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ATG Presents: Albums of the Aughts - The Decade in Sonic Erotica [20-1]

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All original artwork by our favorite evil genius, Joseph Devens.

Thanks so much for riding with us in '09. Here's to a perfect '10.

20-1 after the jump.

P.S.: Other notable albums that we really wanted to make this list

• Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
• Animal Collective - Feels
• Aphex Twin - Drukqs
• Black Milk - Tronic
• Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
• Celtic Frost - Monotheist
• Count Bass D - Act Your Waist Size
• Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
• Dalek - From the Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots
• Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
• Dead Presidents - Let's Get Free
• Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
• Deerhunter - Microcastle
• Dipset - Diplomatic Immunity vol. 1.
• Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
• Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
• Garden State OST
• Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute
• Goodie Mob - World Party
• Gorillaz - Demon Days
• Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
• Handsome Furs - Plague Park
• Jay-Z - American Gangster
• Jay-Z - MTV Unplugged
• Joanna Newsome - Ys
• Jon Brion - Meaningless
• Juelz Santana - What The Game's Been Missing
• Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
• Libertines - Up The Bracket
• Life Without Buildings - Live at the Annandale Hotel
• Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
• MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
• Missy Elliot - Miss E... So Addictive
• Murs and 9th Wonder - Murray's Revenge
• Octopus Project - Hello, Avalanche
• Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer
• Q-Tip - The Renaissance
• Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
• Royksopp - Melody AM
• Saul Williams - Amethyst Rockstar
• Slim Thug - Already Platinum
• St. Vincent - Actor
• Sunn O))) - Black One
• Swishahouse Presents - The Day Hell Broke Loose 2: Major Without A Major Deal
• System of a Down -Toxicity
• The Avalanches - Since I Left You
• The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
• The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
• The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
• The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
• The Knife - Silent Shout
• The Rapture - Echoes
• The Roots - Game Theory
• Thursday - Full Collapse
• Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
• Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
• Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
20. Boris - Pink

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Boris is a Japanese heavy metal trio. Let that sink in for a minute. Now think of sludgy drone metal bands like Isis and Sunn O))), groups known for wall-of-sound compositions and sprawling atmospherics. Take all the good parts of those bands and strip them away. Blend the pile of good ideas and serve.

Upon listening to Boris, a multitude of influences and familiar themes pop up, as if you're spinning a supergroup of some 100-plus members. But the sheer rapidity with which those reminders come and go prove that perhaps there isn't anything familiar at all within the band's progressive/heavy/melodic/bluesy/retro/hard rock/baroque compositions. Boris is, in fact, something entirely outside of bands like Isis, something above the fray, a deity if you will. Where other bands in their circuit stick to something that works, Boris finds something that works and then does everything possible to distance itself from it, running to find something newer and better. Pink is their straight-ahead, balls to the wall magnum opus. It sounds like Iggy and the Stooges but better, like Guitar Wolf but better, like My Bloody Valentine but...you get the point.
Pink is about those imagined influences, the brain's desire to place the music playing into something that can be easily referenced in terms of past experiences. In reality, it can't be done, and once the listener lets go and fully embraces the fact that what they're listening to does not and will not sound like anything else in their record collection, change can take place, catharsis can course through, and Boris can shine.

- Robert Rich

"Farewell"



Buy it.


19. Usher - Confessions
   
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The best pop music transports you. It functions like a time machine so that whenever you hear a song, or even a sound from a song, you remember what it felt like and where you were and how things smelled when it was fresh and you were younger. Confessions had that kind of resonance. It's one of the greatest achievements of modern r&b and probably represents the last time that genre could be considered pop without the aid of autotune or dance breaks. Confessions was huge. If you were in high school like I was, this was date music, prom music, teen club music - the whole soundtrack to an era of hitting on as many girls as you could fit in your new color-screen cell phone, embellishing successes and concealing failures as much as possible.
This album sold over 20 million copies for a reason.
Usher was the best of his time. He had a top tier voice, effortless dance moves and a charisma that evoked envy and desire in all the right demographics. "Burn" was perfect. Its dramatic, compelling storyline matched by Usher's impressive vocal range and Brian Michael Cox's miraculous bass and keys production. From the club standard "Yeah" to the lap-dance bait "Can U Handle It," the whole record is strong and memorable. We'll tell our kids about it someday. 

