P. Michael Freed's 2010 List

5 Favorite Albums
1. The National - High Violet
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
4. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
5. Beach House - Teen Dream

Others I Liked (in no particular order)
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Jonsi - Go
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
Spoon - Transference

Amber Friesen's 2010 List

MY TOP 10 ALBUMS, 2010

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1- The National - High Violet

2- Robyn - Body Talk

3- Beach House - Teen Dream

4- Yeasayer - Odd Blood

5- Vampire Weekend - Contra

6- Hot Chip - One Life Stand

7- Jonsi - Go

8- Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

9- Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws

10- Broken Bells - Broken Bells

MY TOP 10 SONGS, 2010. In no particular order

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"Madder Red," Yeasayer

"Take Care," Beach House

"Sweet Disposition," The Temper Trap

"Alley Cats," Hot Chip

"Lemonworld," The National

"Bloodbuzz Ohio," The National

"Dancing On My Own," Robyn

"Do You Want It All," Two Door Cinema Club

"Run," Vampire Weekend

"Sans Soliel," Miike Snow

Rick Sieber's 2010 List

TOP 10 ALBUMS

1. Halcyon Digest – Deerhunter
2. Measure – Field Music
3. How I Got Over – The Roots
4. Teen Dream – Beach House
5. The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
6. Blood/Candy – The Posies
7. Gemini – Wild Nothing
8. Before Today – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
9. Grinderman 2 – Grinderman
10. Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox – Various Artists

Bubbling Under:

• New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) – Erykah Badu
• Mount Wittenberg Orca – Dirty Projectors & Björk
• This Is Happening – LCD Soundsystem
• Transference – Spoon
• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

TOP 40 TRACKS

1. “The Suburbs” – Arcade Fire
2. “The Day” – The Roots (featuring Blu, Phonte, and Patty Crash)
3. “Round and Round” – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
4. “Revival” – Deerhunter
5. “For the Ashes” – The Posies
6. “I Can Change” – LCD Soundsystem
7. “Desire Lines” - Deerhunter
8. “We End Up Together” – The New Pornographers
9. “Cousins” – Vampire Weekend
10. “Chinatown” – Wild Nothing
11. “Waterfall” – Fresh and Onlys
12. “Stylo” – Gorillaz (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack)
13. “Ready to Start” – Arcade Fire
14. “Don’t Catch Fire” – Peter Gutteridge
15. “Don’t Fall in Love with a Lonely Girl” – Freedy Johnston
16. “Right On” – The Roots (featuring Joanna Newsom and STS)
17. “Them That Do Nothing” – Field Music
18. “The Outer Skin” – Sean Donnelly
19. “Who Makes Your Money?” - Spoon
20. “On Melancholy Hill” - Gorillaz
21. “Measure” – Field Music
22. “The Blues” – Primary 1 (featuring Nina Persson)
23. “Shutterbugg” – Big Boi (featuring Cutty)
24. “This Time Around” – The Radio Dept.
25. “Used to Be” – Beach House
26. “Helicopter” – Deerhunter
27. “Runaway” – Kanye West (featuring Pusha T)
28. “So Caroline” – The Posies
29. “Our Composition Book” – Wild Nothing
30. “Palaces of Montezuma” – Grinderman
31. “Invisibility: Nonexistent” – Kurt Vile
32. “Youth” – Beach Fossils
33. “The Fall” – Teenage Fanclub
34. “Walcott” – Robert Forster
35. “Just Enough” – Julian Lynch
36. “In My Younger Days” - Eels
37. “New York Is Killing Me” – Gil Scott-Heron
38. “Albatross” – Besnard Lakes
39. “Window Seat” – Erykah Badu
40. “Sprawl II” (Mountains Beyond Mountains) – Arcade Fire

BEST BASSLINE:

• “Who Makes Your Money” – Spoon

WORST ALBUM TITLES:

• InDRUpendence Day – Dru Hill
• Y Not – Ringo Starr

NEWLY DISCOVERED:

• The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories – Felt (1984)

Rick Sieber's 2009 List

TOP 10 ALBUMS

1. Two Dancers – Wild Beasts
2. Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
3. Logos – Atlas Sound
4. Jewellery – Micachu & the Shapes
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Embryonic – Flaming Lips
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
8. Nowhere Forever – Love of Diagrams
9. Actor – St. Vincent
10. Primary Colours – The Horrors

Bubbling Under:

• Mister Pop – The Clean
• Bonfires on the Heath – The Clientele
• Get Guilty – A.C. Newman
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
• Watch Me Fall – Jay Reatard

TOP 40 TRACKS

1. “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors
2. “Quick Canal” – Atlas Sound (featuring Laetitia Sadier)
3. “Marrow” – St. Vincent”
4. “Stillness is the Move” – Dirty Projectors
5. “Summertime Clothes” – Animal Collective
6. “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” – Morrissey
7. “The Fun Powder Plot” – Wild Beasts
8. “Daniel” – Bat for Lashes
9. “Golden Phone” – Micachu & the Shapes
10. “Wounded” – Jay Reatard
11. “Knotty Pine” – David Byrne & Dirty Projectors
12. “Black Hearted Love” – PJ Harvey & Jon Parish
13. “Disappearing Ink” – Deerhunter
14. “Young Adult Friction” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
15. “All the King’s Men” – Wild Beasts
16. “Who Can Say” – The Horrors
17. “Got Nuffin” – Spoon
18. “Antenna” – Sonic Youth
19. “Zero” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
20. “Everyone’s At It” – Lily Allen
21. “Lisztomania” – Phoenix
22. “Forever” – Love of Diagrams
23. “Once We Walked in the Sunlight” – Papercuts
24. “Friend to Many” – David Kilgour & Sam Hunt
25. “No You Girls” – Franz Ferdinand
26. “Prison Girls” – Neko Case
27. “In the Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul” – The Clean
28. “That Damned Fly” – Future of the Left
29. “City Lights (Days Go By)” – Bob Mould
30. “Hey, Snow White” – New Pornographers
31. “Lust for Life” – Girls
32. “Journal for Plague Lovers” – Manic Street Preachers
33. “Famous Last Words” – Deerhunter
34. “Come Saturday” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
35. “Bull Black Nova” – Wilco
36. “Evil” – Flaming Lips
37. “Static Information” – Love of Diagrams
38. “Save Me From What I Want” – St. Vincent
39. “Two Lines” – The Bats
40. “Red Oak Way” – Lotus Plaza

BEST BASSLINE: “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors

WORST ALBUM TITLE (Tie):

• Abnormally Attracted to Sin – Tori Amos
• Sacred, Profane, & Sugarcane – Elvis Costello

Vinay Kini's 2010 List

2010 ALBUMS – [best song]
A-trak – dirty south dance 2 [we don’t want no goblins]
Darkstar – north [under one roof]
Four Tet – there is love in you [plastic people]
Das Racist – sit down, man [all tan everything]
Pantha du Prince – black noise [lay in a shimmer]
Drake – thank me later [unforgettable]
Big Boi – sir lucious left foot [daddy fat sax]
Janelle Monae – the archandroid [tightrope]
Caribou – swim [odessa]
Kanye West – my beautiful dark twisted fantasy [power]

SINGLES
Scuba – lights out
Matthew Dear – black city
Curren$y – the day
How to Dress Well – lover’s start
Mark Ronson – bang bang bang
Jay Electronica – exhibit c
James Blake – CMYK
James Blake – I only know (what I know now)
Lindstrom and Christabelle – lovesick
Crystal castles ft. Robert Smith – not in love
Arcade Fire – ready to start
Blockhead – tricky turtle
LCD Soundsystem – I can change
Gold Panda – same dream china
The XX – VCR (four tet remix)
Wiz Khalifa – mezmorized
Superpitcher – black magic
The National – England
Shabazz Palaces – kill white T
Ramadanman – don’t change for me
Salem – king night

Matt Wiens' 2010 List

ALBUMS 2010
Halcyon Digest – Deerhunter : Helicopter
Pigeons – Here We Go Magic : Land Of Feeling
The Wild Hunt – The Tallest Man On Earth : The Wild Hunt
Lisbon – The Walkmen : Juveniles
Becoming A Jackal – Villagers : I Saw The Dead
Forget – Twin Shadow : Castles In The Snow
Astro Coast – Surfer Blood : Floating Vibes
The Suburbs – Arcade Fire : We Used To Wait
Innerspeaker – Tame Impala : It Is Not Meant To Be
Contra – Vampire Weekend : I Think UR A Contra
King Of The Beach – Wavves : Post Acid
Teen Dream – Beach House : Lover Of Mine

SONGS
Better Things To Do – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
The Last Prom On Earth – Gayngs
Daddy Fat Sax – Big Boi
Alesund – Sun Kil Moon
Promises – The Morning Benders
Our Deal – Best Coast
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
ONE – Yeasayer
July Flame – Laura Veirs
Everlasting Light – The Black Keys
Sweetest Kill – Broken Social Scene

RECENTLY DISCOVERED
Touched – Ken Stringfellow (2001)

D. Lucas Landis' 2010 List

Here are my favorites for the Year 2010. Choosing the top 10 was relatively easy this year. I didn't find many albums that pressed for top of the list credentials, but the ones I did like, I really liked. In terms of songs, most of the ones I picked came from albums that I really liked. I toyed with placing Katy Perry on the list, but remembered that her singles wore thin after the second listen.

Without further ado, here's the lists:

Albums:

10. Swim - Caribou

9. Black Noise - Pantha Du Prince

8. Sir Lucious Left Foot...The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi

7. Love Remains - How to Dress Well

6. White Magic - CEO

5. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter

4. Treats - Sleigh Bells

3. Astrocoast - Surfer Blood

2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

The Rest of the Best:

11. IRM - Charlotte Gainsbourg

12. The Lady Killer - Cee Lo Green

13. Teen Dream - Beach House

14. Contra - Vampire Weekend

15. Body Talk Pt. 1 - Robyn

16. The Archandroid - Janelle Monae

17. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives

18. Innerspeaker - Tame Impala

Songs (In no Particular Order):

All of the Lights – Kanye West

We Used to Wait – Arcade Fire

Follow Us – Big Boi

Round and Round – Ariel’s Pink Haunted Graffiti

Bright Lights Bigger City – Cee Lo Green

Dissolve – Chemical Brothers

Coronado – Deerhunter

Young Aren’t You – The Hundred in the Hand

Tightrope – Janelle Monae

Runaway Love – Kanye West

Bang Bang Bang – Mark Ronson

Paradise Circus – Massive Attack

Little Lion Man – Mumford and Sons

Kids – Sleigh Bells

Who Makes Your Money – Spoon

Floating Vibes – Surfer Blood

Northwestern Skies – Tired Pony

Horchata – Vampire Weekend

Wide Eyes – Local Natives

Acapella – Kellis

Ready for the World – How to Dress Well

Sentimental X's - Broken Social Scene

Rude Boy - Rihanna

Megan Ramer's Decade End Lists

From Megan,

"It's late, and it's long, and it's probably one of the least interesting entries, but for the record, here it is......."

25 Artists Of Megan's Decade, incl. favorite album & track(s):

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Skinny Love)
Eastmountainsouth - Eastmountainsouth (Hard Times; So Are You To Me)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Do You Realize??)
The Long Winters - When I Pretend To Fall (Blue Diamonds; Cinnamon)
Low - Things We Lost In the Fire (Sunflower)
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (Kick, Push; Daydreamin', with Jill Scott)
*The New Pornographers - Challengers (Myriad Harbour; Adventures In Solitude)
Moby - Hotel (Spiders)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (The World At Large)
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (A Place Called Home; The Mess We're In, with Thom Yorke)
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (Amsterdam)
The Postal Service - Give Up (Such Great Heights)
R.E.M. - Accelerate (Hollow Man)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (Nude)
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (Fidelity; Better)
She & Him - Volume One (Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?)
Sigur Ros - () (Untitled #4, a.k.a. Njosnavelin)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Killing The Blues)
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (Time Left For Love)
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise (Casimir Pulaski Day; Chicago)
The Swimmers - People Are Soft (A Hundred Hearts; Save Me (From The Brightness))
**Tegan & Sara - So Jealous (You Wouldn't Like Me; I Know I Know I Know)
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (Elevation)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (M79)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Pot Kettle Black)

*most difficult to identify favorite anything - solid anyway, anyhow, anywhere - my favorite artist of the decade
**most difficult to identify favorite tracks - equally solid from start to finish

3 Soundtracks of Megan's Decade:

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Interference - Once
Various - Garden State
Various - O Brother, Where Art Thou?

50 (Additional) Singles of Megan's Decade:

Alexi Murdoch (Orange Sky)
Beck (E-Pro)
Beck (Lost Cause)
Belle & Sebastian (Funny Little Frog)
Beyonce (Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It))
Bishop Allen (Clementines)
Bishop Allen (The Same Fire)
Bjork, with Thom Yorke (I've Seen It All)
The Blind Boys of Alabama (I Shall Not Walk Alone)
Bright Eyes (Land Locked Blues)
Britney Spears (Circus)
Califone (The Orchids)
Caribou (Eli)
Cat Power (Living Proof)
The Clientele (The Violet Hour)
Eddie Vedder (Hard Sun)
Elivs Perkins In Dearland (Shampoo)
Feist (1 2 3 4)
Frou Frou (It's Good To Be In Love)
Gnarls Barkley (Crazy)
Imogean Heap (Hide and Seek)
India Arie (The Heart Of The Matter)
Iron & Wine (Woman King)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter (Doralee)
Kings Of Convenience (Cayman Islands)
MGMT (Time to Pretend)
M.I.A. (Paper Planes)
M. Ward (Chinese Translation)
Madonna (Don't Tell Me)
The Minus 5 (Days of Wine & Booze)
My Morning Jacket (Knot Comes Loose)
Neko Case (Things That Scare Me)
The New Pornographers (The Laws Have Changed)
Nikka Costa (Everybody Got Their Something)
Old 97's (Designs On You)
Old 97's (Question)
OutKast (Hey Ya!)
Pink (So What)
R.E.M. (Imitation Of Life)
Rachel Ries (Our Summertime)
Rachel Ries (Unkind)
The Raconteurs (Steady As She Goes)
Rhett Miller, with Rachael Yamagata (Fireflies)
Sia (Breathe Me)
T.I., with Rihanna (Live Your Life)
The Twilight Sad (Walking For Two Hours)
Voxtrot (The Start Of Something)
Wilco (Handshake Drugs)
The Wrens (Hopeless)
Yo La Tengo (Black Flowers)

Janneken Smucker Decade End Songs

1. Paper Planes, MIA
2. I’m the Man Who Loves You, Wilco
3. Crazy in Love, Beyonce
4. House of Cards, Radiohead
5. The Way We Get By, Spoon
6. Time to Pretend, MGMT
7. Chicago, Sufjan Stevens
8. Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots, Flaming Lips
9. Dard-e-Disco, from the soundtrack to Om Shanti Om,
10. North American Scum, LCD Soundsystem
11. Single Ladies, Beyonce
12. No Cars Go, Arcade Fire
13. Gold Digger, Kanye West
14. Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken, Camera Obscura
15. You Know I’m No Good, Amy Winehouse
16. Give It, X-Press 2, featuring Kurt Wagner
17. Seven Nation Army, White Stripes
18. 1234, Feist
19. Hey Ya, Outkast
20. Milkshake, Kelis
21. M79, Vampire Weekend
22. This Mess We’re In, PJ Harvey featuring Thom Yorke
23. Season of the Shark, Yo la Tengo
24. Rehab, Amy Winehouse
25. This Town, Rufus Wainwright
26. American Boy, Estelle
27. I’ve Seen it All, Bjork with Thom Yorke
28. Spiders (Kidsmoke), Wilco
29. Oxford Comma, Vampire Weekend
30. Playground Love, Air
31. California, Rufus Wainwright
32. Young Folks, PB&J
33. New Slang, The Shins
34. Lost Cause, Beck
35. Don’t Make Me a Target, Spoon
36. Kings, Bitter Bitter Weeks
37. Myriad Harbor, New Pornographers
38. Ms. Jackson, Outkast
39. Tiger Phone Card, Dengue Fever
40. Up With People, Lambchop
41. Miss You Much, Lykke Li
42. Do You Realize?, Flaming Lips
43. Portland, Oregon, Loretta Lynn featuring Jack White
44. In the New Year, The Walkmen
45. Jump, N.E.R.D.
46. Float On, Modest Mouse
47. Cherry Chapstick, Yo la Tengo
48. We Float, P.J. Harvey
49. Come On Feel the Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens
50. Last Night, The Strokes
51. Sing Me Spanish Techno, New Pornographers
52. Touch the Sky, Kanye West
53. Suspended from Class, Camera Obscura
54. Falling Slowly, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
55. Night Nurse, Britta and Dean
56. California, Phantom Planet
57. Everything in its Right Place, Radiohead
58. Caroline and I, The Go-Betweens
59. Telephone, The Stratford Four
60. Australia, The Shins
61. Feel Good Inc., Gorillaz

Janneken Smucker Year End

Best Songs of the Year:


1. Lust for Life, Girls
2. Save Me, St. Vincent
3. Knotty Pine, David Byrne with Dirty Projectors
4. Stillness is the Move, Dirty Projectors
5. Young Adult Friction, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Quick Canal, Atlas Sound featuring Laetitia Sadier
7. Zero, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Lisztomania, Phoenix
9. Two Weeks, Grizzly Bear
10. Summertime Clothes, Animal Collective
11. The Fear, Lily Allen
12. Warm Heart of Africa, The Very Best featuring Ezra Koenig


Best Albums of the Year:

1. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
2. St. Vincent, Actor
3. Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pains of Being Pure at Heart
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s Blitz
5. The Swimmers, People Are Soft
6. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimist
7. Girls, Album
8. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
10. Various Artists, Dark Was the Night

Amber Friesen (Year End & Decade)

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2009 albums
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1. Riceboy Sleeps -- Jonsi & Alex
2. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
3. Middle Cyclone -- Neko Case
4. The XX - XX
5. Lungs – Florence + The Machine
6. My Maudlin Career – Camera Obscura
7. Walking on a Dream – Empire of the Sun
8. Beacons -- Ohbijou
9. Two Suns -- Bat for Lashes
10. Found Songs -- Olafur Arnalds

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2009 Songs
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1. 24-25 – Kings of Convenience
2. My Girls – Animal Collective
3. Foreground – Grizzly Bear
4. Cosmic Love – Florence + The Machine
5. Sabali – Amadou & Mariam
6. Moths Wings – Passion Pit
7. Tightrope – Yeasear
8. Last Dance – The Ravonettes
9. 1901 – Pheonix
10. Shampoo – Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johanson

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Most (personally) influential musicians of the decade (with favorite
album noted)
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1. Sigur Ros ("Takk...")
2. Kings of Convenience ("Riot on an Empty Street")
3. The Shins ("Wincing the Night Away")
4. Neko Case ("Fox Confessor Brings the Flood")
5. Iron & Wine ("Our Endless Numbered Days")
6. The New Pornographers ("Challengers")
7. Jose Gonzalez ("Veneer")
8. Radiohead ("In Rainbows")
9. Arcade Fire ("Funeral")
10. The Postal Service ("Give Up")

Vinay Kini 2009 List

2009 albums (best song in parenthesis)

dj/rupture and matt shadetek - solar life raft (shield dub)
raekwon - only built for cuban linx II (10 bricks)
fever ray - fever ray (if i had a heart)
the xx - xx (crystalized)
zomby - where were u in '92 (euphoria)
mos def - the ecstatic (auditorium)
bat for lashes - two suns (daniel)
fuck buttons - tarot sport (olympians)
the horrors - primary colours (i can't control myself)
dm stith - heavy ghost (pity dance)
aether - artifacts (caparra)

2009 songs (not listed above)

burial & four tet – moth
junior boys – parallel lines
the thermals – when we were alive
the-dream – rockin that shit (rap remix)
the crocodiles – soft skull (in my room)
major lazer – keep it goin louder
dj mujava – township funk (radioclit remix)
darkstar – aidy’s girl’s a computer
jon hopkins – vessel
tanya morgan – alleye need
japandroids – young hearts spark fire
future of the left – arming Eritrea
moderat – rusty nails
health – die slow
bear in heaven – lovesick teenagers
joker - digidesign

D. Lucas Landis Year-End Lists

Albums of the Year

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
3. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
4. Discovery - LP
5. Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - It's Blitz
6. Real Estate - Real Estate
7. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
8. Passion Pit - Manners
9. Atlas Sound - Logos
10. The xx - The xx

Songs (In no particular Order)

Empire Of The Sun - Walking on A Dream
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Girls - Lust For Life
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Andrew Bird - Fitz and Dizzyspells
Atlas Sound - Walkabout
Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
Discovery - So Insane
Handsome Furs - Evangaline
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Late of The Pier - Space and the Woods
Matt and Kim - Daylight
Muse - Uprising
Neon - Deadbeat Summer
Passion Pit - Moths wings
Phoenix - 1901
Pictureplane - Goth Star
Raekwon - 10 Bricks
Sleigh Bells - Crown on the Ground
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
White Rabbits - Lionesse
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Zero
Cass McCombs - You Saved My Life
Dirty Projectors - Two Doves
Kurt Vile - Freeway
Memory Tapes - Bicycle
MSTKRFT - 1000 Cigarettes
Trus'Me - Can We Pretend
The xx - Intro

Matt Wiens

ALBUMS

J. Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues ("Firstborn")
The Fleet Fox drummer released two folk albums this year–the other, Year In The Kingdom, is also good.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amedeus Phoenix ("1901")

Fanfarlo - Reservoir ("Harold T. Wilkins")
Like Arcade Fire but hookier and not so depressing all the time.

Roman Candle - Oh Tall Tree In The Ear ("Why Modern Radio Is A-Ok")
A present-day Whiskeytown from Chapel Hill, NC.

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca ("Ascending Melody" - from Temecula Sunrise EP)
Brooklyn, represent.

Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali ("Djama")
Absolutely solid through all 16 tracks.

Discovery - LP ("Carby")
I don't seem to get tired of this album.

Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery ("Golden Phone")
Not an easy listen, yet extremely catchy. See also tUnE-yArDs.

White Denim - Fits ("Say What You Want")
Unpredictable Texas garage-rock.

St. Vincent - Actor ("Marrow")
Brooklyn, represent.

Real Estate - Real Estate ("Fake Blues")
New Jersey band with a great, mellow vibe.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest ("While You Wait For The Others")
Brooklyn, represent.

SONGS

Brendan Benson - "A Whole Lot Better"
Julian Casablancas - "Glass"
Surfer Blood - "Swim" (whole album is good, too)
The Low Anthem - "Charlie Darwin"
Mos Def - "Twilite Speedball"
The-Dream - "Put It Down" (key lyric: I'm all up on you / like a monster truck...)
Animal Collective - "Brother Sport" (Brooklyn, represent)
A.A. Bondy - "When The Devil's Loose" (like good Ryan Adams)
Andrew Bird - "Fitz & Dizzyspells"

DECADE ALBUMS

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
Radiohead - Kid A
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Strokes - Is This It
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Janneken Smucker

Janneken has also gone above and beyond. Below are her favorites in Motion Pictures, Television and Music.

Best Albums of the Decade


1. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend (2008)
2. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
3. Sufjan Stevens, Come on Feel the Illinoise (2005)
4. Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
5. Spoon, Kill the Moonlight (2002)
6. Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (2007)
7. Kanye West, Late Registration (2005)
8. M.I.A., Kala (2007)
9. Outkast, Stankonia (2000)
10. Radiohead, In Rainbows (2007)
11. Beck, Sea Change (2002)
12. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver (2007)
13. PJ Harvey, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
14. The Shins, Chutes too Narrow (2003)
15. Dengue Fever, Venus on Earth (2008)
16. Amy Winehouse, Back in Black (2006)
17. Rufus Wainwright, Poses (2001)
18. Camera Obscura, Let’s Get Out of the Country (2006)
19. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes (2008)
20. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)

Best Movies of the Decade


1. Lost in Translation (2003)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
4. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
5. No Country for Old Men (2007)
6. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007)
8. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
9. In the Mood For Love (2000)
10. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
11. Zodiac (2007)
12. Om Shanti Om (2007)
13. The Departed (2006)
14. Little Children (2006)
15. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
16. High Fidelity (2000)
17. Traffic (2000)
18. Once (2007)
19. Monsoon Wedding (2002)
20. Old Joy (2005)

Best Television Programs of the Decade



1. The Wire (2002-2008)
2. Arrested Development (2003-2006)
3. The Daily Show with John Stewart (1999-present)
4. The West Wing (1999-2006)
5. Friends (1994-2004)
6. Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)
7. Mad Men (2007-present)
8. 30 Rock (2006-present)
9. Lost (2004-present)
10. Project Runway (2004-present)
11. Friday Night Lights (2006-present)
12. Sex and the City (1998-2004)
13. The Office (BBC version, 2002-2003)
14. Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)
15. Dr Who (2005-present)
16. Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
17. Extras (2005-2007)
18. Big Love (2006-present)
19. Weeds (2005-present)
20. Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-present)

Vinay Kini

hey, here's my decade list. couldn't trim it any shorter than 13.

radiohead - kid a
cannibal ox - the cold vein
luomo - vocalcity
interpol - turn on the bright lights
ghostface killah - fishscale
kanye west - late registration
beck - sea change
sufjan stevens - come on feel the illinois
the faint - danse macabre
lil wayne - da drought 3
arcade fire - funeral
gorillaz - gorillaz
ugk - underground kingz

Lucas Landis Albums of the Decade

I reserve the right to make tweaks to this list prior to the end of the decade, however, the list below will not substantially change and can be interpreted as my sincere favorites of the 00's. The list is a little boring and predictable:

1. Kid A - Radiohead
2. Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
3. M.I.A. - Arular
4. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
5. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
6. Beck - Sea Change
7. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
8. Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
9. Postal Service - Give Up
10. Daft Punk - Discovery

Best of the Rest: U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind, Shins - Chutes Too Narrow, Outkast - Stankonia, Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast, MGMT - Oracular Spectacular, Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary, Sufjan Stevens - Illinois, Jay-Z - The Black Album, The Avalanches - Since I Left You.

Ryan M. Osborne's Albums of the Decade

Albums of the Decade

"In Rainbows" -- Radiohead
"A Ghost is Born" -- Wilco
"Give Up" -- The Postal Service
"Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" -- Spoon
"Heartbreaker" -- Ryan Adams
"Simple Things" -- Zero 7
"In Ghost Colours" -- Cut Copy
"The College Dropout" -- Kanye West
"Kill the Moonlight" -- Spoon

Ryan M. Osborne 100 Songs of the Decade

Going above and beyond the call of duty, Ryan has submitted for our reading pleasure his top 100 songs of the Decade.

1. Gorillaz -- "Feel Good Inc."
2. R. Kelly -- "Ignition (Remix)"
3. Usher -- "Burn"
4. Gnarls Barkley -- "Crazy"
5. Spoon -- "Black Like Me" "Finer Feelings"
6. Dizzee Rascal -- "Dance Wiv Me"
7. M.I.A. -- "Paper Planes"
8. The Game [ft. 50 Cent] -- "Hate It or Love It"
9. Justin Timberlake -- "Cry Me a River"
10. The Postal Service -- "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight"
11. Ryan Adams -- "My Winding Wheel"
12. Robyn -- "With Every Heartbeat" "Dream On"
13. Beyoncé -- "Irreplaceable"
14. Kelis -- "Bossy" "Lil Star" "Living Proof"
15. Sufjan Stevens -- "Chicago" "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!"
16. MGMT -- "Time to Pretend"
17. Lupe Fiasco -- "Kick Push"
18. Enrique Iglesias - "Escape"
19. Rihanna -- "S.O.S."
20. Spoon -- "I Summon You"
21. Feist -- "Inside and Out"
22. Gwen Steffani -- "Sweet Escape"
23. Kanye West -- "Heard 'Em Say"
24. Junior Boys [ft. Andi Toma] -- "In the Morning"
25. Spoon -- "The Way We Get By"
26. Cut Copy -- "Hearts on Fire"
27. Wilco -- "At Least That's What You Said"
28. U2 -- "Walk On"
29. Justin Timberlake -- "Rock Your Body"
30. Coldplay -- "Shiver" "Sparks" "Trouble" "Shiver"
31. Death Cab for Cutie -- "A Movie Script Ending"
32. Ringside -- "Tired of Being Sorry"
33. Junior Senior -- "Move Your Feet"
34. Beyonce [ft. Jay-Z] -- "Crazy in Love"
35. Patty Griffin -- "Rain"
36. Stars -- "14 Forever"
37. Beck -- "Lost Cause"
38. R. Kelly -- "Trapped in the Closet"
39. Sugababes -- "Push the Button"
40. Westside Connection -- "Gangsta Nation"
41. The Avalanches -- "Since I Left You"
42. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z – “Umbrella”
43. Röyksopp -- "Royksopp's Night Out"
44. Iron & Wine -- "Sodom, South Georgia"
45. Radiohead -- "House of Cards"
46. Madonna -- "Don't Tell Me" " Like it or Not"
47. Travis -- "Sing"
48. Kylie Minogue -- "Cant Get You Out of My Head"
49. Justin Timberlake [ft. T.I.] -- "My Love"
50. The Streets -- "Dry Your Eyes"
51. Camera Obscura -- "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken"
52. The Arctic Monkeys -- "Fluorescent Adolescent"
53. Alphabeat -- "10,000 Nights"
54. Goldfrapp -- "A&E"
55. Alicia Keys -- "You Don't Know My Name"
56. Damien Rice -- "Blower's Daughter"
57. No Doubt -- "Running"
58. Nelly Furtado -- "Say it Right"
59. Kelly Clarkson -- "Breakaway"
60. Usher [ft. Young Jeezy] -- "Love in This Club"
61. T.I.-- "Why You Wanna" "Big S*** Poppin"
62. Juanes -- "La Camisa Negra"
63. Phoenix -- "Lisztomania"
64. Robbie Williams -- "Tripping"
65. Alicia Keys - "If I Ain't Got You"
66. Feist -- "Mushaboom"
67. Sade -- "By Your Side"
68. Jimmy Lafave -- "How it Must Remain"
69. Old Crow Medicine Show -- "Wagon Wheel"
70. Elbow -- "One Day Like This" "Weather to Fly"
71. Girls Aloud -- "The Promise"
72. Sia -- "Breathe Me"
73. The Roots – "Don't Feel Right"
74. Leona Lewis -- "Bleeding Love"
75. Pussycat Dolls -- "Don't Cha"
76. Faithless – “Music Matters”
77. T2 -- "Heartbroken"
78. Common -- "The Light"
79. Sophie Ellis-Bextor -- "Murder on the Dancefloor"
80. New Pornographers -- “My Rights Versus Yours”
81. Jose Gonzalez -- "Hand On Your Heart"
82. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss -- “Please Read the Letter”
83. Natasha Bedingfield - "These Words"
84. The xx -- "Intro" "Heart Skipped a Beat"
85. Ryan Adams -- "New York, New York"
86. Frankie J featuring Baby Bash -- "Obsession (No Es Amor)"
87. Gwen Stefani -- "Cool"
88. Slade Cleaves -- "Broke Down"
89. Scissor Sisters -- "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"
90. Peter Bjorn and John [ft. Victoria Bergsman] -- "Young Folks"
91. Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson - "The Way I Are"
92. Amy Winehouse -- "Tears Dry on Their Own"
93. Lady GaGa -- "Poker Face"
94. Lupe Fiasco -- "Superstar"
95. Raheem DeVaughn -- "Four Letter Word"
96. Chris Brown -- "Forever"
97. Mariah Carey -- "We Belong Together"
98. Akon -- "I Wanna Love You" "Locked Up"
99. Nelly & Kelly Rowland -- "Dilemma"
100. Yo La Tengo -- "The Weakest Part"

P. Michael Freed's Decade End List

Instead of obsessing about this for the rest of the month (or beyond), I decided to simply go with my immediate reaction. No real surprises. Of course, I can and will alter this numerous times.

My Favorite Albums of the Decade:

1. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out - Yo La Tengo

2. Kid A - Radiohead

3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

4. In Rainbows - Radiohead

5. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins

6. For Emma - Bon Iver

7. Stankonia - Outkast

8. GaGaGa - Spoon

9. Twin Cinema - The New Pornogrpahers

10. Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine