HARP: "50 Most Essential Since 2001"

[LaurieBlue]

Someone posted this in another group, and I haven't seen it firsthand myself, but this was the information shared:


The new Harp music mag (Mars Volta cover) celebrates its first 5 years in  part by compiling a list of the "50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001".

Countdown from #50 to #1  (Not too shabby :-)

Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator
Roots: Phrenology
Queens of the  Stone Age: Songs For the Deaf
Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers
Guided By  Voices: Isolation Drills
Neko Case: Blacklisted
Solomon Burke: Don't Give  Up On Me
Kathleen Edwards: Failer
Mark Lanegan: Bubblegum
Joe Strummer  & the Mescaleros: Streetcore
Lucinda Williams: World Without  Tears
Missy Elliott: Miss E...So Addictive
Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful  Life
Libertines: Up the Bracket
Black Keys: Rubber Factory
Franz  Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
Wolf Parade: Apologies to Queen Mary
Bob Dylan:  Love & Theft
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Drive-By  Truckers: Decoration Day
Ryan Adams: Gold
Steve Earle: The Revolution  Starts...Now
Elvis Costello: The Delivery Man
Strokes: Is This  It?
White Stripes: White Blood Cells
Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
White  Stripes: Elephant
Cat Power: You Are Free
Loretta Lynn: Van Lear  Rose
Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow
My Morning Jacket: It Still  Moves
Outcast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Steve Earle: Jerusalem
Iron  & Wine: Endless Numbered Days
Wilco: A Ghost is Born
PJ Harvey: Uh Huh  Her
Kanye West: Late Registration
New Pornographers: Electric  Version
White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
Sleater-Kinney: The  Woods
Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
M.I.A.: Arular
Antony & the  Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
Tom Waits: Real Gone
My Morning Jacket: Z
Tom  Waits: Alice
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Brian Wilson: Smile
New  Pornograpers: Twin Cinema
Arcade Fire: Funeral

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[dragonboy]

I like the write up for both of those, thanks for posting  :)

[MMJ_fanatic]

Nice to see Lucinda on the list too--I LOOOOVE that disc!