My Top Ten Albums of the Last Decade: - Page 2

great taste

my picks in no order:
The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones
Madvillainy - Madvillain
Bath - maudlin of the Well
Program Music 1 - Kashiwa Daisuke
Choirs of the Eye - Kayo Dot
Frances the Mute - Mars Volta
Curtains - John Frusciante
What We Must - Jaga Jazzist
Blue Sky Black Death - The Holocaust (if you like madvillain get this album, amazing)
Donuts - J Dilla

I recently did my top 50 rock albums of the decade, which isn't exactly what this thread is but at least I can just cut and paste this as opposed to spending a month mulling over just 10 from the last decade:

A.A. Bondy - American Hearts
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Beck - Sea Change
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
The Edison Project - Do You Remember Rock and Roll?
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Gomez - Liquid Skin
Gomez - Split the Difference
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In the House - Menace
The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
Jet - Get Born
Joe Purdy - Paris In the Morning
Kasabian - Kasabian
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Ocean Colour Scene - North Atlantic Drift
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Old 97’s - Satellite Rides
People In Planes - As Far As the Eye Can See
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Rooney - Rooney
Ryan Adams - Hearbreaker
The Shaun Piazza Band - The Shaun Piazza Band
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
The Strokes - Is This It?
Travis - The Man Who
The Waxwings - Low To the Ground
The Whigs - Give ‘Em All a Big Fat Lip
The White Stripes - Elephant
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Mono - Under the Pipal Tree
Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
Feist - Let it Die
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Massive Attack - 100th Window
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Sigur Ros - ()

Here's mine, in no particular order. Basically the ones that i've listened to a lot over the past 10 years.

Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
Immolation - Close To A World Below
Agalloch - The Mantle
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Gorod - Leading Vision
Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh

Devin Townsend - Terria
Tool - Lateralus
Porcupine tree - In Absentia
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
King Crimson - The Power to Believe
Planet X - Moonbabies
Spock's Beard - V
Frank Gambale - Raison D'etre
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Gavin Harrison and 05ric - Drop

These albums jump out at me as being pretty special.

Radiohead - Kid A
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Mos Def - The Estatic
Radiohead- I Might Be Wrong
Sígur Rós - Takk....
Portishead- Third
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
The Sound Providers - An Evening With The Sound Providers
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

Hmm, I didn't realise how many albums I liked were from 1995-2000... Endtroducing, Black On Both Sides, Music Has The Right To Children...

Tool - La Te Ra Lus
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the yard
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Isis - Oceanic
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines

probably others, can't think of any more atm.

I do like these lists as they are good for discovering new music.
In no specific order

T-bone Burnett- The True False Identity
Rickie Lee Jones- Sermon on Exposition Blvd.
Damien Rice-9
The Decemberists- Hazards Of Love
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Doves- Last Broadcast
The Fireman- Electric Arguments
Herbie Hancock-River:The Joni Letters
Interpol- Turn On The Bright Lights
Lcd Soundsystem- Lcd Soundsystem

The Ten (in no order):
Brian Wilson - Smile
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The Flaming Lips - yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Green Day - American Idiot
Radiohead - Kid A
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Honorable Mentions:
Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & DJ HI Tek) - Train of Thought
the Strokes - Is this It?
RjD2 - Deadringer
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore
The Clash - From Here to Infinity (do live albums from the 70s count?)
White Stripes - pretty much everything

More than 10, and no particular order.

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming, Random Spirit Lover, Dragonslayer
my little airport - the ok thing to do on sunday afternoon is to toddle in the zoo
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Beck - Sea Change
Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Elf Fatima - Elf Fatima
The Horrors - Primary Colours

This one goes to eleven:

Om-Variations on a Theme
Radiohead- Kid A
Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Show your Bones
Queens of the Stone age- Songs for the Deaf
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots
Animal Collective-Merriweather Post Pavilion
Girl Talk- Feed the Animals
Kanye West- Graduation
The Strokes- Is this It?
Beck-Sea Change

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Strokes - Is this it?
The Shins - Oh Inverted World
Sun Kil Moon - April
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Radiohead - Kid A
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Spinvis - Spinvis
PJ Harvey - Stories from the city, Stories from the sea

Radiohead - Kid A
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Tool - Lateralus
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
ISIS - Oceanic, Panopticon
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Oceansize - Effloresce
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance, Vheissu, Beggars
Amplifier - Amplifier
mewithoutYou - Catch for us the Foxes; Brother, Sister
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Nick and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

I tried to cut it down to 10 albums but couldn't. So here's 23

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Boduf Songs - When Shadows Chase the Balance
Beck - Seachange
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
The Necks - Aether
Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Buena Vista Social Club - Live at Carnegie Hall

I'm sure there are many more to discover, starting with everyone else's lists...