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[bob]

of all that's been mentioned, i'll second the locust 'new erections' anything by wilco and dre's timeless '2001' 'the argument' by fugazi, and the shins blew me away as well (more 'oh inverted world' than 'wincing...' though)
but i gotta mention

bruce springsteen 'magic' anything by the boss really, still so good. neil young's 'fork in the road' is great too.
brian wilson 'smile' and 'that lucky old sun' the comeback of the decade. so, so, so good.
randy newman 'harps and angels' go listen to "a few words in defense of our country" if you doubt me
sleater kinney 'the woods' best record of 2005. why'd they break up? this album is incredible.
and not to be diminished for being local:
AJJ 'people who eat people...' the record that makes it okay that Kurt Vonnegut died
colorstore 'bonefish:...' best record ever put out by a phoenix band? nope that'd probably be
the two asleep in the sea eps which i just realized i have to get copies of.
the IHYWYP five demo set - i mean, duh, where are you guys? and finally and probably not as good but whatever
the french quarter s/t cd - still creeping up on me how good this record is
those minibosses cds make me happy every time i put those on too, so inhonorable mention.

edit: oh, and i forgot sonic youth 'rather ripped' i looooooove that record.

[The Zen Archer]

Not sure if anyone here listens to Todd Rundgren, but Liars was pretty freaking awesome. (Even if the album cover sucked.)

[chalupacabra]

sleater kinney 'the woods' best record of 2005. why'd they break up? this album is incredible.

I'm really bad about remembering when things came out so I haven't bothered with a list but this should end the thread. One Beat should probably be included as well though

[mattm]

I have been thinking about this all weekend, with the new year and all... I feel that one release sums up the last decade and will remain timeless:

Eric Prydz "Call on Me" CDEP/MAXI SINGLE 2004

LINK

[Jacki O.]

Mos def on Sleater Kinney's One Beat as well as The Woods.

Also Le Tigre's self-titled album and their Feminist Sweepstakes album. I liked The Island too, it's my least fav of LTs but it is still good

[chalupacabra]

Mos def on Sleater Kinney's One Beat as well as The Woods.

Also Le Tigre's self-titled album and their Feminist Sweepstakes album. I liked The Island too, it's my least fav of LTs but it is still good

Le Tigre really should have been so much better though. That song bang! bang! on the mr lady ep thing is the best they got. I always thought they kept their politics a little too obtuse. Its like if you're gonna have an agenda and bother being on a major label you've got to behave like people are a bunch of idiots and spell it out for them

As I'm listening to my iPod on shuffle right now I'm reminded of another though...Ted Leo, Shake the Sheets

[Jacki O.]

Mos def on Sleater Kinney's One Beat as well as The Woods.

Also Le Tigre's self-titled album and their Feminist Sweepstakes album. I liked The Island too, it's my least fav of LTs but it is still good

Le Tigre really should have been so much better though. That song bang! bang! on the mr lady ep thing is the best they got. I always thought they kept their politics a little too obtuse. Its like if you're gonna have an agenda and bother being on a major label you've got to behave like people are a bunch of idiots and spell it out for them

As I'm listening to my iPod on shuffle right now I'm reminded of another though...Ted Leo, Shake the Sheets

Wrong! Le Tigre is the shit and you obviously haven't listened to Feminist Sweepstakes if that's the only song u like.

The Island (or this island?? Whatevs the name is) is their only major label album and yeah its not their best but its not unlistenable, its definitely more dance and less politics but I still dig it.

LE TIGRE IS THE SHIT

[bob]

give me 'reject all american' any day of the week.

Mos def on Sleater Kinney's One Beat as well as The Woods.

Also Le Tigre's self-titled album and their Feminist Sweepstakes album. I liked The Island too, it's my least fav of LTs but it is still good

Le Tigre really should have been so much better though. That song bang! bang! on the mr lady ep thing is the best they got. I always thought they kept their politics a little too obtuse. Its like if you're gonna have an agenda and bother being on a major label you've got to behave like people are a bunch of idiots and spell it out for them

As I'm listening to my iPod on shuffle right now I'm reminded of another though...Ted Leo, Shake the Sheets

Wrong! Le Tigre is the shit and you obviously haven't listened to Feminist Sweepstakes if that's the only song u like.

The Island (or this island?? Whatevs the name is) is their only major label album and yeah its not their best but its not unlistenable, its definitely more dance and less politics but I still dig it.

LE TIGRE IS THE SHIT

[bob]

i meant 'over any le tigre record.' but that first one is pretty good. late 90s i believe, but pretty good. their other two records not so much. i did think of kanye's first two records giving me super good 'album of the decade' vibes all decade. and black mountain's first record.

[Shadix]

Hybrid Theory guys >;P No seriously, it was actually a pretty good album before every 12 year old started posting youtube music videos of it.

My personal favorite album from this decade is actually Stemage's solo album Strati. Sure I've only had it for a year but I love it more than anything I've listened to this decade.

For major albums though, I'd have to say Michael Jackson's Invincible Album could take the cake for album of the decade.

[chalupacabra]

Mos def on Sleater Kinney's One Beat as well as The Woods.

Also Le Tigre's self-titled album and their Feminist Sweepstakes album. I liked The Island too, it's my least fav of LTs but it is still good

Le Tigre really should have been so much better though. That song bang! bang! on the mr lady ep thing is the best they got. I always thought they kept their politics a little too obtuse. Its like if you're gonna have an agenda and bother being on a major label you've got to behave like people are a bunch of idiots and spell it out for them

As I'm listening to my iPod on shuffle right now I'm reminded of another though...Ted Leo, Shake the Sheets

Wrong! Le Tigre is the shit and you obviously haven't listened to Feminist Sweepstakes if that's the only song u like.

The Island (or this island?? Whatevs the name is) is their only major label album and yeah its not their best but its not unlistenable, its definitely more dance and less politics but I still dig it.

LE TIGRE IS THE SHIT

Ease up there, hoss. I never said it was unlistenable. I like it fine. I just really like that ep and the ST. Feminist Sweepstakes is fine too. But its Kathleen Hanna dude. If you're gonna make a major label record then give me a feminist rage against the machine or something, not fucking "nanny nanny boo boo"

[Jacki O.]

You're a hoss! Jk

I get what ur saying but whatevs those bitches can whatever they want with their music and I will prolly still buy it. Hanna is rad to the max

[unluckycharm]

*thinks*


nope still can't think of an album for this decade

[Engineer]

A couple more I don't think I've seen mentioned. Gotta back up the vast majority of these lists, plenty of great stuff mentioned so far. I tried to keep off splits and EPs unless it was absolutely necessary. Believe it or not I did edit this down a bit from what I put together originally.

2000
the Casket Lottery - Moving Mountains
Cursive - Domestica
Dillinger Four - Versus God
Discount - Crash Diagnostic
Engine Down - To Bury Within The Sound
Kid Dynamite - Shorter, Faster, Louder
Milemarker - Frigid Forms Sell

2001
American Nightmare - Background Music
Cursive - Burst And Bloom
Forstella Ford - Quietus
Hot Water Music - A Flight And A Crash
Majority Rule - Interviews With David Frost
Milemarker - Anaesthetic
Mogwai - Rock Action
Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning
Strike Anywhere - Change Is A Sound

2002
the Casket Lottery - Survival Is For Cowards
Isis - Oceanic
mewithoutYou - [A->B] Life
Off Minor - Heat Death of the Universe
On The Might Of Princes - Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
Orchid - Orchid
Pedro The Lion - Control
Small Brown Bike/The Casket Lottery - Split

2003
Alison Ranger - Formula Imperative
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Dutchland Diesel - Jump The Fence
Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground
Majority Rule - Emergency Numbers
Jonathan Mann - The Mario Opera Act 1
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them?
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
the Rapture - Echoes
Small Brown Bike - The River Bed
Stop It! - Stop It!
the Strokes - Room On Fire
This Day Forward - In Response
the Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site

2004
the Assistant - We'll Make The Roads By Walking
Breather Resist - Charmer
Converge - You Fail Me
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Les Savy Fav - Inches
mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes
Pedro The Lion - Achilles Heel
the Progress - Golden State
Q And Not U - Power
Rescue - Volume Plus Volume Plus

2005
Celebration - Celebration
the Insurgent - It Will Be That Sound

2006
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
the Killers - Sam's Town
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo
Passion - The Fierce Urgency Of Now
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
the Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love
the Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
Young Widows - Settle Down City

2007
Feist - The Reminder
Jena Berlin - Quo Vadimus
the Killers - Sawdust
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends

2008
the B-52s - Funplex
the Killers - Day & Age
the Kills - Midnight Boom
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
Passion - The Option
Young Widows - Old Wounds

2009
Coalesce - Ox
Coalesce - OXEP
Converge - Axe To Fall
the Dead Weather - Horehound

[chalupacabra]

A couple more I don't think I've seen mentioned. Gotta back up the vast majority of these lists, plenty of great stuff mentioned so far. I tried to keep off splits and EPs unless it was absolutely necessary. Believe it or not I did edit this down a bit from what I put together originally.

2000
the Casket Lottery - Moving Mountains
Cursive - Domestica
Dillinger Four - Versus God
Discount - Crash Diagnostic
Engine Down - To Bury Within The Sound
Kid Dynamite - Shorter, Faster, Louder
Milemarker - Frigid Forms Sell

2001
American Nightmare - Background Music
Cursive - Burst And Bloom
Forstella Ford - Quietus
Hot Water Music - A Flight And A Crash
Majority Rule - Interviews With David Frost
Milemarker - Anaesthetic
Mogwai - Rock Action
Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning
Strike Anywhere - Change Is A Sound

2002
the Casket Lottery - Survival Is For Cowards
Isis - Oceanic
mewithoutYou - [A->B] Life
Off Minor - Heat Death of the Universe
On The Might Of Princes - Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
Small Brown Bike/The Casket Lottery - Split

2003
Alison Ranger - Formula Imperative
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Dutchland Diesel - Jump The Fence
Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground
Majority Rule - Emergency Numbers
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them?
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
the Rapture - Echoes
Small Brown Bike - The River Bed
Stop It! - Stop It!
the Strokes - Room On Fire
This Day Forward - In Response
the Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site

2004
the Assistant - We'll Make The Roads By Walking
Breather Resist - Charmer
Converge - You Fail Me
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Les Savy Fav - Inches
mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes
the Progress - Golden State
Q And Not U - Power
Rescue - Volume Plus Volume Plus

2005
Celebration - Celebration
the Insurgent - It Will Be That Sound

2006
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
the Killers - Sam's Town
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo
Passion - The Fierce Urgency Of Now
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
the Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love
the Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
Young Widows - Settle Down City

2007
Jena Berlin - Quo Vadimus
the Killers - Sawdust
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends

2008
the B-52s - Funplex
the Killers - Day & Age
the Kills - Midnight Boom
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
Passion - The Option
Young Widows - Old Wounds

2009
Coalesce - Ox
Coalesce - OXEP
Converge - Axe To Fall
the Dead Weather - Horehound

You have some excellent taste my friend. And apparently a thing for Allison Mosshart related projects.