#627
  1. The Radio Dept - Clinging to a Scheme
  2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
  3. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
  4. J Dilla - Donuts
  5. Daft Punk - Discovery
  6. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  7. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
  8. Four Tet - Rounds
  9. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
  10. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
  11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
  12. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
  13. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
  14. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
  15. Grouper - Ruins
  16. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
  17. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightening, Strike
  18. Caribou - Swim
  19. Gil Scott Heron - I’m New Here
  20. Fucked Up - Hidden World

Need to stop editing this and get some zzzzz

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#628

Tasty list. Love to see Nothing Important so high - don’t know how he does it but it kind of hits in a way that makes other music seem a bit pale. St Vincent self titled as well! Be interested to hear why you rate that above Actor and Strange Mercy. That Earth record is my current go-to for guitar transcendence, only got into it fairly recently but can see how it could become a big part of your listening life

#629

Blimey that was tough. Pretty sure I’ve got the top 8 right and I’d feel the same had i the time to revisit everything. Beyond that though, fuck knows. Anyway…

  1. The Icarus Line - Slave Vows
  2. The Icarus Line - All Things Under Heaven
  3. David Bowie - Blackstar
  4. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
  5. Scott Walker - The Drift
  6. Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound
  7. Portishead - Third
  8. The Icarus Line - Penance Soiree
  9. Fka twigs - LP1
  10. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
  11. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
  12. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
  13. 2 Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders
  14. Sparks - L’il Beethoven
  15. Vitalic - Flashmob
  16. Lambchop - Nixon
  17. 6x7 - The Closer I Get
  18. Manics - Journal For Plague Lovers
  19. Suede - The Blue Hour
  20. Vera Sola - Shades
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#630

mclusky are incredible ffs

#631

Fuuuuuuuuu…

Yeah, this should be in my list. @anon76851889 can you swap this with ULTRAS in mine please?

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#632
  1. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
  2. Radiohead - Kid A
  3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  4. Mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You is That I’m Not on Fire
  5. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
  6. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
  7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
  8. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  9. Holy Fuck - Latin
  10. The Redneck Manifesto - Friendship
  11. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
  12. Four Tet - Rounds
  13. Ty Segall - Twins
  14. Battles - Gloss Drop
  15. Kathryn Joseph - From When I Wake the Want Is
  16. TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
  17. Arab Strap - The Red Thread
  18. The Dodos - Visiter
  19. Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
  20. Goat - Requiem

the race for number 20 was a tough one, bet i’ll think of a ton of albums that should have beaten Goat later

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#633

ooh this probably deserved a place on mine somewhere, only got into it last year though after not getting the fuss around it at the time

#634

This exact run of albums were all ones I had to cut from my list in the 20-30s.

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#635

i lost my longlist and had to redo it, came up shorter the second time and can’t remember what got dumped. hopefully nothing great

#636

oof i don’t feel good about missing this out

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#637

I’ve reached the point in this process where all music has become completely devoid of meaning except for early 2000s pop-punk. Is this a sign that I’ve reached enlightenment? Or that I am, at my core, trash?

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#638

Perhaps both?

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#639

Speaking purely for myself, I’d say it has better songs on it but I know this is controversial

#640

Makes perfect sense though. I know that records I love from the early 2000s have stood the test of time but much as I love UFOF I have no idea if I’ll still be listening to it in twenty years

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#641

2 hours team :+1:

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#642

Thanks.

I listened obsessively to Nothing Important for a while, but I don’t think I can explain why it’s good to any satisfying level. Combination of his voice, his lyrics, the way the song Nothing Important gets more and more impenetretable the longer it goes on then just comes back to the chorus at the end, lots of reasons.

I heard the self-titled St Vincent first, which might have something to do with it. But also, I just think it’s better (searing analysist there, I know!).

The Bees Made Honey… just gets better the deeper you get into it. Hung From The Moon would probably be up there for a track of the 2000s for me.

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#643

These aren’t actually my top 2 albums of the last decade (though they may both make my top 40) but making a real list is too hard!

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#644

Couldn’t name 10 albums

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#645

I hear @epimer’s been keeping a list of potential titles if that helps.

#646

I wrote a long list in Excel of about 100 > then without letting myself give it too much thought rated them all out of 10 > found I had about 45 10s, so filtered out everything lower than that so i couldn’t see them and they wouldn’t tempt me again > kept re-scoring the 10s and refiltering until I only had 20 left > ranked the final 20.

It turns out that compiling a top 20 albums list and naming a child are very similar processes if you’re a data geek…

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