The Decade in Music

[Guest Van Mundegaarde]

Hello,

 

I've been inventorying the cd's in my collection and have completed the albums released from 2000 on. It's an impressive list and collection. Your's is most likely smaller and less impressive. This makes me better than you. That being understood, look at this list, I'll be damned if I spent all this time doing this without drawingmeaningless attention to myself.

 

Comment if you must, but remember, my taste is better than yours and your opinion will be revealed in time as embarrassingly wrong. It's better to just save your breath, you'll be needing it to praise me for having such a superior music collection.

 

2000:

 

1. Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker

2. And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead- Madonna

3. Arab Strap- Mad for Sadness

4. Joseph Arthur- Come to Where I'm From

5. At the Drive-In- Relationship of Command

6. The Avalanches- Since I Left You

7. Badly Drawn Boy- The Hour of the Bewilderbeast

8. The Beta Band- To You Alone EP

9. Bonnie Billy & Marquis de Tren- Get on Jolly EP

10. Bjork- Selmasongs

11. Broadcast- The Noise Made By People

12. Cat Power- The Covers Record

13. Clinic- Internal Wrangler

14. Common- Like Water for Chocolate

15. Crooked Fingers- Crooked Fingers

16. Cursive- Domestica

17. The Delgados- The Great Eastern

18. Deltron 3030- Deltron 3030

19. Dirty Three- Whatever You Love, You Are

20. Doves- Lost Souls

21. Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP

22. Enon- Believo!

23. Gas- Pop

24. Ghostface Killah- Supreme Clientele

25. Green Day- Warning!

26. PJ Harvey- Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

27. Idlewild- 100 Broken Windows

28. Iran- Iran

29. Jackie-o *beep* Fig. 5

30. Jurassic 5- Quality Control

31. King Biscuit Time- No Style EP

32. Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek- Reflection Eternal

33. Le Tigre- Le Tigre

34. Les Savy Fav- EMOR (Rome Upside Down) EP

35. Low- One More Reason to Forget

36. Aimee Mann- Bachelor No. 2

37. Max Tundra- Some Friend You Turned Out to Be

38. The Microphones- It was Hot, We Stayed in the Water

39. Mirah- You Think It's Like This but It's Really Like This

40. Outkast- Stankonia

41. Pearl Jam- Binaural

42. Primal Scream- XTRMNTR

43. Queens of the Stone Age- Rated R

44. Radiohead- Kid A

45. Self- Gizmodgery

46. Shellac- 1000 Hurts

47. Sleater-Kinney- All Hand on the Bad One

48. Elliott Smith- Figure 8

49. Smog- Dongs of Sevotion

50. Sufjan Stevens- A Sun Came

51. Summer Hymns- Voice Brother and Sister

52. Super Furry Animals- Mwng

53. Avey Tare & Panda Bear- Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished

54. Amon Tobin- Supermodified

55. Travis- The Man Who

56. Two Lone Swordsmen- Tiny Reminders

57. John Vanderslice- Mass Suicide Occult Figurines

58. Ween- White Pepper

59. The White Stripes- De Stijl

60. Yo La Tengo- And Then the Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

 

2001:

 

1. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.- In the Geocentric World Of

2. Ryan Adams- Gold

3. Aesop Rock- Labor Days

4. Air- 10,000 Hz. Legend

5. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead- Relative Ways EP

6. Autechre- Confield

7. The Beta Band- Hot Shots II

8. Bonnie ' Prince' Billy- Ease Down the Road

9. Bonny Billy- More Revery EP

10. Bjork- Vespertine

11. Built to Spill- Ancient Melodies of the Future

12. Cake- Comfort Eagle

13. Califone- Roomsound

14. Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein

15. Circulatory System- Circulatory System

16. Chris Clark- Clarence Park

17. Clinic- Walking With Thee

18. cLOUDDEAD- cLOUDDEAD

19. Crooked Fingers- Reservoir Songs EP

20. Cursive- Burst and Bloom EP

21. Daft Punk- Discovery

22. Death Cab For Cutie- The Photo Album

23. Destroyer- Streethawk: A Seduction

24. The Dismemberment Plan- Change

25. Dntel- Life is Full of Possibilities

26. Dump- That Skinny *beep* With the High Voice

27. Bob Dylan- Love and Theft

28. Explosions in the Sky- Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever

29. The Faint- Danse Macabre

30. Fennesz- Endless Summer

31. Ben Folds- Rockin' the Suburbs

32. Four Tet- Pause

33. Fugazi- The Argument

34. Grandaddy- The Sophtware Slump

35. Kristin Hersh- Sunny Border Blue

36. Jay-Z- The Blueprint

37. Mark Lanegan- Field Songs

38. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- The Tyranny of Distance

