That's a cool idea, Ohgar. Reading through this thread makes me realize I could never pick one album.
First reaction to thread title: Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye The Dear Hunter - Act II Dredg - El Cielo Chroma Key - Graveyard Mountain Home PT - Deadwing Opeth - Ghost Reveries Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place It's impossible to pick an album of the decade, there's just too much involved. Off the top of my head, though, these are my favorites from the decade.
2009 looks to be a big year for new albums; I already have over 50 on My 2009 Albums Anticipation List. I'm not sure if this list will be fully accurate until sometime in 2010. Not that it's the same time/situation exactly, but at the end of 1999, I wonder if people made a list of favorite albums from the 90's, and then did so in 2000, if their list changed a lot. But by that thinking, the albums of the year, for each year, should be announced many months after the year has ended.
Yeah, 2009 is going to be an amazing year, I think. It seems like this decade, the odd years ('01, '03, '05, '07) have been musically way better than the even years, so I can't wait for '09.
2009 is going to blow every other year this decade out of the water (if all goes according to plan). That said, '00, '02, and '06 are all stronger than '01 and '03, so this decade really hasn't been dominated by either odd or even years.
My favorite album of the decade would be either Porcupine Tree's Lightbulb Sun or Radiohead's In Rainbows, with honorable mentions for the following: Radiohead - Kid A Peter Gabriel - Up The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel Sigur Rós - ( ) Transatlantic - SMPTe Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
This is a useless debate because our tastes are so different. I will grant you that it was probably a very good year for the music that you like. For the music that I like, which only overlaps with yours slightly, it was a distinctly below average year. [/somewhat hypocritical]
2005 was probably the best year, but '03 is a close second. I was being a little hyperbolic like I usually am.
• Lateralus • This Binary Universe • Deadwing • Free • Vheissu • Nothing Lasts ... But Nothing Is Lost
IN RAINBOWS. Absolutely. Not only is it an amazing album, but it's probably been the most influential album of the decade as well, given the way it was marketed and released. It stands for everything that needs to change about the music industry. It's a statement.
In your opinion. Stick your statements earlier in the thread; this boils down to personal taste. There are other albums I like more from this decade, sure, but I think In Rainbows definitely should take the cake. I mean, right now I like Suicide Season and Fortress and The Artist in the Ambulance more than In Rainbows, but should any of those be celebrated at albums of the decade? Nope. I can see that Kid A would be the logical choice here, but I think IR stirred more in people than Kid A did, although it's a close call.
Kid A could be seen as just as revolutionary from a marketting standpoint since Radiohead succeeded at embracing the internets to advertise their albums before there was myspace and while all the major labels were like "oh noes! napster!!" and more revolutionary from a musical stand point since it's like a rock band making an album without guitars and stuff. i like In Rainbows more though, and Hail to the Thief most of all.
2010 is almost over, 5/8. Album of the decade, 2000 through 2010? Metal Gear Solid 4 soundtrack no in all seriousness, probably Anathallo's Canopy Glow (2008) for me.
either Peter Gabriel - Up or BT - This Binary Universe or Ulver - Blood Inside or Shpongle - Nothing Lasts
Kayo dot - choirs of the eye Converge - jane doe unwound - leaves turn inside you off minor - the heat death of the universe kayo dot being the winner.. all 4 in my top 10 of all time (as of now)
DT - Systematic Chaos DT - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence DT - Black Clouds and Silver Linings DT - Train of Thought DT - Octavarium In no particular order.
Blood Inside, followed by Back to Times of Splendor, followed by The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion.
A decade is not 11 years. But the best album from 2000-2010 is the same as the best album from 2000-2009, and that is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco.
The vast majority of music I listen to is from this decade, so a best of the decade list would be like asking me for a favorite albums list. That being said I'd have to side with the votes for Jane Doe.
I really don't care for making such a claim as what I think is the album of the decade. it's grounded too much in my personal enjoyment for me to make so big a statement. I also don't care much for naming even my favorite album of the decade, as the grouping of all of the decade's albums is extremely arbitrary (as opposed to the individual year, where the much more focused span of time makes at least some sense); when a choice of one album is made from such a huge and varied group of albums, the statement barely holds any gravity or importance. it doesn't say very much at all about that album, let alone the decade.
also add LYSFLATH to this. forgot about it since I don't have it rated on my new RYM for some reason.
I'd say that the ten years for which the first three digits are the same is a pretty intuitive way to denote the years that make up a decade
GYBE - Lift Your Skinny Fists Opeth - Blackwater Park Ulver - Perdition City Devin Townsend - Terria Radiohead - Kid A Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights Oceansize - Frames
ahhhhhhhh Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium Isis – Panopticon Minus the Bear – Highly Refined Pirates Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway Bear vs. Shark – Right Now, You’re in the Best of Hands Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of Natural History At the Drive – In – Relationship of Command Deftones – White Pony Fugazi – The Argument The Dillinger Escape Plan – Irony is a Dead Scene TV On the Radio - Dear Science Sufjan Stevens – Illinois mewithoutYou – Catch for Us the Foxes Mastodon – Leviathan Tool - Lateralus Converge - Jane Doe ghhhhhhhh
