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[Justin]

10: cake - comfort eagle Shadowstabbing
9: q and not u - different damage So Many Animal Calls
8: harvey danger - king james version Pike Street/Park Slope
7: of montreal: satanic panic in the attic Disconnect the Dots
6: the living end - roll on Blood On Your Hands
5: gatsbys american dream - volcanoShhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!
4: the decemberists: her majesty the decemberistsThe Chimbley Sweep
3: modest mouse - the moon & antarctica Third Planet
2: the dismemberment plan - changeTime Bomb
1: saves the day - in reverieTomorrow Too Late

20 - 11 just for fun

20: the format - dog problems
19: the alkaline trio - maybe i'll catch fire
18: the go! team - thunder, lightning, strike
17: ted leo - hearts of oak
16: motion city soundtrack - i am the movie
15: streetlight manifesto - everything goes numb
14: piebald - all ears, all eyes, all the time
13: the new pornographers - twin cinema
12: sufjan stevens - illinois
11: strung out - an american paradox

[Andy]

Wow, I have so much disagreement with that list.

EDIT:
In ascending order:

'Everyday' by Dave Matthews Band
'Going Somewhere' by Colin Hay
'Parachutes' by Coldplay
'So Long' by Louque
'Best of Red Hot Chili Peppers' by Guesstimate Jones
'Decadence' by Head Automatica
'Our Live Album is Better than Your Live Album' by Reel Big Fish
'Mutemath' by MuteMath
'5 to 2' by Westbound Train
'Morning View' by Incubus

I guess I have relatively conventional tastes.

[Randy Jones]

Is the lowercase letters to indicate sarcasm? Cause lol.

Re-edited so it's not "10 albums in the order I thought of them"

1. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Beck - Sea Change
4. Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
6. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
7. Kanye West - Late Registration
8. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
9. The Strokes - Room on Fire
10. Outkast - Stankonia

Top 10 is lame. Give a nigga top 50.

[Justin]

hey mugsy you can't argue a list and then use a live album as part of yours. i love reel big fish too, but c'mon. beer was written in like 1994 bro.

[Andy]

Yeah, I wondered whether or not I should put live albums on or not, but I decided to go ahead with it, based on the fact that there were no real outlines or anything. I hereby remove it, and tack on 'Maroon' by Barenaked Ladies to the remaining spot.

If the Best of Chili Peppers is too out there too, I can make other arrangements for that too. That was another I was second guessing.

[webber Cooledge]

10 Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
9 Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
8 Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
7 Justin Timberlake - Justified
6 Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere
5 The Clientele - Surburban Light
4 Electric Six - Fire
3 eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
2 The Lucksmiths - Where Were We?
1 Augie March - Sunset Studies

This was really hard, so honourable mentions:
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
The Lucksmiths - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me
The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
Rilo Kiley - Take-Offs And Landings
Missy Higgins - The Sound Of White
Goldenhorse - Riverhead

and a bunch of others I have forgotten.

edit: now with more suspense!

[Andy]

4 Electric Six - Fire

Is this not the band who sings the classic, 'Gay Bar?'

[emily]

You bet your ass it is. Best album of this or any other century.

[Casey]

I had to do 20. I just couldn't bring myself to only list 10, there were so many great albums that weren't getting a mention.

20. Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
19. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
18. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
17. Madlib - Madvillainy
16. Arcade Fire - Funeral
15. Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
14. ...Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
13. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
12. Mr Lif - I Phantom
11. Postal Service - Give Up
10. Beck - Sea Change
09. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
08. El-P - Fantastic Damage
07. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
06. Cornelius - Point
05. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
04. Blur - Think Tank
03. Radiohead - Amnesiac
02. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
01. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

[Mike]

6: the living end - roll on Blood On Your Hands

I would've used one of the first three songs over that one.

[Justin]

I don't know. I love how epic that song is. It starts out as a relatively low key reggae affair, the call-and-response chorus is a sonic punch in the face and the shift in the middle of the song to an anthemic call-to-arms always makes me want to raise my fist and shout along. Oh, and the crescendo during the bridge is totally rad.

