Top 10 albums of the decade

[Heretic_Cata]

Hi

As the 2000s are coming to a close, it's time to look back at what great albums the decade offered. Post your own top10.

Here is mine.

10. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
One of the best of the indie era. It's a shame what they are singing nowadays.

9. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (2009)
Pink Floyd meets post-rock in this depressingly optimistic album.

8. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (2009)
Blues + folk + indie = something surprisingly good.

7. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
While lacking the purity of the first album, the change of pace worked well in the long run.

6. The Departure - Dirty Words (2005)
Lacking the marketing and with a lot of internal troubles, this great indie band and album will pass by unnoticed.

5. Editors - An End Has a Start (2007)
They were actually successful of making a Joy Division style of post-punk album. It's almost as good as their mentors' albums and clearly just as dark and confusing.

4. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (2008)
Indie with a huge influence from 60s pop.

3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Probably the best "pure" indie album out there.

2. White Lies - To Lose My Life... (2009)
Like Editors they take inspiration from the Joy Division-style post-punk a lot. But their lyrics move away from the confusing abstract mental images of the style.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (2009)
With this swirling mass of dark indie, abstract lyrics, bad haircuts and Josh Homme's stoner rock, the monkeys abandoned several fans. However those that understood the album got a lot closer to the band.


P.S. No reissues of older albums. And no compilation albums.

P.P.S. Yes i know there was a recent thread with picking the CFC album of the decade. But that is a confusing thread and for some reason that thread is top20 songs of the decade. Plus, my OP is much nicer.

 

[holy king]

i dont care for the big label music of this hopeless decade.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I definitely agree with your Editors and White Lies picks. Two awesome albums.

One of my favorite of this decade would be Rosenrot by Rammstein and consequently Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da, which is quite a bit like Rosenrot.

Another great one is 8 by Mumiy Troll, a rather esoteric band from Russia (They're not indie, nor unknown, but still make good music in my opinion)

Of course I also have to throw in the OST's for Battlestar Galactica which contain so much epic music.

 

[azzaman333]

I was going to write out lengthy reasons why I picked these albums, but decided 1/3rd of the way through it was too much effort and scrapped the whole idea.

#1 Muse - Origin of Symmetry

#2 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

#3 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

#4 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

#5 Muse - Absolution

#6 Karnivool - Sound Awake
#7 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
#8 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
#9 The Living End - Modern ARTillery
#10 The Fratellis - Costello Music

Honourable mentions go to;
Deadmau5 - For Lack of a Better Name
Kasabian - Empire
The Presets - Apocalypso
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By the Way
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
System of a Down - Toxicity
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures[

 

[duckduckswan]

My vote for numero uno goes to Margot & the Nuclear So and So's 2006 album The Dust of Retreat.

 

[Camikaze]

I'm probably forgetting a bunch, but off the top of my head, and quickly flicking through my iTunes library:

1. Muse- Absolution. Unparalleled as an album, IMO. Sometimes you might get one song on an album that is exceptionally good, but this has three (Hysteria, Stockholm Syndrome and Butterflies & Hurricanes) and the rest isn't far off.
2. Muse- The Resistance. I actually really like it, as compared to most people. IMO, Exogenesis is genius, and Undisclosed Desires and United States of Eurasia are superb, also. And the rest of the album isn't just all decent, it's all good. There isn't a bad song, or even an only half-decent one, on The Resistance.
3. Red Hot Chilli Peppers- By the Way. Plenty of great songs. The best are probably By The Way and Can't Stop.
4. The Automatic- Not Accepted Anywhere. I love Keep Your Eyes Peeled. It's great music to play loud. The desire to turn up my speakers is irresistible when listening to this song. The rest of the album is good too, particularly You Shout You Shout You Shout and On the Campaign Trail.
5. Kasabian- Kasabian. It's hard to pick a highlight from this album, because it's all really good, although it offers no exceptional songs. Reason is Treason is probably the pick of 'em.
6. Linkin Park- Meteora. I used to be a bigger fan of this, but I've gone past my Linkin Park stage for the most part. But I still think they are pretty good. Don't Stay, Numb and Faint are probably my favourites. The continuity of the album (as in The Resistance) is good and keeps you interested, and there is enough variety of styles to make it more interesting.
7. Kaiser Chiefs- Yours Truly, Angry Mob. The first two tracks (Ruby and The Angry Mob) are awesome, although the rest isn't quite as good. I still, however, is a really good listen. No bad songs. Just a few only decent ones.
8. Muse- Black Holes and Revelations. Not as good as Absolution and The Resistance, but it still has plenty of good songs. It fades into mediocrity after the first three tracks (Take A Bow, Starlight and Map of the Problematique), but Supermassive Black Hole and Knights of Cydonia rescue it.
9. Coldplay- Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. A bunch of plagiarised hackery, but quite good plagiarised hackery at that. Very good background music.
10. The Cat Empire- The Cat Empire. Good easy listening and really catchy. One Four Five is probably the best song on the album.

I'm not so much of an Origins of Symmetry fan, but it's close to Top 10, by sheer virtue of being Muse. The Love Below by OutKast is close too. I like it less than I used to. Hybrid Theory was close, and so was Intimacy by Bloc Party and Demon Days by Gorillaz. Other than that Vulture Street by Powderfinger and RHCP's Stadium Arcadium were pretty good, too. Oh, and Franz Ferdinand's self-titled album was good, too.

