10 best albums of new millenium

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it's easier to separate the wheat from the chaff too when most new music is streamable, on Myspaz at the very least. It's like the modern equivalent of a listening booth but you know, lamer.
If i take any new music recommendations seriously they are word of mouth - rab for one and RYM is brilliant, even if the userbase to some degree reflects the opinions of the music press they are quite a discerning bunch.
It is the same old problem though that we all moan about when shopping in the local air hangar/supermarket - too much choiiiice, it's hard work just to find what you went in for
 
Ryan Adams (used to have Gold on CD and lost track after the 'rock n roll' album, it had a really good Jeff Buckley-like single though)
And My Morning Jacket, never got round to them.
I only borrowed the Knife album but it was sweet as.
ALSO i'd probably go with the first TV On the Radio album instead. Each album of theirs after that you are told is a 'grower' and the second album hadnt even finished growing when their newer one came out. It's all so confusing



interesting, i always thought Reveal was underrated as an REM album... MM LP is a straight up classic.
 
I'll give it a shot:

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the comatorium
Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf
My morning jacket - Z
Radiohead - In rainbows
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now
The Knife - Silent shout
System of a down - Hypnotize/Mezmerize
TV on the Radio - Return to cookie mountain
Ryan Adams - Cold roses
Arcade fire - Funeral
 
Reveal is actually totally underrated. Imitation of Life might be the best song of the decade, not even exaggerating. Critics cast the record off as a U2-like attempt at commercialism, and then bash it further for failing at finding that commercial sound, noting all the little bells, whistles, blips and dings that beautifully adorn the album (see I've Been High) as dated and irrelevant. I disagree with this. Rather than trying to conform, I think R.E.M. was taking the retro sound of Up one step further; upping the electronic beats and adding more and more synths until it became sort of however close R.E.M. could get to a Kid A like album (I've Been High would fit right at home on the latter if Thom sang it). A noble failure at changing the popular sound, as opposed to a noble failure at conforming to a pre-established popular sound is what Reveal is, in essence. But still, viewed out of that context it's a beautifully lively album that deserves much more respect than it has been given.
 
1. Shellac-1000 hurts
2. low-things we lost in the fire
3. bonnie prince billy-superwolf
3. mclusky-...do dallas
4. vee dee-public mental health system
5. propagandhi-todays empires, tommorows ashes

...I honestly can't think of any others. **** this millennium.
 
1.Alligator-The National
2.Stankonia-OutKast
3.Dear Science-TV On The Radio
4.Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco
5.Boy In Da Corner-Dizzee Rascal
6.Let's Get Out Of This Country-Camera Obscura
7.Veckamiest-Grizzly Bear
8.Actor-St Vincent
9.Two Dancers-Wild Beasts
10.It's Blitz!-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Huge gaps in my listening though.
 
apart from the ones i've not heard (and Arcade Fire :nono:) that's the beginnings of a pretty bitchin' list... although i'd have Toxicity instead, aint heard the neu stuff. could spend hours brain racking here and get nowhere. damn brain rot
 
very good improptu review, will have to dig out the CD tomorrow because it was a big hit round these parts when it came out, great summer album with a cosy sense of nostalgia to it



good call on raskit, best british album forever and the most experimental UK 'urban' record, this will be in my top 3 if i put together a list. He is dead to me after this album
 
I have been thinking out my top 10 albums of the noughties, since we're near the end of the decade

1. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
5. Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
6. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
7. Sigur Ros - '()'
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. M83 - Saturday=Youth
10. Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin

Not forgetting other great albums:
Sigur Ros - Takk, Autolux - Future Perfect, Electric Wizard - Dopethrone, Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time, Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines Of God, Silversun Pickups - Swoon, The White Stripes - Elephant, Tool - Lateralus, BoarRAB Of Canada - Geogaddi, Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
 
1. Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
2. The Walkmen - "Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone"
3. Coldplay - "Parachutes"
4. Radiohead - "In Rainbows"
5. Fleet Foxes - "Fleet Foxes"
6. The Deceraberists - "The Crane Wife"
7. Travis - "The Man Who"
8. Mono - "Walking Cloud & Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered & The Sun Shined"
9. Sea Wolf - "Leaves In The River"
10. The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots"
 
The only thing mentioning more than one Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros and Silversun Pickup album in the same post shows is that you really have no clue at just how much great stuff has come out of this decade.
 
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No one's included this?

Or this one:

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?
 
Thanks Molecules! Shame it didn't even make commercial impact over here.




Word.



Except:

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His verse on this Fatboy Slim track with David Byrne is absolutely ill.
 
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