- Reggie Ugwu

"Burn"





18. Common - Be
  
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Very few hip-hoppers can cite such clear career highs and lows. We think Common is back for good, ("I used to love H.E.R.," 2000's remarkable Like Water for Chocolate, the Gap commercial from winter '06) his wandering eye for fashion traps him with suspect choices (the petty beef with Ice Cube, rapping about Jennifer Anniston and Vince Vaughn's romance, "Smokin' Aces").
Perhaps his greatest misstep was 2002's Electric Circus, a Roots-backed, ambitious, messy, I-listened-to-Hendrix-and-want-to-bite-ideas rough patch of stoned dreams. Though this grandiose divider has its apologists, Circus marked an irreconcilable breakup between Chicago's Common and the streets. Dude was on some argyle sweater, crochet hat, new agey bullcorn.
Years later and with an edge, perspective, and Kanye West filtering the bad ideas, Common unloaded his masterpiece.
"The present is a gift and I just want to be," Com professed over the luxurious, creeping title track, "waiting for the Lord to rise I look into my daughter's eyes and realize that I'm gonna learn through her."
He's done trying to change the genre's course and lobbying to emerge as its moral compass. He'd of course go on to talk about the pitfalls of rap with Oprah; again, highs and lows. But on Be, Common was content sticking to personal narratives of the doomed street disciples he grew up with; eager to oblige the romantic kicks that propelled singles like "Faithful" through pretty prose like "baby you a blessin' and my best friend."
Perhaps the best audible in hip-hop history, Kanye and Common ditched the studio version of "The Food" and opted for a more vibrant, distorted live version performed on "Chappelle's Show." On "Go," John Mayer and Kanye croon background vocals and it's only an interesting factoid because Com's sincerity bleeds through and steals the show.
Minimalist beyond the orchestrated, swelling, bookends, Be is perfect at 11 songs and absolutely stacked with nine Kanye production credits and two J Dilla beats nestled on top.

- Ramon Ramirez

"Faithful"





17. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
  
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Swagger is king. "Sucka MCs," Eazy-E's entire career, even the cartoonish gangsta of Pen and Pixel, usually the best move for success is to go out all guns blazing and not look back. Clipse demonstrated this with their instant cult classic. The entire album revolves around natural born hustlin' with no questions asked. They sell cocaine.
"Ride Around Shining" features the duo braggin' about their snowman status under an icy, no-fucking-around beat crawling with harp arpeggios and nasty drums, and "Trill"'s robotic funk is, well, too trill. Fuck, "Mr. Me Too" should have been the biggest single of 2006.
It's a slice of pre-2008-crash shot-calling and shit-talking, all built around a Neptunes beat featuring restricted-era alarms slowed to a crawl. Clipse's conflicts with "ain't-playin-fair crackers at Jive" have been well-documented, but remember English majors and heads weren't hooked by fucking aesthetics - Malice and Pusha T rapped their asses off.

- Andy O'Connor


"Ride Around Shinin"




16. Little Brother - Getback
  
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You wouldn't call Little Brother "conscious" rappers. But how real is "ladies want lobsters but settle for scrimps?" LB isn't going to moralize on your recycling habits or lustful livin... Because they're right there with us. But they won't glamorize it either.
While some rappers are obsessed with painting surreality, Little Brother thrives in depicting our futile existences. Not thug life but the truth about fucking up, breaking up, and repeating. The lead-in to "Breakin' My Heart" (feat. Lil Wayne) features a hypothetical girlfriend busting her philandering boyfriend via Myspace ("Who the fuck is tastydiamond69@yahoo?"), followed by arguments on why men should be allowed to cheat. It's honest. And I know it's a worn out cliché thing to point out particular hip hop lyrics as "poetry" but read this and tell me Emily Dickinson wouldn't have his back:

I think it's sickening
Things we do to see and be seen on the scene
We seem to love it, so lost when the lights go off
We sit and we often wonder what's the meaning of it
It's like nobody want to live they life
They just wanna re-enact the same scene every night
Everybody's sellin fantasies, no matter what the price
Like I'll love you forever, but forever ends tonight


- Natalia Ciolko

"Dreams"





15. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
   
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The greatest shows of my life: Public Enemy (2007 & 2008); David Yow of Jesus Lizard stripped to his briefs, diving into the crowd; Mike Watt singing "Sister Ray"; Rage Against the Machine (1996 & 2007); Willie Nelson for hours; Radiohead opening for R.E.M. on the Monster tour; a reunited Sunny Day Real Estate blowing my mind; heat stroke and Dinosaur Jr.; Titus Andronicus leaping over each other at Mohawk in Austin; my band opening for the Midgetmen, every time.
But then there's TV on the Radio. It's sexy and weird, noisy and singalong. It's songs that sound like nothing else. It's a live deconstruction of the band's own catalog. It's adventurous pop music, the kind that's not made anymore, and it's a whole lot of fun.
Science is like a TV on the Radio live performance: it's spectacle, pulse, soul, and community. "Shout Me Out" recalls that stereo-blasting drive with your best friends. "Crying" is for your mixtapes; "Lover's Day" is for making out in public.

- Ben Heath


"Love Dog"





14. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
  
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A just reputation precedes Spoon: Texans that drop album after album of flawless pop. No other aughts act created such a prolific yet well-received catalog. In fact, calculation-obsessed website Metacritic recently named these guys artist of the decade based on data collected from critical reviews of Spoon albums. You have an immaculate record. Some guys don't trust an immaculate record. I do. I have an immaculate record.
It would have been easy to include at least three (maybe all four) Spoon records, but ATG decided to anoint a best in show. On Fiction, Spoon diversify in subtle yet genius ways.  They show they can do experimental without becoming inane ("The Beast and Dragon, Adored"), acoustic without sap ("I Summon You"), groove without kitsch ("I Turn My Camera On"), and even pull the ultimate feat, changing time signatures without it becoming a distracting, burdensome factor ("Sister Jack") (apologies in advance to Rob Rich and Dream Theater). 
On top of all this, there is no denying that the songs are Beatles great.

- John Meller


"The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine"





13. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
    
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By 2001, Jay-Z was one of the best rappers, a genre maintsay, headlining enormous tours, lacking a classic work. At the time his firestorming debut, 1996's Reasonable Doubt, was regarded as a commercial failure and little else. Like the world, Jay's career changed on September 11 when his legendary Blueprint dropped the same day as the Twin Towers. Not even terrorists could stop Jigga.
Lyrically, it's perfect. Production-wise, it's top notch, but that's not what makes it an all-time classic. More importantly is what the album meant to the overall hip-hop landscape. It birthed the persona that would dominate music (Jay as jack of all trades: executive, working class hero, marketing guru, best rapper alive). It put the careers of numerous others into a whole new stratosphere (Kanye West, Eminem, Just Blaze). And it was just another conquest by the Roc, which might be the movement and clique of the decade.
Enter The Blueprint. Its hall of fame sequencing begins with producer Bink's hard hitting, brass-laced intro. Jay declares himself, "Young Veto, voice of the young people." Next, is "The Takeover," the most aggressive, high profile diss track of all-time, followed by another Kanye classic, lead single "Izzo."
"I do this for my culture..."
We have "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "Jigga that Nigga," the boasting, smart, smash singles.
A hard hitting street intro, the diss track for the history books, three hits.
"For playing me, yall shall forever remain nameless."
There's what many consider Jay's crown jewel, Just Blaze's signature banger "You Don't Know," overloaded with potent punch lines about cocaine youth. Everyone knows what they were doing when they heard this beat drop. Jay also went prophetic.
"Put me anywhere on God's Green Earth, I triple my worth."
Then comes "Hola Hovito," which is in my opinion the most slept-on track on the album. Timbo's beat is a bit commercial and so is the hook, but if you listen close, Jay is lyrically as sharp as he's ever been. Check the sports similes:
"I ball for real, yall niggaz is Sam Bowie."
"If you haven't heard, I'm Michael, Magic, and Bird, all rolled in one/cuz none got more flows than Young, plus got more flows to come/ and if I ain't better than Big, I'm the closest one."