 

[Squarg]

1 - The Killers - Sam's town - possibly one of the most underrated albums of all time
2 - Kings of Leon - Only by the night - I know, I know, but when this came out I knew it would be popular because it was that good.
3 - Muse - Origin of symetrey - Nuff said
4 - Arcade Fire - Funeral - Got me interested in indie music
5 - Coldplay - A rush of blood to the head - my heart aches when i hear their new stuff
6 - Garbage - Version 2.0
7 - Green Day - American Idiot - for personal reasons
8 - Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
9 - The Wombats - Tales of love, loss and depression
10 - Nine inch nails - Year Zero

Probably forgot a lot of things but this should suffice.

 

[Riffraff]

Hmm noone thinks the second Franz F. album is better than the first?

 

[Phlegmak]

Havoc Unit - h.IV+
Satyricon - The Age of Nero
Alex Shields - Fantasies of Another World
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
...And Oceans - Cypher
Samael - Reign of Light
Therion - Lemuria & Sirius B
The Phenomenauts - For All Mankind
Fairytale Abuse - Perversion of Angel IV
Panzerchrist - Roomservice
...And Oceans - A.M.G.O.D.

It's actually hard for me to come up with such a list since I don't buy a lot of music.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I can proudly say I have never heard of 90% of the bands in this thread so far.

 

[oagersnap]

I can proudly say I have never heard of 90% of the bands in this thread so far.

Congratulations. Do you want a prize for the least mainstream music taste on CFC?

 

[Algeroth]

Some picks in no particular order:

Tool - Lateralus Probably the best album from the most impressive band of this decade. I doubt that any list can be taken seriously without it.

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Muse- Origin of Symmetry

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero The return of NIN.

Tony Iommi - Iommi While the sound of this album was insignificant to the evolution of music in this decade, it's unsurpassed monument to the heavy metal as it sounded before we wanted to listen something more speedy, artsy or full of rapping.

Medeski Martin & Wood - End of the World Party (Just in Case) The best album from what I consider best in contemporary jazz.

Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun The ewel in the crown of post-rock. Repetitive musics never sounded so dynamics.

dredge - Leitmotif Probably the Best Album that Nearly No-one Heard Of. Very uncommon sounding indie rock.

White Stripes - Elephant Can we really omit them from top albums of this decade? Me thinks not.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela The best samba/acoustic rock player are former trash metalists. Bear with it.

 

[rhawn]

Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals- Lifeline
Ray LaMontage- Til the Sun Turns Black
A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms
Tool- Lateralus
The Strokes- Is This It
Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf(or hard of hearing)
Killswitch Engage- The End of Heartache
Pearl Jam- Backspacer
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (a pretty cool duo and the cover of Stairway to Heaven is just sick sick sick, wouldn't have thought of it hadn't Algeroth mentioned it)

 

[Godwynn]

Hi

As the 2000s are coming to a close, it's time to look back at what great albums the decade offered. Post your own top10.

Here is mine.

10. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
One of the best of the indie era. It's a shame what they are singing nowadays.

9. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (2009)
Pink Floyd meets post-rock in this depressingly optimistic album.

8. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (2009)
Blues + folk + indie = something surprisingly good.

7. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
While lacking the purity of the first album, the change of pace worked well in the long run.

6. The Departure - Dirty Words (2005)
Lacking the marketing and with a lot of internal troubles, this great indie band and album will pass by unnoticed.

5. Editors - An End Has a Start (2007)
They were actually successful of making a Joy Division style of post-punk album. It's almost as good as their mentors' albums and clearly just as dark and confusing.

4. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (2008)
Indie with a huge influence from 60s pop.

3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Probably the best "pure" indie album out there.

2. White Lies - To Lose My Life... (2009)
Like Editors they take inspiration from the Joy Division-style post-punk a lot. But their lyrics move away from the confusing abstract mental images of the style.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (2009)
With this swirling mass of dark indie, abstract lyrics, bad haircuts and Josh Homme's stoner rock, the monkeys abandoned several fans. However those that understood the album got a lot closer to the band.


P.S. No reissues of older albums. And no compilation albums.

P.P.S. Yes i know there was a recent thread with picking the CFC album of the decade. But that is a confusing thread and for some reason that thread is top20 songs of the decade. Plus, my OP is much nicer.

I have never heard of any of those.

 

[oagersnap]

I have never heard of any of those.

See this:

Congratulations. Do you want a prize for the least mainstream music taste on CFC?

 

[Godwynn]

See this:

Does it come with a cash prize?

 

[oagersnap]

Does it come with a cash prize?

Of course not. All you get is the honour of having a music taste far superiour to anybody who listens to anything that has been on the charts.

But anyway, do you even know ten albums from this decade?

 

[Godwynn]

Of course not. All you get is the honour of having a music taste far superiour to anybody who listens to anything that has been on the charts.

I never once stated anything of the sort. You Danes and your habit of insulting people!

But anyway, do you even know ten albums from this decade?

Probably not, I'm more of a 90s guy myself. I had free time back then.

 

[oagersnap]

I never once stated anything of the sort. You Danes and your habit of insulting people!

Ok, maybe I was exaggerating a bit, but you did make a post contributing nothing to the thread except to state that you don't know any of the music mentioned.

 

[Munch]

Kid A - Radiohead (2000) say what you like regarding the definition of a decade, it was less than ten years ago
Origin of Symmetry - Muse (2001)
Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA (2001)
Mutter - Rammstein (2001)
Toxicity - SOAD (2001)
Lateralus - Tool (2001)
Vespertine - Bjork (2001)
Funeral - Arcade Fire (2004)

errrr ...

Hail to the Thief - Radiohead (2003)
In Rainbows - Radiohead (2007) longer ago than I had realised