BF2S Forums Top Ten Albums of the Decade.

There's alot of albums to pick from, hard choice.

Zimmer, T.I.?

are you taking the piss?

Wreckognize wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Fleet Foxes

Wasn't YHF by Wilco?

Oh shit lulz, yeah. I have no idea how I got them mixed up.

Would have to agree with Animal Collective.

Gooners, T.I. did a fantastic job of Paper Trail. I am not a rap kind of guy, but under house arrest and coming up with that was impressive. He is good, and Paper Trail showed how good he can be.

I don't agree with FF, but Bon Iver deserves some credit, I think.

Certainly not MGMT; catchy music, but top10 worthy? Not a chance.

Aphex Twin most definitely.

Actually, throw in Ratatat - Ratatat

three thousand thirty with dan the automator

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Radiohead - Kid A
Del - Deltron 3030
Arcade Fire - Funeral

Definitely make my short list for the decade.  T.I. defiinitely doesn't make it, same with the rest of those lists.  I'm trying to think across all genres but my head is asploding from the concentration.  Those I listed are definite albums of the last decade though.

Are you kidding me?

Daft Punk doesn't make it?

Wilco - YHF?

The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada?

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips?

Are you really serious? I'm sorry, but from the 4 I listed, one of them deserves to be in the top 10. I don't care which, but one of them does.

Nope, Daft Punk doesn't even get consideration.  Boards of Canada, possibly.  Maybe, yeah.  Flaming Lips, nope.  There's better music out there than what reads like a college indie list.  Matisyahu - Youth?  Are you freaking serious?  That wouldn't even cross my mind for Jewish Reggae Album of the Year for 2007 or whenever it came out.  Do you compile these lists or just copy/paste from some stupid artsy wannabe indie e-zine?

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Do you compile these lists or just copy/paste from some stupid artsy wannabe indie e-zine?

...coming from someone who listed Radiohead...

I havn't really taken into account the importance of any of these albums, just how much I like them. In a vague order....

Radiohead - Kid A
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois / The Avalanche
Burial - Untrue
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Broken Social Scene - You forgot it in people
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Four Tet - Rounds
Sigur ros - Takk or agaetis ect... hard to decide
Elbow - Leaders of the free world. Don't hate me.

I wanna put Bibio but I think it's too close still to its release.
I recon 'Days to come' is nowhere near as good as m for monkey tbh

And In rainbows prolly be somewhere in there as well.

Interesting - What my most played of the decade are on lastfm:

Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago -WAY ahead
The Avalanches – Since I Left You
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Cinematic Orchestra – Ma Fleur
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Burial – Untrue
Radiohead - Kid A
Bibio - Ambivalence avenue
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The Microphones - The Glow, pt 2 ---below this starts to be not much of a gap. in rainbows. fionn regan. pocket symphony.

Last edited by Fosterthelegend (2010-01-04 17:23:27)

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

But that was a great album.  I'm not even a bigtime Radiohead (or Animal Collective) fan, but those albums were both amazing.  Got to give credit where credit is due.  Calling Fleet Foxes a greatest of the decade?  Emancipator (youtube hero)?  Jimmy Eat World? The Killers?  Puh-lease.  At least I'm trying to vet my picks (granted it's vetting through a dubious formula that I can't even put down in print due to its inherent complexity and inexplicable nonsensibility) as opposed to going with what I really like.

How you could list Emancipator's album over any other better downtempo from the last 10 years?  Bonobo's Days to Come is levels ahead of Soon it Will be Cold Enough.  Doesn't even compare.

I just thought of another one -

Interpol - Antics

Sometimes you have to think more outside of "musical brilliance" in terms of albums.

And you're not serious about that Interpol album, I hope. I agree with Interpol, but most certainly not Antics... Turn On The Bright Lights was their first and greatest.

I agree with both Burial and Flying Lotus.

You are correct about JEW, FF and The Killers not being the top album of the decade, but The Flaming Lips most certainly are up there. There is no way you can ignore their influence on alt. Rock, experimental and space rock. Yoshimi Battles Pink Robots wasn't their greatest album, but it shows how amazing they are without even topping themselves. Songs like Do You Realize?? and Flight Test secure their position as one of the greatest psychedelic rock bands of all time. Embryonic was equally fantastic, and have you listened to their remake of The Dark Side Of The Moon? It's pure brilliance.

I'm sorry, but if you think Radiohead and Animal Collective deserve to be up there in the top 10, then The Flaming Lips most certainly do. I'm pretty sure most people would agree with me, EVEN if they don't like their music.

Foster - Sigur Ros... Yeah, I guess to some extent... But if any sort of post-rock band deserves to be there it should really be
Godspeed You! Black Emperor with Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.

In Rainbows is not better than Kid A, though.

Varegg wrote:

Discussing taste is a waste of time ...

No, not with this... I believe we can really narrow it down to a top10-20 of the best albums of the decade. This isn't about taste, but more about musical brilliance and the impact the said albums had on the rest of the world. Whether you like it or not.

I don't particularly like Radiohead, but I can see why they SHOULD be in the top10, and why other people think they are so brilliant. I personally don't listen to them a lot, they have some killer songs, but not my style... I still know that they should be in the top10 of the decade. No matter what my taste is.

Zimmer wrote:

Varegg wrote:

Discussing taste is a waste of time ...

No, not with this... I believe we can really narrow it down to a top10-20 of the best albums of the decade. This isn't about taste, but more about musical brilliance and the impact the said albums had on the rest of the world. Whether you like it or not.

I don't particularly like Radiohead, but I can see why they SHOULD be in the top10, and why other people think they are so brilliant. I personally don't listen to them a lot, they have some killer songs, but not my style... I still know that they should be in the top10 of the decade. No matter what my taste is.

If one of the factors are that they made an impact on the world you can hardly nominate anything from the past decade, it simply isn't original enough ...

So again it would be a matter of taste ...