for me?

Foreign Exchange - Connected

12/15/2006 9:37:10 AM

xiu xiu - knife play

12/15/2006 9:39:22 AM

lcd soundsystem - lcd soundsystem

12/15/2006 9:42:02 AM

^man, you really like some lcd soundsystem

12/15/2006 9:54:39 AM

yeah, ive really been into them/him of late. to be honest, im on a big dfa kick (juan maclean, hot chip, shit robot, black dice, etc).

but i really think that album is absolutely fantastic.

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12/15/2006 9:59:05 AM

Beck - Sea Change.

That's off the top of my head though. May be a little over the 5 year mark.

12/15/2006 11:04:10 AM

lcd cd is better than i expected

12/15/2006 11:04:14 AM

korn

12/15/2006 11:17:07 AM

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot (though i guess it was done before 5 years ago)

12/15/2006 11:19:29 AM

then why'd you name it?

12/15/2006 11:39:02 AM

Funeral IMO

12/15/2006 11:39:56 AM

Pearl Jam-Pearl Jam

CKY-Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

John Frusciante-Shadows Collide With People

12/15/2006 11:50:38 AM

^^^it wasn't actually released until 2002 because of record label problems. it was done far before then though and was leaked.

12/15/2006 12:00:42 PM

strokes-is this it

12/15/2006 12:29:56 PM

Dude that Xiu Xiu record is shit. Terrible, cacophonous shit. (/opinion though, so ya know)

I'd say it'd have to be one of these, in order of badassness...for me at least. It's so heavily opinionated, and very apples/organes:

arcade fire - funeral
flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
beck - sea change
shins - oh, inverted world
oasis - don't believe the truth
ladytron - light and magic
supergrass - road to rouen
air - talkie walkie

12/15/2006 12:49:52 PM

I'll agree with you on:

oh, inverted world, road to rouen and funeral. terrific albums

hell, I love talkie walkie and sea change as well.

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12/15/2006 12:57:06 PM

emotion is dead and full collapse...just outside of 5 years though

12/15/2006 12:58:05 PM

a lot of you guys don't have a very long memory. i love funeral as much as the next guy. but the best album in the last five years? really? maybe you weren't listening to decent music five years ago. in that case, it makes sense.

12/15/2006 1:03:22 PM

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"Funeral IMO"

with kid a and lonesome crowded west closely behind

12/15/2006 1:04:13 PM

those albums are both pre-5 years ago. lonesome crowded west is ~8 years old iirc.

12/15/2006 1:07:26 PM

ha, i almost always forget we're living in 2006, i think im stuck in '99 or 2000

12/15/2006 1:10:24 PM

^^^ Well I think Wilco is terrible including crap tango foxtrot whatever. But that's why we have opinions right?

And 5 years ago I was listening to better music than anything current today sadly,

12/15/2006 1:14:32 PM

i could make a case for brian wilson's smile too. but that's probably more just the most interesting album to come out in the past 5 years.

12/15/2006 1:17:21 PM

that, and it really doesn't count. It's more of a reconstruction effort from back in the 60's following up the 'would-be' sucessor to pet sounds. .

but of course, brian wilson lost his noodle.

12/15/2006 1:21:46 PM

did you think i didn't know all of that? that's pretty much what makes it interesting. it's like an old man reminiscing for his childhood (and maybe his sanity?). you can hear it in his voice. it's an old man singing what was originally supposed to be a "teenage prayer to god" (something like that, can't remember the exact phrase).

12/15/2006 1:23:55 PM

ok, i suppose that works. I can give you that.

12/15/2006 1:30:09 PM

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"Dude that Xiu Xiu record is shit. Terrible, cacophonous shit. (/opinion though, so ya know)"

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"Well I think Wilco is terrible including crap tango foxtrot whatever. But that's why we have opinions right?"

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"that, and it really doesn't count. It's more of a reconstruction effort from back in the 60's following up the 'would-be' sucessor to pet sounds."

Do you serve a purpose, aside from criticizing everyone's picks?

I'm not sure about the best album, but the ones I still listen to the most are:
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

12/15/2006 3:21:11 PM

i was thinking about actually taking the time to think this out for about an hour, i'd put devils night on there just cause there are only like 2 skipable tracks on the cd

12/15/2006 3:22:27 PM

I'm going to say Smile, just because you can literally hear forty years of heartbreak lift off of him as he's singing. At the Brian Wilson tribute special they did a few years ago, he was static at his piano and his voice had faded, and then they inexplicably played "Heroes & Villains" and you could hear a marked change in the tonal quality of his voice...the recorded version of Smile is a hundred times better than that in vocal quality alone, and a thousand times better than Brian's previous album.

It's worth noting, however, that I've always been obsessed with Brian Wilson, so my opinion is a bit skewed. I have literally hundreds of hours of Beach Boys/Brian Wilson stuff, including lameass sessions for Smiley Smile and 15 Big Ones.

