A Decade of Music

Following the trend, and after much scouring of my iTunes,
I've put together a list of all my favorite albums from the last ten years.

1. bright eyes - i'm wide awake, its morning


2. sufjan stevens - come on feel the illinoise

3. bon iver - for emma, forever ago

4. jack's mannequin - everything in transit

5. death cab for cutie - transatlanticism

6. iron and wine - our endless numbered days

7. rocky votolato - makers

8. mewithoutyou - brother, sister

9. sweeney todd - revival cast

10. something corporate - north

11. coldplay - x&y

12. the rescues - crazy ever after

13. death cab for cutie - the photo album

14. john mayer - where the light is

15. radiohead - kid a

16. relient k - mmhmm

17. death cab for cutie - plans

18. keith urban - be here

19. the shins - chutes too narrow

20. the rocket summer - do you feel

21. jon mclaughlin - indiana

22. radiohead - in rainbows

23. john mayer - continuum

24. underoath - they're only chasing safety

25. coldplay - a rush of blood to the head


26. the postal service - give up

27. vampire weekend - self-titled

28. son lux - at war with walls and mazes

29. rachael yamagata - happenstance

30. neko case - middle cyclone


31. the album leaf - in a safe place

33. switchfoot - the beautiful letdown

33. beck - guero

34. kanye west - graduation

35. the fray - how to save a life


36. joshua radin - we were here

37. sigur ros - Hvarf/Heim

38. passion worship band - how great is our god

39. olafur arnalds - eulogy for evolution

40. michael buble - it's time


41. taking back sunday - tell all your friends

42. five for fighting - the battle for everything

43. jack johnson - in between dreams

44. sondre lerche - dan in real life

45. zero 7 - when it falls


46. maroon 5 - songs about jane

47. fun. - aim and ignite

48. brett dennen - so much more

49. wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot

50. coldplay - parachutes



Honorable Mentions:

josh ritter, ingrid michaelson, rilo kiley, girl talk, & the format


as well as other works by:

sigur ros, the shins, iron and wine, coldplay, beck,

taking back sunday, relient k, mewithoutyou, neko & soco



2 comments:

Lisa Russell said...

What? No NSYNC?? Surely you loved "bye, bye, bye". Wasn't that within the last decade? ;-) I must agree with the Keith Urban CD, but move it up to #1.

soxfan59 said...

I am actually proud of the fact that I know of the existence of three or four of the artists listed, and have heard the music of one or two.