Uncut Top150 Albums Of The Century So Far

[boing!]

What's with all these lists anyway? There's still a few months left of this decade. Given the fickleness of the music press the greatest album of the 2000s probably hasn't even come out yet.

 

[dodgepot]

There's still a few months left of this decade.

or a year and a few months, dependant on how you count your decades...

 

[Dr. Furface]

Here's Pitchfork's albums of the 2000's: 50-21 (top 20 not up yet) -

50. Deerhunter - Microcastle
49. Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
48. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
47. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
46. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
45. Fugazi - The Argument
44. D'Angelo - Voodoo
43. Luomo - Vocalcity
42. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
41. Burial - Untrue
40. The National - Alligator
39. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
38. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
37. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
36. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
35. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
34. Radiohead - Amnesiac
33. Basement Jaxx - Rooty
32. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
31. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
30. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
29. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
28. Kanye West - The College Dropout
27. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
26. Fennesz - Endless Summer
25. Madvillian - Madvilliany
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
23. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
22. M.I.A. - Kala
21. Radiohead - In Rainbows

and the top 20 is...

20. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
19. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
18. Kanye West - Late Registration
17. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
16. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
15. The Knife - Silent Shout
14. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
13. OutKast - Stankonia
12. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
11. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
10. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
09. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
08. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
07. The Strokes - Is This It
06. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
05. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
04. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
03. Daft Punk - Discovery
02. Arcade Fire - Funeral
01. Radiohead - Kid A

 

[SpookyFrank]

and the top 20 is...

20. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
19. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
18. Kanye West - Late Registration
17. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
16. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
15. The Knife - Silent Shout
14. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
13. OutKast - Stankonia
12. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
11. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
10. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
09. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
08. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
07. The Strokes - Is This It
06. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
05. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
04. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
03. Daft Punk - Discovery
02. Arcade Fire - Funeral
01. Radiohead - Kid A

That's a bit more like it. Still some glaring omissions though, and the lingering presence of Kanye "The Embodiment of Everything That's Wrong With Hip Hop These Days" West

 

[twistedAM]

That's a bit more like it. Still some glaring omissions though, and the lingering presence of Kanye "The Embodiment of Everything That's Wrong With Hip Hop These Days" West

Yeah no fucking Ryan Adams. Uncut really has a one-track mind. The best of Americana was over and done by 97.
Great to see Ghostface in there especially as I thought it was a 99 release but it seems it came out in Jan 2000 though i certainly had a copy of it before then and had almost played it to death by the dawn of this decade.

 

[Orang Utan]

yay! i've heard 20 of that top 50 and liked most of them. i feel cool again or something.

 

[editor]

Qs list would be despicable, with U2 no doubt sitting at the top.

 

[shygirl]

ryan adams' heartbreaker is a cracking album, gold tho', just seemed too slick for my liking. adams did some good stuff with pneumonia in the early days

 

[Orang Utan]

the only good stuff he could do with pneumonia is contract it

 

[shygirl]

oops, meant to say whiskey town. the album is pneumonia. that's the only album i've got, but there are some beautiful tracks on it, especially 'easy hearts'. you gotta admit it tho', he does have a cool voice

 

[shygirl]

Agree with earlier post, good to see gillian welch up there. she and her partner dave rawlings are superb together. see them in 'down from the mountain' concert, featuring music/artists from 'o brother where art thou'.

 

[shygirl]

the only good stuff he could do with pneumonia is contract it

LOL

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I think everytime someone includes The Strokes in one of these lists I'm going to strangle a puppy.

 

[ouchmonkey]

why not?
does anyone car about the Strokes anymore?
and.... Discovery over Homework? feck arf
The avalanches top 10? really?

 

[SpookyFrank]

why not?
does anyone car about the Strokes anymore?
and.... Discovery over Homework? feck arf
The avalanches top 10? really?

Homework wasn't this decade was it? Discovery came out in 2001 IIRC...

...it's also better than Homework

 

[killer b]

...it's also better than Homework

lol.

 

[Orang Utan]

homework is daft punk's only good album. after that they start pandering to the masses.

 

[killer b]

innit? plus, it has rollin' & scratchin' on it, which alone would make the album a head and shoulders above the rest of their work...

 

[matt m]

No Goslings, Ward 21 or Taku Unami in either list, I note.

 

[g force]

The Avalanches? Really? The rest looks okay and a better mix of people.

 

[ericjarvis]

and the top 20 is...

08. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

Released in 1999.

A grand total of 3 there that made it into my top 50. Though Ágætis Byrjun would have if it had actually been post 2k.