The 50 Best Albums of the Decade, IMHO.
Without further ado:
50. I'm a Mountain - Sarah Harmer
49. Feed the Animals - Girl Talk
48. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
47. You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker - Willie Nelson
46. The Diplomats of Solid Sound - The Diplomats of Solid Sound
45. The Reminder - Feist
44. Twentysomething - Jamie Cullum
43. Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers - Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers
42. We Brave Bee Stings and All - Thao
41. Here Comes Science - They Might Be Giants
40. Rattlin' Bones - Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
39. Eye to the Telescope - KT Tunstall
38. Costello Music - The Fratellis
37. Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains of Wayne
36. The Little Willies - The Little Willies
35. Rhythms Del Mundo: Cuba - Various Artists
34. Back Porch Spirituals - Jeremy Fisher
33. Two Shoes - The Cat Empire
32. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
31. Midnite Vultures - Beck
30. The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
29. Etienne de Rocher - Etienne de Rocher
28. Rock Swings - Paul Anka
27. Revival - Gillian Welch
26. Let it Die - Feist
25. Picaresque - The Decemberists
24. Music for 18 Musicians - Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble
23. It's Not Me, It's You - Lily Allen
22. The Ditty Bops - The Ditty Bops
21. Hell Among the Yearlings - Gillian Welch
20. Traffic and Weather - Fountains of Wayne
19. The Distant Future EP - Flight of the Conchords
18. Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
17. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
16. Electric Dirt - Levon Helm
15. Get Behind me Satan - The White Stripes
14. Beatin' the Heat - Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
13. Time the Revelator - Gillian Welch
12. Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
11. Son - Juana Molina
10. The Story - Brandi Carlile
9. Modern Times - Bob Dylan
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Various Artists
7. At My Age - Nick Lowe
6. Alright, Still - Lily Allen
5. The Soul Sessions - Joss Stone
4. JackInABox - Turin Brakes
3. Under the Blacklight - Rilo Kiley
2. Prairie Wind - Neil Young
1. We Shall Overcome - Bruce Springsteen
And here's a list of albums that I actually listened to a bit, and decidedly did not make the list:
Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
The Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
Boxer - The National
Is This It - The Strokes
Kid A - Radiohead
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Funeral - The Arcade Fire
Discovery - Daft Punk
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
Merrieweather whatever - Animal Collective
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets
The Greatest - Cat Power
Up The Bracket - The Libertines
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Artic Monkeys
Sounds of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast (plus that other OutKast album that came before that everyone who wants to be hip claims is superior)
Various hip-hop albums (including Jay Z and that MIA one with the gun-shot sound effects)
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Neko Case
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Comments (5)
Two years..it seems like yesterday you were here starting arguments.
Had to drop back in to give my best of the decade list. How has life been on Mog? The site looks a lot more commercial now than it did back in the day...
We're gettin' ready for the big launch in a few days..the streaming service to end all streaming sevices. I hope it works. A lot of the same old hands are around, but just as many aren't. I'm a junkie so I'll be here till they pry my cold,dead hands off the keyboard.
This is impressive, perhaps because I would be hard-pressed off the top of my head to name 50 albums that came out this decade. And I am not proud to be saying that....
good to "meet" you, Aclason. to have your status as "smoking" after a 2 year layoff is quite impressive! that has nothing at all to do with you, and Cody had what seems to be (in his inimitable style) a compliment. it's just a part of MOG i still haven't figured out.
as always with these lists, there's a bunch of "i can't believe these are here" albums. there are always a ton where the delete button would be quite handy, but in your case i'm quite impressed with many of your less expected choices and it's meant in a good way. even though i'm with Ivy when it comes to trying to remember stuff, this list is a great flashback to some good disks. to see things like Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Juana Molina and Flight of the Conchords make your top 50 makes it easy to skip some of the "B-sides"!
to quote another classic track by John Sebastian, "Welcome Back".