The Decade In Review: Albums

Much like my list of the greatest movies of all-time, this should be taken not as an attempt at objectivity but instead as an exercise in rank-ordering the relative greatness of the albums that really made an impression on me in the past ten years. Enjoy!

01. bloc party - silent alarm
02. the jealous sound - kill them with kindness
03. the fags - light 'em up
04. the wildhearts - the wildhearts
05. mike doughty - haughty melodic
06. the new pornographers - twin cinema
07. queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
08. girl talk - feed the animals
09. ryan adams - rock n roll
10. cheap trick - the latest

11. tsar - band - girls - money
12. the plus ones - oh me of little faith
13. lifetime - lifetime
14. silverginger 5 - black leather mojo
15. jimmy eat world - bleed american
16. daft punk - discovery
17. the wildhearts - chutzpah!
18. courtney love - america's sweetheart
19. buckcherry - time bomb
20. nada surf - let go

21. panic at the disco - pretty.odd.
22. lady gaga - the fame
23. the heavenly states - the heavenly states
24. ginger - yoni
25. the futureheads - the futureheads
26. amscray - last of the fieros
27. ben folds - rockin' the suburbs
28. eminem - the marshall mathers lp
29. the long winters - when i pretend to fall
30. sloan - never hear the end of it

31. cursive - the ugly organ
32. the killers - hot fuss
33. radiohead - in rainbows
34. the futureheads - this is not the world
35. andrew w.k. - i get wet
36. girl talk - night ripper
37. beck - sea change
38. the subways - all or nothing
39. burning airlines - identikit
40. metric - fantasies

41. rival schools - united by fate
42. bloc party - intimacy
43. the wildhearts - the wildhearts must be destroyed
44. radiohead - kid a
45. the new pornographers - the electric version
46. charmless - just because
47. unwritten law - elva
48. sleater-kinney - all hands on the bad one
49. nelly - country grammar
50. blink-182 - take off your pants and jacket

51. piebald - we are the only friends we have
52. interpol - turn on the bright lights
53. we are scientists - with love and squalor
54. bruce springsteen - working on a dream
55. toadies - hell below/stars above
56. marvelous 3 - ready sex go
57. the yo-yo's - uppers and downers
58. torche - meanderthal
59. craig david - born to do it
60. slipknot - vol. 3: (the subliminal verses)

61. pete yorn - musicforthemorningafter
62. hedwig and the angry inch - original motion picture soundtrack
63. hot hot heat - make up the breakdown
64. buckcherry - 15
65. bruce springsteen - magic
66. sloan - pretty together
67. murderdolls - beyond the valley of the murderdolls
68. samiam - astray
69. jimmy eat world - futures
70. deftones - white pony

71. tsar - tsar
72. the go! team - thunder, lightning, strike
73. the suicide machines - the suicide machines
74. yeah yeah yeahs - show your bones
75. nine inch nails - [with_teeth]
76. justice - cross
77. linkin park - [hybrid theory]
78. phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
79. pearl jam - backspacer
80. the ting tings - we started nothing

81. japandroids - post-nothing
82. the teenagers - reality check
83. radiohead - hail to the thief
84. no age - nouns
85. scissor sisters - scissor sisters
86. lcd soundsystem - lcd soundsystem
87. jason falkner - i'm ok ... you're ok
88. aerosmith - just push play
89. neko case - canadian amp
90. we were promised jetpacks - these four walls

91. hifi handgrenades - carry on
92. look mexico - this is animal music
93. +44 - when your heart stops beating
94. the sounds - dying to say this to you
95. latterman - turn up the punk, we'll be singing
96. lit - atomic
97. atom & his package - attention! blah blah blah
98. cj & the satellites - thirteen
99. the cribs - men's needs, women's needs, whatever
100. rocket from the crypt - group sounds

up next: the best singles of the decade! [[justin]]