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10. The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2
The Microphones are about as lo-fi as lo-fi music gets. Listening through their discography, you would imagine most of the recordings were completed in the attic of a log cabin, and that certainly may be the case. Even so, their musical output sounds so much grander and richer than an album with top-notch production, and there is a simple reason for this, specifically highlighted in The Glow, Pt. 2, and that is Phil Elvrum’s heart. The Glow, Pt. 2 is a nostalgic journey siphoned through Elvrum’s lyrics, yet the underlying emotional threshold is frequently rephrased through non-spoken portions as well. Listening to the overall ambiance of tracks like “instrumental” and “My Warm Blood,” Elvrum’s specific mood is mimicked through each creaky piano strike or through the disjointed manner in which he strums his guitar. Like Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, The Glow, Pt. 2 has an intangible presence surrounding the record that makes it simply divine.
Only listening to The Glow, Pt. 2 as a whole will allow such appreciation, though tracks like “The Moon” are able to be taken aside to be appreciated. It is at times disheveled, but the meaning is never lost as drums defiantly pound over Elvrum’s mum vocals, which exponentially add to the glumness story behind “The Moon.” Quite simply, it is one of the greatest musical stories told in such a unique way, connecting the natural world with the human, emotional world. It is with these moments that Phil Elvrum is able to truly show his capabilities of songwriting and lyrical prowess. Nevertheless, The Glow, Pt. 2 is not your average listen, as it is challenging and equally mystifying, but once understood, the feeling that follows listening to the album is undeniably refreshing. In all, while this decade may have more creative and groundbreaking albums, but perhaps none are as profound as The Microphones The Glow, Pt. 2. – Ryan Flatley
9. Gospel – The Moon Is a Dead World
Gospel are true outliers. They released one album and then broke up without explanation. If you search the world wide web for reviews and interviews you’re going to find a measly collection of blog posts and amateur reviews. Despite this profound obscurity, Gospel’s 2005 LP, The Moon Is a Dead World found its way into the top ten of our best of the decade list and was even the most nominated album, appearing on a staggering 81% of staffer ballots. How could an album so unexposed and buried be such an unquestionable gem? However brilliant and original the album may be, it’s even more abrasive, alienating, and challenging, which has embalmed and preserved The Moon Is a Dead World as the strange masterpiece it was, is, and will be.
The Moon Is a Dead World is a centaur of completely different genres; it has the fierce, animalistic body of emotional hardcore and a prog / psychedelic head. Punk’s energy and prog’s technicality are a well-explored, even trite combination, but Gospel avoids the predictable path of overlaying fast riffs and off-kilter time signatures onto a hardcore background. Instead they compose songs that arc like marathons but can be executed in under four minutes. They capture 12-string guitar and synthesizer like they’re a pair of beat up Gibson SGs. Gospel’s sound is more lo-fi and acerbic than other hardcore bands, yet more grandiose and epic than other prog bands. The Moon Is a Dead World is an impossible combination of extremes, but is that much more effective because these influences are taken to such deliberate stratifications.
There’s a part in “A Golden Dawn,” after seven-and-a-half minutes of building and releasing various mystical chord progressions and trance-inducing rhythms, where the song just rips apart at the seams. Every instrument is soloing in a way that sounds like screaming and in that moment it feels like Gospel has tapped into an alternate universe. I had this realization on what had to be my thirtieth time listening to this album in full. Last June I was driving through a blanket fog on the curving roads around Twin Peaks in San Francisco in my fifteen-year old car. I was a thousand feet above the city but was only able to see illuminated white fog no more than ten feet in front of me and nobody else was on the road. The perfect pairing for this surreal experience was blasting The Moon Is a Dead World and hitting that part of “A Golden Dawn” at the same time I reached the summit of the mountain road. The line between real and unreal dissolved and I was a trespasser in a terrifying but awe-inspiring dream world created by the special intersection of experience and art. No other musical moment has even come close to being as exhilarating, haunting, cathartic, or life-altering. Such is the strange, ethereal power of The Moon Is a Dead World. – Nick Greer
When we’re looking back on dubstep twenty years from now, we’ll undoubtedly mark this album as the genre’s best offering, as well as its zenith. In that respect, Untrue is somewhat bittersweet: it’s a hell of an album, to be sure, one that focuses more on delicate emotions and feelings instead of just being a collection of sick beats – which was enough to be revolutionary. Untrue has essentially stretched the genre’s perimeters as far as they can be; no dubstep album since has hit with the impact that this has, and it’s not being cynical to say that none ever will. Hell, it’s more like being realistic.
But even if Untrue is the Loveless of dubstep, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t still be celebrated as a masterpiece. Equal parts intimate, mechanical, and even a little disturbing, Untrue is a ghostly album, its hazy, atmospheric soundscapes accented by disembodied voices that whisper genuine R&B hooks and then drift off, out of sight. Yet, as ghostly and even as foreboding as Untrue can be, this album isn’t as high on this list as it is because it isn’t weirdly embraceable: it’s an album essentially made by a non-entity, with songs “sung” by artists we don’t know. This anonymity of the album – even if we now know Will Bevan’s name, there’s still that sense of the unknown on Untrue – gives it a bit of accessibility, in that it’s applicable without having to take note of whatever Bevan’s intentions were. It’s an album you can effectively make your own.
To be honest, no other dubstep album even comes or probably will ever come in the vicinity of stirring up the kind of emotions Untrue does, in me and various other staffers – and that’s probably why you won’t find any other dubstep album on this list. And yet I don’t care that this is, as far as I and probably many others are concerned, the only really notable dubstep album to date. Its impact is just too great; this is not untrue. – Cam
7. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Even those who adore Animal Collective don’t have much to argue when it comes to how difficult the band might be. Since their inception in 2000 (then only childhood pals David Porter and Noah Lennox, or Avey Tare and Panda Bear, respectively), the members have approached their brand of pop music with the sort of abrasive and off-putting diligence reserved for hardcore outlets. That’s not to say the band’s work, from Spirit They’ve Vanished, Spirit They’ve Gone (2000) to Strawberry Jam (2007), features the mind-melding breakdowns or drumfills that characterize the works of a certain artist that grabbed our top spot, but that to match their ideas and concepts (on familial woes, violent human nature, feeding on fast-food and possibly liking it) Animal Collective will venture far into rabbit hole to shake us up and feel these notions, communicating through crayon-coated freak-folk the simple decisions we make, like not going to college, or treating percussion rhythms like the drunken scramble to retrieve a lover’s purple bottle. It’s not hard to imagine, early in the noughts, a young Panda Bear pounding against woodblocks on stage as Avey Tare raced about, screeching and pouring milk on audience members; while their methods have altered, their passion to push against normalcy to understand truly what makes us so normal, and the need to gnaw and claw at it like an irritated lion, remains fully intact.
Merriweather Post Pavilion is all of that, plus you and me and everyone we know, absorbed into the spinning force that has become Animal Collective’s ten year arc. The band that once wrote, “I’ll bet the monster was happy when they made him a maze ’cause he don’t understand intentions, he just looks at a face,” is now trekking the maze to meet us head-on: “Then we could be dancing and you’d smile and say, ‘I like this song.’” With the way Panda Bear tackles his responsibilities on “My Girls,” the sentiments feel pure dad-rock, all Wilco and barbecues, but the band float it atop big bass and crystal blue shards of Brian Wilson melodies, tying an other worldly aesthetic to a tune you can’t forget with feelings too simple to ignore. The monotonous click-pound on “Daily Routine,” the push and shove beat that buoys the splashy synths on “Summertime Clothes,” the sensual waltz and curves on the lovely “Bluish;” they are all swashed together in the blue blanket of production, speaking in tandem with their themes, the monotony broken only by the forceful escapism in “Lion in a Coma.” We’d have to go back to Pet Sounds to find a pop album that felt so life-affirming to a life that feels far from affirmed. Boring, even, kind of pathetic. And that is why Merriweather Post Pavilion feels like such a triumph: it doesn’t sugarcoat our mundanity while championing it, mirroring ancient tribal rhythms with modern electronic instruments in ways no less weird than before, but far more remarkably human. – Lewis Parry
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven may physically be an all-consuming monolith of an album with just four tracks clocking in at a daunting eighty-seven minutes, but at its heart, its core, it’s all about the moments. I’m not talking simply about the moments on the album, stunning as they may be: the triumphant horns that melt over the opening of ‘Storm,’ and the resulting kick to open the gracious violins and first drums; the end-of-the-world screeching guitars and rusty feedback that terrifyingly and ceremoniously build after the soul-wrenching God-man speech in ‘Static;’ the painfully restrained sadness in the words of Murray Ostril when he immortally laments that ‘they don’t sleep any more on the beach’ in ‘Sleep’; the cry, then stand, then fight for hope in the rising strings and percussion that appear towards the end of the same track; the piercingly high-pitched, harrowing wails of distortion that close out the album on ‘Antennas To Heaven.’ No, I’m talking more about the moments that last but a few seconds, the moments you can’t get back. The moments that arise and flourish in the listener themselves, where the world reveals itself just for a second and, in that genuinely electrifying moment, the crashing cymbals and shimmering guitars wash over the listener, giving them a fleeting glimpse of a life without separation. It’s a hard thing to explain, especially without resorting to clichés, but almost everyone who has given the real time of day to this record will know what I’m talking about unequivocally.
It’s going to be very interesting to see what Godspeed You! Black Emperor comes up with now they have finally come out of hiding. Yanqui U.X.O notwithstanding, the band had improved with every release, with Lift Your Skinny Fists emerging as their magnum opus. The cynical amongst us may even say that Godspeed are the reason why post rock has been caught in a downward spiral since the start of the decade. They arguably perfected the genre, and everything since has been stuck trying to escape (or, in many cases, replicate) their imposing shadows. Regardless of what happens with the band in the future, the release of Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven ten years ago had already undoubtedly cemented the band’s legacy: as masters of overwhelmingly evocative, unapologetically epic music; as kings of subtlety in storms of breathtaking intensity, making for rich rewards with extended listening; as creators of a sound that shook listeners in a powerful new way whilst resonating in each one differently; and as undisputable Gods of their field. – Matt Wolfe
Surprisingly, El Cielo is a very polarizing album. Many people who, given their other musical interests, should love the album actually hate it. Gavin Hayes’ voice (which is fucking angelic) seems too distant, too unconvincing (how can you miss his pleading tone at the end of “The Canyon Behind Her” at the line “I cannot find the other half?”). Some find the concepts of lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis a highbrow, distant concept that no one can possibly relate to (“Same Ol’ Road” definitely makes a point outside of these concepts). And then, on top of all that, the album is actually inspired by a bizarre, obscure Dali surrealist painting.
I admit, El Cielo is a densely packed 51 minutes of music. It can be overwhelming to try and understand what exactly dredg is doing here. As an avid fan, I can attest that the effort is worth the payout; El Cielo only gets better the deeper you go. Yet, that might not even be necessary to appreciate the considerable musical strides dredg makes on the album. That huge sound near the end of “Δ”? They do that with one guitarist, one bassist, one drummer, and one vocalist with a slide guitar. Guitarist Mark Engles takes inspiration from The Edge and similar arena rock guitarists, but instead of placing the sound in a soundspace the size of Wembley, he jams it into a place much more intimate, much more warm. The result is something transcendent, all-encompassing, and simply blissful. Drummer Dino Campanella and bassist Drew Roulette create interesting nuances in their grooves, always remaining energetic and unpredictable.
In the end, however, Hayes is the star of the show. Throughout countless textures and styles, Hayes sings with enough passion and power to gracefully float on top and send chills through your spine. His lyrics take what should be a terrible, boring concept and transform it into something universally applicable that makes El Cielo accessible to a wider audience.
Hayes questions and asserts on “Eighteen People Living in Harmony,” “Art is trying, is art dead? Art is dying, is it dead? Believe it, we need it to move on.” On El Cielo, dredg breaks all of the boundaries and creates a true work of art. – Tyler Fisher
Inevitably, it seems as if Funeral has appeared in every single decade-end write-up on the entire internet. What’s surprising, though, is just how much sadness it’s inspired. For a whole generation of music listeners – broadly speaking, the ones who are old enough to remember a time before Napster but young enough to still care about new music at the expense of old favourites – Funeral has become a monument, a painfully young and fresh reminder of a time when albums could be genuinely massive events. It’s easy to forget how slow the spread of this album was at first – it didn’t reach much of Europe until 2005, and its final single was still in the charts over here in 2006 – but it’s unforgettable just how strongly it united the worldwide indie community under one banner.
The fear is that such a thing will never happen again – that there’ll never be another OK Computer, or Nevermind, or Automatic for the People. Truthfully, there probably won’t be; the internet has destroyed any sort of continuity in the masses, leading to a hoard of music obsessives who disagree on anything and everything. Had Vampire Weekend or Viva la Vida come out in 1999, they would have been this huge, but people have just become too jaded, too worldly, too eager to stand out from the pack, and the media has been less willing then ever to attach itself to albums they know won’t sell in a crowded, dwindling market. Funeral – fittingly released just a month before The Pirate Bay became a fully-fledged website in its own right – snuck in just as that lineage of albums was coming to an end.
So of course it’s a special record, and of course circumstances and context have enhanced its legacy. It should never be underestimated, though, just how perfect a record Funeral is, not just on its own terms but for the context it found itself in and the history it closes out. To be blindingly obvious about it, Funeral is a record about death, and loss, and longing, and as an accidental tribute to the loss of indie music as a unifying force, it could scarcely have been more poignant. Even the massed vocals of “Wake Up” and the sweet lyric of “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” suggest a voice that wants to reach out and be part of something bigger, but knows the moment has passed.
Plenty of people have taken pot-shots at Funeral in the past 5 years, just as they have with any other major rock album in the canon. Thankfully, its acclaim and its stature remains unwavering. The truth is, we’ll always need records like Funeral, and if we find ourselves having to look to the past to find them, then it’ll be a tragedy. A tragedy softened by life-affirming lullabies like “Crown of Love”, mind. – Nick Butler
3. Circle Takes the Square – As the Roots Undo
It has been six years since As the Roots Undo was released and its notoriety amongst screamo fans has spread, heating debates amongst detractors and supporters alike, most of whom stand firmly at opposite ends of the spectrum: those that reject the album vehemently on certain grounds that can’t be argued with, and those that embrace the album for those very qualities. For those reasons, the album still lacks easy definition. Supporters will tell you that loving As the Roots Undo is at first no easy feat; quick descriptions of Circle Takes the Square’s signature sounds starts throwing up red flags for most poor souls: “grindcore,” “experimental screamo,” “lo-fi hardcore.” The male/female vocals are usually pronounced in a screeching tone, and the album’s structure can aptly be described as chaotic.
For the uninitiated, and more specifically those who know outright their aversion to anything remotely “-core”, these ingredients sound excruciating, sometimes even unlistenable. It certainly isn’t accessible, relying on a heavy/light dichotomy and a demonic aggressiveness to evoke specific emotions. But under repeat listens, As the Roots Undo blossoms, stubborn little weed it is, as an obvious product of a lot of labor (of love or what have you) that is first overshadowed by its own insistence on fragility, erratic and random in a confusing and oft disorienting way. It is not an album for passive listening, pre-packaged with its own concept and meaning, printed in the album’s slip: “…to document the different points on a path to self-realization…the wanderer ends up essentially in the same place that he or she began, if not humbled and even more overwhelmed…”
The band assert that they are only expressing themselves through their rock ‘n roll, which doesn’t make parsing the excessive silliness any easier, but there’s something to be said for an album to sound so vulnerable because its creators are: young, wayward kids just making music. What saves As the Roots Undo’s unchecked framework, the band’s moment-to-moment homage to whichever sound strikes their fancy regardless of taste, are precisely those ingredients. Take the experience as the splatter fun of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) in lieu of the Saw VI (2009) detractors will try to sell it as: a work that frames all its ideas, novel or… otherwise, in a way that makes its immediacy all that much more intense, allowing for a greater poignancy to the creator’s attempts to deepen B-grade shock novelty into a commentary on the human condition.
In short, it’s all excessive silliness. But if one can stomach the hairpin turns and shortage of inhibitions, there are a few reasons As the Roots Undo is sitting in the ballpark of Album of the Decade, least of which being that, for all the obvious points of references, it sounds like little else. The path is rewarding if the mood permits, if not humbling and even more overwhelming, exactly as the band seemed to predict. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that this is not the album the band set out to make, nor would it ever have been, and the lack of a proper follow-up six years later is perhaps evident of the accidental classic they created. How do you follow-up a masterpiece about ending where you began? In an evolving scene that has yet to even attempt something this portentous and succeed, I argue: will anyone? – Lewis Parry
Well, duh. Kid fucking A.
What, I can’t leave it at that? Do I really have to tell you about how awesome this is as if you didn’t already know? There’s a reason I put an expletive in the title up there. If any album deserves one, it’s Kid A. As Merriweather Post Pavilion ruled 2009, Kid A ruled the decade; released at the start of the 00s, before 9/11, before Bush got really shitty, before iPods, before Katrina, before the recession, before we added another post to post-modern, Radiohead released this record and neatly folded their arms as if to say “told you so” in anticipation of every apocalyptic sign that beleaguered our late decade. Kid A was already the album of the decade before the decade even happened.
But the foresight isn’t what makes Kid A fantastic. It’s its weightlessness, its breaking down of human emotions into tiny fragments such as “I’m not here/ This isn’t happening” or “I think you’re crazy/ maybe,” making it personal to everyone even outside of the apocalypse it conjures. Yorke’s concept doesn’t dominate Kid A. The loneliness and the paranoia that permeates throughout the record does, perfectly nailing the zeitgeist of the time. “This is really happening” isn’t just the zinger that marks “Idioteque” but the rationalization of just what the hell we’re doing.
This is never really made explicit in the lyrics nor the concept. Kid A has been dissected and re-interpreted over and over (and over) again because nothing really is explicit; all theories are all only implied. The music is frigid, cold-hearted, apathetic and, quite frankly, frightening. Kid A can shift from sinister lullaby to anarchic assault to barren landscape seamlessly, drenched in a fearful vision of life when people simply stop caring. Just hear the irony seething from Thom Yorke in “Everything In Its Right Place” as he and Jonny Greenwood turn the title lyric into a mechanical doctrine they can sneer at throughout Kid A‘s running time. Nothing is in its right place on Kid A. Why the fuck is a New Orleans marching band murdering a legion of kittens on “The National Anthem?” How in the world does the title track end up in 4/4 with that hook? What the hell is “Idioteque?” Kid A has perpetually fascinated and confused us and delighted in doing so.
Virtually every publication releasing a best-of-the-00s list has faced a similar predicament to the one that I do now: trying to say something original about an album that’s been written about obsessively for ten years. By now it’s become practically impossible. There’s nothing left to say about Kid A which is why it sits so high atop our list. It’s not even its influence in music; it’s its influence in culture. This album made Radiohead the band of our time and we’ve subsequently forgiven any pretentiousness they’ve indulged in throughout the decade because, well, they gave us Kid A. – Adam Downer
An admission, before anything then: For an album that we’re crowning as the best of the decade, Jane Doe stands as perhaps one of the ugliest works of art to receive any sort of admiration from just about anyone, music critics or not. But we won’t stop there, no, allow us, if you will, to go further and admit – embrace, in fact – that every critic that Jane Doe has ever had is right, that, yes, for all her technical achievement in bringing together metalcore and grind, Jane Doe is grotesque, Jane Doe is vile, Jane Doe is miserable, and let’s get to the crux of it here, raucously inaccessible. So how did this happen? What malin génie could have possibly allowed us to let it creep its way up to the top of our list here? The answer here is more obvious than might be immediately thought – it lies in a name, in the name: Jane Doe, the anonymous dead. Consider the paradox: for a record that unabashedly drowns itself in noise, it is nonetheless condemned to the silence of the dead. No one actually understands what Jacob Bannon is screaming about. Not only can she not speak, her anonymity allows no one to speak on her behalf.
But it’s from this deadlock that Jane Doe gives birth to an entirely new language: for all her muteness, for all her inability to communicate, Jane Doe nevertheless speaks: she speaks in a language entirely of her own, unassimilable to those that came before, and radically redefining the very terms that musical language thought was its own. Converge, in other words, had managed to not simply pioneer a new form of expression, but did it by reinventing everything that came before it. And we’re happy to admit too that for most of us, it took a while to learn it, to grasp what she was saying – but when we did, when it finally clicked, its force was tremendous and its message was familiar: a singular, majestic expression of anger. In her own words, this bitch was Bitter and Then Some. And by Gods what a fury, focused and brilliant, from the crashing dissonance of “Concubine”’s calamitous opening to the evangelically apocalyptic “Jane Doe” and everything in between. Understood or not, Jane Doe’s musical force remains one untouched by any record the decade past, and we’re more the better for it. – Alex Silveri
Contributing Staff Members
Sobhi Abdul-Rakhman | Nick Butler | Adam Downer | Tyler Fisher | Ryan Flatley
Channing Freeman | Nick Greer | John Hanson | Andrew Hartwig | Rudy Klapper *
Lewis Parry | Alex Silveri | Trey Spencer | Mike Stagno | Dave de Sylvia
Adam Thomas * | Cam Wilson | Matt Wolfe
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Thanks for posting anyway
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Some Blood : (
but yeah, great list!
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Where to begin.
Kid A was pretty mediocre.
As the Roots Undo is almost unlistenably bad. It's also VERY amateurish and poorly produced and written.
Funeral is one of the most overrated albums of all time. It's just a typical morose hipster spin on new wave. Dull.
Animal Collective is the worst band I've ever heard. No hyperbole.
The Glow Pt 2 got old within a couple weeks.
Terrible list, sad to say. I hope some Sputnik staffers are trying to shmooze to Pitchfork in order to get staff positions because otherwise, there's really no explanation for bloating a list with so much hipster drivel while ignoring so many innovative, amazing albums.
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This list is fucking amazing. I'm glad the staff dedicated their time to this, was totally worth it and incredibly exciting.
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Stop defending it and realize that everyone has their own opinions. Get the sand outta your vagina and let people speak their mind.
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ROFL i dont need to even explain why im laughing tbh.
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Lol. Pretty much.
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I keep my word.
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fuck you ross wolfe
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - any release
Agalloch - any release
Ulver - any release
Gojira - any release
Team Sleep
Any Pinback album
Peste Noire - ballade
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde (actually spawned an entire subgenre of music)
Drudkh - any album
Animal Collective on the top 10 confirms this as a pure hipster list with no merit. There is nothing worse.
I am guessing the staff played a joke and made a top 100 most overrated albums of the decade list to troll people?
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He can say whatever he wants about the albums, I'm speaking about the fact he thinks we are trying to get some sort of satisfaction from another publication, which is a rather dumb statement, in addition to the fact that we 'ignored so many innovative albums'
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I didnt enter the competition but i'd probably only have got the top 3
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this.
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Now everyone.... be done with it.
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Decent list overall, just too much hardcore and too little post-metal and prog!
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I love you...
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Makes White Pony look like a joke
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Are you fucking retarded? Were you people expecting a list any different? These albums (well some) are obvious. And the ones that weren't as obvious make this a good list so stfu. If you don't like it, well nobody cares about your shitty opinion anyway
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Wow dude.... all I did was ask you a question, and you decide to scream and cry about it. I thought you were pretty cool..... up til now
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And THAT^ looks like someone trying to start something.
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unless it's just posted so people can go "omg great fucking list" and if that's the case there should be a disclaimer.
but still, I have no issues with this list personally, I think it's a pretty good representation of Sputnik's more elite tastes (although the one disparity is the amount of metal fans in the userbase compared to the staff, but it's just a minor squabble)
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I thought maybe One Beat would at last make the 100 but, I'd be more surprised if they actually made this list.
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it's not that
people can speak their mind and say something like "ctts is unlistenable" or "agalloch rools!@" and no one will give a shit
it's statements, though, like "I'm looking for sputnikmusic. This is pitchfork." or "Animal Collective on the top 10 confirms this as a pure hipster list with no merit. There is nothing worse." that are so mindnumbingly fucking retarded that get people riled up
personally idc though
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I just wished (I said that in every list I think) that voting would have been done only on Mondays or so.
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Lol, dude, calm down..... no need to go all suicidey on me
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El Cielo is probably the best album in the top 100
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The Avalanches - Since I Left You
"hey most of my favorite albums from the decade weren't on here either (at least White Pony made it!) but I wasn't really expecting them to be so it's cool. this is a staff list, not Inveigh's decade list"
it's only disappointing in part because, i agree wholeheartedly with a lot of this list. it's just a little sad that the one that's at the tippy top for me has to be the exception. but you're right--this isnt my list
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and it basically did what it intended to do-made me go check out all these albums to see if i missed any. this was a great feature-thank you sputnik
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putting kid a behind jane doe
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I haven't even heard of 10 or 8 and MPP is still way overrated.
Happy for Jane Doe, Kid A, CTTS, and Godspeed.
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not sure if serious
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not sure if serious"
QFT, the inclusion of that album makes my shady sense tingle. I feel like we're getting led along by the nose by a pack of extremely organized trolls that are excellent planners.
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(no I am not comparing CTTS to the Beatles, merely using Happiness is a Warm Gun as an example, before anyone decides to flip out and cry)
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Anyhow glad you made the list, have discovered 3 great album and one great band (Godspeed) thanks to the list!
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jesus
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The write-ups however, were godly awesome! Even though I don't think as highly of Jane Doe, the writeup was fucking kick ass, so well done on that.
The only negative thing I really have to say to all this, is that its 100% a travesty to have not included ANY Agalloch...Even if you don't like metal, there is absolutely no way, no matter what that you can deny the power and amazing strength and popularity of those release. Such a shame.
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Kind of surprised that We Are the Romans by Botch wasn't on the full list though.
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this pleases me.
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Why'd you put a comma after Jesus?
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quite pleased to see 4 so high up as I've only recently picked it up, but gonna be honest and say I've never even heard of 8
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It's the truth,
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You are a negative little bunny
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#2 song of the decade == Angle of Repose - SGM
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that being said I'm perfectly content with jane doe being that album
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no emotion?
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Great List!!!
btw Twin Peaks is an awesome place, I totally know what you mean Nick
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While I personally don't agree with some of the placements, this feature is so well presented, so well written, and so intriguing that I can't help but feel that this is a landmark feature for the website. I'm sure I'll spend many days revisiting a number of these albums just to appreciate them that little bit more.
Congratulations to all the staff that contributed - you guys are fucking ace.
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You're the worst type of poster on this site, not the clueless buffoon who listens to as i lay dying, but the trite pseudo intellectual cunt who's trying to fob people off with shit like world music as being the pinnacle of artistic expression.
I bet you're one of those lefties who reads the guardian, believes in recylcing and doesn't own a T.V becuase, like you know it makes me more interesting, you know.
Cunt.
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And I don't think it's a lost cause, my aim in posting here is have fun, calling him out watching his reponses are entertaining, that's why I'm doing it ahahah.
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The issue is that there are a few staff members that all like indie/alt/whatever and when the individual lists are combined into a single list, those albums are going to end up near the top. This is more of an indication of where staff tastes converge more than anything intentionally being omitted. Look at the individual lists, a lot of what people are missing are listed there.
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predictable top 3 were predictable
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All seriousness though the only problem I have or ever had was the over zealous hating on converge and skramz but I got over that in 2.4489 seconds so yano.
No hard feelings mate I just love reading your little mini essays.
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CtaWB?
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don't lie. animal collective isn't even indie. they are some kind of experimental ambient noise.
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dont fee him guys
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Suicide Silence is absolutely sick, probably the best I've heard in deathcore.
Cynic is boring, turgid, meandering crap with awful vocals. It bored me to tears.
The Great Misdirect comes from a band that I used to love and are now a parody of themselves, playing noodly music with no point at all. No more passion or anything emotionally resonant like Mordecai. I still listen to The Silent Circus. I wasn't even able to make it through The Great Misdirect. It's awful, I was beyond disappointed. I'd consider it to be the worst album of last year, easily.
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lmao
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I rank albums on how good they sound and how much i enjoy them
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this album is great but the bands other albums suck and its a genre i dont like
whiny little baby
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apparently even Suicide Silence
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There is no way that everyone can be satisfied.Let us see it as a list of individuals who have a respected opinion about modern music.
The pitchfork influence is generally obvious in sites concerning music,so it is not smart to complain especially for this list:the opinions have been shaped one way or another
and by the way,the staff members have done a good job,the sputnick character is present
just wished to see a Mastodon album.And also surprised not to find Since I left you
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The stuff pitchfork likes that we agree with are generally well liked albums/bands, such as AC and the National. Those are bands that transcend pitchfork influence and are liked by a wide majority of people. We're not out repping LCD Soundsystem or Grizzly Bear or Dirty Projectors or bands similarly linked to "hipster bullshit." We genuinely love this music. We're not posturing or anything.
I mean look at who is on staff- do any of you really think Chan or Matt or Trey or Dave or Ryan or Alex or Cam or the Nicks Butler and Greer or Sobhi or Munro or Fisher or DaveyBoy or John or Jared or Lewis or Andrew actually religiously follow pitchfork and take their word as the be all end all in what is good indie? If so, you either haven't been on the site very long or don't understand the people behind this list, which is probably the reason people who are calling this list "pitchforky" look like total asses.
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1-Some of you guys take this way too much seriously
2- Some of you need to come down
3- Some of you need to see things objectivly without saying it's crap cause YOU don't like it
For example, I'd rather do your mom than listen to a Jane Doe album, but that doesn't mean it's not quality or that it's not good, I just really like to do your mom. And, I don't know why there's so much hatred towards AC or "non-metal" band, I understand it might not be as complex and the production might not be as good, but isn't music about how it makes you feel when you listen to it? Just sayin'.
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yeah. it would have been cool to have a couple more hip-hop or metal albums albums but i honestly can't think of anything I'd bump for that to happen. Personally I love pretty much everything on here.
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Now, what we should REALLY be up in arms about is the fact that Opeth was included in the entire thing twice and Agalloch not once...
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It really bothers me when people conclude that anybody who's mainstream is bad and is artistically worthless. Lady Gaga albums are a blast.
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Yeah, if your a high school lesbian.
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Nah dude a lot of people on sputnik are into her. It's good pop music. It's catchy, well-written, well produced.
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Thanks for the spell checker.
No one is docking it that. But a list of top ten of the decade? I think not...
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"Thanks for the spell checker." Sorry?
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It must have been deleted, but I did find their review of "Perdition City". I see now why it might have a bad reputation with some people.
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You're in for a hell of a treat...surprising you have never heard of 'Warning'
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So I just want a real opinion from someone who thinks Kid A deserved the #1 spot. For the record, I think Kid A is a pretty good album, but have never liked it as much as most people.
I just want to know, from someone who loves this album: What do you think of the track Kid A? Albums tend to grow on me a lot, but I can't see myself ever thinking of that song as anything more than the biggest snorefest of all time.
I'm okay with Kid A at 2 though, I know I'm in the minority here. I love the list. Listening to El Cielo right now actually. And I agree completely with the guy who was fellating the list for its presentation and write-up, this was extremely well done.
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my list is pretty much not a good representation at all, should've spent more time on it but oh well 8(
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So, i had never heard of this Warning band you just brought up. Listening right now. This kicks some major ass.
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@hyperion -
:O:O
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where in the world is The Gaslight Anthem? I mean seriously.
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It's not as good as Agalloch, BUT is is still pretty great, or at least that's my first opinion. Wonder why i'd never heard of it before...
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all metal? even Jesu? if you hate on Jesu I may have to nerd rage a bit
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silk: idk I just don't listen to it really
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totally agree. that's why I love sputnikmusic
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wtf
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ps your name looks funny in lowercase
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Where to begin.
Kid A was pretty mediocre.
As the Roots Undo is almost unlistenably bad. It's also VERY amateurish and poorly produced and written.
Funeral is one of the most overrated albums of all time. It's just a typical morose hipster spin on new wave. Dull.
Animal Collective is the worst band I've ever heard. No hyperbole.
The Glow Pt 2 got old within a couple weeks.
Terrible list, sad to say. I hope some Sputnik staffers are trying to shmooze to Pitchfork in order to get staff positions because otherwise, there's really no explanation for bloating a list with so much hipster drivel while ignoring so many innovative, amazing albums."
Even if you disagree with the top 10, how stupid do you have to be to not know that on a list made the Staff at Sputnik, Kid A, As The Roots Undo, Animal Collective, etc. etc. would not be included? What did you expect the staff to vote as the top 10?
