The Top albums of the Last 15 years

[Table 5]

Kid A is the most over rated Radiohead album ever.

I still like the first 3 albums quite a bit..with Ok Computer being the best. I just can't handle Thom Yorke's eunuch-inspired singing in the rest of them.

[East Coast Flame]

I think the Bends was fantastic, but nothing since that album has done anything for me. They make cold, unlistenable, robot music. I can only take so much haunted wailing.

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Kid A is the most over rated Radiohead album ever.

I still like the first 3 albums quite a bit..with Ok Computer being the best. I just can't handle Thom Yorke's eunuch-inspired singing in the rest of them.

Relative to their catalog, I actually think it's a little underrated (or perhaps that the rest of their stuff is overrated). Personally, I think Kid A blows everything else they've ever done other than OK Computer out of the water and stuff like In Rainbows or Amnesiac shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath.

As for their earlier stuff, I think it's a mixed bag. Pablo Honey is mostly throwaway stuff and while the Bends is a great album, it's not something I find myself listening to all that often anymore and I don't think it has really stood the test of time as well as OK Computer which was released only 2 years later.

[undercoverbrother]

To echo what has been said the first three radiohead ablums great.

I was done after OK Computer.

[Hockey_Ninja]

I can thing of several different hip hop album that came out over the last 15 years that are better than My Twisted Dark Fantasy.

[drew24]

Alright. This thread isn't as much fun as it should be. Nobody feels silly criticizing the top albums in a user voted poll without providing reasons why or posting a list themselves? You're bigger bummers than these albums you dislike for being bummers.

So maybe post lists because it's more fun to talk about things you like than things you dislike?

[East Coast Flame]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

I can thing of several different hip hop album that came out over the last 15 years that are better than My Twisted Dark Fantasy.

Like? I agree 100% with the Kanye pick. It's the best hip hop album since Ready to Die, in my opinion.

[Lobotroth]

01. Radiohead - Kid A
02. Ween - Quebec
03. Radiohead - In Rainbows
04. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
05. Pavement - Terror Twilight
06. Radiohead - OK Computer
07. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
08. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
09. Ween - The Mollusk
10. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret

I just went through my iPod and chose music that I've listened to over and over. I'm sure I'm probably missing something good but I'm pretty happy with that list.

EDIT - Yup, I missed something, The Walkmen. I would happily put You & Me on that list.

It appears that I like "cold, unlistenable robot music".

[East Coast Flame]

Originally Posted by drew24

Alright. This thread isn't as much fun as it should be. Nobody feels silly criticizing the top albums in a user voted poll without providing reasons why or posting a list themselves? You're bigger bummers than these albums you dislike for being bummers.

So maybe post lists because it's more fun to talk about things you like than things you dislike?

Alright, my top 10 would probably look like:

1. Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
4. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
5. Kanye West - MBDTF
6. Daft Punk - Homework
7. Kanye West - College Dropout
8. Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeous Phoenix
10. The White Stripes - Elephant

Pretty sure all my picks were on the pitchfork top 200, so I definitely fall in line with their fan base...even though I hated most of their top 10, especially Radiohead.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by East Coast Flame

Like? I agree 100% with the Kanye pick. It's the best hip hop album since Ready to Die, in my opinion.

I'm not denying that the album is bad because I'd be lying, it's a great album by Kanye, defiantly some of his best work , but personally i think his best work was The College Dropout. The songs on that album where better written and had a better message behind them. My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy wins in the production department but the lyrics for the majority of the album aren't really that great. Kanye is defiantly one of the most talented guys in the industry but i personally think The College Dropout was better.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

I'm not denying that the album is bad because I'd be lying, it's a great album by Kanye, defiantly some of his best work , but personally i think his best work was The College Dropout. The songs on that album where better written and had a better message behind them. My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy wins in the production department but the lyrics for the majority of the album aren't really that great. Kanye is defiantly one of the most talented guys in the industry but i personally think The College Dropout was better.

[TurnedTheCorner]

I submitted my own Top 100 list to p4k as part of the entire people's list exercise. I'll see if I can find the link sometime and post it here.

[PeteLFan]

Hip hop is poorly represented stankonia isn't even outkast best material. How the heck is Nas left off, but we have drake. Thankfully there isn't any little Wayne on there.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Here's the link. 64 write in votes, but that's not unexpected. And it's hip hop heavy, because that's what I like to listen to. DWI.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/46596912/

[PeteLFan]

Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner

Here's the link. 64 write in votes, but that's not unexpected. And it's hip hop heavy, because that's what I like to listen to. DWI.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/46596912/

Interesting picks, slim shady and marshal mathers over eminem show. Streets disciple and gods son on over stillmatic, sir luscious left foot.

[iLoveLamp]

My complete list

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/ea8ad073/

[Magnum PEI]

Top Guilty Pleasures of the Last 15 Years:

1. Nelly Furtado- Loose
2. Lady Gaga- The Fame
3. Kylie Minogue- Fever
4. Paramore- Riot
5. Christina Aguilera- Stripped
6. Eminem- Relapse
7. Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
8. The Killers- Hot Fuss
9. 50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Trying
10. Weezer- Green Album

Edit: I really like that 3rd Taylor Swift Album too.

[Senator Clay Davis]

What's most annoying on the list is when clearly superior albums by an artist are rated lower than more well known albums. Prime examples being OutKast (Stankonia way ahead of Aquemini) and Kanye West (lol Dark Fantasy top 10? ooookk. College Dropout twice as good). Hip-hop and metal both poorly represented but you'd expect that from a magazine that doesn't cater to those audiences.

Worst omissions:

- The fact that Black Star, or neither Mos or Talib's first solo albums not being on the list compared to some of that average/awful crap on there.
- No Roots albums either?
- No Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R? Really?
- No Mastodon or Opeth?

Obviously could go on for a while, but this list is what it is: A list that looks similar to what it is at RateYourMusic.com, minus all the popular mainstream albums and metal and hip-hop

[Hockey_Ninja]

Not To mention The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill isn't even on that list. Seriously wtf.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Yeah, the database on albums for inclusion on p4k was really strange for the reason you noted. Not only were some albums by artists inexplicably write ins, the database also included compilations and greatest hits packages.