I 100 dischi degli anni zero
Non avevo molta voglia di compilare una classifica dei 100 dischi più importante del decennio (secondo me, disclaimer d’obbligo), quindi alla fine ho optato per una semplicissima lista in ordine alfabetico. Per differenziarla un po’, ho messo a parte una sorta di top ten – anche questa in ordine alfabetico – e poi giù tutti gli altri.
E insomma, questa è la lista dei dischi che mi porterò dietro di questi anni zero. Il decennio che, per ragioni anagrafiche, ho vissuto musicalmente in modo più consapevole. Sono andato molto a sentimento e sono sicuro di aver dimenticato un mucchio di cose, ma compilare liste ovviamente non è una scienza esatta. Nei prossimi giorni comunque ci sarà modo di tornare sull’argomento con riflessioni più generali su quello che è accaduto in questi dieci anni… (Non ci sono italiani, che metterò a parte)
Primi dieci
Burial, Untrue (Hyperdub), Lcd Soundsystem, S/T (DFA), Liars, Drum’s Not Dead (Mute), Low, Trust (Sub Pop), M.I.A., Kala (XL), Portishead, Third (Mercury/ Island), Radiohead, Amnesiac (Emi), Tv on the Radio, Dear Science (4AD), Scott Walker, The Drift (4AD), Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
Gli altri
Akron Family, Akron Family (Young God Records), Angels of Light, Everything Is Good Right Here/ Please Come Home (Young God), Animal Collective, Feels (Fat Cat Records)/ Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino), Antony and the Johnsons, I am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian), Devendra Banhart, Rejoicing in the Hands/ Nino Rojo (Young God Records), Battles, Mirrored (Warp), Beck, Sea Change (Geffen), Beirut, Gulag Orkestar (Bad a Bing/4AD), Bon Iver, For Emma Forever Ago (Jagjagwar), Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Letting Go (Drag City), Black Heart Procession, Three (Touch & Go), Blank Dogs, Under and Under (In the Red), Carla Bozulich, Evangelista (Constellation), Brightblack Morning Light, Brightblack Morning Light (Matador), Broken Social Scene, You Forgot in People (Arts & Crafts), Burial, Burial (Hyperdub), Castanets, Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty), Cat Power, You Are Free (Matador), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!/ No More Shall We Part (Mute), Vic Chesnutt, North Star Disaster (Constellation), CocoRosie, Noah’s Ark (Touch & Go), Dalek, Absence (Ipecac), Deerhoof, Apple O’/ Friends Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars), Eels, Blinking Light and Other Revelations (Vagrant), El-P, Fantastic Damage (Def Jux), Matt Elliott, The Mess We Made (Domino), Fennesz, Endless Summer (Mego), Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea (Rough Trade), Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop), The Flying Lotus, Los Angeles (Warp), Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand (Domino), Four Tet, Pause/Rounds (Domino), Fuck Buttons, Street Horrrsing (ATP), Girls, Album (Matador), Grandaddy, The Sophtware Slump (V2), Grinderman, Grinderman (Mute), PJ Harvey, White Chalk (Island/Universal), Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair (DFA), Micah P. Hinson, And the Gospel of Progress (Sketchbook), Interpol, Turn on the Bright Light (Matador), Iron and Wine, The Creek Drank the Cradle (Sub Pop), Lcd Soundsystem, Sound of Silver (DFA), Lambchop, Nixon (Merge), Mark Lanegan, Bubblegum (Sub Pop), Liars, They Were Wrong so They Drowned (Mute), Lightning Bolt, Hypermagic Mountain (Load), Low, Things We Lost in Fire (Sub Pop), M.I.A., Arural (XL), Matmos, The Rose as Teeth in the Mouth of Beast (Matador), The Microphones, The Glow Pt. 2 (K Records), The Mountain Goats, Tallahassee (4AD), Murcof, Cosmos (Leaf), The National, Boxer (Beggars Banquet), Joanna Newsom, Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City), No Age, Nouns, (Sub Pop), Notwist, Neon Golden (Morr Records), Oneida, Each One Teach One (Jagjaguwar), Jim O’Rourke, Insignificance (Drag City), The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, S/T (Slumberland), Panda Bear, Person Pitch (Paw Tracks), Pere Ubu, Why I Hate Woman (Smog Veil), Radiohead, Kid A (Emi), Rapture, Echoes (Strummer/Universal), Santogold, Santogold (Lizard King Records), Shins, Chutes Too Narrow/ Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop), Elliott Smith, Figure 8 (Dreamworks), Smog, Dongs of Sevotion (Drag City), Sonic Youth, Murray Streets (Geffen), Sleater Kinney, One Beat (Kill Rock Stars), Spiritualized, Let It Come Down (Arista), Sufjan Stevens, Illinois/ Greetings from Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty / Rough Trade), The Streets, Original Pirate Material (Locked On), Tv on the Radio, Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go), Vampire Weekend, S/t (XL), Vetiver, To Find Me Gone (Fat Cat Records), Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls (In the Red), Tom Waits, Real Gone (Anti), White Stripes, White Blood Cells (XL), Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch), Wolf Eyes, Human Animal (Sub Pop), Woven Hand, Woven Hand (Glitterhouse), Xiu Xiu, Knife Play (Absolutely Kosher), Yo la Tengo, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador)