[SA Chris]

NME - http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/48412

Times online - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6922991.ece

Go on bare your soul - what's your top 10? or 20? (any more is taking the piss)

I am still deciding.

[slackline]

Whats an "album"? 

[SA Chris]

Oh ha ha ha. It's format that non-geeks and children who download singles listen to music in.

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/ in case you need help.

[DaveC]

Just five from me and in no particular order:

Continental - Robin Guthrie. I'm an unadulterated fan of Guthrie's work and this is the best of a pretty good bunch he's brought out in the last 4 or 5 years. In another year or two I may place his current album Carousel above this one.

The Flying Club Cup - Beirut. The second album from an idiosyncratic young folk/world music influenced multi-intrumentalist from New Mexico builds on the promise of his debut.

Goodbye - Ulrich Schnauss. Beautiful soundscapes from one of the best at the more ambient end of the music spectrum.

High - The Blue Nile. Maybe not quite up with their first two albums back in the 80s but a major recovery from the disappontment of 1996's Peace at Last.

Mirrorball - John Foxx & Robin Guthrie. Thirty years ago I was a fan of the original Ultravox then for many years I've been a fan of the Cocteau Twins so i wasn't surprised to find I liked this one!

Generally, I have found this to be a bland decade lacking in originality or real creativity as far as "popular" music is concerned. I do realise that this is at least partly due to ageing and the resulting ossification of the brain!

[Bubba]

Burial - Untrue

[220bpm]

Alright, I'll bite 

In no particular order.....

1. Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
2. White Stripes - Elephant
3. RHCP - By The Way
4. Various - Chemical Generation
5. Manu le Malin - Biomechanik 3
6. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
7. Public Domain - Hard Hop Superstars
8. Lenny Dee - IF56 Industrialization
9. Sky - Squared
10. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

I know, I know 
A horrible mish-mash of populist crap and obscure sh!t that makes you bleed from assorted orifices.

Choons, aint they 'kin 

[Jaspersharpe]

Off the top of my head.........

Either Funeral or Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. Both are amazing. Probably the best live band I've seen in that time too.

Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team.

Music in Mouth by Bell X1.

Chase This Light by Jimmy Eat World.

A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets.

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by Flaming Lips.

I'll think of more.

Most overrated load of dogshit, anything by Franz Ferdinand or The White Stripes. 

[SA Chris]

After some deliberation and perusing lists, here is my somewhat pedestrian selection

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Royksopp - Melody AM
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Killers - Hot Fuss
Doves - Some Cities
Gomez - How we Operate
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
British Sea Power - the Decline of BSP
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Hard Fi - Stars of CCTV
UNKLE - Never Never Land
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Caribou - Andorra
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
LCD Sound System - Sounds of Silver
Groove Armada - Goodbye Country
Charlatans - Wonderland

[Jaspersharpe]

Can't believe The Times have Kid A at #1 and yet there is no mention of the far superior Shirehorses album Our Kid Eh.

[SA Chris]

A lot more entertaining than Chris Moyle's "hilarious" parody album (I suspect, having not listened to it).

[Jaspersharpe]

I presume so as "Tony" is probably the best parody song ever made.

[Fiend]

I tend to like albums with drums in. Quite partial to ones with bass as well. Can't think of any of the top of my head though.

[slackline]

I tend to like albums with drums in. Quite partial to ones with bass as well. Can't think of any of the top of my head though.

[cofe]

wasn't endtroducing mid 90s?

any list needs the Bon Iver album in it.

[SA Chris]

I thought that, but Amazon says there was a version released in 2001, might have been a re-issue though.

If you want Bon Iver in a list you know what to do.....

[Jim]

your all missing: neon neon - stainless style

[cofe]

I thought that, but Amazon says there was a version released in 2001, might have been a re-issue though.

If you want Bon Iver in a list you know what to do.....

PM r-man?

[SA Chris]

your all missing: neon neon - stainless style

Jim, it's all based on opinion. See my above response to cofe.

[Fiend]

Slackers I hate you.

[Dr T]

My top ten
in no particular order

Portishead - 3
Unkle - war stories
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World
Deftones - White Pony
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Placebo - Meds
System of a Down - Toxicity
Cult of Luna - Salvation
The Distillers - Coral Fang
Grandaddy - Sumday

and yes I know there are 12
I can't cut it any more
Also I wasn't sure if Maiden's Rock in Rio would count being a live album and all

[Dr T]

hmmm none of the 12 in my top ten make the times top 100 -wonder what that says about me... 

[Jaspersharpe]

My top ten
in no particular order


Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World

You can have Bleed American as it's from 2001 but Jimmy Eat World was 1994. 

[Jim]

your all missing: neon neon - stainless style

Jim, it's all based on opinion. See my above response to cofe.

[Dr T]

My top ten
in no particular order


Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American/Jimmy Eat World

You can have Bleed American as it's from 2001 but Jimmy Eat World was 1994. 

I was meaning the 2000 album; the version I've got is called Jimmy Eat World  - was retitled after 9/11... 

[Jaspersharpe]

Ah I get you. It is a great album.