I was going by what iTunes said - didn’t research it at all.
If I had to pick one album to keep for the rest of my life, this would be it. 80s, 90s, 00s. Doesn’t matter. This is the best album I’ve heard, well, probably ever.
Pepe Deluxé - Spare Time Machine - Ms. Wilhelmina And Her Hat is my song of the decade
Komeda - Kokomemedada
in no particular order, here’s a quick top 50:
Rowe/Tilbury - Duos for Doris
Coil - Ape of Naples
Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph
GYBE - Lift Your Skinny Fists
Lionel Marchetti - Red Dust
Burial - Burial and Untrue
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: the Endless Not
Jason Lescalleet - The Pilgrim
Durrant/Lehn/Malfatti - Dach
Filament - Filament Box
Pere Ubu - Why I Hate Women
Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But…
Sachiko M - Salon de Sachiko
Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste
the Delgados - The Great Eastern
Scott Walker - The Drift
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Susan Howe/David Grubbs - Thiefth
Julien Ottavi - Nervure Magnetique
Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
Sunn O))) - Black One
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Khanate - Things Viral
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Bjork - Medulla
Boris - Feedbacker
Earth - Hex
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
Lou Reed - Ecstasy
Echospace - The Coldest Season (love falling asleep to this one)
Richard Youngs - River Through Howling Sky
Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder
Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Robert Ashley - Dust
Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
the Caretaker - Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
Fuhler/Prins - The Flirts
Eric Cordier - Breizhiselad
Patti Smith - Trampin’
Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds
Advisory Circle - Other Channels
Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum’s Embrace
Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs
Bon Iver - For Emma Forever
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Film School - Film School
MIA - Kala
A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The National - Boxer
Girltalk - Unstoppable
Editors - The Back Room
In no particular order:
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Old 97s - Satellite Rides
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Americano
Beatles - Love
Page France - Hello, Dear Wind
Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Wilco probably takes the top slot, but FoW and Sloan are fighting for a close second.
Editors - The Back Room
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Killers - Hot Fuss
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Billboard’s top albums of the decade list is out. Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
It will come as no surprise that it doesn’t look anything like the lists being posted here.
I’m surprised that I actually own two of those albums, but like I warned people, Heavier Things and From Under the Cork Tree, while I like them, only qualify for my best of the decade top 50 because I haven’t bought 50 albums from this decade.
In no particular order:
Fratellis- Costello Music
White Stripes- Icky Thump
Amy Winehouse- Back to Black
The Killers- Hot Fuss
Outkast- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Justin Timberlake- Future Sex/Love Sounds (yeah, I said it.)
I don’t know about best albums of the decade, but here are a few I liked in no particular order.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
The Killers - Hot Fuzz
Kent - Vapen & ammunition
Kent - Du & jag döden
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
PMMP - Kovemmat kädet
Apulanta - Hiekka
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Hellacopters - By the Grace of God
Relationship of Command - At the Drive In. Just squeeks in to the 00s, came out in 2000. Along with a few others mentioned already (QotSA, White Stripes) one of the best harder rock albums of the decade.
I’d also throw in SoaD’s Toxicity. They got mega popular on the back of it, and the stuff that followed was a bit patchy, but Toxicity is a great, great rock album.
The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox (2001) was the best rap album I heard by a country mile.
Well, I’m officially ancient. I’ve listened to none of the albums on that list, and only three of the albums on the Billboard top 100. You kids get your MP3s off my lawn!
Well, your list is the most similar to mine I guess (even though I like a different Fiery Furnaces album more).
There’s no way I could accurately compile a list of my favourite of this decade, but here are ten that would be high up, if not my absolute favourites (I know I’m missing some important ones though) – my list is going to be quite different from most others on here though:
Poe – Haunted
Girls Aloud – Chemistry
Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
John Zorn – IAO
Björk – Vespertine
Swizz Beatz – G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories
MIA – Kala
Christina Aguilera – Stripped
Liars – They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway
Thank goodness–it’s about the only artist I recognize. ::slinks away to listen to mainstream classic rock
Don’t slink away! I’ve never heard most of the stuff on these lists! 
My humble choices are:
Fallen - Evanescence
How to Save A Life - The Fray
Growing Pains - Mary J. Blige
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Unstoppable - Rascal Flatts
Rissi Palmer - Rissi Palmer
The Evolution of Robin Thicke - Robin Thicke
Transformers: The Score - Steve Jablonsky
Twilight Saga: New Moon The Score - Alexandre Desplat
I’m surprised nobody has yet mentioned Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst, who gets my vote as artist of the decade thanks to a three-album string that runs from the emo Fevers and Mirrors (2000) to the multi-genre Lifted (2002) to the alt-country/folk I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005). His other releases this decade have been impressive as well, but those three track a progression that is simply fascinating to see and the kid has an ear for poetic lyrics.
My top 10:
- Bright Eyes - Lifted (2002)
- British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power (2003)
- Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005)
- Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005)
- The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (2009)
- Beck - Guero (2005)
- Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day (2003)
- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (2006)
- G. Love - Lemonade
- The Rosebuds - Make Out (2003)
Honorable mentions to:
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks (2006)
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (2008)
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (2008)
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (2005)
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002)
The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Iron & Wine/Calexico - In the Reins (2005)
The Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003)
James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In (2008)
Jay-Z/DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Album (2004)
Jens Lekman - Oh You’re So Silent Jens (2005)
Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2005)
The Out Crowd - Go On, Give a Damn (2003)
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (2000)
Yo, I’m Not…, I like your taste. Conor Oberst is pretty much the man. I must admit I like the old overwrought, literary style more than the newly relaxed, take it as it comes traveler’s music. Although Outer South was pretty good. SO weird to hear vicious guitar and Oberst on one song.
Mah list:
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. <- This is it right here.
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
The Microphones - The Glow pt. 2
The Postal Service - Give Up
Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s - The Dust of Retreat
A lot of mine had been said before. I think albums that everyone should be able to agree on include Give Up and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
Heartbreaker. Where’s e’ryone else?
My list, in no particular order, except the first two:
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Damien Rice - O
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Dave Matthews Band - Groo Grux King
The Postal Service - Give Up
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Alix Olson - Built Like That
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Jack’s Mannequin - Everything In Transit
Having listened to parts, but not all of, Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago” I’d like to include it, but since I haven’t heard the whole album, I won’t - what I have heard is just heart-wrenchingly amazing.
Falling Forward- Hand Me Down
Boy Sets Fire- The Day the Sun Went Out
Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary
If it doesn’t sound like any of those, it has no right to call itself “emo.” Argument over.