[bericbnauff]

Just off the top of my head

1. the Hives - Tyranasaurus Hives
2. Rocket From the Crypt - Group Sounds
3. the Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
4. Ted Leo - Hearts of Oak
5. the Dismemberment Plan - Change
6. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Elvis Costello - When I Was Creul
9. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
10. Joe Strummer - Streetcore
11. The Strokes - Room on Fire
12. Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
13. Maritime - Glass Floor
14. Bloc Part - Silent Alarm
15. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
16. Rocket From the Crypt - Live from Camp X-Ray
17. Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
18. Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
19. Entrance - Wandering Stranger
20. Beck - Sea Change

This was haphazardly thrown together, so I know I am missing some stuff. Next LOS should be best albums 1990-Present!

[Logan]

10. Ted Leo/RX - Hearts of Oak
09. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
08. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
07. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
06. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
05. Eels - Blinking Lights and other Revelations
04. Iron & Wine - the Creek Drank the Cradle
03. Bonnie "Prince Billy/Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
02. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
01. Modest Mouse - the Moon & Antarctica

[Lurkzilla]

Just off the top of my head

2. Rocket From the Crypt - Group Sounds

16. Rocket From the Crypt - Live from Camp X-Ray

Hellz yeah! Sometimes I feel like the only dude in the universe who likes RFTC. "Group Sounds" was a crazy rockin' album.

I would add to this thread, but my knowledge of newer music (~5 years) is embarassing. Somewhere along the line I stopped paying attention, for some reason. My list would be shameful.

[Dan Pee]

1. Tenacious D - Tenacious D (2001)
2. Cake - Comfort Eagle (2001)
3. Shins - Oh Inverted World (2001)
4. Ludacris - Back for the First Time (2000)
5. Weezer - Maladroit (2002)
6. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
7. Shins - Chutes too Narrow (2003)
8. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
9. Jay Z - The Blueprint (2001)
10. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying (2003)
11. NOFX - Pump Up the Valium
12. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)

[Kyle]

10. Outkast - Stankonia

1999, fool

here go my list:

10. Smog — A River Ain't Too Much to Love
9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy — Superwolf
8. Iron & Wine — The Creek Drank the Cradle
7. Sigur Ros — ()
6. Devendra Banhart — Cripple Crow
5. Ryan Adams — Heartbreaker
4. Outkast — Speakerboxx/The Love Below
3. Radiohead — Kid A
2. Modest Mouse — The Moon and Antarctica
1. Wilco — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot


it was extremely hard to narrow down and if i did this tomorrow, i'd probably have a different list, but i guess that's the idea here

[Daniel]

edit: frick

[thePlebeian]

Thinking about this, I realized I simply don't pay attention to current music, really. So, here's the list I was able to come up with:

1. SMiLE- Brian Wilson (I don't care if bits and pieces came out on various Beach Boys albums, and all the music was technically written in the 1960s...the album, in its complete form, was not released until 2004, so I'm counting it)
2. Alice- Tom Waits
3. i- the Magnetic Fields (this would be 69 Love Songs, but that was released in 1999, so it doesn't count)
4. Have You Fed the Fish?- Badly Drawn Boy
5. American IV: The Man Comes Around- Johnny Cash
6. Endless Wire- The Who
7. Reconstruction Site- the Weakerthans
8. Tenacious D- Tenacious D
9. Has Been- William Shatner
10.The Moldy Peaches- The Moldy Peaches

[Daniel]

muh fuh guh forgot a fuckin buttload of albums

thusly, revised list with forgotten albums in the bold

01. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
02. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
03. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
04. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
05. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
06. The White Stripes - Elephant
07. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
08. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
09. M. Ward - The Transfiguration of Vincent
10. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
11. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
12. Akron/Family - Akron/Family
13. Peter Bjorn and John - Writers Block
14. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
15. Ted Leo + Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
16. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
17. The Hives - Tyrranasaurus Hives
18. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
19. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
20. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
21. The Hidden Cameras - Awoo
22. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
23. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
24. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
25. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
26. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
27. Pearl Jam - Binarual
28. Califone - Quicksand and Cradlesnakes
29. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
30. The Strokes - Room on Fire
31. The Fiery Furnaces - EP
32. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
33. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
34. Angels of Light - Sing ''Other People''
35. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
36. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
37. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
38. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
39. Tom Waits - Real Gone
40. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
41. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
42. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
43. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
44. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
45. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
46. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
47. Beck - Sea Change
48. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
49. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
50. The Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South

[Jon]

10. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
9. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
7. The Decemberists - Picaresque
6. Sigur Ros - Takk...
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. Coldplay - Parachutes
3. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
2. Doves - Lost Souls
1. Radiohead - Kid A

EDIT: Dan'l's list just reminded me of Ugly Casanova. sry jaga jazzist you're out