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Nevermore
Electric Wizard
A Silver Mt. Zion
The Avalanches
Immolation
Pain of Salvation
Antony and the Johnsons
Elliott Smith
Goldfrapp
Idlewild
Lykathea Aflame
Kalmah
OutKast
Johnny Cash
Propagandhi
Spock's Beard
PJ Harvey
Ghostface Killah
The Gathering
Boris
Queens of the Stone Age
Ulver
Bjork
Royksopp
Muse
Devin Townsend
Evergrey
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Arcturus
Agalloch
Boards of Canada
M83
White Stripes
Four Tet
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The Shins
Mercenary
Madvillain
Cult Of Luna
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Ayreon
Disillusion
Nightwish
Arsis
Orphaned Land
Wintersun
Max Richter
Riverside
The Ocean
Mastodon
Jesu
Clutch
Patrick Wolf
Pelican
Gojira
God Is an Astronaut
Venetian Snares
Kamelot
Amadou & Mariam
Kings of Leon
Meshuggah
Protest The Hero
Coil
The Decemberists
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Moonsorrow
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Arctic Monkeys
Beirut
Hurt
Ikuinen Kaamos
Insomnium
Jay Reatard
Katatonia
Lamb of God
Om
Pure Reason Revolution
Rise Against
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Rome
Rosetta
Russian Circles
Rx Bandits
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Silversun Pickups
Textures
Terror
The Format
The Knife
The Roots
Thom Yorke
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Battles
Between the Buried and Me
Machine Head
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Alcest
Primordial
Shining
Anaal Nathrakh
Future of the Left
Justice
Oceansize
LCD Soundsystem
Holy Fuck
Spoon
The Field
Of Montreal
Pantha du Prince
Emancipator
M.I.A.
The Pax Cecilia
Yeasayer
The Angelic Process
Pig Destroyer
Shugo Tokumaru
Fleet Foxes
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Elbow
Burst
Frightened Rabbit
In Mourning
TV on the Radio
The Dodos
The Gaslight Anthem
Septic Flesh
Scar Symmetry
Testament
Defeater
La Dispute
Equilibrium
Eluveitie
Cut Copy
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Maybeshewill
Fun.
Karnivool
P.O.S.
just saying...
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Plus This is list is turning me on to a lot of great music I haven't heard yet.
But yeah, The Pax Cecilia should be in at least the top 30
(correct me if I missed it somewhere.)
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Yes to Mastodon, Agalloch, The Field, The Angelic Process, The Ocean, Moonsorrow, Boards of Canada, Four Tet, Drudkh, Boris and Fleet Foxes. The rest, although all had solid release, don't think would get a nod in the user list, and not mine either.
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and really... did people not see jane doe telegraphed on monday? sputnik mods can't help but fap all over themselves and pretend to be so much more advanced than everyone that they can sit through that awful album and see it as some great masterpiece. honestly, sometimes i think the worse an album sounds, the more the mods will try to convince everyone that its some great album just so they can appear elitist.
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I've never had an interest in Converge, they bored me.
Lol, alright.
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I think the biggest takeaway from this list and the reactions is that if the Sputnik community wants to see more of their favorites represented, it's on them to hone their writing and ascend to contributor and then staff. Having additional tastes and perspectives will only make future lists stronger. I have already seen a lot of promising newer writers (I've directly called out Enotron for being consistently good and working in the right direction) come to the site in the last six months, so I enthuse all of you to continue working. Remember staff is probably not going to look at you until you have a resume of at least 50 reviews, considering the strong talent we already have on staff.
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the subgenre isn't shoegaze, it's a mixture of shoegaze and black metal. for other bands in the style, try heretoir, soliness, ethereal beauty, thranenkind, dopamine, etc. there's a couple good compilations showcasing the style as well. "the world comes to an end in the end of a journey" and "depression and hatred of 3 years"
not sure how you'd possibly get the idea that i was talking about pure shoegaze when souvenirs isn't even remotely a pure shoegaze album. hell, jesu is more pure shoegaze and even then it's a fairly even split between shoegaze and doom
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and nah, souvenirs is pretty much black metal with pretty vocals and acoustic passages. those riffs are straight out of black metal. outside of the last track. i wouldn't say black metal could lay claim to drum fills anyway ;o
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I am not a fanboy, but this is wrong.
Where the flying FUCK is defeater? You, sputnik staff, are shit. Defeater is the defining Hardcore act. After 31-11, I was genuinly happy that some of my favorite hardcore/pos-hardcore albums made it on there. I did not see defeater though. Okay, fair enough. I read through this fucking garbage, and Circles take the Square is fucking on it.
no.
That is not music. It is shit. I honestly tried to like the album, but I could not. It was utter shit.
Defeater is better then As the roots undo by tenfold, and they are not even on this list.
Fuck you sputnik, fuck you.
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If you guys couldn't tell, I think Defeater is mighty keen.
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I was chatting to Darth just the other day. He loves Emery.
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This isn't a community list, it's a staff list. Stop bitching about what isn't on it.
On a sidenote, only album I haven't heard/don't own on this is 8. Gonna che-che-che-che-che-checheck it out.
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99. Unwound – Leaves Turn Inside You
98. Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
97. Pharoahe Monch – Desire
96. System of a Down – Toxicity
95. Minus the Bear – Planet of Ice
94. Have A Nice Life – Deathconsciousness
93. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
92. Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
91. The Strokes – Is This It?
90. Fair to Midland – Fables From a Mayfly
89. The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
88. Gas – Pop
87. Damien Rice – O
86. Streetlight Manifesto – Everything Goes Numb
85. Fugazi – The Argument
84. Off Minor – The Heat Death of the Universe
83. The Antlers – Hospice
82. Shpongle – Tales of the Inexpressible
81. Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
80. Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
79. Opeth – Damnation
78. Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
77. The Flashbulb – Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
76. Kayo Dot – Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
75. Say Anything – In Defense of the Genre
74. Isis – Panopticon
73. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
72. Yndi Halda – Enjoy Eternal Bliss
71. The Blood Brothers – Young Machetes
70. City of Caterpillar – City of Caterpillar
69. Eluvium – Copia
68. Deerhunter – Microcastle
67. Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
66. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
65. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
64. Do Make Say Think – You, You’re a History in Rust
63. Kashiwa Daisuke – Program Music
62. Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica
61. Coheed and Cambria – Second Stage Turbine Blade
60. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… PT II
59. The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
58. The Tallest Man on Earth – Shallow Graves
57. Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
56. Pg.99 – document #8
55. Cursive – Domestica
54. Portishead – Third
53. Mew – Frengers
52. Explosions in the Sky – The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
51. Kidcrash – Jokes
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49. Tool – Lateralus
48. Jaga Jazzist – What We Must
47. Blue Sky Black Death – Late Night Cinema
46. Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
45. Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
44. J Dilla – Donuts
43. Blink-182 – Blink-182
42. Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
41. Daft Punk – Discovery
40. Daitro – Laissez Vivre Les Squelettes
39. Opeth – Blackwater Park
38. Thrice – The Alchemy Index
37. Thrice – The Illusion of Safety
36. The National – Alligator
35. Say Anything – …Is a Real Boy
34. Cynic – Traced in Air
33. Joanna Newsom – Ys
32. Maudlin of the Well – Bath
31. Modern Life Is War – Witness
30. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
29. Radiohead – In Rainbows
28. Thrice – Vheissu
27. Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline
26. Deftones – White Pony
25. Brand New- Deja Entendu
24. Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030
23. Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye
22. Sigur Ros – ( )
21. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
20. Brand New – The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
19. The National – Boxer
18. The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
17. Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
16. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
15. Glassjaw – Worship and Tribute
14. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
13. mewithoutYou – Brother, Sister
12. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
11. Animal Collective- Feels
10. The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2
9. Gospel – The Moon Is a Dead World
8. Burial – Untrue
7. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
5. Dredg – El Cielo
4. Arcade Fire – Funeral
3. Circle Takes the Square – As the Roots Undo
2. Radiohead – Kid A
1. Converge – Jane Doe
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"Haha. Jane Doe, the greatest album of the last decade. Epic trolling sputnik"
5 classic
Between the Buried and Me Colors
4.5 superb
Dream Theater Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Rock In Rio
Iron Maiden Rock In Rio (DVD)
Marc Rizzo Colossal Myopia
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz
SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out
The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre
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1. no He Is Legend
2. no La Dispute
3. no Defeater
4. no Bear vs. Shark
5. no Saves The Day "Stay What You Are"
6. no Protest The Hero
7. no BTBAM
8. no Dillinger EP
9. no AFI "Sing The Sorrow"
10. Too much extremely obscure hipster nonsense filling up space in lieu of reasons 1-9
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG THAT WAS FUCKING BRILLIANT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHETHER YOU WERE BEING SERIOUS OR NOT BAHAHA.
