Top Albums of the Decade

What are your favorite 10 albums of the last 10 years? I can't answer it right now, but I plan to answer it within the next couple days. The list will come out tomorrow (this has been inspired by Pitchforks top 200 or so albums of the decade) or the next day or the next. I am trying to get this done by soon so I am not influenced adversely by their efforts to impress. The year 2000 (cue Conan OBrien and Andy Richter with flashlights and space helmets) was a long long time ago and I will have to double check dates on some of my favorite records. I do know that Kid A was released in 2000 and that was one fine piece of music.

Please add your favorite albums as we go along.

1. Radiohead-Kid A
I think this might be one of the best albums ever made. That is a huge statement but I stand by it. To me this record is a new definition of what music is. I read in a Chuck Klosterman book (can't remember which one) that if you listen to the first 5 or 6 tracks of this album and picture all the events that took place on 9-11 that it fits in a very eerie kind of way)
2. Interpol-Turn Off The Bright Lights
This album feels like a great winter record to me. NYC is one of my favorite songs and in it has one of my favorite lines comparing the subway to a porno. Their next two albums have been alright, but haven't been able to live up to how good this one is.
3. Wolf Parade-Apologies to the Queen
Its amazing and they have come out with some great albums after this one, but none of them (Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs) have been better. Great songwriting and great sounds.
4. Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
I thought Summerteeth was a great cd. And then Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out and I was pretty much blown away like everyone else. Mainly, because it sounded so different from what they had done in the past.
5. Mountain Goats-Sunset Tree
John Darnielle is one of the top 5 songwriters ever.
6. Arcade Fire-Funeral
There is something kind of spooky about this band and the stuff they do. I can't quite explain it. Laura says they are militant and we both say they are awesome.
7. Band of Horses-Everything All The Time
This record makes me want to vandalize.
8. The Thermals-The Body, The Blood, The Machine
No matter what this band does, nothing can be better than this cd. If you don't have it you should buy it. I think that this is a record that almost everyone will enjoy.
9. Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica
Modest Mouse is one of my favorite bands and this is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Its not their best (The Lonesome Crowded West) but its their best in the 2000's.
10. Bright Eyes-Lifted
This cd feels like a Wes Anderson movie to me. There really isn't another album, that I have heard, that has the kind of feel this one does. Can't really explain it so I won't. If you listen to it you will understand. Its pretty great