2009 Favorite Albums
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. As Tall As
Lions - You Can't Take It With You
7. Ramona
Falls - Intuit
8. Dirty
Projectors - Bitte Orca
9. AC Newman
– Get Guilty
10. U2 - No
Line on the Horizon
2008 Favorite Albums
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. School of
Seven Bells – Alpinisms
2007 Favorite Albums
1. Sloan -
Never Hear the End of It
2. Arcade
Fire - Neon Bible
3. Andrew
Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
4. Spoon - Ga ga ga
ga ga
5. New
Pornographers – Challengers
6. Future
Clouds and Radar – Future Clouds and Radar
7. Apples in
Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
8. Los Campanesios - Sticking Fingers into Sockets
9. Beirut -
The Flying Club Cup
10. Swirling
Eddies - The Midget, the Speck, and the
Molecule
2006 Favorite Albums
1. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
2. Sparks
– Hello Young Lovers
3. Mutemath - Mutemath
4. The Lost Dogs
– The Lost Cabin and the Mystery Trees
5. As Tall As
Lions – As Tall As Lions
6. Gnarls
Barkley – St Elsewhere
7. Robert
Randolph and the Family Band – Colorblind
8. My
Brightest Diamond – Bring Me the Workhorse
9. The Violet
Burning – Drop Dead
10. Elvis
Costello/Allen Touisssant – The River in
Reverse
2005 Favorite Albums
1. Sufjan
Stevens – Illinoise
2. My Morning Jacket – Z
3. The New Pomographers
– Twin Cinema
4. Andrew Bird – The Mysterious
Production of Eggs
5. The Choir – Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen
6. Doves – Some Cities
7. The Decemberists
- Picaresque
8. John Vanderslice
– Pixel Revolt
9. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks
10. Broken Social Scene – Broken
Social Scene
2004 Favorite Albums
1. Arcade
Fire – Funeral
2. AC Newman
– The Slow Wonder
3. Nick Cave
and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
4. Devotchka – How it Ends
5. Marillion - Marbles
6. U2 –
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
7. Rasputina – Frustration Plantation
8. Hem
– Eveningland
9. Guided By Voices – Half-Smiles of the Decomposed
10. John Vanderslice – Cellar Door
2003 Favorite Albums
1. Over the
Rhine – Ohio
2. Joe Henry
– Tiny Voices
3. Sloan
– Action Pact
4. The New Pomographers – Electric Version
5. Calexico
– Feast of Wire
6. My Morning
Jacket – It Still Moves
7. Rufus
Wainwright – Want One
8. Robert
Randolph and the Family Band - Unclassified
9. Devotchka – Una Volta
10. Dream
Theater – Train of Thought
2002 Favorite Albums
1. Undercover – I Rose Falling
2. Midnight
Oil – Capricornia
3. Sparks
– Lil Beethoven
4. Doves
– The Last Broadcast
5. Spoon
– Kill the Moonlight
6. Elvis
Costello - When I Was Cruel
7. Ben Folds
– Rocking the Suburbs
8. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Rush
– Vapor Trails
10. Wondermints – Mind if We Make Love to You
2001 Favorite Albums
1. Vigilantes
of Love - Summershine
2. Daniel
Amos - Mr BuechnerÕs Dream
3. Marillion – Anoraknophobia
4. Ben Folds
– Rocking the Suburbs
5. Over the
Rhine - Films for Radio
6.
Russellville – Songs for You to Like
7. The Lost
Dogs – Real Men Cry
8. Andrew
Bird – The Swimming Hour
9. Marillion - Anoraknophobia
10. My
Morning Jacket – At Dawn
2000 Favorite Albums
1. Cush – Cush
2. GoldFrapp
– Felt Mountain
3. U2 – All You CanÕt Leave
Behind
4. Vigilantes of Love – Audible
Sigh
5. Radiohead – Kid A
6. Jonathan Rundman
– Sound Theology
7. Joan Osborne – Righteous Love
8. Jacobstone
– Glass Top Ships
9. Terry Taylor – Avocado
Faultline
10. The New Pornographers – Mass
Romantic