Monday 4 May 2009

Your Threat-makers Need You!

Ten years is a long time in any creative field, but within the musical world it's an eternity. Bands, fashions and even whole genres come and go in a much shorter time-frame. The year 2000 saw Eminem wreaking havoc with his profane provocations while The Strokes were just a twinkle in Rough Trade's eye. Travis and Stereophonics were just beginning to surrender their chart success to Chris Martin's all-conquering behemoths of politeness, Coldplay. Thom Yorke had just begun listening to Aphex Twin and plotting a landscape shift in popular music with the polarising and initially bemusing 'Kid A'. Hell, Pete Doherty probably even had clean fingernails back then. Triple Threat are honouring the 2000s (still can't bring myself to call this decade the 'noughties') with a poll to find out our readers' favourite albums of the past decade. Simply send an email to lphingston@hotmail.co.uk with your ten favourites and the winners will be announced later in the year.

1 comment:

Rich Oxenham said...

1. I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning: Bright Eyes
2. Alligator: The National
3. Discovery: Daft Punk
4. Funeral: Arcade Fire
5. Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright
6. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: The Flaming Lips
7. Hot Fuss: The Killers
8. The Magic Numbers: The Magic Numbers
9. Melody A.M: Royksopp
10. Takk: Sigur Ros
11. Exit: Shugo Tokumaru
12. For Emma, Forever Ago: Bon Iver
13. Illinoise: Sufjan Stevens
14. College Dropout: Kanye West
15. Stankonia: Outcast
16. Trouble: Ray Lamontagne
17. All That You Can’t Leave Behind: U2
18. Lost Horizons: Lemon Jelly
19. Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
20. The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager: Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly