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!

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[credoimprobus]

To kick things off, my vote for the noughties' lost gem is iiO's Poetica: incredibly sonically coherent (if you ignore the bonus tracks that got tacked onto the start instead of the end of the album, anyway), atmospheric, and hypnotic. Was my undisputed soundtrack of the summer back in '06!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Waaaaah so many!

QOTSA - Rated R
Cassie - Cassie
Scooter - Jumping All Over The World
Portishead - Third
Fergie - The Dutchess
Vitalic - V Live
Infernal - From Paris To Berlin
Britney - Blackout
Beyoncé - B Day
Kanye West - Graduation
Radiohead - Kid A
Ladytron - 604
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
MIA - Kala

Mixes should probably go in a separate category:

Luciano - Sci.fi.hi.fi vol 2
Magda - She's A Dancing Machine
Michael Mayer - Immer
Ellen Allien - Fabric 34

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Top 9:

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Amy Diamond - Still Me, Still Now
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Britney Spears - Blackout
Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Aly & AJ - Insomniatic
Sara Evans - Born to Fly

top 20 as it stands

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Studio - Yearbook One/West Coast
The Knife - Silent Shout 
The Avalanches - Since I Left You 
Basement Jaxx - Rooty 
Broadcast - The Future Crayon 
Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi 
Richard X - ...Presents His X-Factor Vol 1 
The Knife - Deep Cuts 
Erykah Badu - New AmErykah Part 1: 4th World War
Daft Punk - Discovery 
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash 
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry 
Broadcast - Tender Buttons 
Ladytron - 604 
Annie - Anniemal 
Feist - The Reminder 
Broadcast - Haha Sound 
Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cuts 
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner 

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'll have a proper look over the weekend, but my album of the decade is:
Under the Surface by Marit Larsen

[koganbot]

Albums not really representative of what I listen to (the first part of the decade was all about hip-hop and r&b for me, Trick Daddy and Trina and Ca$h Money and Timbo and Collipark and Swizz Beats etc. but the albs are usually spotty; as are albs by CSS and t.A.T.u. and Toby Keith and Kelly Clarkson and LeAnn Rimes and Taylor Swift and a whole number of others who would be up there as my Musical Artists Of The Decade).

PANTHEON

1. Ashlee Simpson Autobiography
2. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
3. Montgomery Gentry Carrying On
4. Big & Rich Horse Of A Different Color
5. Britney Spears Blackout
6. DJ Xclusive Cornerstone Mixtape 26 (March '01)
7. Paris Hilton Paris
8. The Ying Yang Twins Me And My Brother
9. Global Hits 2002

HONORABLE MENTION (no particular order, and some of these e.g. Fannypack might well belong in the Pantheon but I haven't listened to them recently)

Aly & AJ Insomniatic
Fannypack See You Next Tuesday
Marit Larsen Under The Surface
Kelly Clarkson Breakaway
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift
Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats
M.I.A./Diplo Piracy Funds Terrorism
Bring It On soundtrack
t.A.T.u. Dangerous and Moving
Ashlee Simpson I Am Me
Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Danity Kane Welcome To The Dollhouse
CSS Donkey

ARCHIVAL

Guitars Of The Golden Triangle
Rocket From The Tombs The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs

[koganbot]

Montgomery Gentry "She Couldn't Change Me"; obnoxious and in your face, not the best thing on Carrying On (and this upload is a shitty rip), but it grabbed me immediately and is what motivated me to pay consistent attention to country for the first time in my life. I love how it's hard rock and slick rock at the same time, with twangs on top to declare itself "country" but is really country claiming ownership of rock. Meanwhile it just plants itself in your road and says "Deal with me":

[koganbot]

Big & Rich "Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy," not nearly my favorite on Horse Of A Different Color, but a hilarious video. Unfortunately, one of lj's peculiarities is that, while they let me embed dailymotion vids in posts, they don't let me embed them in comments, so here's the link. Anyhow, is full-throttle into disco and funk and rock and whatever they feel like tossing in, including enough countryisms to get this on the country stations, hence a redefinition of country that explicitly cites the genre's black sources and insists that anything can potentially belong in its parade.

Long list...

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
William Shatner - Has Been
Marnie Stern - This is it and I am it and you are it and so is that
Bon Jovi _ Have A Nice Day
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Harry & The Potters - And the Power of Love
The Ataris - So Long Astoria
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live
Explosions in the Sky - All of a sudden I miss everyone
Puffy AmiYumi - Nice
The Philistines Jr - Analog vs Digital or we don't get the respect we deserve in today's scientific community
Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve
Avril Lavigne - Let Go
Shakira - Laundry Service
Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Battlelore - The Last Alliance
Juniper Moon - El Resto Di Mi Vida
Ms John Soda - Notes and the Like
Weezer - Make Believe
Poison - Hollyweird

[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!

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

My Top Twenty looks something like this:

Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Marit Larsen - Under the Surface
Daft Punk - Discovery
Britney Spears - Blackout
Skye Sweetnam - Noise from the Basement
Kylie Minogue - Fever
MIA - Kala
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Radiohead - Kid A
Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Gogol Bordello - Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
M2M - Shades of Purple
MIA/Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism
Margaret Berger - Pretty Scary Silver Fairy
The Ark - State of the Ark

Contenders: Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Ashlee Simpson - I Am Me, Busdriver - Fear of a Black Tangent, V/A - Hyphy Hitz

Will probably place in 20 from 2009: The-Dream Love v. Money

in no order whatsoever

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

dr dre- 2001
eminemg- slim shady lp (or maybe marshall mathers but i don't knoooow because i find it v. hard to listen to a lot of the latter these days whereas that song about mushrooms on the first song is still PURE GRATE)
distillers- coral fang
mastodon- leviathan
mylo- whatever his album was called
tegan & sara- so jealous
mcfly- radio:active
jazmine sullivan- fearless
boards of canada- music has the right to children
2562- aerial
dev townsend- accelerated evolution
rachel stevens- come & get it
k-nife- silent shout
grills aloud- tangled up
down- down II a bustle in yr hedgerow
high contrast- whatever the first one's called
wino- back to black
emilie autumn- opheliac
morgan grace & the hidden hands/romanovs- and the moon was hungry
aaliyah- uh whatever the one with 'try again' is called FFS BRANE
this will destroy you- s/t
school of seven bells- alphinisms
bright eyes- digital ash in a digital urn
jackson & his computer band- smash
fall out boy- dude what is wrong with my head. that last one that they released.

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I have a top one consisting of:
Ghostface Killah: Fishscale

Otherwise, I rather post-album.

more long list

[gingermint.livejournal.com]

Aberfeldy - Young Forever
The Ark - In Lust We Trust
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Margaret Berger - Pretty Scary Silver Fairy
Blur - Think Tank
The Books - Lost and Safe
David Byrne - Look Into The Eyeball
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Cornelius - Point
Daft Punk - Discovery
Edith Frost - Wonder Wonder
Hot Chip - The Warning
The Knife - Deep Cuts
The Knife - Silent Shout
Marit Larsen - Under the Surface
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Pop Levi - Never Never Love
Low - Drums and Guns
Manitoba - Up In Flames
M.I.A. - Arular
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Kylie Minogue - Fever
The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
Okkervil River - Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See
Paris Hilton - Paris
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Robyn
Henrik Schwarz - DJ Kicks
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Keith Urban - Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Why? - Alopecia
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Richard X - Presents His X Factor, Volume One
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Bertine Zetlitz - My Italian Greyhound