Top 10 of the Decade According to Me: Ryan Trager
Okay... I know that 2010 is still 9 months away, but it's never too soon to start thinking about that all-important list of lists: Best of the Decade. Whether you choose 10 or 50 or 100 of your most-beloved records, looking back on the music that most affected you during this first--and somehow still unnamed--decade of the millenium is bound to both trigger a flood of memories and to provide a window into the evolution of your own musical taste. I will probably tweak my own list endlessly, but I thought I'd kick off the conversation by posting a first draft of my picks. Post your own picks in the comments section below.
1) Radiohead - In Rainbows
2) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3) The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
4) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6) Radiohead - Kid A
7) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
8) The Strokes - Is This It
9) Cat Power - You Are Free
10) Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Jeff on April 05, 2009 at 02:09 PM
Definitely a good list - I'd add Funeral (Arcade Fire) to the top ten for sure, and I'd probably try to add Illinois (Sufjan Stevens) in there somewhere. Not sure who I'd kick off your list to make room, though!
Alan Wiley on April 03, 2009 at 11:16 AM
no.
Gabi Knight on April 03, 2009 at 09:49 AM
Wait a minute. Radiohead twice, no Destroyer, and absolutely no hip-hop whatsoever? I declare this list suspect.
Iggy Pot: Good call on the OOIOO!
Ally Brown on April 03, 2009 at 03:04 AM
I think it's quite a good list actually :) I know 8 of those records and all of them are very good indeed. And sure, albums by Bjork and Joanna Newsom and MIA and PJ Harvey would enter my thinking when compiling such a list, but he surely shouldn't promote any that don't genuinely make his personal Top 10 just to keep a quota up? I mean, I could say there's no hip-hop or dance or punk there, etc etc, but you can't represent everyone in ten places.
Iggy Pot on April 02, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Here's another terrible list of terrible "Top 10 Albums of the Decade" from Live Eye Tv, full of skimpy women and radio free head!
Call it, an alternative history...
10. Zeigenbock Kopf Nocturnal Submissions
9. Wolf Eyes Burned Mind
8. Erase Errata At Crystal Palace
7. Sunn)))O White1
6. Acid Mothers Temple IAO Chant From The Cosmic Inferno
5. Earth The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
4. OOIOO Taiga
3. Lightning Bolt Hyper Magic Mountain
2. Trans Am Red Line
1. Ariel Pink and the Haunted Graffiti The Doldrums
Meg on April 02, 2009 at 04:53 PM
He is?
Joel Bass on April 02, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Hmmm, aren't you a bit skimpy on women, here? I mean, everybody has their opinions, but you know, you're supposed to be kind of a music expert...?
sir jorge on April 02, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Wow, you've managed to completely lose me. This is a terrible list, i'm sorry. Radiohead in it more than once? Really? Wow, what a lousy list.