Top 25 Albums of 1996-2006 (x-post/Music Forum)

[THAY3R]

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No one for Pinkerton? Come on.

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I would have posted the same thing if someone didn't already say Pinkerton.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

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No one for Pinkerton? Come on.

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If you look at my "honorable mentions", both Songs for the Deaf and Pinkerton are there. 25 is a tiny number.

Also, I think Beck is an amazing musician, but I've never been able to get behind an entire album of his. He make such strong songs and has varied his songs so much over the years, but I just don't like Odelay as much as some people do. I can accept it as a masterpiece of modern music, but it's just hard for me to listen to it as an album.

Finally, I'm surprised no one is on me for Blink 182 getting on my list. I loved the album as a teen and I felt it needed to be on my list.

[Soul Daddy]

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Finally, I'm surprised no one is on me for Blink 182 getting on my list. I loved the album as a teen and I felt it needed to be on my list.

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When Jack sent me your list I was definitely like "WTF?" But I respect your taste enough that I almost convinced myself to listen to give it a shot. Then I decided against it.

[NT!]

I'd like to go ahead and be the first to say "It Was Written" is a glaring omission here, and will be on my list when I finish paring it down.

NT

[Habib Marwan]

bloc party- silent alarm
death cab for cutie- the photo album
fiona apple- tidal
mars volta- deloused in the comatorium
modest mouse- moon over antarctica

[CallMeIshmael]

25. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
24. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
23. Beck - Odelay
22. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
21. Arcade Fire - Funeral
20. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
19. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
18. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
17. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
16. The Dismemberment Plan - Changes
15. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
14. The Strokes - Room on Fire
13. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
12. Clap You Hands Say Yeah! - Clap You Hands Say Yeah!
11. Bran Van 3000 - Glee
10. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
8. And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
7. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike!
6. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrol
4. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Radiohead - Kid A
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

[CallMeIshmael]

fashionably late, imo


also, dom, nice work guessing. I have no idea wtf JoA was talking about, re: illinois being that high.

[Jack of Arcades]

I marked it down wrong in my spreadsheet.

[Soul Daddy]

Where does On Avery Island fit in your mind? It's not top 25 material, but that album doesn't get enough love around here.

[nath]

This is an awesome thread.

My quick and dirty thoughts, and by that I mean "this is in no particular order and could be expanded to fifty extremely easily, also, my memory of the second half of the nineties is somewhat fuzzy":

Wilco - Summerteeth
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Beck - Odelay
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
Outkast - Stankonia