October 23, 201212 yr I didn't even know Laura Marling had released three albums. Had she not disappeared off the radar after 'I Speak Because I Can'? Clearly just mine.
October 24, 201212 yr Take out a few duds like Garbage, Kayne, Janelle, Robyn(album 1), Marina, Bloc Party and I like everything else. Good list.
October 24, 201212 yr Thought Kanye was surprisingly low given how many lists he seemed to figure in but looking back it was perhaps exaggerated by the long and easy to spot title :lol: "Funeral" is a worthy winner, nice to see that my favourite two from this decade (MBDTF and Suburbs) made it as well.
October 24, 201212 yr Take out a few duds like Garbage, Kayne, Janelle, Robyn(album 1), Marina, Bloc Party and I like everything else. Good list. :( these albums are incredible!! best that wonky pop / urban could really give.
October 24, 201212 yr 1 Arcade Fire - Funeral 225 9 30 4 Sufjan Stevens 'Illinois' 132 6 30 5 Bloc party - Silent Alarm 129 6 30 6 Florence + the Machine - Lungs 128 7 30 7 Robyn - Body Talk 127 7 26 8 Santigold - Santigold 126 8 23 9 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 125 7 28 10 Bon Iver 'Bon Iver' 102 5 28 11 Sleigh Bells - Treats 97 5 25 12 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) 95 6 26 13 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 94 4 30 16 Robyn - Robyn 87 4 29 17 Beach House - Teen Dream 85 4 26 21 Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim 77 4 27 22 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 77 4 27 23 Prodigy - Invaders Must Die 76 4 27 25 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 73 4 23 26 Bloc party - A Weekend in the City 72 3 30 27 Bloc party - Intimacy 72 3 28 28 Knife - Silent Shout (2006) 70 6 28 29 iamamiwhoami - kin 69 5 21 30 Marina & The Diamonds - Family Jewels 67 4 28 34 Royksopp - Junior 61 3 25 38 Joanna Newsom - Ys 55 2 30 40 Active Child - You Are All I See 53 3 20 45 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations 52 2 26 AMAZING shit. SANTA GOLD :lol: And I choose to ignore the fact that Laura Marling already released 2 more albums. It'll ALWAYS be ONLY about Alas I Cannot Swim.
October 24, 201212 yr I'm surprised Marling's last album made it on here, but fully in support of the other two being here - 'I Speak Because I Can' is sublime. Obvious but deserved #1. Good to see 'Kala' so high even if 'Arular' beats it handily. And YAY for 'Junior'!
October 24, 201212 yr Author The rest of the list 51 Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatarium 48 2 29 52 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 47 3 22 53 Animal Collective 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' 47 3 21 54 Radiohead - In Rainbows 45 2 27 55 Bon Iver : For Emma, Forever Ago 44 2 29 56 Fever Ray - Fever Ray 44 2 29 57 Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 43 2 26 58 Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts 43 3 26 59 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 42 2 27 60 Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now 41 2 21 61 Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting 39 2 29 62 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 39 2 26 63 Phoenix "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" 37 3 25 64 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 37 2 21 65 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002) 37 2 22 66 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare 37 3 16 67 Santigold - Master of My Make Believe 36 2 21 68 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 36 2 18 69 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 36 4 18 70 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 36 3 16 71 Fleet Foxes : Fleet Foxes 35 2 20 72 Burial - Untrue 35 2 24 73 Kate Bush - Aerial 35 2 20 74 Royksopp - Melody AM 35 2 20 75 Goldfrapp - Black Cherry 34 2 18 76 Libertines - Up The Bracket 34 2 17 77 Phantogram - Eyelid Movies 34 2 28 78 Muse - Absolution 33 2 19 79 Gorillaz - Demon Days 33 2 24 80 Green Day - American Idiot 32 2 30 81 Kasabian - Kasabian 32 2 23 82 White Stripes - Elephant 31 2 20 83 Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress 30 1 30 84 Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light 30 1 30 85 Killing Joke - Killing Joke 30 1 30 86 Ladytron - Witching Hour 30 1 30 87 Aphex Twin - Drukqs 30 2 15 88 James Blake - James Blake 30 2 15 89 Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz 30 2 22 90 Björk : Vespertine 30 2 15 91 Lucinda Williams - Essence (2001) second fave of all-time 30 1 30 92 Vienna Teng - Warm Strangers 30 1 30 93 Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster 29 1 29 94 Jarvis Cocker - The Jarvis Cocker Record 29 1 29 95 Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? 