As someone who’s been following pop music for four decades, I am a bit surprised to look back at the now-ending decade (the naughties) and conclude that it’s actually been a good one for music. Here’s my list of the best albums of the past decade.<\/p>\n
No compilations or retrospectives are included (except ones by Pugwash<\/strong> and The Simpsons<\/strong>), just to keep things sort of current. Longtime readers may note that I\u2019ve either reviewed many of these or actually interviewed the artists. What can I say? I write about what I care about. Also, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve forgotten some discs I meant to include.<\/p>\n Note that the hyperlinks will take you somewhere relevant — usually musoscribe.com, my archive site — but it might be a review of something else by that artist, or an interview from a time period not corresponding directly to that album. Still worth your time if you’re hi-fi curious<\/em>, so to speak.<\/p>\n You’ll have your own list, I\u2019m sure. but I\u2019m the one with the blog. Happy New Year.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> 2001<\/strong> 2002<\/strong> 2003<\/strong> 2004<\/strong> 2005<\/strong> 2006<\/strong> 2007<\/strong> 2008<\/strong> 2009<\/strong> As someone who’s been following pop music for four decades, I am a bit surprised to look back at the now-ending decade (the naughties) and conclude that it’s actually been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-list","cat-8-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAir – The Virgin Suicides<\/em> (soundtrack)
\nPorcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun<\/em><\/a>
\nRadiohead – Kid A<\/em>
\nGodspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSemisonic – All About Chemistry<\/em>
\nGuided by Voices – Isolation Drills<\/em>
\nZero 7 – Simple Things<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nMoby – 18
\nBrian Wilson – Pet Sounds Live<\/em>
\nFlaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots<\/em><\/a>
\nPorcupine Tree – In Absentia<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nFountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers<\/em><\/a>
\nLove – The Forever Changes Concert<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Polyphonic Spree – Together We’re Heavy<\/em><\/a>
\nBrian Wilson – SMiLE<\/em>
\nKT Tunstall – Eye to the telescope<\/em><\/a>
\nDungen – Tat Det Lugnt<\/em><\/a>
\nMilk and Honey Band – The Secret Life of…<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPorcupine Tree – Deadwing<\/em><\/a>
\nSufjan Stevens – Illinois<\/em>
\nCheeksters – 1965<\/em><\/a>
\nRandy & the Bloody Lovelies – Lift<\/em><\/a>
\nLake Trout –\u00a0 Not Them, You<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nFlaming Lips – At War With the Mystics<\/em><\/a>
\nMatthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – Under the Covers Vol. 1<\/em><\/a>
\nWolfmother – s\/t<\/em><\/a>
\nPete Yorn – Nightcrawler<\/em><\/a>
\nResidents – The River of Crime<\/em><\/a>
\nDavid Gilmour – On an Island<\/em>
\nNew Mastersounds – Live at La Cova<\/em>
\nRichard X Heyman – Actual Sighs<\/em><\/a>
\nRussian Circles – Enter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nIggy and the Stooges – The Weirdness<\/em>
\nPorcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet<\/em><\/a>
\nPaul McCartney – Memory Almost Full<\/em><\/a>
\nPolyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army<\/em><\/a>
\nCrowded House \u2013 Time on Earth<\/em><\/a>
\nKT Tunstall – Drastic Fantastic<\/em><\/a>
\nThe Simpsons – Testify<\/em><\/a>
\nNew York Dolls – Live at the Fillmore East<\/em><\/a>
\nJames Morrison – Undiscovered<\/em><\/a>
\nWarm in the Wake – American Prehistoric<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nKing Khan & the Shrines – The Supreme Genius of…<\/em><\/a>
\nBlack Mountain – In the Future<\/em>
\nTally Hall – Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum<\/em>
\nFlight of the Conchords – s\/t<\/em>
\nBrothers and Sisters – Fortunately<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nA Camp – Colonia<\/em><\/a>
\nKnight Area – Realm of Shadows<\/em><\/a>
\nJamie and Steve – English Afterthoughts<\/em><\/a>
\nPeter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – hERE aND nOW<\/em><\/a>
\nPugwash – Giddy<\/em><\/a>
\nDennis Diken with Bell Sound – Late Music<\/em><\/a>
\nThe Twilight Hours – Stereo Night<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"