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COLDPLAYING'S ALBUMS OF THE DECADE! VOTING CLOSED

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Thank you! I listen to a fair bit of music, so I tried to make my choices reflect that.

 

Actually, I'm thinking of replacing Crane Wife with Goldfrapp's "Felt Mountain"... hmm.

 

Cool that you chose Modern Times. I loved that album but I've completely forgotten about it!

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my #1 will be An End Has A Start by Editors.

I made a rough list, but then that computer wouldn't stay on :veryangry2: grr. Anyway, it exists now, and it's probably over 100, so it's just a matter of paring and sorting. Phew. :sweatdrop:

i was partially working on my thread today, and saved it. i'll work on the rest tomorrow. whomever is going next are they posting theirs soon?

Anyway, very very rough entirely out of any discernible order list:

 

A List

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Radiohead - Kid A

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

The White Stripes - Elephant

Sufjan Stevens - Illonois

Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Daft Punk - Discovery

Burial - Untrue

 

B List

Muse - Origin of Symmetry

Sigur Ros - Takk

Coldplay - Parachutes

Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

Guillemots - Through The Window Pane

Coldplay - Viva la Vida

Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid

Doves - The Last Broadcast

Stars - Set Yourself on Fire

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Editors - The Back Room

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Feist- The Reminder

Snow Patrol - Final Straw

Travis - The Boy With No Name

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Mando Diao - Bring 'Em In

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

Sons and Daughters - The Repulsion Box

Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!

Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

Sam Roberts - We Were Born in a Flame

 

C List

Santogold - Santogold

Maps - We Can Create

Doves - Kingdom of Rust

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

For Emma, forever ago - Bon Iver

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

Muse - Absolution

Stars - Heart

Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs

Lykke Li - Youth Novels

Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War

Editors- An End has a start

Sigur Ros - ()

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

Oasis- Don't Believe The Truth

The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers

The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of the Understatement

Imogen Heap - Ellipse

Florence and the Machine - Lungs

Beck - Modern Guilt

Metric - Fantasies

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

Jack Johnson - On and On

Blonde Redhead - 23

Justice - †

Sons and Daughters - This Gift

Modeselektor - Hello Mom!

Burial - Burial

 

D List

Feist - Let It Die

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

The Kooks- Inside In Inside Out

Lily Allen- Alright, Still

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

muse- black holes and revelations

The Fratellis - Costello Music

Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

norah jones - come away with me

Travis - The Invisible Band

Tegan and Sarah - So Jealous

Hot Hot Heat - Elevator

Oasis - Dig out Yor Soul

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

MGMT- Oracular Spectacular

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

Sufjan Stevens - Michigan

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

Franz Ferdinand - Tonight

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace

Hot Chip - The Warning

Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

Røyksopp - Junior

Goldfrapp - Supernature

Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

Kasabian - Empire

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare

The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

The Knife - Silent Shout

Duffy - Rockferry

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium

Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere

Sam Roberts - Chemical City

Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

Howling Bells - Howling Bells

Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back

Loreena McKennit - An Ancient Muse

Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky

The Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night

Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger

Regina Spektor - Far

Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

The Subways - Young For Eternity

The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

 

E List*

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Blur - Think Tank

Regina Spektor - Far

Sea Change-Beck

The Information-Beck

Transatlanticism-Death Cab for Cutie

Silent Alarm - Bloc Party

Broken Social Scene- You Forgot It In People

MIA - Kala

Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae

Same Roberts - Love at the End of the World

Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope

^i hope that's not at all indicative of your order. if one more person puts in rainbows ahead of a rush of blood, i may lose it. and i know briggs hasn't even done his list yet!

a rush of blood is gunna lose on the very forum that was created because of how good it was!!!! if it lost to kid a that would be another story. but in rainbows isn't even their best of the decade!!!!

