Monday, December 28, 2009

Favorite Albums of the Decade

Somehow I happened on the Vancouver Sun newspaper's favourite albums of the decade.  For what it is worth, I found their choices and write-ups very interesting.  Click on "favourite albums of the decade" to see it. 

The Vancouver Sun website inspired me to think of my favorite CDs made between 2000 - 2009.  You will find my list to be far more pedestrian than that of the Vancouver Sun.  That said, here are my choices in random order:
  1. Bob Dylan Bootleg Series No. 5 - Bob Dylan Live - 1975 Rolling Thunder Review (2002)
  2. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears (2003)
  3. Jake La Botz - Used to Be (2001)
  4. A.J. Croce - Adrian James Croce (2004)
  5. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (2006)
  6. Tony Bennett & k.d. lang - A Wonderful World (2002)
  7. Ry Cooder - My Name is Buddy (2007)
  8. Melissa Etheridge - The Awakening (2007)
  9. Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar - One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009)
  10. Jamey Johnson - That Lonesome Song (2007)
Thank you to those of you that turned me on to these.  You know who you are.

I think the Vancouver Sun article is worth checking out so I encourage you to do it. It made me realize that I have to get with it and start spending more time listening to Jack White and White Stripes. If anyone out there has any suggestions on where I should start, let me know. 

I'd also be interested in seeing your "Best of the Decade" list.  What are they?!?  Click on "Comments" below and post them.
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  1. Ted von RosenvingeDecember 29, 2009 at 2:34 PM

    Tambourine - Tift Merritt (2004)
    Hot Fuss - The Killers (2004)
    Emotionalism - The Avett Brothers (2007)
    A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones (2005)
    Here Come the Derailers - The Derailers (2001)
    Little Honey - Lucinda Williams (2008)
    Blame the Vain - Dwight Yoakum (2005)
    Get Born - Jet (2003)
    All The You Can't Leave Behind - U2 (2000)
    Loud and Clear - Reddy Teddy (2008)

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  2. zuckermanJanuary 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM

    Interesting. This made me realize that I really don't buy that much music--I typically will only go out and buy stuff when I'm directing a new show or something, and want to explore different approaches to the play. Doing so has opened me up to some cool stuff, though, over the last decade:

    Amy Winehouse
    Devil Doll
    The Misfits (yeah I know they've been around, but I'm just now discovering them)
    Pepe & The Bottle Blondes
    Pink Martini
    Paris Combo
    Pearl Django (a Django Reinhardt-esque group)
    Queens of the Stoneage

    The Amy Winehouse album is probably worth of a 'best of decade' tag.

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  3. Steve SchumacherJanuary 7, 2010 at 8:30 PM

    Bettye Lavette---The Scene of the Crime 2007
    Mavis Staples---We'll Never Turn Back
    Los Lonely Boys---2003
    The Subdudes---Behind the Levee 2006
    Warren Zevon---The Wind 2003
    John Hiatt---Same Old Man 2008
    Shelby Lynn---I Am Shelby Lynn 2000
    Anders Osborne & Big Chief Monk Boudreaux-Bury the Hatchet 2002
    Gipsey Kings---Somos Gitanos
    Dr. John---Duke Elegant 2000
    John Hamond---Wicked Grin 2000

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