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Some musically-minded mates of mine have too much time on their hands and have been assembling and sharing anally retentive Hi Fidelity-style lists of 00s music, specifically:
- Top 10 albums 2009
- Top 10 noughties albums
- Top 10 noughties songs
- Top 10 Cheese of the noughties - ie. stuff you've snuck onto your mp3 player without anyone knowing
- Top Bands of the noughties

To hopefully kick off something similar, here's mine:

Top 10 Albums 2009, in no particular order.

• Engineers – Three Fact Fader (my winner for the year)
• Hilltop Hoods – State of the Art
• Passion Pit – Manners
• Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
• The Horrors – Primary Colours
• Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (which I only got into recently but it hasn't left my stereo since)
• Built to Spill – There is No Enemy
• White Lies – To Lose My Life
• U2 – No Line on the Horizon
• Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

Top 10 Noughties Albums, in no particular order except for the Avalanches at No.1

• Avalanches – Since I Left You
• Engineers – Three Fact Fader
• Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
• Maps – We Can Create
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Wrens – The Meadowlands
• Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Abbatoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
• Arcade Fire – Funeral
• Radio Dept – Pet Grief

Top 10 Songs of the Noughties...actually we had the luxury of 50. Narrowing it down to 10 is a nightmare and makes my musical tastes appear even more commercial than they probably are.

Avalanches – Since I Left You
Radiohead – House of Cards
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
Bat For Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do?
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Breathless
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
78 Saab - Sunshine (I'm counting this as 2000, though it was recorded in 1999 so there)

Cheese of the Noughties...God help me:

• All Saints – Black Coffee
• Ruslana – Wild Dances (trad Eurovision cheese)
• Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah (hard rockin' Eurovision cheese)
• Damien Leith – Night of My Life
• Robbie Williams - Tripping
• MIA – Paper Planes
• Rogue Traders – In Love Again (the Tears for Fears one)
• Peter Bjorn & John – Young Folk
• Blink 182 – Miss You
• Saint Etienne – Let’s Build a Zoo
• Lily Allen – The Fear
• Gwen Stefani – What Are You Waiting For?
• Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
• Sugababes – I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor (cover)
• The Wombats – Let’s Dance to Joy Division
• Kaiser Chiefs – Tomato in the Rain
• A-Ha – The Bandstand
• Futureheads – Hounds of Love (cover)
• Craig David – Let’s Dance
• Chemical Brothers – Salmon Dance
• Anything by Kylie

Bands / Artistes of the Noughties:

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Doves
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Radiohead
Interpol
Editors
Sarah Blasko
Arcade Fire
Sigur Ros

I posted my fave albums of the noughties on another thread. If I was to whittle that down to ten:

The The - NakedSelf (2000)
Vive La Fête - Nuit Blanche (2004)
Client - Command (2009)
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider (2008)
Ladytron - Light And Magic (2002)
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love (2004)
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires (2008)
Max Rouen - The Magnetic Wave Of Sound (2007)
The Long Blondes - Couples (2008)
The Presets - Apocalypso (2008)

I doubt that I could work out sufficient lists for the other categories.

Without spending hours on this, which is probably the time such a task deserves:


Favourite 10 Albums of the 00s (alphabetical order)

Agalloch- The Mantle
Anathema- A Natural Disaster
Laura- Mapping Your Dreams
Oceansize- Everyone into Position
Opeth- Damnation
Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element I
Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
September Malevolence- After this Darkness, There’s a Next
Sigur Ros- ( )


Favourite 10 Songs of the 00s (alphabetical order)

Agalloch- In the Shadow of our Pale Companion
Evpatoria Report- Taijin Kyofusho
Explosions in the Sky- Your Hand In Mine
Oceansize- Ornament/ The Last Wrongs
Pain of Salvation- Martius/ Nauticus II
Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element
Porcupine Tree- Heartattack in a Layby
Rooney- Sleep Song
Sigur Ros – Untitled #4
Smashing Pumpkins- Stand Inside Your love


Top 5 Albums of 2009 (alphabetical order)

..And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of Dead- The Century of Self
Dream Theater- Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Pain of Salvation- Linoleum (EP)
Pelican- What we All Come to Need
Porcupine Tree- The Incident


I wouldn't say my musical tastes vary alot from a certain style/genre

Those Sigur Ros boys know how to pen a catchy title don't they?

Favourite 10 Albums of the 00s

Karnivool - Themata
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say, That's What I'm Not.
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
The Kooks - Inside In, Inside Out
Birds of Tokyo - Universes
The Rifles - The Great Escape
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Favourite 10 Songs of the 00s

Karnivool - Cote
Muse - Starlight
The Pigeon Detectives - Keep on your Dress
The Rifles - Out in the Past
The Kooks - Sway
Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way
Arctic Monkeys - View from the Afternoon
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

Top 5 Albums of 2009

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Temper Trap - Conditions
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Muse - The Resistance
Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart

LL's Best of 2009

Gig of the Year - Grong Grong at The Tote - 25 years on and still like nothing you've ever seen. Close second Rowland Howard at Ding Dong, Bitter Sweet Kicks at Lyre Bird, New Christs at Espy



Album of the Year - Rowland S Howard "Pop Crimes"- The comeback of the decade. Ten years since his last album and well worth the wait.


Song/Single of the Year - Bitter Sweet Kicks "Team Rock n Roll"- Album due soon is already going to hard to beat for my album of 2010. The most exciting new live band I have seen in eons.
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