Well, that was fast. Decade is just about over, and as it draws to a close, its highs look awfully high in the rearview. Presented here, an unranked sprawl of 100 records that stuck with us, managing to break through the noise of an increasingly distracting age, and stick around in our heads.
Category: Decade
Decade :: Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
This is it—the final entry in our Decade series. Since the beginning of October we’ve been highlighting albums released over the past ten years that made an impression—that made a difference. While we could not possibly […]
Decade :: Jim White, No Such Place (2001)
No Such Place is an album I have come back to over and over again this past decade. Its fusion of varied production (and producers), Southern Gothic story telling and haunting lyrics have caused me to […]
Decade :: The National, Alligator (2005)
Decade :: The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America (2006)
Decade :: Radiohead, Kid A (2000)
Radiohead’s Kid A is advanced. You know this because you’ve listened to it. You know this because countless writers and critics and friends and foes have told you so. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of people who know more […]
Decade :: The Strokes, Is This It (2001)
There could be a lot to resent about the Strokes before ever listening to their music. A bunch of wealthy, well-traveled prep-school kids from Manhattan hit a bit of luck and became an overnight sensation. The money, […]
Decade :: Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People (2002)
As Justin said in his Decade entry on Sufjan Stevens’ Michigan , some albums feel intrinsically linked to the experience of listening to them. Maybe it’s a romantic sentiment, but music works like some aural madeleine, […]
Decade :: The Arcade Fire, Funeral (2004)
It’d be easy to peg Funeral a death processional. People have done it before. Nearly every time anyone ever talked about the record, in fact. I never read the liner notes to the album, but apparently […]
Decade :: Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (2000)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
Decade :: Elliott Smith, Figure 8 (2000)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
Decade :: TV On The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
Decade :: Outkast, Stankonia (2000)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
Decade :: Trail of Dead, Source Tags and Codes (2002)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
Decade :: Josh Ritter, The Animal Years (2006)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]