D'angelo - Voodoo
Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Prince - The Rainbow Children
Daft Punk - Discovery
Plantlife - The Return Of Jack Splash
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Jimi Tenor - Out Of Nowhere
Prince - 3121
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
The Stokes - Is This It
Arcade Fire - Funeral
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby
Cee-Lo Green- is The Soul Machine
Benny Sings - Benny at Home
Prince - Planet Earth
Van Hunt On The Jungle Floor
Zoot Woman - living In A Magazine
!!! - Lounden Up Now
Metro Area - Metro Area
Chromeo - Shes In Control
Cut Copy - Bright like Neon Love
Jimi Tenor - Beyond The Stars
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Outkast - Idlewild
Common -Electric Circus
The Heritage Orchestra - The Heritage Orchestra
Kos - Atlantis - Hymns For Disco.
Sharon Jones - 100 Days and 100 Nights
Meshell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made me The Man of My Dreams
Common - Like Chocolate For Water
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Prince - Musicology
Beck - The information
The Strokes - Room On Fire
Razorlight - Razorlight
Beck - Sea Change
Muse - Black holes and Revelations
Amp Fiddler - Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly
Van Hunt - Van Hunt
Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face

Prince - 3121
Prince - Musicology
Prince - Planet Earth
Prince - The Rainbow Children
Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey
Jamiroquai - Dynamite

Dr. Fink and a guy named Marcel had a decent album also. Other than that.....NEXT!!!!! That's about it.

guillemots - windowpayne...an absolute masterpiece in musical and vocal beauty.
easily in my view the best, most complete album released in years.

It actually came in early in the decade.

Alice - Tom Waits

Runners-up.

Smile - Brian Wilson
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards - Tom Waits
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations - Eels
Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan Band
Vespertine - Bjork

Top 80 of the decade so far:

1 . Björk - Vespertine ( 2001 )
2 . The Cure - BloodFlowers ( 2000 )
3 . Kylie Minogue - Fever ( 2001 )
4 . Annie - Anniemal ( 2004 )
5 . Annie Lennox - Bare ( 2003 )
6 . Kylie Minogue - Body Language ( 2003 )
7 . LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver ( 2007 )
8 . Janet Jackson - All for You ( 2001 )
9 . Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand ( 2004 )
10 . The Strokes - Room on Fire ( 2003 )
11 . Blondie - The Curse of Blondie ( 2003 )
12 . Arcade Fire - Funeral ( 2004 )
13 . Gorillaz - Demon Days ( 2005 )
14 . Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor ( 2005 )
15 . Dannii Minogue - Neon Nights ( 2003 )
16 . Prince - 3121 ( 2006 )
17 . Missy Elliott - Miss E… So Addictive ( 2001 )
18 . Morrissey - You Are the Quarry ( 2004 )
19 . N.E.R.D. - In Search Of… ( 2001 )
20 . Chromeo - Fancy Footwork ( 2007 )
21 . David Bowie - Heathen ( 2002 )
22 . !!! - Myth Takes ( 2007 )
23 . Kylie Minogue - X ( 2007 )
24 . Kylie Minogue - Light Years ( 2000 )
25 . Madonna - American Life ( 2003 )
26 . Sade - Lovers Rock ( 2000 )
27 . Prince - One Nite Alone ( 2002 )
28 . The Strokes - Is This It? ( 2001 )
29 . P.J. Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea ( 2000 )
30 . RES - How I Do ( 2001 )
31 . Aaliyah - Aaliyah ( 2001 )
32 . Annie Lennox - Songs of Mass Destruction ( 2007 )
33 . Strokes - First Impressions of Earth ( 2006 )
34 . Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better ( 2005 )
35 . Vive le Fête - Nuit Blanche ( 2003 )
36 . LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem ( 2005 )
37 . Björk - Volta ( 2007 )
38 . Arcade Fire - Neon Bible ( 2007 )
39 . Busta Rhymes - Genesis ( 2001 )
40 . !!! - Louden Up Now ( 2004 )
41 . Björk - Medúlla ( 2004 )
42 . Janet Jackson - 20 Y.O. ( 2006 )
43 . Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold ( 2006 )
44 . No Doubt - Rock Steady ( 2001 )
45 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell ( 2003 )
46 . Prince - Planet Earth ( 2007 )
47 . PJ Harvey - White Chalk ( 2007 )
48 . Sigur Ros - Takk ( 2004 )
49 . Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors ( 2006 )
50 . Peaches - Impeach My Bush ( 2006 )
51 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones ( 2006 )
52 . Chromeo - She's in Control ( 2004 )
53 . Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel ( 2005 )
54 . Gwen Stefani - Love.Angel.Music.Baby. ( 2004 )
55 . David Bowie - Reality ( 2003 )
56 . Missy Elliott - This Is Not a Test ( 2003 )
57 . Justice - Cross ( 2007 )
58 . New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call ( 2005 )
59 . Peaches - Fatherfucker ( 2003 )
60 . My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade ( 2006 )
61 . Cure - The Cure ( 2004 )
62 . Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine ( 2004 )
63 . Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary ( 2005 )
64 . Goldfrapp - Supernature ( 2005 )
65 . Björk - Selmasongs ( 2000 )
66 . Robert Randolph - Unclassified ( 2003 )
67 . M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts ( 2003 )
68 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is (EP) ( 2007 )
69 . U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind ( 2000 )
70 . Gorillaz - Gorillaz ( 2001 )
71 . Girls Aloud - Chemistry ( 2005 )
72 . Interpol - Antics ( 2004 )
73 . Ladytron - Witching Hour ( 2005 )
74 . Hot Chip - The Warning ( 2006 )
75 . Prince - Musicology ( 2004 )
76 . Vive le Fête - Grand Prix ( 2005 )
77 . Deborah Harry - Necessary Evil ( 2007 )
78 . Janet Jackson - Damita Jo ( 2004 )
79 . Human League - Secrets ( 2001 )
80 . N.E.R.D. - Fly or Die ( 2004 )

