What is Your Top Album of the Decade?

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Seeing as we are about to enter a new decade, I figured it would be a good idea to start a thread where we post our top ones. No compilation albums, live albums are OK.

Here are my top 5:

1) Daft Punk - Discovery
2) Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
3) Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
4) Jim Croce - Have You Heard Jim Croce Live?
5) Beck - The Information

1) Flat out brilliant. It has some of the best flow from an album that I've ever heard, and the composition is nearly perfect.
2) This may sound like an odd choice, but I stand by it. The writing is beautiful, the composition is great, and fantastic flow
3) My favorite Johnny Cash album, mostly because of the raw emotion coming out of it, and the stunning quality for the amount of time taken writing and recording some of this.
4) Jim Croce is a fantastic musician and human being, and this live album was really good at showing what the world missed out on after the fatal crash in '73
5) Becks best album, and it isn't shown the respect it should (mostly because of the experimental nature of it)

You don't need to post reasons, or even 5 albums, but I chose to. And yes, I have heard the Radiohead albums, and they truly didn't impress me.
 
I'd probably go with Pearl Jam's self titled album if I had to pick one. Too lazy to do a top 5.

I am surprised to see the Counting Crow's album that high. I like them--especially their first 3 albums, but I didn't care for that one much.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I'd probably go with Pearl Jam's self titled album if I had to pick one. Too lazy to do a top 5.

I am surprised to see the Counting Crow's album that high. I like them--especially their first 3 albums, but I didn't care for that one much.[/QUOTE]
It's definitely a bit of a departure, with catchiness not being as much of a focus anymore, but I think the writing is as good as the band has ever been. I will admit that it took me a year for its awesomeness to actually hit me.
 
I chose to copy and paste my post from another message board enjoy:

CLUTCH -Blast Tyrant
This is one of the best rock albums I have ever heard and it got me back into Clutch.
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Mastodon - Leviathan
I love Crack the Skye and Remission but this one I have practically wore out from repeated listens.
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The Sword - Gods of the Earth
High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Both of these just kill!
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Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Barely Breathing
One of the best metalcore records ever.
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At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
This band had so much potential In Casino Out was great but this album blew me away. One of the only "emo" groups I like.
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The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Almost went with Raconteurs or White Stripes but these guys won. Just found them couple years ago and couldn't believe their from Akron! I swear Dan Auerbach sounds like Paul Rogers from Bad Company.
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Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
I really wanted to put an Outkast album on here but I don't like Stankonia or Speakerboxxx more than this one. Though I really loved The Roots Phrenolgy but I had to give it to Eminem easily his best.
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Johnny Cash - American IV
I could have cheated and put Love, God, Murder on here but I went with this one RIP Man in Black
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Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
A Death metal supergroup on vocals Mikael Åkerfeldt, (Opeth) on guitars, Anders Nystrom, (Katatonia, Diabolical Masquerade) on bass, Jonas Renske (Katatonia, October Tide) last and surely not least on drums a one Dan Swano. (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Diabolical Masquerade) A fucking impressive line-up by all accounts. This album is metal-as-fuck and will destroy you!
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Honorable Mentions

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R and Songs For The Deaf
Electric Wizard - Dopoethrone
Baroness - Red Album
In Flames - Clayman
Argus - s/t
Converge - Jane Doe
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
The Roots - Phrenolgy
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveler
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
White Stripes - Elephant
The Sword - Age of Winters
Outkast - Stankonia
 
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[quote name='Access_Denied']Audioslave's self titled album. Never realized how awesome it was. Chris Cornell is just amazing.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, all 3 of their albums would be reasonably high on my list if I took time to think it through.
 
This is just a quick list of the non live or non greatest hits CD's I know I played a lot of over the last decade.

1. Nickel Creek-Why Should the Fire Die
2. Counting Crows-Hard Candy
3. Dixie Chicks-Taking the Long Way
4. The Dave Matthews Band-Busted Stuff
5. Weezer-(Green)
6. Cake-Comfort Eagle
7. Pearl Jam-Pearl Jam
8. Counting Crows-Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
9. Audioslave-Audioslave
10. Dixie Chicks-Home
 
1) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
2) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
3) Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
4) Andrew W.K - I Get Wet/The Wolf (should be one album IMO)
5) Kashiwa Daisuke - april.#2
 
They Might Be Giants- Mink Car

Weird little bit of trivia about this album: it was released on, by far, the worst day of the past decade, 9/11/01.
 
