This was the greatest decade of music for me as a fan. There were so many incredible albums, almost all by bands I'd never even heard of in 2000, discovered almost entirely through the same musical venue that you are reading right now -- the Internet. At the dawn of the decade, I was approaching a rock fan milestone that presumably signaled the end of my interest in cool new music (I turned 30 in 2001), while at the same time, the rock music industry (ie. whatever they played on the radio) had devolved into a hybrid of cheap rap-rock (Limp Bizkit) and pseudo-alternative bands (Creed) that left me searching long and hard for something -- anything -- that could save my interest in music beyond the bands I'd fallen in love with in the '80s and '90s that had almost all disbanded or faded from their one-time glory. But in the spring of 2001 I ordered an album from Merge Records by a band I'd never heard of before called Neutral Milk Hotel, and I loved that album so much that it opened up a world of music to me that I'd completely missed -- a late '90s revival of independent rock music, separate from the mainstream crap they played on the radio -- that was just as good and just as strong as the great indie rock bands of the '80s and '90s. Through In the Aeroplane over the Sea (released in 1998), I discovered Pitchfork, which led me to Modest Mouse, first, and Grandaddy and Death Cab for Cutie and others. In searching for music from those bands and other similar tunes, I discovered file sharing, which at the time was dominated by the now long-lamented AudioGalaxy. But there were other services that replaced it (Kazaa for me). And the great bands that had been putting out great albums completely under the mainstream radar continued to find their way to my ears. Bright Eyes. Pedro the Lion. Belle and Sebastien. Mogwai. Sigur Ros. Explosions in the Sky. By the middle of the decade, indie rock blogs had exploded and introduced me to an even wider range of interests, while new bands influenced by Modest Mouse and Mogwai were debuting, many of them, interestingly, from Canada. Arcade Fire became the biggest Pitchfork and blog-created phenomenom of the decade, and when they asked fellow Canadian Spencer Krug to open for them on a tour in 2005, they created Wolf Parade which led to Sunset Rubdown and Handsome Furs and Swan Lake, bands that have dominated my interest in the past few years of this decade. It's been an amazing ride. So many great albums. So many great songs. So many great bands. I haven't even mentioned Sufjan Stevens and Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers and Animal Collective and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and yeah, ok, you really just came here for the list, but only one of these bands and one of these albums could earn the coveted Vague Space album of the decade and you'll have to click through to find out who. It was hard, believe me, to separate the top 5. Any of them could have won. But in the end, there was only one. And who else could it have been?
1. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (2007)
From the very first chords of opening track "Mending of the Gown," you get an idea that Spencer Krug's little side project from Wolf Parade is going to be so much more than that, and become one of the great bands of our time. While debut album Shut Up I Am Dreaming is a wonderful album, Spencer got a full band together for his second foray into Sunset Rubdown territory, and he elevates his game to a level not approached by any other album this decade. The first half of the album -- "Mending" through "Up Upon Your Leopard" through "Winged/Wicked Things" is just a master thesis on an amped-up indie sound that combines traditional slow/fast dynamics and inverted pop structures with beautiful rhythms, perfect timing, and obtuse lyrics sung in such a plaintive wail that you can help but feel they are speaking directly to you. The ending half -- "For the Pier" through "The Taming of the Hands" and "Trumpet! Trumpet!" to "Child-Heart Losers" is almost as brilliant, poignant and energetic and full of wonder -- original, creative, magical wonder. The only misstep is the difficult "Colt Stands Up" in the middle, but I don't even mind that as a breather between all the brilliance. This may not be the #1 album of the decade on any other list compiled this year, and I can't say exactly why it's better than the rest of the top 10, but for me, there is no other choice. Spencer and his band stuck their pole in the great Canadian winter snow and came out with a gem that hasn't been equaled in years.
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2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
Spencer Krug's "other" band put out a debut that not only hinted at the future of music, but turned it into an art form. Song after song on the album is one beautiful hit after another, alternating between Spencer's magic with catchy but thoroughly original sounds and some of the best music Dan Boeckner's ever written. "You are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son" has so many layers of beauty it's hard to believe that it's only the first track and that there are several even better gems waiting. "Grounds for Divorce", "Same Ghost Every Night", the amazing "Shine a Light", "Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts", Dan's perfect closer "This Heart's on Fire", and of course, the best song Spencer's ever written -- which is saying a lot, obviously -- "I'll Believe in Anything." Even "Dinner Bells", the long languid penultimate track that I never loved, has a lot to like about it. There really isn't a misstep in the entire album. It may not be quite as cohesive as Random Spirit Lover, which would be difficult in that it's a merger between two different artists, but it's just about as effective. A wonderful, wonderful album.
