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Friday, December 11, 2009

Best of the decade

Here is the e-music best of the decade list. I know this list is to sell albums. That means anything not on eMusic will not be on the list. I am not sure how The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts did not make this list, It is one of my top of the decade.

My top selections from this list

96. For The Birds by The Frames
76. The Execution of All Things by Rilo Kiley
59. For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
47. Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
41. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? by of Montreal
38. The Glow Part 2 by The Microphones
30. Actor by St. Vincent
27. I Am A Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons
23. The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse
19. Destroyer's Rubies by Destroyer
1. Is This It by The Strokes

Labels: Best of, best of 2000s, best of decade, eMusic, list, music, tag overload

- Rich, 2:38 PM

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Wrapping up the decade

I have been taking part in Aught Music blog. It is an music blog put together by Jeremy Bushnell. The point is for people to write little love notes or appreciations for the songs of the last decade. The project is broken up to be done year by year. We have just finished up 2000. I am sending my posts for 2001 songs that will be posted over the next couple of weeks.

If you like you can see my posts. I would suggest looking through all the posts. There is a lot to look at there. I would recommend it all.

Labels: 2000s, Best of, best of decade, blog, music, song

- Rich, 3:36 PM

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Best Albums of this decade

Is it too early for me to be thinking about the best albums of the 00 decade? I hope not, because I have been thinking about them for a while. I know that if I do not think about this list now, I will never get the list done in a reasonable time.

The funny thing, this is the decade that I have been the most interested in music. In the 80s I was very young when it started and could not find music for myself. In the 90s I was very connected to music while I was in college, but after that I all but forgot about music. By the end of the decade I was not listening to anything.

Because of the internet, iPods, and blogs, I really connected to music early in this decade. It has been a great decade for music. There are a lot of bands that I know of that I doubt I would have heard of in former decades. It is true that the music industry has also changed in this time. These bands might have been signed in the past.

I have started working on my list of the best albums from this decade. So far the list has over 100 albums on it. Those are just albums which I have tracks from on my laptop. I think the list will get bigger as I look at all the albums from the decade. I know there are things I must be forgetting.

Of course this means I still listen to albums. I am not sure how many other people are still listening to albums. I keep on hearing how albums are going away, but I have not see it yet. The bands I listen to are still putting out albums. It might be a little while longer before they go away. This might be the last decade for a list like this.

Let me know if you want to do this as a project. I want to know if I can get lists from enough people so I can give more than just my ranking.

Is anyone else going to make a list of the best albums from the 00's?
How many albums will you put on your list?
How detailed are you going to be about the ranking?

Update: I am defining the decade at 2000-2009. I know the whole zero year thing is in play, but I think it is esthetically better to start on 2000.

Labels: album, Best of, best of decade, flickrpost, music

- Rich, 3:30 PM

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