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Post by Joaquim on Nov 18, 2019 14:50:37 GMT
Meant to put this up a few days ago but better late than never amirite?
• Send me a list by PM, not in the thread. • It should contain your Top 25 albums of the 00s, numbered from 1 – 25. If your lists are not numbered, I will count them as 1 – 25 in the order sent. • Your #1 will earn 25, #2 earns 24....and #25 will earn 1 point. You all know the drill. • Once you've voted, you can of course edit your vote by re-sending your ballot to me by PM. • This isn't specific to one genre, it spans all music. So you could have Eminem followed by My Chemical Romance. This will probably lead to a large number of albums getting mentioned but I'm sure things will be fine, especially considering this is limited to just one decade. However no composers, sorry. • While live albums are eligible, concert films are not.
Deadline is May 15th at midnight, so technically May 16.
As always, please use this thread for FYCs and discussions/arguments.
Ballots received:
1. themoviesinner * 2. countjohn *
3. TheAlwaysClassy *
4. pacinoyes *
5. Viced *
6. DaleCooper * 7. Mattsby *
8. DeepArcher *
9. Martin Stett *
10. Tommen_Saperstein * 11. Joaquim *
12. ingmarhepburn *
* = counted
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 18, 2019 14:51:26 GMT
I'll post my full list of FYCs later today. For now I'll just leave my fav album of the decade.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 18, 2019 15:00:33 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 18, 2019 15:08:52 GMT
Actually gonna try voting this time. Not a snowball's chance in hell that any of these will get it, but I'll push anyway. Colour Green by Sibylle Baier -- Folk Lookaftering by Vashti Bunyan -- Neofolk(?) Breakfast on the Morning Tram by Stacey Kent -- Torch singer jazz Mass of the Fermenting Dregs and World is Yours by Mass of the Fermenting Dregs -- Shoegaze(?) I don't really know my genres very well, but they seem shoegazey. Moon by Takashi Masuzaki & Keiichi Yabori -- Guitar duets The Brightness by Anais Mitchell -- Folk Seven Days of Falling by Esbjorn Svensson Trio -- Jazz
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Post by themoviesinner on Nov 18, 2019 16:19:16 GMT
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Post by themoviesinner on Nov 18, 2019 16:27:04 GMT
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Post by DeepArcher on Nov 18, 2019 17:29:13 GMT
FYC: Boxer by The NationalMy music-listening narrative of 2019 has been a lot of things, but it's largely been The National perhaps usurping Radiohead as my favorite band of all-time. That's a tough call to make and I hate the pressure of feeling that I have to make that call, but one thing I’m slightly more confident in is that I think Boxer has become my favorite album of all-time -- and ironically its big competition is an album of the same year by the other aforementioned group, In Rainbows which for years has always been my go-to answer to the favorite of all-time question... Regardless, this FYC is about Boxer because this album means so much to me. The National are one of the quintessential rock bands of the last two decades or at the very least are one of its most consistent, and Boxer for my money is their magnum opus. The thing I love about The National is that they kind of sound like every 21st century indie band and at the same time they kinda sound like no other 21st century indie band ... they emerged in that 2000s New York post-punk revival scene doing a similar thing to The Strokes and Interpol especially in the Alligator/ Boxer era, but they had folk rock roots that those bands didn't have and by merging so many influences ranging from the more expected ones (Joy Division) to the less expected ones (Leonard Cohen) they forged a totally unique sound for themselves. And while Alligator has more of that NY post-punk revival sound, Boxer expands upon that while also being the first The National record in the sense that it's when they start to establish a totally unique sound for themselves that is sort of hard to classify. Boxer has a lot of different "types" of tracks, from fast to slow, from heartbroken to drunken angry, it has everything you might like on it while also managing to miraculously sound like a unified whole. It kicks off with one of my favorite album openers ever in "Fake Empire" whose opening piano keys instantly set the walking-in-the-city-at-night mood of the entire record and are iconic to the ears of all fans of the band -- it's also such an immaculate live song and has sort of become the band's signature anthem for good reason -- it crescendos into a cathartic outburst of chaos and jazzy brass, and its terse yet evocative lyrics beautifully paint the picture of all the album's key themes: loss of innocence, mid-20s transition into adulthood, living in the city while working a mundane job by day and going out to party at night, all the anxiety that comes with that tired existence. The entire album evokes that active yet melancholic living in New York in your 20s lifestyle with as many mood swings as that lifestyle entails -- showcasing some of their most energetic traditionally rock-sounding tunes like "Mistaken for Strangers" and "Apartment Story" with a healthy balance of slower gorgeous acoustic ballads like "Green Gloves" and "Gospel" (one of my favorite album closers ever, maybe the most underrated track in the band's entire oeuvre, the lyrics are *chef's kiss*) and all the tracks that are something in between. "Slow Show" and "Apartment Story" form the glorious midpoint/climax of the album and it's one of the best one-two punches on an album that I know of, the two tracks work together to paint the picture of falling in love in your late 20s, getting married, fawning over your spouse while that hectic lifestyle gets just a little bit easier with someone to go home to and snuggle through the winter with -- after you can also see "Start a War" and "Guest Room" as an extension of that story where the marriage starts to fall apart or at the very least becomes strained, the latter track showcasing some of Matt's most poignantly funny lyrics. Attempting to rank the tracks on this album or even pick favorites will always intimidate me, because the more I think about it the more I realize it's simply just a perfect set of twelve songs. There is no band that better summarizes my music taste/personality than The National and I think it's safe to say that there's no album that better showcases my music taste/personality than Boxer ... and that's saying something because I'm not even 20 yet and I'm not even an alcoholic Also: I'm sure I'll post about it at some later point, but don't forget Alligator!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 18:13:31 GMT
FYC, maybe my favorite album of all time, definitely close:
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Post by themoviesinner on Nov 18, 2019 18:25:41 GMT
FYC, maybe my favorite album of all time, definitely close: Definitely one of the best and most interesting rock albums of the decade. It actually might make my list whenever I decide to put together one.
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Post by themoviesinner on Nov 18, 2019 18:43:48 GMT
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 18, 2019 19:00:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 19:12:11 GMT
FYC, maybe my favorite album of all time, definitely close: Definitely one of the best and most interesting rock albums of the decade. It actually might make my list whenever I decide to put together one. Awesome to see another fan! Claudio Sanchez is the most underrated vocalist and lyricist ever. I love the first three Coheed albums immensely, but their first one is like...an 11/10. From your FYCs I like The Dear Hunter album a lot - not a huge fan of their other albums that I’ve heard but that one is almost cinematic in the way it plays out.
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Post by themoviesinner on Nov 18, 2019 19:38:23 GMT
Awesome to see another fan! Claudio Sanchez is the most underrated vocalist and lyricist ever. I love the first three Coheed albums immensely, but their first one is like...an 11/10. From your FYCs I like The Dear Hunter album a lot - not a huge fan of their other albums that I’ve heard but that one is almost cinematic in the way it plays out. I was a big fan of Coheed And Cambria and really enjoyed their first four albums, but I found Year Of The Black Rainbow really uninteresting, so I kind of grew out of them after that. I occasionally listen to their earlier stuff, which I still find great, but I haven't listened to anything they've released after Year Of The Black Rainbow. As for The Dear Hunter, I enjoy all of their albums quite a bit, but I consider Act II as their best work as well. Have you listened to Be by Pain Of Salvation? That is probably my favourite progressive rock album of the 21st century and one of the most ambitious albums I've ever listened to.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 22:53:02 GMT
Awesome to see another fan! Claudio Sanchez is the most underrated vocalist and lyricist ever. I love the first three Coheed albums immensely, but their first one is like...an 11/10. From your FYCs I like The Dear Hunter album a lot - not a huge fan of their other albums that I’ve heard but that one is almost cinematic in the way it plays out. I was a big fan of Coheed And Cambria and really enjoyed their first four albums, but I found Year Of The Black Rainbow really uninteresting, so I kind of grew out of them after that. I occasionally listen to their earlier stuff, which I still find great, but I haven't listened to anything they've released after Year Of The Black Rainbow. As for The Dear Hunter, I enjoy all of their albums quite a bit, but I consider Act II as their best work as well. Have you listened to Be by Pain Of Salvation? That is probably my favourite progressive rock album of the 21st century and one of the most ambitious albums I've ever listened to. Yeah, their albums are pretty hit or miss after Good Apollo Vol. 1. There're usually a few good songs on each one, but overall...yeah, nowhere close to the realm of greatness those first three are in for me. I haven't heard that one, I'll be sure check it out before I make my list! Thanks for the rec.
