Here's one for you all – Best album/s of the 2000's

Capdown – Civil Disobedients
Logistics – Now More Than Ever
Battles – Mirrored
Burial – Untrue
John Frusciante – Shadows Collide With People
**** Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
MIA – Kala
RJD2 – Dead Ringer
Go Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Chemical Brothers – Come With Us

in rainbows and boxer for me

i once saw porcupine tree play the whole of the up the downstair album to eight people in a small venue in carlisle.
they did look a bit shocked by the turnout.

edit..it was nine as someone was on the bar 😀

Not going to regurgitate a lot of what has been said, but I add

Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls

Erm….just back from the pub, so….

yanqui u.x.o. by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hi Tech Jazz by Galaxy 2 Galaxy
The Argument by Fugazi
London Zoo by The Bug
AND IF I HAD TO PICK A CURRENT ONE…
Django Django’s new one.

Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse

LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver

edit

Hi Tech Jazz by Galaxy 2 Galaxy

That was about 1993

Some guilty pleasures for me: 2000-2010 presume not the current decade.

Arctic Monkeys – whatever people say I am thats what I’m not
The Raconteurs – broken boy soldiers
Starsailor – Love is here
Livertines – Up the bracket
Editors – The back room
We are Scientists – With Love and Squalor

Three things I’ve learned from this thread.

1) I’m old.

2) I don’t listen to enough music any more.

3) STW’s music tastes consists of a) obscure niche gubbins no-one’s ever heard of, and b) radio-friendly shite.

where is the middle ground between a and b then old timer?

The post I’ve come closest to identifying with is this,

right now it would be either some Joe Bonamassa or some Blackstone Cherry.

I actually cheered quietly to myself when I read it and everything. But then, the last thing I listened to was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Gods and Guns’ album, so I’m probably not one to talk.

where is the middle ground between a and b then old timer?

‘s a very good question. I don’t know as I’ve got a very good answer.

Just struck me that the bulk seems to be either stuff *everyone* listens to or stuff *no-one* listens to. It’s either the Arctic Monkeys, or it’s Brian Smith and his Magic Foo-Foo Band. There didn’t seem, on skim-reading, to be a lot of middle ground.

Richard Hawley – Lady’s Bridge & Coles Corner
Mew – And the glass handed kites
The National – High Violet
The Shins – Wincing the night away

Coldplay – Parachutes
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
The Strokes – Is This It?
Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Grinderman – Grinderman
Goldfrapp – Black Cherry
CSS – CSS
Justice – Cross
The Libertines – The Libertines
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Daft Punk – Discovery
Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
Jay Z – The Black Album
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Sigur Ross – Takk
Damien Rice – O
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Etc.

Basically I can’t choose. “Since 2000” is almost the whole of my musical experience, there’s been a lot in that time.

There is quite a lot of dross here… Coldplay, in any list?!

And I realise this is subjective, but

Kings of Leon – Only by the night

..incorrect. Youth and Young Manhood, or possibly Aha Shake Heartbreak, definitely better.
This

Jay Z – The Black Album

good call.

Arctic Monkeys – whatever people say I am thats what I’m not

Correct. Such a good album. Shame the rest of their stuff doesn’t live up to it at all.

Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein. Out in 2001, would be a cert for top 5 hip hop album of the decade. Of its time, though.

At the drive in, Relationship of Command squeaks in to the decade (2000) – mentioned already by Margin Walker above. Reading the thread I can’t see any hard rock album that comes near it. The Pixies of the OOies.
The Mars Volta sounded like they were going to take it even further, but it all went pear-shaped. Jazz will do that to a rock band.

Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punk

King-ocelot – Member

Tom Waits – Alice
A great album, but way earlier – 1990 from memory

I managed a record shop in 2002 when Alice officially was released, if I remember correctly most of the album was heavily bootlegged after original recordings had been stolen/leaked in the mid 1990s. It didn’t sell as well on official release as we hoped for that reason. Cracking album though.

I Googled, and stand corrected. I would have bet good money on the Alice / Blood Money releases being ten years earlier that this, and I’m a fan (as my user name will show)…must be getting old… 🙂

Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Jezabels – Prisoner

Blackalicious – The Craft
Ben Howard – Every Kingdom
Cold War Kids – robbers & cowards
Deltron – Deltron 3030
Everlast – Eat at Whitey’s
Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American

Cant be bothered to carry on going through my itunes just now – gotta go to work…

Simples

Also possibly one of the best DnB albums of all time.

