All Apologies

Wassup rockers!

Terribly sorry about the long interruption.
What happened was....
Well, someone posted this video...




And that pretty much ruined it for me for December, and most of January.

We're gonna finish that last list there, and get started on some new shit soon. I've got a list in the works that will BLOW YOUR FUCKING MIND. In all likelihood.

In the meantime, press play on that video again. Do it as much as you want, baby, it's free.

The Top 100 Albums of the Aughties: 75 - 51

Wassup Hepcats, and a happy holiday to you, whatever the holiday is that you celebrate. May Santa be good to you, may Hannukah Harry bring you all that wanted, may you be triumphant in your Feats of Strength.
Here's 100 - 76.
And here's 75 -51.

75. Liz Phair (2003)
Liz Phair
Best Jam: "Extraordinary"

74. Electric Version (2003)
The New Pornographers
Best Jam: "All For Swinging You Around"

73. Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
Interpol
Best Jam: "PDA"

72. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)
Neko Case
Best Jam: "Hold On, Hold On"

71. Show Your Bones (2006)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Best Jam: "Phenomena"

70. Lungs (2009)
Florence + The Machine
Best Jam: "Girl With One Eye"

69. Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
The White Stripes
Best Jam: "The Denial Twist"

68. Sky Blue Sky (2007)
Wilco
Best Jam: "What Light"

67. Youth and Young Manhood (2003)
Kings of Leon
Best Jam: "Molly's Chambers"

66. Rated R (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age
Best Jam: "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"

65. Graduation (2007)
Kanye West
Best Jam: "Champion"

64. Hold On Now, Youngster... (2008)
Los Campesinos!
Best Jam: "You! Me! Dancing!"

63. Get Away From Me (2004)
Nellie McKay
Best Jam: "It's a Pose"

62. Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)
Jenny Lewis
Best Jam: "Rabbit Fur Coat"

61. Veni Vidi Vicious (2000)
The Hives
Best Jam: "Die, All Right!"

60. It's Blitz! (2009)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Best Jam: "Hysteric"

59. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Arctic Monkeys
Best Jam: "I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor"

58. The Airborne Toxic Event (2008)
The Airborne Toxic Event
Best Jam: "Sometime Around Midnight"

57. All Hands On The Bad One (2000)
Sleater-Kinney
Best Jam: "You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun"

56. Funeral (2005)
Arcade Fire
Best Jam: "Wake Up"

55. Tallahassee (2002)
The Mountain Goats
Best Jam: "No Children"

54. Achilles' Heel (2004)
Pedro the Lion
Best Jam: "Arizona"

53. The Life Pursuit (2006)
Belle and Sebastian
Best Jam: "For the Price of a Cup of Tea"

52. The Heat (2004)
Jesse Malin
Best Jam: "Hotel Columbia"

51. The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
Frightened Rabbit
Best Jam: "The Modern Leper"

Next post: actual analysis! Awesome for you! Win.

The Top 100 Albums of the Aughties: 100 - 76

Wassup Hepcats!
Oh of course I was gonna do it this week. This is the big one, right? Well maybe not as big in the last decade as in decades past, decades past when people used to buy "albums", and not just cherry pick songs off of iTunes (or LimeWire - not that I do that, federales).
I'm not sure how I feel about this list. I would guess about 70 -80 of these albums I've never owned in any physical form, never pored over the liner notes, never stared at the cover art, never did lines off the jewel case. (Jokes, federales!). And I know it's annoying and old-fogeyish to bitch about weird shit like that, and I wouldn't trade what we have now for what we had then, but I do kinda miss the tangible aspect of the album, especially arguing with friends over things like sequencing. August of 1992 was in large part a discussion with my friend Brian about the best order of the songs on "Achtung Baby".
And in honor of that there is a U2 album AND a Bruce Springsteen album in here. But don't worry also like 4 White Stripes records.

BRUUUCE!

  Which brings me to another caveat: there are certain bands here who may be what you call "over-represented". But I don't. If one of my favorite groups released 3 or 4 albums in the last ten years, and I really liked all of them, I'm not gonna leave them off so that I can pretend I enjoyed whatever it is that Sigur Ros thinks they're doing. That said, it was a factor in the tiebreaking process, and you can thank your lucky stars for that, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

  So! 100 through 51 will be done in small little capsules, and we'll save the big guns for the top fitty. S'alright?

 S'alright.

100. BRMC (2001)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Best Jam: "Love Burns"

99. Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Animal Collective

Best Jam: "My Girls"

98. Earthquake Glue (2003)

Guided by Voices

Best Jam: "The Best of Jill Hives"

97. The Believer (2006)

Rhett Miller

Best Jam: "Fireflies"

96. You Are the Quarry (2004)

Morrissey

Best Jam: "First of the Gang to Die"

95. Wilco (the Album) (2009)

Wilco

Best Jam: "You Never Know"

94. The Execution of All Things (2002)

Rilo Kiley

Best Jam: "Spectacular Views"

 

93. Rockin' The Suburbs (2001)

Ben Folds

Best Jam: "Gone"

92. Poses (2001)

Rufus Wainwright

Best Jam: "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk"

91. Scissor Sisters (2004)

Scissor Sisters

Best Jam: "Take Your Mama"

90. Silent Alarm (2005)

Bloc Party

Best Jam: "Like Eating Glass"

89. Picaresque (2005)

The Decemberists

Best Jam: "We Both Go Down Together"

 

88. All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)

U2

Best Jam: "Walk On"

87. Cassadaga (2007)

Bright Eyes

Best Jam: "If The Brakeman Turns My Way"

86. Gimme Fiction (2005)

Spoon

Best Jam: "Sister Jack"

85. Humanoid (2009)

Tokio Hotel

Best Jam: "World Behind My Wall"

84. Blood Money (2002)

Tom Waits

Best Jam: "God's Away On Business"

83. Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (2004)

TV on the Radio

Best Jam: "Dreams"

 

82. Wolfmother (2005)

Wolfmother

Best Jam: "Joker and the Thief"

81. Narrow Stairs (2008)

Death Cab for Cutie

Best Jam: "Grapevine Fires"

80. Icky Thump (2007)

The White Stripes

Best Jam: "Icky Thump"

79. You Are Free (2003)

Cat Power

Best Jam: "Good Woman"

 

78. The Resistance (2009)

Muse

Best Jam: "United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage"

77. Essence (2001)

Lucinda Williams

Best Jam: "I Envy The Wind"

76. For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)

Bon Iver

Best Jam: "Blindsided"