Best Albums 2000-Present

[MicBK]

why not?

mine to date:

1. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
2. Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
3. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
4. Dismemberment Plan - Change
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
6. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
7. Deerhoof - Apple O
8. The Notwist - Neon Golden
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nocturama
10.Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian

[Dreadstar]

Waitwaitwaitwait...


...you mean they actually made albums post 1999?

[MicBK]

Waitwaitwaitwait...


...you mean they actually made albums post 1999?

heh...not many good ones...but yes, yes they did :D

[Jonathan Bogart]

why not?

mine to date:

1. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
2. Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
3. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
4. Dismemberment Plan - Change
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
6. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
7. Deerhoof - Apple O
8. The Notwist - Neon Golden
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nocturama
10.Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Hm. The only one I really liked was Neon Golden, and it went on for too long. I will, however, freely admit to not really having paid much attention to the others, except Radiohead (the opposite of a "grower" -- started out liking it, now I can't stand it) and Nick Cave (good, but nothing new).

I'll give shout-outs to the Libertines' first album, Bob Dylan's Love and Theft, Tom Waits' Alice/[b]Blood Money[/i] two-fer, and Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf. And if you put together the two albums the Streets have released so far, there's one good album.

[Dennis K]

Warren Zevon: The Wind. Nothing else even comes close really.

[Dreadstar]

Springsteen's The Rising is an almost perfect album to me.

Tom Petty's Last DJ is up there, too.

[Dennis K]

Springsteen's The Rising is an almost perfect album to me.

Tom Petty's Last DJ is up there, too.

Springsteen? *shrug* Never found him all that special to be honest with you, but I'll give you Petty's Last DJ, that's a great album, and I'm embarrassed it slipped my mind.

[Hiromi]

So far?

Dance of Death - Iron Maiden

[StoneGold]

WWE Anthology. Because any album with the Million Dollar Man's theme song on it has to be the best.

[leonaozaki]

I don't know about best, but here are the albums released since Dec 31 1999 that I have really liked.

1) Bob Dylan: "LOVE AND THEFT" and LIVE 1975.
2) Neil Young and Crazy Horse: GREENDALE.
3) The Flaming Lips: YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS.
4) Modest Mouse: THE MOON AND ANTARCTICA and GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS.
5) The White Stripes: ELEPHANT.
6) Warren Zevon: LIFE'LL KILL YA, MY RIDE'S HERE, THE WIND
7) Elvis Costello and the Impostors: THE DELIVERY MAN
8) Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros: STREETCORE
9) Emmylou Harris: STUMBLE INTO GRACE
10) Loretta Lynn: VAN LEAR ROSE
11) My Morning Jacket, IT STILL MOVES
12) The Black Keys, THICKFREAKNESS
13) The Breeders, TITLE TK
14) Johnny Cash, AMERICAN III: SOLITARY MAN and AMERICAN IV: THE MAN COMES AROUND.
15) Franz Ferdinand, FRANZ FERDINAND


and of course:

16) Lisa Germano, LULLABY FOR LIQUID PIG

rob

[Eliot Johnson]

1. Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
2. Kid A - Radiohead
3. Life In General - Young Lo
4. Fly2K - Playa Fly
5. Gangsta Blac - Gangsta Blac
6. South Memphis - V-Dog
7. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
8. Da Undaground King - Gangsta Blac
9. Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
10. Down South Flava - Gangsta Blac
11. It's a Secret To Everybody - The Close
12. Genesis - Tommy Wright III
13. Home Team - Lil' Weavah

[Jonathan Bogart]

I14) Johnny Cash, AMERICAN III: SOLITARY MAN and AMERICAN IV: THE MAN COMES AROUND.
Ooh, was Solitary Man released in the Oughts? Then I'll gladly choose it; it's my favorite of his albums on American.

[leonaozaki]

Ooh, was Solitary Man released in the Oughts? Then I'll gladly choose it; it's my favorite of his albums on American.

2000 it is.

Good stuff too.

rob

[leonaozaki]

Springsteen's The Rising is an almost perfect album to me.

Tom Petty's Last DJ is up there, too.

Being a big Springsteen and Petty fan I was supposed to like those albums but they just fell flat to me. There were a number of songs I liked on each-- "Lonesome Day" on the RISING and "Have Love Will Travel" on DJ were probably my favorites-- but I listened to each one about 2-3 times and haven't listened to them since.

Odd.

rob

[Dreadstar]

Well, considering The Rising was thematically an ode to 9/11 and it beat the mortal shit out of Young's trite tribute, Let's Roll, I really don't have many reservations naming it.

And hey, I'm a big Dylan fan, and I think The Rising was twice the album Love and Theft was, just for personal reference.

[Slam_Bradley]

Soundtrack - O, Brother Where Art Thou.

[Punchy]

Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

"Largo" Brad Meldhau
"Mosh for Lovers" The Bloomdaddies
"These Are Vistas" The Bad Plus
"Vertical Vision" The Christian McBride Band
"Belly of the Sun" Cassandra Wilson
"Bar Talk" Jeff 'Tain' Watts
"A Jazz Celebration" The Marsalis Family
"twentysomething" Jamie Cullem
"Phrenology" The Roots
"Madvillainy" Madvillain
"Quality Control" Jurassic 5
"Thunder Chicken" The Mighty Imperials
"Is This It?" The Strokes
"Smile" Brian Wilson

[Core]

"Smile" Brian Wilson

Word. That was the first one that came to my mind; I still can't get over it.

The new Judas Priest album, Angel of Retribution is great.

