Uncut's top 150 albums of the 21st Century

Henry Irving

This month's Uncut Magazine (for men between 40 and 60 who like to think they are still into music ie me) has a list of their 150 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century so far.

Their choice not mine as I only have about 7 of them but for interest and debate. Where are Richard Hawley or Joss Stone? And are the White Strips really that good? It's a "rock" mag so the choices lean a bit too much that way for my liking.

If you buy the mag you get a free CD with some of the tracks.

150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time
149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble
148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain
146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues
145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
144 - Robert Wyatt Comicopera
143 - Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs
142 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
141 - Rahel Unthank and the Winterset The Bairns

140 - Espers Espers II
139 - Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
138 - Wilco Sky Blue Sky
137 - Elliott Smith From a Basement on a Hill
136 - The Strokes Room on Fire
135 - Willard Grant Conspiracy Regard the End
134 - Radiohead Hail to the Thief
133 - Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
132 - Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark
131 - Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head

130 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
129 - Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
128 - Antony and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now
127 - The Handsome Family In the Air
126 - Neil Young Prairie Wind
125 - The Hold Steady Stay Positive
124 - Brightback Morning Light Brightback Morning Light
123 - Doves The Last Broadcast
122 - Donald Fagen Morph the Cat
121 - Hot Chip The Warning

120 - MGMT Oracular Spectacular
119 - Scritti Politti White Bread, Black Beer
118 - Super Furry Animals Love Kraft
117 - At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
116 - Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
115 - Steven Malkmus & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash
114 - The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely
113 - The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
112 - Beirut The Flying Club Cup
111 - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Furcoat

110 - Steely Dan Everything Must Go
109 - The White Stripes Icky Thump
108 - Comets on Fire Avatar
107 - Paul Westerberg Come Feel Me Tremble
106 - The Go-Betweens The Friends of Rachel Worth
105 - Steely Dan Two Against Nature
104 - Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
103 - Missy Elliott Miss E...So Addictive
102 - The Felice Brothers The Felice Brothers
101 - Neko Case Blacklisted

100 - Jim O'Rourke Insignificance
99 - Babyshambles Down in Albion
98 - The Avalanches Since I Left You
97 - Paul Weller 22 Dreams
96 - Rufus Wainwright Want One
95 - Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump
94 - Devendra Banhart Oh Me Oh My...
93 - The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free
92 - Tom Waits Real Gone
91 - John Cale HoboSapiens

90 - Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning
89 - Neil Young Living With War
88 - The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
87 - Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
86 - PJ Harvey White Chalk
85 - MIA Arular
84 - David Bowie Heathen
83 - Outkast Stankonia
82 - Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South
81 - Okkervil River The Stage Names

80 - Levon Helm Electric Dirt
79 - Kings of Leon Only By the Night
78 - Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man
77 - Kanye West The College Dropout
76 - Beck Seachange
75 - Gorillaz Demon Days
74 - Elbow Asleep in the Black
73 - Elliott Smith Figure 8
72 - Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl
71 - TV on the Radio Dear Science

70 - The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen
69 - Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
68 - D'Angelo Voodoo
67 - Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther
66 - Jay-Z The Blueprint
65 - Rufus Wainwright Poses
64 - Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerasulem Crossroads
63 - The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang
62 - Ghostface Killah Fishscale
61 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues

60 - Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose
59 - The White Stripes De Stijl
58 - Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
57 - Robert Wyatt Cukooland
56 - Sonic Youth Murray Street
55 - Bjork Vespertine
54 - Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
53 - Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
52 - Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner
51 - Warren Zevon The Wind

50 - Cat Power The Greatest
49 - PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
48 - Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine
47 - The National Alligator
46 - Drive-By Truckers Souther Rock Opera
45 - Solomon Burke Don't Give Up on Me
44 - The Libertines Up the Bracket
43 - The Streets Original Pirate Material
42 - Richmond Fontaine Post to Wire
41 - Bruce Springsteen Magic

40 - Boards of Canada Geogaddi
39 - Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
38 - Ryan Adams Gold
37 - The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
36 - Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
35 - Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
34 - Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
33 - Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
32 - Calexico Feast of Wire
31 - My Morning Jacket It Still Moves

30 - Sufjan Stevens Illinois
29 - Neil Young Chrome Dreams II
28 - Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
27 - The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
26 - Lambchop Nixonland
25 - Radiohead Kid A
24 - Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
23 - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man Out of Season
22 - Blur Think Thank
21 - Joanna Newsom Ys

