Wolfie's Best Albums of the 00s Thread, brought to you by John83

[Wolfie]

This album doesn't necessarily have to be the outright best - it's just your favourite.

No exhaustive lists - you get one band / artist, one album.

My personal favourite:

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

[endabob1]

Probably
Elbow - Seldom seen kid
but in reality the list would be a long one, nothing outrageously good (or I'm just too old to change my listening habits) but a lot of decent records.

[tiktok]

My favourite would probably be 'The Strokes - Is this it'
7/8 years on and it's never gotten old or boring for me, it still gets regular listens.

Could do a top100 list easier than a top1, but as you asked for just one.

[SkStu]

i have a top 20 but my vote goes to The Strokes - Is This It for the same reasons as tiktok.

[Wangball]

Mine is 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields

Does exactly what it says on the tin

[gustavo]

Agreed with the choice made by SkStu and tiktok

[jebus]

Magnetic Fields is a good shout, but to throw a name out straight away I'd put in Radiohead's Kid A

Was never a huge fan of Radiohead before this, in fact I thought OK Computer was quite mediocre and didn't get the hype. This album turned it around for me and started Radiohead off down a new path that I've mostly enjoyed (Hail To The Thief is a poor album, I don't care what anyone says)

[centre mid]

Hard to pin one down, The Flaming Lip's - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a contender for me.

[SligoBrewer]

For me, Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles is a top notch and up there as my favourite of the noughties. Basically, it's so loose but yet it's tight, it's wrong but it's right and it was just so different to anything that I had ever heard before, bringing the definition of music to new limits without sounding utterly preposterous but actually being a majestic album in the meanwhile.

Honorable mentions would have to include The Rising by Bruce Springsteen,Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian's West Ryder Lunatic Asylum.

[ken foree]

Magnetic Fields is a good shout, but to throw a name out straight away I'd put in Radiohead's Kid A

Was never a huge fan of Radiohead before this, in fact I thought OK Computer was quite mediocre and didn't get the hype. This album turned it around for me and started Radiohead off down a new path that I've mostly enjoyed (Hail To The Thief is a poor album, I don't care what anyone says)

seconded!

[stann]

Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Without a shadow.

[superfrank]

If I had to pin one down, I'd go for Funeral by Arcade Fire.

I was listening to it the other day and it still sounds great.

[Wangball]

If I had to pin one down, I'd go for Funeral by Arcade Fire.

I was listening to it the other day and it still sounds great.

Couldn't agree more, you've actually made me doubt my own choice!

This is one of those timeless albums, will never sound bad

[Pauro 76]

seconded!

i'd have to go for Radiohead - In Rainbows. An absolute classic from start to finish. Kid A isn't very far behind either....

[DeLorean]

With regards to playing something to death it has to be...

The Killers - Hot Fuss

[tetsujin1979]

not sure if I'd go with Funeral as my album of the decade (although it's definitely up there) but Wake Up is probably my track of the decade

[Lev Yashin]

Ill have to plump fo The Last Broadcast by Doves....always go back to it.

So hard to pick one though

[Soper]

This is too hard.

Source Tags & Codes by ....Trail of dead, Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killah, Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams, and Relationship of Command by At the Drive in are teh ones that spring to mind

[davey]

Very difficult, and I'm sure if you ask anyone who has posted here what their favourite is in 5 years time, you'll get another choice. Having said that, I still stand by my choice from the 90s - Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen, we're floating in space".

For the past decade, a few thoughts, nearly all have been mentioned. Radioheads Kid A and In Rainbows along with Arcade Fires Funeral are very high. Number 2 is definitely Badly Drawn Boys "Hour of the Bewilderbeast" - Love this so much. This would have been number 1 if it wasn't been for an album I only heard 2 months ago and has been listened to every day since.


Step Forward British Sea Power's " Do You Like Rock Music?". Despite hating the band name, I have grown to love this band so much in the space of 2 months. This album is incredible. I do though retain the right to change my mind :)

[Wolfie]

Ill have to plump fo The Last Broadcast by Doves....always go back to it.

Excellent choice. Still an under-rated band who have rarely, if ever, let their high standards dip.


My favourite would probably be 'The Strokes - Is this it'
7/8 years on and it's never gotten old or boring for me, it still gets regular listens.

"Is This it" - yep, a classic. Strokes never truly realised the potential of that first album (so far).


i'd have to go for Radiohead - In Rainbows. An absolute classic from start to finish. Kid A isn't very far behind either....

I think "Kid A" will be referred to as a land mark album of all time. I think it will still be listened to in 20 years time and beyond.

