Top 5 albums of the 21st century?

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Radiohead - Kid A
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

 

UGH...I would shoot myself.

 

Ooooh. I like that list!!!

 

Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
Shakira Laundry Service
Randy Travis Worship & Faith
Norah Jones Come Away With Me
Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger
Joanne Shaw Taylor White Sugar
Ana Popović Trilogy
Bob Dylan Triplicate

 

Love that Walkman album.

 

Pere Ubu: Carnival of Souls

Peter Murphy: Dust

David Bowie: Heathen

Lou Reed | Metallica: Lulu

Klaus Dinger + Japandorf

 

Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend

 

Brian Wilson - Smile
Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio
The Monkees - Good Times!

 

The Strokes - Is This It
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Kanye West -808s And Heartbreaks
Spector - Moth Boys
Alvvays - Antisocialites

 

Sufjans Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Kate Bush - Aerial
John Grant - Queen of Denmark
Pet Shop Boys - Yes

...or...

 

Strokes - Is this it
Arctic Monkeys -Humbug
Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of Understatement
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Pulp - We love life

 

Mark Knopfler-Sailing To Philadelphia
Gillian Welch-Revival
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives-Way Out West
William Bell-This Is Where I Live
Norah Jones-Come Away With Me

 

PJ Harvey — Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
The Strokes — Is This It
Sleater-Kinney — The Woods
Old 97’s — Satellite Rides
Kanye West — Late Registration

 

In no order...

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
The xx - xx
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - P.J. Harvey

 

close to 5 and ones that I've probably come back to the most.
1) Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
2) Joanna Newsom - Ys
3) Songs:Ohia - Didn't It Rain
4) Boris - Akuma no Uta
5) Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
6) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
7) Sleater Kinney - The Woods
8) Beck - Sea Change (at least side A...)

 

Interesting that Farm is appearing on so many lists. I love that album, too, but I give a slight edge to Dinosaur Jr.'s first comeback album of the century, Beyond.

 

Sufjan Stevens Carry & lowell
Radiohead Hail to the thief
The National Boxer
Boards of Canada Campfire Headfase
U2 Songs of experience

 

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Postal Service - Give Up
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

6. Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
7. Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
8. Adele - 21
9. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
10. The Decemberists - Picaresque

Honorable mention: Interpol - T.O.B.L., The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow, The Strokes - Is This It?, Saor - Aura, Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill

In that approximate order.

 

In no order:

The Killers - Hot Fuss
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
David Bowie - Blackstar
David Bowie - Heathen
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Easy Tiger
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
The Strokes - Is This It
Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE

Gonna have to be ten cant narrow it down to five.

 

Also Lana Del Rey - Born to Die is probably in the 6 - 10 range

 

So far...

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (probably my number 1)
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
SMiLE - Brian Wilson
Aerial - Kate Bush
The Race For Space - Public Service Broadcasting


I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future I'm adding this year's LCD Soundsystem album in to the mix.

 

Check out this Trumpite

 

Ringo Starr - Postcards From Paradise
Ringo Starr - Give More Love
Howard Kaylan - Dust Bunnies
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
George Harrison - Brainwashed

 

I certainly hope you aren't bringing politics into the forum. The gorts don't like that.

 

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctics
Lost souls - Doves
Songs in A Minor - Alicia Keys (pity about what happened after that)
Highly Evolved - The Vines
s/t - Royal Blood