A Quarter Century In the Books

Peen Simmons

Peen Simmons

Let’s Get Obtuse!
We are closing in on 2025 which means you’ve had a quarter century to encounter music not from the 20th century.

Here you will list your ten (no more than ten, nerds) fav albums released between 1/01/2000 and 12/31/2024. Please list rather than posting vids and pics and streaming links so that this thread doesn’t bog down loading shit and become unusable after 5 posts. Post things that you think are great or were meaningful to you or taught you to love again or whatever. Post in whatever order.

Moon and Antarctica, Modest Mouse
Stephen Malkmus, S/T
Love and Theft, Bob Dylan
Only in Dreams, Dum Dum Girls
Waiting for Something to Happen, Veronica Falls
Let England Shake, PJ Harvey
Night Time, My Time, Sky Ferreira
1989, Taylor Swift
Masseduction, St. Vincent
And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, Weyes Blood
 
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Splender - To Whom It May Concern
Moke - Carnival
Chris Cornell - Higher Truth
Big Wreck - Albatross
Big Wreck - Ghosts
Sheryl Crow - C'mon, C'mon
Lawrence - Hotel TV
The Bennett Cale Project - Goodbye Kirkwood Drive
Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony
Paul Gilbert - Vibrato
 
Papa Mali: Thunder Chicken 2000
Alabama Thunder Pussy: Rise Again 2004
Motorhead: Aftershock 2013
Billy Sheean: Holy Cow 2009
BLS: Order of the Black 2010
Aristocrats: Aristocrats 2011
BBS: Little Piece of Dixie 2011 ( They had a 4 album run, hard not to list each because each was great)
Gary Clark Jr: Black and Blu 2012
The Dead Daisies: Make Some Noise 2016
Devin Townsend: Empath 2019
 
Mine will probably be weighted heavily towards the early part of the century.
The Weakerthans “Reconstruction Site”
Nick Lowe “The Convincer”
Royal Blood “S/T”
Dale Watson “Whisky Or God”
Ghost “s/t”
Merle Haggard “If I Could Only Fly”
Fu Manchu “We Must Obey”
Dwight Yoakum “Blame The Vain”
Queens of the Stone Age “ Songs For The Deaf”
On The Sun “Drag”
 
should we limit to one album per artist? if not mine will be mostly radiohead and spoon albums
 
Ten of many favorites…

Radiohead - Kid A - 2000

Oasis - Familiar To Millions- 2000

Gov’t Mule - The Deep End Volume 1 - 2001

Dave Mathews Band - Busted Stuff - 2002

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf - 2002

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black - 2006

REM - Live At The Olympia - 2009

RUSH -Clockwork Angels - 2012

Blur - Live At Wembley - 2024

The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know - 2024
 
I’m going to do my very very very best to stick with ‘Western’ white dude popular music because this forum is family and ‘tis the season. No promises.

2002: Tom Waits’s Alice
2006: Neko Case’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2007: Radiohead’s In Rainbows
2011: Björk’s Biophilia
2011: Gillian Welch’s The Harrow & the Harvest
2015: Olivia Chaney’s The Longest River
2016: Tanya Tagaq’s Retribution
2017: The Magnetic Fields’s 50 Song Memoir
2018: Jeremy Dutcher’s Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
2019: Nick Cave’s Ghosteen
2020: Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2022: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Mélusine
 
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This is hard to do. I browsed through my accounts to see if I could figure out what I've probably spent the most time listening to, so they may not actually be my faves, but that kinda varies anyway.

Here goes, in no particular order:

Little Barrie - Shadow
Hooverphonic - The President of the LSD Golf Club
Juniore - Un, Deux, Trois
The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come to Expect
Suede - Bloodsports (great with Thai food BTW)
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer
Alexandra Savior - The Archer
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

Honorable mentions:

Mattiel - Mattiel
Bob Dylan - Modern Times (got played a lot on Thursday burger nights for a couple of years)
Bryan Ferry - Bitter-Sweet
 
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Lengthy old man rant: I don't hunt music like I did in my youth. Most records these days have filler tunes I can't learn to like.
What happened to the Masterpiece album?
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bsman said:
What's an album?

Soooo 20th century...
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It's derived from latin. The latin word albus = white. In Ancient Rome "album" came to be defined as a white board used to write public notices. In the 16th century Germany, "album amicorum" was defined as a collection of colleagues' signatures and eventually album came to mean souvenir book. When photography was invented, books containing collections of photos came to be known as albums. Finally, with the invention of recording technology, the term album came to refer to a collection of audio recordings released as a single item.

I hope that did NOT answer your question. :baimun:
 
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bsman said:
What's an album?

Soooo 20th century...
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Rolling Stone and Billboard both put out an albums of the year list every year...

I was going to put the MWGL shrugging shoulders what up face, but the MWGL emojis aren't working for me. I feel like an old guy who can't work the technology. I push on the smiley face, but nothing happens.
 
2003--The Mars Volta--Deloused in the Comatorium
2003--Songs: Ohia--Magnolia Electric Company
2006--Rodrigo y Gabriela--Rodrigo y Gabriela
2007--Alcest--Souvenirs d'un Autre Mond
2009--Neko Case--Middle Cyclone
2012--Dinosaur Jr.--I Bet on Sky
2016--Oathbreaker--Rheia
2017--Idles--Brutalism
2019--White Ward--Love Exchange Failure
2021--Fuck These Fuckin Fascists--The Muslims
 
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