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1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (April 23, 2002)

2. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses (May 3, 2005)

3. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (March 23, 2004)

4. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (January 25, 2005)

5. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (February 8, 2005)

6. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (October 4, 2005)

7. Gillian Welch - Soul Journey (June 3, 2003)

8. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (June 22, 2004)

9. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker (September 5, 2000)

10. Damien Rice – O (June 10, 2003)

11. Radiohead - In Rainbows (January 1, 2008)

12. Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun (March 21, 2006)

13. The Little Willies - Self Titled (March 7, 2006)

14. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (March 1, 2005)

15. Elliot Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (October 19, 2004)

16. The Garden State Soundtrack (August 10, 2004)

17. Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest (October 24, 2006)

18. Old 97's - Drag It Up (July 27, 2004)

19. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust (April 26, 2005)

20. KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope (February 7, 2006)

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I'm trying to get a radio show for the Fall semester on the student radio where I have the DJ's on the station come in, play their favorite album of the decade front to back and then have a discussion about it. I think it'd be a really good show.

 

That sounds like a great idea, I know I would listen.

 

As far as a list for the decade? That sounds really, really hard right now. I'm loving everybody's lists so far though.

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Haven't we done this yet?

 

Anyway, again, these albums are to die for:

 

Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin' Kind

Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Always Say Please & Thank You

Jenifer Jackson - Birds

Jill Sobule - Pink Pearl

Amy Allison - Sad Girl

Neko Case - Canadian Amp

Paul Curreri - From Long Gones to Hawkmoth

Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses

Joe Pisapia - Daydreams

Tegan & Sara - If It Was You

Anny Celsi - Little Black Dress & Other Stories

Devon Sproule - Upstate Songs

Julie Doiron - Goodnight, Nobody

Ana Egge - Out Past the Lights

Sam Phillips - A Boot & a Shoe

Rachel Ries - For You Only

Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You

Nina Nastasia - On Leaving

Niobe - White Hats

Kristin Hersh - Learn to Sing like a Star

Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water

Lonely Drifter Karen - Grass Is Singing

Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim

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Yeah, I know that there's still almost half of '09 left, but it is just about time for the "Best of the Decade" lists.

What are some of your (early) contenders?

Some of my contenders:

 

Joe Pisapia - Daydreams

Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus

Webb Brothers - Maroon

Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

Tom Zé - Estuando o Pagode

The Format - Dog Problems

 

Okay, I finally found Daydreams (still tracking down Maroon). I've had it on my mental "to get" list for awhile after seeing you mention it here. I'll let you know what I think.

 

--Mike

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My favorites:

 

White Pepper - ween

Quebec - ween

Feels - AC

Sung Tongs - Ac

Strawberry Jam - AC

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished - AC

Merriweather Post Pavillion - AC

Easy Beat, We All BElong, Fate - DR DOG

YHF

AGIB

()- Sigur

Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur

Takk- Sigur

Round Room - Phish

Farmhouse - Phish

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Okay, I finally found Daydreams (still tracking down Maroon). I've had it on my mental "to get" list for awhile after seeing you mention it here. I'll let you know what I think.

 

--Mike

:rock

 

Curious to hear your thoughts.

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super furry animals - rings around the world / phantom power

lambchop - nixon

wilco - yhf / agib

ween - the mollusk

joanna newsom - ys

animal collective - feels / mpp

bob dylan - love & theft

fiery furnaces - blueberry boat

grandaddy - the software slump / sumday

bonnie prince billy - ease down the road

stephen malkmus - stephen malkmus

panda bear - person pitch

midlake - the trials of van occupanther

 

 

they all came to mind, but i've probably missed a few good ones.

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Off the top of the noggin, a rough list would look like this

 

Southern Rock Opera/Decoration Day/The Dirty South/Brighter Than Creations Dark (DBT)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/A Ghost Is Born/Sky Blue Sky (Wilco)

Almost Killed Me/Boys & Girls in America (The Hold Steady)

The National/Alligator/Boxer (The National)

The Search/American Central Dust (Son Volt)

Magic (Bruce Springsteen)

Thickfreakness/Rubber Factory/Attack & Release (The Black Keys)

Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Neko Case)

Are Men (The Weight)

Heartbreaker/Cold Roses (Ryan Adams)

Live in Aught-Three/Just Us Kids (James McMurtry)

The Dark (Guy Clark)

American Hearts (A.A. Bondy)

Rainy Day Music (The Jayhawks)

Magnolia Electric Co (Songs: Ohia)

What Comes After the Blues/Trials & Errors (Magnolia Electric Co)

Greendale (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)

Vultures Await (Will Johnson)

All the Falsest Hearts Can Try/Love You Just the Same/Fort Recovery (Centro-Matic)

Essence (Lucinda Williams)

Transcendental Blues (Steve Earle)

Furr (Blitzen Trapper)

Young Criminals' Starvation League (Bobby Bare Jr.)

Murdering Oscar (Patterson Hood)

Tonight at the Arizona (The Felice Brothers)

Mescalito (Ryan Bingham)

The Stage Names (Okkervil River)

Ghosts of the Great Highway (Sun Kil Moon)

The Wind (Warren Zevon)

Trouble in Mind (Hayes Carll)

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Some great choices. No love for "Under the Blacklight" by Rilo Kiley though? The perfect pop album in my book!

 

Marah is no longer "cool"...but Kids in Philly was a great cd.

 

Didn't see Josh Rouse's "Nashville" mentioned here? Phenomenal CD!!!

 

Any love for the first Audioslave album? That has held up pretty well.

 

I'd probably round out a list of 10 with ones already mentioned:

 

Wilco-YHF

Strokes-Is This It

Ryan-Heartbreaker

Beck-Sea Change

White Stripes-Elephant

Bright Eyes-I'm Wide Awake...

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as much as i do love Blitzen Trapper's 'Furr' and it was my fave album last year, it's too early for me to put it on my list for best of the decade, i don't think it will hold up quite as well after a few years (i rarely listen to now as is)

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Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono

Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker, Cold Roses

The Shins - Oh Inverted World

Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.

The Strokes - Is this it

The Wrens - Meadowlands

 

 

all would probably make my list too, brian

 

From a Compound Eye might be at the top of the list (although Half Smiles would be way up there too)

 

FaCE is by far bob's best post-gbv record

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all would probably make my list too, brian

 

From a Compound Eye might be at the top of the list (although Half Smiles would be way up there too)

 

FaCE is by far bob's best post-gbv record

 

You are so right. I have been listening to FACE non stop since I bought it a few weeks ago. It's up there with the best Guided by voices stuff.

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Some great choices. No love for "Under the Blacklight" by Rilo Kiley though? The perfect pop album in my book!

 

Didn't see Josh Rouse's "Nashville" mentioned here? Phenomenal CD!!!

 

 

Coupla good shouts there though, good as Blacklight is, I still prefer Jenny Lewis' solo stuff, I'll give you Nashville though, can't believe I forgot it....maybe 1972 as well or is that pushing it?

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as much as i do love Blitzen Trapper's 'Furr' and it was my fave album last year, it's too early for me to put it on my list for best of the decade, i don't think it will hold up quite as well after a few years (i rarely listen to now as is)

Okay. I'll take it off my list then.

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Okay. I'll take it off my list then.

 

haha, nah, was just saying that I have a hard time putting an album that's barely a year old on my list of favorite records of the last 10 years is all, those things usually take some time to to simmer for me.

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haha, nah, was just saying that I have a hard time putting an album that's barely a year old on my list of favorite records of the last 10 years is all, those things usually take some time to to simmer for me.

I like what I like I suppose. It's absolutely in the conversation. Wouldn't make a Top 10 list for me. Top 20? Perhaps. Top 50? Absolutely.

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You are so right. I have been listening to FACE non stop since I bought it a few weeks ago. It's up there with the best Guided by voices stuff.

 

interesting and very cool to hear this

 

usually seems to take people more than a few weeks to really grasp FaCE ... it's such a dense record

 

but i agree ... as good as GBV's best

 

a phenomenal record

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all would probably make my list too, brian

 

From a Compound Eye might be at the top of the list (although Half Smiles would be way up there too)

 

FaCE is by far bob's best post-gbv record

 

 

Half Smiles is great but I love, love, love Earthquake Glue. The last 2 GBV records are solid in my oinion. FaCE is one of his best albums, like top 5 best.

 

I've been trying to get my brother to get into FaCE for a while now. He has some GBV albums but not many. He won't make the jump to his solo work. I just can't convince him of how great of an album FaCE is.

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