The Best Album So Far This Decade?

A great Album. To add some: Wilco - YHF & A Ghost Is Born, Lambchop - Is A Woman and Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out Of Season.

 

1. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
2. Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
3. The Von Bondies - Lack of Communication

 

1.The Red Hot Chili Peppers-Stadium Arcadium
2.Paul Westerberg-Stereo/Mono
3.The Red Hot Chili Peppers-By The Way
4.Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-B.R.M.C.
5.Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Howl
6.The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
7.Franz Ferdinand-Franz Ferdinand
8.The Killers-Hot Fuss
9.The Doves-Some Cities
10.The Strokes-Is This It

Just missing the cut:
Beck-Sea Change

 

Of the stuff I have heard, my favourite is In Absentia.

 

XO is far and away my favorite Elliott Smith record... Though you can't go wrong with any of them. Just keep in mind that the earlier ones like s/t, and Roman Candle were self-produced and are mostly just him and an acoustic. The later records like XO and Figure 8 are more fleshed out with a bigger sound. Not better just different in approach. In fact, I'm re-reading the biography right now and will say that if you like the records you'll definitely like the book. Nugent (not Ted) did a great job. I've read hundreds of music biographies and this is one of the best.

BTW, how could I have forgotten RAINY DAY MUSIC?? and Illinois is a stunning record as well (though maybe a bit too long). Also, one of the songs I've liked the most recently is from BRMC's Howl, Devil's Waitin'. And Josh Rouse's NASHVILLE was fantastic as well.

Mike

 

Sorry for the bump, but why not? In terms of albums that have stood up to repeated listens (I'm looking at you, Illinois), these are my top few, in no particular order except for #1.

1. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
The Strokes - Is This It and Room on Fire. Both are great.
Daft Punk - Discovery
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
The Bees - Free the Bees
Explosions in the Sky - The World Is a Cold Dead Place
Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Kylie Minogue - Fever

 

lucinda williams - world without tears

it gets better with every listen

 

Since nobody has nominated any of Mark Knopfler's albums so far ():

The Ragpicker's Dream
Shangri-La
Sailing To Philadelphia

 

Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
George Harrison - Brainwashed

(Judging by what I've heard so far, Tom Petty's forthcoming Highway Companion will likely be joining this list)

 

Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways

 

Green Day - American Idiot

 

Excellent pick. I have been listening to it nonstop.

 

Porcupine Tree: Deadwing just nudges out In Absentia (for me).

 

No Blues yet?
May I suggest "Skunkmello" and "Legacy", both by the underrated Guy Davis.
Davis, BTW, is the son of actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

 

Paulusma - Here we are (2006).

A truly great artist that all of you 60's pop fans should know, but probablly never will.
He used to led the legendary dutch band Daryll-ann.

 

In no current particular order:

Queens of the Stone Age - R
White Stripes - Elephant
Ween - Quebec
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Beck - Sea Change

 

Nichole Nordeman - Brave
Natalie Grant - Awaken
both hymns albums by Amy Grant
Amy Grant - Simple Things
Cyndi Thomson - My World
and others I have to think of

 

Nichole Nordeman - Woven & Spun
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home

 

Probably The Cardigans' Long Gone Before Daylight. The follow-up, Super Extra Gravity, is almost as good. If you appreciate classic guitar pop/rock with sultry female vocals, you ought to check these guys out. These two albums are filled with timeless music.

Runners-up include:

Paul McCartney: Chaos & Creation in the Backyard

Sonic Youth: Murray Street (Sonic Nurse and the new one are right up there - somewhat amazingly, Sonic Youth are peaking 25+ years into their career, imho)

Nick Cave: Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

Morrissey: Ringleader of the Tormenters - this one grows on me every time I listen to it

Blur: Think Tank

Oasis: Don't Believe the Truth

Radiohead: Kid A

Bjork: Vespertine

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Ryan Adams: 29

Tift Merritt: Tambourine

Gillian Welch: Time The Revelator

Dixie Chicks: Home & Taking the Long Way

Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat and Bitter Tea

The Donnas: Spend the Night

Sleater-Kinney: The Woods

Ladytron: The Witching Hour

Goldfrapp: Supernature

Rachel Stevens: Come and Get It

 

I just read about this and it sounds very interesting, to say the least. Think I'll pick it up.
Good list, by the way. I agree with a lot of them.