Best Albums of the Decade (So Far)
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 07/19/2005 - 04:28
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- Arcade Fire - Funeral
- Joseph Arthur - Come to Where I'm From
- Beck - Sea Change
- Cat Power - You Are Free
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man
- Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
- Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
- The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
- PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
- LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
- Outkast - Stankonia
- Over the Rhine - Ohio
- Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
- Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
- The Strokes - Is This It?
- Sufjan Sevens - Illinois
- TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
- Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
- Kanye West - Late Registration
- The White Stripes - Elephant
- The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
- The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs [EP]
- Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Author Comments:
This is my top twenty-five. I haven't ordered them yet...
I bought De stijl and White Blood cells. I'm really liking "Union Forever" on White Blood cells. It's a very unusual song, but i like it because it IMO mixes what the white stripes are so good at, hard rock with strange and very personal lyrics and narrative. On De sijl i'm currently loving "apple blossom" and "Hello Operator" oh and i take back my doubts about "get behind me satan" it's just brilliant, my overall favourite, i think. (at the moment anyway!) I also like White blood cells for the true brilliant and chilled out country type songs Hotel Yorba and We're going to be friends. both real quality tracks.
I really love the Stripes at the moment. Union Forever, with its use of Citizen Kane's 'theme song', is a great tune.
What a band...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
What are your thoughts in The Love Below?, to me is better than Stankonia.
Now Playing: Red Elvises: Hungarian dance.
I really like Speakerboxx/The Love Below, but I do tend to favor the more concentrated Stankonia. Still their last album(s) has some songs that are killers.
Both are terrific albums that prove why OutKast is the best rap outfit around (if they are indeed still together).
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
May I suggest two of my favourite albums from   MUSE:
Absolution (2003) - favourite track: 'Thoughts of a Dying Atheist'
Origin of Symmetry (2001) - favourite track: 'Citezen Erased'
And here, you hate me, because here, I confess that I enjoy Muse much more as a singles band than as an album outfit.
I do have Supermassive Black Hole on my iPod, and I've been thinking that I should add Plug-In Baby.
I like the albums, mind you, I just don't love them...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
If you like Plug In Baby, you may like to give another listen to 'Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist' - turn it up loud.