Here it is, a list of my favourite 21 albums of the first ten years of the 21st century. There are 21 because that's just the way it panned out. The criteria is simply which albums have I listened to the most since the new millenium.
I also cross referenced my fading memories of yearly album lists I compiled when I worked in a record shop and lists made with friends after this. Here is a podcast released in Dec 2008 reviewing that year in music with Jack Mountain and TheoGb. My Lastfm profile is here. The decade list seems to favour the first half with no albums from 2007 at all. The list is currently in chronological order and features one act from the UK, one from Japan and two from Canada.
Tracks From My Albums Of The Noughties
I also cross referenced my fading memories of yearly album lists I compiled when I worked in a record shop and lists made with friends after this. Here is a podcast released in Dec 2008 reviewing that year in music with Jack Mountain and TheoGb. My Lastfm profile is here. The decade list seems to favour the first half with no albums from 2007 at all. The list is currently in chronological order and features one act from the UK, one from Japan and two from Canada.
Tracks From My Albums Of The Noughties
Animal Collective - “Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished”
(2000) Paw Tracks, reiussed 2003 by Fat Cat Records
Related - Flaming Lips, Black Dice, Forever Changes, Roland SH-2, psychedelic, feedback loops
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven” (2000) Constellation Records
Related - A Silver Mt Zion, field recordings, strings
Track - Storm
At The Drive-In - “Relationship Of Command” (2000) Grand Royal
Related – Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu, Texas, post-hardcore, afros
Track – At the Drive-In – Quarantined
Cannibal Ox - “The Cold Vein” (2001) Def Jux
Related - Wu-Tang Clan, El-P, Harlem, backpacks, indie hip hop
Track - Cannibal Ox – Battle For Asgard
Hood - “Cold House” (2001) Domino Records
Les Savy Fav - “Go Forth” (2001) French Kiss
Related – Dismemberment Plan, Pixies, Talking Heads, live performance, art, indie
Do Make Say Think - “& Yet & Yet” (2002) Constellation Records
Track - Classic Noodlanding
Related – Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Japanese noise, murder, death, kill
Track - Amaryllis
Related – Pavement, The Year Punk Broke, Jim O'Rourke,indie
Track - Sonic Youth – The Empty Page
Related– Edan, Company Flow, Cannibal Ox,Brooklyn, indie hip hop
Track - El-P – Dr. Hellno & The Praying Mantus
Track - El-P – Dr. Hellno & The Praying Mantus
Track - Big Drop
Related- Sebadoh, The Replacements, In The Red Records, indie, garage
Track - A Flower In The Ending
Related – The Van Pelt, The Lapse, Bruce Springsteen, anthemic
Track - House of Cats
Track - House of Cats
Shipping News - “Flies The Field” (2005) Touch & Go Records / Quarterstick
Related – June Of 44, Rodan, Enablers, Chicago indie
Track - The Human Face
Marnie Stern - “This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That” (2008) Kill Rock Stars
Related – Hella, Fleetwood Mac, Zach Hill, Kate Bush, prog, punk, indie
Track - Crippled Jazzer
Track - Crippled Jazzer
Related – The Mae Shi, No Age, LA, The Smell, tropicalia, punk
Track - Bear Face
Track - Bear Face
HEALTH - “GET COLOR” (2009) Lovepump Unlimited
Related – Squarepusher, Fuck Buttons, Crystal Castles, LA, avant rock, indie, punk
Track - Health – Die Slow
Oneida - “Rated O” (2009) Jagjaguwar
Related – Liars, Can, Neu, classic rock, avant rock, experimental
Track - Oneida – I Will Haunt You
Track - Oneida – I Will Haunt You
Bubbling under - Radiohead - "Kid A" (2000), Tortoise - "Standards", Hot Snakes - "Suicide Invoice", Edan - "Primitive Plus", Tom Waits - "Real Gone", Clouddead - s/t, Dananananaykroyd- "Hey Everyone"
Thanks for reading!
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I've been thinking about this and figure it's too hard. So instead here's my bands of the 00's. All qualified because they put out 2 or more sweet discs this decade: Animal Collective/Lightning Bolt/OCS or Oh Sees/Doom or Villain or Vaughn/The Decemberists/Deerhoof/Comets on Fire/Black Eyes/Ghostface Killah/Fiery Furnaces/Les Savy Fav/M.I.A/Liars/Castanets/Hot Snakes/Boredoms/The Microphones/Coachwhips/Oneida
ReplyDeleteenjoyed reading this very much. some overlap with my list that you commented on at last.fm, some i wish i could've included, and some new things to explore.
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