A list of top ten lists I made for favorite recordings every year back to 2006

 

Top Albums of the '00s

 

Sloan - Never Hear the End of It

Arcade Fire - Funeral

My Morning Jacket - Z

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

Over the Rhine - Ohio

Joe Henry - Tiny Voices

Doves - The Last Broadcast

The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

Marillion - Marbles

Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

 

2009:

 

1. Joe Henry - Blood from Stars

2. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

3. St. Vincent - Actor

4. Doves - Kingdom of Rust

5. Dave Perkins - Pistol City Holiness

6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

7. U2 - No Line on the Horizon

8. As Tall As Lions - You Can't Take It With You

9. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Infernal Machines

10. Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11

 

 

 

2008:

 

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science

2. Sloan - Parallel Play

3. The 77s - Holy Ghost Building

4. Fleshtones - Take a Good Look

5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

6. Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams

7. Devotchka - A Mad and Truthful Telling

8. Marco Benevento - Invisible Baby

9. Calexico - Carried to Dust

10. Woven Hand – Ten Stories

11. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

12. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

13. Los Campenisnos – Hold on Now, Youngster

14. Dengue Fever – Venus on Earth

15. Sparks – Exotic Creatures of the Deep

16. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

17. She and Him - Volume One

18. Copeland - You Are My Sunshine

19. Lovedrug - The Sucker Punch Show

20. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

 

2007:

 

 

1. Sloan – - Never Hear the End of It

2. Arcade Fire – - Neon Bible

3. Spoon – - Ga ga ga ga ga

4. Apples in Stereo –- New Magnetic Wonder

5. New Pornographers – - Challengers

6. Los Campanesios – - Sticking Fingers into Sockets

7. Beirut – - The Flying Club Cup

8. Rasputina – - Oh Perilous World

9. Swirling Eddies – - The Midget, the Speck, and the Molecule

10. Radiohead - In Rainbows

 

2006:

 

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Sparks - Hello Young Lovers

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Robert Randolph - Colorblind

Lost Dogs - The Lost Cabin and the Mystery Trees

My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse

Elvis Costello/Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse

Elvis Costello - My Flame Turns Blue

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood