Top Albums of the Noughties?

This seems like an act of me jumping on the bandwagon but hey I have been a music geek for years, so I guess, geeks just simply love lists. My list is, AS EXPECTED, heavy on Japanese psych, Noise and psych rock in general as to me, besides a few surprises that you will see below, are the most crucial genres of music in this era and time of cultural blandness, indifference and helplessness. I hope you will pick up a few of the albums in the list and give them a listen, and hopefully blow your mind along the way.

So here we go but not in any order except for the Top 10:

1.Various - Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982-1985
2.Incapacitants - Box Is Stupid
3.Fushitsusha - Origin's Hesitation
4.Harry Pussy - You'll Never Play This Town Again
5.Electric Eels - Eyeballs Of Hell
6.Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind
7.Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost
8.Hijokaidan - The Noise
9.Tunnel Canary - Jihad 1978-1984
10.Sonic Youth - Murray Street


The rest:
• Various – By The Fruit… You Shall Know The Roots
• Various – California
• John Coltrane – The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
• Cecil Taylor Feel Trio – 2 Ts For A Lovely T
• Cobalt - Eater Of Birds
• Various – Improvised Music From Japan
• Converge – Jane Doe
• Coil – Live Volumes 1-4
• EL-P – Fantastic Damage
• Borbetomagus and Hijokaidan – Both Noises End Burning
• Wolf Eyes/Anthony Braxton – Black Vomit
• Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma
• Boredoms – Vision Creation Newsun
• Pan Sonic – Aaltopiiri
• MV & EE With The Bummer Road - Mother Of Thousands
• No Neck Blues Band – Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me
• Rocket From The Tombs – The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs
• Merzbow – 24 Hours: A Day Of Seals
• Whitehouse – Aestheticists 2006
• Burial – Burial
• Om – Conference Of The Birds
• Vodka Soap – Un Chand Pyramidelier
• Richard Youngs – Summer Wanderer
• Onna – Onna
• Gary War – Horribles Parade
• Oneohtrix Point Never – The Rifts
• Iro – Tamafuri
• Up-Tight – The Beginning Of The End
• Shizuka – Live: Traditional Aesthetics
• The Hospitals – The Hairdryer Peace
• Consumer Electronics – Nobody’s Ugly
• Henri Chopin/Various – Revue OU
• Nurse With Wound – Salt Marie Celeste
• Jackie-O Motherfucker – Liberation
• Cyclo – Cyclo
• Scott Walker – The Drift
• Kousokuya – Ray Night
• Jandek – Glasgow Sunday
• William S Burroughs – Real English Tea Made Here
• Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Wedlock

R.I.P.: Free Folk Maestro - Jack Rose (1971 - 2009)

The passing of one of the most important six string master in contemporary times in not just New, Weird America but the world, Jack Rose, was one of the key pillars of the Free Folk movement which peaked in the mid 2000s. He founded the raga inflected electric folk trio, Pelt in the 1990s and produced many vital documents which continued the music tradition from Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music through to John Fahey to the free folk ensembles of the 21st century. I remember chills down my spine whenever I put on any CD with him in a group setting or in his solo guise. Inventive but firmly rooted in the great American underground cum folk wellspring. He will be greatly missed.