- Top 50 albums of the decade (50-41)
50 Various Artists – Y4K Presents DJ ILS
One of the best ‘breakbeat‘ compilations out there before the scene really started to become its own.
49 Johnny Cash – Unearthed
Dying from a broken heart sounds like a fantasy, but going through Johnny Cash’s life story it all seems to make sense.
48 Justin Timberlake — ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’
Cheeky swagging blagger teams up with fat head Timberland to put together an amazing pop album.
47 General Elektriks – Good City For Dreamers
A spectacular mixture of funk, soul, indie and nicely programmed hip hop beats. Lots of lovely synth action as well.
46 Murs – 3:16
9th Wonder and Murs team up to produce a stonking album of solid beats, programming, tough rhymes and no fucking around.
45 Peter Bjorn & John – Living Thing
Despite “Young Folks” being the song of the summer of 2006, this album took their potential and mixed up their live ideas with a more electronic approach. It is good to see that they stepped their game up with this album.
44 My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
Everyone loves Z, but this album has some amazingly crafted songs, and is a much more consistent and fun album than previous efforts.
43 Muse – Origin Of Symmetry
Before their big stadium based albums, this showed off a purer side to Muse without the insanely big studio production sound.
42 LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
You be hard pressed to find a ‘plug-in’ used in this album. Listening to an album full of a plethora of analogue equipment to create more ‘dancier’ form is very interested to hear, because so much can go wrong (particularly in a live situation). However, when it goes right you get something which is extremely hard to create digitally. This album represents that sound gone right.
41 Common – Be
Big backing, high sales and quality collaborations; Common has got some absolute bangers on this album. Refreshing to hear it done so well commercially amongst a time of transition and backlash for shit hip hop around that period.
