DiS best albums of last 6 years

[tasha]

Well I don't know about you lot but The Others certainly changed my life.

[glyn]

Albums that impressed me since 2000? Um...

Feeder - Echo Park
Ash - Free All Angels
Terrorvision - Good to go
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Therapy? - High Anxiety
Pulp - We Love Life
Rancid - Indestructible
Green Day - American Idiot

Though I'm under no illusions about Terrorvision, Therapy? or Rancid making the list.

[bobtheguitar]

I am waiting for potatoes to bake and this is something to occupy the mind.

Albums that are on the DiS list (so far):

M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life


Albums that would certainly be on my list:

Radiohead - Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Elliott Smith - Figure 8, From A Basement On The Hill
Nina Nastasia - Dogs, The Blackened Air, Run To Ruin, On Leaving
Jim White - No Such Place
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Thom Yorke - The Eraser


Albums that would probably be on it:

Grandaddy - Sumday
Jim White - Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere, Strangers, Here Be Monsters
Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
The American Analog Set - Know By Heart
Cat Power - You Are Free, The Covers Record
Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My..., Rejoicing In The Hands
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Fugazi - The Argument
Doves - Lost Souls
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely, The Sunset Tree
Juno - A Future Lived In Past Tense
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2, Lost In Space, The Forgotten Arm
Neil Halstead - Sleeping On Roads
Delta - Slippin' Out
Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow, Descended Like Vultures
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days, The Creek Drank The Cradle
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy, Down The River Of Golden Dreams
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master & Everyone
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
Tom Waits - Alice
The Strokes - Room On Fire, Is This It
Weezer - Green Album
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life
Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo

[mv]

I am posting merely to register my boredom with the fact that DiS haven't got onto the top 20 as yet, about 2 weeks on. They keep teasing my posting "Writers Choice" and "Ones we forgot to put in that didn't make it" lists instead. Rubbish.

And 100 Broken Windows didn't make it. Honorary mention is better than nowt though I suppose. Tsk.

[tom]

No, that is a fucking travesty.

[tom]

Blackened Sky missed out as well?! Excuse me while I end my useless existence.

[mark]

change?

change?

[mv]

Comments on '20 down to 7'

- Pleasantly surprised to see 'The Ugly Organ' in there - it is a very, evry good album and should have been on my list
- Kid A is sensibly placed at 16
- Were/are the Icarus Line not really really shit?
- 'Turn on the bright lights' is too high at 11. Or is it? Dunno. Slightly at least.
- Don't like Ryan Adams.
- 'Lifted' is a good album but far too patchy / irritating in places to be anywhere near the top 10
- Trail of Dead at 8 makes good sense
- 'Chutes too Narrow' is far too high at 7

I'm having trouble guessing a single one of the top 6. Any thoughts?

EDIT: Actually, looking through, there is no Flaming Lips album in there as yet. So that's probably one of the 6 ticked off.

EDIT: And Relationship of Command, obviously. I hope Nick Cave is in there.

[mv]

66 Ugly Duckling Journey To Anywhere
65 Mystery Jets Making Dens (DOWNLOAD)
64 why? Elephant Eyelash
63 Wives Erect The Youth Problem
62 The Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium (DOWNLOAD)
61 The Lucksmiths Warmer Corners
60 The Cribs The New Fellas (DOWNLOAD)
59 Howling Bells Howling Bells (DOWNLOAD)
58 Guillemots Through The Windowpane (DOWNLOAD)
57 Hot Snakes Suicide Invoice (DOWNLOAD)
56 volcano! Beautiful Seizure
55 The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (DOWNLOAD)
54 Patrick Wolf Lycanthropy
53 dälek Absence
52 Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain
51 Slipknot Vol 3 – The Subliminal Verses
50 Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule
49 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell (DOWNLOAD)
48 Múm Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is Okay
47 M. Ward The Transfiguration Of Vincent (DOWNLOAD)
46 Low Trust (DOWNLOAD)
45 Mastodon Blood Mountain (DOWNLOAD)

44 Rival Schools United By Fate
43 The Postal Service Give Up
42 Boards Of Canada Geogaddi
41 Unicorns / Islands Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone / Return To The Sea
40 Sonic Youth Nurse (DOWNLOAD)
39 Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia My Elixir: My Poison
38 Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance (DOWNLOAD)
37 Arcade Fire Funeral
36 Sleater-Kinney The Woods
35 Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies Hurrah!
34 Liars Drum’s Not Dead (DOWNLOAD)
33 Sparklehorse It’s A Wonderful Life (DOWNLOAD)
32 Deerhoof Milkman
31 Isoleé Wearemonster
30 This Aint Vegas The Night Don Benito Saved My Life
29 The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters (DOWNLOAD)
28 Les Savy Fav Go Forth (DOWNLOAD)
27 65daysofstatic One Time For All Time
26 Blood Brothers Burn, Piano Island, Burn (DOWNLOAD
25 TV On The Radio Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (DOWNLOAD)
24 PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (DOWNLOAD)
23 The Knife Silent Shout (DOWNLOAD)
22 Muse Black Holes And Revelations (DOWNLOAD)
21 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People (DOWNLOAD)

20 Explosions In The Sky How Strange, Innocence
19 Cat Power You Are Free (DOWNLOAD)
18 My Morning Jacket Z (DOWNLOAD)
17 Cursive The Ugly Organ
16 Radiohead Kid A (DOWNLOAD)
15 The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg Everyone’s In Love And Flowers Pick Themselves
14 Saul Williams Saul Williams (DOWNLOAD)
13 Four Tet Rounds (DOWNLOAD)
12 The Icarus Line Mono (DOWNLOAD) 11 Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights

10 Ryan Adams Heartbreaker (DOWNLOAD)
9 Bright Eyes Lifted… (DOWNLOAD)
8 …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Madonna (DOWNLOAD
7 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
6 Elliott Smith Figure 8 (DOWNLOAD)
5 Isis Oceanic
4 Q And Not U No Kill No Beep Beep
3 Bloc Party Silent Alarm (DOWNLOAD)
2 At The Drive-In Relationship Of Command (DOWNLOAD)
1 Björk Vespertine (DOWNLOAD)


Who are Isis?

Bloc Party are rubbish.

Fairly disappointing end to the list, I reckon.

[mark]

Isis are pretty much DiS's favourite band.

also bloc party are actually really good.

very surprised by vespertine. quite happy about that though.

what would you have hoped for?

[mv]

I dunno, a DiS list was never going to cater to my tastes, but that just strikes me as a pretty uninspiring selection, the totally predictable inclusion of RoC aside.

Bloc Party are probably better than rubbish, but is Silent Alarm really in any way the third best album of this decade so far?

I kind of hoped this list might provide a bit of inspiration for thinking about what has seemed like a decade so far pretty much lacking in 'landmark' albums, and it hasn't really. The DiS approach seems quite mired in the tastes that were hanging around in the late 90s when there was nothing exciting going on in the mainstream. Paints a pretty dull picture of our musical times, I reckon. Lacking colour. Yes.

I think I'm more bothered about the fact that I'd struggle to find better choices myself...