The Best Albums of the 00's

Tahun 2000an! Dekade yang luar biasa cool! Meski musik jelek dari berbagai genre banyak sekali di dekade ini, namun musik bagus pun tidak kalah banyak! Dekade 2000an bagi saya adalah dekade yang sama bahkan sedikit lebih baik dari dekade 90an dan 80an! Berikut adalah daftar album terbaik di dekade ini versi saya.



Ariel’s Music List

My favourite music albums of the 00’s

1. The Strokes – Is This It

2. The Libertines – Up The Bracket

3. The White Stripes – De Stijl

4. U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind

5. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug

6. Radiohead – Kid A

7. The White Stripes – Elephant

8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell

9. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

10. Radiohead – Amnesiac

11. Paul McCartney – Chaos & Creation In The Backyard

12. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells

13. Coldplay – Viva La Vida

14. Radiohead – In Rainbows

15. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head

16. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare

17. Beck – Sea Change

18. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

19. Norah Jones – Come Away With Me

20. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand

21. The White Stripes – Icky Thump

22. Bob Dylan – Love & Theft

23. Coldplay – Parachutes

24. The Strokes – Room On Fire

25. Bob Dylan – Modern Times

26. The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute

27. James Blunt – Back To Bedlam

28. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

29. U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

30. Sonic Youth – Murray Street

31. Pearl Jam – Backspacer

32. Damien Rice – O

33. John Mayer – Continuum

34. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped

35. The Fireman – Electric Arguments

36. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life

37. Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Break Up

38. Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire

39. The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of Understatement

40. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

41. The Mars Volta – De-Loused In The Comatorium

42. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan

43. Paul McCartney – Memory Almost Full

44. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s A Blitz

45. Elliott Smith – Figure 8

46. Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young

47. Blur – Think Tank

48. Radiohead – Hail To The Thief

49. Steely Dan – Two Against Nature

50. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black




Honorable Mention: Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robot, The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth, Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul, Dominic Alldis – Themes From French Cinema ; Herbie Hancock – River The Joni Letters ; Album kedua The Libertines berjudul The Libertines yang sayangnya belum pernah saya dengar secara full album, baru beberapa lagu, The Raconteurs, U2 album No Line On The Horizon yang mungkin buat gw sedikit mengecewakan tapi it’s U2!! Album kedua Yeah Yeah Yeahs yang gw blom selesai dengernya, The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang, Dewa 19, Naif



Honorable Mention 2nd layer: Babyshambles, Them Crooked Vultures, Album reunian The Verve, Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit, Kings Of Convenience, Jens Lekman, White Shoes & The Couples Company, Soundtrack Pintu Terlarang, Soundtrack Across The Universe, TRY! (album live John Mayer), Album live reunian Cream, Rod Stewart dan album-album Songbook-nya, Dream Theater - Octavarium



Artist that usually mentioned: Arcade Fire (gw belum nemu enaknya dimana), Bruce Springsteen (sedikit overrated), Sigur Ros (lumayan, meski depressing, setidaknya album Takk…), Bright Eyes (lagu First Day of My Life sangatlah bagus, favorit gw sayang gw blom menyimak Bright Eyes), Franz Ferdinand, Queens of The Stone Age, Wilco, Muse (1-2 lagu lumayan), Porcupine Tree, Guns n’ Roses – Chinese Democracy (lumayan meski ga berkesan), karya-karya Bjork era 2000an



Overrated: artis-artis hip-hop seperti Eminem, Jay-Z dll (gw ga suka hip-hop/rap)

Ariel's Top 50 Singer of All Time

50 Penyanyi Favorit Ariel Aditya

Musik instrumental memang seru, tapi jauh lebih seru musik yang disertai vokal. 99% lagu yang berkesan / populer pasti menampilkan / ada unsur vokal di dalamnya. Bagi gw, penyanyi adalah salah satu element terpenting dalam musik (lagu), bahkan bisa dibilang yang terpenting. Vokal seorang penyanyi dapat menyampaikan mood suatu lagu dengan sempurna dan tiada hari tanpa lagu!

Berikut adalah daftar 50 penyanyi terfavorit gw sampai saat ini (bisa berubah di kemudian hari). Karya-karya dan vokal mereka bisa dibilang mengiringi kehidupan gw sehari-hari terutama dalam kondisi senang ekstrim dan sedih ekstrim. Masih sangat banyak penyanyi yang gw suka yang tidak masuk ke dalam daftar seperti misalnya Michael Jackson, George Harrison, Ozzy Osbourne, Jeff Buckley, Stuart Murdoch, Billy Joel, Art Garfunkel, Beck, Jack White, Van Morrison, Ronnie James Dio, PJ Harvey, Al Green, David Byrne, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Serge Gainsbourg, Alice Cooper, Ringo Starr, Brian May, Roger Taylor, David Gilmour, Richard Ashcroft, Billy Corgan, Jimi Hendrix, Adrian Belew, Michael Stipe, Nick Drake, Bon Scott, Axl Rose, Stephen Stills, John Fogerty, Paul Rodgers, Liam Gallagher, Pete Shelley, Paul Westerberg, Donovan, Robert Smith, James Hetfield, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Stephin Merritt, dan masih banyak lagi. Mungkin mereka masuk kalau ada daftar top 100 atau top 150 ^.^

Well, here’s the list!

1. Sir Paul McCartney

2. John Lennon

3. Freddie Mercury

4. Robert Plant

5. Bob Dylan

6. Peter Gabriel

7. Sir Mick Jagger

8. Alex Turner

9. Lou Reed

10. Jim Morrison

11. Chrisye

12. David Bowie

13. Bono

14. Kurt Cobain

15. Rod Stewart

16. David Coverdale

17. Ian Gillan

18. Jon Anderson

19. Julian Casablancas

20. Janis Joplin

21. Phil Collins

22. Donald Fagen

23. Pete Doherty

24. Glenn Hughes

25. Once

26. Chris Martin

27. Iggy Pop

28. Joe Strummer

29. Robert Johnson

30. Elvis Presley

31. Greg Lake

32. Ian Curtis

33. Johnny Rotten

34. Damon Albarn

35. Roger Daltrey

36. Joni Mitchell

37. Joey Ramone

38. Marvin Gaye

39. Thom Yorke

40. Karen O

41. Paul Simon

42. Eddie Vedder

43. Al Green

44. Norah Jones

45. Stevie Wonder

46. Sir Elton John

47. Morrisey

48. James Blunt

49. Sting

50. David "Naif"