Top 50 Albums of the Decade
Nov 10, 2009, 8:08am
VAGUE SPACE
VAGUE SPACE
This was the greatest decade of music for me as a fan. There were so many incredible albums, almost all by bands I'd never even heard of in 2000, discovered almost entirely through the same musical venue that you are reading write now -- the Internet. At the dawn of the decade, I was approaching a rock fan milestone that presumably signaled the end of my interest in cool new music (I turned 30 in 2001), while at the same time, the rock music industry (ie. whatever they played on the radio) had devolved into a hybrid of cheap rap-rock [...]
- Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! - The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now
- Low - In Metal
- Microphones - I Want Wind To Blow
- Modest Mouse - Lives
- Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak
- Mono - Karelia (Opus 2)
- Okkervil River - Black
- Sigur Rós - Untitled 3 (Samskeyti)
- Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us
- Sunset Rubdown - Nightingale / December Song
- Sunset Rubdown - The Men Are Called Horsemen There
- Sunset Rubdown - Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!
- Sunset Rubdown - Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days
- Superchunk - Rainy Streets
- The Arcade Fire - In The Backseat
- The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
- The Decemberists - Clementine
- Wolf Parade - Shine A Light
- Wolf Parade - This Heart's On Fire
cmj sampler 2003
Kavinsky – RoadGame
Kavinsky - RoadGame