"Heart of the City" is when beatmakers the world over began to blindly speed up soul bits on the heels of Kanye's subsequent rise. Just Blaze quickly responds with a soulful flip of his own in "Song Cry" and Jay hasn't come close to matching in terms of emotional punch with its story about love lost.
"I cant' see em coming down my eyes, so I gotta make the song cry..."
By now you've realized you'll never view hip-hop the same way and then hell breaks lose as Jay borrows an old track, "Renegade" (one Em and then rapping partner Royce da 5'9'' bodied in the '90s), and brilliantly squares off against rap's other household star. The marathon ends where Jay-Z himself began, over the slow, soothing Al Green sample from Binks and kitchen table skill honing and family name-checks of "Momma Loves Me."
"They say when you play with skills, good luck will happen"

- TJ Finley


"Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)"





12. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

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The Woods should come with liner notes that outline all the things you should ignore about the album, at least on first listen. The switch from long-time cult favorite label Kill Rock Stars to the legendary Sub Pop? Don't think about it. The lyrics, addressing post 9/11-ennui, consumerism, reality TV, and personal relationships? They're not important, really. The album's place in the greater canon of releases from the beloved Portland punk rock trio? Who cares about such things?
Oh, and the fact that all three of the band's members are women? Spend one moment meditating on that one and you've earned a punch in the face.
No, the most important thing -- the only thing -- to remember about The Woods is that just plain rocks. Hard. After six dependably excellent releases Sleater-Kinney managed one hell of a hat trick with Woods, a Led Zeppelin-inspired excursion into hard rock town that just may be the decade's best straight-up rock record. From the memorable guitar intro on "What's Mine Is Yours" to the propulsive explosion of "Entertain" to the nine-minute guitar solo on "Let's Call It Love" -- which would be self-indulgent if it weren't so damn righteous -- everything plays second fiddle to the album's chief goal: rocking you to the very fiber of your being. Sure, Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's vocal interplay is sharper than ever before, and Janet Weiss remains a powerhouse drummer, and the lyrics are smart and considered and the instrumentation virtuosic. But really, what truly elevates The Woods is that it pounds and shakes with the kind of unapologetic force they'd call the "power cosmic" in old issues of Fantastic Four.

- Patrick Caldwell


"What's Mine is Yours"





11. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  
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The Sgt. Pepper's of roots music, a spectacularly produced and orchestrated statement by a band pushing their sound into previously unexplored directions. Rather than signaling the beginning of a new era, Wilco made a triumphant final realization of "American" music, looking backwards and forwards simultaneously as the country itself was soon forced to. Foxtrot was recorded before the September 11th attacks but wasn't released until the spring of 2002. By then the feelings their LP expressed as the fears of individual possibilities had become national realities; it's hard to imagine a more aptly titled song in the aftermath of that disaster than "Ashes of American Flags," no grand statement but a slice of ordinary life failing to meet expectations. Thematically, it's the scrambling of beliefs and hopes as heard by a young American man turning old on a front porch he knows to be rotting beneath him.
Though labeled as alt-country, YHF is more OK Computer than Ryan Adams. The instruments and parts appear and disappear, sometimes silently, other times through abrupt and grinding shifts in soundscape. Songs themselves, rather than segue smoothly, fight with each other to be heard, sounding out a distorted preview of tomorrow. Underneath the production lies a set of catchy, if slightly downbeat pop songs, driven forward by Jeff Tweedy's unsure Midwestern singing over acoustic guitars and Wurlitzer electric piano. Tweedy lyrics are reminiscences of moments in life where things could have turned out differently. Hope through sadness. "I've got reservations / About so many things / But not about you" is the album's final message, ringing out over the sound of an upright piano being consumed by unpleasant electronic sounds from out in the distance. Mood and tone is the essence of the album's sound and lyrics - how things are said and played become as integral to the effect of Wilco's music as any particular words or melodies.
In producing the last American album, Wilco captured the uneasiness of suburbia through the perfection its own native music, a lasting testament to what was and what could have been, and a glimpse of embers in a dying fire, waiting to be revived again.

- Bryant Howell


"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"




10. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
  
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Supreme Clientele is just one of those albums everyone should hear before they die. It's oozing with creativity and soaked in the kind of visceral imagination that you could only expect from a member the Wu Tang Clan. Ghostface has always been the cleverest one. His rhymes pair hard-knock life lessons with playful poetry, twisting their way into pillars of narrative and philosophy. Supreme Clientele, released in 2000, opens with an extended intro lifted from an old Iron Man Saturday morning cartoon. It's Ghost's favorite alter ego, and it sets the tone perfectly for an album that soars to soulful highs like "Apollo Kids" and "We Made It" and swoops to chilling lows on "Ghost Deini" and "Mighty Healthy." 
And did I mention it was funny? Most hip-hop skits are terrible, let's be honest. But when it comes to a fertile mind such as Ghostface's, intermissions like "Iron's Theme" and "Who Would You Fuck?" are practically half the entertainment value. 
Supreme Clientele is wholly unique in its particular marriage of street vision and craft; lyrically it represents Ghostface at his most hungry and potent; and it's the most classic album (in a consistently excellent discography) from the greatest rapper ranked far too low on lists of greatest rappers. "Iron Man. Lead us to the promise land."

- Reggie Ugwu

"Mighty Healthy"





9. Burial - Untrue
   
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Burial is the archetypical enigma in literally every aspect of his music and persona. The most well-known and acclaimed musician of the dubstep scene, he is also the most unorthodox and distinctive. His production methods, as attested by himself and his few peers, are primitive, yet his albums consist of the most novel and unified electronic music. Undoubtedly relevant in sound and scope, yet he has made clear in a handful interviews that his major influences are U.K. scene garage and jungle tunes of over ten years ago. Untrue is distant, sparse, and melancholy, yet an underlying warmth and familiarity emerges. It achieves a seemingly impossible feat of juxtaposition. Tracks are built around ambiguous tones and distant melodies, yet contain a wealth of subtle details upon careful listen. Percussion is relentlessly consistent in tempo and timbre, but extremely meticulous; every track is a remarkably unique pattern, specifically lacking in drum machine precision. No other musician has made anything like it, and yet he insists inspiration comes from the club rhythms of 2-step garage.
The biggest evolution from Burial's debut album is the expanded familiarity he achieves by his frequent use of sampled vocals, which through pitchshifting effects, are transformed into androgynous, anonymous voices. The sources aren't obscure either, "Ghost Hardware" features a prominent sample of Christina Aguilera, "In McDonalds" of Aaliyah, and "Archangel" is built around a track by Ray Jay. These vocals are altered so much that only the words are clearly recognizable, and the whole album comes across as if only two or vocalists were even used. Coupled with hazy ambient tones and distant bass, the vocal elements provide a simple but effective trick in making the tracks seem familiar but not recognizable. It's brutally emotional; harnessing nostalgic feelings, incomplete memories, and universal gloom.
It's the mood one has when riding the bus alone and tired, desperately recalling happier memories of long past daily lives, hearing a song you used to love but had forgotten. At the same time, Untrue is a statement of Burial's own nostalgia and reflection; one can assume the film samples and vocal selections are beloved. Two tracks sample sounds from the Playstation series "Metal Gear Solid." It is a refreshingly unpretentious source of inspiration so many listeners can relate to. He's a diamond in the rough, standing apart from forgettable bedroom producers with cracked software, the short-lived trendsetters and their respective clones, all pushing their music while it still seems popular. His reclusive behavior has been effectively demonstrated not as a gimmick but part of his focus to make uncompromisable and raw music. Beyond the novelty and uniqueness, Burial's relevance is driven by an astounding achievement of selflessly making music that is deeply personal to him, yet is so mysteriously recognizable and genuine it has struck a chord with scores. While it may evoke a damp, dark South London subway station, it's a hopeful sign of music to come

- Josh Bradshaw


"Archangel"





8. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
  
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For the record, we knew by spin three. The first spin, having heard Rise Above and The Getty Address, was a thrill. The second spin, with all the new knowledge and growing familiarity gained from the first, was a joy. The third was a revelation.
Bitte Orca
, its title a dyad based on the German phrase for "please" and the proper name for the Killer Whale, is at its core an album about duality. It's what happens when you have no regard for the restrictive conventions of traditional pop, but a natural affinity for acoustic guitars and gorgeous vocal arrangements. It's the sound of a Yale music composition dropout and two break-out choir girls wedding seven albums-worth of experimental obscurities to a personal idolization of Beyonce. And for the rest of us, it's a "Eureka!" moment. It's an exclamation proclaiming the end of Pitchforkian celebrations of difficult music for difficulty's sake, and proving that eclectic, adventurous and even intellectually calculating music ought to reward us by sounding better and more satisfying than anything less.
From the classical beauty of "Two Doves" to the West African energies of "Remade Horizon," every moment of Bitte Orca meets and surpasses the promises made by indie-meets-r&b sensation, "Stillness is the Move." This album is nine pop songs immaculately and lovingly taught and sequenced without concern to borders or boundaries. It's profound and pleasing while managing to sound like no other music released this decade or any prior. It's a thrill, a joy, a revelation.

