A bit of a let down. And no one cares anyway. But I put it out.

http://fwrestling.com/host/andymoamc/halfdecade/

why didn't you write more? the hard work is making the list, the payoffs should be the discussion. kid a? madvillian that high? that max richter's only been out for a few months, hasn't it?

it came out feb 2004, but i agree with him, it's definitely in my top ten releases ever.

cool list contra.

I wrote 10 huge reviews and then I got bored.

Kid A I think is almost undsiputed. I think Madvillainy is probably the best "independent" hip hop released in many years. Max Richter came out in like Feb

It's all about favorites my man.

yeah, kid a is undisputed, so to make it at all interesting then you should say WHY it's the tiptop of the decade. Madvillainy is great but the beats are actually outshined by this Quas album, i think. favorites or no favorites, if it's a list then it's just a lifeless list. it's all about the presentation.

I'm surprised that you like this record better than their first record.
I think BOC 'Music Has The Right...' is much better.





I totally feel ya on this one.
Very underrated.

oh well.

and yeah, both Quas albums have better beats than Madvillainy on the whole. But DOOM outraps Madlib any minute of any day of the week.

G_Peve, I said it "doesn't have the same effect"...which means I like "Music Has The Right To Children" more. It's my favorite electronic release ever, in fact.

My bad. I did'nt read it.

not trying to make you feel bad about it. and yeah, doom kills it, but he almost makes it seem so easy that it's unimpressive.

Haha. No worries. After Madvillain, "The Unseen" is probably like my 3rd favorite Stones Throw release.

The demos for Madvillainy are better than the actual record. Have you heard any of the demo tracks?

Link doesn't work and I really wanted to see your list.

Kid A or XTRMNTR would be my no1

the link definitely works.

Not for me it doesn't. I thought it was a Firefox prob but IE doesn't display it either.

it worked for me. do you have fantasy wrestling sites blocked?

30. Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium
29. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
28. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
27. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
26. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
25. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
24. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
23. El-P - Fantastic Damage
22. Ash - Free All Angels
21. Radiohead - Amnesiac
20. Tom Waits - Alice
19. Dismemberment Plan - Change
18. Deltron 3030 - 3030
17. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
16. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
15. The Notwist - Neon Golden
14. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
13. Outkast - Stankonia
12. Jay-Z - The Black Album
11. Fog - Ether Teeth
10. Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy
09. Ted Leo - Tyranny Of Distance
08. Max Richter - Blue Notebooks
07. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
06. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
05. Madvillain - Madvillainy
04. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
03. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts
02. Jay-Z - Blueprint
01. Radiohead - Kid A

Awesome to see these on your list, they don't seem to get as much respect on half decade lists as the others. My list would probably have at least half your list on too.

Ash though? They're a singles band. All you need is Intergalactic Sonic 7"s

Yeah, that album, more than any album ever made me want to start a band, because it was so much fun. I don't know. It's mainly memories attached to it, yet I still listen to it pretty often, and I enjoy it a ton.

I would consider these too if I made a list

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Beck - Sea Change
Doves - Lost Souls
Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Interpol - TOTBL (cliched I know)
Pulp - We Love Life
QOTSA - Rated R

I feel the same way about that Exploding Hearts album as you do about that Ash album.

Well, all considered. "Lost Souls" barely missed. And QOTSA other album was #31.

here's my fag list (off head-top):

18. voodoo
17. minesweeper suite
16. sigur ros, i guess
15. stories from the sea
14. yesterday was dramatic, today is ok
13. and then nothing turned itself inside out
12. everyone who pretended to like me is gone
11. miss e
10. tujiko noriko tokyo to naigara
9. glow pt. 2
8. this night
7. stankonia
6. hour of b.beast
5. last exit
4. rooty
3. discovery
2. fan dam
1. endless summer

This should have been way higher than this. And there should have been more Shipp on this list, period. The most important jazz artist of the last 25 years, alongside John Zorn, Dave Douglas, and Brad Mehldau.

Good call on Fog's Ether Teeth. That is through and through an outstanding, though understated, and altogether underrated work of brilliance and beauty. It's raw, it's flawed, and I love it.