Rolling Stone top 25: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... _decade/44

1 | Radiohead: Kid A

2 | The Strokes: Is This It

3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint

5 | The White Stripes: Elephant

6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral

7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP

8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times

9 | M.I.A.: Kala

10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout

11 | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

12 | LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

13 | U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind

14 | Jay-Z: The Black Album

15 | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising

16 | OutKast: Stankonia

17 | Beck: Sea Change

18 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

19 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

21 | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head

22 | Green Day: American Idiot

23 | D'Angelo: Voodoo

24 | Bruce Springsteen: Magic

25 | Radiohead: Amnesiac

Your faves?

Ugh. I am so sick of Radiohead and Arcade Fire.

I could do without Bruce and Bob and U2 in the to 25. I would have ranked Arcade Fire's Neon Bible higher than Funeral.

Not crazy about this list...

Not an impressive list for me. Real down decade compared to the 60's thru 90's.

My fav from that list? Call me boring but I still really enjoy the Coldplay album over the Radiohead's or U2's of the world

2 Bruce albums? They don't hold a candle to his earlier efforts.

The Bob Dylan albums are the only two on this entire top 100 list that I own.
I like Love & Theft better than Modern Times.

Those are the only ones on this list that I own.

I do own 11 out of 25. Thats pretty good considering. Still not one of those would even crack an all-time Top 100 albums list. Thats bad.

Who has all 25? And would you buy these again and again?

I think I have 24. Don't remember buying the Jay-Z, but it might be in the Archives.

What the heck is MGMT? Never heard of that or them.

I like MGMT. Oracular Spectacular was probably my fave album of 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGMT

MGMT's "Time To Pretend" was played during the opening scenes of 21. After I saw the movie I bought their CD straight away. Very early 80s synthpop sound.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c8iQ2k4yRM[/youtube]

Tis Groovy!

Catchy tune!

I've tried listening to Kid A several times. Most recently an hour ago. Inevitably, I get a few minutes in and say fuck it, and listen to some Flaming Lips instead.

yeah, I don't get why its considered so highly.

Because it is pretentious and critics like to feel smart. The album sucks and there's barely an actual song on there. And I like Radiohead.

Looking at all of these "best-of-the-decade" lists popping up all over the place, I have come to recognize the 2000's as the decade in which 95% of all pop culture managed to completely pass me by.

And that's why I don't like the new Flaming Lips album.

I think that's a bit harsh... Kid A is certainly electronics-heavy and less melodic in places (I wouldn't necessarily refute claims of "pretentious", either), but there ARE songs there, too.

Thom Yorke said in a Q interview that, "I'd completely had it with melody. I just wanted rhythm. All melodies to me were pure embarrassment." I always thought of the album as clearly reactionary to the OK Computer era, and Yorke's quote puts a lot of that into context. Bands like Coldplay and Keane became the yang to Radiohead's yin, going explicitly melodic and realizing significant commercial benefits from doing so.

Best album of the decade? Not in my opinion, but certainly one of the more interesting.

On my list, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot would be #1.

And for a music geek, I'm terrible at making these kinds of lists... I experience way too much music "out of time", so to speak, so it's difficult for me to compartmentalize.

Radiohead - In Rainbows is a better CD than the two listed.

Porcupine Tree released some very inovative CDs the past 10 years.