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A dozen albums from 2000-2009

I think the newest music on my computer is the Sweeney Todd soundtrack (and that's from a 1979 musical). Speaking of which, either 1979 or 2007 still puts it on the new end of my collection. Yeah, I'm not kidding. LOL.

Well, I do have every song every played or referenced in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series, which takes me up to 2004! That's an achievement! Granted, the songs I tend to play from that are the oldies and '90s Bronze stuff.

The two biggest folders on my computer (that aren't video) are Elvis Presley and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .mp3s.

The rest of my collection is various soundtrack material with a heavy load of John Williams (Star Wars and Indiana Jones), Danny Elfman (Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice and Batman Returns), Judy Garland, Desi Arnaz, numerous Disney film and ride soundtracks (oh, yeah, the sounds of Disneyland!), The Partridge Family, The Sound of Music soundtrack, the Hocus Pocus soundtrack, the Evita soundtrack, the Popeye soundtrack, the Willy Wonka soundtrack, the Pete's Dragon soundtrack, Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks, The Wrath of Khan soundtrack (mostly for that Amazing Grace instrumental), the Anastasia soundtrack, Lara's Theme, the What A Wonderful World instrumental from Meet Joe Black, the Unchained Melody instrumental from Ghost, One Last Wish from Casper, etc...

In other words, 2007's Sweeney Todd is truly the newest thing on my computer as far as music goes. Second newest would be PotC3. PotC and Sweeney aside, even my soundtracks are getting old.

The '90s were the last decade that I remotely kept up with pop-culture (movies that I saw as a kid and pop music that I was subjected to). And it still seems new to me!

Almost every song that I've heard from the last 10 years was probably on a fanvid that I watched on YouTube.

I've never heard any of these Lady Gaga people. Really. I'm only 22 years old, too. I even get upset that the oldies station doesn't play old enough music. ROFLMAO. Damn the new oldies radio trend of post-mid-'60s only. And I rupture a blood vessel every time the oldies radio station plays something that doesn't qualify as "golden oldies". Certain genres and eras should never invade that category.
 
Since nobody else replied for a couple days, the forum's pseudo-consensus appears to be:

4 Votes

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Green Day - American Idiot

3 Votes

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Kid A
System of a Down - Toxicity

2 Votes

Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Dropkick Murphys - Blackout
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Guns & Roses - Chinese Democracy
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Modest Mouse - Good News for People That Love Bad News
Muse - Absolution
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri La-Dee-Daa
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
The White Stripes - Elephant

Very interesting

I think that kinda works. It shows where a lot of people live (U2, STP, Pearl Jam, Rush, Alice in Chains), but that some of the more memorable 2000+ bands get to shine through as well.
 
^ Good call on Neon Bible. It tends to get overlooked because it had to follow Funeral, but it has great songs as well, not least Black Wave/Bad Vibrations and My Body is a Cage.

I personally prefer Neon Bible to Funeral. There is not a single song on Neon Bible that isn't fantastic.

Grizzly Bear's Yellow House and Veckatimest are superb as well. Why they have a song on the new Twilight soundtrack beggars belief.
To pay rent? Really though, the exposure that they are sure to get off of appearing on the New Moon soundtrack is worth it. Good on them.

Anyway, I listen to Yellow House quite a bit. The entire top 6 of that list are some of my favorite albums of all time, not just the past decade, and Yellow House is my favorite for chilling out with a cigar and drink at the end of the day.

Aaron McGuire
 
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Magma - Ëmëhntëtt-Ré
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
Radiohead - Kid A
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Cat Power - The Greatest
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top
Mogwai - Mr.Beast
 
^ Good call on Neon Bible. It tends to get overlooked because it had to follow Funeral, but it has great songs as well, not least Black Wave/Bad Vibrations and My Body is a Cage.

I personally prefer Neon Bible to Funeral. There is not a single song on Neon Bible that isn't fantastic.

Holy crap, there are other people who like Neon Bible better than Funeral. Honestly, the first time I heard Funeral I wasn't all that impressed, but when I listened to it again after enjoying Neon Bible my opinion of it improved dramatically. Some brilliant highpoints for Funeral (Neighborhood #1: Tunnels, Wake Up, and Rebellion (Lies)) especially, but I think Neon Bible is more consistent.

I actually have a Top 50 for the decade, though I feel I should add descriptions to them, but then I'd have to do it for the other decades too and it would end up being about 190 blurbs. And I'm lazy.
 
I doubt I've even bought 12 albums since 2000...

:lol:

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Rush - Vapor Trails
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

You're my new best friend. :)

My list this decade?

Porcupine Tree- Deadwing
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
Porcupine Tree- Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree- Fear Of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree- The Incident
Steven Wilson- Insurgentes
Radiohead- Kid A
Spocks Beard- Spocks Beard
Dream Theater- Octavarium
Rush- Snakes and Arrows
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Transatlantic- The Whirlwind
 
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