John E's Decade List

John Encarnacao is a Sydney rock legend who has played in numerous bands, released many albums as well as scoring films, art installations and strings for bands like the Whitlams. Check out his band Warmer - they're awesome. John has an encyclopedic knowledge of music that borders on scary but also has excellent taste. Here is John's list entitled "Most resounding sounds of the decade 2000-2009 in rough chronological order according to John Encarnacao, 7 January 2010"

2000
Eels – Daisies of the Galaxy
White Stripes – White Blood Cells
Smog – Dongs of Sevotion
Ween – White Pepper
Trans Am - Red Line
Elliott Smith – Figure 8
Radiohead – Kid A

2001
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ease Down The Road
Stereolab – Sound Dust
Stars of the Lid – The Tired Sounds of
Smog – Rain On Lens
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Bjork – Vespertine
Brain Donor – Love Peace and Fuck
Lucinda Williams – Essence
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
The Strokes – Is This It?
Tortoise – Standards

2002
Augie March – Strange Bird
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
Dan Kelly – Man-O-Mercy (EP)
Machine Translations – Happy
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf

2003
Ryan Adams – Love is Hell (parts 1 and 2)
Chris Abrahams – Streaming
Colleen – Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Fourtet – Rounds
Kristin Hersh – The Grotto
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Pig Lib
Matmos – The Civil War
Scout Niblett – I Am
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master and Everyone
Sonic Youth – Murray Street
The Shins – Chute’s Too Narrow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell

2004
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
Big Heavy Stuff – Dear Friends and Enemies
M Craft – I Can See It All Tonight (EP)
Elvis Costello and the Imposters – The Delivery Man
Charalambides – Joy Shapes
Faun Fables – Family Album
PJ Harvey – Uh Huh Her
Wilco – A Ghost is Born
Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
The redsunband – Peapod
Laura Veirs – Carbon Glacier

2005
Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan – Prospect Hummer (EP)
Bjork – The music from Drawing Restraint 9
Because of Ghosts – No More Reason, No More Doubt
Deerhoof – The Runners Four
City City City – The Perimeter Motor Show
Electrelane – Axes
The Books – Lost and Safe
Sons and Daughters – The Repulsion Box
Laura Jean – Our Swan Song
Kes – The Jellys in the Pot
Nic Dalton and his Gloomchasers – Home of the Big Regret
Mountains in the Sky – Celestial Son
Scout Niblett – Kidnapped By Neptune
Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
Steffan Basho-Jungens – Unknown Music II
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Dirty Three – Cinder
Akron/Family – Akron/Family

2006
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid – The Exchange Session Vol. 1
Kes – The Grey Goose Wing
Loose Fur – Born Again in the USA
Moonmilk – The World Creaks
Joanna Newsom – Ys
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Letting Go
Sonic Youth – The Destroyed Room
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
Six Organs of Admittance – The Sun Awakens
Holly Throsby – Under The Town
Triosk – The Headlight Serenade
Scott Walker – The Drift
The Blow – Paper Television
The Drones – Gala Mill
The catholics – Gondola
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Espers – II
Adam Green – Jacket Full of Danger
Young People – All At Once
Juana Molina – Son

2007
Akron/Family – Love is Simple
Art of Fighting – Runaways
Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
Ned Collette – Future Suture
Charalambides – Likeness
I’m Not There (soundtrack)
PJ Harvey – White Chalk
Bernie Hayes – Homebody
Machine Translations – Seven Seven
Castings – Punk Rock is Bunk Squawk
Josh Pyke – Memories and Dust
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – The Bairns

2008
Laura Jean – Eden Land
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Lie Down in the Light
Deerhoof – Offend Maggie
Portishead – Third
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant
Charles Jenkins – Blue Atlas

2009
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 – Goodnight Oslo
Kes Band – Kes Band II
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion

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