Best albums of the past 10 years

adriano · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:20 am

Do you guys remember what you considered the best albums of the last 10 years. You're only allowed one album for each year. It can either be from 1998 to 2008 or 1997 to 2007 (2008 is still a long way to go).

I'm way too out of it to attempt my own list, but I'd love to hear from you guys.

Oh, wait, I have a vote for 2004.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:21 pm

I can easily look up the most recent years

2007: !!! - Myth Takes
2006: Love Is All - Nine Times The Same Song
2005: The National - Alligator
2004: Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy

but I don't really remember earlier ones.

adriano · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:32 pm

Thanks! You got your 2004 album wrong, though. :rolleyes:

hijacktheparade · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:52 pm

I've got a vote for 2004 as well.

I'll have to think long and hard about the other years, though.

adriano · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:06 pm

Ok, I'm deleting this thread.

boogiepop · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:30 pm

1997-Radiohead OK Computer
1998-Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999-Dressy Bessy Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons
2000-Various Artists Heroes and Villains: Music Inspired by the Powerpuff Girls
2001-Le Tigre Feminist Sweepstakes
2002-Kiddo Kiddo
2003-The Diskettes The Diskettes
2004-Saturday Looks Good to Me Every Night (Sorry Adriano, I need to look into getting your back catalogue at some point.)
2005-Tullycraft Disenchanted Hearts Unite
2006-The Pipettes We Are the Pipettes
2007-Afternoon Naps Sunbeamed
2008-Jellybean! Answer Me!!! (tentative, and I think I might change my mind because I might like the new Cars Can Be Blue better)

adriano · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:55 pm

boogiepop wrote:

2004-Saturday Looks Good to Me Every Night (Sorry Adriano, I need to look into getting your back catalogue at some point.)

No, you can't claim ignorance to avoid punishment.

boogiepop wrote:

2008-Jellybean! Answer Me!!! (tentative, and I think I might change my mind because I might like the new Cars Can Be Blue better)

Also because I'm releasing an album this year, hopefully. :rolleyes:

boogiepop · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:07 pm

Awww... you don't have anything else to say about my other choices?

adriano · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:11 pm

I'd say we have very different tastes. VERY different.

adriano · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:02 pm

Here's a very tentative and uninformed list:
1998 - Club 8 - The Friend I Once Had
1999 - Barcelona - Simon Basic
2000 - Beaumont - This is...
2001 - Birdie - Triple Echo
2002 - Acid House Kings - Advantage Acid House Kings
2003 - Postal Service - Give Up
2004 - Postal Blue - International Breeze

2005 - Clientele - Strange Geometry
2006 - Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
2007 - Annemarie - ABC on tv
2008 -

boogiepop · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:10 pm

I love Barcelona, Acid House Kings, Camera Obscura, and Annemarie (and I'd probably like that Postal Blue album if I heard it), but I wouldn't say those were the best albums of their respective years. But I'm just saying that maybe our tastes aren't THAT different.

adriano · **Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:18 am

Well, there were a few contenders for some of those, like The Fairways first album, Birdie's "Some Dusty", Go-Betweens' last onee, Skypark's "Summer Days Are Forever". I chose Annemarie because 2007 was a year I was completely out of touch, and barely listened to anything new. But I'd never pick any of the ones you chose either. Actually some of those I can't even stand. Maybe you have a broader taste than I have. I'm kind of a hardass.

Fm · **Joined:** Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:59 pm **Posts:** 56

Top Records to come out recently:
Vampire Weekend, Portishead, Radiohead, Aqueduct, Mates of State, Nada Surf... I'm too lazy to remember years and stuff...

¾ tim · **Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:32 pm

Oh, man. TEN years? That would include listing albums before my indie awakening. So be it. I've always made and kept a year-end list since I've been able to write. I really wish that the Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I was on the 1999 line below, and Spoon's Kill the Moonlight in 2002, but alas, they're not. I can't change the past. Especially not on a semi-anonymous message board.

And now, here is the cold, hard truth:

1999 > Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge
2000 > Radiohead - Kid A
2001 > R.E.M. - Reveal
2002 > Home Town Hero - Home Town Hero
2003 > The New Pornographers - The Electric Version
2004 > Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
2005 > Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
2006 > Starlight Mints - Drowaton
2007 > Immaculate Machine - Fables
2008 > Mexican Kids at Home - When We All Live in Igloos

* Albums were my favorite as of December 31 of each year. 2008 likely won't change.

boogiepop · **Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:40 pm

¾ tim wrote:

Oh, man. TEN years? That would include listing albums before my indie awakening. So be it. I've always made and kept a year-end list since I've been able to write. I really wish that the Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I was on the 1999 line below, and Spoon's Kill the Moonlight in 2002, but alas, they're not. I can't change the past. Especially not on a semi-anonymous message board.

You can put them in there! There's nothing in the rules of the thread that says you have to put whatever you actually listened to in that year. I wouldn't be able to put NMH in there for '98 if that was so.

So, put your real favorites in there.

Oh, and you actually liked Reveal? I never got to hear it, but I keep hearing that it really sucks.

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