- Reggie Ugwu


"Two Doves"





7. Kanye West - The College Dropout
  
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I like the baby, Christmas Jesus the best. I like Kanye West as the outsider. The literal collegiate dropout with a sharp tongue and a hunger for better rap. The smart-ass. He's young Elvis before the megalomania and jump suits and Vegas, raising eyebrows.
After Blueprint, Jay-Z knew he had to sign his ace producer, secure his rights, make sure the beats stayed in house. Kanye wanted to make an album. Eventually, the idea seemed justifiable if not logical: take the Chicago kids' top flight instrumentals, let him spit filler, surround him with in-house talent for street cred. It may tank like Memphis Bleek, but it'll keep the Roc-A-Fella workhorse working.
The resulting College Dropout charmed everyone with its spoken-word inspired raps, weirdly honest, totally thumping songs about children looking up to drug dealers, women with undeclared curriculums, summers working at the Gap, God, picking up girls via instant messenger, physical fitness, listing the best r&b with which to soothe and swoon lady friends, feeling bad about making "bullshit ice rap" with Ludacris but justifying decision by telling us the bling is from Ghana and Mali, eating at Cheesecake Factory and seeing your valedictorian as a waiter and realizing higher education wasn't worth the trouble, family reunions, surviving car accidents and not even being able to eat pancakes because your jaw is wired shut.
The College Dropout is righteously political, soulful and hopeful and spiritual.
Also its the definitive party record of a generation. I remember driving up the street to the Chinese restaurant in the gone, early morning party state of all privileged students when "Get 'Em High" came on the radio and every passenger knew every word. Four months after this album dropped it was everywhere.
Dropout is praised for its influential soul-sampling and generally brilliant production but goodness did Kanye bring the words. "I blow past low class niggas with no cash in a four dash six bitch you can go ask so when I hit the gas po-po just laugh..." "I got weed, drink and a Handicam, all of which is legal in Amsterdam, so say my name like Candyman and I'll come fix you up like the handyman."
Unlike Elvis, Kanye's "five beats a day for three summers" ethic never tired.

- Ramon Ramirez

"Spaceship"





6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  
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I don't think it's tactful or necessary to call out rivals, but for all the dispensed words and opinions that didn't allow for public dissent and career-ending reviews of young bands like Black Kids and dumbassification of peers and colleagues afraid to get behind a 4.8 record once the verbose, snarky satellite spoke, Pitchfork's influence has been a cultural negative. The beacon houses some of the most passionate writers, collectively turns everyone into a jerk. I mean how many times has this happened:


Skinny, ethnically ambiguous dude with iPhone: These guys are really good, got an 8.3, check them out.

***Proceeds to play obscure recording of people opening and closing doors in Japan.***


The doors line must be credited to Devens.
For the above reasons, Funeral took a minute to embrace. Friends have derided Arcade Fire's enormous waves of melodrama as "pointless crescendo," they're not. Films have poached these emotive chunks and made patrons watching trailers weep because "Wake Up" is romantic and hungry to irresistible extremes. Delusions of grandeur? Fitting but fully realized when Pitchfork used their glowing Funeral review to ponder humanity, crown a masterpiece, allow a unit from Montreal (for the record, leading man Win Butler is from The Woodlands, however more interesting Quebec sounds) to soar.
Three years later, they're the night act on the marquee date of big festivals and we're running into converted English teachers from high school. Funeral's crossover success is Pitchfork's journalistic gift to music. Spin on Kurt Cobain. Rolling Stone interviewing John Lennon.
An album written as family members passed, Funeral is all the perils and plight of growing up with songs penned in digestible, straight-forward fashion. There's strings and frenetic live spectacles, but mainly fear, anguish, romance, the fantasy of escaping, rebellion, household warmth, domestic honor, lots of longing. 

- Ramon Ramirez

"Wake Up"
5. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
   
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Existing in a millennial vacuum when there was a distinct difference between "major label debut" and "underground" and online retail outlets like CDNow had a prominent voice, At the Drive-In culminated their brief existence with a forceful, kitchen sink rock classic. Defined by crazy energetic shows and crazy good post-hardcore albums like In/Casino/Out, the El Paso outcasts inked a deal with now defunct Grand Royal, moved to California, brought the house.
Two Hispanic stoners with afros woke up in buzz briefs next to Linkin Park, there's a song called "One-Armed Scissor" on modern rock radio, they're billed on a momentous tour with Rage Against the Machine and the Beastie Boys. Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez became the face of guitar bands, a bridge between tasteful mook rock like Chino Moreno's and artsy, wordy noise.
This is the fresh sound for the decade, thought everyone.
"One-Armed Scissor" borrows a Zeppelin breakdown (specifically "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You's") to symbolically carry the flag of smart, cryptic, metal-minded, blues-based rock. Iggy Pop, another respected poet and rock elder, spastically contributes to Command and becomes a fixed, vital presence like Peeves in Gryffindor Tower. He reads a ransom note at one point.
Bixler-Zavala's lyrics wind ("paramedics fell into the wound like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant/ an anesthetic penance beneath the hail of contraband," goes "Invalid Litter Dept."), the Latin influences (check the percussion on "Arcarsenal") add flavor, an alternative reality wherein The Strokes don't need to save rock becomes clear. Predictably, the chaos wasn't built to last and the band burned out and became two indulgent, uninteresting acts. But what a moment.

- Ramon Ramirez

"Arcarsenal"
4. Jay-Z - The Black Album

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Childhood memories are funny things.  There were special occasions, rites of passage, and annual traditions that everybody looks back on later in life with a particular fondness.  For me, and many of my friends, one of those annual traditions was a new Jay-Z album.  I remember sneaking off to a nearby Circuit City (remember that place?) to pick up Vol. 3 when I should've been waiting for a haircut.  I remember trick-or-treating after scooping Dynasty.  I remember riding in a car-full of friends to pick up Blueprint on 9/11 after the days' events and subsequent news coverage kept us from getting it before school.
I remember rushing to the store with a couple of friends to pick up the album after we found out that some stores were selling it a day early because of a leak or some-such reason.  The album didn't leave my discman (remember those?) through finals season and it was my music of choice for studying for the rest of my years in college. 
Everybody cites The Blueprint as the pinnacle of Jay's career and it is most definitely a masterpiece, but here's a dirty little secret: The Black Album is Jay's best work.
It was instantly iconic and stamped Hov's place in history. It was his swan song (temporarily). Aside from a couple of guests singing hooks, Jay holds court over the album, not relinquishing the spotlight for a single guest verse. The fourteen stories from the genre's all-time best are alternately humble, celebratory, and cogitative. Illmatic from the opposite perspective.
Jay felt so strongly about the album that he made an acapella version available just so people could remix it themselves. The resulting mash-ups were all over the map in terms of quality, but the one thing to be learned from all of them is that Jay was at the absolute top of his game. The ten producers that worked on the album stepped their game up to new heights for this record. Kanye produced one of his top-5 beats for "Encore," the Neptunes were at their whimsical best for "Change Clothes," and the most casual and fleeting of rap fans couldn't deny Rick Rubin's thunderous "99 Problems." 
Jay did the impossible on The Black Album, he made every track a stand-out. Gladiator samples ("What More Can I Say"), catch-phrases in waitng ("Dirt Off Your Shoulder" and "99 Problems"), shout outs to his literal and musical beginnings ("December 4th" and "My First Song") never meshed together so perfectly. 
Even the album's interlude is a show-stopper.  "Public Service Announcement," holy shit.  Nothing else needs to be said about that. 
This album is so good that not even Linkin Park could fudge it when they got their grubby rap-rock hands on some of the tracks.
 
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"What More Can I Say?"




