Top 10's

[c0micb0y]

So we're nearing the end of another decade. Holy shit, where did it go? Weren't the 90's like yesterday?

As such, my friends and I got discussing our favourites of each decade last week, and though many albums came to mind, narrowing down ten was difficult. It hurts to leave so many out (sorry OK Computer and Kid A), but here are my personal faves.

 

00's

Constantines - Constantines (2001)

Dears - No Cities Left (2003)

Dears - Gang of Losers (2006)

Matthew Good - Avalanche (2003)

Matthew Good - White Light Rock n

[noise_pollution]

I will make my lists later, but I will chime in with this. I really don't agree with Pitchfork's number one album of the 00's. I personally wouldn't even put Kid A it in my top 10. I am really surprised that Funeral wasn't number one. I would say its number one, that or maybe Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Sound of Silver is pretty damn good too.

[alex_madf3rit]

In no particular order

 

90's

 

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

Radiohead - OK Computer

U2 - Achtung Baby

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Stereophonics - Word Comes Around

Pearl Jam - Vrs

MGB - Beautiful Midnight

Radiohead - The Bends

Blur - Parklife

Pulp - Different Class

Weezer - The Blue Album

Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape

The Verve - Urban Hymns

 

00's

 

Radiohead - Kid A

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

The Good The Bad and The Queen

Matthew Good - Avalanche

Muse - Absolution

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Stereophonics - Language, Sex, Violence, Other?

Oasis - heathen Chemistry

 

 

Way too hard to pick just 10 from the 90's

[bishopx]

This is going to kill me, so many discs so hard to choose. So I'm going to cheat, artists with multiple albums will count as one.

 

90's

The Cure - Wish

Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

Rush - Roll The Bones, Test For Echo, Counterparts

Matthew Good Band - LOTGA, Raygun, Beautiful Midnight, AOB, Underdogs, Lo-Fi B-Sides

U2 - Actung Baby

Pearl Jam - Ten, VS

Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt, Alice In Chains

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

The Singles Soundtrack

Dave Matthews Band - UTTAD, Crash, BTCS

 

I have to go pick up my buddy from work. I'll do the 00's tomorrow.

[here is no why]

From the 90's

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Weezer - Pinkerton

Radiohead - OK Computer

Oasis - Be Here Now

the Verve - A Northern Soul

Blind Melon - Soup

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie + Infanite Sadness

Tool - Aenema

Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

 

too hard, I could add some Pearl Jam / RATM / Beastie Boys /

 

From the 00's

Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Matthew Good - Avalanche

Vampire Weekend - s/t

Pearl Jam - Backspacer

the White Stripes - Icky Thump

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Tool - Lateralus

 

that was hard as well.

[LonelyWreckage]

I'm not gonna get away with just 10 for the 90's, so I'll just do the 00's, with even this being difficult.

 

Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell (2004)

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000)

Muse - Origin of Symmetry (2001)

The Music - The Music (2002)

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (2000)

Editors - The Back Room (2005)

The Concretes - The Concretes (2003)

Matthew Good Band - Audio of Being (2001)

JJ72 - JJ72 (2001)

The Vines - Highly Evolved (2002)

[Audio of Being]

90s

1. Pearl Jam - Vs.

2. Soundgarden - Superunknown

3. Radiohead - The Bends

4. Weezer - Pinkerton

5. Weezer - Blue Album

6. Pearl Jam - Ten

7. Oasis - Whats The Story Morning Glory

8. Radiohead- OK Computer

9. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie...

10. Pearl Jam - Vitology

 

00s

1. Matthew Good Band - Audio of Being

2. Oasis - Standing On The Shoulders of Giants

3. Weezer - Green Album

4. Matthew Good - Avalanche

5. Sam Roberts - We Were Born In A Flame

6. Matt Mays And El Torpedo

7. Tool - Lateralus

8. Matthew Good - Hospital Music

9. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

10. Wilco - A Ghost is Born

 

Edit: I hated to leave off Songs For The Deaf by QOSTA, and In Rainbows.

Edited October 7, 2009 by Audio of Being

[Gomo]

Not in order, wanted to avoid using more than 2 albums for a band in each list. Unfortunately there's not much variety despite that :b I am stuck in my ways.

 

90s

 

The Smashing Pumpklins - Siamese Dream

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

Radiohead - OK Computer

Radiohead - The Bends

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight

Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (YEAH THAT'S RIGHT)

Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose

Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl

 

00s

 

David Gray - White Ladder

Ryan Adams - Love is Hell

Matthew Good - Hospital Music

Coldplay - Parachutes

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Yes - Magnification

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Matthew Good - Avalanche

The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

Edited October 7, 2009 by Gomo

[Audio of Being]

There is nothing wrong with Adore. It is one of my favorites as well, just not a top ten.

