Friday 1 January 2010

Album of the Decade - Is This It?

Schonberg sent out a message on Facebook asking for people's Album's of the Decade. I thought I'd post the results up here, I hope you find them interesting. Not one album featured in every list but The Strokes album Is This It? featured many times. We'd love to hear your albums of the decade, add yours as a comment, oh and don't cheat like Rich and include a re-release...

Terrance:

2000 - Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
2001 - Elbow - Asleep in the back
2002 - DJ Shadow - Private Press
2003 - White Stripes - Elephant
2004 - The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
2005 - Kate Bush - Aerial (Very closely followed by Elbow "Leaders of the Free World")
2006 - Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
2007 - The National - Boxer
2008 - Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago (again tough call with Elbow "Seldom Seen Kid"- being a fan, but I'm keeping one eye on variety here)
2009 - Florence + The Machine - Lungs

James:

2000: PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
2001: The Strokes - Is This It
2002: Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
2003: Four Tet - Rounds
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
2006: TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2007: LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
2008: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2009: Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Mark:

2000 The Charlatans- Us And Us only.
2001 Spiritualized- Let It Come Down.
2002 The Music- The Music
2003 Spiritualized- Amazing Grace
2004 Ian Brown- Solarized.
2005 The Ravonettes- Pretty In Black.
2006 The Sunshine Underground- Raise The Alarm.
2007 Jamie T- Panic Prevention.
2008 Glasvegas- Glasvegas
2009 The Horrors- Primary Colours.

Rich:

2000 The Charlatans- Us And Us only.
2001 Spiritualized- Let It Come Down.
2002 The Music- The Music
2003 Spiritualized- Amazing Grace
2004 Ian Brown- Solarized.
2005 The Ravonettes- Pretty In Black.
2006 The Sunshine Underground- Raise The Alarm.
2007 Jamie T- Panic Prevention.
2008 Glasvegas- Glasvegas
2009 The Horrors- Primary Colours.

Andy:

2000 At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
2001 The Strokes - Is this It
2002 The Beggining Stages of... - The Polyphonic Spree
2003 Kings of Leon - Youth and Young manhood
2004 The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
2005 The Go Team! - Thunder Lightning Strike
2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say, that's what I'm not
2007 Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
2008 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2009 Florence and the Machine- Lungs

John:

2000 Coldplay- Parachutes
2001 Muse - Origin of Symmetry (makes it three different Muse albums to be picked, I think?)
2002 The Music - The Music (the Libertines came close...)
2003 Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
2004 The Killers - Hot Fuss (just beating Green Day and American Idiot)
2005 Arcade Fire - Funeral
2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say, that's what I'm not
2007 Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
2008 Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
2009 Florence and the Machine- Lungs

Mine:

2000 Doves - Lost Souls
2001 The Strokes - Is This It
2002 Electric Soft Parade - Holes In The Wall
2003 Elbow - Cast of Thousands
2004 The Killers - Hot Fuss
2005 Arcade Fire - Funeral
2006 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
2007 The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me
2008 The Courteeners - St. Jude
2009 White Lies - To Lose My Life

Schonberg's
2000: Coldplay - Parachutes
2001: The Strokes - Is this it
2002: Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
2003: White Stripes - Elephant
2004: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2005: Editors - The back room
2006: Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say, that's what I'm not
2007: The Cribs - Men's needs, women's needs, whatever
2008: Glasvegas - Glasvegas
2009: White Lies - To lose my life

Yours:

1 comment:

Schönberg said...

Rich's choices look surprisingly similar to Mark's...