According To Me

My 50 Most Important Albums of the Decade

1) Is This It – The Strokes (2001)

2) White Blood Cells – The White Stripes (2001)

3) Kid A – Radiohead (2000)

4) Gold – Ryan Adams (2001)

5) Blacklisted – Neko Case (2002)

6) De Stijl – The White Stripes (2000)

7) Come Away With Me – Norah Jones (2002)

8) Lapalco – Brendan Benson (2002)

9) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco (2002)

10) The Creek Drank The Cradle – Iron & Wine (2002)

11) In Rainbows – Radiohead (2007)

12) Up The Bracket – The Libertines – 2002)

13) Heartbreaker – Ryan Adams (2000)

14) Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys (2006)

15) Furnace Room Lullaby – Neko Case (2000)

16) Van Lear Rose – Loretta Lynn (2004)

17) Elephant – The White Stripes (2003)

18) Room On Fire – The Strokes (2003)

19) Parachutes – Coldplay (2000)

20) Internal Wrangler – Clinic (2000)

21) Asleep In The Back – Elbow (2001)

22) B.R.C.M. – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2000)

23) The Software Slump – Grandaddy (2000)

24) Static Delusions And Stone-Still Days – The Catheters (2002)

25) The Riverboat Gamblers – The Riverboat Gamblers (2001)

26) Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground – Bright Eyes (2002)

27) At Dawn – My Morning Jacket (2001)

28) First Impressions Of Earth – The Strokes (2005)

29) The Campfire Headphase – Boards Of Canada (2005)

30) Chutes Too Narrow – The Shins (2003)

31) Thickfreakness – The Black Keys (2003)

32) Youth And Young Manhood – Kings Of Leon (2003)

33) When The Roses Bloom Again – Laura Cantrell (2002)

34) Yours To Keep – Albert Hammond Jr. (2006)

35) Phrazes For The Young – Julian Casablancas (2009)

36) Separation Sunday – The Hold Steady (2004)

37) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (2008)

38) Cease To Begin – Band Of Horses (2007)

39) Something To Crow About – The Riverboat Gamblers (2003)

40) The Crane Wife – The Decemberists (2006)

41) Post-War – M. Ward (2006)

42) The Stage Names – Okkervil River (2007)

43) Bachelor No. 2 – Aimee Mann (2000)

44) Eye To The Telescope – KT Tunstall (2005)

45) Narrow Stairs – Death Cab For Cutie (2008)

46) The Stand Ins – Okkervil River (2008)

47) The Greatest – Cat Power (2006)

48) Post-Nothing – Japandroids (2009)

49) It’s Never Been Like That – Phoenix (2006)

50) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)