Streetcore by Joe Strummer
Marshall Mathers Lp by Eminem
England Half English by Billy Bragg
Fat of the land by the Prodigy
and Just Jinjer by Just Jinjer

fat of the land released 1997.

2) I don’t listen to enough music any more.

3) STW’s music tastes consists of a) obscure niche gubbins no-one’s ever heard of

2) I am sad for you. I can’t live without it.

3) a) That’s utter bollocks. Have you heard of the Internet?

QOTSA – Songs for the deaf or Lullabies to paralyze
Kasabian – which ever I’ve just listened to
RHCP – By the way – no BSSM though
KoL – Youth and young manhood – steadily getting worse after this

Rise Against – Siren Song Of The Counter Culture / The Sufferer & The Witness

Million Dead – A Song To Ruin
Sigur Ros – Takk
Dan le Sac & Scroobius Pip – Angles
Arcade Fire – Funeral
The Twilight Sad – Forget the Night Ahead
Radiohead – In Rainbows

Pedant Alert: Oh and to the people posting Biffy – Joy Discovery Invention – that was a track name, album is Blackened Sky, ’tis awesome.

AlanF… thankyou… you win

QOTSA … Songs for the deaf

This is a music thread. On STW. Everyone HAS to have a favourite which is suitably obscure.

I’d say it is all terribly mainstream…

Crystal Castles 1 or XX and Animal Hospital, Memory. just because.

Loads of great bands on this thread 😀

fat of the land released 1997.

Thought I was in Retrobike then. OOPS! 😳

bill callahan – sometimes i wish i were an eagle
Santigold – Santogold

I think you’ll have to do better than one album by a band whose heyday was twenty-odd years ago

Alot of fans see their “heyday” as you put it as one of the least credible musical periods in Marillion’s career, I’m one of them.

Just struck me that the bulk seems to be either stuff *everyone* listens to or stuff *no-one* listens to. It’s either the Arctic Monkeys, or it’s Brian Smith and his Magic Foo-Foo Band. There didn’t seem, on skim-reading, to be a lot of middle ground.

Sorry Cougar but you couldn’t be more wrong – just because you haven’t heard of them doesn’t mean they are particularly obscure – most of the stuff people have listed is played on 6 music , posted about on widely read music blogs etc.

Why don’t you listen to some of the albums people have listed above and see what you think?

Porcupine Tree – Fear of a blank planet
Steven Wilson – Grace for drowning
Avenged Sevenfold – City of evil
Pain of Salvation – Memory Lane
Beardfish – Destined Solitaire
Transatlantic – SMTPe
Tomahawk – Tomahawk
Bumblefoot – The adventures of bumblefoot
Muse – Origins of symmetry
Jonny Lang – Wander this world
QOTSA – Songs for the deaf
etc

Brake-neck.

Have you listened to Flying Colors: Steve Morse, Casey McPherson, Neal Morse, Dave LaRue, Mike Portnoy. Might be right up your alley.

How many, 10?

Buck 65 – Square
The Delgados – The Great Eastern
Smog – Knock Knock
Burial – Untrue
Mogwai – Happy Songs For Happy People
Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
Aesop Rock – Float
Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
James Yorkston & the Athletes – Moving Up Country
Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
The Arcade Fire – Funeral

The Delgados – The Great Eastern

Forgot that cd, going for a listen now 🙂

Brake-neck.

Have you listened to Flying Colors: Steve Morse, Casey McPherson, Neal Morse, Dave LaRue, Mike Portnoy. Might be right up your alley.

Yeah, liked a couple of tracks off it but a bit too commercial for me in places. Have you heard Momentum yet, Morse’s new solo stuff? Excellent CD with guests from Paul Gilbert and a 33 min epic as well!

Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
Bowling For Soup – A Hangover You Don’t Deserve
Elbow – Seldom Seen Kid
Green Day – Warning
John Grant – Queen of Denmark
The Lancashire Hotpots – Never Mind The Hotpots
Queens of The Stone Age – Rated R
Rammstein – Mutter
System of a Down – Toxicity