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No, I seriously forgot it. It didn't affect position, Kid A and Jane Doe were that far ahead of the rest.
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that is all
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What a surprise...
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Not enough faggy indie to boot!
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#5 is an album I've never heard, I'll probably check it out tomorrow.
#4 is an excellent album but vastly overrated. probably in the 20's for me.
#3 is so fucking overrated. The production sounds like shit and the album is almost unlistenable at points.
#2 is my number 1.
#1 even in the top five let alone top ten is bullshit. Of course it was bound to happen, so I won't excessively troll about it or anything but just hear me out. Unintelligible screams do not a work of art make, or even good vocals. Don't get me wrong, Converge is good and definitely have earned my respect, but honestly that album isn't better than anything else in top 10. Jane Doe isn't even my favorite Converge record.
Oh and what does RAGH RAAAAWWWRWRWRR RAGAGAGAHAHAHAHWAR sound like on vinyl?
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This has really brought out the whinging cunts, hasn't it.
Loving the controversy.
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i never knew tool was heavier than converge!
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uh not really in music but i've felt that way about like movies and stuff.
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ok just reread both those posts and you are an idiot.
The list represents the tastes of the STAFF. That's why there's going to be a user list too. If anything, this site is disparaging of pitchfork. I'm a massive metal fan and I'm not complaining because I realise that this is a STAFF list based on STAFF ratings and, unfortunately for you, the staff is comprised of mostly indie fans.
If you dont agree with it fine but dont apply half assed reasoning to your groundless bitching. It's just a fucking list.
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Pretty sure a good number of people here on SPUTNIKMUSIC have heard of 90% of the albums here made by the staff of SPUTNIKMUSIC..
'but the overall list is just a slap in the face to anyone that actually cares about music in general.' Yeah there's barely anything musically related in this list, goddamit it i was hoping there'd be more music
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because complaining about the content of a list that was made based expressly on the tastes of the staff is fucking retarded and you should stop saying stupid shit now.
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And do you know what? Even when the user list comes out people are STILL going to bitch.
now fuck off. I don't usually talk to people as stupid as you, you should be flattered
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Metal 43%
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[quote]Any Agalloch release absolutely shits on every album in the entire top 100.[/quote]
but I'd like to add my own - LOL
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67 PERCENT OF YOUR PIE CHART IS SOME TYPE OF METAL. THE REST IS ROCK OR PROGRESSIVE. YOU CLEARLY DO NOT KNOW ANY OF THE ALBUMS ON THIS LIST. STOP GENERALIZING MUSIC YOU DON'T KNOW. IF YOU DID ANY OF THE ALBUMS, YOU WOULD REALIZE THERE IS ACTUALLY A WIDE VARIETY. THAT IS TRIVIAL, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IT ISN'T RATING THE BEST GENRES OF THE DECADE, IT IS RATING THE BEST ALBUMS.
To put things into perspective, the top 10 had an psychedelic pop album, a metalcore album, two skramz album, an indie folk album, an art rock album, a dubstep album, a post-rock album, an indie album, and however the fuck you would classify Kid A.
Fuck off. Instead of backing up your opinions with reason, you've managed to null your entire argument by coming off as a condescending, metalhead douchebag who says that a list obviously has no merit if it doesn't have his music taste.
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in the end no one cares though so...
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And you're defending a list that has fucking BLINK 182 ON IT. YOU CAN NEVER PLAUSIBLY FUCKING DEFEND THAT.
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who the fuck said that
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"Converge Jane Doe
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech
Devin Townsend Terria
Failure Fantastic Planet
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD]
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Mastodon Leviathan
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Metallica Master of Puppets
Opeth Blackwater Park
Outkast ATLiens
Outkast Aquemini
Outkast Stankonia
Pink Floyd Animals
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Sigur Ros Ãgætis Byrjun
Strapping Young Lad City
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Revolver
The National High Violet
It takes it to the next level imo - all of it is brilliant.
The National Boxer
The Who Who's Next
The Who Live at Leeds"
with 5s like that you can fuck off instead of talking about "range"
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the STAFF list is representative of what the STAFF like
the USER list is representative of what the USERS like
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The site stopped being metal based two years ago, get the fuck over it and move to the forums.
"H WAIT THAT DOES NOT MATTER BECAUSE A MUSICAL LIST HAS NO OBLIGATION TO REPRESENT A UNIVERSAL OR EVEN WIDE VARIETY OF OPINIONS. IT'S SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE MAKER. " -Enotron
How about you fucking read the comments before you respond to them.
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eno chill dude
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well done for furthering the stereotype that metalheads are retarded, dipshit
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yes, like you sphygmo. you are dumb.
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I just wish he would scroll through this thread and realize all the bullshit he's saying has been mentioned already. just wish people could enjoy the list for what it is, instead of having to have the "music is subjective" theory explained to them.
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"YOU ARE THE COSMIC TWAT"
-Michael Jordan
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Sorry. Is it the content of what I'm saying or the fact that I'm responding to him, or the redundancy?
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That's generally how you make it to be what is considered a professional reviewer on this site, yes.
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lol
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Enotron: I would just expect more restraint from you, you don't seem like the type to feed the fire, so to speak
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I pretty much just brought more attention to syghmo, sorry about all that.
