As the 00's head to a close, Rolling Stone takes a look at the past decade and attempts to identify the "most important music" as chosen by artists, critics and industry insiders. The number one most important album of the decade?
Other notable winners include:
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Jay-Z - The Blueprint (haters)
8. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
11. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
15. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
17. Beck - Sea Change
18. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
19. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
27. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (their shows still suck)
29. Sigur Ros - Ageatis Byrjun
30. Radiohead - In Rainbows
31. My Morning Jacket - Z
33. Daft Punk - Discovery (as performed by Kanye West)
38. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
39. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
40. Elliot Smith - Figure 8
47. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (not bad for a debut album)
48. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
50. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (don't hate, Paul)
53. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
55. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (still not groundbreaking)
56. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
57. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
62. Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
64. Gillian Welch - Time the Revelator
66. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
71. Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep your Ear to the Ground (maybe hate a little bit)
75. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
76. Sigur Ros - ()
77. Yo La Tango - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
78. Sufjan Stevens - Come On, Feel the Illinoise
80. Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
81. Ryan Adams - Gold
83. The Black Keys - Attack and Release
87. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (for Scott)
89. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
92. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (again, not bad for a debut album)
93. Johnny Cash - Unearthed
97. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
98. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
100. Leonard Cohen - 10 New Songs
Also, bands like U2 and Coldplay were way over represented. And what the fuck happened to Phish? And I know that Sigur Ros was represented, but what about their critically acclaimed best album ever, Takk?
Read the feature for more information, including a take on each album to make the top 100.
With the exception Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Coehen, this list pretty much sums up what we've been listening to for the last few years. Beck's "Sea Change" at 17 and MGMT at 18 are somewhat questionable, but this is a pretty solid list.
ReplyDeleteI dunno about that. Bruce has made it up on The Shanty at least twice.
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And Antony and The Johnsons, a band that has made it up on The Shanty, has a pretty awesome, if not kind of emotional cover of Cohen's "If It Be Your Will."
Long story short, Shanty still has it's ear to the ground.