29 1 29 96 Patrick Wolf "The Magic Position" 29 1 29 97 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 29 2 15 98 Killers - Hot Fuss 29 2 25 99 Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke 29 2 21 100 Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (2000) 29 1 29 101 Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell (2004) 28 1 28 102 Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring 28 1 28 103 Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight 28 1 28 104 Doves - The Last Broadcast 28 2 21 105 Siouxsie - Mantaray 28 1 28 106 At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command 28 1 28 107 Friendly Fires "Friendly Fires" 27 2 15 108 Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk 27 1 27 109 Brooke Fraser - Flags 27 1 27 110 Gillian Welch - The Harrow & the Harvest (2011) 27 1 27 111 Pictureplane - Dark Rift 27 1 27 112 Kathleen Edwards – Failer 27 1 27 113 Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself 26 1 26 114 Grimes - Genesis 26 2 15 115 Broken Social Scene 'You Forgot It in People' 26 1 26 116 Syntax - Meccano Mind 26 1 26 117 Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 25 1 25 118 Sia - We Are Born 25 1 25 119 Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood 25 1 25 120 Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact 25 1 25 121 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 25 1 25 122 Why? – Alopecia 25 1 25 123 Patrick Wolf 'Wind in the Wires' 25 1 25 124 Curve - Gift 25 1 25 125 Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South (2004) 25 1 25 126 Metric - Fantasies 25 2 15 127 Primal Scream - XTRMNTR 24 1 24 128 Schoolyard Heroes - Abominations 24 1 24 129 Rustie - Glass Swords 24 1 24 130 Lambchop – Nixon 24 1 24 131 Blur - Think Tank 24 2 23 132 Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (2011) 24 1 24 133 Amy Winehouse – Frank 23 1 23 134 Ryan Bingham - Mescalito (2007) 23 1 23 135 A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms 23 1 23 136 LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening 23 1 23 137 Creepshow - Run For Your Life 23 1 23 138 Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy 23 1 23 139 Chequerboard - Penny Black 22 1 22 140 Paramore - Riot! 22 1 22 141 Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring 22 1 22 142 M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 22 1 22 143 Brand New – Deja Entendu 22 1 22 144 Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreaks 22 2 14 145 Roisin Murphy - Overpowered 22 2 15 146 WU LYF Go Tell Fire To The Mountain 22 2 14 147 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 22 2 12 148 Beth Orton – Daybreaker 21 1 21 149 Death From Above 1979 You're A Woman, I'm A Machine 21 2 17 150 Washed Out - Life of Leisure 21 1 21 151 Interpol - Our Love To Admire 21 1 21 152 Gotye - Making Mirrors 21 1 21 153 Groove Armada - Black Light 21 2 15 154 Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? 21 2 16 155 Chad Valley - Equatorial Ultravox 20 1 20 156 Lostprophets - The Betrayed 20 1 20 157 Ben Howard 'Every Kingdom' 20 1 20 158 Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - The Royal Society 20 1 20 159 Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (2003) 20 1 20 160 Muse - Origin of Symetry 20 1 20 161 Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel 19 1 19 162 Beach House - Bloom 19 1 19 163 Kings of Leon - Because of the Times 19 1 19 164 Hold Steady 'Boys And Girls In America' 19 2 15 165 Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies 19 1 19 166 Yeasayer - Odd Blood 19 3 14 167 Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin' Kind (2000) 19 1 19 168 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade 19 1 19 169 Interpol - Antics 18 1 18 170 Deftones - White Pony 18 1 18 171 Ida Maria – Fortress Round My Heart 18 1 18 172 Massive Attack - Heligoland 18 2 15 173 Weeknd - House Of Balloons 18 1 18 174 Idlewild - The Remote Part 18 2 16 175 Damien Rice - O (2002) 18 1 18 176 Washed Out Within And Without 17 2 15 177 Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost 17 1 17 178 Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender 17 1 17 179 Long Blondes - Couples 17 1 17 180 Vampire Weekend - Contra 17 1 17 181 REM - Revleal 17 1 17 182 Lévon Minassian / Armand Amar - Songs from a World Apart (2005) 17 1 17 183 Deep Dish - Penetrate Deeper (2003) 16 1 16 184 Former Ghosts - Fleurs 16 1 16 185 Foals "Total Life Forever" 16 2 13 186 Killers - Sam's Town 16 1 16 187 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 'Howl' 16 1 16 188 Deerhunter "Halcyon Digest" 16 1 16 189 David Gray - A New Day At Midnight 16 1 16 190 Fluke - Puppy 16 1 16 191 Trentemoller - Into The Great Wide Yonder 15 1 15 192 Horrorpops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill 15 1 15 193 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment 15 2 14 194 Portishead - Third 15 1 15 195 Horrors : Skying 15 1 15 196 Moby : Hotel 15 1 15 197 Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia 15 1 15 198 Kings Of Convenience : Quiet Is The New Loud 15 1 15 199 MGMT : Congratulations 15 1 15 200 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 15 1 15 201 Streets : Original Pirate Material 15 1 15 202 Rebecca & Fiona - I Love You, Man 15 1 15 203 Teenage Fanclub : Howdy 15 1 15 204 Beck : Sea Change 15 1 15 205 Uffie - Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans 15 1 15 206 Richard X - Presents His X Factor Volume 1 15 1 15 207 Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Született 15 1 15 208 Basement Jaxx - Scars 15 1 15 209 Elliott Smit : Figure 8 15 1 15 210 Leila : Courtesy Of Choice 15 1 15 211 Janelle Monáe – Metropolis The Chase Suite 15 1 15 212 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah : Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 15 1 15 213 Oasis : Heathen Chemistry 15 1 15 214 Röyksopp - The Understanding 15 1 15 215 Friendly Fires : Pala 15 1 15 216 Mutemath : Mutemath 15 1 15 217 Hot Chip : In Our Heads 15 1 15 218 Magnetic Fields : 69 Love Songs 15 1 15 219 These New Puritans : Hidden 15 1 15 220 Liars : WIXIW 15 1 15 221 Trust - TRST 15 1 15 222 Kings Of Leon : Youth & Young Manhood 15 1 15 223 Chromeo : Fancy Footwork 15 1 15 224 Four Tet : Rounds 15 1 15 225 Low : Trust 15 1 15 226 Dears : No Cities Left 15 1 15 227 Björk : Selmasongs 15 1 15 228 She & Him - Volume 1 15 1 15 229 Jamie T : Panic Prevention 15 1 15 230 Oasis : Dig Out Your Soul 15 1 15 231 Metronomy : Nights Out 15 1 15 232 Sigur Rós : Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust 15 1 15 233 Gruff Rhys : Candylion 15 1 15 234 Sigur Rós : Takk... 15 1 15 235 Moby : 18 15 1 15 236 xx 'The xx' 14 1 14 237 Underworld - Oblivion With Bells 14 1 14 238 Tubelord - Our First American Friends 14 1 14 239 Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now 14 1 14 240 Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator) (2001) 14 1 14 241 Reuben - Racecar Is Racecar Backwards 14 1 14 242 Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free 14 1 14 243 Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious 14 1 14 244 Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence 13 1 13 245 Radiohead - Amnesiac 13 1 13 246 Idlewild '100 Broken Windows' 13 1 13 247 Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne 13 1 13 248 jj - jj n2 13 1 13 249 Meet Me In St Louis – Variations On Swing 13 1 13 250 Covenant - Northern Light 13 1 13 251 Tegan and Sara – The Con 13 1 13 252 Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 13 1 13 253 Horrors - Strange House 13 1 13 254 Caribou Swim 13 2 12 255 Hundred in the Hands - The Hundred in the Hands 12 1 12 256 Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres 12 1 12 257 Die So Fluid - The World's Too Big For One Lifetime 12 1 12 258 Mary Gauthier - The Foundling (2010) 12 1 12 259 Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!! 12 1 12 260 School of Seven Bells - Ghostory 11 1 11 261 Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe II 11 1 11 262 Vienna Teng - Dreaming Through The Noise 11 1 11 263 Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 11 1 11 264 Lana Del Rey - Born to Die 11 1 11 265 Lia Ices - Grown Unknown 11 1 11 266 Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree 10 1 10 267 Baths - Cerulean 10 1 10 268 Futureheads 'The Futureheads' 10 1 10 269 Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel 10 1 10 270 Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (2008) 10 1 10 271 Manics - Know Your Enemy 10 1 10 272 Go! Team 'Thunder, Lightning, Strike' 9 1 9 273 Foals - Antidotes 9 2 5 274 Purescence - Planet Helpless 9 1 9 275 John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010) 9 1 9 276 David Bowie - Heathen 9 1 9 277 f*** Buttons - Tarot Sport 9 1 9 278 Editors - In This Light and on this Evening 9 1 9 279 Sia - Some People Have Real Problems 9 1 9 280 Slow Club – Yeah So 9 1 9 281 Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Now That's What I Call