#607

You people are your weird made up rules

#608

I like a few tracks on that album but the whole thing didn’t do much for me I’m afraid.

#609

Madonna is 99 surely

#610

Maybe reset your ears? I think they’re broken sorry!

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#611

Not according to the rules of this list - UK release was 2000: https://www.discogs.com/And-You-Will-Know-Us-By-The-Trail-Of-Dead-Madonna/release/368083

#612

Hey!

#613

Must be a devil, between us

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#614

Forgot MPP, didn’t I? Only the record that busted open a whole bunch of ideas for me. Ah well, CBA pissing about with the list now.

#615

It’s exhausting pissing around with the list isn’t it? But far too much of my list is either very gloomy or incredibly heavy. MPP ctually makes me very happy in a genuine way all the way through, and it still sounds great, so it’s got to go in.

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#616

I don’t post on here really, beyond the odd AOTY list or whatever. But DiS has shaped my music taste a fair bit in the 2000s, especially in the mid-late 00s and in the last few years. And I can’t resist the chance to make a list so…

  1. Misty’s Big Adventure - …And Their Place In The Solar Hi-Fi System
  2. Radiohead - Kid A
  3. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
  4. David Bowie - Blackstar
  5. Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
  6. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
  7. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
  8. British Sea Power - The Decline Of…
  9. Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You
  10. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  11. Haiku Salut - Tricolore
  12. The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ
  13. Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
  14. St Vincent - St Vincent
  15. The Books - Lost And Safe
  16. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull
  17. Frida Hyvonen - Until Death Comes
  18. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
  19. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
  20. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens

Honourables: Cate Le Bon, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Protomartyr, Human Pyramids, Pagan Wanderer Lu, The Go! Team, King Creosote & John Hopkins, The Delgados.

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#617

been listening to widow city since you posted this and decided it’s actually their best
great band anyway

#618

Amazing how much time I’m devoting to narrowing down a list of albums that no one else is voting for.

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#619

No idea who this photo is of.

#620

James Holden

He’s the central character in the Expanse, a series of Sci fi books made into a TV series (that’s the actor).

Had no idea he was also a songwriter!

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#621

I guess we’ve both learnt something then although they are obviously different people!

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#622

Probably not really accurate, but a quick skim through itunes and these pop out:

  1. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
  2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
  3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
  4. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
  5. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
  6. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
  7. MIA - Kala
  8. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
  9. X-TG - Desertshore
  10. David Holmes - Bow Down to the Exit Sign
  11. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
  12. Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor
  13. FKA Twigs - LP1
  14. Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
  15. Robyn - Body Talk
  16. Johnny Cash - American IV
  17. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
  18. Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
  19. Den Haan - Gods From Outer Space
  20. JLin - Black Origami

Some which just missed out:

Lorde - Melodrama
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Death In Vegas - Transmission
Soulwax - Nite Versions
Two Lone Swordsmen - Wrong Meeting
Felix da Housecat - Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever

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#623

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Emmy The Great - First Love
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
The Cribs - In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Beyonce - Beyonce
Taylor Swift - 1989
Bjork - Vulnicura
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
Charli XCX - POP2
Lorde - Melodrama
Vince Staples Big Fish Theory
Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm
Robyn - Honey

The most I can whittle it down to is 23 and I also can’t rank them and I have to go to sleep so I’m just posting this. Do as you will with it.

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#624

Yess great to see Wildflower get a look in

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#625

Way more biased towards the 2000s than I expected or would have liked, but nostalgia is a hard thing to deny

  1. The National - Alligator
  2. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
  3. Frank Ocean - Blonde
  4. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
  5. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
  6. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
  7. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
  8. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
  9. British Sea Power - The Decline Of
  10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
  11. The National - Boxer
  12. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
  13. Meursault - Pissing on Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues
  14. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
  15. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  16. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike!
  17. Desaparecidos - Read Music, Speak Spanish
  18. The Strokes - Is This It?
  19. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
  20. Jamie T - Panic Prevention

Apologies to Alex G (fav artist of the 2010s probably but hasn’t released one single album that stands above the rest), Mogwai, EITS, 65dos, the whole post-rock crew, Johnny Foreigner, The Go! Team, and especially Idlewild.

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#626

Well, that was tough. They’ll make a movie about my struggles getting the shortlist down from 23 to 20 one day:

1 Calexico - Feast of Wire
2 Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain
3 Four Tet - Rounds
4 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing turned Itself Inside Out
5 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
6 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
7 Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
8 Phosphorescent - Here’s To Taking It Easy
9 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10 Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
11 War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
12 Lykke Li - so sad, so sexy
13 Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
14 Sparklehorse - It’s a Wonderful Life
15 Caribou - Swim
16 Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
17 Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists…
18 The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
19 Elbow - Cast of Thousands
20 Alela Diane - To Be Still

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