The Top Albums of the Decade

I'm perfectly happy not being cool. Having no friends saves on gas money.

There's a ton of music on the these lists that I want to get into but don't have the time or money. Just a few MGMT, Kaiser Cheifs, Interpol, Spoon and Placebo. I've heard all of these bands and know that I'd like them, but just don't have the time to lisen to them all.

 

1. Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
2. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
3. The Strokes - Is This It
4. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
6. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
7. Outkast - Stankonia
8. The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
9. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
10. Spoon - Girls Can Tell
11. Neko Case - Blacklisted
12. Clinic - Internal Wrangler
13. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
14. McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas
15. The King Khan and BBQ Show - What's For Dinner?
16. Black Lips - Good Bad, Not Evil
17. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
18. Arcade Fire - Funeral
19. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
20. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll
21. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
22. The Dutchess and The Duke - She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke
23. Songs:Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co.
24. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
25. Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine, & Ours

 

See, I love this album (and the cover) but didn't think it belonged on my list. Maybe I was wrong.

 

Don't know how I missed that Exploding Hearts album until now.

I've only listened to "Modern Kicks" and two other songs but this is fucking incredible. It's a tragedy the band never had a chance to do a followup record.

 

I'll have to track that one down.

And Z-Man, love the mention for King Khan and the BBQ Show. Great band.

 

Just a clarification. You don't have to own the whole album to put it on your list. As long as you have listened to the album enough to know it's one of your favorites, you can put it on there.

 

I don't listen to whole albums unless I buy them.

 

When starting to do this I figured I'd list all the studio (not live, not compilation) discs I own that came out from 2000-now. When I compiled this list I was shocked at just how many CDs I purchased this decade. Here is that list. I'll narrow it down to a Top 25 in a separate post

Ryan Adams - Gold
Dan Bern - New American Language, The Swastika EP, Fleeting Days, My Country II, Breathe Easy, Breathe
Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
Kasey Chambers - Brickwalls & Barricades, Wayward Angel, Carnival
Slaid Cleaves - Broke Down, Wishbones, Unsung, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Sonoran Hope & Madness, Americano, No More Beautiful World, Turbo Ocho
Joe D'Urso & Stone Caravan - Rock 'n' Roll Station
Bob Dylan - Love & Theft, Modern Times
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues, Jerusalem, Revolution Starts Now
John Eddie - Happily Never After, Who the Hell is John Eddie?
Joe Ely - Streets of Sin, Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch
Mark Erelli - Compass & Companion
Flatlanders - Now Again, Wheels of Fortune
John Fogerty - Deja Vu All Over Again, Revival
Patti Griffin - 1000 Kisses
Joe Grushecky - A Good Life
Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
Terri Hendrix - Places In Between, The Ring, Art of Removing Wallpaper, Spiritual Kind
Caroline Herring - Twilight
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Growl
Jayhawks - Smile, Rainy Day Music
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Last Hombres - Redemption
Los Lonely Boys - Los Lonely Boys
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Shelby Lynne - Love Shelby, Identity Crisis, Suit Yourself
Mr. D - Wings & Wheels
Marah - Kids From Philly, Float Away...; 20,000 Streets Under the Sky, If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry
Tift Merritt- Bramble Rose, Tambourine, Another Country
Rhett Miller - The Instigator, The Believer
Allison Moorer - The Hardest Part, Miss Fortune, The Duel, Mockingbird
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
Michael O'Connor - Green & Blue, Giants From a Sleepy Town
Tim O'Reagan- Tim O'Reagan
Old 97s - Satellite Rides, Drag It Up, Blame it on Gravity
Ellis Paul - Speed of Trees
Rod Picott - Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues, Stray Dogs, Girl from Arkansas, Summerbirds
Rod Picott & Amanda Shires - Sew Your Heart With Wires
Jeff Plankenhorn - Plank
Josh Ritter - Hello Starling, Animal Years, Historical Conquests of
Romantica - America
Patti Scialfa - 23rd Street Lullabye, Play It As it Lays
Amanda Shires - Being Brave, West Cross Timbers
Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot, The Search, American Central Dust
Southside Johnny & the Jukes - Going to Jukesville, Messing With the Blues, Into the Harbor
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising, Devils & Dust, and the Seeger Sessions Band: We Shall Overcome (regular & American Land editions), Magic, Working on a Dream
Susan Tedeschi - Wait for Me
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Van Morrison - Wait for Me
Waco Brothers - New Deal, Freedom and Weep
Max Weinberg 7 - Max Weinberg 7
Dar Williams - The Green World, The Beauty & the Rain
Lucinda Willams - Essence, World Without Tears, West, Little Honey
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter, Day I Forgot
Warren Zevon - The Wind
Zubia Brothers - Voices on the Street
Mark Zubia - Parts of Yesterday

 

Screw it -- too hard to come up with a Top 25.
But other than Springsteen, the discs listed by Slaid Cleaves, Rod Picott, Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, Tift Merritt, Warren Zevon, Josh Ritter, Old 97s, and Waco Brothers would be a large part of the list.

 

Just how badly did Daft Punk mismanage their finances if they were reduced to playing at LCD Soundsystem's house?

 

Count me in as another fan. Great music to pop a Shiner to while tubing the Frio River.

 

Shamelessly getting no love on this thread:

Unearthed, Johnny Cash.

Binaural, Backspacer, Live at Benaroya Hall, Pearl Jam

Adventures of The Felice Brothers Vol. 1, The Felice Brothers (Seriously, Frankie's Gun and Whiskey In My Whiskey are two of my favorite songs of the last decade)

This Old Road, Kris Kristofferson

O Brother Where Art Thou, Soundtrack

Life'll Kill Ya, Warren Zevon

Second the nomination on:

Jerusalem, Steve Earle.

All the Wilco

Elephant, White Stripes