In Rainbows is well deserving of "Classic" status also. The prominance of arpeggiated acoustic guitar in most songs works wonderfully well.

On a general note, I think we'll give all the regular forummers a little more time to post their "one nom only" and we may as well open the floodgates then, what you reckon?.....................................

[Troubadour]

Hmm difficult one. I'm going to go for Mic Christopher-Skylarkin. Not a bad track on the album.

[Lev Yashin]

Hmm difficult one. I'm going to go for Mic Christopher-Skylarkin. Not a bad track on the album.

With a name like Troubadour,it had to be!!! :D

[shakermaker1982]

Up the Bracket
Kid A
Is this It
Songs for the Deaf
BRMC

[Wolfie]

My personal favourite:

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

With honourable mentions to:

Kid A - Radiohead
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Journal for Plague Lovers - Manics
Antics - Interpol
The Good, The Bad and the Queen (Album)
Whatever People Say I am....... - Arctics
Is This it? - Strokes
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Last Broadcast - Doves
Some Cities - Doves
Life on Other Planets - Supergrass
Rated R - QOTSA
Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Happiness in Mazazines - Graham Coxon

[Pauro 76]

Honourable mentions from myself...
Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA
The Last Broadcast - Doves
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol

[Kingdom]

Great thread, and some great choices already. Disappointed that there wasn't one Chemical Brothers album I could nominate, of the albums I heard......Kasabian's Kasabian would be my choice. Excellent introduction to a very good band, and one I'll never get tired of hearing.

[twoenz]

Mine is 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields

Does exactly what it says on the tin


Brilliant choice, but they were spoiled for me when I went to see them live in Berlin. Very poor and boring.

The Strokes: Is This It for me too.

[Beavis]

I'm a huge Radiohead fan so I'm happy to go with KID A. It's just brilliant as a composition.


I thought OK Computer was quite mediocre and didn't get the hype.
Did you come round?



(Hail To The Thief is a poor album, I don't care what anyone says)
Hail to the Thief is the weakest Radiohead album since Pablo but it's only relatively weak, there's too many quality tracks (There, There; Wolf at the Door; Where You End and I Begin; 2+2=5) to be a 'poor album' compared to other music/bands :ball:

[total hoofball]

I did this list of my noughties favourites on another website, here it is


Animal Collective - Meriweather Post Pavilion
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Daft Punk - Discovery
Elbow - Cast of Thousands
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Muse - Absolution
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Ros - Takk
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
The National - Alligator
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Strokes - Is This It


Alot of you have similar favourites to mine so any of these you've not yet listened to I would definitely recommend

I personally prefered the first part of the decade than the latter, even though there are many acts currently releasing good creative music not many acts have been churning out those albums you will always listen to for days on end

[SkStu]

I did this list of my noughties favourites on another website, here it is


Animal Collective - Meriweather Post Pavilion
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Daft Punk - Discovery
Elbow - Cast of Thousands
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Muse - Absolution
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Ros - Takk
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
The National - Alligator
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Strokes - Is This It


Alot of you have similar favourites to mine so any of these you've not yet listened to I would definitely recommend

I personally prefered the first part of the decade than the latter, even though there are many acts currently releasing good creative music not many acts have been churning out those albums you will always listen to for days on end

good list. Heres mine from another forum

off the top of my head...

The Strokes - Is This It
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Lady GaGa - The Fame
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Air - Talkie Walkie
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Postal Service - Give Up
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

[total hoofball]

The Strokes - Is This It
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Lady GaGa - The Fame
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Air - Talkie Walkie
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Postal Service - Give Up
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Lady GaGa a bit out place there is she not?! :)

Avalanches, Postal Service and Bloc Party albums in particular are top notch albums too, never rated the MGMT album though, 3/4 great singles but the rest was filler

[SkStu]

Lady GaGa a bit out place there is she not?! :)

Avalanches, Postal Service and Bloc Party albums in particular are top notch albums too, never rated the MGMT album though, 3/4 great singles but the rest was filler

yeah shes a bit out of place alright but seriously, some cracking pop songs. Restored my faith in the female pop star... :o whatever that means...

MGMT gets in on the first half of the album but the overall sound was quite a breath of fresh air and thats why it gets in for me. I also actually quite dislike Coldplay but a good album is a good album in my opinion...

Would also like to nick QOTSA and Muse from your list which inexplicably didnt make it into my (admittedly rushed) list...

