Favorite Music of the Decade

In the year 2000 ... somehow that was 10 years ago now. Time to wrap up my favorite music of the decade. Well, past time, I didn't make it before New Years or even before the college football season ended.

Top 10 Albums (in no particular order--it was hard enough to get them down to these 10)

The Postal Service -- Give Up: never get tired of hearing it, even in commercials and in covers

Coldplay -- A Rush of Blood to the Head: still think Yellow is kind of stupid, but this one is great

Radiohead -- Kid A: maybe I should have gone with In Rainbows just to give me an album that came out after 2005

Thad Cockrell -- Warmth and Beauty: sentimental favorite

The Shins - -Chutes Too Narrow: saw them in the US and Australia and wore this album out (wait, I guess that doesn't happen with mp3s)

Okkervil River -- Black Sheep Boy: Mon was close enough at the show in Adelaide to get spit on

Ryan Adams -- Heartbreaker: really hard to choose one album, but this one started it for me

Spoon -- Gimme Fiction: pure fun

Roman Candle -- The Wee Hours Review: most shows seen by one band for the same set of songs :)

The Mountain Goats -- The Sunset Tree: beautiful and tragic

Top 5 Albums I'm Buying After Reading Other Lists

Outkast -- Stankonia
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Fever to Tell
The Strokes -- Is This It?
Bon Iver -- For Emma, Forever Ago (I have it, but Laura assures me it's better than we thought)
The White Stripes -- White Blood Cells (love this band, but missed this one)

Mixtape: 2000-2009

I wasn't going to do songs, but Mon challenged me and I've heard some good decade mixes, so I'll try one on the fly:

Arcade Fire -- Wake Up
The Gossip -- Standing in the Way of Control
Ben Folds -- Adelaide
Ben Lee -- Gamble Everything for Love
Loudon Wainwright III -- Daughter
Decoder Ring -- Heidi's Theme
Kanye West -- Golddigger
The Gaslight Anthem -- Miles Davis and the Cool
The Killers -- Somebody Told Me
Maximo Park -- The Coast is Always Changing
The Streets -- Fit But You Know It
Styrofoam -- Front to Back
Z-Trip -- Breakfast Club
Scissor Sisters -- Take Your Momma Out
Jens Lekman -- A Postcard to Nina
Metric -- Gimme Sympathy
El-P -- Up All Night

Half a Dozen Artists I Can't Believe Didn't Get Mentioned Yet

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A Shameless Attempt to Expand My List

Josh Ritter
Wilco
My Morning Jacket
The New Pornographers
Iron and Wine
The Hold Steady