Rob W 0 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) Also...Muse-Absolution / Origin of Symmetry The Killers-Hot Fuss Coldplay- A rush of blood to the head U2. All that you can't leave behind well at least someone has chosen records that actually sold ratehr than were played by miserable students in their digs thinking they were sooooo cool 'cos no-one else had bought them Amy Winehouse anyone? Kanye West?? Timberland???? EminEm??????? Edited April 29, 2009 by Rob W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 It's flown by like, I can't believe there's stuff from 2000 that I've had for almost ten years like The Strokes (Is this it) and The Avalanches (Since I Left You)....those were new last week man! Radiohead have done their best stuff over the past decade. As much as I loved Ok Computer(1997), it's Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) that set them apart from every other band on the planet if you ask me. Hail to the Thief (2003) was as good. Though I wasn't as much a fan of In Rainbows (2007). The Arcade Fire have done a couple of great albums, as have The White Stripes. But at the risk of being labelled a pitchfork whore, I'll mostly avoifd the charts in my top 20... Neko Case - Blacklisted and Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Amon Tobin - Verbal EP and Foley Room Madvillain - Madvillainy Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral and Avatar Buck 65 - This Right Here is Buck 65 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Crematorium Black Mountain - Black Mountain Jason Forrest - Shamelessly Exciting Animal Collective - Feels Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine Joanna Newsom - Ys Hot Chip - The Warning and Made In The Dark Eluvium - Copia Battles - Mirrored The Dodos - Visiter The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love Antony and The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now Sleater Kinney - The Woods I've made the list based on the top 10 most played tracks from each year, so no doubt I'll be chipping in with those that slipped under my radar. What have been your favourite albums? "avoid the charts" :dancing: you can syat that again - I doubt the whole list sold more than 100 albums in total.................. Fucking hell old man just because they aren't available as 10" 78's! They're all easily accessable for anyone, not like your first pressing of a walk in the black forest! As for your next list, fucking switch top of the pops off for god's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 A lot of music in these lists is very average tbh. If you were compiling this list seriously and thinking about albums with far reaching musical and cultural influence, then a lot of the albums listed are pretty derivative and pretty obscure to the average person. Since everyone loves music (its not a specialist art, like sculpture), that tells you a lot. I'll get slated for this but for me two massively important albums of this decade are MJ Cole's Sincere and The Streets - Orginal Pirate Material. Fresh, different, influential, innovative at that time. Of course this last bit is the most important. To take and example from a discussion yesterday, if Neu! released Hollagolla today, no-one woudl bat an eyelid. The fact that it was released in 1972 makes it genre defining and therefore an important piece of music. People would rather choose Burial as their album of the decade as its cooler, when in fact the foundation for Burial's sound was laid down 9 years earlier on a more influential album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 It's flown by like, I can't believe there's stuff from 2000 that I've had for almost ten years like The Strokes (Is this it) and The Avalanches (Since I Left You)....those were new last week man! Radiohead have done their best stuff over the past decade. As much as I loved Ok Computer(1997), it's Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) that set them apart from every other band on the planet if you ask me. Hail to the Thief (2003) was as good. Though I wasn't as much a fan of In Rainbows (2007). The Arcade Fire have done a couple of great albums, as have The White Stripes. But at the risk of being labelled a pitchfork whore, I'll mostly avoifd the charts in my top 20... Neko Case - Blacklisted and Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Amon Tobin - Verbal EP and Foley Room Madvillain - Madvillainy Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral and Avatar Buck 65 - This Right Here is Buck 65 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Crematorium Black Mountain - Black Mountain Jason Forrest - Shamelessly Exciting Animal Collective - Feels Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine Joanna Newsom - Ys Hot Chip - The Warning and Made In The Dark Eluvium - Copia Battles - Mirrored The Dodos - Visiter The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love Antony and The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now Sleater Kinney - The Woods I've made the list based on the top 10 most played tracks from each year, so no doubt I'll be chipping in with those that slipped under my radar. What have been your favourite albums? "avoid the charts" :dancing: you can syat that again - I doubt the whole list sold more than 100 albums in total.................. Like Sammy says, nothing there is particularly obscure....half of them have sold out some of the bigger venues in Newcastle. You'll have heard a lot of them too, but you just don't know it. Battles are being used on the current Audi advert with the needles for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 A lot of music in these lists is very average tbh. If you were compiling this list seriously and thinking about albums with far reaching musical and cultural influence, then a lot of the albums listed are pretty derivative and pretty obscure to the average person. Since everyone loves music (its not a specialist art, like sculpture), that tells you a lot. I'll get slated for this but for me two massively important albums of this decade are MJ Cole's Sincere and The Streets - Orginal Pirate Material. Fresh, different, influential, innovative at that time. Of course this last bit is the most important. To take and example from a discussion yesterday, if Neu! released Hollagolla today, no-one woudl bat an eyelid. The fact that it was released in 1972 makes it genre defining and therefore an important piece of music. People would rather choose Burial as their album of the decade as its cooler, when in fact the foundation for Burial's sound was laid down 9 years earlier on a more influential album. If we're going to talk about most influential albums I think you have to go with Rappa Ternt Sanga by T-Pain. Roger Troutman used electro-vocal effects in the 80's and Cher used auto tune on 'Believe' but they had talent. It was an effect to give a talented singer an other worldly sound. T-Pain was a shouty rapper who couldn't hit a note to save his life but wanted to sing and did. Since then almost everyone is auto tuning the shit out of every track in the charts or inviting T-pain to do it for them. It's abhorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 In the 2009 Time 100 list of mosy influential people T-pain came in at 34. Barak Obama is 3 places behind at 37. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages...1886141,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Surely the first use of vocoders was Kraftwerk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) Surely the first use of vocoders was Kraftwerk? Well if we're going to give credit where it's due then Bruce Haack is the man really. Edited April 29, 2009 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Surely the first use of vocoders was Kraftwerk? Well if we're going to give credit where it's due then Bruce Haack is the man really. If you say so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Surely the first use of vocoders was Kraftwerk? Well if we're going to give credit where it's due then Bruce Haack is the man really. If you say so. There's a documentary called Haack: The King of Techno you might enjoy... http://www.amazon.com/Haack-King-Techno-Bruce/dp/B0007L86HG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12805 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I think if you begin limiting these kind of lists to the most influential albums, you limit the bands that aren't necessarily reinventing the genre but just writing very good songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 i bloody love vol-au-vents Is that Nouvelle Vague's new album? SJ, what's so great about pocahaunted? (genuine question) just the most ethereal and visceral music I've ever heard. female vocals that are both cathartic and aggressive. manage to make the same three chords for twenty minutes sound fantastic. what's there not to love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) i was just kidding around - dave's list does a strike me as a little canonical though I can't see the link from work so I don't know what you've done there. But I did look at what I'd listed and think fuck me that's a bit obvious but hey up until a couple of years ago I couldn't get past The Stone Roses, Oasis and The Beatles. Anyway there's lots of less obvious stuff I like but none of them has produced full albums to the standard of those that I picked. And I did say if was of the top of my head. I like to differing amounts the following from your list. fennesz - endless summer six organs of admittance - school of the flower stars of the lid - the tired sounds of stars of the lid wilderness - wilderness beach house - beach house akron / family - akron / family david thomas broughton - the complete guide to insufficiency grouper - dragging a dear deer up a hill doveman - with my right hand i raise the dead wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot sun kil moon - april burial - burial brightback morninglight - brightback morninglight (actually listened to this again this morning on the back of your list, I'd forgot how good it is) annie - anniemal Didn't like Madvilany or The Pippettes, hated Lightening Bolt and was terrified of Scott Walker! Edited April 29, 2009 by David Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13883 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Ed Harcourt - Here be Monsters Class album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Pitchfork have done their top 500 songs of