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PreludesNocturnes' Top 50 of the decade
I'm not listening to anything new today, which makes this official:
1 The National - Boxer
2 Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
3 The Weakerthans - Left & Leaving
4 The Postal Service - Give Up
5 Arcade Fire - Funeral
6 Why? - Alopecia
7 Thursday - Full Collapse
8 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9 Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
10 Radiohead - Kid A
11 Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
12 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
13 Saul Williams - Saul Williams
14 Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
15 Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
16 Burial - Untrue
17 Jamie T - Panic Prevention
18 Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
19 Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
20 Tom Waits - Alice
21 Ella Guru - The First Album
22 Million Dead - Harmony No Harmony
23 Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
24 Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
25 Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
26 At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
27 Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
28 White Stripes - White Blood Cells
29 The Decemberists - Picaresque
30 Brand New - Deja Entendu
31 Blink 182 - Enema of the State
32 Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
33 Bear vs. Shark - Terrahawk
34 Battles - Mirrored
35 Pelican - City of Echoes
36 iLiKETRAiNS - Elegies to Lessons Learnt
37 Favours For Sailors - Furious Sons
38 Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
39 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
40 Queens of the Stoneage - Songs for the Deaf
41 Constantines - Constantines
42 Mastodon - Leviathan
43 Stars Of The Lid - ... And Their Refinement Of The Decline
44 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
45 2ManyDJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 2
46 M83 - Saturdays=Youth
47 Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
48 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
49 Prefuse 73 - Preparations
50 The Spinto Band - Nice & Nicely Done
Honourable Mentions: Guillemots, The Knife, Los Campesinos!, Earth, Two Gallants, Black Kids, Six Organs of Admittance, A Place to Bury Strangers, Boris, Mclusky, Do Make Say Think, Mogwai, Sunn O))) Fuck Buttons, Fleet Foxes, Willy Mason, Spank Rock, The Fall of Troy, Comets On Fire, Joan of Arc, The Streets, Jurassic 5, Eels, Idlewild and The Ataris.