I don’t usually do this sort of thing, but I decided to go ahead and list my twenty favorite albums from 2000-2009. Please use the comments to list your own favorites or to tell everyone that you’ve never heard of any of these bands.
First up we have entries 11-20, in alphabetical order by title.
Bleed American – Jimmy Eat World
Give Up – The Postal Service
I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass – Yo La Tengo
Let Go – Nada Surf
Talkie Walkie – Air
The Crane Wife – The Decemberists (I like bits of this and Picaresque more than either one of them alone, but this one squeaks out.)
The Lemon Of Pink – The Books
Sumday – Grandaddy
Thunder, Lightning, Strike – The Go! Team
Welcome Interstate Managers – Fountains Of Wayne
And now, my top ten albums for the decade, again only in alphabetical order.
Comfort Eagle – Cake
Drum’s Not Dead – Liars
Funeral – The Arcade Fire
Gorillaz – Gorillaz
Person Pitch – Panda Bear
Sea Change – Beck
Pixel Revolt – John Vanderslice
We Shall All Be Healed – The Mountain Goats (This or The Sunset Tree — both are great.)
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips
If I had to pick a number one from that list, it would probably be Funeral, but they’re all pretty amazing.
I actually don’t buy that many entire albums these days, and if I made a list of songs it would be all over the place. But this is still a pretty good indication of where my musical head is.
It was fun making this list but honestly I can’t think of any other category I could make a similar list for. Maybe comics?
Great list Dave! Mine would go something close to this (in no real order):
Bleed American – Jimmy Eat World
Hot Fuss – The Killers
We Are The Only Friends That We Have – Piebald
Prolonging The Magic – Cake
Deja Entendu – Brand New
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
The Midnight Organ Fight – Frightened Rabbit
On A Wire – The Get Up Kids
Plans – Death Cab For Cutie
Hail To The Thief – Radiohead
I have heard of 7 out of the 20 you have listed here and of those 7…5 where discovered through you! There are a couple of favorites I would like to add though.
1. My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge and The Black Parade.
2. Paramore – Riot! (before all the Twilight Bullshit)
I have to second The Black Parade. It really is an amazing (and underrated) album. If I have listed 11-20, it would have been there for sure.
Funeral is amazing.
My 20, which I might deny or revise later
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists-Hearts of Oak
Q and Not U- Power
Calexico-Feast of Wire
RJD2- Deadringer
Caribou- The Milk of Human Kindness
Little Wings- Sing Wide
Lucero-Nobody’s Darlings
Dropkick Murphys- The Warriors Code
Flogging Molly-Swagger
Tom Waits- Real Gone
Kaizar’s Orkestra- Evig Pint
Gogol Bordello- Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Nick Cave- Nocturama
Brother Ali- The Undisputed Truth
Alejandro Escovedo- By The Hand of The Father
Lucinda Williams- Live at the Fillmore
Soul Position- s/t
Ulver- Blood Inside
Neil Young- Are You Passionate?
At The Drive In- Relationship of Command
What, no Jimmy Buffett – License to Chill??? I’ve heard you spin that CD more than any of the above.