Your favorite cds of the last 10 years or so?

[Bossy Monkey]

I've been out of the loop since about 1988. Was going through my cds and found that I'd almost entirely stopped buying records by about 1994. So gimme your choices. If this gets any traction, I'll try to compile a list of top picks and regard it as a sort of "Welcome back to the world" shopping list for myself.

Mine won't be on many others' lists:
Bob Mould: Bob Mould
Lyle Lovett: The Road to Ensenada
Tom Petty: Wildflowers
John Wesley Harding's New Deal... for the forgotten man
John Doe: Dim Stars, Bright Sky
Too Much Joy: ...finally

Feel free to put on as many or as few as you feel like, based on whatever criteria occurs to you. This is what people get for ignoring my end of the world poll. :)

[Wickerman]

1. A few

Scud mountain boys - Massachusetts
Yo La tengo - Painful
Alejandro Escevedo - More Miles Than Money
Los Lonely Boys
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Fred Eaglesmith - Ralph's Last Show
Steve Earle - Jerusalem
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street

[OneBlueSky]

2. this might be helpful . . .

my favorite radio station is WFUV-FM at Fordham University in the Bronx . . . each year they do a listener's poll of the best CDs of the year . . . go to their site (http://www.wfuv.org/) and scroll down the left to Best CDs of 2003 . . . if you go to that page, you'll also find links to the best of every year since 1997 . . . and these listeners have really good taste . . . :)

[tigerbeat]

3. some

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Touched - Ken Stringfellow
Bachelor No. 2 - Aimee Mann
69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields
Whitechocolatespaceegg - Liz Phair
Either/Or - Elliot Smith
First Band on the Moon - The Cardigans
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices
Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant - Belle and Sebastian

the self-titled Mould album definitely ranks somewhere on my list.

[DemWitch]

4. 10 years is a long time...

Robert Miles... Dreamland
Linkin Park... Hybrid Theory
Amethystium... Odonata
Enigma... Screen behind the mirror
Evanescence... Fallen
Missy Elliot... Supa Dupa Fly
Enigma... Le roi est mort, vive le roi
Chicane... Far from the maddening crowds
Euphoria Comilation 1-4
Chicane... Behind the sun
Soundtrack to Titanic
Christina Aguilera... Stripped
Ludacris... Chicken N Beer

[AgadorSparticus]

7. i like fallen and stripped too.

i also really like enigma but haven't heard any of their new stuff.

[DemWitch]

11. Michael Cretu's latest outing sucks... big time...

It was a real letdown considering his previous projects... and a complete was of 22 bucks...

[Toby109]

5. Just a few

Tomorrow the Green Grass-The Jayhawks
Into the Mystic-Van Morrison
Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy-The Refreshments
Picnic-Robert Earl Kean

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. I went to high school with REK

We called him "Earl" back then. :)

[Bossy Monkey]

15. REK Sr probably called him Earl in preference to Junior

On his first record(s), he's billed as Robert Earl Keen, Jr

[AgadorSparticus]

6. here are some of my favorites....

1. Sacred Love by Sting (apparently he's well hated in these parts. but i like his music and this CD very much nevertheless)
2. Elephunk by Black Eyed Peas
3. The Very Best of Cesaria Evora by Cesaria Evora
4. Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keyes
5. No Angel by Dido
6. Seal IV by Seal
7. In My Tribe by 10,000 Maniacs (this is probably too old but it's one of my all time favorites and I still listen to it)
8. Surfacing by Sarah McLachlan
9. DC Dynasty (this is Indian Bangra music. great to dance to)
10. Educated Guess by Ani DiFranco

[NashVegas]

8. Mine

the ones I can think of, anyway

Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
16 Horsepower - Low Estate
Charlatans UK - Us and Us Only
Muszikas - The Bartok Album
Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
Sondre Lerche - Faces Down
Peter Case - Full Service No Waiting
Shudder to Think - Pony Express Record
Wilco - Being There
Soul Coughing - Irresistable Bliss
Cordelia's Dad - Comet
Radiohead - the Bends


PS - glad to see a Wes fan. I can't put New Deal on the list yet, only because I haven't spent enough time with it. But the few listens I've given have left me mighty impressed.

[Bossy Monkey]

12. Just put "In Paradise" on perpetual loop

I loved it even before I found out that it's a sequel to "Waterloo Sunset" (ie before I had any idea what it was about)

[CarolynEC]

9. Blind Melon - Soup

[DS1]

13. In picture format

to name a few :7

[TrustingDog]

14. Robby Robertson and the Red Road Ensemble....

is a definite top 10er.

some others are:

Enigma (their first, think it's called Cross of Changes)
Sinead O-Connor (the blue peacock cover art one with Fire on Bablyon on it)
Avalon - Bryan Ferry
Portishead's first one.