BCB's Top 100 Albums of the 21st Century - And the winner is...

[toomanyhatz]

Did anybody vote for Bowie's The Next Day?

I wondered the same. If I'd thought of Bowie (somehow I managed not to ) I would have taken it over Blackstar. I think it's a better record, and for me had more element of surprise to it as well (I had given up on Bowie decades previous, something I might have mentioned a few times here...)

[Penk!]

Here, as promised, the next hundred:

103= Beck - Sea Change
103= Johnny Cash - American III
103= Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
103= Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
103= Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
103= Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind
109= Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
109= Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
109= Broadcast and the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
109= Curse ov Dialect - Wooden Tongues
109= David Bowie - Heathen
109= Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
109= Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
109= Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
109= Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
109= Johan Johansson - Fordlandia
109= Josh Rouse - 1972
109= Miguel - Wildheart
109= Robert Plant - Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar
109= Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
109= Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wigout at Jagbag's
109= The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
109= The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz and Percussion Ensemble - Miles Away
109= Tom Waits - Alice
109= The White Stripes - De Stijl
109= Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
129= Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
129= Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
129= Sparks - Hippopotamus
129= Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse
129= The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeroes
129= The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
129= The Libertines - Up the Bracket
129= Amon Tobin - Supermodified
129= The Angels of Light - How I Loved You
129= Beirut - Gulag Orkester
129= Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
129= D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
129= Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
129= Magma - KA
129= Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
129= Björk - Medulla
129= Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
129= The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
147= Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
147= LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
147= Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
147= Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of the Country
147= Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
147= Lambchop - Nixon
147= Meg Baird - Dear Companion
154= Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
154= Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
154= Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City
154= Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
158= LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
158= Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of SOTL
158= Calexico - Feast of Wire
158= Electrelane - The Power Out
158= Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
158= Ryan Adams - Gold
158= Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Naturally
158= The Strokes - Room on Fire
166= Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
166= Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
168= The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of Understatement
168= The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
170= Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard
170= The Black Keys - El Camino
172. Einsturzende Neubaten - Perpetuum Mobile
173= Beach House - Devotion
173= Black Mountain - Black Mountain
173= Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
173= The Botticellis - Old Home Movies
177. Alvvays - Alvvays
178= Avi Buffalo - At Best C*ckold
178= Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
178= Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
178= Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
178= Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark
178= Drive-By Truckers - American Band
178= Fennesz - Venice
178= Girls in Hawaii - Everest
178= Gnaw Their Tongues - Reeking Pained and Shuddering
178= Jack Drag: Soft Songs LP: Aviating
178= Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
178= Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Wake Up Captain
178= Lewis Taylor - Stoned Part 1
178= Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
178= Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
178= Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News
178= Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
178= Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
178= Sia - We Are Born
178= Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase.
178= Super Chron Flight Brothers - Emergency Powers
178= The Bronx - The Bronx
178= The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
178= The Leisure Society - The Sleeper
178= Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
178= Yellow Swans - Going Places

[Penk!]

Did anybody vote for Bowie's The Next Day?

Nope

[naughty boy]

That’s ridiculous.

[Goat Boy]

It's much better than Blackstar!

[naughty boy]

It is indeed

[Goat Boy]

No mbv by My Bloody Valentine either

[Penk!]

No mbv by My Bloody Valentine either

Disqualified as it was blatantly just a bunch of rejected demoes from 1991

[ChrisB]

It's much better than Blackstar!

90% of his back catalogue is better than Black Star. If Neil Young had passed away, "Peace trail" would be straight in at number 2.

[naughty boy]

Ooooooo controv!

[algroth]

As far as I'm concerned, Blackstar is head and shoulders above every other record I've heard of his, including his 70s output. But I haven't heard The Next Day just yet.

[Goat Boy]

Bloody hell

[Jumper K]

As far as I'm concerned, Blackstar is head and shoulders above every other record I've heard of his, including his 70s output. But I haven't heard The Next Day just yet.

Have you just listened to Earthling and Hours?

[Ranking Ted]

As far as I'm concerned, Blackstar is head and shoulders above every other record I've heard of his, including his 70s output. But I haven't heard The Next Day just yet.

Have you just listened to Earthling and Hours?

[Hightea]

No mbv by My Bloody Valentine either

Disqualified as it was blatantly just a bunch of rejected demoes from 1991

actually came close to making my list.

In regards to Bowie both are nice albums but far from as great as people here think.

[algroth]

As far as I'm concerned, Blackstar is head and shoulders above every other record I've heard of his, including his 70s output. But I haven't heard The Next Day just yet.

Have you just listened to Earthling and Hours?

Actually those are the ones I haven't!

I like Bowie well enough but to be honest he's never been an artist I took too deeply with - there's very few songs from him than mean much to me beyond some general degree of appreciation or enjoyment. Not the case with Blackstar, though, the album just resonated with me like no other of his so far did. Great tunes, great moods, interesting subjects and a very soulful delivery the likes which I've only seen of him in his latter days though never paired with material this good.

[Fonz]

Well. 2 of mine in top 200.

Quality

[trans-chigley express]

178= Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase.

Such a disappointing placing for this, my favourite 21st Century album of all. Not enough SW fans voting despite my rallying calls on FB

[trans-chigley express]

Did anybody vote for Bowie's The Next Day?

I've actually yet to hear it. I really should buy it as I like Blackstar a lot.

[Osgood]

Think I know quite more records from the second 100 set than from the first