Best albums of last 10 years

Alain Quay
Alain Quay Posts: 534
edited August 2011 in The bottom bracket
Songs on Ipod badly in need of updating so would be good to hear folks'
recommendations
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Jamie T - Panic Prevention

    Lil Wayne - Rebirth

    Danny Byrd - Rave Digger.

    Dizzee Rascal - anything

    Kasabian - west ryder pauper lunatic asylum

    It really depends on what you like. I have a real eclectic taste in music
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ah this is for me, rather than objectively.

    Either in Rainbows
    Or The XX
  • Wow this is trickier than it looks!!!!

    JayZ and linkin park - collision course

    Mark Knofler - Sailing to Philidelphia (2000 - so doesnt quite count but worth a mention)

    Paul Simon - Shining like a national guitar

    The essential Ozzy Osbourne

    Meat Loaf Bat out of hell 3

    Tarcy Chapman - Collection

    Dido - No Angel

    Annie Lennox - collection

    Amy Whinehouse - Frank

    Amy Whinehouse - Back to Black (Deluxe Edition with valerie)


    I could just keep going but these are constantly playing in our house.... along with youtube mix of the beautiful south
  • Omar Little
    Omar Little Posts: 2,010
    edited August 2011
    Reckon i've missed out a few plus might be little out with the dates on a couple but these would be my favourites

    Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
    MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
    Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
    Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    The Strokes - Is This It
    Kraftwerk - Tour de France
    Radiohead - Kid A, Amnesiac and In Rainbows
    Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
    Johnny Cash - American III + IV
    J Dilla - Donuts
    Kanye West - The College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation and 808s and Heartbreak
    Arcade Fire - Neon Bible and Funeral
    The Libertines - The Libertines and Up the Bracket
    Jay Z - The Black Album
    The White Stripes - White Blood Cells and Elephant


    If i had to choose only two then it would probably be The Postal Service - Give Up and Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Kid A was 2000. more than 10 years ago!
  • jswba
    jswba Posts: 491
    Here are a few to get you started.

    PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
    LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
    Super Furry Animals, Phantom Power
    Daft Punk, Discovery (probably the most influential pop album of the last ten years)
    Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, In The Heart of the Moon
    Common, Like Water for Chocolate
    Four Tet, There Is Love in You
    Erykah Badu, Worldwide Underground
    Tom Waits, Orphans
    Wilco, A Ghost is Born
  • As was JohnnyCash American 3 - great album though :D
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
    Funeral - Arcade Fire
    Our Troubles End Tonight - Lucky Jim
    Natural History - I Am Kloot ( think it is within 10 years)
    Up the Bracket - The Libertines
    The Libertines - The Libertines
    Blinking Lights - Eels
    50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong - The Fall
    Obi - The Magic Land Of Radio
    Lovers - The Sleepy Jackson
    The Richest Man in Babylon - Thievery Corporation
    Demon Days - Gorillaz
  • Fever Ray - Fever Ray
    The Knife - Silent Shout
  • The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
    Not lost, just exploring...
  • Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
    To My Boy - The Habitable Zone, Messages
    Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
    OK Go - Of The Blue Colour of the Sky, Oh No, OK Go
    LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening, Sound of Silver
    The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever, A Positive Rage, Stay Positive, Boys and Girls in America, Almost Killed Me
    Dragonette - Mixin' To Thrill, Fixing to Thrill
    The Temper Trap - Conditions
    Muse - The Resistance, Black Holes and Revelations, Origin of Symnetry, Absolution
    Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
    Brakes - Touchdown
    Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
    The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
    Frank Turner - Love, Ire & Song, Sleep is for the Weak
    British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?, The Decline of British Sea Power
    Ween - La Cucharaca
    Mando Diao - Ode to Ochrasy, Bring Em In
    The Hives - The Black and White Album, Tyrannosaurus Hives, Your New Favourite Band
    Battles - Mirrored
    Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and will bear your ass
    The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth, Room on Fire, Is This It?, Angles
    Sparks - Hello Young Lovers, Exotic Creatures of the Deep, Lil Beethoven
    The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia..., The Dresden Dolls
    Akira The Don - When We Were Young
    Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
    The Protomen - Father of Death Act II
    Hot Hot Heat - Elevator, Make Up The Breakdown
    Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl, B.R.M.C.
    The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
    United States of Electronica - U.S.E.
    Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
    McLusky - The Difference between you and me is I'm not on fire, McLusky Do Dallas
    Interpol - Antics, Turn On The Bright Lights
    Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
    The Postal Service - Give Up
    Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines
    Gisli - How About That?
    The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - The Royal Society, Horse of The Dog
    The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Your Hair When We're Gone?
    Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
    Supergrass - Life on other planets
    The Libertines - Up The Bracket
    Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
    The Datsuns - The Datsuns
    The D4 - 6twenty
    The Coral - The Coral
    Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
    Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

    Highlighted a few favourites!
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

    PTP Runner Up 2015
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
  • ashleymp777
    ashleymp777 Posts: 1,212
    The Charlatans - Simpatico

    Beady Eye - Different gear, still speeding
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
    Hello Everything - Squarepusher
    Lesser Matters - The Radio Dept
    A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park
    Tarot Sport - The F*ck Buttons
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
    Up the Bracket - The Libertines
    Origin of Symmetry - Muse
    Myths of the Near Future - Klaxons
    Fatherf*cker - Peaches
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

    FCN = 3 - 5
    Colnago World Cup 2
  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    Madness - Liberty of Norton Folgate
    Super Furry Animals - Rings around the World
    White Stripes - Elephant
    Sparks - Lil Beethoven
    Morrisey - Your Quarry
    Gary Glitter - Best Of
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

    Brings back memories.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

    Brings back memories.

    ...of being really disappointed that it was nowhere near as good as Music Has the Right to Children.

    That may have just been me, though.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    afx237vi wrote:
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

    Brings back memories.

    ...of being really disappointed that it was nowhere near as good as Music Has the Right to Children.

    That may have just been me, though.

    I preferred it....

    Take it yours is Drukqs?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    afx237vi wrote:
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

    Brings back memories.

    ...of being really disappointed that it was nowhere near as good as Music Has the Right to Children.

    That may have just been me, though.

    I preferred it....

    Take it yours is Drukqs?

    Nah... that was just what I was listening to when I picked my username (a long time ago!)

    Mine would be The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat or Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street.
  • TRON Legacy OST - Daft Punk
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Muse-Origin of Symetry
    Muse-Blackholes and Revelations
    Mark Ronson-Version
    Libertines-Up the Bracket
    Gorillaz-Demon Days
    Radiohead-Best Of!
    Kings of Leon-Whatever the last one was called?!
    System of a Dowen-Toxicity
    Kooks-Inside In, Inside Out
    Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I am, Thats What I'm Not
  • Evil Laugh
    Evil Laugh Posts: 1,412
    Radiohead - in rainbows, amnesiac

    Thom yorke - the eraser

    Arcade fire - any of them!

    Wild Beasts - 2 dancers, smother

    Portishead - third

    Fink - distance and time

    Scott Matthews - self titled

    Foals - antidotes

    Interpol - TOTBL, our love to admire

    Fleet foxes - self titled
  • The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

    +1

    The complete output of The Hold Steady
    Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock And Roll
    The Decemberists - The King is Dead
    The Flaming Lips- At War With The Mystics
    Glasvegas - Glasvegas
    Gorillaz - Demon Days
    Green day - American Idiot
    Hilltop Hoods - The Calling
    Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
    Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm
    Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
    M Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
    Seasick Steve - I started Out With Nothing...
    Spritualized - Songs in A&E
    The XX
    John Stevenson
  • StefanP
    StefanP Posts: 429
    Crack the Skye - Mastodon
    Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
    Black Give Way to Blue - Alice in Chains
    Blackening - Machine Head
    Operation: Mindcrime II - Queensrÿche
    Delikatessen - Oomph!
    Absolution - Muse
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    Dogs - Turn Against This Land
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Burial : Burial
    Burial : Untrue
    Gonjasufi : A Sufi and a Killer
    Junior Boys : Last Exit
    Junior Boys : So this is Goodbye
    Jamie Liddel : Multiply
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor : Yanqui U X O
    Mogwai : Mr Beast
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies
    Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
    2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt2 (or maybe pt 5)
  • Lazarus
    Lazarus Posts: 1,426
    The Streets - A grand don't come for free
    Staind - Break the Cycle
    Hybrid - Disappear Here
    Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

    :D
    A punctured bicycle
    On a hillside desolate
    Will nature make a man of me yet ?
  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    "The Very Best of Chaz and Dave"
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Lazarus wrote:
    The Streets - A grand don't come for free
    Staind - Break the Cycle
    Hybrid - Disappear Here
    Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

    :D

    +1 for the streets
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills