As it’s all dross from hereon in, I reckon it’s about time we did this survey. RULES: (i) NO FUCKING COMPILATIONS and/or REISSUES, (ii) no more than 20 albums, please – if you change your mind at a later date please alter your original post. People who have a list of hundreds of albums (and I’m talking about you, Dave Hibbell) can fuck off elsewhere. Restraint is a virtue etc. These lists are supposed to be personal and sentimental (hence the inclusion of “Get Ready” below) – trying to be ‘objective’ about pop music is to miss the point, you fucking bell-ends.
As for the miscellany: fee free to add your own categories.
- Richard Hawley, “Late Night Final” (2001)
- Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions,“Bavarian Fruit Bread” (2002)
- New Order, “Get Ready” (2001)
- Fever Ray, “Fever Ray” (2009)
- LCD Soundsystem, “Sound Of Silver” (2007)
- Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd, “Mysterious Skin [soundtrack]” (2005)
- Mojave 3, “Excuses for Travellers” (2000)
- Doves, “Lost Souls” (2000)
- Saloon, “If We Lived In the Future” (2003)
- Michael J. Sheehy, “No Longer My Concern” (2002)
- Vetiver, “Vetiver” (2004)
- A Girl Called Eddy, “A Girl Called Eddy” (2004)
- Broadcast, “The Sound Made By People” (2000)
- Low, “Trust” (2002)
- The Rapture, “Echoes” (2004)
- Tindersticks, “Waiting for the Moon” (2003)
- Portishead, “Third” (2008)
- The Innocence Mission, “Befriended” (2003)
- Goldfrapp, “Felt Mountain” (2000)
- Fleet Foxes, “Fleet Foxes” (2008)
MISCELLANEOUS:
New Order Gig of the 2000s: Finsbury Park (2002) New Order pre-Gig Piss-Up of the Decade: Hyde Park (2005) Non-New Order Gig of the Decade: Tindersticks, Somerset House (2002) NOOL-er of the Decade: ROcKet MIcK
Human Being of the Decade: Tony Pulis Film of the Decade: “Dead Man’s Shoes” (2004) – “‘al fresco’ means up the anus” TV Show of the Decade: Big Brother (2000-present)
Sum up the Decade In One Glib Soundbite: Same as the 1990s, but even more smug.
Sum up YOUR 2000s: I started the decade on the dole and ended the decade on the dole. Fuck off.