[noise_pollution]

90's:

 

Ten - Pearl Jam

Nevermind - Nirvana

Blue Album - Weezer

Morning Glory - Oasis

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Beautilful Midnight - Matthew Good Band

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

Color and the Shape - Foo Fighters

O.K. Computer - Radiohead

The Bends - Radiohead

 

00's:

 

Audio of Being - Matthew Good

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

Funeral - Arcade Fire

Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

Elephant - The White Stripes

Is This It? - The Strokes

Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon

Good News for the People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse

Edited October 7, 2009 by noise_pollution

[here is no why]

It was hard for me to choose Mellon Collie over Adore actually. I think Adore is the better album on a whole but Mellon Collie has more variety and is closer to my heart.

 

it's too hard really to do something like this.

 

I left out Sam Roberts, QOTSA, MACHINA, Interpol, Soundgarden, Wu-Tang, Chronic 2001... and on and on and on...

[cweb]

Catherine Wheel - Adam & Eve (1998)

 

yes. absolutely amazing.

 

now out of print, too!

[shade]

1990's

 

01 - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness

02 - Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right to Children

03 - Radiohead - OK Computer

04 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In

05 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

06 - Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

07 - Smashing Pumpkins - Adore

08 - Smog - The Doctor Came At Dawn

09 - Tori Amos - Boys For Pele

10 - Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

 

2000's

 

01 - The Microphones - Mount Eerie

02 - Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

03 - Radiohead - Kid A

04 - Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

05 - cLOUDDEAD - Ten

06 - Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

07 - The National - Boxer

08 - Patrick Wolf - Lyncanthropy

09 - Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi

10 - The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

[borntohula]

someone likes his lo-fi.

 

this is hard. these lists are by no means final or absolute, but i can stand by them and say that they're at least a decent representation of what i liked from each decade. i listen to way too much music to be able to come up with only 10 albums. i could make 10 lists of 10 and still be happy with each as a representation of what i liked.

 

in no order whatsoever:

 

top 10 90s:

 

blur - parklife

outkast - stankonia

mr bungle - california

beck - one foot in the grave

the roots - things fall apart

massive attack - mezzanine

refused - the shape of punk to come

tool - aenima

drive like jehu - yank crime

the jesus lizard - goat

 

top 10 00s:

 

dirty projectors - rise above

isis - wavering radiant

portishead - third

no age - nouns

tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain

cave in - perfect pitch black

converge - jane doe

unwound - leaves turn inside you

matthew good - avalanche

the new pornographers - twin cinema

[Devil On Rollerskates]

This is gonna be difficult.

 

Top Ten of the 90s (in no particular order)

 

1. Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight

2. Weezer - Pinkerton

3. Pearl Jam - Ten

4. Soundgarden - Superunknown

5. System of a Down - Self-Titled

6. Incubus - Make Yourself

7. The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us

8. Rage Against The Machine - Self-Titled

9. Metallica - Self-Titled (The Black Album)

10. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

 

Top Ten of the 00s (again in no particular order)

 

1. Matthew Good - Avalanche

2. Pearl Jam - Self-Titled (Avocado)

3. System of a Down - Toxicity

4. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

5. Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder

6. Sam Roberts - We Were Born In A Flame

7. Matthew Good - Vancouver

8. The Tragically Hip - World Container

9. Metallica - Death Magnetic

10. Incubus - Morning View

[Computer]

Really? 2 incubus' in the 00's?

[c0micb0y]

top 10 00s:

 

dirty projectors - rise above

tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain

 

Great choices - I prefer Bitte Orca, and Dear Science tho

[shade]

not enough love for desperate youth....

[borntohula]

not enough love for desperate youth....

 

it's solid. just a bit samey. t'was my favourite for a loooong time.

[Prometheon]

I am shocked at the lack of Chromeo's "Fancy Footwork" on here. C'MON PEOPLE! EVERYONE loves Chromeo! It'd be like neglecting Discovery by Daft Punk!

Edited October 16, 2009 by Prometheon

[borntohula]

I am shocked at the lack of Chromeo's "Fancy Footwork" on here. C'MON PEOPLE! EVERYONE loves Chromeo! It'd be like neglecting Discovery by Daft Punk!

 

this is probably the most questionable thing you've said, ever. they're like our version of hall and oates.

[ccf23]

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I'll do my 2000's later.

[c0micb0y]

Chromeo... meh. Doesn't stick to my ribs.

[c0micb0y]

Seriously, if you haven't listened to Tangiers: Never Bring You Pleasure (2004), do yourself an honestagoodness favour and find it.

Screw it, you won't find it... here it is. They've disbanded anyway.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=57f390e...04e75f6e8ebb871

 

Also, I'd forgotten about Fashion Nugget! Great album

[ccf23]

Seriously, if you haven't listened to Tangiers: Never Bring You Pleasure (2004), do yourself an honestagoodness favour and find it.

Screw it, you won't find it... here it is. They've disbanded anyway.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=57f390e...04e75f6e8ebb871

 

Also, I'd forgotten about Fashion Nugget! Great album

 

I've seen CAKE live. I expected them to be very good, but I didn't expect it to rank with the best concerts I've seen and it did. It was at a fairly intimate venue and they were just so tight and good. I'll see them again every time they come to Vancouver. Such an underrated band.