooks & Dunn – Steers & Stripes (Arista Nashville)
(Various) – Bring It On (Playtone/Epic/Sony Music Soundtrax)
Deana Carter – The Story Of My Life (Vanguard)
Jamey Johnson – That Lonesome Song (Mercury)
Collin Raye – Never Going Back (Time Life)
Uz Jsme Doma – Cod-Liver Oil (Skoda)
Miranda Lambert - Kerosene (Epic)

Guess it's obvious what my favorite genre was this decade. (For what it's worth, said genre has never been my favorite genre in any previous decade.)

PS) WHY DO I HAVE TO RESET MY PASSWORD EVERY FUCKING TIME I POST ON LIVEJOURNAL??? SORRY, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS. I'M NOT FORGETTING IT; THE SITE IS. CHRIST!

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Ah, hadn't noticed the Frank already mentioned Bring It On. Suprised, though, that he listed Miranda Lambert's second album instead of her superior first one, which I thought he also preferred.

[koganbot]

See Dave below on Miranda. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has more that I like and love than the first, even if the first has one that I love more than anything on the second, and does far better wimpy ballads than the second one does. But the second one doesn't do very many ballads.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Oops, left out this one:

(Various) Motel Lovers: Southern Soul From The Chitlin Circuit(Trikont)

Reissues/Archival stuff is impossible; would require a whole 'nother thread (not that I'm suggesting one, or would promise to post on one if one existed.)

Also just remembered that I might actually prefer Ashlee's second album to her first, and/or (less likely) Fannypack's first album to their second; should maybe go back and relisten sometime this year to make sure.

Artist of the Decade: I'd probably go with Toby Keith, since that's who I'd almost always rather listen to, even if something in my conscience says Timbaland or Eminem might deserve it more.

Band of the Decade: Montgomery Gentry.

Lil Wayne, Trick Daddy, and White Stripes might well rank among my 10 favorite artists of the decade, for sheer consistency, but I don't think any of them has made a single album I'd rank among my 40 or so favorites. (I might rank Kid Rock higher, actually, even though his most significant album of the decade came out in 1998. Though by contrast, my favorite Timabaland album -- Welcome To Our World with Magoo -- came out in 1997. Come to think of it, maybe most his best stuff came out too early for the '00s.)

PS) Livejournal just forget my password again, by the way. I give up.

[koganbot]

These aren't nominations, just statements of what you like, so you should list the ones that others have already mentioned, just so that we'll know which ones you like.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Well, in that case, I'd say that these albums that Frank listed should also be counted among my '00s favorites (and most of them, I like more than most of the ones on my long list posted earlier):

Ashlee Simpson Autobiography
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Montgomery Gentry Carrying On
Big & Rich Horse Of A Different Color
The Ying Yang Twins Me And My Brother
Global Hits 2002
Aly & AJ Insomniatic
Fannypack See You Next Tuesday
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift
M.I.A./Diplo Piracy Funds Terrorism
Ashlee Simpson I Am Me
Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Also I replayed the first two Ashlee albums today, and was surprised to find how much I prefered her debut record. Second Fannypack album was sounding better than I'd remembered, too.

Livejournal just forget my password again

meant "forgot," obviously

[koganbot]

Most on this list would make an expanded Honorable Mentions list, if I were to do one.