Romeoblu said:

That's a great list, like your style
Some additions:
Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
Pernice Brothers: Discover a Lovelier You
Postal Service
Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
[Edited 2/14/08 8:31am]

...
[Edited 2/19/08 15:12pm]

Some of my favs:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Weezer - Weezer
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor
Modest Mouse - Good News For People That Love Bad News
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Jay Z - The Black Album
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
David Bowie - Heathen
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

This thread is really making me appreciate this decade a bit more
unfortunately, I think all my favorites have been mentioned already

Can't believe I forgot to include

Outkast - Stankonia
Nick Cave And The Bad Seed - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Kate Bush - Aerial
Brain Wilson -Smile
Darren Hayes - The Tension And The Spark
Amy Winehouse - Black To Black
Felix Da House Cat - The Kittenz And The Glitz
Felix Da House Cat - Virgo Blaktro And The Movie Disco


and I agree Tom Waits Alice is a great album but I thought Blood Money was even better.
[Edited 2/14/08 9:18am]

Mara said:

WTF! what happened!? your post was near perfect


....aside from Brooke Valentine

thekidsgirl said:

*DEAD* I LOVE YOU.

Mara said:

Oh, okay thats better...but, Fefe Dobson?...why?

thekidsgirl said:

Because I like teenage pop-rock by black grrrls with suburban Toronto accents who idolize Kurt Cobain and The Runaways.


And because I'm special like that.
[Edited 2/14/08 10:09am]

1 ) Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End
2 ) Scott Walker - The Drift
3 ) Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
4 ) The Fall - The Real New Fall LP
5 ) Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
6 ) Steve Wynn - Tick…Tick…Tick
7 ) Delgados - the great eastern
8 ) Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
9 ) The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
10 ) Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
11 ) Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You
12 ) Handsome Family - The Last Days of Wonder
13 ) Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
14 ) Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
15 ) Lambchop - Nixon
16 ) Joe Pernice - Big Tobacco
17 ) LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
18 ) Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
19 ) Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
20 ) Rodney Crowell - Fate's Right Hand
21 ) Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
22 ) New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
23 ) Bob Dylan - Modern Times
24 ) Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear
25 ) Smog - A River Ain't Too Much In Love
26 ) Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
27 ) Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease On Down the Road
28 ) Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
29 ) Delgados - Hate
30 ) The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
31 ) Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
32 ) New Pornographers - Electric Version
33 ) Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine and Ours
34 ) The Books - Lost and Safe
35 ) Grandaddy - Sumday
36 ) Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
37 ) Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
38 ) The Decemberists - Picaresque
39 ) The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
40 ) Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat
41 ) Delgados - Universal Audio
42 ) Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
43 ) Go-Betweens - Friends of Rachel Worth
44 ) Handsome Family - In The Air
45 ) Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travellers
46 ) Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullabies
47 ) Beulah - YOKO
48 ) Orange Peels - So Far
49 ) Pulp - We Love Life
50 ) Rodney Crowell - Houston Kid
51 ) Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
52 ) Vincent Gallo - When
53 ) Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
54 ) Neil Halstead - Sleeping On Roads
55 ) Old 97's - Satellite Rides
56 ) St. Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
57 ) Elf Power - Creatures
58 ) High Llamas - Beet, Maize and Corn
59 ) Mojave 3 - Spoon and Rafter
60 ) Venetian Snares - Chocolat Wheelchair Album
61 ) Magnetic Fields - I
62 ) Icarus Line - Penance Soiree
63 ) Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
64 ) Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
65 ) !!! - Louden Up Now
66 ) The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
67 ) Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
68 ) The Bats - The Bats at the National Grid
69 ) Teenage Fanclub - Man-made
70 ) Magic Numbers - Magic Numbers
71 ) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
72 ) Lucinda Williams - West
73 ) Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
74 ) ali farke toure - savane
75 ) Go-Betweens - That Striped Sunlight Sound

