Posted November 7, 200915 yr Thisispop's Top 100 Studio Albums of the Decade :dance: :yahoo: :w00t: :cheer: As a decade nears its end it is time to compile my Top 100 Albums of the Decade (& Worst 20) that I bought: With not many weeks left these are all the studio albums which I've handed over (varying amounts of) cash for: Adele 19 2008 Aimee Mann Magnolia ost. / Bachelor No.2 2000 Aimee Mann Lost In Space 2002 Aimee Mann The Forgotten Arm 2005 Aimee Mann @#%&! Smilers 2008 Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept 2002 Alanis Morissette So Called Chaos 2004 Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Acoustic 2005 Alanis Morissette Flavors Of Entanglement 2008 Alicia Keys Songs In A Minor 2001 Alicia Keys The Diary Of 2003 Alicia Keys As I Am 2007 Alison Moyet Voice 2004 Alison Moyet The Turn 2007 All Saints Studio 1 2006 Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer 2008 Amy Macdonald This Is The Life 2007 Amy Winehouse Frank 2003 Amy Winehouse Back To Black 2006 Anastacia Anastacia 2004 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion 2009 Antony & The Johnsons I'm A Bird Now 2005 Arcade Fire Funeral 2005 Arcade Fire Neon Bible 2007 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006 Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare 2007 Arctic Monkeys Humbug 2009 Badly Drawn Boy The Hour Of Bewilderbeast 2000 Bangles Doll Revolution 2003 Bats For Lashes Fur & Gold 2007 Bats For Lashes Two Suns 2009 Beck Sea Change 2002 Beth Rowley Little Dreamer 2008 Blur Think Tank 2003 Britney Spears Blackout 2007 Britney Spears Circus 2008 Bruce Springsteen The Rising 2002 Cat Power The Greatest 2006 Catatonia Paper Scissors Stone 2001 Cherry Ghost Thirst For Romance 2007 Christina Aguilera Stripped 2002 Christina Aguilera Back To Basics 2006 Colbie Caillat Coco (Deluxe Edition) 2008 Coldplay Parachutes 2000 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head 2002 Coldplay X&Y 2005 Coldplay Viva La Vida 2008 Coral The Coral 2002 Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 2006 Corrs In Blue 2000 Corrs Borrowed Heaven 2004 Corrs Home 2005 Crowded House Time On Earth 2007 Darius Dive In 2002 Darkness Permission To Land 2003 David Bowie Heathen 2002 David Bowie Reality 2003 David Gilmour On An Island 2006 David Gray A New Day At Midnight 2002 David Gray Life In Slow Motion 2005 Diana Krall The Look Of Love 2001 Diana Krall The Girl In The Other Room 2004 Dido No Angel 2001 Dido Life For Rent 2003 Dogs Die In Hot Cars Please Describe Yourself 2004 Duffy Rockferry 2008 Duran Duran Pop Trash 2000 Duran Duran Astronaut 2004 Duran Duran Red Carpet Massacre 2007 Eagles Long Road Out Of Eden 2007 Editors The Back Room 2005 Editors An End Has A Start 2007 Elbow Asleep At The Back 2001 Elbow Cast Of Thousands 2003 Elbow Leaders Of The Freeworld 2005 Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid 2008 Embrace Out Of Nothing 2004 Embrace This New Day 2006 Enemy We Live & Die In These Towns 2007 Eva Cassidy Time After Time 2000 Feeling Twelve Stops And Home 2006 Feeling Join With Us 2008 Feist Reminder 2007 Finn Brothers Everyone Is Here 2004 Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine 2005 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 2002 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 2008 Florence + The Machine Lungs 2009 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand 2004 Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better 2005 Fratellis Costello Music 2006 Friendly Fires Friendly Fires 2008 George Michael Patience 2004 Girls Aloud Chemistry 2005 Girls Aloud Tangled Up 2007 Girls Aloud Out Of Control 2008 Go Team Proof Of Youth 2007 Goldfrapp Felt Mountain 2000 Goldfrapp Black Cherry 2003 Goldfrapp Supernature 2005 Goldfrapp Seventh Tree 2008 Gorillaz Gorillaz 2001 Gorillaz Demon Days 2005 Graham Coxon Happiness In Magazines 2004 Green Day American Idiot 2004 Guillemots Through The Windowpane 2006 Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy 2008 Gwen Stefani Love Angel Music Baby 2004 Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape 2006 Hives Your New Favourite Band 2001 Hoosiers The Trick Of Life 2007 Horrors Primary Colours 2009 Imogen Heap Ellipse 2009 Jayhawks Smile 2000 Jem Finally Woken 2004 Jet Get Born 2003 Joan As Police Woman Real Life 2006 Joan As Police Woman To Survive 2008 Joanna Newson Ys 2006 John Legend Get Lifted 2005 Justin Timberlake Justified 2002 Kaiser Chiefs