3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
  
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Over the past decade, music has gotten in a fuss over former Disney stars gone wild, country chicks speaking up, catty indie rock dudes blog battling, a rapper bringing youth to brinks of destruction. We have a winner.
Eminem and Slim Shady were just characters. Marshall Mathers was a real person -- real problems and real anger. Mathers brought his own immorality and indifference toward what the world instructed to the forefront and by example, dissonant youth followed until the two towers woke us up.
Controversy aside, The Marshall Mathers LP represents the highest point in a top-heavy career from one of hip hop's greatest voices. This is Marshall both ending the white rapper stigma and designing inflection, themes, patterns for all subsequent white rappers; demonstrating lyrical proficiency and imaginative story-telling better than basically everyone. He tears into the beats cutting through words and hammering on targets. Then he does it again.
From the beginning fantasy of killing his own mother to a conclusive and hilarious mockery of the world's interpretation of his own criminality, Em never runs out of breath. The final product is one of the most exciting, diverse, and concentrated vehicles ever assembled.

- Harrison Yeager


"Kill You"





2. Radiohead - Kid A
  
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If I were a musician, I imagine Radiohead would kind of piss me off.
Three albums into their career and following a post-OK Computer torrent of hype and adulation, Radiohead threw out the baby, the bathwater, the bassinet and quite possibly the entire nursery on Kid A. It melds Krautrock and jazz and classical music with cryptic, frequently violent lyrics -- "Cut the kids in half," warbles Thom Yorke enigmatically on the halting and creepy "Morning Bell," in a commandment that may or may not be metaphorical. It sounds nothing and everything like the Radiohead we all thought we knew so well in 2000. It sounds a bit like Aphex Twin in 1993 and a bit like Can with just a smidgen of "Remain In Light"-era Talking Heads.
It's a game changer, an electronica-influenced album that's dissonant and frequently unsettling -- as on the twisted jack-in-the-box intro to the title track, or the slow building dread of "Treefigners" -- and yet somehow manages to be the band's most emotional, deeply felt, deeply human album. Ten years later most of us are still trying to process it. It sounds like the decade that ultimately followed -- harshly apocalyptic with faint rays of hope peaking ever-so-rarely through the clouds. With Kid A, Radiohead pulled one heck of a hat trick, reinventing themselves from the ground up without ever betraying who they were. They'd follow it up with three more excellent full-lengths, never stagnating, never boring and remaining clever, progressive and powerful all the time.
In other words, Radiohead keeps on raising the bar for us. It kind of pisses me off.

- Patrick Caldwell

"Morning Bell"

1. Kanye West - Late Registration
 
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It can be tempting to separate the man from his music. In light of any number of seemingly brazen displays of bald ego or otherwise disreputable behavior, one might argue, in the man's defense, that we ought to forget the extracurricular exploits. Forget about the Henny-dipped outbursts, the outsize proclamations, the STENTORIAN TIRADES, the crying white girls and instead make a more purist judgment based on, what else, the music. Don't.  
Don't for a second forget about the idiosyncratic personality that, in 2004, positioned itself as the antithesis of the archetypical rap star. Don't push aside the unchecked passion that has become the bane of live television programmers everywhere. And instead of focusing on ego, take in the ineffable id that, in 2005, lured film composer and Paul Thomas Anderson-buddy Jon Brion into co-conspiring on a rap album that sounds nothing like any made before or since.
Late Registration's lush, eclectically orchestral instrumentation was an obvious departure. It marked the second on a still growing list of major occasions where Kanye has thrown his fan base and the music public in general for a loop. But for all the ostensible stunting, we can see with hindsight that the product of that first left turn was not a stunt, but a surefooted step in the questing intelligence of an incomparable pop star. The loopy "Addiction," the boundlessly exuberant "We Major," the speechless compositional shifts of "Gone" and others, to listen to Late Registration is to hear the rarefied sounds of an artist who approaches his craft - who approaches hip-hop - with extraordinary seriousness and dedication. You know, the kind of artist who might try and start an uprising at an awards show.
I heard someone say once that Kanye was like the Tupac of the suburbs. It's a somewhat heady and presumptuous comparison, but it makes sense on an important level. Aside from being art-school dropouts with big personalities, both rappers became defacto leaders of movements that touched the wider culture. Just as Pac's "Thug Life" credo spread across black males, congress and white youth in the '90s, Kanye's urbanity and culture mashing have become secondhand for post-middle class, Obama-voting, Vampire Weekend-blogging millennials - many of whom, it would seem, have become the rap stars of tomorrow.
Flawed, prolific and transcendent, Kanye West wins the Artist of the Decade award in a landslide.
Time to talk his shit again.

- Reggie Ugwu

"Gone"



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