Steampunk 8 1 8 282 Levellers - Letters From The Underground 8 1 8 283 Mercury Rev - All Is Dream 8 1 8 284 Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase 8 1 8 285 Deadmau5 - 4x4=12 (2010) 8 1 8 286 Slipknot - Iowa 7 1 7 287 Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx We're New Here 7 1 7 288 Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends 7 1 7 289 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 7 1 7 290 Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed 7 1 7 291 Regina Spektor – Far 7 1 7 292 Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling (2008) 7 1 7 293 Zola Jesus - Stridulum 6 1 6 294 I Am Kloot - Sky at Night 6 1 6 295 Companions - Celtic Wedding (2005) 6 1 6 296 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 6 1 6 297 Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow 6 2 4 298 Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots 6 1 6 299 AraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream 6 1 6 300 Hard-Fi - Once Upon a Time in the West 6 1 6 301 Destroyer Kaputt 5 1 5 302 Guillemots 'Through The Windowpane' 5 1 5 303 Vanessa Carlton - Rabbits on the Run (2011) 5 1 5 304 High Places - 03/07 - 09/07 5 1 5 305 Weeknd - Thursday 5 1 5 306 Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 5 1 5 307 Jack Peñate - Everything Is New 5 1 5 308 Delphic - Acolyte 4 1 4 309 B.o.B - The Adventures of Bobby Ray 4 1 4 310 Animal Collective - Sung Tongs 4 1 4 311 Trentemoller - The Last Resort (2006) 4 1 4 312 Black Keys - El Camino 4 1 4 313 Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil 4 1 4 314 Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures 4 1 4 315 Young The Giant - Young The Giant 3 1 3 316 OutKast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below 3 1 3 317 Kills - Midnight Boom 3 1 3 318 tUnE-yArDs W H O K I L L 3 1 3 319 Kings of Leon 'Aha Shake Heartbreak' 3 1 3 320 White Lies - To Lose My Life 3 1 3 321 VNV Nation - Judgement 3 1 3 322 E-603 - Torn Up 3 1 3 323 National 'Boxer' 2 1 2 324 Gossip - Music For Men 2 1 2 325 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us 2 1 2 326 CSS Cansei De Ser Sexy 2 1 2 327 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light 2 1 2 328 Sigur Rós - ( ) 2 1 2 329 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 1 1 1 330 Dead 60s - The Dead 60s 1 1 1 331 Owen Pallett - He Poos Clouds 1 1 1 332 Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game (2012) 1 1 1 333 Libertines – Libertines 1 1 1 334 Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV 1 1 1 335 Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game 1 1 1
October 24, 201212 yr i guess all my albums only got 15 :o i did order them but i didn't put numbers beside oops serves me right!!! poor trust coulda been top 150 or so then :( Edited October 24, 201212 yr by ✖ leww ✖
October 24, 201212 yr Author AND CRYSTAL CASTLES II WOULDA BEEN TOP 10!!!! fml Santagold would have jumped into the Top 5. Several albums would have increased but it would have been the same 50 albums in the Top 50.
October 24, 201212 yr Santagold would have jumped into the Top 5. Several albums would have increased but it would have been the same 50 albums in the Top 50. awch :( shame i didn't really make it clear then!!! regardless it is a very, very good list. thanks for doing this tony!!
October 24, 201212 yr Author ps the graphics were very classy. well presented tony! <3 Thanks. I decided not to do a write up because there's several albums I hadn't heard and it would end up being my opinion on most of them and who cares about that? Edited October 24, 201212 yr by AnthonyT
October 24, 201212 yr Author Take out a few duds like Garbage, Kayne, Janelle, Robyn(album 1), Marina, Bloc Party and I like everything else. Good list. :o
October 24, 201212 yr Author Santegold Santugold Santygold I think Tony covered the other half already :D I did.
October 24, 201212 yr Excellent run down Tony. Genuinely surprised to see Arctic Monkeys fall to reach top 50. Not my favourite by any means but figured they were better liked than that on here
October 24, 201212 yr 63 Phoenix "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" 37 3 25 88 James Blake - James Blake 30 2 15 146 WU LYF Go Tell Fire To The Mountain 22 2 14 177 Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost 17 1 17 </3 + others but this 4 definitely deserved to be up there. Super surprissed at 'xx' being so low down and WHO voted for 'Congratulations' in their top 30 of the decade?! Generally quite a lovely list though, cheers Tony.
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