39. Les Savy Fav- Go Forth

40. Liars- They Threw Us All in a Ditch and Stuck a Monument on Top

41. Low- Things We Lost in the Fire

42. Stephen Malkmus- Stephen Malkmus

43. The Microphones- The Glow, Pt. 2

44. Modest Mouse- The Moon & Antarctica

45. Mogwai- My Father My King EP

46. Mogwai- Rock Action

47. Mouse on Mars- Idiology

48. Nas- Stillmatic

49. New Pornographers- Mass Romantic

50. Jim O' Rourke- Insignificance

51. Pinback- Blue Screen Life

52. Prefuse 73- Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives

53. Radiohead- Amnesiac

54. Set Fire to Flames- Sings Reign Rebuilder

55. The Shins- Oh, Inverted World

56. Songs: Ohia- Mi Sei Apparso Come un Fantasma

57. Spiritualized- Let it Come Down

58. Spoon- Girls Can Tell

59. Sufjan Stevens- Enjoy Your Rabbit

60. The Strokes- Is This It?

61. Summer Hymns- A Celebratory Arm Gesture

62. Tindersticks- Can Our Love...

63. Tindersticks- Trouble Every Day

64. Travis- The Invisible Band

65. Unwound- Leaves Turn Inside You

66. John Vanderslice- Time Travel is Lonely

67. Victory at Sea- Carousel

68. Rufus Wainwright- Poses

69. Gillian Welch- Time (the Revelator)

70. The White Stripes- White Blood Cells

71. John Zorn- Songs From the Hermetic Theater

 

2002:

 

1. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.- In C

2. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.- Univers Zen ou de Zero a Zero

3. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead- Source Tags & Codes

4. Andrew W.K.- I Get Wet

5. Audioslave- Audioslave

6. Badly Drawn Boy- About a Boy Soundtrack

7. Badly Drawn Boy- Have You Fed the Fish

8. Derek Bailey- Ballads

9. Devendra Banhart- Oh Me Oh My

10. Beck- Sea Change

11. Black Dice- Beaches & Canyons

12. Blackalicious- Blazing Arrow

13. Boards of Canada- Geogaddi

14. The Books- Thought For Food

15. David Bowie- Heathen

16. Broken Social Scene- You Forgot It In People

17. Califone- Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People

18. Neko Case- Blacklisted

19. Comets on Fire- Field Recordings from the Sun

20. Elvis Costello- When I Was Cruel

21. Dalek- From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots

22. Death Cab for Cutie- You Can Play These Songs With Chords

23. Deerhoof- Reveille

24. Dillinger Escape Plan- Irony is a Dead Scene EP

25. Doves- The Last Broadcast

26. El-P- Fantastic Damage

27. Elbow- Asleep in the Back

28. Missy Elliott- Under Construction

29. Eminem- The Eminem Show

30. Enon- High Society

31. Fennesz, O'Rourke, Rehberg- The Return of FennO'Berg

32. The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

33. Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

34. Guided by Voices- Universal Truths and Cycles

35. GZA- Legend of the Liquid Sword

36. Hot Hot Heat- Make Up the Breakdown

37. Hot Snakes- Suicide Invoice

38. Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights

39. Iron & Wine- The Creek Drank the Cradle

40. Jay-Z- The Blueprint 2.0

41. Philip Jeck- Stoke

42. Johann Johannsson- Englaborn

43. Talib Kweli- Quality

44. Max Tundra- Mixed by the Guy at the Exchange

45. Mclusky- Do Dallas

46. Mirah- Advisory Committee

47. The Mooney Suzuki- Electric Sweat

48. Mr. Lif- I Phantom

49. Ms. John Soda- No P. or D.

50. Nas- God's Son

51. N.E.R.D.- In Search Of...

52. The Notwist- Neon Golden

53. Pearl Jam- The Riot Act

54. Pretty Girls Make Graves- Good Health

55. Q and Not U- Different Damage

56. Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf

57. Racebannon- Satan's Kick'n Yr Dick'n

58. Rilo Kiley- The Execution of All Things

59. Rjd2- Deadringer

60. The Roots- Phrenology

61. The Secret Machines- September 000

62. Sleater-Kinney- One Beat

63. Songs: Ohia- It Didn't Rain

64. Sonic Youth- Murray Street

65. Spoon- Kill the Moonlight

66. The Streets- Original Pirate Material

67. Super Furry Animals- Rings Around the World

68. Amon Tobin- Out From Out Where

69. Yo La Tengo- The Sounds of the Sounds of Science

70. Tom Waits- Alice

71. Tom Waits- Blood Money

72. The Walkmen- Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone

73. Keith Fullerton Whitman- Playthroughs

74. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

75. Wolf Eyes- Dead Hills

76. John Zorn- IAO

 

2003:

 

1. Acid Mothers Temple- Mantra of Love

2. Aesop Rock- Bazooka Tooth

3. Alejandra & Aeron- Bousha Blue Blazes

4. Ellen Allien- Berlinette

5. Andrew W.K.- The Wolf

6. The Angels of Light- Everything is Good Here/ Please Come Home

7. Animal Collective- Here Comes the Indian

8. David Banner- Mississippi: The Album

9. William Basinski- The Disintegration Loops

10. Belle & Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress

11. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Master and Everyone

12. Blood Brothers- Burn Piano Island Burn!

13. Blur- Think Tank

14. The Books- The Lemon of Pink

15. British Sea Power- The Decline of British Sea Power

16. Broadcast- Haha Sound

17. Califone- Quicksand/Cradlesnakes

18. Cat Power- You Are Free

19. The Clientele- The Violet Hour

20. Comets on Fire- Comets on Fire

21. Cursive- The Ugly Organ

22. Cyann & Ben- Spring

23. The Dears- No Cities Left

24. Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism

25. The Decemberists- Castaways and Cutouts

26. The Decemberists- Her Majesty, The Decemberists

27. Deerhoof- Apple 'O

28. The Delgados- Hate

29. Dizzee Rascal- Boy in Da Corner

30. DM + Jemini- Ghetto Pop Life

31. Drive By Truckers- Decoration Day

32. Electric Six- Fire

33. Missy Elliott- This is Not a Test

34. Enon- Hocus Pocus

35. The Exploding Hearts- Guitar Romantic

36. Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

37. The Fiery Furnaces- Gallowsbird Park

38. The Flaming Lips- Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP

39. The Flaming Lips- The Fight Test Ep

40. Four Tet- Rounds

41. Frog Eyes- The Golden River

42. Grandaddy- Sumday

43. Jim Guthrie- Now, More Than Ever

44. Jeff Hanson- Son

45. Kristin Hersh- The Grotto

46. Holopaw- Holopaw

47. Jackie-O *beep* Magic Fire Music/ Wow!

48. Jay-Z- The Black Album

49. Junior Senior- D-D-Don't Stop the Beat

50. King Geedorah- Take Me to Your Leader

51. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Hearts of Oak

52. Lightning Bolt- Wonderful Rainbow

53. Lil' Jon & the Eastside Boys- Kings of Crunk

54. M83-Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts

55. Manitoba- Up in Flames

56. Menomena- I am the Fun Blame Monster

57. The Microphones- Mount Eerie

58. Mogwai- Happy Songs for Happy People

59. Mu- Afro Finger & Gel

60. New Pornographers- Electric Version

61. Non Prophets- Hope

62. Outkast- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

63. Pinback- Off Cell EP

64. The Postal Service- Such Great Heights EP

65. The Postal Service- The District Sleeps Alone Tonight EP

66. The Postal Service- Give Up

67. Prefuse 73- One Word Extinguisher

68. Pretty Girls Make Graves- The New Romance

69. Radiohead- Hail to the Theif

70. The Rapture- Echoes

71. Damien Rice- O

72. Saturday Looks Good To Me- All Your Summer Songs

73. The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow

74. Songs: Ohia- Magnolia Electric Co.

75. The Strokes- Room on Fire

76. Summer Hymns- Clemency

77. Super Furry Animals- Phantom Power

78. Supersilent- 6

79. Throwing Muses- Throwing Muses

80. Tindersticks- Waiting for the Moon

81. TV on the Radio- Young Liars EP

82. The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

83. Viktor Vaughn- Vaudeville Villain

84. Rufus Wainwright- Want One

85. M. Ward- The Transfiguration of Vincent

86. The White Stripes- Elephant

87. The Wrens- Meadowlands

88. Xiu Xiu- A Promise

89. Ying Yang Twins- Me & My Brother

90. John Zorn- Chimeras

 