Employment 2005 Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob 2007 Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads 2008 Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 2009 Kate Bush Aerial 2005 Kate Nash Made Of Bricks 2007 Katie Melua Call Off The Search 2003 Katie Melua Piece By Piece 2005 Keane Hopes and Fears 2004 Keane Under The Iron Sea 2006 Keane Perfect Symmetry 2008 Killers Hot Fuss 2004 Killers Sam's Town 2006 Killers Day & Age 2008 Kirsty Maccoll Tropical Brainstorm 2000 Klaxons Myths Of The Near Future 2007 KT Tunstall Eye Of The Telescope 2005 KT Tunstall Drastic Fantastic 2007 Kylie Minogue Light Years 2000 Kylie Minogue Fever 2001 Kylie Minogue Body Language 2003 Kylie Minogue X 2007 Lady GaGa The Fame 2009 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke 2008 Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of The Understatement 2008 Late Of The Pier Fantasy Black Channel 2008 Laura Marling Alas I Cannot Swim 2008 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver 2007 Libertines Up The Bracket 2002 Lily Allen Alright, Still 2006 Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You 2009 Linkin Park Hybrid Theory 2000 Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes Supernova 2001 Little Boots Hands 2009 Lucie Silvas Breathe In 2005 M.I.A Kala 2007 Madonna Music 2000 Madonna American Life 2003 Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor 2005 Madonna Hard Candy 2008 Manic Street Preachers Know Your Enemy 2001 Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers 2007 Maps We Can Create 2007 Massive Attack Collected 2006 Maximo Park A Certain Trigger 2005 Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures 2007 McFly Radio:ACTIVE 2008 MGMT Oracular Spectacular 2008 Michael Jackson Invincible 2001 Mika Life In Cartoon Motion 2007 Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 2007 Morrissey You Are The Quarry 2004 Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormenters 2006 Mull Historical Society Loss 2001 Muse Black Holes & Revelations 2006 Muse The Resistance 2009 Mylo Destroy Rock & Roll 2005 Natalie Imbruglia Counting Down The Days 2005 Neil Finn One Nil 2001 Nelly Furtado Folklore 2003 Nelly Furtado Loose 2006 Neon Neon Stainless Style 2008 Nerina Pallot Dear Frustrated Superstar 2001 Nerina Pallot Fires 2006 Nerina Pallot The Graduate 2009 New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom 2007 No Doubt Rock Steady 2002 Norah Jones Come Away With Me 2002 Norah Jones Feels Like Home 2004 Norah Jones Not Too Late 2007 Oasis Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants 2000 Oasis Heathen Chemistry 2002 Oasis Don't Believe The Truth 2005 Oasis Dig Out Your Soul 2008 Orson Bright Idea 2006 Outkast Speakerboxx/The Love Below 2003 P!nk M!ssundaztood 2002 P!nk I'm Not Dead 2006 P!nk Funhouse 2008 Paloma Faith Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? 2009 Paul McCartney Driving Rain 2001 Paul McCartney Chaos & Creation In The Backyard 2005 Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full 2007 Paul McCartney The Fireman - Electric Arguments 2008 Paul Weller 22 Dreams 2008 Pet Shop Boys Fundamental 2006 Pipettes We Are The Pipettes 2006 Portishead Third 2008 Prince Musicology 2004 Prince 3121 2006 Prince Planet Earth 2007 Prodigy Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned 2004 Prodigy Invaders Must Die 2009 Radiohead Kid A 2000 Radiohead Amnesiac 2001 Radiohead Hail to the Thief 2003 Radiohead In Rainbows 2007 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium 2006 Red Hot Chilli Peppers By The Way 2002 Regina Spektor Begin To Hope 2006 Regina Spektor Far 2009 REM Reveal 2001 REM Around The Sun 2004 REM Accelerate 2008 Richard Hawley Coles Corner 2005 Robbie Williams Sing When You're Winning 2000 Robbie Williams Escapology 2002 Robbie Williams Intensive Care 2005 Robbie Williams Rudebox 2006 Robbie Williams Reality Killed The Radio Star 2009 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand 2007 Robyn Robyn 2007 Rufus Wainwright Poses 2001 Rufus Wainwright Want One 2003 Rufus Wainwright Want Two 2005 Rufus Wainwright Release The Stars 2007 Sandi Thom Smile…. It Confuses People 2006 Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters 2004 Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah 2006 Semisonic All About Chemistry 2001 Shakira She Wolf 2009 Shelby Lynne Love …. Shelby 2001 Siouxsie Sioux Mantaray 2007 Snow Patrol Final Straw 2004 Snow Patrol Eyes Open 2006 Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns 2008 Stereophonics Just Enough Education to Perform 2001 Stereophonics You Gotta Go There To Come Back 2003 Stereophonics Language Sex Violence Other 2005 Strokes Is This It 2001 Sugababes Angels With Dirty Faces 2002 Sugababes Three 2003 Sugababes Taller In More Ways 2005 Super Furry Animals Rings Around The World 2001 Supergrass Life On Other Planets 2002 Supergrass Road To Rouen 2005 Take That Beautiful World 2006 Take That The Circus 2008 Tears For Fears Everybody Loves A Happy Ending 2004 Tenacious D Tenacious D 2002 The Bird And The Bee Ray Guns Are Not The Future 2009 The Good The Bad & The Queen The Good The Bad & The Queen 2007 Thom Yorke The Eraser 2006 Ting Tings We Started Nothing 2008 TLC 3D 2002 Travis The Invisible Band 2001 Travis 12 Memories 2003 Travis The Boy With No Name 2007 U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind 2000 U2 How To Dismantle The Atomic Bomb 2004 U2 No Line On The Horizon 2009 Usher Confessions 2004 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend 2008 Verve Forth 2008 White Stripes Elephant 2003 Will Young From Now On 2002 Will Young Friday's Child 2003 Will Young Keep On 2005 Will Young Let It Go 2008 All 280 of them! In the remaining weeks after Spotifying/We7-ing them I'm likely to purchase: Norah Jones – The Fall Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream Alicia Keys – The Element of Freedom So do any of you want to comment or predict which albums will feature highly or not in my countdown?
November 8, 200915 yr Author So starting off with the worst 20 studio albums I have bought this decade: #20 Goldfrapp - Supernature (2005) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/PRERELCDFRAPP.JPG Any album that starts off with an opening track / lead single (Ooh La La) that sounds like an attempt to channel Marc Bolan but ends up more Alvin Stardust doing an inferior rip off of Rachel Stevens - Some Girls is in trouble. Coming from an act who had previously released two wonderful albums, this relatively commercial album of sub standard Kylie-esque tracks left me feeling cold and depressed. #19 The Feeling - Join With Us (2008) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/FEELING07.JPG After releasing a great debut album of melodic power pop; this UK band followed it up with a sophomore slump of an album. Not a bad album to listen to, but a largely unmemorable one due to the lack of melodies and hooks that made the debut a pleasure. #18 Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (2008) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/BUN144CD.JPG This Leeds based act are a classic example of decreasing returns syndrome. This third album suggested they were running out of ideas fast. Mark Ronson's production made little impact in changing their sound from the first two albums.
November 8, 200915 yr Author #17 U2 - No Line On The Horizon (2009) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/1796035.JPG In 2000 this Irish four-piece reclaimed their crown as the biggest and best band in the world; in 2009 they released their weakest album IMHO since 1981's October. Bar the track Magnificient this album was largely a borefest which merely confirmed that they were now the new Rolling Stones (past their sell by date creatively, but still great live), as the likes of Coldplay and The Killers do Absolute Rock anthemic anthems far better now. The lead single Get On Your Boots was as hideous as hypocrite Irish tax dodger Bono going on about Third World debt sucking up to world leaders. #16 Kate Nash Made Of Bricks (2007) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/1743143.JPG Hands up who else was fooled into buying this album due to the sheer brilliance of Foundations only to find over the half the album was rubbish no Laura Marling folk or irritating sub Victoria Wood piano parody ditties? Still track 8 was aptly named.... #15 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium (2006) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/9362442222.JPG A piece of advice for any musos out there: If you are going to release a double CD worth of material make damn sure there are a strong set of songs with a diverse variety of musical ideas, and tempos and sounds. Don't release an album with a drab Rick Rubin production where all of the songs seem to merge into one, bar the Tom Petty rip off lead single Dani California.