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Post by mhynson27 on Nov 19, 2019 0:34:27 GMT
FYC: Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, Encore and Relapse Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Favourite Worst Nightmare
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Post by countjohn on Nov 19, 2019 4:28:07 GMT
This is the first decade I "lived through" in terms of music so I have a different perspective than I did on the other decades with less hindsight. The 2000's garage rock is some of the first music I got into although a lot of it has not aged well and for the most part it is not as good as the late 70's stuff it was copying outside of Guitar Romantic. A big list of FYC's sorted by genre (mostly rock though) and I will sort out what I want on my ballot later.
Garage Rock Revival
Guitar Romantic by Exploding Hearts Is This It by The Strokes It's Blitz and Fever to Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand Costello Music by The Fratellis Bang Bang Rock and Roll by Art Brut
Other Alt Rock
Takk... by Sigur Ros Kid A, Hail to the Thief, and In Rainbows by Radiohead Funeral by Arcade Fire Marry Me by St. Vincent Think Tank by Blur Bloodflowers by The Cure The Woods by Sleater-Kinney Illinois by Sufjan Stevens The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
Other
Sea Change by Beck (alt-country) White Chalk by PJ Harvey (baroque pop) Third by Portishead (hip-hop or electronic) Black Album and The Blueprint by Jay-Z (hip hop) The Eraser by Thom Yorke (electronic) Medulla by Bjork (who knows?)
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 19, 2019 8:12:20 GMT
We already had some FYCs for old guy revivals - Ike Reilly was near 40 when he debuted........Westerberg made 2 great ones already mentioned ..............and these 2 stupendous albums:
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Nov 19, 2019 11:30:59 GMT
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Nov 19, 2019 13:44:45 GMT
I'll do some more indepth plugging later, but sufficed to say that if these three albums are not on the list it'll be pure MADNESS!!!!!
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Post by ibbi on Nov 19, 2019 13:57:05 GMT
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Post by ibbi on Nov 19, 2019 13:58:09 GMT
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Post by DeepArcher on Nov 19, 2019 21:00:07 GMT
FYC:Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & the Bad SeedsNot my favorite Bad Seeds record overall (certainly top five though, and probably top three) but in a lot of ways kind of the definitive Bad Seeds record -- an ambitious, expansive double album whose lyrics encompass mythology and religion and so much more while showcasing practically every "type" of Bad Seeds song imaginable, from their more energetic garage rock tunes to their more cinematic & expansive and even some softer love ballads. It's a lot of great songs showcasing some of Cave's greatest songwriting from self-aware funny ("There She Goes, My Beautiful World") to tongue-in-cheek funny ("The Lyre of Orpheus") to down-to-earth lovely ("Baby, You Turn Me On") to everything in between. It's a long album without a single dull moment on it much less a dull track ... a true masterpiece.
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Post by DeepArcher on Nov 20, 2019 22:11:35 GMT
FYC: Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil RiverThis one is an even longer shot than my first two (seemingly unsupported) FYCs but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it ... one of my favorite records of all-time hands down and certainly one of the most personal to me, this album alone got me through at least one year of high school ... I've posted about Okkervil River before, one of my favorite bands certainly of this century who still go criminally under-the-radar for whatever reason. The best place to start in their discography is also where I started and also happens to be their magnum opus, their third EP Black Sheep Boy ... an indie folk rock epic that is one of the most emotionally poignant and complete works of music I've ever listened to. The entire album is just dripping with sorrow, full of longing, pain, and regret, digging into dark places ranging from addiction to heartbreak, abuse and mental illness ... and I realize that this might not be the most tantalizing endorsement, but trust me, this album is a worthwhile experience. Will Sheff's lyrics aren't just heartbreaking, they're also endearingly clever and you can't say there aren't moments of levity on this album ... but what really sticks with you is the pain that is conveyed by his unique vocal texture, the catharsis of its rich melodies and the deeply personal and intimate songwriting. This album is the type of experience that I look for in all music ... and don't find as much as I'd like to ...
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 22, 2019 22:28:17 GMT
A great record I could easily see us forgetting for something far less worthy which I will then yell at you about when Joaquim does the presentation. No one wants that ok?.....
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 7, 2020 13:33:06 GMT
And here are some of the best Hip-hop albums of the decade: You're missing
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