2004:

 

1. Acid Mothers Temple- Does the Cosmic Shepard Dream of Electric Tapirs?

2. Adem- Homesongs

3. Air- Talkie Walkie

4. American Music Club- Love Songs For Patriots

5. Animal Collective- Sung Tongs

6. Annie- Anniemal

7. The Arcade Fire- Funeral

8. Architecture in Helsinki- Fingers Crossed

9. Joseph Arthur- Our Shadows Will Remain

10. Badly Drawn Boy- One Plus One is One

11. Devendra Banhart- Nino Rojo

12. Devendra Banhart- Rejoicing in the Hands

13. The Beastie Boys- To the 5 Boroughs

14. Belle & Sebastian- Books EP

15. The Beta Band- Heroes to Zeroes

16. Bjork- Medulla

17. Black Dice- Creature Comforts

18. The Black Keys- Rubber Factory

19. Blonde Redhead- Misery is a Butterfly

20. Blood Brothers- Crimes

21. David Byrne- Grown Backwards

22. Califone- Heron King Blues

23. Call and Response- Winds Take No Shape

24. Camera Obscura- Underachievers Please Try Harder

25. Castanets- Cathedral

26. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus

27. Cee-lo- Cee-lo Green is the Soul Machine

28. Ray Charles- Genius Loves Company

29. !!! (Chk Chk Chk)- Louden Up Now

30. Clinic- Winchester Cathedral

31. cLOUDDEAD- Ten

32. Leonard Cohen- Dear Heather

33. Comets on Fire- Blue Cathedral

34. The Concretes- The Concretes

35. Elvis Costello & The Imposters- The Delivery Man

36. The Cure- The Cure

37. De La Soul- The Grind Date

38. DJ Danger Mouse- The Grey Album

39. Death From Above 1979- You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

40. The Decemberists- The Tain EP

41. The Delgados- Universal Audio

42. Destroyer- Your Blues

43. DFA- Compilation #2

44. Dillinger Escape Plan- Miss Machine

45. Dizzee Rascal- Showtime

46. dj/ Rupture- Special Gunpowder

47. Dogs Die in Hot Cars- Please Describe Yourself

48. Drive By Truckers- Dirty South

49. Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt

50. Earlies- These Were the Earlies

51. El-P- High Water Mark

52. Espers- Espers

53. Excepter- KA

54. The Faint- Wet From Birth

55. The Features- Exhibit A

56. Felix da Housecat- Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever

57. Fennesz- Venice

58. The Fiery Furnaces- Blueberry Boat

59. Jason Forrest- Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash

60. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand

61. The Futureheads- The Futureheads

62. Ghostface- The Pretty Toney Album

63. The Go! Team- Thunder, Lightning, Strike

64. The Good Life- Album of the Year

65. Green Day- American Idiot

66. Interpol- Antics

67. Iron & Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days

68. Philip Jeck- 7

69. Johann Johannsson- Viroulegu Forsetar

70. Junior Boys- Last Exit

71. K-Os- Joyful Rebellion

72. Talib Kweli- The Beautiful Struggle

73. Mark Lanegan Band- Bubblegum

74. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Shake the Sheets

75. Les Savy Fav- Inches

76. Liars- They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

77. Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boys- Crunk Juice

78. Loretta Lynn- Van Lear Rose

79. Madvillain- Madvillainy

80. The Magnetic Fields- i

81. Nelly McKay- Get Away From Me

82. Mclusky- The Difference Between Me and You is I'm Not on Fire

83. M.I.A.- Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1

84. Mission of Burma- OffonOff

85. Modest Mouse- Good News For People Who Love Bad News

86. Morrissey- You are the Quarry

87. Mos Def- The New Danger

88. Nas- The Street's Disciple

89. A.C. Newman- Slow Wonder

90. Joanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mender

91. Of montreal- Satanic Panic in the Attic

92. Erland Oye- DJ Kicks

93. Panda Bear- Young Prayer

94. Pinback- Summer in Abandon

95. The Plastic Constellations- Mazatlan

96. Prince- Musicology

97. Q and Not U- Power

98. Ratatat- Ratatat

99. Max Richter- The Blue Notebooks

100. Rilo Kiley- More Adventurous

101. Rjd2- Since We Last Spoke

102. Rogue Wave- Out of the Shadow

103. The Roots- The Tipping Point

104. Saturday Looks Good to Me- Every Night

105. Scissor Sisters- Scissor Sisters

106. The Secret Machines- Now Here is Nowhere

107. William Shatner- Has Been

108. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- Of Natural History

109. Elliott Smith- From a Basement on a Hill

110. Snoop Doggy Dogg-- R & G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece

111. Sonic Youth- Sonic Nurse

112. Gwen Stefani- Love. Angel. Music. Baby.

113. The Streets- A Grand Don't Come for Free

114. Trick Daddy- Thug Matrimony

115. TV on the Radio- Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes

116. John Vanderslice- Cellar Door

117. Rufus Wainwright- Want Two

118. Tom Waits- Real Gone

119. The Walkmen- Bows & Arrows

120. Kanye West- The College Dropout

121. Jim White- Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See

122. Wilco- A Ghost is Born

123. Brian Wilson- Smile

124. Wolf Eyes- Burned Mind

125. Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles

126. Ying Yang Twins- My Brother & Me

127. The Zutons- Who Killed the Zutons?

 

 

I'm extremely attracted to myself just looking at this list. Women who feel the same should contact me. Men who feel this way should not. (I wish to add, however, that there is nothing wrong with your homosexual urges other than in the biblical and political sense)

 

In conclusion, I'm awesome.

 

And my self worth quite obviously dwarfs yours...

 

For those whose ire has been stirred, it's best not to resist such truths. Maybe if you ask me nicely i'll allow you to tell other people that you're my friend. But that doesn't give you a right to talk to me or make direct eye contact with me in public.

 

Discuss.

[Styles 0]

www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com

[Murmuring Beast 0]

Terrible gimmick.

[Guest Van Mundegaarde]

Well, this has been a disappointing exercise. I was hoping to see hoardes of people line up to argue with a completely arrogant, single minded post. Response has been less than exciting.

 

 

And look at how often i post, developing a gimmick when you post less than 15 times a year wouldn't really be worth it anyway.

[Narcoleptic Jumper 0]

I'm confused. Is this list a ranking or just an alphabetical list of everything you listened to?

[Guest Van Mundegaarde]

everything i own

 

its not ranked

 

just an inventory that i posted so that i didn't feel like i wasted my time

[Nighthawk 0]

Some of those are filed in the wrong year. I won't bother naming them.

[rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0]

Are you Pitchfork?

[Guest Fire and Knives]

He's Indie Kid #2.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

It's just Snoop Dogg now. He got rid of "Doggy" years ago.

[Nighthawk 0]

Did he really though or was it just a gesture? Like, you know, Common is still really Common Sense, and Trick Daddy is still Trick Daddy Dollars.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

I haven't seen "Snoop Doggy Dogg" on an album of his since possibly Tha Doggfather.

[Nighthawk 0]

I haven't listened to an album of his since possibly Tha Doggfather.

[Guest TheGregWitul]

I haven't seen "Snoop Doggy Dogg" on an album of his since possibly Tha Doggfather.

He can't have 'Snopp Doggy Dogg' on his albums due to Death Row owning the name, or something along those line - hence 'Snoop Dogg'...

 

 

And really, after seeing your 2004 list, it's quite clear that you're a Pitchfork geek. Annie, Dungen, etc.

 

I've had that Annie cd for quite some time, and seeing as it's kinda like Kylie's 'Light Years' or 'Fever' (but stronger in parts), it would have to have taken a review by Pitchfork praising the album for you to go out and buy it - and that is pathetic.

 

Poser.

 

 

j.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I've never understood that mentality. Oh god no, someone keyed me onto an album I otherwise wouldn't have listened to. What a travesty.

[Guest Fire and Knives]

The only people indier than the Pitchfork geeks are the Pitchfork geeks that virulently hate Pitchfork.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Chromeo is like the male alternative to Annie. Both are fuckign amazing. One is considered average by pitchfork, one is praised. I don't understand. I think Chromeo may evn be better. but not by much.