[quote name='Danimal']They Might Be Giants- Mink Car

Weird little bit of trivia about this album: it was released on, by far, the worst day of the past decade, 9/11/01.[/QUOTE]
Even weirder trivia, they played a midnight release show at a record shop in NYC.
 
[quote name='evildeadjedi']
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Almost went with Raconteurs or White Stripes but these guys won. Just found them couple years ago and couldn't believe their from Akron! I swear Dan Auerbach sounds like Paul Rogers from Bad Company.
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You should hear Dan's solo album. Holy crap, it's good. That's a good choice, Rubber Factory. Very nice.

Too hard for me to pick one. I'm just going to think of a quick few from different genres.

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[quote name='pimpster4183']Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy[/QUOTE]

God I hope you're kidding.

[quote name='bringerofdeath']I only have one Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that was definitely an awesome album. I recently listened to both CDs all the way through, and I'm definitely impressed.
 
Id say my favorite albums of the decade were

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
Trivium - Ascendancy
 
atmosphere - you cant imagine how much fun were having
lost prophets - start something
coheed and cambria - in keeping secrets....
primer 55 - (the) new release
pepper - no shame
 
In no particular order....

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Clipse - Lord Willin' & Hell Hath No Fury
Common - Be
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Daft Punk - Discovery
Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
Drake - So Far Gone EP
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album & Fishscale
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Jay-Z - The Blueprint & The Black Album
Kanye West - The College Dropout & Late Registration
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
M.I.A. - Kala
OutKast - Stankonia & Spearerboxxx/The Love Below
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf
Radiohead - In Rainbows & Kid A
Raekwon - Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. II
Scarface - The Fix
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells & Elephant
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

There may be more, but this is off the top of my head at the moment... ;)
 
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In no particular order,

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Portishead - Third
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
The Postal Service - Give Up
 
In no particular order...

Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
Tool - Lateralus
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
The Faceless - Akeldama
 
[quote name='Access_Denied']God I hope you're kidding.[/QUOTE]

Why? Chinese Democracy was an amazing album and the only two reasons it was shit on was because Axl spent so long creating it and because it wasn't Appetite For Destruction 2: Electric Boogaloo
 
[quote name='Sporadic']Why? Chinese Democracy was an amazing album and the only two reasons it was shit on was because Axl spent so long creating it and because it wasn't Appetite For Destruction 2: Electric Boogaloo[/QUOTE]
Go listen to the new Kiss album, it kicks the crap out of Chinese Democracy
 
In order...

1) Outkast - Stankonia

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Outkast kicks everyone's ass. Plain and simple. No musical act on Earth is better.

They continue to be fresh and innovative in a genre of music that tends to follow trends and be stale. Amazing album. One of the only mainstream/hugely successful hip-hop acts that does their own thing and does it better than anyone else.

2) Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

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Toss up between this and Stankonia for top choice.

3) Sara Bareilles - Careful Confessions/Little Voice

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She is an AMAZING performer and lyricist. Her song writing skills are superb and every song on this album is straight from her heart. She is far and away my favorite non hip-hop act of the decade. I put Careful Confession there because that debut album contained many of the same songs as Little Voice and I think the versions on Careful Confessions were better.

4) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

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Still her best album, Norah has a style that stands out in music. Her first album blended jazz, blues and country in a way that was laid back and easy to listen to. Great album.

5) Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Unclassified

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I caught them on Austin City Limits by chance years ago and I have been hooked ever since. The man can play the hell out of the steel guitar and this album really shows the gospel/soul influences of the band. I just wish more people knew about them.
 
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[quote name='Mr Unoriginal']Loved this decade:
Tegan and Sara - "The Con"[/QUOTE]

Oh hell yes. You can add "So Jealous" to that as well.

The Mastodon record evildeadjedi mentioned is possibly up there as well.
 
Off the top of my head I would have to say Renegades by Rage Against the Machine.

But I'm sure I'd have to put some releases by A Perfect Circle, Deftones, Tool, Daft Punk, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Gorillaz, The Promise Ring, Deltron, and Queens of the Stone Age on there as well.
 