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wow....seriously? Way to stereotype, just because their are lots of dumb ass fans like sphygymo does not mean that all metal heads are retarded. I know lots of completely literate metal heads, and although I don't like to associate myself with the term I am an English major and metal tends to be my preference...
As for the list, my only real problem with it is Jane Doe as number one. I like the album, but I fail to see how it cane be seen as the very best album of the decade, top 25 maybe but even top 10 is pushing it in my book. The rest of the picks, although not all up my ally are completely understandable.
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can't stop listening to sentimental recently, such a beautiful track.
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=')
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that made me laugh so hard haha
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Guess that makes up for the Axe To Fall review
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http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18027514
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lol
I came here expecting to see everyone masturbating to indie albums. At least I wasn't disappointed in that sense. Not a fan of the list, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see some of my favorite albums on it. Needed some more metal though. There, I said it.
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Best post of the decade. The "Bounce" one was pretty fucking good too.
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buuuuuuuut: Y'all got to stop whining and cast your votes on the User's Top 100, its getting ironic.
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Yea I was wondering why it sucked.
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shits good
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sputnikmusic DELIVERING THE TRUTH
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what would be the point then
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well that's ballsy assumption
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Hahaha. That makes sense. My mistake.
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not all the way of course (never understood the appeal of Funeral for example), but yeah, this list is amazing.
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And what about St. Anger? Top 20, AT LEAST.
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[irony]st. anger[/irony]
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If that happened I would have Hara-Kiried. Srsly.
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statement makes no sense. as the roots undo is fucking horrid. if you actually felt that they were great bands, then you'd have to consider their albums to be better than the unmitigated travesty that is as the roots suck ass and scream random bullshit
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dude it's ok that you have shitty taste in music. you can admit it. there are clinics
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this is the most hilariously misguided and ironic statement ever typed on the internet
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ugh, fucking blasphemy
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101. Tom Waits - Orphans
102. Madvillain - Madvillainy
103. Kanye West - The College Dropout
104. The Dodos - Visiter
105. The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
106. Underoath - Define the Great Line
107. Justice - Cross
108. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
109. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
110. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
111. AFI - Sing the Sorrow
112. Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows
113. Iron Lung - Sexless // No Sex
114. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
115. Hammock - Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo
116. BATS - Red in Tooth and Claw
117. Oceansize - Effloresce
118. Thursday - Full Collapse
119. Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
120. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts...But Nothing Is Lost
121. Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
122. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
123. Sun Kil Moon - April
124. Murder by Death - Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them
125. Radiohead - Amnesiac
126. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
127. Against Me - Reinventing Axl Rose
128. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
129. Cave In - Jupiter
130. Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
131. Armchairpolitician - Seven Segment Decoder
132. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Vol. 1
133. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
134. Mono - You Are There
135. Off Minor - Innominate
136. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
137. The Roots - Game Theory
138. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
139. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
140. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
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well tbh im not suprised :P
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LOLWUT??
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Better luck next decade, Sputnik, because this was god-awful and poorly done. Very poor.
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*brofist*
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No but seriously, what's with all the pretentious kids' boners for Animal Collective and Radiohead here? And I meant *post-rock*. I'm talking God is an Astronaut and GSYBE. Just dull stuff.
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The trend seems to be if something hurts your ears or is dull and lacking in melody, then it's "art" and should be listened to while sipping tea and wearing a fedora.
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yeah man. boy, did the staff pull the wool over our eyes
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I wonder how many of the people who made this "list" have ironic facial hair, thick-rimmed glasses, a fedora, and/or a condescending attit
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I wonder how many of the people who made this "list" have ironic facial hair, thick-rimmed glasses, a fedora, and/or a condescending attitude. I'm willing to bet it's most.
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sorry who was childish?
"enotron, have you possibly realized that the majority of active users think this list sucks balls?" Questions. Are you A) 13 B) Hopelessly ignorant C) Both?
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Irony being that the second part to your post was hopelessly juvenile.
Stop ignoring the truth: most of these bands are talentless, and you think you're a smart, sophisticated person for somehow enjoying them and "getting" them.
Not so fast, skipper.
I've stated the truth here, and the more you kids deny it, the sadder it gets. With that, I won't be coming back to this comments page to read more kiddy-banter about who's facial hair and hat is more ironic. You might as well not respond, and just get back to being called "NEEERRRD" and getting wedgies - or whatever bitter, elitist nerds are up to these days.
Bye, kiddo.
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Irony being that the second part to your post was hopelessly juvenile.
Stop ignoring the truth: most of these bands are talentless, and you think you're a smart, sophisticated person for somehow enjoying them and "getting" them.
Not so fast, skipper.
I've stated the truth here, and the more you kids deny it, the sadder it gets. With that, I won't be coming back to this comments page to read more kiddy-banter about who's facial hair and hat is more ironic. You might as well not respond, and just get back to being called "NEEERRRD" and getting wedgies - or whatever bitter, elitist nerds are up to these days.
Bye, kiddo.
It is quite obvious that you are not in fact an adult. If you were an adult you would not come on teh internetz and brag about being one. And this should just die, how come there's users here that i have never seen anywhere else
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As for the rest of the top 40 all I can say is '116. BATS - Red in Tooth and Claw' WINNNN
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We're still hung up on these bands? Granted Cave In's fine, but saying that Poison the Well is a good band and saying that Jupiter is inferior to As the Roots Undo are worthless claims. How is Circle takes the Square good, at all? Most people agree that the vocals are terrible; the "unexpected" shifts are just ploys to disguise the fact that CTTS can't compose a decent climax, and the band is more concerned with being arty than being good. I don't care if you can make a sing along indie chorus; do I want to sing along? Do you want to sing along? Are they singing? Are they screaming? I'm as deep as Circle Takes the Square so make room for me and my gilded vessel. We'll glide our way through an ocean of tears the same shade of concrete while the call of crows fills up our picture plane, which is, like the water, a still shade of neutral gray.
Why isn't that album called Colors again?
cbs
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I'm confused as to how those are worthless claims... not saying I don't disagree about Jupiter being inferior to ATRU, I'm just wondering why you think it's worthless to say that (and not to mention PtW rules duuuude)
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jupiter is also a great album once you get past the lyrics. brodsky should never, never, FUCKIN NEVER write lyrics. the metronome is right, you motherfucker, and your heart may have skipped a beat but the metronome had nothing to do with it!
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"the metronome is wrong again - my heart has surely gone and skipped a beat"
need i say more?
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apparently we're all a bunch of suburban, teenage Elvis Costello look-alikes. I'm also wondering how facial hair is ironic, unless it's like a pedo-stache or something
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in other words, hipster trends
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omg it works on the staff blogs m/
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