Toe Jam Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 PLEASE REFRAIN from making this a "oh, this decade sucked compared to the 90s" type discussion. WE KNOW how you feel already. Instead, maybe we can actually discuss the music that is on the list for once. Eh? Maybe? lol. I obviously have no qualms with any of the #1 picks but some of these are indeed very questionable. Have at it! ARTISTS 1. Green Day 2. Radiohead 3. U2 4. Coldplay 5. Black Eyed Peas 6. Justin Timberlake 7. Bruce Springsteen 8. Eminem 9. Jack White 10. Jay-Z 11. Kings of Leon 12. Fall Out Boy 13. Arcade Fire 14. M.I.A. 15. Wilco click link for more artists ALBUMS 1. American Idiot (Green Day) 2. Graduation (Kanye West) 3. Kid A (Radiohead) 4. Let Go (Avril Lavigne) 5. In Rainbows (Radiohead) 6. All That You Can't Leave Behind (U2) 7. Blackout (Britney Spears) 8. All I Ever Wanted (Kelly Clarkson) 9. The Blueprint (Jay-Z) 10. The Fame (Lady Gaga) click link for more albums SINGLES 1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day) 2. Single Ladies (Beyonce) 3. Beautiful Day (U2) 4. Toxic (Britney Spears) 5. We Belong Together (Mariah Carey) click link for more singles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Those lists are disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 I got a real problem with Avril Lavigne and Kings of Leon being on this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephisto Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 God awful choices, but I can't say I'm surprised by rolling stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmchairRedskin Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 It's a reader's poll so it just proves that people like their musical taste spoonfed to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubbs Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 People will hate, but American Idiot is one of my favorite albums of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HokieSkinsFan Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Where's the indie rock?! This list sucks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 People will hate, but American Idiot is one of my favorite albums of all time. You just became my new best friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 People will hate, but American Idiot is one of my favorite albums of all time. Coming of age in 1994 (I was in 7th grade) I am far more partial to Dookie then American Idiot As for this list...really I enjoy Green Day quite a bit, takes me back to the mid 90s and middle school, but this list is terrible. This decade you saw quite a rise in many different genres of music, and musicians. Just seems way too "Clearchannel" for me Honestly..Fall Out Boy? OLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OU_skins Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Those lists are pretty terrible, but so is most of the music this past decade. Kings of Leon??? They had like 2 songs. Give me a break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I realize this is a readers poll, but does the vast majority of the general public really only listen to what is played for them on the radio? Pop is such a sad genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Britney Spears has the 7th best album of the decade? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 I realize this is a readers poll, but does the vast majority of the general public really only listen to what is played for them on the radio? Pop is such a sad genre. Did you forget what country we're in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Did you forget what country we're in? No. I just forgot how lazy and uninterested people are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephisto Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Those lists are pretty terrible, but so is most of the music this past decade.Kings of Leon??? They had like 2 songs. Give me a break. Don't judge based on what you hear on the radio. The 2000s have been one of the best decades of all time for music. Not because there's more talent in this decade than any other (I'd say that talent has been pretty consistent) but because great artists that would have remained local/unknown in the past have been far more accessible. Much of the most popular music has been crap, but this has always been true in past decades as well (boy bands, hair metal, disco, etc) Great artists from this decade: Andrew Bird Battles Daft Punk Interpol Justice Modest Mouse The National Okkervil River Streetlight Manifesto Wilco Those are just a few, and of course some of them were around well before 2000, but they have all put out great music this decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Hahaha, Fall Out Boy... Epic fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Don't judge based on what you hear on the radio. The 2000s have been one of the best decades of all time for music. Not because there's more talent in this decade than any other (I'd say that talent has been pretty consistent) but because great artists that would have remained local/unknown in the past have been far more accessible. Much of the most popular music has been crap, but this has always been true in past decades as well (boy bands, hair metal, disco, etc)Great artists from this decade: Andrew Bird Battles Daft Punk Interpol Justice Modest Mouse The National Okkervil River Streetlight Manifesto Wilco Those are just a few, and of course some of them were around well before 2000, but they have all put out great music this decade. The difference is at least they had talent. The Backstreet Boys could at least sing. The metal players actually understood instruments. There was some good disco among the crap. Can't hate on the Bee Gees. Sad when Soulja Boy and all that awful autotune etc. garbage become big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsfan07 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Those lists are disgusting. THIS. Those lists suck. BADLY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubble Screen Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I got a real problem with Avril Lavigne and Kings of Leon being on this list. As much as I love Kings of Leon, I agree, they shouldn't be on the list. They haven't even been around that long. And Avril? She's decent. But definitely shouldn't be on the list. And no way Radiohead should be ahead of Coldplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terpfan Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Great artists from this decade: Andrew Bird Battles Daft Punk Interpol Justice Modest Mouse The National Okkervil River Streetlight Manifesto Wilco One of these things is not like the others... (Guess I'm just not a ska guy) This does make me want to post my top 25 for the decade though... (One per artist for variety's sake) 1. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004) 2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) 3. Radiohead - Kid A (2000) 4. The National - Alligator (2005) 5. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000) 6. The Strokes - Is This It (2001) 7. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005) 8. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (2000) 9. The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) 10. The White Stripes - De Stijl (2002) 11. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009) 12. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006) 13. Menomena - Friend And Foe (2007) 14. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2004) 15. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2005) 16. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In the Light (2008) 17. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005) 18. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005) 19. The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) 20. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) 21. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007) 22. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance (2001) 23. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006) 24. of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic (2005) 25. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2004) I should mention that with all due respect to Eminem, Jay-Z, Outkast, etc. I left rap albums off the list so as not to make the choices any harder on myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IONTOP Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 As much as I love Kings of Leon, I agree, they shouldn't be on the list. They haven't even been around that long. I remember listening to their stuff in '04... It was MUCH better than their new stuff... So '04 (at least) to '09, that's half the decade, which qualifies them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Don't judge based on what you hear on the radio. The 2000s have been one of the best decades of all time for music. Not because there's more talent in this decade than any other (I'd say that talent has been pretty consistent) but because great artists that would have remained local/unknown in the past have been far more accessible. Much of the most popular music has been crap, but this has always been true in past decades as well (boy bands, hair metal, disco, etc)Great artists from this decade: Andrew Bird Battles Daft Punk Interpol Justice Modest Mouse The National Okkervil River Streetlight Manifesto Wilco Those are just a few, and of course some of them were around well before 2000, but they have all put out great music this decade. Yup. I'm not a fan of the stuff playing on the radio, but I've got at least a dozen bands of this decade that I listen to because the internet makes them accessible. A lot of talent out there waiting to be discovered by those who will appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USS Redskins Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Wow - this decade did suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Bruce ... really ? Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephisto Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 One of these things is not like the others... (Guess I'm just not a ska guy)This does make me want to post my top 25 for the decade though... (One per artist for variety's sake) 1. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004) 2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) 3. Radiohead - Kid A (2000) 4. The National - Alligator (2005) 5. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000) 6. The Strokes - Is This It (2001) 7. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005) 8. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (2000) 9. The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) 10. The White Stripes - De Stijl (2002) 11. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009) 12. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006) 13. Menomena - Friend And Foe (2007) 14. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2004) 15. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2005) 16. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In the Light (2008) 17. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005) 18. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005) 19. The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) 20. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) 21. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007) 22. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance (2001) 23. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006) 24. of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic (2005) 25. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2004) I should mention that with all due respect to Eminem, Jay-Z, Outkast, etc. I left rap albums off the list so as not to make the choices any harder on myself. Good list (Sufjan Stevens should've been on mine, he's one of my favorite singer/songwriters), but I can't really get into Animal Collective. As for Streetlight Manifesto, I'm no fan of Ska myself (SM and Catch 22 is virtually the only ska I enjoy) but they've become one of my favorite bands, and Tomas Kalnoky is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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