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
I've been listening to Funeral a lot lately, because my graduate thesis oddly involves the band (don't ask), and I can't believe how many new joys I continue to discover with the album, which came out way back in 2004. I mean, I can't stop listening to "In the Backseat", which I always considered a throwaway last track, one I never paid much attention to. But it's absolutely brilliant. The way Regine belts out "Alice died in the night, I've been learning to drive, my whole life" in the final verse really cannot be a more perfect capstone to the near perfect album. Obviously this album will appear on a lot of indie rock top 10s of the decade, and perhaps even some mainstream ones -- it's sold 500,000 copies this decade, the highest selling Merge Records release ever. And it spawned both the Canadian music genre that has dominated the second half of this debate and both bands that appear ahead of it on this list. But much more than that, it's just a perfect expression of pain, loss, and disillusionment, all within celebratory musical anthems that implore us to never sleep, wake the fuck up, and live. Anyone who has seen the ubiquitous previews for Where the Wild Things Are has heard "Wake Up," the centerpiece of the album and one of their great live tracks, but before that on the album is the "Neighborhood" suite, four gorgeous, disparate, but somehow connected tracks, including the lustrous "Tunnels" (one of the top 5 or 6 songs of this decade), the percussion-heavy, driving vampire song "Laika", the pounding, exuberant "Power's Out" and the quiet "7 Kettles". And then you get "Crown of Love", a completely original transition track before "Wake Up" arrives and lifts the album to a level rarely approached in music. And that's before you get to "Rebellion (Lies)," their purest pop rock song ever, and the closer "In the Backseat." I don't really love the two songs sung largely in French, "Une Annee Sans Lumiere" and "Haiti," but that's a minor quibble. On a different day, I might have put this album at #1 on the decade.
4. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000)
"I believe they want you to give in." When the languid, lengthy opener to Grandaddy's sophomore album reaches its climactic point, only three minutes in, as Jason Lytle sings that line in a hollow, soft spoken phrase, that is the defining moment of a track and an album that has been unfairly compared to Radiohead's master opus OK Computer, but in many ways, is better. There, I said it. It's a complex album, with complex themes throughout, and not something you might love on the first, second, or fifteenth listen. But the arrangements are so beautiful, the futuristic sounds so stunning, and the images created by the words and the music carry you through a story about robots, computers, fate, fear, and a desolate future in which hope remains alive in the hearts of the characters of this album. "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" is the standout track, of course, but the album contains two of the greatest pop songs ever written by a band that could write really great pop songs ("Hewlett's Daughter" and "The Crystal Lake"). Just a great album throughout, and a perfect message for those of us facing a world that wants us to give in.
5. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (2009)
Finding the right spot for an album that was released six months ago is diffcult, and in the long run, this could end up lower on my list of favorites, or perhaps higher, but nothing that has happened in the past six months has deterred my initial emphatic love of this album, the third by Sunset Rubdown, and third album in my top five by a band fronted by Spencer Krug. The thing about Dragonslayer, though, is that the songs, which came from different places in the band's recording history, just work so well together, along with individually, that what should be a disparate album comes together as a perfectly functioning whole. The band has said that this album was an attempt to recreate the live feel of their performances, and was consciously more straightforward than their Random Spirit Lover masterpiece, and they were completely successful on both counts. The songs on this album sound incredible live, but also on this album, and while I obviously love what they did on RSL, this different approach works almost as well. I never got into "Black Swan," and "Paper Lace" appearing on two Spencer Krug albums this year was a little much, bu the other six tracks on the album are all pretty much perfect. That's why it's here in the top 5 albums of the decade (and I think you can guess what will win the Vague Space album of the year of 2009).
6. The Microphones - The Glow, Part 2 (2001)
This album by Phil Elverum and friends is 20 "songs" long, includes several unlistenable noise tracks, has an overriding theme that even Einstein himself probably couldn't discern, and features a live recording of a barge horn in the background of all the songs to link them together. But yes, it's an absolutely brilliant display of musicianship, one that Elverum unfortunately has not been able to approach since. This decade's answer to In the Aeroplane over the Sea, this collection of music has so many high points and so many quality songs that it overcomes the quirky features that Elverum seems to intentionally add into the music to distract the listener from the beauty of so many of the songs. But they're there, from opener "I Want Wind to Blow" through the searing "The Glow Pt. 2," it's a wonderful start to the album. Then comes "The Moon," one of the best songs recorded by anyone, ever. As the album continues and the music shapes itself around you, additional tracks like "Headless Horseman," "I Felt Your Shape", "I Want to Be Cold" and "The Mansion" elevate this to one of the greats of the decade.
7. Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Conor Oberst's magnum opus shows such beauty and brilliance after years of youthful exuberance that one couldn't help but think his promise was fulfilled and that the band would become the biggest thing in music this decade. And he did get big, reaching levels of success with his double-album follow up that didn't seem imaginable, but Conor has openly switched gears in recent years, first lurching into electronic sounds and then into much more folk-friendly, near country levels, even abandoning the moniker that made him famous. I can't say I've even come close to enjoying any of his "solo" music, or his work with Monsters of Folk, but that doesn't take away from the wonder of this album, made by a young man just into his twenties, who created pop pleasures like "Method Acting" and "Lover I Don't Have to Love" alongside breathtaking tracks with beautifully nuanced lyrics like "From a Balance Beam" and "Nothing Gets Crossed Out" and still found room for original, youthful screeds against life and politics and war ("The Big Picture", "Let's Not Shit Ourselves", "Waste of Paint"). Just a wonderful album throughout.
8. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003)
Five songs. Each song over 8 minutes long. No words, no lyrics, no singing at all. Just music, beautiful, breathtaking music. From the opening chords of "First Breath After Coma" to the magical closer "Your Hand in Mine," a song made famous for its inclusion in everything Friday Night Lights (the movie, TV show, and soundtrack), this four-piece from west Texas doesn't miss a single note in this nearly perfect album. The fact that it's just guitars and percussion -- swirling guitars and driving percussion -- that have made all this wonderful music is beyond stunning. It's flat out beautiful. It really feels like the first breath after a coma.
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (2005)
Sufjan's second in his series of albums on all 50 states (which will never been finished I fear) elevated a strong singer-songwriter into one of the great indie rock artists of our time, as this album combined his songwriting flair with expanded orchestral arrangements to create a wonderful concept album, all about the state of Illinois. The album includes 20+ songs, every last one of them with some wonderful value, and as the tracks ebb and flow in their beauty, you can't help but just fall for every grand gesture and every majestic template and give into his vision, a glorious musical vision that few have come close to matching this decade. "Chicago" is the standout track, of course, and "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!" is a blistering beauty, but it's easy to forget that this album also included such masterpieces as "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades", "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts" and "John Wayne Gacy Jr." I really wish it could be higher, but everything above it was a masterpiece too.
10. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
This major label debut by the band was the first album I'd heard from Modest Mouse and, along with Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea, was the major reason for a sea change in my musical interests circa 2001, and my discovery of all the joys of indie rock music this decade. Oddly, though, I'd owned the album months before I heard In the Aeroplane over the Sea, and I never played it, or I'd only played half of it, in the pre-digital days when physically playing a CD on a stereo system was the only way to hear it. It wasn't until mid-2001 when I finally listened all the way through that I realized that there was something special about this band and this music, something that took me several listens after that to get through, until it became one of my favorite albums of the decade and introduced me to a band that had already released two brilliant album in the '90s but also introduced me to the thriving underground world of independent music. The album itself has so much going for it, so much to like, just great great songs -- "3rd Planet", "Paper Thin Walls", "Alone Down There", "Lives" -- but it's really the depth of the experience of listening to the album, in all its creative wonder, that really turns it into a classic. The near 9-minute centerpiece "The Stars are Projectors" was the spot where my feeble pre-2001 mind couldn't get past. Now that I've fallen so in love with the band, I still wonder why.
11. Sigur Ros - ( ) (2002)
So many words have been spun about Sigur Ros's 2002 untitled album of untitled songs that it's difficult for me to even try to add anything original. But beyond the annoyingly pretentious or whimsically brilliant particulars of releasing an untitled album of eight untitled tracks and singing the songs in a made-up language called "Hopelandish," the songs themselves are just stunningly beautiful. In subsequent years, titles have been released for the tracks, and since all of the rest of Sigur Ros's music is sung in Icelandic, which is just as incomprehensible to me, all that is left is the music, and these wonderful songs. Track 1, "Vaka", is one of the greatest tracks they've ever produced, but there's also Track 4, "Njsnavlin", and Track 8, "Popplagi" -- their "pop song", as well as Track 5 "Alafoss", all wonderful songs. But "Samskeyti" (Track 3) to me is the greatest expression of this kind of music -- this otherworldly, instrumental, but somehow lyrical music -- that's ever been recorded.
12. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
Well Spencer's back again on this countdown, with the debut album of his "side" project (if you don't consider his solo work under the same name and the largely unreleased Snake's Got a Leg album). Sunset Rubdown's work since this album has shown a much more varied, expanded song template, as it has become a full-fledged band, with Camilla's influence particularly present, in the two albums above this one on the list. But the fact that the sound has changed so dramatically, and yet the debut was so nearly perfect, is just a testament to Spencer's amazing ability to write perfect songs, in every way imaginable. "Stadiums and Shrines II" and "Us Ones in Between" remain two of my favorite Spencer songs ever, and the rest of the album is a string of other wonderful hits, from "The Empty Threats of Little Lord" to "Snakes Got a Leg III" to "The Men are Called Horsemen There" to the dramatic closing title track "Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings." I don't think I would have predicted that the man who created this beautiful little album in 2006 (which was the Vague Space #2 album of the year) would go on to dominate my musical interest for the rest of the decade. But if you'd told me that at the time, I probably wouldn't have been remotely surprised.
13. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005)
Will Sheff and his band created a masterpiece with this album, a thematic exploration of the life of the "Black Sheep Boy" and the horrible, tragic machinations of his life story. The stunning twin towers of songs about abuse ("For Real" and "Black") are joined by such wonderful, peaceful melodies as "A King and Queen" and "A Glow" and "A Stone" that it's hard to believe they were written by the same brilliant hand. The subsequently released 8 song Black Sheep Boy Appendix which is not officially part of this album, expands the brilliance in even greater ways, introducing me to an artist that has been second to only Spencer Krug's many varied pleasures for my favorite of the second half of this decade.
14. Godspeed! You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
It's incredible to realize that it's only been 10 years since the release of this groundbreaking double album by GYBE!, a Canadian collective of anarchists who pretty much changed the future of music in the decade that would follow by creating such a wonderful, instrumental masterpiece that became the template upon which all post-rock music would be judged. While the album consists of both orchestral pieces and spoken-word collections, it's the driving, boisterous anthems throughout that were at the time a wholly original expression of rock musicianship that helped usher in a decade of great albums, from the Explosions in the Sky album above to the Mono album below. GYBE! dissolved as a musical force after one more release, the disappointing Yanqui UXO, but it was this album, along with late '90s debut F#a#infinity, that not only created and defined a genre but elevated the entirety of independent rock music throughout this decade. A tour-de-force.
15. Mono - Under the Pipal Tree (2001)
This little Japanese band with a little bit of Mogwai and a little bit of GYBE! put out one of the great post-rock albums of the decade as a debut and followed with a series of wonderful albums over the next eight years. This remains my favorite by the band, anchored by two of the greatest post-rock songs ever made, "The Kidnapper Bell" and "Karelia (Opus 2)", which both clock in at over 10 minutes, but there are a number of smaller, equally beautfiul songs on the eight song album, including "L'America" and "Op Beach" and "Jackie Says."
16. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People (2003)
Continuing the trend of post-rock albums littering my list, here is an album that few fans of the legendary Scottish rockers would consider among their best, but while the album does fall short of their first two debut masterpieces, Young Team and Come On Die Young, this less grandiose, less rocking, but truly beautiful album is one of my favorites. From "Hunted by a Freak" to "Kids Will Be Skeletons" and "Killing all the Flies" to the magical "Golden Porsche" and the haunting closer "Stop Coming to My House" there's just so much beauty in this album, a rare achievement for a band so far along and so willing to try to mix things up, successfully.
17. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)
Low is sort of the opposite of Mogwai or Mono or GYBE! -- bands known for loud instrumental sounds -- since Low is quiet, somber, and silent. But they are also largely instrumental, despite the words and singing, since the voices are used like instruments, all to create a mood, which in this case is such a wonderfully perfect mood, of sorrow, of silence, and of beauty. "In Metal" is the best thing ever written about the birth of a child, in the history of written words -- (yeah I'm including the birth of Jesus in the Bible), while "Like a Forest" is the best Low song ever recorded. "Dinosaur Act" and "Sunflower" and "Whore" are just among the many great tracks on this almost perfect album.
18. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts (2002)
The Decemberists have had a wonderful decade of sprawling, literate, and highly original releases, but it's their debut, the more spare, straightforward, pop-laden beauty that finds its way into my top 20 of the decade. It's still a highly original sound and at the time it was released, a very refreshing blast of pop music, with gems like "Clementine" and "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect" to hard-rocking classic "July July!" and their best ballad ever, "Grace Cathedral Hill".
19. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
I can remember when this album first came out, I was just becoming entrenched into the indie rock music world on the Internet, and the hype around the band and this album -- all part of a New York City music revival -- was pretty intense. Interpol has kind of petered out during the rest of the decade, with albums of declining quality and influence, but this debut really was worth the press at the time. Just a great album, full of great slices of music, fresh takes on old new wave ways of alternative rock.
20. Superchunk - Here's to Shutting Up (2001)
In 2001, Superchunk released what turned out to be their final full-length of the decade (and perhaps ever, although this year's excellent EPs give a little hope to us massive Chunk fans out there), and it was one of their better albums ever, recovering from a two album stumble of Indoor Living and the better but not great Come Pick Me Up to make an album that lived up to their pedigree as the co-founders of indie rock music (along with Pavement), a decade earlier than the one that is about to pass.
21. The National - Alligator (2005)
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22. Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (2001)
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23. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)
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24. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan, The Great Lake State (2003)
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25. Handsome Furs - Plague Park (2007)
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26. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (2003)
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27. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
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28. Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
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29. Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug & Pint (2003)
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30. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005)
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31. Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are (2000)
32. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns (2008)
33. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire (2005)
34. The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time (2001)
35. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (2006)
36. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway (2003)
37. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (2008)
38. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (2002)
39. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)
40. A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward (2001)
41. Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (2002)
42. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (2005)
43. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (2006)
44. Death Cab for Cutie - The Forbidden Love EP (2000)
45. The Postal Service - Give Up (2002)
46. Portastatic - The Summer of the Shark (2003)
47. This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You (2008)
48. Swan Lake - Enemy Mine (2009)
49. Sigur Ros - Takk... (2005)
50. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)
.Honorable Mentions...
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
My Morning Jacket - Z
Pedro the Lion - Control
Mum - Finally We Are No One
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The National - Boxer
Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Bright Eyes - Every Day and Every Night EP
The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Mono - You are There
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
Saxon Shore - Four Months of Darkness
Great list so far. RSL would be my favorite album of the decade if not my favorite album ever. Can't wait to see the rest of the list.
Posted by: Kelly | November 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Great list. We're not too far apart (http://rateyourmusic.com/list/grrrama/top_of_the_noughts__the_30_albums_that_made_my_decade_f1) except that I obviously don't rate Sunset Rubdown quite as highly. I can see Random Spirit Lover, but Dragonslayer at five?
Sophtware Slump is a massively underrated album, as is Apologies to the Queen Mary generally.
Looking forward to the rest of your list. Interested to know about your Arcade Fire - thesis connection...
Posted by: Adam | November 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Thanks Kelly, we definitely have similar interests in music.
Yeah, Adam, my obsession with Sunset Rubdown isn't generally shared, and I didn't know where exactly to put Dragonslayer (I absolutely love it, but I have no perspective yet after only 6 months). I liked your list too and you'll find a lot more matches on the rest of the list (although Kid A didn't make my list at all, I'm also unique in not loving Radiohead as much as everyone else).
The Arcade Fire thesis... hmm... it's actually generating a lot of attention at school, which is funny, but I don't want to reveal too many specifics other than that the band plays a significant role in the novel I'm writing for thesis. It's still in the early stages though.
Posted by: Bill | November 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM
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Posted by: Wayne | November 10, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Sorry. Ignore the above 'comment'.
Great list Bill. I am currently compiling by own list and I think ours will be
very, very similar. Your top 5 is pure gold and hard to argue with.
I agree also that Sophtware Slump is a better album then OK Computer.
Posted by: Wayne | November 10, 2009 at 07:29 PM
Can't wait to read it, Wayne!
Posted by: Bill | November 11, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Hello
Oh wow this is really very good list.Some are my favorite albums of this list and now I will definitely try to download this.Thank you very much for giving such wonderful list to us.You have done a good job.Keep up the good work.
Posted by: grossesse | November 14, 2009 at 07:35 AM
My man..just stumbled on the site through stereogum, and am blown away by your list. Spencer Krug is a god (my g/f stitched his picture into a pillow for me as a tongue in cheek joke) and RSL is my favourite album ever. Like you, I don't exactly know 'why'..it just..is.
Posted by: Gob Bluth | January 13, 2010 at 02:57 AM
Cool, glad you guys agree, especially about Spencer. And I love your sign in name, Gob (one of the best shows ever).
Posted by: Bill | January 13, 2010 at 12:03 PM