Uncut magazine top 150 albums of the decade

I think I own only 10 or 11 of those albums.
Criminally missing from that list: Slaid Cleaves ("Broke Down", "Wishbones" or "Everything You Love Will be Left Behind"); Dan Bern ("New American Language", "My Country II", or "Breathe"), Tift Merritt ("Bramble Rose" or "Tamborine"), The Jayhawks ("Rainy Day Music"), Old 97s ("Satellite Rides" or "Drag It Up"), Rod Picott ("Summerbirds"), Shelby Lynne ("I Am Shelby Lynne"), Allison Moorer ("The Hardest Part"), Marah ("Kids in Philly" or "20,000 Streets Under the Sky"), Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers ("Sonoran Hope & Madness" or "Americano"), Josh Ritter ("The Animal Years" or "Historical Conquests of.."), Son Volt ("Okemah and the Melody of Riot", "The Search", or "American Central Dust"), Dar Williams ("The Green World"), Lucinda Williams ("Essence"), Waco Brothers ("New Deal" or "Freedom and Weep")

 

Dammit 21, you beat me to it.

 

Actually I meant "American Idiot", so I suck, but it's not on there!

 

I'm stunned at how many I have and I really don't download music much anymore. I guess it helps to have that many Radiohead, Raconteurs and White Stripes albums on the list.


148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
143 - Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs
142 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
134 - Radiohead Hail to the Thief
133 - Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
132 - Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark
131 - Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
114 - The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely
109 - The White Stripes Icky Thump
107 - Paul Westerberg Come Feel Me Tremble
101 - Neko Case Blacklisted
88 - The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
87 - Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
83 - Outkast Stankonia
82 - Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South
79 - Kings of Leon Only By the Night
77 - Kanye West The College Dropout
66 - Jay-Z The Blueprint
59 - The White Stripes De Stijl
41 - Bruce Springsteen Magic
37 - The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
35 - Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
28 - Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
25 - Radiohead Kid A
24 - Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
20 - Amy Winehouse Back to Black
19 - Bruce Springsteen The Rising
17 - The White Stripes - Elephant
15 - Radiohead In Rainbows
8 - Bob Dylan Modern Times
7 - The Arcade Fire Funeral
6 - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand
5 - The Strokes Is This It
1 - The White Stripes White Blood Cells

 

Without Oasis it's a crap list.

 

I own these off that list:

150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time
149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble
148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
139 - Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
138 - Wilco Sky Blue Sky
136 - The Strokes Room on Fir
134 - Radiohead Hail to the Thief
133 - Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
132 - Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark
131 - Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
125 - The Hold Steady Stay Positive
124 - Brightback Morning Light Brightback Morning Light
123 - Doves The Last Broadcast
120 - MGMT Oracular Spectacular
116 - Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
113 - The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
112 - Beirut The Flying Club Cup
109 - The White Stripes Icky Thump
104 - Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
98 - The Avalanches Since I Left You
93 - The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free
88 - The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
83 - Outkast Stankonia
82 - Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South
81 - Okkervil River The Stage Names
79 - Kings of Leon Only By the Night
76 - Beck Seachange
75 - Gorillaz Demon Days
71 - TV on the Radio Dear Science
66 - Jay-Z The Blueprint
61 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues
59 - The White Stripes De Stijl
56 - Sonic Youth Murray Street
53 - Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
47 - The National Alligator
46 - Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera
43 - The Streets Original Pirate Material
41 - Bruce Springsteen Magic
39 - Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
38 - Ryan Adams Gold
36 - Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
35 - Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
34 - Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
33 - Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
32 - Calexico Feast of Wire
31 - My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
30 - Sufjan Stevens Illinois
27 - The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
26 - Lambchop Nixon
25 - Radiohead Kid A
19 - Bruce Springsteen The Rising
17 - The White Stripes - Elephant
16 - LCD Soundsytem Sound of Silver
15 - Radiohead In Rainbows
11 - The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10 - Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
9 - Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
8 - Bob Dylan Modern Times
7 - The Arcade Fire Funeral
5 - The Strokes Is This It
4 - Brian Wilson Smile
3 - Wilco A Ghost is Born
2 - Bob Dylan Love and Theft
1 - The White Stripes White Blood Cells

 

You might have me beat, Big Circus. Here's the albums I own:

149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble
148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
139 - Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
137 - Elliott Smith From a Basement on a Hill
136 - The Strokes Room on Fire
134 - Radiohead Hail to the Thief
131 - Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
120 - MGMT Oracular Spectacular
117 - At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
115 - Steven Malkmus & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash
114 - The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely
113 - The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
112 - Beirut The Flying Club Cup
111 - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Furcoat
109 - The White Stripes Icky Thump
101 - Neko Case Blacklisted
104 - Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
98 - The Avalanches Since I Left You
97 - Paul Weller 22 Dreams
96 - Rufus Wainwright Want One
88 - The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
83 - Outkast Stankonia
82 - Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South
81 - Okkervil River The Stage Names
79 - Kings of Leon Only By the Night
77 - Kanye West The College Dropout
76 - Beck Seachange
75 - Gorillaz Demon Days
73 - Elliott Smith Figure 8
70 - The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen
69 - Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
67 - Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther
65 - Rufus Wainwright Poses
59 - The White Stripes De Stijl
53 - Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
47 - The National Alligator
44 - The Libertines Up the Bracket
41 - Bruce Springsteen Magic
39 - Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
38 - Ryan Adams Gold
37 - The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
35 - Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
31 - My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
30 - Sufjan Stevens Illinois
28 - Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
25 - Radiohead Kid A
24 - Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
22 - Blur Think Thank
20 - Amy Winehouse Back to Black
17 - The White Stripes - Elephant
16 - LCD Soundsytem Sound of Silver
15 - Radiohead In Rainbows
11 - The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10 - Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
9 - Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
7 - The Arcade Fire Funeral
5 - The Strokes Is This It
3 - Wilco A Ghost is Born
1 - The White Stripes White Blood Cells

This list still sucks. Also, Animal Collective is one of the most overrated bands of the decade.

 

And along those lines, Paste says "Illinoise" by Sufjan Stevens is the best album of the decade. I feel better and better about letting my subscription lapse. Over a span of just a couple of years Paste went from pretty good to suffocatingly pretentious.

 

I don't think these lists are all that "pretentious," and I don't think anyone is trying to pretend to enjoy these albums to up their hipness quotient.

More than any decade, the industry has fragmented, just like most other industries. There are few huge albums any more. No "Ten." No "Rumors." No "Thriller." I'm not pretentious whatsoever, and I think that the most interesting music being made nowadays by far is in the indie rock and alternative country/Americana genres. I don't have a huge problem with the Sufjan Stevens album being ranked that high. It's not a party album, for sure, but it's really thoughtful and ambitious and not at all inaccessible, either. I'd listen to it over, say, the Killers every day and twice on Sunday.

That being said ... I sure wouldn't have minded Buckcherry slipping onto one of these lists at some slot.

 

Journal For Plague Lovers by the Manics is an obvious exclusion, IMO.

 

To clarify... I don't think picking Sufjan Stevens is all that pretentious, and I don't really have a problem with Paste making it number one. Wouldn't be my choice, and I found it amusing since someone had made a Sufjan comment in relation to Pitchfork on this thread.

I do, however, find Paste unbelievably pretentious and borderline unreadable at this stage. The final straw for me was the "world music" issue: an entire issue dedicated to music from Africa and Eastern Europe that I will never hear, have no interest in, and will never read one word about again. For a monthly magazine, that struck me as the equivalent of printing "Go fuck yourself" on the first page and leaving the rest of the magazine blank.

 

People who publish subjective rankings/opinions that differ from mine anger me.
I'm glad there's a place for me to express my umbrage.