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  • #192
    jtr
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      Hi there,

      so I thought I’d post my list of my 50 favourite albums from the past decade here, as I might get some discussion.

      By default I’ve might forgotten some in this list; I definitively haven’t heard all records, so the list is by no means comprensive either, and further more it’s absolutely personal. It’s also not listed from 1. – 50. but rather year after year. I know its some work but I’d like you people to work up some lists. Also, once you got enough material you will find that 50 is actually an awfully small number.

      Anyway, here goes:

      Johnny Cash – Solitary Man (2000)

      Clinic – Internal Wrangler (2000)

      Einstürzende Neubauten – Silence Is Sexy (2000)

      Green Day – Warning (2000)

      NOFX – Pump Up The Valuum (2000)

      Placebo – Black Market Music (2000)

      Radiohead – Kid A (2000)

      Dornenreich – Her von welken Nächten (2001)

      Kante – Zweilicht (2001)

      Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy (2001)

      Motorpsycho – Phanerothyme (2001)

      New Order – Get Ready (2001)

      Slut – Lookbook (2001)

      Weezer – Weezer III (2001)

      And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Source Tags & Codes (2002)

      Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – Black Earth (2002)

      Cinerama – Torino (2002)

      Deine Lakaien – White Lies (2002)

      The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)

      Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – Out of Season (2002)

      The Notwist – Neon Golden (2002)

      Pet Shop Boys – Release (2002)

      Tocotronic – Tocotronic (2002)

      Wyrd – Huldrafolk (2002)

      Cat Power – You are free (2003)

      Falkenbach – Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty (2003)

      Isolation Years – It’s Golden (2003)

      A Girl Called Eddy – A Girl Called Eddy (2004)

      Giant Sand – Is all over the Map (2004)

      Rammstein – Reise, Reise (2004)

      Squarepusher – Ultravisitor (2004)

      Dornenreich – Hexenwind (2005)

      The Wedding Present – Take Fountain (2005)

      Brazen – Aura, Dora (2006)

      Calexico – Garden Ruin (2006)

      Celtic Frost – Monotheist (2006)

      ColdWorld – Melancholie² (2006)

      Pet Shop Boys – Fundamental (2006)

      Shining – Halmstad (2006)

      Die Ärzte – Jazz ist anders (2007)

      Tocotronic – Kapitulation (2007)

      Calexico – Carried to Dust (2008)

      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)

      Monochrome – Caché (2008)

      The Notwist – The Devil, You + Me (2008)

      Portishead – Third (2008)

      Farin Urlaub Racing Team – Die Wahrheit übers Lügen (2008)

      The Wedding Present – El Ray (2008)

      Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers (2009)

      Pet Shop Boys – Yes (2009)

      #13856
      harry
      Participant

        Only ten from me:

        1. Loney, dear- Loney, noir (2007)

        2. …and you will know us by the trail of dead- Source Tag & Codes ( 2002)

        3. Sufjan Stevens- Illinois (2005)

        4. Motorpsycho- Phanerothyme (2001)

        5. Pearl Jam- Live at Benaroya Hall (2004)

        6. Blonde Redhead- Misery is a butterfly (2004)

        7. At the Drive-in- Relationship of command (2000)

        8. Radiohead- In Rainbows (2007)

        9. Sparklehorse- It’s a wonderful life (2001)

        10. Midlake- Trails of the Van Occupanther (2006)

        #13857

        No offense jtr but I’d rather listen to Celtic Frost’s Monotheist for 10 years non-stop than be subjected to most of the other choices on that list!

        In fact, weren’t Tocotronic ritually sacrificed during the last CF tour…?

        :twisted:

        #13858
        Vegard B. Havdal
        Keymaster

          Glaring omission:

          Mastodon – Crack The Skye

          One of the most amazing rock albums made in history of mankind.

          Also:

          The two last ones by System Of A Down

          And from Nick Cave I think Lyre Of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues is amazing.

          #13859
          GBD
          Participant

            Here are my 50

            01) Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling

            02) Motorpsycho – Little Lucid Moments

            03) Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped

            04) Radiohead – In Rainbows

            05) A SIlver Mt. Zion (etc) – This is our Punk Rock (etc)

            06) Logh – The Raging Sun

            07) Do Make Say Think – Yes, You are a hisory in Rust

            08) Bohren Und Der Club of Gore – Dolores

            09) Prodigy – Invaders Must Die

            10) Mouches Volantes – Psailing the seas of Vitrous Humour (My own project, but i’m just so proud of it!)

