ck’s top 100 albums of the decade: #50-11

25Jan10

Hey hey, here we go. I hope you spent the entire weekend evaluating the picks from the previous post. This has been quite the metaphorical trip down memory lane for me; I was 14 when the naughties began, and I’m 24 on the way out. Most of my music-listening life happened in the last ten [...]

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Tags: 2000s, afi, alkaline trio, animal collective, annuals, antlers, arcade fire, brave saint saturn, death cab for cutie, decemberists, format, fun, girl talk, gnarls barkley, hives, joy electric, juliana theory, killers, knife, lindsey pool, m83, mars volta, muse, panda bear, shout out louds, spoon, strokes, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, u.s.e., vampire weekend, white stripes, yeasayer

ck’s top ten albums of 2008

07Dec09

Thanks for following the curves of our counting-down compendium. We are zeroing in on our top ten albums of 2009, as well as some pretty sizable lists about the best records of the decade. Stay tuned; CKTK will be taking care of you through the new year. We have two more rerun lists for you [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2008, annuals, beck, coldplay, conor oberst, girl talk, jamie lidell, m83, panic! at the disco, sigur ros, vampire weekend

tk’s top 10 Albums of 2007

02Dec09

2007 was the first year that I didn’t waste a moment and started growing my Top 10 Albums list on an RFT file on my Desktop on the morning of January 1st (Okay, fine… in the spirit of full disclosure, I actually started it on the evening of January 4th and it began as a [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2007, arcade fire, battles, m.i.a, okkervil river, panda bear, radiohead, shout out louds

ck’s top ten albums of 2006

28Nov09

Not to be outdone, here are my top ten albums of 2006. You can see the list with commentary and a bunch of other categories right here. This was the first year that I wrote a full commentary for the list, and it was INDEED a great year in music. Don’t forget that this is [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2006, afi, big city rock, decemberists, girl talk, gnarls barkley, knife, matisyahu, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, thom yorke

tk’s top 10 albums of 2006

25Nov09

2006 was an outstanding year for music. If you disagree then you’re not my friend anymore. I have elected to share my list from that year rather than 2005 for two reasons: 1) A strange and inadvertent hibernation I experienced in 2005 within the caves of Malaysia. 2) My recent obsession with one-upping everyone around [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2006, band of horses, belle & sebastian, decemberists, islands, joanna newsom, knife, liars, malaysia, strokes, sufjan stevens, thom yorke

ck’s top ten albums of 2005

24Nov09

First, a note about the direction of CKTK. We will be posting our end-0f-the-decade thoughts soon. Also, our top albums of 2009 lists will drop in mid-to-late-December. To lead up to those, we will be posting our top ten albums of the year lists from 2005-2008, sans commentary. We will, of course, link to places [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2005, alkaline trio, beck, decemberists, fall out boy, jack johnson, junior senior, panic! at the disco, rocket summer, sigur ros, sufjan stevens, this blog

MOST IMPORTANT MUSICAL SPECIMEN

21Nov09

tk weighs in: What is the most important band or artist of the decade? I pondered this question during my entire stroll down Gower Ave. from Sunset to Santa Monica (all 0.5 miles) and here’s what I came up with. These aren’t controversial choices but who needs controversy when there’s a possibility for accuracy? First [...]

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Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, animal collective, beatles, elvis presley, eminem, jay-z, led zeppelin, li'l wayne, michael jackson, nirvana, pink floyd, radiohead