No beyond the broad groups, the only order that shows is the moment things came to mind. Well, Funeral is my #1 because I don't think any other album came close to capturing the zeitgeist of the decade better. But very sorry, I may disappoint yet though I haven't decided- In Rainbows has been inching its way toward my personal favorite album in the universe for a while now... :uhoh2:
^i hope that's not at all indicative of your order. if one more person puts in rainbows ahead of a rush of blood, i may lose it. and i know briggs hasn't even done his list yet!

a rush of blood is gunna lose on the very forum that was created because of how good it was!!!! if it lost to kid a that would be another story. but in rainbows isn't even their best of the decade!!!!

 

Yeah, In Rainbows will definitely be ahead of AROBTTH. :glasses2:

it better!

 

i'm hoping for it to be #1 overall... well that's at least what i would vote for.

 

 

ok... if Radiohead get's anything @ #1 i'll be happy! :D

 

i'm such a uber-fan:P

Man, this is tough... #40 deserves to be in #5 or 10 just as much as anything above it. :stunned: I'm putting things in order relatively, and then I look down at the finished section of list and wonder how this that and that other album all ended up so low. :confused:

Ok, here's my final ordered list.

 

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral

2. Radiohead - Kid A

3. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

4. Radiohead - In Rainbows

5. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not

7. The Killers - Hot Fuss

8. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

9. The White Stripes - Elephant

10. Daft Punk - Discovery

 

11. Burial - Untrue

12. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

13. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

14. Coldplay - Parachutes

15. Radiohead - Amnesiac

16. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire

17. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

18. Sigur Ros - Takk

19. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

20. Muse - Origin of Symmetry

 

21. Coldplay - Viva la Vida

22. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

23. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

24. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

25. Gorillaz - Demon Days

26. Mando Diao - Bring 'Em In

27. Editors - The Back Room

28. Doves - The Last Broadcast

29. Feist- The Reminder

30. Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

 

31. MIA - Kala

32. Sons and Daughters - The Repulsion Box

33. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!

34. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

35. Thom Yorke - The Eraser

36. Snow Patrol - Final Straw

37. Travis - The Boy With No Name

38. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid

39. Guillemots - Through The Window Pane

40. Sam Roberts - We Were Born in a Flame

 

41. Muse - Absolution

42. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

43. Stars - Heart

44. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

45. Sigur Ros - ()

46. Justice - †

47. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene

48. Blonde Redhead - 23

49. Santogold - Santogold

50. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

 

51. The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of the Understatement

52. Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs

53. Oasis- Don't Believe The Truth

54. Jack Johnson - On and On

55. Modeselektor - Hello Mom!

56. Maps - We Can Create

57. Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War

58. Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere

59. MGMT- Oracular Spectacular

60. The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious

 

61. Burial - Burial

62. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

63. Muse- Black Holes and Revelations

64. TV on the Radio - Dear Science

65. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

66. Imogen Heap - Ellipse

67. Wolfmother - Wolfmother

68. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

69. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

70. The Knife - Silent Shout

 

71. Howling Bells - Howling Bells

72. Beck - Modern Guilt

73. Metric - Fantasies

74. The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers

75. Oasis - Dig out Yor Soul

76. Editors- An End has a start

77. Travis - The Invisible Band

78. Sons and Daughters - This Gift

79. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

80. Transatlanticism-Death Cab for Cutie

 

81. The Kooks- Inside In Inside Out

82. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

83. Florence and the Machine - Lungs

84. Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky

85. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

86. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan

87. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

88. KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

89. Lykke Li - Youth Novels

90. For Emma, forever ago - Bon Iver

 

91. Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare

92. Feist - Let It Die

93. Hot Hot Heat - Elevator

94. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

95. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

96. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

97. Lily Allen- Alright, Still

98. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen

99. Kasabian - Empire

100. Duffy - Rockferry

 

If you had told me 10 years ago that at the end of the decade I would make a list of 100 albums from that decade alone that I liked, and that I would have been upset because of the large number of albums I had to leave off of it, I would have told you that there weren't that many great albums in the world. :stunned:

 

I'm not even sure my younger self would have liked my current self. :confused:

 

:cool:

I'm not even sure my younger self would have liked my current self. :confused:

 

:cool:

 

you have no idea how much i can relate to that. from where i come from we call that hitting the nail right on the head.

 

i've only looked carefully through your top 20, alot of similarities with my own list.

i was partially working on my thread today, and saved it. i'll work on the rest tomorrow. whomever is going next are they posting theirs soon?

 

yes when is 06 coming?

 

I'm really sorry, guys. I was planning on doing it yesterday, but my dad decided to be a douche and ban me from the computer. -_- It shall be up sometime this afternoon. I promise.

W00t w00t! The 2006 review can now be found here:

 

CLICK.

1. Wall of Arms - The Maccabees

2. Colour It In [special Edition] - The Maccabees

3. A Rush of Blood - Coldplay

4. An End Has A Start - Editors

5. Viva La Vida - Coldplay

6. Parachutes - Coldplay

7. In This Light And On This Evening - Editors

8. X&Y - Coldplay

9. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires

10. Because of the Times - Kings of Leon

11. The Back Room - Editors

12. I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose - Bombay Bicycle Club

13. Kings & Queens - Jamie T

14. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

15. Only By The Night - Kings of Leon

16. In Ear Park - Department of Eagles

17. Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon

18. Panic Prevention - Jamie T

19. Insides - Jon Hopkins

20. Feels - Animal Collective

21. Girls and Weather - The Rumble Strips

22. Funeral - Arcade Fire

23. Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys

24. Matinee - Jack Penate

1. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (2005)

2. Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe (2009)

3. Editors - In This Light And On This Evening (2009)

4. Editors - An End Has A Start (2007)

5. Placebo - Black Market Music (2000)

6. New Order - Get Ready (2001)

7. Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit2 (2003)

8. Kasabian - Kasabian (2004)

9. Depeche Mode - Exciter (2001)

10. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry (2004)

11. R.E.M. - Accelerate (2008)

12. The Cure - Bloodflowers (2000)

13. Ladytron - Witching Hour (2005)

14. Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts (2003)

15. Placebo - Meds (2006)

16. Coldplay - X & Y (2005)

17. Garbage - Bleed Like Me (2005)

18. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (2005)

19. Recoil - Liquid (2000)

20. R.E.M. - Around The Sun (2004)

21. Ladytron - Velocifero (2008)

22. Editors - The Back Room (2005)

23. Interpol - Antics (2004)

24. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (2008)

25. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)

26. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends (2008)

27. Ladytron - Light & Magic (2002)

Thanks, Mike. Sorry I kept you waiting on that.

i cant wait for the 07 review.....amazing year

1. Coldlplay- a rush of blood to the head

2. Radiohead- in rainbows

3. Coldlplay- viva la vida or death and all his friends

4. Coldplay- parachutes

5. Vampire Weekend- vampire weekend

6. Arctic Monkeys- whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not

7. Kean- hopes and fears

8. U2- how to dismantle an atomic bomb

9. Jet- get born

10. Coldplay- x&y

11. MGMT- oracular spectacular

12. Into the Wild (eddie vedder)- into the wild

13. White Lies- white lies

14. Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus

15. Sin Bandera- sin bandera

16. Kean- under the iron sea

17. Oasis- dig out your soul

18. Motel-motel

19. Muse- black holes & revaluations

20. Kanye West- late registration

21. Zoe- memo rex commander y el corazon atomico de la via lactea

22. The Kooks- inside in/ inside out

23. Cage The Elephant-

24. Rooney- calling the world

25. Moby- play & play

26. Groove Armada- soundboy rock

27. Easy Star All-Star- easy star lonely hearts dub band

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