            11) Fippelektormonic – Rerekstadir

            12) Hide Unas – Hide Unas

            13) Metrognom – Twangyluck

            14) System of a Down – Toxicity

            15) Jaga Jazzist – What we must

            16) Queens of The Stone Age – Songs for the deaf

            17) Esbjörn Svenssons Trio – Tuesday Wonderland

            18) Scum Music – Mr. Defective

            19) Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die

            20) The Low Frequency In Stereo – The Low Frequency In Stereo

            21) The Samuel Jackson Five – Easily Misunderstood

            22) Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

            23) Sigur Ros – ()

            24) Mono – One step more and you die

            25) Explotions in the Sky – The Earth is not a cold dead place

            26) Chemical Brothers – Come with Us

            27) Dream Theater – Train of Thought

            28) Beck – Sea Change

            29) Satyricon – Volcano

            30) Cold Mailman – How to escape Cause and Effect

            31) Nick Cave – Abbatoir Blues

            32) Dungen – Ta Det Lungt

            33) MüM – Summer Make Good

            34) Röyksopp – Melody A.M

            35) Xploding Plastix – Amateur Girlfriend goes Proskirt Agents

            36) Pan American – The River Made No Sound

            37) Godspeed You Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O

            38) From Monument To Masses – The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps

            39) HRSTA – Stem Stem In Electro

            40) Hangedup – Clatter For Control

            41) Air – 10,000 Hz Legend

            42) Scared Dog – Subsonic Dreams

            43) Tool – 10,000 Days

            44) King Crimson – The Power to Believe

            45) The International Tussler Society – Motorpsycho presents: The International Tussler Society

            46) Squarepusher – Ultravisitor

            47) Mororpsycho + Jaga Jazzist Horns – In the Fishtank

            48) Hanne Hukkelberg – Little Things

            49) Sondre Lerche – Two Way Monologue

            50) Farmers Market – Surfing USSR

            #13860
            jtr
            Participant

              @LLM: Oh, no offense taken. It’s my personal list and does not need to fit your taste, after all. I’m not your everyday hard rock/metal listener, I like maintaining wide tastes, as you can see probably by the inclusion of several Pet Shop Boys albums and other pop alongside experimental stuff like Squarepusher or suicidal depressive black metal like Shining (again, the Swedish band, not the Norwegian one).

              I still, however, advice anyone, who might be repelled by the names in the list, without having heard the actual music, to give it a try without a forebuilt opinion (even if that’s not easy, yes), you might like some of them. They all have wonderful melodies splattered all over them.

              @harry: hah, I like someone loved Phanerothyme as much as I did.

              @Vegard: Well, omission…never heard that record. Perhaps I’ll give it a spin :)

              @GBD: I’m glad somebody else made a whole list. You got some great records in there too of course!

              —

              I just realized a REAL omission in my list. Let them eat Cake. If I recall correctly, it was released in 2000, right? So you might interchange that with “A Girl Called Eddy”.

              #13861
              Great King Rat
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                Ok, here’s my list. Contains a few classics of course but also some stuff not mentioned yet. Interesting to see what people listen to besides MP nowadays…

                01. … Trail of dead – Source, tags & codes

                02. … Trail of dead – Worlds apart

                03. At the drive-in – Relationship of command

                04. Badly Drawn Boy – The hour of bewilderbeast

                05. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar

                06. Belasco – Something between us

                07. Belle & Sebastian – Push barman to open old wounds

                08. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master and Everyone

                09. Bright Eyes – Lifted or the story’s…

                10. Calexico – Feast of wire

                11. dEUS – The ideal crash (actually it’s from ’99 but to me it belongs to this decade)

                12. Deftones – White pony

                13. Devin Townsend – Physicist

                14. Eels – Souljacker

                15. Elbow – Asleep in the back

                16. Elbow – Cast of thousands

                17. Elbow – Leaders of the free world

                18. Elbow – The seldom seen kid (SUCH a fantastic band!)

                19. The flaming lips – Yoshimi battles the pink robots

                20. Franz Ferdinand – dito

                21. Friska Viljor – Bravo!

                22. Gossip – Standing in the way of control

                23. Herman Dune – Giant

                24. Iron and wine – Our endless numbered days

                25. Jay-Jay Johanson – Whiskey

                26. Karate – Unsolved

                27. Kings of Leon – Youth and young manhood

                28. Modest Mouse – Moon and Antarctica

                29. Modest Mouse – Good news for people who love bad news

                30. Mogwai – Rock action

                31. Motorpsycho – LTEC

                32. Motorpsycho – Phanerothyme

                33. Muse – Absolution

                34. The National – Boxer

                35. N.E.R.D. – In search of…

                36. The Notwist – Neon Golden

                37. Phoenix – United

                38. Portugal. The Man – Waiter: “You vultures!”

                39. QOTSA – Rated R

                40. Radiohead – Kid A

                41. Radiohead – Hail to the thief

                42. Röyksopp – Melody A.M.

                43. Sigur Ros – ()

                44. The soundtrack of our lives – Behind the music

                45. The Strokes – Is this it

                46. Super 700 – Lovebites

                47. System of a down – Toxicity

                48. Ween – White Pepper

                49. Weezer – The green album

                50. Wilco – Yankee hotel foxtrot

                #13862
                Anonymous

                  I would add a couple of releases from some great french black metal bands to that list, for example Deathspell Omega, Glorior Belli or Blut aus Nord :twisted:

                  #13863
                  Wulf
                  Participant

                    Another (or some same..) 50 great Albums imho:

                    Absynthe Minded – New Day

                    Admiral Freebee – Songs

                    Aereogramme – A Story In White

                    Aereogramme – My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go

                    Against Me! – New Wave

                    Amplifier – Insider

                    And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart

                    A Whisper In The Noise – A Whisper In The Noise

                    A Whisper In The Noise – Dry Land

                    Beirut – The Flying Club Cup

                    Boxhamsters – Demut Und Elite

                    But Alive – Hallo Endorphin (from ‘99)

                    Chuck Ragan – Feast Or Famine

                    Dead Man Ray – Berchem Trap

                    dEUS – Pocket Revolution

                    dEUS – Vantage Point

                    Die Ärzte – Jazz Ist Anders

                    Eels – Hombre Lobo

                    Eels – Souljacker

                    Gore Slut – Girl + Turtles

                    Iron Maiden – Dance Of Death

                    Jud – The Perfect Life

                    Les Hommes Qui Wear Espandrillos – Für Eine HandVoll Euro

                    Lou Barlow – Emoh

                    Love Substitutes – Meet The Love Substitutes While The House Is On Fire

                    Midnight Choir – Amsterdam Stranded

                    Motorpsycho – Barracuda

                    Motorpsycho – Black Hole/Blank Canvas

                    Motorpsycho – Child Of The Future

                    Motorpsycho – It’s A Love Cult

                    Motorpsycho – Let Them Eat Cake

                    Motorpsycho – Little Lucid Moments

                    Motorpsycho + Cowboys – Motorpsycho Presents The International Tussler Society

                    Motorpsycho & Jaga Jazzist – In The Fishtank

                    Normahl – Das Ist Punk

                    Notwist – Neon Golden

                    O.S.A. – Oresus Og Nesegrus

                    Pelzig – Safe In It’s Place

                    Rancid – Let The Dominoes Fall

                    Roudy Trouvé – A Collection Of Rather Quiet Songs Recorded Between 1999&2002

                    Roudy Trouvé Sextet – 2002-2003

                    Shout Out Louds – Our Ill Wills

                    Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped

                    Sparta – Threes

                    Strokes – Is This It

                    Thurston Moore – Trees Outside The Acadamy

                    Tom Waits – Orphans

                    Various – Alle Gegen Alle – A Tribute To Slime

                    WIZO – Anderster

                    Zita Swoon – Big City

                    #13864

                    This really isn’t easy to decide! But after some hours of thinking I’ve decided to make this list and have split it in some categories because it really depends on my mood which music I’m into at some moment…

                    My favorite artists…

                    Motorpsycho – Phanerothyme (2001)

                    – LLM (2008)

                    Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man comes around (2002)

                    – American V: A 100 Highways (2006)

                    Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (2000)

                    – From a basement on the hill (2004)

                    Bobby Conn – The golden Age (2003)

                    – King for a day (2007)

                    Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse (2004)

                    PJ Harvey – Stories from the city… (2000)

                    the Mars Volta – De-loused in the Comatorium (2003)

                    A Silver Mt. Zion – This is our Punk Rock… (2003)

                    – 13 Blues for 13 Moons (2008)

                    St. Thomas – Children of the new brigade (2005)

                    – There’s only one of me (2007)

                    Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond (2007)

                    Calexico – Feast of Wire (2003)

                    Post Rock etc/ Psych …

                    Colour Haze – Tempel (2006)

                    Baroness – Red Album (2007)

                    Cult of Luna – Eternal Kingdom (2008)

                    G.Y.B.E. – Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)

                    Do Make Say Think – Winter Hymn… (2003)

                    35007 – Phase V (2005)

                    Salvatore – Luxus (2005)

                    Amazing Retro Sound

                    Wobbler – Afterglow (2009)

                    Hypnos 69 – the Electric Measure

                    Anekdoten – Gravity (2003)

                    BigBang – Frontside Rock’n’roll (2002)

                    Das Weeth Experience – The accentric sound of das… (2004)

                    Mattias Hellberg & the white moose – Out of the frying pan… (2009)

                    Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)

                    Black Keys – Attack & Release (2008)

                    Rose Hill Drive – The Earth is the new Moon (2008)

                    My Morning Jacket – Z (2005)

                    Wolfmother – Wolfmother (2006)

                    Melancholia

                    Moriarty – Gee whiz this is a lonesome town (2007)

                    Blonde Redhead – Melody of certain damaged lemons (2000)

                    Dresden Dolls – The Dresden Dolls (2003)

                    Nick Cave & t. b. S. – No more shall we part (2001)

                    dEUS – Vantage Point (2008)

                    the Notwist – Neon Golden (2002)

                    Tocotronic – Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen (2005)

                    Evan Dando – Baby, I’m bored (2003)

                    Music I listen to if I’m angry or/& I want to party with friends

                    Blackmail – Bliss, Please (2001)

                    S.O.A.D. – Hypnotize (2005)

                    Q.O.T.S.A. – Rated R. (2000)

                    At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command (2000)

                    A Perfect Circle – 13th Step (2003)

                    Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to tell (2003)

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