NPR's most imporatant recording of the decade

[Brick Top]

I am an NPR listener...mostly cause I live on a cow path without much radio choice besides Country and classic rock. But world cafe is excellent no matter where you live.

NPR has just released their most important recording of the last decade. Not necessarily the best.

Some interesting selections...and some I hadn't even heard of.

I'm rather biased towards the Arcade Fire, Decemberists, Nora Jones and In Rainbows by Radiohead as my favorite recordings of the last decade.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...c=asc-20091116


The 50 Most Important Recordings Of The Decade

01. John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls
02. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
03. The Arcade Fire: Funeral
04. The Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas
05. Beyonce: Dangerously In Love
06. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
07. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
08. Burial: Untrue
09. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: S/T
10. Kelly Clarkson: Breakaway
11. Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
12. Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
13. Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism
14. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
15. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
16. The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
17. Osvaldo Golijov: La Pasión Segun San Marcos (Saint Mark's Passion)
18. Green Day: American Idiot
19. Iron And Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
20. Jay-Z: The Blueprint
21. Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
22. Juanes: Fijate Bien
23. LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
24. Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter III
25. Little Brother: The Listening
26. M.I.A.: Kala
27. Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet
28. Mastodon: Leviathan
29. Jason Moran: Black Stars
30. OutKast: Stankonia
31. Brad Paisley: 5th Gear
32. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
33. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
34. The Postal Service: Give Up
35. Radiohead: In Rainbows
36. Radiohead: Kid A
37. Shakira: Fijación Oral, Vol. 1
38. Sigur Ros: ( )
39. Britney Spears: In The Zone
40. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
41. The Strokes: Is This It
42. The Swell Season: Once Soundtrack
43. Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: In The Heart Of The Moon
44. TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain
45. Various: Garden State Soundtrack
46. Various: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
47. Kanye West: The College Dropout
48. The White Stripes: White Blood Cells
49. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
50. Amy Winehouse: Back To Black


Cheers,
BT

[Lazylion]

I'm glad to see the Bad Plus and Brad Paisley on there!

[Pilgrim]

Dang. No surf music. What's the world coming to?????

[DONZI97]

At least Radiohead beat the White Stripes. My vote for Kid A for number one.

[dancehallclasher]

The list is in alphabetical order, guys

[Joe Gress]

The Bad Plus and Mastodon. Nice!

[bongomania]

I disagree with the vast majority of that list. But hey, that's what opinion and taste is all about.

[Thunderthumbs73]

None of my favorites or most importants are on there. But whatever. NPR's most important recording is NPR's most important recording. It isn't MY most important recording. I would think there'd be a place on NPR to debate the list ad-infinitum. Always a good topic to ramp-up the web traffic, I guess. :/