Nerd Alert: Top 30 Albums of the Decade
It’s pretty ridiculous to try to consolidate 10 years of amazing music into 30 albums, but after Pitchfork and Rolling Stone and everybody on the planet’s these are mine. Here we gooooooo
(too lazy for reverse order)
1. Radiohead // Kid A (2000)
2. Animal Collective // Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
3. Modest Mouse // The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
4. Radiohead // In Rainbows (2007)
5. TV on the Radio // Return To Cookie Mountain (2006)
6. The Microphones // The Glow Pt 2 (2001)
7. Grizzly Bear // Veckatimest (2009)
8. Deerhunter // Microcastle (2008)
9. Radiohead // Hail To The Thief (2003)
10. Madvillain // Madvillainy (2004)
11. Arcade Fire // Funeral (2004)
12. Panda Bear // Person Pitch (2007)
13. Animal Collective // Feels (2005)
14. Lil’ Wayne // Tha Carter 3 (2008)
15. TV On The Radio // Dear Science (2008)
16. Deerhunter // Cryptograms (2007)
17. Animal Collective // Strawberry Jam (2007)
18. Grizzly Bear // Yellow House (2007)
19. M.I.A. // Kala (2006)
20. Interpol // Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
21. Kanye West // Late Registration (2005)
22. The Microphones // Mount Eerie (2003)
23. Bloc Party // Silent Alarm (2005)
24. Atlas Sound // Logos (2009)
25. Liars // Drum’s Not Dead (2007)
26. Los Campesinos! // We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (2008)
27. The Unicorns // Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? (2004)
28. The Shins // Oh, Inverted World (2001)
29. Los Campesinos! // Hold On Now Youngster… (2008)
30. Vampire Weekend // Vampire Weekend (2008)
Honorable mentions (AKA stuff that would be higher if I knew it better) : Animal Collective // Sung Tongs (2004) , Radiohead // Amnesiac (2001) , The Microphones // It Was Hot So We Stayed In The Water (2000) , Yo La Tengo // And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000), The Strokes // Is This It (2001), The Shins // Chutes Too Narrow (2003), Kanye West // Graduation (2007), Wavves // Wavvves (2009), LCD Soundsystem // Sound of Silver (2006), Modest Mouse // Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004), of Montreal // Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (2007), Bloc Party // A Weekend In The City (2007), No Age // Nouns (2008), The Knife // Silent Shout (2006), TV on the Radio // Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (2004), The Flaming Lips // Embryonic (2009)
