Decade’s Music

8 Comments

1. 

   Ned

   January 8, 2010 at 1:29 pm

   1 Devotchka – How It Ends
   2 Kila – Luna Park
   3 Sigur Ros – Takk or ( )
   4 Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
   5 John Hammond – Wicked Grin
   6 Wynton Marsalis – Live at the House of Tribes
   7 Spaccanapoli – Lost Souls
   8 Tabla Beat Science – Live in Los Angeles*
   9 Kronos Quartet – Floodplain or Pieces of Africa
   10 Animal Collective – Feels*

   * These are the only albums I am keen on now, but not sure I will be in a few years.
2. 

   Shotts

   January 8, 2010 at 7:14 pm

   I am sorely uninformed to respond to this. I feel I listened to a lot more music the first half of the decade than the second. But here’s a few I would list:

   1. U2–All That You Can’t Leave Behind

   2. Radiohead–Kid A

   3. Beck–Sea Change

   4. Sigur Ros–( )

   5. Coldplay–A Rush of Blood to the Head

   6. Wilco–Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

   7. The Flaming Lips–Yoshimi Battles the PInk Robots

   8. U2–How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

   9. P. J. Harvey–Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

   10. U2–No Line on the Horizon

   I’m certain this would change, but this is my quick off-the-cuff response. I clearly will have music to buy, after seeing everyone’s lists.
3. 

   Pete

   January 9, 2010 at 9:06 am

   This is also very difficult for me. again this list may be as much a reflection of where I am in the moment, looking back, rather than how I may have rated these as they came out and I were asked to rate my satisfaction with them. Here is my don’t -overthink-it decaded list: By the way, it is too bad that Mule Variations is 1999- it could have been a contender. I would have to meditate on this much longer to come up with a ranking, so here, in no particular order, 10 albums I have liked more than a little bit:
   1.Peter Gabriel – UP

   2. Mark Knoplfer- Shangri La

   3.Midnight Oil- Capricornia

   4. Joe Strummer and the Mescalaros- Global-a-go-go

   5.Death Cab For Cutie- Plans

   6. Keane- Under the Iron Sea

   7. James Blunt -All the Lost Souls

   8. U2- ATYCLB

   9. U2- HTDAAB

   10. Morrisey- You are the Quarry

   Could also be on this list: Cracker- Forever, u2’s NLOTH and best-of albums, Greenday- American Idiot, Johnny Cash’s last album (version of nine inch nails’ “hurt” is powerfully disturbing), Kid-A, Red Hot Chili Peppers- By the Way, Simple Minds – Cry, Robbie Williams- Swing while you’re winning. There it is.
4. 

   Shotts

   January 9, 2010 at 6:54 pm

   Great to see these lists. I really agree with Peters on the Cash last album, American !V: The Man Comes Around, and also Keane and Death Cab for Cutie. I would add The Postal Service in there too.
5. 

   Ned

   January 9, 2010 at 9:15 pm

   I like Plans a lot as well. Probably not as much as Peters, but Plans is really good.
6. 

   Shotts

   January 10, 2010 at 12:56 pm

   Evidently, Peter Gabriel has a new album, SCRATCH MY BACK, out next month. I think it is supposed to be mostly covers.
7. 

   Tobias

   January 10, 2010 at 3:07 pm

   Shotts, sorry but I don’t believe you. Peter Gabriel never uses more than one syllable for his album titles.

   (A joke, that was….) I’ll look forward to it, and I do love the name of the album.
8. 

   Tobias

   January 10, 2010 at 11:52 pm

   It’s interesting that we naturally tend to group things into “Top Ten” lists, even though that wasn’t a requirement or assumption on my part. Do you think this is a cultural tendency? If so, is it specifically a Western one?

   That observation aside, here are a few of my favorites from the 2000’s, in no particular order:
   1) Sufjan Stevens | Illinoise
   2) Editors | An End Has a Start
   3) Ryan Adams | Easy Tiger
   4) Band of Horses | Everything All the Time
   5) U2 | ATYCLB
   6) Coldplay | Viva La Vida
   7) Various | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
   8) Arcade Fire | Neon Bible & Funeral
   9) The National | Boxer
   10) Peter Gabriel | OVO

   A couple of stragglers:
   11) Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
   12) Pete Yorn | musicforthemorningafter
   13) Joseph Arthur | Redemption’s Son
   14) Midnight Oil | Capricornia
   15) The Stills | Oceans Will Rise
   16) Devotchka | How It Ends
   17) Radiohead | Kid A (this one almost made the Top 10)

   I kept up the Top Ten format….