
Filed under: Exclusive , Music Appreciation The end of a decade marks the beginning of a million music lists wrapping up the past ten years in a pretty bow. While list-making may be the preferred December pastime of music journalists, musicians like the Flaming Lips ' Wayne Coyne also enjoy picking their favorites. "I kept mulling over the records that came out in the last ten years," Coyne tells Spinner, "I did really love Radiohead 's 'Hail to the Thief' and only because I didn't [...]
eMusic's best of the decade list is, at once, interesting, broad enough to please us indie kids but idiosyncratic enough to excite, and the product of actual taste - not a number-mashing staff vote. At least so it appears. A few missteps, of course (seriously, fuck Bon Iver and his ever-steadier place in the hipster canon), but dudes have made the best big-ticket list of this kind yet, Pitchfork included. Check it out .
Take a deep breath - you've made it to the final day of The Rawking Refuses To Stop! 's countdown of the Top 100 Albums of the Decade. I promise only greatness. To click through the entire list, click below. 100-81 | 80-61 | 60-41 | 40-21 | 20-1 The 20 best albums of the decade, 2000-2009, after the jump. 20. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies [...]
Almost there, gang! Welcome to the penultimate day of The Rawking Refuses To Stop! 's countdown of the Top 100 Albums of the Decade. To click through the entire list, click below. 100-81 | 80-61 | 60-41 | 40-21 | 20-1 #s 40-21 after the jump. 40. Rufus Wainwright - Want One I could never understand why people liked Poses better. Rufus' penchant for dramatic, bombastic [...]
Halfway there! Welcome to the middle of The Rawking Refuses To Stop! 's countdown of the Top 100 Albums of the Decade. To start from the beginning, click below: 100-81 | 80-61 | 60-41 | 40-21 | 20-1 #s 60-41 after the jump! 60. Joanna Newsom - Ys 10-minute songs. An original folktale about a doomed romance between a monkey and bear. Played on a harp. A mission [...]
Welcome to Day 2 of The Rawking Refuses To Stop!'s countdown of the Top 100 Albums of the Decade. To start from the beginning, click below: <- 100-81 Take the jump for today's picks! 80. Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health As discussed yesterday, indie rock as we used to know it - I think we can draw the line in 2004, with the explosion of Garden State , the Postal Service, the Arcade Fire, [...]
Photos/illustration by David Greenwald Dear Friends, It is with great joy, pride and excitement that I present to you this week The Rawking Refuses To Stop! 's Top 100 Albums of the Decade. In 1998, with Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" atop the VH1 music video charts, I began taking music seriously. (I also became a man. Ask my rabbi.) In 2002, my first pieces of music criticism - and my first year-end list - were published. To say things have changed tremendously since then [...]