The Best Albums of the Decade! (sing, favorite bands, dance, itunes)

[Ever Adrift]

Come on people! The fact that it is only 5 days til the end of the decade and no one has thought to start a thread on the best albums to grace the musical landscape over the past 10 years is sad; this is supposed to be a musical forum! Everyone should put together a list of their 25 favorite albums to come out between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2009. It doesn't have to be perfect, just make sure it adequately reflects your personal favorites.

This should be fun. It should allow you to share your favorite bands and artists with others and, most importantly, it's a great way to find great new artists that you may have never heard of! Broaden your horizons!

[Ever Adrift]

I'll start. Here are my 25 favorite albums of the decade. Enjoy!

1. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Radiohead - In Rainbows
8. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
9. Tool - Lateralus
10. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
11. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
12. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
13. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
14. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
15. The National - Boxer
16. Niyaz - Niyaz
17. Radiohead - Amnesiac
18. Ramona Falls - Intuit
19. Burial - Untrue
20. Elbow - Cast of Thousands
21. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
22. The xx - xx
23. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
24. Built to Spill - You In Reverse
25. The Decemberists - Picaresque

[loose cannon]

Come To Where Im From-Joseph Arthur
Mass Romantic- The New Pornographers
World Without Tears- Lucinda Williams
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot- Wilco
Nuclear Daydream- Joseph Arthur
Is This It- The Strokes
Destijl- The White Stripes
You're My Lover Now- The Teeth
The Search- Son Volt
Hazards Of Love- The Decemberist

[BigSwede]

You should bump this:
Top 20 Albums of 2009
But I guess you are not sober,right?

[Marksman84]

1) Rush - Snakes & Arrows
2) Rush - Vapor Trails
3) Santana - Shaman
4) Santana - All That I Am
5) Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King - Dave Matthews Band
6) Stand Up - Dave Matthews Band
7) Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews Band
8) Hittin' the Note - Allman Brothers Band
9) Magnification - Yes
10) All You Can't Leave Behind - U2
11) How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
12) No Line on the Horizon - U2
13) A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
14) X&Y - Coldplay
15) Phoenix - Asia
16) Lateralus - Tool
17) 10,000 Days - Tool
18) Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
19) Everything Must Go - Steely Dan
20) Morph the Cat - Donald Fagen
21) Under Rug Swept - Alanis Morissette
22) Rock Steady - No Doubt
23) River - The Joni Letters - Herbie Hancock
24) Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
25) C'Mon C'Mon - Sheryl Crow

[censusdata]

My favorites would be Hoobastank (self titled debut 2001) and Trapt (self titled debut, 2002).

[ShermanJoe]

Bob Dylan...................................Love and Theft
Afro Latin Party
Baila Latin Dance Party
Bebel Gilberto..............................Tantotempo
Del McCoury Band.........................Del and the Boys
Wilco..........................................Yan kee Hotel Foxtrot
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals.........Jacsonville City Nights
Buena Vista Social Club
Old Crow Medicine Show.................OCMS
Alabina
My Morning Jacket.........................It Still Moves
Johnny Cash.................................The Man Comes Around
Muddy Waters...............................Hootchie Cootchie Man
Puccini.........................................Ul timate Puccini Collection
Arcade Fire...................................Funeral
JJ Cale.........................................To Tulsa and Back
Neko Case....................................Blackliste d
Lucinda Williams.............................World Without Tears
Little Honey

Some were beginners attempts to expand horizons (hence the Puccini) which I found I did enjoy.
But there are so many MORE that I absolutely wore out, thanks to Itunes . Bought music from Nine Inch Nails, Muse, She Wants Revenge, Dropkick Murphys, James Brown, Bootsy Collins, Greg Allman, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, The Killers, Green Day, Gorillaz, John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Hives, and Great Lakes Swimmers, not to mention the older music I added to my collection. And I just remembered all the contemporary latin music, including reggaeton (which was new to me and I loved) that I dipped into.

Not a bad mix for a 53 year old retired bohemian chick .

[aardvarks]

the Gaslight Anthem-the 59 sound (the best album I've heard in 30 years)
Joe Bonamassa-Slow Gin
the Zutons- Tired of Hanging Around
Matt Costa-Songs we sing
John Mayer Trio-Try
the Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
Eric Hutchinson-Sounds Like this
Andrew Hoover- Chances Stances and romances
the Derek Trucks band-Already Free
Coconut records-Nighttiming

[BlueWillowPlate]

My favorites of the decade, music I own and never get tired of hearing:

1) De Stijl ~~ White Stripes

2) Speakerboxx/The Love Below ~~ Outkast

3) The Road to Escondido ~~ JJ Cale and Eric Clapton

4) Van Lear Rose ~~ Loretta Lynn

5) Fever to Tell ~~ Yeah Yeah Yeahs

6) American Idiot ~~ Green Day

7) By the Way ~~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stadium Arcadium was very good as well

8) I and Love and You ~~ Avett Brothers

Of course there are other bands whose songs I enjoy.

I love the indie Chutes Too Narrow/Fleet Foxes stuff, the Rapture's dancepunk stuff, LCD Soundsystem's North American Scum, and TV On the Radio's Golden Age and Wolf Like Me, and Radiohead's In Rainbows, etc.etc etc.

But the above list are full albums that I was able to consistently listen to over and over again.

[BlueWillowPlate]

Originally Posted by ShermanJoe

Buena Vista Social Club

Good call. That should have been on my list.

Muddy Waters...............................Hootchie Cootchie Man

?
AFAIK Muddy died in the '80's.
Is there something I am missing here?

I also thought of the Mermaid Avenue albums, 1998 and 2000, but the one I prefer was the first one.

I should have also put Mark Knopfler's Shangri-La to my list. I've listened to it over and over again, more than his others of this decade.