Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Better late, than never.  Quite the task to pick out the best of the past 16 years.  I used several criteria. 

1) the album had to have been released within the last 16 years
2) The album needed to still be in regular rotation to this day.
3) Most importantly, the album needed to be significant to me for one reason or another.
I have listed my top 16 as well as the short list that followed. 16 great years!

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Talkatif
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
SOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONS PIMP OF THE YEAR
Bran Van 3000 Glee [US version]
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo Ki-Oku
Kruder & Dorfmeister The K&D Sessions
Mike Ness Cheating at Solitaire
Brad Mehldau Live at the Village Vanguard
Interpol Antics
Garbage Version 2.0
M. Ward Post-War
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Talvin Singh OK
Moby  Play
Macy Gray On How Life Is
Femi Kuti Shoki Shoki
Various Artists Run Lola Run
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club
Amon Tobin Bricolage
Nightmares on Wax Carboot Soul
Bugge Wessteltoft New Conceptions in Jazz, FilM ing
Propellerheads Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
Clinic Walking with Thee
Interpol Antics
Jack Johnson On and On
Suba Sao Paulo Confessions
Koop Waltz For Koop
Jolie Holland Escondida
Wilco A Ghost is Born
Outkast Stankonia
The White Stipes Elephant
The Strokes Room On Fire
South From Here On In
Avalanche Since I Left You
Slick Sixty Nibs And Nabs

3 comments:

Brian said...

That's a really good list Marc. I feel like you kind of nailed the period in a way that I kind of did not.

Derek said...

Probably because he picked the right Strokes record and doubled up on Interpol. I might have included records 1 and 2 from them.

Brian said...

But then, you might have included 53 records among your favourite 16.