Your favourite album from 2000-2017?

[Porter Dimi]

From a post on Twitter, I thought it'd be a fun thing to replicate here. As in the title: what's your favourite album of every year from 2000 to 2017? I'll start:

00: The Avalanches - Since I Left You
01: Stereolab - Sound-Dust
02: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
03: Broadcast - Haha Sound
04: Madvillain - Madvillainy
05: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
06: J Dilla - Donuts
07: LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
08: Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1
09: St. Vincent - Actor
10: Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
11: Metronomy - The English Riviera
12: Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T
13: Julia Holter - Loud City Song
14: Mr Twin Sister - S/T
15: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
16: The Avalanches - Wildflower
17: Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

_{Had to toss up between The Avalanches and Radiohead twice, and Piñata is a very close second for 2014.}

[buttgammon]

00: Radiohead - Kid A
01: Bjork - Vespertine
02: Actually not sure...
03: The Rapture - Echoes
04: Fennesz - Venice
05: Tom Vek - We Have Sound
06: Burial - Burial (Untrue is better but 2007 was a very strong year for me)
07: The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
08: Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
09: Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
10: LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
11: Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
12: Laurel Halo - Quarantine
13: Tim Hecker - Virgins
14: Real Estate - Atlas
15: Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School
16: David Bowie - Blackstar
17: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

[Vodka Margarine]

I've decided to do this as honestly as possible and catalogue the records I was bang into at the time, not what I have since discovered and what I may now deem superior. So...

2000:  The Closer You Get - Six By Seven
2001:  Discovery - Daft Punk
2002:  Geogaddi - Boards Of Canada
2003:  Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
2004:  Kleptomania - Mansun
2005:  Road To Rouen - Supergrass
2006:  Black Holes And Revolations - Muse
2007:  Radiohead again
2008:  Crystal Castles
2009:  It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2010:  The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
2011:  Let England Shake - Peej
2012:  Lonerism - Tame Impala
2013:  Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
2014:  It's Album Time - Todd Terje
2015:  Music Complete - New Order
2016:  Blackstar - David Bowie
2017:  Slowdive - Slowdive

[jamiefairlie]

00 Trembling Blue Stars - Broken by Whispers
01 Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
02 The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
03 For Against - Coalesced
04 Rachel Goswell - Waves Are Universal
05 Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
06 The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely
07 The Innocence Mission - We Walked In Song
08 Sigur Rós ‎– Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
09 Sophia – There Are No Goodbyes
10 Midlake: The Courage of Others
11 Wye Oak: Civilian
12 Motorama - Calendar
13 Wire - Change Becomes Us
14 Real Estate - Atlas
15 Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
16 the innocence mission - Hello I Feel the Same
17 Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

[another Mr. Lizard]

As with Vodka Margarine's choices, mine are honest and unrevised - I may have changed my mind on a few of these in intervening years, but they were my picks in December of each year in question. (20-year-old me selected 'Fiction' by the Comsat Angels as 1982's best LP! So, not 'Hex' or 'You Can't Hide Your Love Forever', then. What a buffoon I was)


2000 Relationship Of Command - At The Drive-In
2001 Let It Come Down - Spiritualized
2002 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
2003 Skull Ring - Iggy Pop
2004 A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
2005 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
2006 Lost and Found - Daniel Johnston
2007 Proof Of Youth - The Go! Team
2008 My DNA - Manda Rin
2009 Popular Songs - Yo La Tengo
2010 Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
2011 Last Of The Country Gentlemen - Josh T. Pearson
2012 One Day I'm Going To Soar - Dexy's
2013 mbv - My Bloody Valentine
2014 Soused - Scott Walker and Sunn O)))
2015 Payola - Desaparecidos
2016 The Catastrophist - Tortoise
2017 How Did I Find Myself Here? - The Dream Syndicate

[jamiefairlie]

(20-year-old me selected 'Fiction' by the Comsat Angels as 1982's best LP! So, not 'Hex' or 'You Can't Hide Your Love Forever', then. What a buffoon I was)

Hey, nothing wrong with Fiction, 'What Else!?' is one of my favourite tracks :-)

[Serge]

00: Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump
01: Daft Punk: Discovery
02: Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Yanqui U.X.O.
03: Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power
04: Iron And Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
05: CSS: Cansei De Ser Sexy
06: LCD Soundsystem: 45:33
07: LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
08: Earth: The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
09: The Horrors: Primary Colours
10: The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack
11: Sun Araw: Ancient Romans
12: Dan Deacon: America
13: John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts
14: Caribou: Our Love
15: Ezra Furman: Perpetual Motion People
16: Les Halles: Transient
17: LCD Soundsystem: American Dream

Kind of feel like I'm almost cheating with '45:33', as it didn't come out as a physical release until 2007, so in my mind it comes after 'Sound Of Silver', but trawling through 2006 releases, I can't find anything that I liked half as much, and the original digital release was in 2006, so it counts! 'Geogaddi' and 'As Heard On Radio Soulwax Vol. 2' both came close enough to knock 'Yanqui U.X.O.' off the top spot for 2002, but then I remembered 'Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls', and that made it the winner.

[purlieu]

My collection of pop and electronics.

2000: Idlewild - A Hundred Broken Windows
2001: Autechre - Confield
2002: Idlewild - The Remote Part
2003: Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden
2004: Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
2005: Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
2006: This Et Al - Baby Machine
2007: Underworld - Oblivion With Bells
2008: Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends
2009: Archive - Controlling Crowds
2010: Max Richter - Infra
2011: A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
2012: The Future Sound of London - Environments 4
2013: Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
2014: Bedroom - Shade & System
2015: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
2016: The Future Sound of London - Environment 6+
2017: Paul Draper - Spooky Action

[BlodwynPig]

2000: CiM - Reference
2001: Future Beat Alliance - Disconnected
2002: Essa - Excitus Detritus
2003: Gracerooms - Too
2004: Dykehouse - Midrange
2005: Princess Superstar - My Machine
2006: Surface 10 - Surface Tensions
2007: Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
2008: Ozric Tentacles - Sunrise Festival
2009: Ross Couch - Night and Day
2010: Chico Mann - Analog Drift
2011: Maria Minerva - Tallinn at Dawn
2012: Laurel Halo - Quarantine
2013: Machinedrum - Vapor City
2014: Heterotic - Weird Drift
2015: bvdub - Tech from Times Past
2016: Berk - Bright Line
2017: Zadig the Jasp - ♱慈悲深い♱

[Norton Canes]

I went through a bit of an album-buying limbo from the late 90's to the early 2000's, in between the decline of the CD and the rise of the download, so the first few years of the new millennium are patchy. Then there was the Great Hard Drive Crash of '09, which means I don't have much up to that year either.

I could sift through my CDs but I can't be bothered checking all the release dates. These are from what I have on my PC now.

2000: Er
2001: Um
2002: Hang on
2003: Ellen Allien - Berlinette
2004: Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
2005: British Sea Power - Open Season
2006: Hot Chip - The Warning (Shit, is that really the only album I've got from 2006? It's certainly not the best)
2007: Justice - Cross
2008: Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
2009: Music Go Music - Expressions
2010: New Young Pony Club - The Optimist
2011: Le Corps Mince de Francoise - Love and Nature
2012: Grimes - Visions
2013: Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
2014: Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
2015: Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
2016: TEEN - Love Yes
2017: Austra - Future Politics

[Natnar]

2000: Bjork - Selmasongs
2001: Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls
2002: Peter Gabriel - UP
2003: Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
2004: The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
2005: Kate Bush - Aerial
2006: Mahogany - Connectivity
2007: Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime
2008: Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
2009: Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted tO sIN
2010: Laurie Anderson - Homeland
2011: Kate Bush - Director's Cut
2012: ????
2013: OMD - English Electric
2014: ????
2015: Laurie Anderson - Heart Of A Dog
2016: Kate Bush -Before The Dawn
2017: The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir

[sevendaughters]

some top stuff above that made my top 10s of that year when I was doing that kind of thing

EDIT: this is a dishonest and revised list but I haven't kept records and the forum I used to assiduously post lists on has been wiped

00: Lambchop - Nixon
01: US Maple - Acre Thrills
02: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - House Arrest
03: The Necks - Drive By
04: Sightings - Arrived In Gold
05: Broadcast - Tender Buttons and Xiu Xiu - La Foret (TIE)
06: J Dilla - Donuts
07: John Maus - Love Is Real
08: Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali
09: James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
10: Field Music - Measure
11: John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
12: honestly can't think of anything that really stands out for me
13: Deafheaven - Sunbather
14: Bing & Ruth - Tomorrow Was The Golden Age
15: Deradoorian - The Expanding Flower Planet
16: David Bowie - Blackstar
17: John Maus - Screen Memories

[Gregory Torso]

01: US Maple - Acre Thrills

Amazing album & band.

[garbed_attic]

2000: Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
2001: Björk - Vespertine
2002: The Residents - Demons Dance Alone [I could very easily have made a 2002 list alone, I found]
2003: Matmos - The Civil War
2004: Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
2005: The National - Alligator
2006: The Legendary Pink Dots - Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves
2007: Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
2008: Portishead - Third
2009: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic [another difficult year to select one album from]
2010: Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
2011: John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
2012: SoKo - I Thought I Was an Alien
2013: John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
2014: Tuomas Holopainen - Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge
2015: FFS - FFS
2016: Etao Shin - Fool (officially released in 2017 but I listened to it through 2016)
2017: John Maus - Screen Memories

[BlodwynPig]

I'll change my 2017 to

Nite Jewel: Real High

[Hundhoon]

2000..Primal Scream..Xtrmntr
2001..Fennez..Endless Summer
2002..Layo and Bushwacka..Night Works
2003..Killing Joke..Killing Joke
2004..Autolux..Future Perfect
2005..Boards of Canada..Campfire Headphase
2006..The Knife..Silent Shout
2007..Rufige Kru..Malice in Wonderland
2008..Wire..Object 47
2009..Lone..Ecstasy and Friends
2010..Salem..King Knight
2011..Oneohtrix Point Never..Replica
2012..Tamaryn..Tender New Signs
2013..DJ Sprinkles..Where Dancefloors Stand Still
2014..The Bug..Angels and Devils
2015..Citizenn..Human Interface
2016..Flying Colours..Mindfullness
2017..Marquis Hawkes..Social Housing

[daf]

Something happened in my brain around 1998, and new stuff just didn't seem do it for me anymore - so this is the few actual new albums I bought, plus where my musical nose led me.

2000 : XTC - Wasp Star
2001 : 1920's Hot Jazz bands (Bix Beiderbecke / Fred Waring / Charleston Chasers) (virtually everything from 1928 is a solid gold cracker!)
2002 : Fred Astaire / Paul Whiteman Orchestra / George Gershwin musicals - my top picks : 'Oh Kay' (1926), 'Of Thee I Sing' (1931), 'Pardon My English' (1932)
2003 : Leslie Sarony / George Formby / 1930's Dance Bands (Jack Hylton / Carrol Gibbons Savoy Orpheans)
2004 : Mansun - Kleptomania
2005 : Kate Bush - Aerial
2006 : Pre-1920's music - Billy Murray / Aileen Stanley / Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (excavated back as far as 1892 - which led naturally to . . .)
2007 : Wagner 'bleeding chunks' Highlights, which soon turned into . . .
2008 : Wagner Complete Operas - obsessive search for best version of each opera in stereo and mono : best singers / conductor & orchestra / sound quality (anything by Decca in the 60's is unbeatable)
2009 : Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome (single)
2010 : Disco compilations (Disco Discharge / Disco Demands / Disco Love) / 1970's singles compilations (100 Hits)
2011 : Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow
2012 : Disco albums : Donna Summer / Meco / Boris Midney / John Davis & The Monster Orchestra
2013 : 1970's albums : Queen / ELO / 10cc / Todd Rundgren / John Martyn / Judee Sill
2014 : Beatlemania tribute singles (eg. We Love You Beatles / Ringo For President / Saint Paul)
- - - -
since then I've mostly been buying the Big Finish Doctor Who spin offs (Jago & Litefoot, 4th & 6th Doctors).

I did hear a new song I absolutely loved a few weeks ago, though :
Black Sedan - Love on Love

[itsfredtitmus]

I'll change my 2017 to

Nite Jewel: Real High

you would

[Z]

I think this is a terrible thread idea but it's also reminded me of a bunch of great stuff I've forgotten (King Knight! Endless Summer! Berlinette!) so I'm pretty torn.


00: D'Angelo - Voodoo (a lot of contenders though)
01: Daft Punk - Discovery
02: The Disintegration Loops (nothing I especially care about, mind)
03: a few contenders, nothing I care too much for though
04: Madvilliany/Funeral
05: Common - Be
06: J Dilla - Donuts
07: Untrue (ludicrously strong year)
08: Portishead - Third
09: the Antlers - Hospice
10: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (very strong year)
11: Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
12: Kindred
13: Rival Dealer
14: Nothing
15: E-MO-TION
16: Avalanches - Wildflower
17: Nothing
18: TBA, seeing as I'm largley listening to hard bop jazz this year so far, I wouldn't be surprised if I don't listen to anything from 2018 until this phase wears off

2007, 2010 and 2015 all have 5+ albums that I'd rate above anything from several of those years. 2014 and 2017 in particular were spectacularly weak years as far as albums are concerned. Black Messiah is probably out and out the best album of 2014 but he released it so late in the year that I've a tendency to forget about it entirely, only just remembering it now.

45:33 is the best LCD Soundsystem album by a good distance

[holyzombiejesus]

2000 Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic Today is OK
2001 Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart
2002 James Yorkston & The Athletes - Moving Up Country/ Notwist - Neon Golden
2003 Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug & Pint
2004 The Go! Team - Thunder, Lighning, Strike
2005 Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
2006 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country
2007 Fucks knows
2008 James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls in
2009 Fanfarlo - Reservoir
2010 Wild Nothing - Gemini
2011 Widowspeak - Widowspeak or possibly the Craft Spells one
2012 Lightships - Electric Cables
2013 The Pastels - Slow Summits
2014 Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts
2015 Haiku Salut - Etch and Etch Deeper
2016 The Goon Sax - Up To Anything
2017 Crescent - Resin Pockets

[VelourSpirit]

Might use this thread to fill in my gaps from the 2000s since I barely listen to anything from then apparently

2000 He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... - A Silver Mt Zion
2001 Crush - Astrobrite
2002 Sunkissed - Guitar
2003 Velocity Design Comfort - Sweet Trip
2004 Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance
2005 Mysterious Skin - Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd
2006 Citrus - Asobi Seksu
2007 TOUT NEW AGE - A Sunny Day in Glasgow
2008 Deathconsciousness - Have a Nice Life
2009 I Had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose - Bombay Bicycle Club
2010 Beach Fossils - Beach Fossils
2011 Replica - Oneohtrix Point Never
2012 Visions - Grimes
2013 mbv - MBV
2014 Salad Days - Mac Demarco
2015 Everything Else Matters - Pinkshinyultrablast
2016 achievement - pilotredsun
2017 Slowdive - Slowdive

[Serge]

2000..Primal Scream..Xtrmntr

Damn! I always forget that this was actually released in 2000 - I think because 'Swastika Eyes' came out at the tail end of 1999, I always think that this did as well......so this would undoubtedly replace Grandaddy as my 2000 choice. Sorry Grandaddy.

[Gradual Decline]

My list of classic death metal...

2000: Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2001: Converge - Jane Doe
2002: Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills
2003: Khanate - Things Viral
2004: Burmese - Men
2005: Mindflayer ‎- Expedition To The Hairier Peaks
2006: The Goslings ‎- Grandeur Of Hair
2007: John Maus - Love Is Real
2008: Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
2009: Arizmenda ‎- Within The Vacuum Of Infinity
2010: Chuck Person ‎- Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1
2011: John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
2012: Ssaliva - RZA
2013: Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
2014: Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
2015: Mutoid Man - Bleeder
2016: 1991 - No More Dreams
2017: Mutoid Man - War Moans

[VelourSpirit]

So what's the worst year, is it 2006?

[Gradual Decline]

2008 Deathconsciousness - Have a Nice Life

Nice choice.

[VelourSpirit]

Nice choice.

Thanks, it was tough to decide between that and Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, Deerhunter, Grouper or Tears Run Rings really. Didn't expect 2008 to be one of the strongest years

[Z]

So what's the worst year, is it 2006?

It was 2017, the year where Kendrick Lamar's worst album topped most end of year lists.

2006 had Donuts, Silent Shout, Hell Hath No Fury, Harmony in Ultraviolet, The Devil and God..., Burial, Ys

[thraxx]

2000 Broadcast - The Noise made by People
2001 Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
2002 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2003 Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound
2004 Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005 Kate Bush - Aerial
2006 Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
2007 Fuck all
2008 British Sea Power - Do you like rock music
2009 Broadcast and Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
2010 Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain
2011 Fuck all
2012 Tindersticks - The Something Rain
2013 Mazzy Star - Seasons of your Day
2014 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
2015 Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You
2016 Fuck all
2017 Clocolan - Nothing Left to Abandon

Really hard - the last 10 years seem very barren.

[Brundle-Fly]

Christ, this is a task that's going to ages to compile because there is no way I'm going to wade through my CDS and vinyl squinting at dates as well as downloads. I'm out.

I liked the one with  Fit But Don't You Know It by The Streets.

That's all your getting.

[holyzombiejesus]

The early years of the 2000s were great, looking back. A few years later (post-2005), it all seemed to have gone to shit.