There was a thread like this for singles this decade, but not one for albums. What are YOUR ten favorite albums this decade (with only three months to go)?
My Personal Top Ten:
1. Radiohead, Kid A (2000) 2. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois (2005) 3. The Arcade Fire, Funeral (2004) 4. The Strokes, Is This It (2001) 5. Sigur Ros, ( ) (2002) 6. Interpol, Turn On the Bright Lights (2002) 7. Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) 8. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) 9. The Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (2007) 10. **** Buttons, Street Horrrsing... (2008)
It is difficult to leave out Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker, Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, The Strokes' Room on Fire, and Maria Taylor's 11:11. What are YOUR top ten albums of the 2000s?
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1. Coldplay - Parachutes 2. Mary J. Blige - Breakthrough 3. Alicia Keys - Diary of Alicia Keys 4. Tori Amos - Scarlett's Walk 5. Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott 6. Radiohead - In Rainbows 7. Aaliyah - Aaliyah 8. Andre 3000 - The Love Below 9. Keyshia Cole - Just Like You 10. Meshell Ndegeocello - Cookie The Anthropological Mixtape
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In no particular order, and limiting one album per artist:
Coldplay - Parachutes Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Yeah Yeah Yeahs -Fever To Tell The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics Amy Winehouse - Back to Black Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor Daft Punk - Discovery Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Nelly Furtado - Loose
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01)"Confessiona"-Usher 02)"Some Hearts"-Carrie Underwood 03)"SpeakerBoxx/TheLoveBelow"-Outkast 04)"American Idiot!"-Green Day 05)"Exclusive"-Chris Brown 06)"Bday"-Beyonce 07)"No Line on the Horizon" -U2 08)"Back II Basics"-Christina Aguilera 09)"Paper Trail"-T.I 10)"Good Girl Gone Bad"-Rihanna
Honorable Mentions "The Emancipation Of MiMi"-Mariah Carey "Still Feels Good"-Rascal Flatts "Musicology"-Prince "Funhouse"-Pink "The Blue Print III"-Jay-Z "Ashanti"-Ashanti "Kala"-M.I.A "8701"-Usher Stadium Arcadium-Thr Killers
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Los Hermanos - "Ventura" Imogen Heap - "Ellipse" Garbage - "Beautiful Garbage" Radiohead - "In Rainbows" the Gathering - "If_then_Else" Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" Evanescence - "Fallen" Muse - "Black Holes and Revelations" Placebo - "Sleeping with Ghosts" M.I.A - "Kala"
Honorable Mentions:
Jill Scott - "Who is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol.1" Florence + the Machine - "Lungs" Cat Power - "The Greatest" The White Stripes - "Elephant" Tori Amos - "Scarlet's Walk" Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Raising Sand" Dixies Chicks - "Taking the Long Way"
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who the hell are you to tell me, what to do, why to do , why bother?
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01. M.I.A. - Arular 02. M.I.A. - Kala 03. Annie - Anniemal 04. Girl Talk - Night Ripper 05. The Knife - Silent Shout 06. Kanye West - Graduation 07. Robyn - Robyn 08. Panda Bear - Person Pitch 09. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan 10. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
1. Alanis Morissette - Flavors Of Entanglement (2008) 2. Britney Spears - Blackout (2007) 3. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (2000) 4. Kelly Clarkson - My December (2007) 5. Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk (2002) 6. Tori Amos - American Doll Posse (2007) 7. The Killers - Hot Fuss (2004) 8. Britney Spears - Circus (2008) 9. Evanescence - Fallen (2003) 10. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (2005)
1. Alicia Keys- As I Am 2. Mary J. Blige- The Breakthrough 3. Jay-Z- Blueprint 4. Kanye West- Graduation 5. Christina Aguilera- Stripped 6. Aaliyah- Aaliyah 7. Lupe Fiasco- The Cool 8. Usher- Confessions 9. Mariah Carey- The Emancipation of Mimi 10. OutKast- Stankonia
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Posts: 1914 | Location: Indiana | Registered: October 28, 2002
Aaliyah, Aaliyah Christina Aguilera, Back To Basics Christina Aguilera, Stripped Missy Elliot, Under Construction Norah Jones, Come Away With Me Lil' Wayne, Tha Carter III Shania Twain, Up! Tweet, Southern Hummingbird Usher, Confessions Amy Winehouse, Back To Black
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs Annie – Anniemal Cat Power – You Are Free Grizzly Bear – Yellow House The Microphones – It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water Joanna Newsom – Ys Panda Bear – Person Pitch Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co. Rachel Stevens – Come and Get It Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
Honorable Mention: Bat for Lashes – Two Suns, Deerhunter – Microcastle, Feist – The Reminder LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver, Kylie Minogue – Fever, Radiohead – Kid A, The Rapture – Echoes, Britney Spears – Blackout, TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain, The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
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"It Won't Be Soon Before Long" - Maroon 5 "I Am... Sasha Fierce" - Beyonce "The Fame" - Lady GaGa "Spirit" - Leona Lewis "Gutter Flower" - Goo Goo Dolls "Songs About Jane" - Maroon 5 "Dangerously In Love" - Beyonce "FutureSex/LoveSounds" - Justin Timberlake "Only By The Night" - Kings Of Leon "Awake" - Josh Groban
Honorable Mentions "Closer" - Josh Froban "B'Day" - Beyonce "Daughtry" - Daughtry "Move Along" - All American Rejects "Sequencia - Reik "Oral Fixation Vol. 1 & 2 " - Shakira
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1. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 2. The Resistance - Muse 3. In Rainbows - Radiohead 4. The Renaissance - Q-Tip 5. American Idiot - Green Day 6. Alright, Still - Lily Allen 7. The Diary of Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys 8. Blackout - Britney Spears 9. The Fame - Lady GaGa 10. I'm Not Dead - P!nk
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1) In Rainbows - Radiohead 2) Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 3) Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends - Coldplay 4) Whoa, Nelly! - Nelly Furtado 5) Kala - M.I.A. 6) Funeral - Arcade Fire 7) Love. Angel. Music. Baby. - Gwen Stefani 8) Elephant - White Stripes 9) Is This It - The Strokes 10) Fallen - Evanescence
Honorable Mentions:
B'day - Beyonce Loose - Nelly Furtado A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay Kid A - Radiohead Rockferry - Duffy Volta - Bjork Because I Love It - Amerie Rock Steady - No Doubt Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear The Fame - Lady Gaga
there are def. more honorable mentions but I can't think of any right at this moment.
For Your Grammy Consideration: Not Whitney Houston
For whatever reason, I have a hard time listing favorite albums over such a long period of time. I guess it's because I was so into certain albums long ago, but I haven't listened to them in 5 years. It's hard for me to be overly fair with these things, but I'll give it a shot.
(In no order) 1. MIA - Kala 2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way 3. No Doubt - Rock Steady 4. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantacism 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones 6. Arcade Frie - Funeral 7. Robyn - s/t 8. Bjork - Vespertine 9. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 10. The White Stripes - Elephant
Random Honorable mentions go to... RHCP's "Californication" and "Stadium Arcadium", both of Gwen Stefani's albums and No Doubt's "Return of Saturn", PJ Harvey's "Stories...", Vampire Weekend ST, LCD Soundsystem's "Sound of Silver", Modest Mouse's "Good News for People that Like Bad News", Rilo Kiley's "Under the Blacklight" and "More Adventurous", U2's "All that You Can't Leave Behind", Bloc Party, The Killer's and Franz Ferdinand's debuts, YYY's "It's Blitz", the White Stripes "Get Behind Me Satan", MIA's "Arular.
And at least 20 more. This **** is hard!
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I'm going to rank more the albums that were most influential or important to me in this decade. not neccisarily the one's that were the "best" of the decade.
1. Stripped, Christina Aguilera 2. I'm Not Dead, Pink 3. The Evolution Of Robin Thicke, Robin Thicke 4. American Idiot, Green Day 5. Daughtry, Daughtry 6. The Emancipation Of Mimi, Mariah Carey 7. Breakaway- Kelly Clarkson 8. I Look To You- Whitney Houston 9. 3D, TLC 10. Cmon, Cmon- Sheryl Crow
Praying The Daytime Emmys air on TV in 2010!
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Acoustic Soul (India.Arie) As I Am (Alicia Keys) Because Of You (Ne-Yo) BLACKsummers'night (Maxwell) Confessions (Usher) Diary of Alicia Keys (Alicia Keys) The Emancipation Of Mimi (Mariah Carey) Fantasia (Fantasia) Get Lifted (John Legend) Hard Candy (Madonna) I Look To You (Whitney Houston) In My Mind (Pharrell) Justified (Justin Timberlake) Love/Hate (The-Dream) Under Construction (Missy Elliott)
1.) Nas, God's Son 2.) Alicia Keys, The Diary of Alicia Keys 3.) Aaliyah, Aaliyah 4.) Jay-Z, The Black Album 5.) Kanye West, Late Registration 6.) Lil Wayne, Tha Carter I 7.) Anthony Hamilton, Coming From Where I'm From 8.) Mariah Carey, The Emancipation of Mimi 9.) Brandy, Full Moon 10.) Outkast, Stankonia
These are just off the top of my head. There are many others. I'm sorry if my list is so R&B or Hip Hop dominated. I listen to other types of music as well. lol
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01 "Song in A Minor", Alicia Keys 02 "I'm Not Dead", P!nk 03 "Continuum", John Mayer 04 "The Way It Is", Keyshia Cole 05 "Blacksummers'night", Maxwell 06 "Now", Maxwell 07 "As I Am", Alicia Keys 08 "MTV Unplugged No. 2.0", Lauryn Hill 09 "The Carter", Lil Wayne 10 "The Diary of Alicia Keys", Alicia Keys 11 "Mama's Gun", Erykah Badu 12 "New Amerykah Part One)", Erykah Badu 13 "Like A Star", Corinne Bailey Rae 14 "Daughtry", Daughtry 15 "Fantasia", Fantasia
Honorable Mentions: "Stillmatic", Nas "Because of You", Ne-Yo "Aaliyah", Aaliyah "TP.3 Reloaded", R Kelly "All the Right Reasons", Nickelback
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