Friday, December 11, 2009

The Top 20 Albums of the '00s: Number 10

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008, Mute)



As the marathon of our daily posts about the best albums of this decade continues, we finally reach the Top 10 where we find a dear old friend and one of the finest works in a long and glorious career. "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" was the culmination of a particularly fertile period for Nick Cave that started with the excellent double album "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus" in 2004 and continued with the fire and the fury of Grinderman's debut in 2007 (both of which also deserve a place in the decade's Top 50). Read more about it in this AllMusic review and check out here our 2008 review.


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Midnight Man

The rest of the Top 20 so far (read here about the rules of this game):

11. Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
12. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
13. Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
14. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
15. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
16. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
17. Source tags and codes - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
18. Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
19. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
20. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD

The relevant posts from all the blogs that participate in voting for the best albums of the year and the decade are aggregated here.

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