The Best Album So Far This Decade?

Yeeeeeee ha!

 

Not to threadcrap on your threadcrap, but it's not a good idea to comment on mastering you havent' actually heard with your own ears.

FWIW, I just bought the Stan Ricker cut 180g LP of American Idiot (the one that just came out) and it sounds great.

And it's a fine album, too, certainly not deserving of the sloppily-delivered derision being thrown its way here.

 

My top three- Dylan's "Love & Theft", Allman Brothers Band's "Hittn' the Note", and Steely Dan's "Two Against Nature"- in that order.

 

Matt Elliott, The Mess We Made -- just imminently listenable.

Bunch o' others: Matt Elliott, The Mess We Made; Porcupine Tree, Lightbulb Sun; Sigur Rós, (); Neon Golden by the Notwist; Einstürzende Neubauten's Silence is Sexy; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus.

...and it may be the folly of novelty, but I love Camille's Le Fil.

 

wait, let me guess, 'Stand Up' best album of the 60's right?

 

This is a great list, and it goes a long way to show that there are still a few bands out there making vital music.

 

One of the best, no doubt here.

 

Yikes, forgot the glorious...

Sonic Youth - Murray Street

Sonic Nurse is actually just about as good, but Murray Street gets the nod.

 

wadda ya think about the new one 'Rather Ripped'? It's got an intensity thats been missing for a while.

 

I love the new one. In fact, I prefer it to Murray St. and Sonic Nurse.

 

I'm a little amazed that a non-Tull album snuck into your top 5. I guess it's a good thing that Glenn Cornick didn't release a solo album in the decade.

 

In no order at all:

Neko Case- Blacklisted
Supergrass- Life On Other Planets
Matthew Jay- Draw
The Apples In Stereo- The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone
Sloan- Action Pact
Superdrag- Last Call For Vitriol
Guster- Keep It Together
Ben Kweller- Sha Sha (On My Way is just a step behind)
Idlewild- The Remote Part
Ben Folds- Rockin' The Suburbs

 

yes, and i hate it. i totally bought into the hype. so i got someone to buy the disc off me. i enjoyed about half of michigan, so i had high hopes.. but there isn't one track on Illinois that i like.

 

i'm going to have to go with SMiLE too.

SMiLE was my fav for 2004.
Choas & Creation was my fav for 2005.

 

I enjoy this one, too.

 

Too true!

 

Bjork -Vespertine
The Cure -Bloodflowers
Beck -Sea Change
BTW, I hardly recognize any of the bands mentioned in this thread.

 

Holy crow!

I don't know how I managed to leave one of my favorite albums of all time off this list.

For me, easily the best album of the decade so far:

 

Brian Wilson presents SMiLE
Greenday - American Idiot
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs

 

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
SMiLE - Brian Wilson
Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
Love And Theft - Bob Dylan
Gold - Ryan Adams
The Beginning Stages Of... - The Polyphonic Spree
Give Up - Postal Service
The Sunlandic Twins - Of Montreal
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
The World Won't End - Pernice Brothers

I couldn't just pick one.

Mike

 

Marianne Faithfull - Before the Poison
Neko Case - Fox Confessor
Dylan Love and Theft
Nick Cave- Lyre of Orpheus
Mark Eitzel - Candy ***
Daniel Lanois - Shine
Tom Waits - Alice
Sonic Youth Murray Street

 

Kate Bush "Aerial"

Kate Bush "Aerial"

 

The Libertines - Up The Bracket. Simply put, it's the real thing. Though I will stipulate that the follow-up S/T is better recorded (Bill Price engineered that one).

 

In no particular order:

George Harrison - Brainwashed
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising & The Seeger Sessions
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Phil Lesh & Friends - There And Back Again
Sheryl Crow - Wildflower
Dylan - Love & Theft

 

10. Cuckooland Robert Wyatt
9. White Blood Cells White Stripes
8. Not For Sale Tim Carroll
7. London, Not Tennessee Otis Lee Crenshaw & The Black Liars
6. Moments from this Theatre Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
5. The Sunset Tree The Mountain Goats
4. Streets of New York Willie Nile
3. Metaneonatureboy Stephen Yerkey
2. Things Change Lonesome Bob
1. V1, V2 The Les Shelleys

My favorite album of the last century is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. It's actually my favorite from any century, in front or in back. I wanted you all to know that.