Jt’s Top 100 Albums of the Decade
Holy crap… there’s probably 100 (at least 2 or 3) things I should be doing instead of compiling a list of my top 100 albums of the decade, but as the music industry leans towards releasing singles, I worry this could be the last decade of great albums (drama queen), and when inspiration comes, I might as well use it.
So here it is. I did this relatively quick and dirty without too much thought in a couple hours. It’s heavily subjective and limited to what I’ve got and dependent on my Last.fm profile that counts my listens. Thanks to Ryan for opening me up to this idea and all my musicheads for the years of inspiration.
1. Radiohead – Kid A
2. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
3. Radiohead – Amnesiac
4. Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
5. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
6. The National – Boxer
7. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
9. Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow
10. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
11. The Strokes - Is this it?
12. Old Crow Medicine Show – O.C.M.S.
13. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
14. Ween – Quebec
15. Outkast - Stankonia
16. Common - Like water for chocolate
17. Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
18. Radiohead – In Rainbows
19. The Shins – Oh, Inverted World
20. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
fuck. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
21. Common – Be
22. Califone – Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
23. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
24. Tapes ‘n Tapes – The Loon
25. Belle and Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
26. Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
27. Ugly Casanova – Sharpen Your Teeth
28. Radiohead – Hail To The Thief
29. The Royal Tenenbaums Soundtrack
30. The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
31. Diamond Nights – Popsicle
32. The Dodos – Visiter
33. Mclusky – mclusky Do Dallas
34. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
35. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
36. Clinic – Walking With Thee
37. The Killers - Hot Fuss
38. Santogold – Santogold
39. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
40. Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise!
41. Kanye West – Late Registration
42. Hot Chip – The Warning
43. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
44. Califone – Roomsound
45. Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals
46. Koushik – Be With
47. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
48. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
49. Calexico – Convict Pool EP
50. Beat the Devil – Beat the Devil EP
51. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
52. Enon – High Society
53. Clinic – Internal Wrangler
54. Justin Timberlake – Justified
55. Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
56. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
57. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
58. Beck – Guero
59. Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords
60. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
61. Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
62. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
63. Quiet Village – Silent Movie
64. The Foreign Exchange – Connected
65. Islands – Return to the Sea
66. Garden State Soundtrack
67. Jamie Lidell – Multiply
68. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
69. Man Man – Six Demon Bag
70. Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
71. Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
72. Prince – 3121
73. The Bad Plus – These Are the Vistas
74. Q-Tip – Amplified
75. stellastarr* – stellastarr*
76. Iron & Wine – Woman King
77. Burial – Untrue
78. Architecture in Helsinki – In Case We Die
79. Ratatat – Classics
80. J Dilla – Donuts
81. Beck – Sea Change
82. Matthew Dear – Asa Breed Black Edition
83. The Roots - Tipping Point
84. Res - How I do
85. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
86. Feist – Let It Die
87. Sigur Rós – Takk…
88. Starfucker – Starfucker
89. Fischerspooner - Best Album Ever
90. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
91. Yo La Tengo – Summer Sun
92. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War)
93. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
94. Miho Hatori – Ecdysis
95. Madvillain – Madvillainy
96. Beck – The Information
97. Tegan & Sara – So Jealous
98. Self – Gizmodgery
99. Crooked Fingers – Red Devil Dawn
100. Cat Power - You Are Free