Bob Dylan's Love and Theft is up there too.

The Black Crowes' Lions is quirky, yet still among tops in the southern rock genre.

Led Zeppelin's How the West Was Won is a godsend.

Hmm...I'll post more as they occur to me.

[jessecuster]

The Black Keys - Rubber Factory I do not remember an album that affected me so much. By the 2nd time I heard it I knew it was one of my all time favorites.

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to The Monkey House
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
James Blunt - Back to Bedlam


I could probably name 15 more but its 7am

[TomGun13]

The Soundtrack of Our Lives- Behind the Music
The Soundtrack of Our Lives- Origins vol. 1
The Hives- Tyrannosaurus Hives

[leonaozaki]

Well, considering The Rising was thematically an ode to 9/11 and it beat the mortal shit out of Young's trite tribute, Let's Roll, I really don't have many reservations naming it.

And hey, I'm a big Dylan fan, and I think The Rising was twice the album Love and Theft was, just for personal reference.


Well, nowhere did I say that the albums were -bad- and you were wrong for liking them. I just...didn't. I tried hard to like them, since I am a big Springsteen and Petty fan, but I think both would have made better EP's than entire albums.

And why are you bringing 9/11 into all this? Yes, THE RISING is probably a better and more honest response to 9/11 than "Let's Roll," "Freedom," "The Angry American (Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)," and "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning," but I think that says more about the sorry state of the competition than the absolute virtues of THE RISING.

I still really like "Lonesome Day" and "World Apart," though.

rob

[Super Villains INC>]

In no order:

Flaming Lips: Yoshimi...
Autechre: EP7, Confield
Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
High Llamas: Beet Maize Corn
Clinic: Walking with Thee, Winchester Cathedral
Daedelus: Invention, of Snowdonia
Grandaddy: Sumday
Wolf Eyes: Burned Mind
Radiohead:Hail to the Thief, Kid A
Tortoise: It's all around you
AntiPop Consortium:Arrythmia
Animal Collective: Sung Tongs
Boards of Canada: geogaddi
Super Furry Animals: Rings around the World, Phantom Power
Brian Wilson: Smile
Wilco: YHF, A ghost is born
Deerhoof: Milkman
Air: Talkie Walkie

probably 20 others I'll remember right after I post this....

[mike rok lok]

in no particular order

wilco-yankee hotel foxtrot
the assistant-we'll make the roads by walking.
paul westerberg-stereo
paul westerberg-folker
hot cross- a new set of lungs
le fly pan am-n'eloutez pas
explosions in the sky-the eath is not a cold place
the shins-chutes too narrow
fugazi-the argument
sun kill moon-ghosts of the great highway
pedro the lion-control
karate-some boots
mission of burma-onoffon
les savy fav-go forth
twelve hour turn-perfect progress,perfect destruction
converge-jane doe

[zombie]

Here's a list of 25, not in order:

Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights
Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica
A Perfect Circle, Mer De Noms
Amon Tobin, Supermodified
Brand New, Deja Entendu
Q And Not U, Power
The Wrens, The Meadowlands
Viktor Vaughn, Vaudeville Villain
The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow
Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
Fennesz, Endless Summer
Devendra Banhart, Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart, Nino Rojo
Sufjan Stevens, Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State
Sufjan Stevens, Seven Swans
Pinback, Summer In Abaddon
The 90 Day Men, Panda Park
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Source Tags & Codes
Dizzee Rascal, Boy In Da Corner
Madvillain, Madvillainy
Aesop Rock, Labor Days
Clinic, Internal Wrangler
Murder By Death, Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them?
Cursive, The Ugly Organ
The Arcade Fire, Funeral

[Dennis K]

Elephant ~ The White Stripes
The Wind ~ Warren Zevon
American Idiot ~ Green Day
Wheels Within Wheels ~ Rory Gallagher

[TJEscobar]

No order.....
Jay-Z The Blueprint
Nas-Stillmatic
Kanye West College Dropout
THe Roots Phrenology
THe Roots- Tipping Pt.
Nas-The Lost Tapes
Nas-Street's Disciple
Nas-God Son

[Valmore]

"The Last DJ?"

That was probably one of Petty's worst albums... aside from "Echo."

Get thee to a music store and buy "Damn the Torpedoes" for damn good Petty.

[Grant]

For me.

Sleater-Kinney One Beat
The White Stripes White Blood Cells, Elephant
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead Source Tags & Codes
Sonic Youth Murray Street, Sonic Nurse (if you ask me two of their best records since the 80s).
Stephen Malkmus Pig Lib, Stephen Malkmus
Beck Sea Changes
The Shins Chutes too Narrow, Oh Inverted World
Radiohead Kid A, Amnesiac
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs

[Punchy]

Get thee to a music store and buy "Damn the Torpedoes" for damn good Petty.


But that was from the 70s.

[jessecuster]

Wow I don't know how I forgot Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Also I want to throw my hat in the ring for The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

and new adds:
The Damdy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia
The Faint - Danse Macabre

[Reptisaurus!]

For me.

Sleater-Kinney One Beat
The White Stripes White Blood Cells, Elephant
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead Source Tags & Codes
Sonic Youth Murray Street,
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs

I agree. This was most of my list. (I do really like the Bad Plus album that Punchy recomended, and I am digging the hell out of Man Man currently, too.)

[I Must Break U]

WWE Anthology. Because any album with the Million Dollar Man's theme song on it has to be the best.

I couldn't agree more, i also say any album with bret hart's music has to be the best!