Weird to think that we’re a quarter of the way through this century. Needs some thought but my initial bias is against any list that doesn’t contain at least one mewithoutYou album. Their releases have been the pinnacle of music listening experiences for me.
I also plan on going back through RYM top albums and checking out some of my blind spots. Doing Boris's Flood now.
im not gonna do this but im gonna do the best albums of 2019 as it's the best year for recorded music by far Big Thief - UFOF Big Thief - Two Hands Alex G - House of Sugar 100 gecs - 1000 gecs Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows Glass Beach - the first glass beach album 22 degrees Halo - 22 degrees Halo Angelo de Augustine - Tomb Strange Ranger - Remembering the Rockets Porches - the song rangerover which is incredible what am I missing?
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004) My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002) Kamelot - Epica (2003) Fightstar - Grand Unification (2006) Kamelot - The Black Halo (2005) My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006) The Used - The Used (2002) Frou Frou - Details (2002) Evanescence - Fallen (2003) Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003) Joshua Radin - We Were Here (2006) Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me (2007) The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014) fun. - Aim and Ignite (2009) The Format - Dog Problems (2006) John Mayer - Continuum (2006) Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy (2004) City Sleeps - Not an Angel (2007) Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You? (2010) Fightstar - One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours (2007) Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself (2005) Busted - A Present for Everyone (2003) Infinity Crush - When We're Snow (2013) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) Charlie Simpson - Young Pilgrim (2011) Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (2005) Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory (2005) Kamelot - Karma (2001) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (2008) Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat (2006) The Postal Service - Give Up (2003) mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (2006) mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes (2004) Moving Mountains - Pneuma (2007) Anberlin - Cities (2007) Frank Turner - Love Ire & Song (2008) The Reign of Kindo - This Is What Happens (2010) My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010) La Dispute - Wildlife (2011) Damien Rice - O (2003) Copeland - Ixora (2014) fun. - Some Nights (2012) Acceptance - Phantoms (2005) There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks (2009) Fightstar - Behind the Devil's Back (2015) Fightstar - Be Human (2009) The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It (2016) Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter (2022) Chad Perrone - Wake (2008) Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005)
50 faves in no order, one album per artist. leans heavy early 2000s ofc: every time i die radical tape luminarium stars of the lid and their refinement of the decline juno a future lived in past tense pulp we love life brand new science fiction okkervil river away radiohead kid a the clientele strange geometry future of the left travels with myself and another gillian welch time (the revelator) dillinger escape plan ire works jim guthrie now more than ever augie march strange bird ka honor killed the samurai kathleen edwards asking for flowers the cooper temple clause kick up the fire and let the flames break loose the icarus line penance soiree appleseed cast low level owl the blood brothers ...burn, piano island, burn the wrens the meadowlands low trust made out of babies the ruiner disfear live the storm d'angelo voodoo the gathering souvenirs godspeed you! black emperor lift your skinny fists... propagandhi supporting caste super furry animals rings around the world julien baker sprained ankle american music club the golden age motorpsycho the death defying unicorn the bug london zoo gorguts colored sands deftones white pony dillinger four versus god melt yourself down melt yourself down junior boys so this is goodbye gareth liddiard strange tourist bohren & der club of gore black earth grandaddy the sophtware slump the unthanks here’s the tender coming pinetop seven the night’s bloom guided by voices human amusements at hourly rates aimee mann mental illness tindersticks across six leap years the deadly snakes porcella htrk venus in leo the apartments in and out of the light autechre nts sessions
The Hotelier - Goodness Bon Iver - Bon Iver Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs Saves the Day - Stay What You Are Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Kanye West - The College Dropout German Error Message - After the Warmth Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 Bear vs. Shark - Right Now, You’re in the Best of Hands… Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter Jay-Z - The Blueprint Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain… Kanye West - MBDTF Against Me - Transgender Dysphoria Blues Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving Outkast - Stankonia Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights The Postal Service - Give Up The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past Kanye West - Late Registration Arrange - Blood Dust MF DOOM - Mm..Food Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Taylor Swift - Red Radiohead - In Rainbows Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be I'd probably have 1-2 Brand New albums in there too but...fuck em. I will probably keep editing it as I read over it and get more and more unhappy with placement.
Here is a link to the Best EP's of the 2000s: Q1 thread Best EP's of the 2000s: Q1 • forum.chorus.fm Thank you for inspiring it
Some version of this. Butch Walker - Letters Jimmy Eat World - Futures Jack’s Mannequin - Everything in Transit Taylor Swift - Red Matt Nathanson - Some Mad Hope Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days Green Day - American Idiot The Gaslight Anthem - The ’59 Sound Jason Isbell - Southeastern Gang of Youths - angel in realtime. Taylor Swift - folklore John Mayer - Continuum The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely The Dangerous Summer - Reach for the Sun Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows Field Report - Marigolden U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind Counting Crows - Hard Candy Katie Pruitt -Expectations Ken Yates - Quiet Talkers Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar Butch Walker - Stay Gold Cary Brothers - Who You Are Coldplay - Ghost Stories Jack’s Mannequin - The Glass Passenger Jason Isbell - Reunions Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American Caitlyn Smith - Starfire Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt Donovan Woods - Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head The Dangerous Summer - War Paint Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart Keane - Hopes & Fears Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are Kelsea Ballerini - Rolling up the Welcome Mat Yellowcard - Lift a Sail Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window Chad Perrone - Release Matchbox Twenty - Where the Light Goes The Chicks - Taking the Long Way Charlie Worsham - Rubberband Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver Death Cab for Cutie - Plans Bruce Springsteen - Magic Butch Walker - The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites! Taylor Swift - 1989 Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten Dawes - Stories Don't End The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars Coldplay - Viva la Vida Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life Taylor Swift - evermore Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light Jon McLaughlin - Indiana Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago The Damnwells - No One Listens to the Band Anymore Noah Gundersen - Ledges Lori McKenna - The Tree The Killers - Pressure Machine The Killers - Hot Fuss John Mayer - Heavier Things Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound Donovan Woods - Without People The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer, Different Park Bruce Springsteen - The Rising Mat Kearney - Nothing Left to Lose Safetysuit - Life Left to Go Maren Morris - Hero Motion City Soundtrack - Even If it Kills Me Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down Mat Kearney - City of Black and White Marvelous 3 - Readysexgo John Mayer - Born and Raised The New Frontiers - Mending Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands Chad Perrone - Wake Butch Walker - Glenn The Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein Something Corporate - North Dawes - Nothing is Wrong Ruston Kelly - Dying Star Sister Hazel - Chasing Daylight Avril Lavigne - Let Go The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America Miranda Lambert - Revolution Josh Ritter - The Animal Years Kelsea Ballerini - Patterns Japandroids - Celebration Rock Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur Will Hoge - The Wreckage
Any and all Kathleen Edwards representation gets a like. "Scared at Night" is one of my most listened to songs ever
Rolling Stone dropped their list, made a separate thread to not clog up this one discussing their list Rolling Stone’s 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century • forum.chorus.fm
I've thought about it more and decided I'll make a list in like 3 years after the more recent albums have sunk in a bit more
yeah looking at the Rolling Stone list is funny because I love MJ Lenderman but seeing his album from September listed is wild.
This is fun but hard as most of my formative music taste began in the late 90s, early 00s. Limited to 50. Loving seeing all the lists - gives me loads of recommendations to check out. 1. Thursday - war all the time 2. Thursday - A city by the light divided 3. Thursday - Full Collapse 4. Pianos become the teeth - Keep you 4. Taking back Sunday - Tell all your friends 5. Julien Baker - Sprained ankle 6. Cursive - The Ugly Organ 7. Moving mountains - moving mountains 8. La dispute - wildlife 9. Prawn - Kingfisher 10. Foxing - Dealer 11. Manchester Orchestra - Mean everything to nothing 12. Thursday - common existence 13. The Antlers - Hospice 14. Hotelier - Goodness 15. Caracara - New Preoccupations 16. Mandancing - the good sweat 17. Phoebe Bridgers - strangers in the alps 18. Poison the well - you come before you 19. The Moirai - Bury yourself 20. Mewithoutyou- Brother, Sister 21. Explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place 22. Thursday - no devotion 23. Ceres - we are a team 24. Hop along - bark your head of dog 25.Jimmy eat world - bleed American 26. My chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge 27. Novo Amor - birthplace 28.From autumn to ashes - too bad you’re beautiful 29. Frightened rabbit - pedestrian verse 30. Captain, we’re sinking - the future is cancelled 31. Appleseed cast - two conversations 32. Biffy Clyro - blackened sky 33. Turnover - peripheral vision 34. The used - the used 35. From Indian lakes - able bodies 36. Deftones - white pony 37. Bright eyes - fevers and mirrors 38. The hotelier - home is no place 39. Deathcab for cutie - transatlanticism 40. Funeral for a friend - casually dressed and deep in conversation 41. Manchester orchestra - simple math 42. Paramore - riot! 43. The weakerthans - left and leaving 44. Caracara - summer megalith 45. Balance and composure - the things we think we’re missing 46. Foxing - the albatross 47. All get out - the season 48. Bartees strange - live forever 49. The good life - novena on a nocturn 50. Moving mountains - Pneuma
This is ridiculously hard. Like, I know certain albums -- In Rainbows, The Moon and Antarctica, White Pony, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes -- are going to be there. But I am unsure of how to make this list other than putting every album I own into bias sorter (plus some I don't) and spending like a week sorting through it all lol
Well I made a list of about 200 records and now I'm staring at it totally lost besides my top 3 (which I knew without thinking)
I’m very close and I remembered an album in the cast yesterday that really needs to be on the list only to forget it again 5 minutes later
These are my favourite DOOM projects, I’d probably rank them like this but they’re all 10/10s to me Madvilliany Mm..Food Operation: Doomsday Vaudeville Villian