November 8, 200915 yr Author #14 Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns (2008) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/1785259.JPG This fifth album from this Northern Irish act was a huge let down, coming after the rather good Final Straw & Eyes Open albums suggesting this Absolute Rock worshipped guitar anthemic rock act was running out of ideas. Thankfully their new single (Just Say Yes) from their forthcoming career retrospective suggests Gary Lightbody & co have rediscovered their creativity. #13 All Saints - Studio 1 (2006) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/3784412.JPG I feel a bit mean including this in the countdown as I only spent £1.99 on buying the album. Which is about all it is worth. Bar the wonderful comeback single Rock Steady this album really is surprisingly slim pickings (there is nothing else on the album close to the greatness of Appleton - Don't Worry or Shaznay Lewis - Never Felt Like This Before) and only highlights how impressive Take That's comeback has been. #12 Lily Allen - Alright, Still (2006) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/3670282.JPG The best way to describe this album IMHO is "The singles = all killer, the rest = all filler". I can still feel the disappointment of being duped when I bought this album first week only to release that there are only four good tracks on it, as the non singles track sound like annoying Mockney bird doing her poor geezer Ian Dury attempt over sub The Streets backing music. Thank goodness her second album was a good as this album was so poor. Not the last Mercury Music Award nominated album in this countdown.
November 8, 200915 yr #16 Kate Nash Made Of Bricks (2007) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/1743143.JPG Hands up who else was fooled into buying this album due to the sheer brilliance of Foundations only to find over the half the album was rubbish no Laura Marling folk or irritating sub Victoria Wood piano parody ditties? Still track 8 was aptly named.... #14 Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns (2008) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/1785259.JPG This fifth album from this Northern Irish act was a huge let down, coming after the rather good Final Straw & Eyes Open albums suggesting this Absolute Rock worshipped guitar anthemic rock act was running out of ideas. Thankfully their new single (Just Say Yes) from their forthcoming career retrospective suggests Gary Lightbody & co have rediscovered their creativity. #12 Lily Allen - Alright, Still (2006) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/3670282.JPG The best way to describe this album IMHO is "The singles = all killer, the rest = all filler". I can still feel the disappointment of being duped when I bought this album first week only to release that there are only four good tracks on it, as the non singles track sound like annoying Mockney bird doing her poor geezer Ian Dury attempt over sub The Streets backing music. Thank goodness her second album was a good as this album was so poor. Not the last Mercury Music Award nominated album in this countdown.I own these so far. Although I LOVE Kate Nash's album and I Like Snow Patrol's and Lily's. Although Lily's is very overrated. I've heard The Feelings second album, and I must agree. MAJOR letdown.
November 8, 200915 yr Author #11 REM - Around The Sun (2004) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/9362493152.JPG After over 20 years of not getting close to making a bad album, the Athens, Georgia alternative rockers dropped this clanger of mediocrity that had little to recommend it. Even music critics who seemingly by the unwritten law of music journalism struggled to justify this album getting 3 Star reviews... Like the latest U2 album it was rather low tempo, glacial sounding and lacking in hooks and melodies = dull. #10 Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (2007) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MIKALIFEPRECD.JPG Why did I buy this album? Yes, lead single Grace Kelly was a glorious mix of Freddie Mercury meets Scissor Sisters meets Rufus Wainwright, but the actual album cover should have been taken as a warning for the hyper over theoatrical, over camp, over annoying music on the rest of the CD. The musical equivalent of having a party of 6 year old children running round your house after each drinking a whole bottle of Sunny Delight. Makes me want to have a lie down in a dark room and listen to Nick Drake as an antidote. #09 Orson - Bright Idea (2006) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/9877384.JPG Yet another album bought in error after a hearing a brilliant lead single (No Tomorrow). This Hollywood pop-quintet would never had got me to hand over my cash if music streaming sites (Spotify or We7) existed back then. The fact they went on to write for the likes of the Saturdays says it all really.
