MP's Best Of 00's Decade-End Wrap Up

MP's Best Of 00's Decade-End Wrap Up
 
CDs:

Top 10:
1. Muse - Absolution
2. Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows
3. Opeth - Blackwater Park *
4. Spock's Beard - Snow
5. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
6. Endochine - Day Two
7. Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Pts 1&2
8. Metallica - Death Magnetic
9. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
10. Peter Gabriel - Up

Top 20:
11. Between The Buried & Me - Colors
12. Machine Head - The Blackening
13. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
14. Slipknot - Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
15. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
16. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
17. King Crimson - The Power To Believe
18. Weezer - Green Album
19. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
20. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

* A special mention must be made declaring Opeth as my "Band of the Decade" as I could have easily listed Deliverance, Damnation, Ghost Reveries and Watershed all in my top 10 as well, but I had a self-imposed rule of only one album per band...

(I had similar issues picking a definitive album from Porcupine Tree, Pain Of Salvation, Mastodon, Lamb Of God and The Flaming Lips who all put out very consistant, quality releases all decade)

And of course the 5 Dream Theater, 3 Transatlantic, 6 Neal Morse, 1 John Arch & 2 OSI albums I released this decade! (not counting any live stuff!)


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Films:

Top 10:
1. City Of God (Fernando Meirelles)
2. Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
3. Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park)
4. Mullholland Drive (David Lynch)
5. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
6. Irreversible (Gasper Noe)
7. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
8. Requiem For A Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
9. Once (John Carney)
10. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)

Top 20:
11. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
12. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
13. Dig! (Ondi Timoner)
14. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
15. Kill Bill Vol 1&2 (Quentin Tarantino)
16. Match Point (Woody Allen)
17. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
18. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
19. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
20. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)

* Honorable mention goes to Christopher Guest as I couldn't pick just one film between Best In Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration

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TV:

Top 10:
1. Lost
2. The Sopranos
3. Six Feet Under
4. The Office (UK)
5. Curb Your Enthusiasm
6. The Wire
7. Rescue Me
8. Sons Of Anarchy
9. The Shield
10. Extras

Top 20:
11. Family Guy
12. Mad Men
13. Dexter
14. Brotherhood
15. Entourage
16. Californication
17. Breaking Bad
18. Eastbound & Down
19. Damages
20. True Blood

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Songs:
1. Opeth - The Baying Of The Hounds
2. Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing
3. Beck - Lonesome Tears
4. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
5. Sixx AM - Accidents Can Happen
6. Keane - Bedshaped
7. Mastodon - Capillarian Crest
8. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
9. Dillinger Escape Plan - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things
10. Bigelf - Counting Sheep

Lets see out of the albums I've got about four of them.
Out of the films I've seen about two of them.
And out of the TV Series I've only seen all of Lost and Extras.

I really really need to start watching and listening to more stuff, especially with regards to TV Series I need to watch Sopranos and all of The Wire.

Awesome!

It's so amazing that you're open to s much music, atleast it's a lot for me

wow...so many undiscovered bands, albums, films and songs for me..
this works as a recommendation list to me.
Thanks for sharing them Mike!

Great lists!

zoso

this works as a recommendation list to me.
Thanks for sharing them Mike!

I have to answer this:
+1

I'm surprised to see Weezer in there among all the progressive rock and metal bands.  I would've gone with the Red Album personally, but the Green Album was their triumphant return and was sort of the ultimate pop album.

Nice to see King Crimson's The Power to Believe and Peter Gabriel's Up.

4. The Office (UK)


nice :D

Kinda surprised about the absence of Cynic's Traced in Air on the decade end wrap up list.

Cool list, one thing that struck me was how it must have seemed for long periods that you might never make an album with Neal again yet when you look at it, three TA albums and SIX solo albums its been an incredibly prolific decade! Very cool.

I hope Dexter was number 11 for TV shows :)

szabiakanich


Kinda surprised about the absence of Cynic's Traced in Air on the decade end wrap up list.

