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Posted by Trance Nutter on Jan-14-2010 08:38:

Local journalist says Daft Punk had the best album of the noughties

A journalist in today's Adelaide Advertiser, the largest paper in South Australia, wrote a column rating the top 50 albums of 2000-2009.

The list covers all genres.

He rated Daft Punk - Discovery as the best album of this time.

Agree? Disagree?

I think it mightbe a bit of a stretch to claim its the best of any album.

What gets me is EDM gets shit all mention anytime in the paper, and then he pops up with this.

And Lady Gaga at number 10?


quote:
IT'S the end of an era for the noughties, so music writer Sam Kelton looks back at the albums that shaped our decade.

"For the past fortnight I have been rummaging through my CDs to present what I feel are the 50 greatest albums of the last decade. It was a tough task with many great bands and artists omitted but this is simply an opinion.

YOUR SAY: Go to the comments box below to tell us if you agree with Sam Kelton, and to list your favourites.

That is why we're giving you a chance to say where I went wrong. Head to adelaidenow.com.au to have your say and list your favourite albums of the past decade.

1 DAFT PUNK - Discovery
A dance album that defined the noughties, for almost 10 years many have tried to recreate and not even come close.
Essential track: One More Time

2 AT THE DRIVE IN - Relationship of Command
The decade's most powerful and frantic alternative release.
Essential track: One Armed Scissor

3 ARCADE FIRE - Funeral
This Montreal band's 2004 take on grief and loss remains the most important indie release of the decade.
Essential track: Wake Up

4 COLDPLAY - A Rush of Blood to the Head
In 2002 Coldplay morphed from ear-catching pop rock to stadium filling anthems.
Essential track: Clocks

5 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - The Sound of Silver
The coolest dance release of the noughties.
Essential track: All of My Friends

6 KINGS OF LEON - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Stories of a young band who were drinking and fornicating their way across the US.
Essential track: King of the Rodeo

7 RADIOHEAD - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead writing simpler, yet still perplexing music that was two steps ahead of its peers.
Essential track: There There

8 AMY WINEHOUSE - Back to Black
A stunning reflection on the old soul sound.
Essential track: Rehab

9 BLOC PARTY - Silent Alarm
An important album that utilised dance floor percussion with indie rock sensibilities.
Essential track: Positive Tension

10 LADY GAGA - The Fame
The most important and intriguing pop star of this decade.
Essential track: Paparazzi

11 ARCTIC MONKEYS - Whatever People Say I am That's What I'm Not
Frontman Alex Turner's frustrated late night tales connected to the
youth of the world.
Essential track: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

12 INTERPOL - Turn Onthe Bright Lights
A dark debut from the well dressed New Yorkers combined the art rock of Television with the sombre mood of Joy Divison.
Essential track: Say Hello to the Angels

13 EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
The biggest selling act of the decade's third album was his most focused and above all, serious, which in turn was taken that way by critics.
Essential track: Stan

14 THE FLAMING LIPS - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Psychedelic dreamers The Flaming Lips saved their best effort for album No.10 in 2002 with a shimmering pop record filled with romantic gloom.
Essential track: Do You Realize?

15 JAY-Z - The Blueprint
Utilising vintage soul, music mogul Jay-Z used 2001's The Blueprint to show the rap scene who was boss.
Essential track: Izzo (h.o.v.a)

16 THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
The album that took a cult blues rock act to the world.
Essential track: Seven Nation Army

17 THE KILLERS -Sam's Town
The Vegas boys hit the desert, with a nod to great Americana
songwriting.
Essential track: When you were young

18 THE STROKES - Is This It
The band's lo-fipop rock sound reinvigorated the genre for many as one of the decade's most influential indie acts.
Essential track: Last Nite

19 THE HOLD STEADY - Boys and Girls in America
Traditional bar rock circa Born to Run with the fantastic imagery of
Jack Kerouac.
Essential track: Chips Ahoy

20 AVALANCHES - Since I Left You
A beautiful collage of genre hopping madness.
Essential track: Since I Left You

21 MYLO - Destroy Rock N' Roll
He was the great white hope of the decade - who then disappeared much quicker than expected.
Essential track: In My Arms

22 RADIOHEAD - In Rainbows
An album that revolutionised the face of music.
Essential track: All I Need

23 TV ON THE RADIO - Return to Cookie Mountain
Return to Cookie Mountain pushed the band's experimental rock to its limits even enlisting the Godfather of cool David Bowie to lend a hand.
Essential track: Wolf Like Me

24 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Timberlake proved there were no strings attached to the paint by numbers pop of N'Sync.
Essential track: SexyBack

25 MUSE - Black Holes and Revelations
This was the start of their rise to mainstream fame which this year has shot passed the moon. All killer - no filler.
Essential track: Knights of Cydonia

26 JOHNNY CASH - American IV: The Man Comes Around
The only album consisting mostly of covers you will find in a "best of" list.
Essential track: Hurt

27 ALICIA KEYS - Songs in A Minor
She's still one of the best voices in the crowded genre.
Essential track: Fallin

28 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - The Rising
Rumour is The Boss was walking along a beach reflecting upon the September 11 attacks when a fan pleaded "We need you". This was his response.
Essential Track: The Rising

29 PHOENIX - It's Never Been Like That
The French troubadours' third effort showed they could turn up the guitars and hold their own against the best.
Essential track: Long Distance Call

30 ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS - Raising Sand
Plant sounds as youthful as he did in his Led Zep days while Krauss brings an element of sultriness as the rock god's muse.
Essential track: Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)

31 WILCO - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
One of alternative rock's finest, 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is stil the band at its most prolific.
Essential track: War on War

32 GREEN DAY - American Idiot
It took the bumbling leadership of George Bush to convince Green Day to produce its career defining album.
Essential track: American Idiot

33 HILLTOP HOODS - The Calling
The best hip hop act in Australia, this was the album that converted the non-believers.
Essential track: The Nosebleed Section

34 PJ HARVEY - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Harvey started the decade with her careerbest album, which found the singer at her most focused.
Essential track: This Mess We're In

35 MY MORNING JACKET - Z
One of the best live bands in the world still sound pretty darn good on record, particularly on Z.
Essential track: Wordless Chorus

36 LINKIN PARK - Hybrid Theory
Love them or hate them, Linkin Park rose from the dying genre of nu-metal.
Essential track: In the End

37 THE KILLERS - Hot Fuss
Brandon Flowers' honest vocals backed by the powerful rhythm on Hot Fuss was hard to ignore.
Essential track: Mr Brightside

38 YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Fever to Tell
A powerhouse debut that delivered Karen O's commanding voice to the world.
Essential track: Maps

39 POWDERFINGER - Odyssey Number Five
This is the Brisbane lads at the absolute peak of their songwriting.
Essential track: These Days

40 LILY ALLEN - It's Not Me, It's You
She broke out with her quirky take on broken hearts:
Essential track: Not Fair

41 BON IVER - For Emma, Forever Ago
42 THE DEARS - No Cities Left
43 CHRISTINA AGUILERA - Stripped
44 THE SLEEPY JACKSON - Lovers
45 ROBYN - Robyn
46 GORILLAZ - Demon Days
47 NORAH JONES - Come Away With Me
48 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
49 KAISER CHIEFS - Employment
50 STARS - In Our Bedroom After the War


http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/...2-16601,00.html
(You can leave comments on the website too)


Posted by infiniteJEST on Jan-14-2010 08:44:

Only in a backwards town like Adelaide would you get dickheads who would write crap like you. You cant even write well. Thats the result of the sub standard backwards schools in Adelaide. Writing about monkeys and children starving. Spend a few nights with the Salvos feeding the homeless so you can write about that and at least people will go to your site and learn something loser. Little dick typical male. Face it when it comes to Adelaide it is full of dumb backwards hick arseholes that are totally devoid of social consciousness or culture.

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Posted by Trance Nutter on Jan-14-2010 08:54:

quote:
Originally posted by couch-potato
http://www.27bslash6.com/roz.html


holy crap thats great


Posted by SuspicionVandit on Jan-14-2010 09:56:

I've listened to Green Day's American Idiot album.

no,


just no.


Posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs on Jan-14-2010 10:20:

At The Drive-In's "Relationship of Command" at number 2...at least the dude isn't a complete moron.


Posted by enydo on Jan-14-2010 10:22:

quote:
Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs
At The Drive-In's "Relationship of Command" at number 2...at least the dude isn't a complete moron.


Album is sick.


Posted by Acton on Jan-14-2010 11:17:

AVALANCHES - Since I Left You




There are some great albums in there, that's for sure. But that order is ridiculous, in my opinion obviously.


Posted by floyd741 on Jan-14-2010 13:28:

He picked the wrong Lily Allen album for sure. Alright, Still was a billion times better than It's Not Me, It's You.


Posted by Scoops on Jan-14-2010 13:48:

quote:
Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs
At The Drive-In's "Relationship of Command" at number 2...at least the dude isn't a complete moron.


just an overall incredible album


Posted by RapidFire on Jan-14-2010 14:17:

great album but not the best. and that list is pretty bad.


Posted by enydo on Jan-14-2010 14:17:

CUT AWAY, CUT AWAY
SEND TRANSMISSION FROM THE ONE-ARMED SCISSORRRR


Posted by Ian on Jan-14-2010 14:37:

"25 MUSE - Black Holes and Revelations
This was the start of their rise to mainstream fame which this year has shot passed the moon. All killer - no filler.
Essential track: Knights of Cydonia"


Yeah because they weren't huge before then


Posted by djnitride on Jan-14-2010 16:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Scoops
just an overall incredible album


Yeah I was going to say that needed to be up there... To bad they had to break up at the height of their musicianship...

Discovery was overrated imo


Posted by supersaw abuse on Jan-14-2010 18:31:

if you had to pick one daft punk album from last decade, why would you not go with alive 2007


Posted by enydo on Jan-14-2010 20:47:

quote:
Originally posted by djnitride
Yeah I was going to say that needed to be up there... To bad they had to break up at the height of their musicianship...



The Mars Volta came out of it though, so it wasn't all bad.


Posted by RebeL9 on Jan-14-2010 20:51:

once again. Lady Gaga at no 10?


Posted by enydo on Jan-14-2010 20:51:

This guy has no idea what he's talking about. List is an absolute joke, maybe not if all you listen to is the radio though.


Posted by djnitride on Jan-14-2010 21:05:

quote:
Originally posted by enydo
The Mars Volta came out of it though, so it wasn't all bad.


yeah, TMV had a great start but they got way to much into experimental noise rock.


Posted by enydo on Jan-14-2010 21:07:

Deloused In The Comatorium is a fucking incredible album, but I do agree. Their more recent offerings have been weaker.


Posted by djnitride on Jan-14-2010 21:10:

quote:
Originally posted by enydo
Deloused In The Comatorium is a fucking incredible album, but I do agree. Their more recent offerings have been weaker.


My thoughts exactly

Guess who produced De-loused who did not produce any other albums? None other than Rick Rubin. When he stopped producing for them, no one was left to keep Omar's artistic ego in check.


Posted by Mattsanity. on Jan-14-2010 22:39:

15 JAY-Z - The Blueprint
Utilising vintage soul, music mogul Jay-Z used 2001's The Blueprint to show the rap scene who was boss.
Essential track: Izzo (h.o.v.a)

should be #1.


Posted by Simon_N on Jan-15-2010 11:47:

Daft Punk - Discovery at no 1 is spot on.


Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jan-15-2010 20:36:

Lady Gaga AND Coldplay in the top 10?

Fuck right off.


Posted by Domesticated on Jan-15-2010 23:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
"25 MUSE - Black Holes and Revelations
This was the start of their rise to mainstream fame which this year has shot passed the moon. All killer - no filler.
Essential track: Knights of Cydonia"


Yeah because they weren't huge before then


His point was that they weren't mainstream prior to that album, which is correct. Before that they were still at Dream Theater or Audioslave's kind of popularity level.


Posted by Schadenfreude on Jan-16-2010 00:00:

never mention dream theater when talking about this shameful group of troglodytes.


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