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12/15/2006 3:33:33 PM

Off the top of my head, I'd say Hail to the Thief, Funeral, or Smile.

But I haven't really put any thought into it.

12/15/2006 3:42:10 PM

This is an opinionated thread.

% I really only criticized the Xiu Xiu pick which admittedly I could have left aside. My bad wilsoz.
% The criticism of Wilco was just in retalliation to sarijoul's jab on us not listening to decent music criticsm, so we break even really.
% And my comment on Smile was just stating a fact - and I then actually agreed with sarijoul's reasoning. Well, because he had a great post on it.

Now Miss Research....If you want more though I suppose I could say Death Cab for Cutie as a top album in the past 5 years is a big fat cosmic emo laugh. They suck.

There, guilty as mofucking' charged now. Happy?

12/15/2006 3:51:39 PM

Absolutely. Get a new hobby or something.

12/15/2006 3:52:39 PM

....or better yet, just sit on tww and correct people's spelling!

12/15/2006 4:04:11 PM

only because i'm absolutely in love with every track on the album, Andrew Bird--Mysterious Production of Eggs

agreed on Shins' Oh Inverted World

other faves of mine: Postal Service--Give Up and DJ Shadow--Private Press

12/15/2006 4:10:58 PM

in other news. i'm listening to "bump" by spank rock and it's a great damn song, as is the next on the album "sweet talk" (if only that chick in the one part could sing all her in notes on key). "backyard betty" is great.

any rapper that uses the line "behind my gameboy, i got game girl it comes easy" is ok with me. but this is entirely unrelated to the thread. this is by no means the best album of the past five years. got some good songs though. i just wanted to put that out there. (that and no one else reads that "what you're listening to" thread. . . i guess the reason is that no one really cares. oh well).



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12/15/2006 4:15:23 PM

For the record, I did think it was funny that Kainen decided to give us an informative little blurb about an album that's widely known as the most famous unfinished artwork of the 20th century.

12/15/2006 4:17:04 PM

audioslave

12/15/2006 4:17:26 PM

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"....or better yet, just sit on tww and correct people's spelling!"

You've been so good to notice that I haven't in a while.

12/15/2006 4:19:00 PM

god damnit, do we really need another thread where most people name bands nobody gives a shit about?

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12/15/2006 4:22:45 PM

WHO THE FUCK ARE THE BEACH BOYS?!?

12/15/2006 4:23:05 PM

of course xiu xiu is cacophonous. it's hard to listen to, it jars and screeches and it's absolutely ugly. but jamie stewart (no homo) really achieved something with that album that i don't think he's reproduced since.

12/15/2006 4:42:21 PM

i think it's a difference in whether you want to listen to music to ?enjoy? it or whether you want to look at it more as art. i think there is a place for both certainly. the latter is often more academic. but sometimes (like you imply) it can produce similarlly strong emotions though they're not always as pleasant.

maybe that made a little bit of sense.

12/15/2006 4:46:25 PM

Xiu Xiu is painful at times, but it's beautiful as well.

Kinda like anal.

12/15/2006 4:47:59 PM

my top 5:

1) Anathema - A Natural Disaster
2) El-P - Fantastic Damage
3) Dismantled - Postnuclear
4) Opeth - Damnation
5) Namnambulu - Distances

this took way longer to come up with than i expected... due to the fact that nearly every truly amazing album i could think of was more than five years old. maybe the new stuff just hasn't aged well yet, but i really think the music industry hasn't had many good years lately. i've been really disappointed with this year in music, especially.

12/15/2006 11:40:03 PM

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"god damnit, do we really need another thread where most people name bands nobody gives a shit about? "

12/16/2006 3:24:10 AM

I'm thinking about suspending people for complaining about their own ignorance on the subject at hand.

12/16/2006 3:40:44 AM

GIT ER DONE

12/16/2006 3:55:14 AM

I'm shocked that no one has said Sufjan Stevens- Illinois... so I'll go ahead and say that as my hands-down pick for best album of the last five years.

I will also concur with other folks that Arcade Fire- Funeral, The Mountain Goats- The Sunset Tree, and Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, are all good choices for best album of the last 5 years.

12/16/2006 9:11:56 AM

All I can do is scan the albums I have on my computer; of course I have about 900 more CDs I can't look through at this moment. So, just scrolling through my iTunes (no '06 albums included), I'd have to say:

Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - "Out of Season"
Death from Above 1979 - "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine"
Loretta Lynn - "Van Lear Rose"
Bloc Party - "Silent Alarm"
Sufjan Stevens - "Illinois"
A Perfect Circle - "Thirteenth Step"
Kenna - "New Sacred Cow"
Cat Power - "You Are Free"
Funki Porcini - "Fast Asleep"
My Morning Jacket - "Z"
Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama - "There Will be a Light"
*cough* U2 - "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" *cough*

I suck at narrowing lists.

12/16/2006 10:01:17 AM

hmm, past 5 years?


2001-2006.......



Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album

12/16/2006 10:23:17 AM