damosuzuki said:

Have you heard each of their 2007 albums yet?

damosuzuki said:

Sooo typical.

Moonbeam said:

I haven't heard either of them outside of the singles. Both albums are on my agenda, but unfortunately I don't really have time these days for new music. In fact I'm barely listening to anything these days, old or new...

damosuzuki said:

I have to thank you for your songs ballot, as I had never heard "Teenage Kicks" before. It's great!

malcolmmooney said:

You're gonna keep that account in reserve forever, aren't you?


Have you heard Future Days yet? Surely you can't still be clinging to that 'Mooney beats Suzuki' minority opinion?

Moonbeam said:

Ah, I do so love that song. The entire album's quite a good listen with most of the songs in the same power-pop/punk mold, several almost as good as Teenage Kicks - one of the best records of the UK punk era, I feel.

damosuzuki said:

Girl I bet cha I could wet cha
really nice and slow!

I haven't heard Future Days yet, but I am eager to give it a spin. I've been busy with moving, so I haven't had much time for music, either!

I don't think Mooney will be displaced though. Delay 1968 only furthered my appreciation of Mr. Upstairs Downstairs.

damosuzuki said:

You ranked it Number 1! It made the top 100 in the overall results. Did you see them?

I might have to check out some Undertones material.

Moonbeam said:

I've seen the results - I'm staying in lurk mode there since I threw that little hissy fit. Very well presented by the way - that must have taken a great deal of time. Hats off to you, as you obviously put a lot of work into it.

damosuzuki said:

It was a pleasure to compile, and I've learned quite a bit, which was the point of running it for me!

It seems Anthony has turned over a new leaf, for the time being anyway!

Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ryan Adams - John Mayer
John Mayer - Continuum
NIN - With Teeth
Peter Gabriel - UP
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation
Josh Rouse - 1972/Nashville
The Dissociatives - The Dissociative
Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Beck- Sea Change
D'angelo - Voodoo
Josh Rouse - Bedroom Classics Vol. 2
The Weepies - Say I Am You
Yoav - Charmed and Strange
Bjork - Vespertine
Mum - Finally We are No'one
Sigur Ros - ()
Sigur Ros - Takk
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Postal Service debut
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlantacism

In no order

U2- All that you cant leave Behind
Elton John - Songs from the West Coast
Bon Jovi- Crush
Amerie- Because I love it
Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
Norah Jones- Come Away with Me
a-Ha - Minor Earth Major Sky
a-Ha - Analogue
Magne F- Past perfect Future Tense
Tears For Fears- Everybody loves a happy ending
Rick Springfield- Shock Denial Anger Acceptance
Prince- Rainbow Children
John Mellencamp- Freedoms Road
Norah Jones- Feels like Home
Coldplay- Parachutes
REM- around the sun
Paul McCartney- Chaos
Paul McCartney- Memory almost full
Ryan Adams- Easy Tiger
Ryan Adams- 29
Jayhawks- Smile

in no particular order.

my favorites, anyway. and i'm limiting it to one per artist.

Bjork - Vespertine
Madonna - American Life
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
Me'shell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams
David Bowie - Heathen
Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
Elton John - Songs From The West Coast
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Johnny Cash - Americann IV: The Man Comes Around
kd lang - Hymns Of the 49th Parallel



that's all i can think of at the moment.

Mara said:

well then, that explains it!

no Dilla? gtfoh