[gustavo]

Coldplay -Rush of Blood to the Head
Killers - Hot Fuss
Killers - Sam's Town
Strokes - Is this it ?
Strokes - First Impresssions of Earth
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Interpol - Antics
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People say I am..
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Editors - The Back Room
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Elbow -Seldom Seen Kid
Robbie Williams - Sing when you're winning
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
u2 All that you can't leave behind
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

[jebus]

If lists is what we're doing than here's mine

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Shins - Oh Inverted World
BlackStar - BlackStar
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizions
Sigur Ros - their last one, I'm not even going to try and spell that :)
Yuki Morata - Films
Booka Shade - Movements
Blink 182 - Blink 182
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Zwan - Mary Star Of The Sea
Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Mylo - Destroy Rock N Roll
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Daft Punk - Discovery
The National - Boxer
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
she - Coloris
She & Him - Volume One
The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
The Strokes - Is This It?
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast

sure I left loads out though

Oh and Beavis, I don't think OK Computer is as mediocre as I used to, but I still think it's the most over-rated album I've ever come across

[danthesaint]

The Killers-Hot Fuss
Bruce Springsteen-The Rising
Foo Fighters-Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

[endabob1]

Without wanting to sound like a pedantic ar$e


No exhaustive lists - you get one band / artist, one album.

[Wolfie]

Without wanting to sound like a pedantic ar$e



On a general note, I think we'll give all the regular forummers a little more time to post their "one nom only" and we may as well open the floodgates then, what you reckon?.....................................

Not pedantic, Endabob - but maybe a tad illiterate!! :)

I figured we may as well revert to the "lists" format in order to discuss the decade in more detail.

[superfrank]

I'll add mine:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Republic of Loose - Aaagh!
M.O.P. - Warriorz
Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast - Idlewild
OutKast - Stankonia
Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
Snoop Dogg - Paid Tha Cost To Be The Boss
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Truth Hurts - Truthfully Speaking
Prince -3121
Nas - Stillmatic
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of
Basement Jaxx - Scars
Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio
Angie Stone - Stone Love
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Hot Chip - The Warning
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
M.I.A. - Kala
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
Royksopp - Melody AM
D-12 - Devil's Night
Kanye West - The College Dropout

[Beavis]

Without wanting to sound like a pedantic ar$e

It was inevitable!

What I can think of:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Blur - 13
Blur - Think Tank
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Doves - Last Broadcast
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Mic Christopher - Skylarkin'
The National - Boxer
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Ros - Takk
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!

[shakermaker1982]

I forgot to mention Love is Hell, Gold, Heartbreaker and Cold Roses to my list.

[endabob1]

Not pedantic, Endabob - but maybe a tad illiterate!! :)

I figured we may as well revert to the "lists" format in order to discuss the decade in more detail.

Lists, Schmists, I couldn't be bothered reading all the posts you can't go changing the rules like that, I've changed my mind twice since I posted mine now :p

[Wolfie]

Lists, Schmists, I couldn't be bothered reading all the posts you can't go changing the rules like that, I've changed my mind twice since I posted mine now :p

Yeah - I was thinking narrowing everyone to one choice could be interesting.

I was wrong. A rule change may keep the thread alive for a while.

Dear All,

At the risk of dragging us off topic - On a more general note - , "Turn on the Bright Lights" is one that passed me by. It seems to be well thought of on here. Worth a purchase?

[shakermaker1982]

At the risk of dragging us off topic - On a more general note - , "Turn on the Bright Lights" is one that passed me by. It seems to be well thought of on here. Worth a purchase?

I couldn't get into it. Bit drony for me.

[monzo]

The Good, The Bad & The Queen - eponymous album
Pearl Jam - eponymous album
Pearl Jam - Backspacer - still maintain that the s/t one is superior though.
Black Francis - Bluefinger - pity that it's not well known, there's not a bad track on the album
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Frank Black & The Catholics - Dog In The Sand
Frank Black & The Catholics - Black Letter Days
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum...
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Eels - Souljacker
Fleet Foxes - eponymous
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

[Kingdom]

MGMT gets in on the first half of the album but the overall sound was quite a breath of fresh air and thats why it gets in for me. I also actually quite dislike Coldplay but a good album is a good album in my opinion...



If only more people were that honest. Agree 100% with all of your post, but this bit in particular.

[Pauro 76]

Think Sigur Ros () is worth a shout too. Pretty much in my list all covered here!

[John83]

Could a mod fix the title please?

[ken foree]

It was inevitable!

What I can think of:

Panda Bear - Person Pitch


bravo beavis, great album

[SkStu]

Could a mod fix the title please?

hardly necessary, is it?

[John83]

hardly necessary, is it?
Humour me.