TEF Top 50 Albums of the Decade

[leefer]

In reverse order..

10...Pendulum...In Silico.
9....Stereophonics...JEEP
8....Arctic Monkeys...Favourite Worst Nightmare.
7..The Streets...A Grand Dont Come For Free.
6..Editors...An End Has A Start.
5...White Stripes...Icky Thump.
4...Muse...Origin Of Symmetry.
3...Killers..Hot Fuss.
2..The Magic Numbers...The Magic Numbers.
1..Rammstein...Mutter.

Adios (above) being my favourite guitar rift mid song....its quality,loads of other albums were on the list.
Music for me has to be varied,i baught Bill Haleys greatest hits from Tescos for £2 and it is brilliant.
Apart from my punk years ive never been into a certain genre....Rammstein isnt very PC but i love the music....that Album has it all...hard rifts and melodic tunes.
In fact i was listening to Andrea Bocelli this morning while driving at work and it was a brilliant album.
Music is about mood....some really good top tens on here for the last ten years.

[Nemo]

Anyone else struggling with this list this may help a bit on some of the earlier in the decade stuff, it's the Decade's Mercury Nominees. Winners are a bit hit and miss but nominees usually decent enough:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Prize

[Christy]

1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People.....
2. Roddy Frame - Surf
3. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
6. Christy Moore - Burning Times
7. Manics - Journal.....
8. Streets - Grand Don't Come For Free
9. Teenage Fanclub - Howdy
10. Gemma Hayes - Night on my Side

[Bob's Orange]

2 recent albums which have come onto my radar are -

A Place to Bury Strangers and Mumford and Sons (which is excellent)

[iffy]

1. Takk - Sigur Ros
2. Consolers of the Lonely - Raconteurs
3. Hit the floor - Breakestra
4. Demon Days - Gorillaz
5. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
6. The Understanding - Royksopp
7. Yoshimi battles the pink robots - Flaming Lips
8. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
9. Faded Seaside Glamour - Delays
10. Chutes too narrow - The Shins

That's really hard. There's another 30 on the list and I could fiddle with the order all day.

[Spy]

Here's the Time top 100 albums of this decade.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6922991.ece

Might be of interest...

[michael]

Pretty good list that.

[Rich Pullen]

For what it's worth - off the top of my head heres my immediate 10...

01. American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
02. Sea Change - Beck
03. Speakerboxxx/Love Below - OutKast
04. Ballad of the Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
05. Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike - Gogol Bordello
06. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
07. Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age
08. Peace Love and Death Metal - Eagles of Death Metal
09. Desert Sessions Vol.9/10 - Desert Sessions
10. You're a Woman, I'm a Machine - Death From Above 1979

I'd probably change some of them if I thought about it more...

[Spy]

After much thought...

1) System of Down - Toxicity
2) Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers
3) Placebo - Black Market Music
4) Deftones - White Pony
5) Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
6) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
7) RJD2 - Dead Ringer
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
9) Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood
10) Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You

I will prob disagree with it slightly after posting but I think that's a pretty good list. I didn't just list my favs. Some weight was given to the influence of an album, importance within a genre and quality of production.

Honourable mentions go to kasabian (self titled) goldfrapp - seventh tree and eels - daisies of the galaxy.

I love DnB and prob should have included some in the list but like most dance music that genre doesn't really revolve around albums so much. The new Dom and Roland one coming out is probably awesome and would prob be on the list if I had actually heard it yet!!!

I think a lot of you will prob agree that this exercise demonstrates the 90s were much stronger for good music/great albums. Maybe a top 50 for the 90s afterwards? 

[Nemo]

I'll close this to submissions some point over the weekend, probably Saturday night, so get your votes in now.

[cib]

1) We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
2) Muse - Origin of Symmetry
3) Coldplay - Parachutes
4) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
5) Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
6) Idlewild - Remote Part
7) The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
Athlete - Vehicles And Animals
9) The Rifles - No Love Lost
10) The Rakes - Capture/Release

It'll probably change if i were to do this properly

[Nemo]

Thanks for all your votes, I'm just collating them and adding mine, I'll probably start posting results and a little write up tomorrow.

Would people vote in a more General "Best of the Decade" Poll? Covering Sports, Films, Music etc.? If so, I might hold one as I have plenty of free time over the Christmas hols.

[Spy]

Tbh I would vote in pretty much an poll of this type within reason.

I see you mention doing another music of the decade poll. Obviously we've done albums so what did you have in mind for that? Best songs? Best bands?

[Nemo]

Albums have obviously already been covered but if I did a catch all poll for the best of everything, I'd probably put Song and bBand in yes.

[leefer]

Thanks for all your votes, I'm just collating them and adding mine, I'll probably start posting results and a little write up tomorrow.

Would people vote in a more General "Best of the Decade" Poll? Covering Sports, Films, Music etc.? If so, I might hold one as I have plenty of free time over the Christmas hols.

Good idea Nemo.