Top 50 Albums of the Decade

(originally posted Dec. 31, 2009)

Wow...This was not easy, and I will probably always feel like I left some out, 'cause let's be honest, I bought a crap load of music in the past ten years!

50. Stir - "Holy Dogs"


49. As Tall As Lions - "You Can't Take It With You"


48. Bruce Springsteen - "The Rising"


47. The Strokes - "This Is It"


46. Sigur Ros - "( )"


45. Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am, That Is What I Am Not"


44. Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - "Raising Sand"


43. The Black Keys - "Attack and Release"


42. "Once" Soundtrack


41. R.E.M. - "Accelerate"


40. She & Him - "Vol. 1"


39. Ben Folds - "Rockin' The Suburbs"


38. Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago"


37. Damien Rice - "O"


36. The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife"


35. Franz Ferdinand - "Franz Ferdinand"


34. Interpol - "Turn The Bright Lights On"


33. Sleeping at Last - "Keep No Score"


32. Keane - "Hopes & Fears"


31. Snow Patrol - "Final Straw"


30. The Raconteurs - "Consolers of the Lonely"


29. Starsailor - "On The Outside"


28. Battles - "Mirrored"


27. Johnny Cash - "American IV: The Man Comes Around"


26. Vampire Weekend - "Vampire Weekend"


25. Spoon - "Kill The Moonlight"


24. Pilot Speed - "Into The West"


23. Postal Service - "Give Up"


22. Pearl Jam - "Pearl Jam (Avacado)"


21. Jimmy Eat World - "Futures"


20. Menomena - "Friend & Foe"


19. Kings of Leon - "Because of the TImes"


18. The Killers - "Hot Fuss"


17. Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"


16. Sufjan Stevens - "(Come on Feel the) Illinoise"


15. Jars of Clay - "Good Monsters"


14. MuteMath - "MuteMath"


13. Derek Webb - "Stockholm Syndrome"


12. Editors - "An End Has A Start"


11. Muse - "Black Holes and Revelations"


10. The White Stripes - "Elephant"


9. Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanicism"


8. Our Lady Peace - "Spiritual Machines"


7. Travis - "The Invisible Band"


6. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - "Rabbit Fur Coat"


5. Arcade Fire - "Funeral"


4. Ryan Adams - "Gold"


3. U2 - "All That You Can't Leave Behind"


2. Coldplay - "A Rush of Blood To The Head"


1. Radiohead - "Kid A"

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Top 25 Albums of 2007 : Year of the Indie

Well it is that time again , my yearly post or my top albums of the year. Apparently i listened to more indie music this year than ever before...but first the ones that were good but not quite good enough: Honorable Mentions (in no particular order): Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare , Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist , Powderfinger - Dream Days at The Hotel Existence , The Shins - Wincing The Night Away , Travis - The Boy, The Kooks - Inside/Out, Matt Nathanson- Some Mad Hope now...The Top 25: 25. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full 24. Silverchair - Young Modern 23. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero 22. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City 21. Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere 20. Derek Webb - The Ringing Bell 19. Ted Leo / Pharmacists - Living With The Living 18. Battles - Mirrored 17. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 16. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 15. Interpol - Our Love To Admire 14. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace 13. Jimmy Eat World
Read more

My Top 25 Albums of 2018

25. First Aid Kit - "Ruins" 24. Dawes - "Passwords" 23. Snail Mail - "Lush" 22. The Decemberists - "I'll Be Your Girl" 21. Florence + The Machine - "High As Hope" 20. Interpol - "Marauder" 19. Phosphorescent - "C'est La Vie" 18. Our Lady Peace - "Somethingness" 17. Glen Hansard - "Between Two Shores" 16. Boygenius - "Boygenius" EP 15. Needtobreathe - "Forever On Your Side" EP 14. Paul McCartney - "Egypt Station" 13. Brandi Carlile - "By The Way, I Forgive You" 12. Fantastic Negrito - "Please Don't Be Dead" 11. Andrew Osenga - "The Painted Desert" 10. Death Cab For Cutie - "Thank You For Today" 9. Muse - "Simulation Theory" 8. The Boxer Rebellion - "Ghost Alive" 7. Editors - "Violence" 6. Leon Bridges - "Good Thing" 5. The Artisanals - "The Artisanals&qu
Read more

The Jukebox of My Mind - A 2020 Year In Review

Sometime quite a while back I became consciously aware that I wake up with a song in my head  every single morning . No exceptions. Every morning. So at the end of 2019 I made the decision that I was going to track and log every song for the next year. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to track and analyze the songs, and see if the stats said anything interesting about the jukebox that is my mind. So here we are, finally 2021 and I have officially completed this exercise. I've analyzed the songs, the artists, which decades are represented, and made Spotify playlists for each month. It was interesting because sometimes it was a song or artist that I had been listening to recently, and sometimes my brain came up with a song/artist that I hadn't thought about in years. So here are some interesting stats and links to the playlists. Have fun perusing, discovering, or rediscovering some music I think is pretty darn great, and that I apparently hold pretty near and dear in
Read more