In no particular order:

BRMC - self titled
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Spiritualized - Let it Come Down
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Sterophonics - Performance and Cocktails (1999)

I'm sure I would make a few adjustments if I really thought about it.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Off the top of my head I would have to say Renegades by Rage Against the Machine.

But I'm sure I'd have to put some releases by A Perfect Circle, Deftones, Tool, Daft Punk, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Gorillaz, The Promise Ring, Deltron, and Queens of the Stone Age on there as well.[/QUOTE]
Forgot about Gorillaz, Demon Days was incredible
 
[quote name='crunchb3rry']You should hear Dan's solo album. Holy crap, it's good. That's a good choice, Rubber Factory. Very nice.

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I have all the Black Keys stuff I'll have to look for this one. What's it called?

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All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
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Good call I would probably have to put that in my honorable mentions cause the KSE album I liked more.

[quote name='mykevermin']

The Mastodon record evildeadjedi mentioned is possibly up there as well.[/QUOTE]

Definitely, I was close to putting their new one Crack the Skye but Leviathan so far is my favorite.

[quote name='GuilewasNK']In order...

1) Outkast - Stankonia

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Outkast kicks everyone's ass. Plain and simple. No musical act on Earth is better.

They continue to be fresh and innovative in a genre of music that tends to follow trends and be stale. Amazing album. One of the only mainstream/hugely successful hip-hop acts that does their own thing and does it better than anyone else.

2) Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

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Toss up between this and Stankonia for top choice.



5) Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Unclassified

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I caught them on Austin City Limits by chance years ago and I have been hooked ever since. The man can play the hell out of the steel guitar and this album really shows the gospel/soul influences of the band. I just wish more people knew about them.[/QUOTE]

Outkast is easily my favorite hip hop duo of all time. From SouthernPlayalisticCadillacFunkyMuzik to Speakerboxxx they are fresh, extremely talented and different. However, I just felt that Eminem edged out their last two albums(however it's almost too close to call cause I loved the two Outkast ones). However, had Aquemini, ATLiens or maybe even Southernplayalistic came out in the 2000's it would have been no contest.
Nice call on Robert Randolph and the Family Band I saw them open for Clapton and was blown away very good stuff! :applause:
 
The first five that occur to me off the top of my head:

Blaqk Audio - CexCells
VNV Nation - Futureperfect
IAMX - Kiss + Swallow
Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right
Aesthetic Perfection - A Violent Emotion

And a long list, just running through my Zune collection:

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Cex - Maryland Mansions
Covenant - Northern Light
The Cure - Bloodflowers
Cursive - Happy Hollow
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Decemberists - Picaresque
Dresden Dolls - Dresden Dolls
Editors - An End Has a Start
The Faint - Danse Macabre
Her Space Holiday - The Young Machines
Icon of Coil - The Soul is in the Software
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Ladytron - The Witching Hour
Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News
Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
Murder by Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
Muse - Absolution
Neuroticfish - Les Chansons Neurotiques
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
OhGr - Welt
A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
Placebo - Meds
Postal Service - Give Up
Rotersand - Welcome to Goodbye
She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Stromkern - Armageddon
Tweaker - The Attraction to All Things Uncertain
William Control - Hate Culture
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
 
[quote name='opterasis']
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
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That came out in 1997....

Anyway, I'll quit being lazy, and here are my favorite albums of the decade in no particular order (and probably forgetting several).

Pearl Jam--self titled; Backspacer
Dave Matthews Band-Busted Stuff; Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
Audioslave- self titled; Out of Exile; Revelations
U2-All That You Can't Leave Behind; How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb; No Line on the Horizon
Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica; Good News for People Who Love Bad News; We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Coldplay- Parachutes; A Rush of Blood to the Head; X&Y; Viva La Vida
Incubus-Morning View; A Crow Left of the Murder
Foo Fighters--One by One; In Your Honor; Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium
Deftones-Self Titled
Eddie Vedder- Into the Wild Soundtrack
Green Day-American Idiot; 21st Century Breakdown
Jerry Cantrell--Degradation Trip Volumes 1& 2
Jimmy Eat World- self titled; Futures
The Killers- Hot Fuss; Sam's Town
Nine Inch Nails- With Teeth; Year Zero; The Slip
Radiohead-Kid A; Amnesiac; Hail to the Thief; In Rainbows
System of a Down-Toxicity; Mesmerize; Hypnotize
Velvet Revolver- Contraband
Bad Religion-The Process of Belief
 
^^^I took the Killers -Hot Fuss off of my list since I thought they were not as good as the other albums I listed, but they do deserve a honorable mention in my list.

I am surprised how many of you guys like Pearl Jam. Just a statement, not a judgment.
 
[quote name='slowdive21']

I am surprised how many of you guys like Pearl Jam. Just a statement, not a judgment.[/QUOTE]


I agree but in my case it's a judgment. :lol:
 
[quote name='Access_Denied']God I hope you're kidding.



Yeah, that was definitely an awesome album. I recently listened to both CDs all the way through, and I'm definitely impressed.[/QUOTE]




you shoot down chinese democracy, but praise that filler album stadium arcadium?? whaaa
 
[quote name='slowdive21']
I am surprised how many of you guys like Pearl Jam. Just a statement, not a judgment.[/QUOTE]

Yeah PJ has been my favorite band since Ten came out in 1991.

As you can tell from my list, I mainly listen to music from that early to mid nineties period since the list is dominated by bands I got into back then.
 
[quote name='pimpster4183']you shoot down chinese democracy, but praise that filler album stadium arcadium?? whaaa[/QUOTE]

Filler album? It's one of the few double albums I think is pretty free of filler.

Oh well, to each their own.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']That came out in 1997....

Anyway, I'll quit being lazy, and here are my favorite albums of the decade in no particular order (and probably forgetting several).

Green Day-American Idiot; 21st Century Breakdown
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I really hope you are kidding about 21st Century Breakdown. That album sucked and is easily one of Green Day's weakest albums to date.
 
No particular order:
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Thursday - Full Collapse
Outkast - Stankonia
Coheed&Cambria - Second Stage Turbine
Paramore - Riot!
Lady Gaga - The Fame
T.I. - Urban Legend
Incubus - Morning View
Dashboard Confessional - The Place You Come to Fear the Most
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
 
My favorites of the decade:

Calexico - Feast of Wire (2003)
Yonder Mountain String Band - Self Titled (2006)
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts (2002)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000, not technically this decade but whatever)

I'm sure I'm forgetting some I love as well..
 
[quote name='darthbudge']I really hope you are kidding about 21st Century Breakdown. That album sucked and is easily one of Green Day's weakest albums to date.[/QUOTE]

Nope, I like it. Not their strongest album, but still very good IMO.

Again, to each their own.
 
Okay my list:

Daft Punk- Discovery
Radiohead- Kid A
Postal Service- Give Up
Zero 7-Simple Things
Common- Be
Kanye- College Dropout
Jay-Z - Blueprint
Norah Jones- Come Away with
Corinne Bailey Rae- Selftitled
Sade- Lover's Rock
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
Avalanches- Since I Left You (You didn't see this coming?)
Gorillaz- Demon Days and Gorillaz
 
For me

Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (At first I would say Discovery, but these live remixes blew my fking mind)
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals (this is how I was introduced to metal)
KMFDM - Hau Ruck (I'm gonna get dogged on for this, but I genuinely like every song on the album. It also introduced me to KMFDM)
Basshunter - LOL (shut up :p)
Elvinking - The Winter Wake (listened to it after they visited my Italian class due to a member being my teacher's cousin)
Tiësto - Elements of Life (the eponymous track is the best techno I have ever heard)
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Lamb of God - Sacrament
 
Jay Z - Blueprint
Lil' Wayne - Carter III
Alicia Keyes' first album
Ludacris - Red Light District

EDIT -- I forgot Green Day's American Idiot and Audioslave's first album.
 
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[quote name='c0rnpwn']For me

KMFDM - Hau Ruck (I'm gonna get dogged on for this, but I genuinely like every song on the album. It also introduced me to KMFDM)
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If it makes you feel any better I really liked that album too.
 
In no order:

Mastodon - Leviathan
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense
ISIS - Celestial
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Tool - Lateralus
Primus - Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People
Daft Punk - Alive
Kavinsky - 1986 EP
Justice - Cross
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Kylie Minogue - Body Language
 
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