the decade. Here's the top 10.... http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/...e-2000s-20-1/2/ Of course, they said Interpol did the best album of 2002 ahead of Wilco so they have been known to talk shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 and their top 10 albums.... http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/...e-2000s-20-1/2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Castell 0 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Some of my favourites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko 0 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ed Harcourt - Here be Monsters Class album. TOTBL is an absolutely outstanding album, My favourite album of recent times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 and their top 10 albums.... http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/...e-2000s-20-1/2/ It took until 135 before I owned one of their top 200. elbow - leaders of the free world dios malos - dios malos adam franklin - bolts of melody BRMC - BRMC yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz the kills - midnight boom radiohead - kid a and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart at the drive in - relationships in command the besnard lakes - are the dark horse Honourable mentions pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea midlake - the trials of van occupanther broken social scene - you forgot it in people the clientele - god save the clientele life without buildings - any other city sigur ros - ( ) elbow - cast of thousands francoiz breut - vingt a trente mille jours mogwai - happy songs for happy people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I just bought Iron & Wine - the creek drank the cradle and it is good, at least in the honourable mentions and that's after one listen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 Some of my favourites. Prefer Origin of Symmetry mesel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 at the drive in - relationships ofin command FYP Sorry. I can't help myself. I only listened to them after loving the first Mars Volta album. Nowt they've done before or after lived up to being blown away by de-loused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 and their top 10 albums.... http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/...e-2000s-20-1/2/ It took until 135 before I owned one of their top 200. elbow - leaders of the free world dios malos - dios malos adam franklin - bolts of melody BRMC - BRMC yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz the kills - midnight boom radiohead - kid a and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart at the drive in - relationships in command the besnard lakes - are the dark horse Honourable mentions pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea midlake - the trials of van occupanther broken social scene - you forgot it in people the clientele - god save the clientele life without buildings - any other city sigur ros - ( ) elbow - cast of thousands francoiz breut - vingt a trente mille jours mogwai - happy songs for happy people you sir have good taste except forgetting Interpol and qotsa and the strokes Broken social scene seen them in 2006 were great...i'm still convinced i could've sneaked on stage and no one would have noticed I tried and tried to get into the Strokes, ok yes there is a joke in that, but they are a bit like the White Stripes for me - one songs hits, the next three miss. QOTSA, ahhhhh, not in the top 100 but definitely making the next ton. Interpol I do beg forgiveness for, that was remit of me. Also Mojave 3 - Spoon and Rafter and 65daysofstatic's - one time for all time, should be on the list. By the way I've listened to Iron and Wine's album three time on the trot now and it is a amazing. A Sufjan Steven meets Clientele/Besnard Lakes moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 ...and the worst.... 1 Playing With Fire by Kevin Federline 2 Hefty Fine by Bloodhound Gang 3 Results May Vary by Limp Bizkit 4 Testify by Phil Collins 5 One by Dirty Vegas 6 Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure by Juliana Hatfield 7 Slick Dogs And Ponies by Louis XIV 8 Life On Display by Puddle Of Mudd 9 (One) by The Panic Channel 10 Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces by Seether 11 Shwayze by Shwayze 12 Jagged Little Pill Acoustic by Alanis Morissette 13 Liz Phair by Liz Phair 14 Never Gone by Backstreet Boys 15 Under The Radar by Daniel Powter 16 A Lively Mind by Paul Oakenfold 17 Gameface by Master P 18 A Day Without Rain by Enya 19 14 Shades Of Grey by Staind 20 All The Right Reasons by Nickelback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2929 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 at the drive in - relationships ofin command FYP Sorry. I can't help myself. I only listened to them after loving the first Mars Volta album. Nowt they've done before or after lived up to being blown away by de-loused. My bad. But you are wrong, relationship of command is a better album than De-Loused in the Comatorium, although those two are the stand out releases of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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