I'm not particularly surprised; when it came out I don't remember MP being *overly* enthusiastic about it.  I think it got an honourable mention in his end of 2008 post.

I have to say it's album of the decade for me though.

Films: Top 10: 1. City Of God (Fernando Meirelles)

Portnoy,

I'm surprised that "City of God," a Brazilian film, be on your list, even in first!

I am especially here in Brazil because the public did not care much, in fact, there is a lot of prejudice to the cinema ...

But I'm happy to see this international recognition!

Mike, are there any other Brazilian film you like?

Mike, thanks so much for dropping us these lists. I can't disagree with you there, only that The Great Misdirect is way better than Colors :D

Cool to see Sixx AM getting some love. I think that is a highly underrated album and cant believe it didnt have bigger success. And I obviously understand the meaning behind the song and figure the reason that Mike likes it.

The Baying Of The Hounds is my favourite Opeth song as well!! haha

solid lists all around, can't wait to see what the next decade has in store for us!

Awesome list Mike. I'm putting together my own best of the 00's, and i must say i agree with a LOT of these. But no Mars Volta? To each his own of course, but i guess for me Volta are my "band of the decade" like Opeth is yours. I do agree that you can put just about any of Opeth's releases on that list tho

yess! AAbbsolution, AAaabbsolution. Absolution. Absolution. (to the tune of hallelujiah!) It really is album of the decade. Nice to see the recognition for the film "Once" as well, amazing film

No Mars Volta and no Radiohead?

Great stuff man!  I have a few of the albums on there, and will certainly be checking out more.  I must say, Mike, you really do have awesome taste.  Because of you, I've checked out so much music and discovered so much.  I knew Metallica was officially back when you gave Death Magnetic your thumbs up.  Nice to see that AIC made your top 10 of 2009, and also nice to see that I'm not the only one who loves that album.  Anyways, happy, happy holidays to you and the family, and hope to see you in NYC at the Transatlantic gig.

Yeah, this list will keep me busy for the next decade.  Where do you find the time to consume so much art?

Keane came from the school nearest to me, they were named after a dinner lady there i believe.
Really glad to see bedshaped on there, would be on mine too, keep putting that CD in to listen to that song, the vocal melodies are incredible.

How is possible that we can agree so perfectly on movies, but disagree so horrendously with music...?!

Office UK = WIN.

Portnoy

10. Bigelf - Counting Sheep

This one just had to be in the list. I'm addicted to that song. One of the best songs to close an album I've ever heard.
 
On a side note: No love for  Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta?  

dexter is too low :P

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dexter is too low :P

I'm glad it got mentioned at least. 
And of course Sons of Anarchy, great show!
There's really too much amazing stuff in the lists! 

I wonder if MP has such a Top 10 list for books, if he loves to read at all of course.

Portnoy


Songs:
1. Opeth - The Baying Of The Hounds

Affirmative.  That would be my choice or either of Reverie/Harlequin Forest or Ghost of Perdition.

Awesome!!!

And Coldplay was on there so eat that all of you haters out there! :)

Great lists!

I recently fell in love with Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Great to see it get some recognition here!!

Wow, Once made the top 10 flicks, thats pretty awesome, its amazing how sometimes the simplist films can make the biggest impact, 

great lists mike, awesome to see Eastbound and Down in there too!

Nice choice with the films.  Children of Men is one of my favorites; glad to see it's up at #2!
Huge fan of the last 3 films on that list as well.


Nice taste.

Awesome Mike. Im going to the video store to borrow the films that I havent seen in your list.

I was stoked you had Oldboy in the list. I loveove that film.

Awesome Mike. Im going to the video store to borrow the films that I havent seen in your list.

I was stoked you had Oldboy in the list. I loveove that film.

wrong thread......

Awesome Mike. Im going to the video store to borrow the films that I havent seen in your list.

I was stoked you had Oldboy in the list. I love that film.

oops double post