Drowned In Sound's best Albums of the 21st century - VOTE! (closes 9am Weds 25th Sept)

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Glow part 2 is hugely overrated imho. I’ve put what I think is clearly his best, Lost Wisdom, the mount eerie collab album

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I’ve been doing the same which is KILLING ME when it comes to Deerhunter.

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Mwahahahahahahahahaha!

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Made a wee smart playlist for 2000-2020 and skimmed through it and ended up with all my nailed on ones - 50 of them. Had to be ruthless and go with my gut. Ended up with this but so many beautiful GBOLPS missed out:

1 The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
2 65dos Wild Light
3 Chastity Belt Time to Go Home
4 Lou Barlow Emoh
5 McLusky McLusky do Dallas
6 And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes
7 Frightened Rabbit Midnight Organ Fight
8 Radiohead In Rainbows
9 A Tribe Called Quest We got it from here… Thank You
10 Sharon Van Etten Tramp
11 Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory
12 Death Grips Ex Military
13 The Antlers Burst Apart
14 Desaparecidos Read Music/Speak Spanish
15 Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
16 Richmond Fontaine We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
17 Fionn Regan The Bunkhouse Vol I
18 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
19 Angel Olsen Burn your fire for no witness
20 The Strokes Is This It

This thread made me finally buy A Stars of the Lid album so looking forward to hearing what they sound like.

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Spent about an hour on this and going to stop now cos it’s pretty much impossible. First 10 are albums that I absolutely love and have some sort of personal connection with. Dunno if they’re the ‘best’, but totally my favourites. Second 10 are records that I thought were amazing when they came out, still think they’re amazing now and listen to all the time. Stuck in a few more in after that cos couldn’t believe I was leaving them out, but you have to stop somewhere…

The Boredoms – Vision Creation Newson
D’Angelo – Voodoo
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
James Ferraro – Marble Surf
Boards Of Canada – Geogaddi
324 - 冒涜の太陽
Björk – Vespertine
Outkast – Stankonia
Kanye – MBDTF
Actress – R.I.P.

Frank Ocean – Blonde
Madvillain – Madvillainy (to be honest would probably have Vaudeville Villain or Mm… Food as the Doom pick. Hardly anything between them though and tactical voting cos Madvillainy seems to be the one everyone is going for)
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City
Disclose - Yesterday’s Fairytale, Tomorrow’s Nightmare
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs

Pisschrïst ‎– Nothing Has Changed
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Multiples
Natural Snow Buildings – The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around The World
Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute
The Knife – Silent Shout
Low – Things We Lost In The Fire
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
Broadcast – Ha Ha Sound

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  1. Sufjan stevens - illinois
  2. Fugazi - the argument
  3. The wrens - meadowlands
  4. Tom waits - alice
  5. cLOUDDEAD
  6. Wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
  7. Nomeansno - one
  8. Richard dawson - peasant
  9. Liars- drums not dead
  10. Viktor vaughn - vaudeville villain
  11. Grandaddy - the sophtware slump
  12. Audion - suckfish
  13. Joanna newsom - ys
  14. Shabazz palaces - quazarz
  15. Blood brothers - burn piano island burn
  16. Half man half biscuit- 90 bisodol (crimond)
  17. Drive by truckers - american band
  18. The body- i have fought against it, but i cant any longer
  19. Clipse - hell hath no fury
  20. The caretaker - an empty bliss beyond this world
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Argh ffs

Forgot dopesmoker as well

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And the paperchase - hide the kitchen knives

Goddamnit zeal

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I didn’t make the rules.

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Still really fucking conflicted about whether I should have put Gold by Ryan Adams on my list. It would definitely have been in my top 10 had he not turned out to be a fuckcunt but I think that’s overridden by the fact I’ll never listen to it again and it’s memories to me are forever tainted now. But it was a very important record to me. But no, actually, fuck him, it’s ineligible. Goodnight!

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Mclusky aren’t a joke band? What’s the band that is a joke band on DiS (not My Vitriol, the other one)

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No. I have only heard of them through DiS

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Not them. I will know it when I see it

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Honestly thought Mclusky did not exist though. Or were hilariously shit

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Nooooo

Fuck who is it

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…maybe it is Mclusky and everyone was ironically pretending to hate them or something?

Half the bands DiS goes on about absolutely, categorically do not exist (Hotelier, Trail of the Dead, My Vitriol tbqh)

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None of those :sob:

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I think they had the word Sky in their name but at the start and not at the end i.e. mcluSKY

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Loved making this list, everything on it true 10/10’s for me. Perfect music. :slight_smile:

  1. Joanna Newsom - Ys

  2. Grouper - Ruins

  3. Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

  4. Broadcast - Tender Buttons

  5. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

  6. Radiohead - Kid A

  7. Liars - Drums Not Dead

  8. The Knife - Silent Shout

  9. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

  10. Joanna Newsom - Divers

  11. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

  12. Bjork - Vespertine

  13. Grouper - Alien Observer

  14. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

  15. Burial - Untrue

  16. Clinic - Internal Wrangler

  17. M.I.A. - Kala

  18. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now

  19. Radiohead - In Rainbows

  20. Sigur Rós - ( )

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Lost Wisdom was one of the first ones down for me :+1:

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