Friday, May 7, 2010

Top 30 Favorite Albums of the Decade

I am by no means an expert on music, and I barely scratched the surface of all the albums released over the last decade. But here are 30 albums from the last decade that I believe warrant recognition...



1. Funeral - Arcade Fire (2004)


2. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse (2000)


3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips (2002)


4. Madvillainy - Madvillain (2004)


5. In Rainbows - Radiohead (2007)


6. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You Black Emperor! (2000)


7. Kid A - Radiohead (2000)


8. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens (2005)


9. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear (2009)


10. Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age (2000)


11. Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol (2002)


12. Since I Left You - The Avalanches (2000)


13. Stankonia - Outkast (2000)


14. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins (2003)


15. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)


16. Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective (2009)


17. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)


18. Lateralus - Tool (2001)


19. Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros (2000)


20. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire (2007)


21. Dear Science - TV on the Radio (2008)


22. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)


23. The Argument - Fugazi (2001)


24. Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse (2004)


25. Pockets - Karate (2004)


26. Antics - Interpol (2004)


27. Amnesiac - Radiohead (2001)


28. Is this It? - The Strokes (2001)


29. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay (2002)


30. Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie (2003)


Others: Make me Love You - Pivot (2005), Absolution - Muse (2003), You Forgot it in People - Broken Social Scene (2002), Oh Inverted World - The Shins (2001), Murray Street - Sonic Youth (2002), Toxicity - System of a Down (2001), Hail to the Thief - Radiohead (2003)

6 comments:

  1. decent list, but I would have some different albums.

    Opeth - Blackwater Park
    Deftones - White Pony
    Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
    Isis - Panopticon

    etc. etc. =)

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  2. Great post, we have a very similar taste in music, so every album in your list that I haven't heard yet I'm planning to listen to in the near future.
    Btw, I think (as a big Radiohead fan that I am) that Hail To The Thief should have been much higher in the list :)

    Thnx!

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  3. Thanks Natalie. This is quite an old post, and I think i'll have to make a few changes, but the top 10 will remain the same. I actually prefer Hail to the Thief over Amnesiac now haha. Thanks for stopping by and leaving the comment.

    Hope to hear from you again :-)

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  4. Nice list Andy. But what do you think about The Resistance by Muse. I think it deserves a spot on your list.

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  5. I haven't heard The Resistance actually. Is that their newest album? From their albums I have heard, Absolution is my favourite. Thanks for reading Henry!

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  6. Excellent list (w/ the exception of Coldplay and Franz Ferdinand. The latter of which got overplayed for me to death).

    For me, my top 5 albums of the 2000s are...

    1. Radiohead-"Kid A"
    2. Wilco-"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
    3. The White Stripes-"Elephant"
    4. Nine Inch Nails-"Year Zero"
    5. Radiohead-"In Rainbows".

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