Wow, this past decade wouldn't go down as the decade for music.

goin down to Athens next weekend to see them and skeletonwitch, stoked!

What a bunch of crap

Early Cuyler wrote: 1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. Thrice - Vheissu
3. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
4. The Receiving End of Sirens - Between the Heart and the Synapse
5. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

So nice to see a TREOS fan!

I still listen to Synapse.

cat_lover wrote:Iron Maiden- A Matter Of Life And Death

This would be on my list. As to the other four, not sure. I listen to so much music that I never know release dates and half the time, I struggle to remember what songs are on what album.

DESCENTdmc wrote: goin down to Athens next weekend to see them and skeletonwitch, stoked!

-That would be awesome! Loved the first Skeletonwitch...the second one I'm not digging as much. Great to see a good band like that come out of Athens amongst all the hippie and jam band crap that usually comes out of there.

In no order:

Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing

Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Sonofanump wrote: Wow, this past decade wouldn't go down as the decade for music.

If you can't find music that you like that was made in the last ten years then you weren't looking or didn't really want to find anything.

Acting like the music scene used to be better is nostalgia at work and nothing else.

40 years from now, if some semi-credible music magazine makes a list of the top 100 albums of all time, which decade do you think will have more on that list. I'd bet the 70's, 60's, 90's & 80's in that order all have more albums on such a list than the past ten years.

People in the 90s said the 90s were terrible for music, people in the 80s longed for the 70s of music, 70s era folks longed for the psychedelic 60s of music, et al.

Sonofanump wrote: 40 years from now, if some semi-credible music magazine makes a list of the top 100 albums of all time, which decade do you think will have more on that list. I'd bet the 70's, 60's, 90's & 80's in that order all have more albums on such a list than the past ten years.

the thing is, that these list are all based on opinion when it comes down to it.

most of the people that posted in this topic seem to be bigger fans of music and go out looking for it then your average top40 listener which is what is on most GOAT list, doesnt mean its better though.

My favorite 5:

1. A Rush of Blood to the Head- Coldplay
2. In Rainbows- Radiohead
3. Funeral- The Arcade Fire
4. Hot Fuss- The Killers
5. Oracular Spectacular- MGMT


Everyone has different tastes.

ohiotiger33 wrote: My favorite 5:

1. A Rush of Blood to the Head- Coldplay
2. In Rainbows- Radiohead
3. Funeral- The Arcade Fire
4. Hot Fuss- The Killers
5. Oracular Spectacular- MGMT


Everyone has different tastes.

Hmm, If I was to pick a Radiohead album from the past ten years to put on my list it probably would have been Kid A. Thought In Rainbows did more for the distribution of music (pay what you want) than for Radiohead's progress.

I Wear Pants wrote:
If you can't find music that you like that was made in the last ten years then you weren't looking or didn't really want to find anything.

Acting like the music scene used to be better is nostalgia at work and nothing else.

The first statement being true doesn't make the second one true.

There has been good music recently, but it would be a stretch to say other decades weren't stronger.

I don't think there have been decades that were particularly better than others when it comes to music. If I'm a fan of what is labeled classic rock then I'm probably pretty pessimistic when it comes to judging the quality of music made today. However, If one is a fan of say, "indie" rock, they're probably stoked about the seeming endless amount of great releases these days.

Music wasn't somehow indefinitely better in the past. There's really no way to say that any decade was better than another without some sort of preferential bias.

queencitybuckeye wrote:

I Wear Pants wrote:
If you can't find music that you like that was made in the last ten years then you weren't looking or didn't really want to find anything.

Acting like the music scene used to be better is nostalgia at work and nothing else.

The first statement being true doesn't make the second one true.

There has been good music recently, but it would be a stretch to say other decades weren't stronger.

I don't know that I'd completely agree with that. I think the thing is that what's so much weaker in this decade is the music deemed "popular". You get random American Idol people and big-money generic glossy acts. I'd say that virtually every genre of music has weak acts getting all the attention and great acts either underground or at least not in regular radio airplay.

For me, heavy metal is my main genre of modern music. Of groups prolific in this decade, I can vouch for Dream Theater (prog-metal), Gamma Ray (power metal), Dismember (death metal), Amon Amarth (viking death), Sigh (black metal), Blut Aus Nord (industrial/ambient black), Hypocrisy (death/black hybrid) and a good deal more as being very talented in their sub-genre of the music.

I look at this decade insignificant instead of not strong, because it seems like all the crap is what gets pushed to the forefront, while the great stuff gets stuck in the background. Of the popular metal groups prolific in this decade, I don't know what I'd consider memorable besides Iron Maiden (still kickin' and still making great albums) and Tool (the new gen heavy version of Floyd...yeah, I went there). Maybe Megadeth....if they're still considered popular (don't hear anything more recent than Symphony of Destruction or Angry Again on the radio usually).