Ok, this was very difficult, I know I’m missing some. I thought initially that I’d try to limit the list to just 20, but I can’t do it. This was a great decade for music. This isn’t in any sort of order.<\/p>\n
Best albums of the decade. 2000 to 2009
\nNew Pornographers – Mass Romantic
\nRogue Wave – Asleep at Heaven’s Gate
\nNada Surf – Let Go
\nRyan Adams – Easy Tiger
\nRyan Adams – Heartbreaker
\nAugie March – Moo, You Bloody Choir
\nFleet Foxes – Ragged Wood
\nFruit Bats – Spelled in Bones
\nMy Morning Jacket – Z
\nShins – Chutes too Narrow
\nNeko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
\nAlberta Cross – The Thief and the Heartbreaker
\nArcade Fire – Neon Bible
\nA Band of Bees – Free the Bees
\nBand of Horses – Everything all the Time
\nBelle & Sebastian – Fold your hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
\nBon Iver – For Emma Forever Ago
\nIron and Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
\nIron and Wine – Sheppard’s Dog
\nBroken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
\nCloud Cult – Advice from the Happy Hippo
\nDeath Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
\nThe Decemberists – Her Majesty the Decemberists
\nDoves – Some Cities
\nElliott Smith – Figure 8
\nAmerican Analog Set – Know By Heart
\nPinback – Summer in Abandon
\nFeist – The Reminder
\nThe Flaming Lips – Yoshimo Battles the Pink Robots
\nGillian Welch – Time the Revelator
\nGuided By Voices – Isolation Drills
\nThe Helio Sequence – Keep Yor Eyes Ahead
\nThe Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
\nHot Snakes – Automatic Midnight
\nJayhawks – Rainy Day Music
\nJohn Vanderslice – Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
\nLiam Finn – I’ll be Lightening
\nThe Long Winters – When I pretend to Fall
\nM. Ward – Transfiguration of Vincent
\nMagnetic Fields – 6 Love Songs
\nMenomena – Friend and Foe
\nMgmt – Octular Spectacular
\nPhoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
\nThe Postal Service – Give Up
\nRadical Face – Ghost
\nRhett Miller – The Instigator
\nRosebuds – The Rosebuds Make Out
\nSoundtrack of Our Lives – Behind the Music
\nSpoon – Kill the Moonlight
\nSparklehorse – It’s a Wonderful Life
\nThe Strokes – Is This It?
\nSuperdrag In the Valley of Dying Stars
\nTegan and Sara – So Jealous
\nTelekinesis – Telekinesis!
\nVerbena – La Musica Negra
\nVic Chesnutt – Is The Actor Happy?
\nWhiskeytown – Pneumonia
\nWilco — Sky Blue Sky
\nWrens – The Meadowlands
\nYo La Tengo – Summer Sun
\nCalifone – Roots and Crowns
\nCalexico\/Iron & Wine – The the Reins
\nCalexico – Feast of Wire
\nNick Lowe – The convincer
\nThe Glands – The Glands
\nOld 97’s – Too Far to Care
\nGorillaz – Demon Days<\/p>\n