November 8, 200915 yr Surprised about Kate Nash and Mika in here. But totally agree about Kaiser Chiefs. Yours Truly Angry Mob is just like the opposite: brilliant album.
November 8, 200915 yr Author #08 Stereophonics - You Gotta Go There To Come Back (2003) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/VVR1026342.JPG A strange album in so far that the singles (Maybe Tomorrow, Madame Helga, Moviestar & Since I Told You It's Over) by the Welsh rockers are pretty good, but the rest of the album is laboured, uninspired pub rock at its most dullest which sounds as enjoyable to record as it is to listen to. #07 Verve - Forth (2008) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/VERVE07.JPG I was delighted when I heard Richard Ashcroft had reformed his old Wigan based BritPop band. Their triumphant performance at Glastonbury and the lead single (Love Is Noise) suggested they were going to pick up where the left off ..... but oh dear after the first three tracks the album is an atmospheric underwhelming dirge closer in quality to Richard Ashcroft's patchy solo career and nowhere near the greatness of the 1990s Urban Hymns & A Northern Soul albums. #06 Robbie Williams - Intensive Care (2005) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/3418232.JPG His first album since splitting with tunesmith/songwriter Guy Chambers, saw the "Rich beyond his wildest dreams" former fat dancer out of Take That team up with Stephen Duffy. As a result an album of competent but bland material was produced that was not as good as either Robbie's previous output with Chambers' nor Duffy's (solo or the folk influenced the Lilac Time). The awful cod Sting reggae track Tripping and the last single from the album Sin Sin Sin summed up how poor this album was for me. Bar the album track (the very Lilac Time-esque) The Trouble With Me, Robbie's increasingly arrogant and insincere lyrics came across as unlikeable as Danyl Johnson on X-Factor. Little wonder a fall from grace with the public and media was around the corner ....
November 8, 200915 yr The only ones I'd argue with is 'Supernature' which I think is a great commercial pop album and 'Alright, Still' which was a good enough album, with only 2 or 3 filler songs on it. 'Stadium Arcadium' would easily be in my top 5 worst. It's absolutely dreadful.
November 8, 200915 yr Author #05 Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy (2001) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/5018802.JPG On this 2001 album the Welsh alternative rockers went political and (unfortunately) came up with their own equivalent of the pretentious misfiring Clash - Sandinista album. Give credit where credit is due they tried a load of different ideas on this album ..... its such a pity that few of them worked. But I think the quality control on this lengthy album can best be summed up by being the only album in my entire collection where the hidden track is by far the best track on the album. :lol: 1FG_w_O3Q-E Manic Street Preachers - We Are All Bourgeois Now #04 Paul McCartney - Driving Rain (2001) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/5355102.JPG Hands up, who wants an album of love songs to Heather Mills? This album has deservedly been nicknamed by MaCCa/Beatles fans as "Drivel Vain" for good reason because it is Paul McCartney at his worst - lazy, trite lyrics and under developed musical ideas as naff as his Heather influenced dyed hair and use of botox. The former Beatle has always created his best work when he has something to prove. Thankfully the media coverage in the aftermath of his disastrous second marriage to the "Geordie gold digger" ensured the rest of his output in this decade would be far far better.
November 8, 200915 yr Author #03 Kylie Minogue - X (2007) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/PRERELCDKMX.JPG Not necessarily the third worst album I've bought this decade, but it deserves this low placing for knowing what tracks she allegedly rejected for the album (Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor, Marc Almond - Kitsche, Scissor Sister - White Diamond, Mylo - I'm In The Mood For Love, Boy George/Amanda Ghost - I'm Ready and further unspecified tracks by the likes of the Pet Shop Boys, Siobhan Fahey, Goldfrapp & Sneaky Sound System). Knowing some of the tracks she rejected yet she found room for the hideous Nu-Di-Ty & Heart Beat Rock. Whilst not coming back with The One as the lead single suggests that her sister is better at judging than she is. In retrospect the Goldfrapp pastiche Two Hearts was not such a bad choice as a lead single with the video being a clear tribute to unlikely long time mentor David Bowie (who has equally suffered his own serious health issues away from the public eye) CJYopoBth64 Kylie Minogue - White Diamond (X album out-take) #02 Madonna - Hard Candy (2008) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MADONNA07.JPG It had to happen sometime, but after 25 years Madonna finally made a terrible album of uninspired urban pop music produced by Timbaland, Timberlake, The Neptunes, and Nate "Danja" Hills, that suggested that instead of leading the pack of female pop artists she had fallen behind Britney, Xtina, Nelly, P!nk, Gwen ..... Little wonder Britney Spears hailed herself as the Queen of Pop on her next album (Circus) because this album amounts to an abdication which the new tracks on her Celebration: Greatest Hits album suggests could be permanent.
November 8, 200915 yr loads of albums I love in here :( Lily, Mika, Kate Nash, All Saints are amongst my favourites :lol: I liked Kylie's X but it was a bit of an identity crisis, I felt like I was listening to a load of songs thrown together with no cohesion or tracklist planning whatsoever Body Language however was ten times worse in my opinion, terrible album
November 8, 200915 yr Author And the worst album that I bought this decade is a former Mercury Music Award winning album .......... #01 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future (2007) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/KLAXONSPRECD.JPG What can I say except I think this album is horrific. The lyrics are bobbins; the production has way too much treble. I think you need to be taking certain substances to enjoy it. Their cover of Grace's Not Over Yet is hideous. Nu Rave was an horrific musical concept nearly as bad as Emo. Yet "trendy" Radio 1 and NME's Conor McNicholas bummed the album, most offensively when he was on the Mercury Music Award panel when this album shocking beat Bats For Lashes - Fur and Gold and Amy Winehouse - Back To Black. This album is a triumph of style over content which bar the outstanding Golden Skans, Gravity's Rainbow and the alright Atlantis To Interzone is awful. If you seriously think this is a great album then I think "you must be out of your brilliant mind" as I agree with former Furniture singer/songwriter turned music writer for Melody Maker, Mojo, The Word and The Times Jim Irvin famously who gave the album a one star review. For me this album can be best summed up by the brilliant pi$$take. oCWhBwMGuQc The Mighty Boosh - Eels "Elements of the past and future combined to make something not quite as good as either..."
November 8, 200915 yr I adored Kate Nash's album! :( Kylie's X was pretty good too. Madonna's 'Hard Candy' was pretty $h!t though.
November 8, 200915 yr Nothing i'll disagree with you too much on. Kate had some good songs on hers though imo and I am rather fond of X. I've never listened to Supernature but I do like the singles from it more than the majority of Goldfrapp's other material.
November 8, 200915 yr #10 Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (2007) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MIKALIFEPRECD.JPG Why did I buy this album? Yes, lead single Grace Kelly was a glorious mix of Freddie Mercury meets Scissor Sisters meets Rufus Wainwright, but the actual album cover should have been taken as a warning for the hyper over theoatrical, over camp, over annoying music on the rest of the CD. The musical equivalent of having a party of 6 year old children running round your house after each drinking a whole bottle of Sunny Delight. Makes me want to have a lie down in a dark room and listen to Nick Drake as an antidote. #09 Orson - Bright Idea (2006) http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/9877384.JPG Yet another album bought in error after a hearing a brilliant lead single (No Tomorrow). This Hollywood pop-quintet would never had got me to hand over my cash if music streaming sites (Spotify or We7) existed back then. The fact they went on to write for the likes of the Saturdays says it all really.I like both these albums :( 'Life In Cartoon Motion' is an amazing, pure pop album. I also loved Orson's album. Their follow up was shit though. I haven't heard it in a while though...
November 9, 200915 yr Good (bad :lol:?) countdown so far, I agree with lots of the albums on that list :P
November 12, 200915 yr Author OK...... I just post my #150 to #101 albums in sets of five with (relatively) little fanfare: http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/LEX067CD.JPGhttp://images.musicnet.com/albums/003/839/507/c.jpeghttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/PRESCISSORCD.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MAXEARTHLYPRECD.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/XLCD383.JPG 150 Neon Neon - Stainless Style 2008 149 TLC - 3D 2002 (Track: Turntable) 148 Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah 2006 147 Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures 2007 146 Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires 2008
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