20 - Amy Winehouse Back to Black
19 - Bruce Springsteen The Rising
18 - Kate Bush Aerial
17 - The White Stripes - Elephant
16 - LCD Soundsytem Sound of Silver
15 - Radiohead In Rainbows
14 - Primal Scream XTRMNTR
13 - Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator)
12 - Portishead Third
11 - The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

10 - Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
9 - Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
8 - Bob Dylan Modern Times
7 - The Arcade Fire Funeral
6 - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand
5 - The Strokes Is This It
4 - Brian Wilson Smile
3 - Wilco A Ghost is Born
2 - Bob Dylan Love and Theft
1 - The White Stripes White Blood Cells

P_Air

How the hell can Nick Cave's Dig Lazarus, Dig be at 130. That's bloody criminal i'm telling thee.

C_f_W

And decent as they are, how the hell can Fleet Foxes make no 10???

I can't help thinking 150 albums spanning just a ten year period is casting the net a little far. Hardly 'definitive' stuff, is it?

Henry Irving

Also two Dylan albums in the top ten. Come on.

And Smile?

Miserableoldgit

Who are all these people ?

addick1965

The only two of those i own is the Queens of the Stone Age one at No.28 and the Comets on Fire at 108

boogica

only 2 decent albums here 4 me the rest are shite the voters must be deaf.

dabos

Ou est the metal?

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: boogica[/cite]only 2 decent albums here 4 me the rest are shite the voters must be deaf.

I doubt there are any voters. The staff just make it all up.

ThreadKiller

the white stripes did the voting.

Rothko

the fact the White Stripes are number 1 discredits the poll in an instant

kimbo

I think the White Stripes and Jack White in all his guises are that good, however very surprised that White Blood Cells number 1, elephant at no 17 is by fair better. Think HarryAMuse will have comment on this listing

Rothko

Jay Z at 66? Interpol at 53?

Salad

nice to see The National in there (meaningless as the list is!)

kimbo

Nice to see Ryan Adams in the list - Heartbreaker the best of his many albums

sillav nitram

well i have 8 of those listed, not sure whether that says i have no taste or the other way around?

TEL

Someone must like the White Stripes....they have a few in there.....I have precisely 2 of those albums in the list and neither are by the White Stripes....

dabos

Surprised to say I have 9 of them. Questionable ordering and countless omissions.

ken from bexley

All two for me and on of those is unplayed....
So no Pistols/Clash/Floyd/Hendrix/Beatles/Led Zep/Joni Mitchell/CSNY/Bowie . just for starters.

White Stripes No 1 ..... yeah of course

dabos

[cite]Posted By: ken from bexley[/cite]All two for me and on of those is unplayed....
So no Pistols/Clash/Floyd/Hendrix/Beatles/Led Zep/Joni Mitchell/CSNY/Bowie . just for starters.

White Stripes No 1 ..... yeah of course

150 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century so far

Henry Irving

Bowie is on the list although the question is still Why?

But it is 21st century. Get with the times Daddy-o : - )

blackheathaddick

I got 55 of them. Good that Midlake and Sufjan Stevens are in there. Im presuming this is american too?

Henry Irving

All these lists are bound to start a "why is/isn't that on it" debate which is half the fun

Dabos, who do you think is missing?

For me no Richard Hawley, Joss Stone, Roddy Frame or Nick Lowe is strange.

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: blackheathaddick[/cite]I got 55 of them. Good that Midlake and Sufjan Stevens are in there. Im presuming this is american too?

No, British. Might even have been a Charlton Lifer involved but I'll let him/her say that if they want to.

blackheathaddick

That reminds me. You should check out the new Avett Brothers album.

Rothko

Sufjan Stevens is great

Henry Irving

Don't know either so we have a chat with my mates Spotify and Soulseek and see if they can lend me a copy.

Salad

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]for men between 40 and 60 who like to think they are still into music ie me

sneaky - you won't be in that demographic for long

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: Salad[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]for men between 40 and 60 who like to think they are still into music ie me

sneaky - you won't be in that demographic for long

Pish off!!!! another 12 years yet ; - )

ken from bexley

But it is 21st century. Get with the times Daddy-o.......
OOH... you hip cat Henry......using a 50s expression, so cool and retro.... although in my case it should really be Grandady-o

Although I though Radiohead and the Artic monkeys were the present day 'saviours'

blackheathaddick

Avett Brothers album is called "I and Love and You" Best Sufjan album is probably "Come on Feel the Illinois" or something like that.