Best albums of the decade

The top ten:

1. Sigur Ros: Ágætis Byrjun

2. Tool: Lateralus

3. Radiohead: Kid A

4. Modest Mouse: Moon and Antarctica

5. Arcade Fire: Funeral

6. Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights

7. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

8. Boards of Canada: Geogaddi

9. Neko Case: Blacklisted

10. Coldplay: Parachutes

11-25:

11. Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People
12. The Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium
13. Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
14. Isis: Oceanic
15. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
16. Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
17. The New Pornographers: Mass Romantic
18. The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
19. White Stripes: Elephant
20. Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
21. Opeth: Blackwater Park
22. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
23. Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
24. Fleet Foxes: Ragged Wood
25. LCD Sound System: Sound of Silver

Honorable mention (listed alphabetically):

• A Perfect Circle: Mer De Noms
• Aimee Mann: Lost in Space
• Aimee Mann: Bachelor No. 2
• Amon Tobin: Supermodified
• Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where
• And So I Watch You From Afar: ...And So I Watch You From Afar
• And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Source Tags & Codes
• Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
• Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion
• Antlers: Hospice
• Antony & the Johnsons: I Am A Bird Now
• Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
• Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock And Roll
• Atlas Sound: Logos
• Audioslave: Out of Exile
• Band of Horses: Everything All the Time
• Battle of Mice: Day of Nights
• Battles: Mirrored
• Beck : Sea Change
• Beta Band: Heroes to Zeros
• Bjork: Vespertine
• Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
• Blonde Redhead: 23
• Bon Iver: For Emma Forever Ago
• Built to Spill: You in Reverse
• Caribou: Andorra
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah : Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Clinic: Internal Wrangler
• Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
• Deathcab For Cutie: Transatlanticism
• Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
• Deftones: White Pony
• DJ Shadow: The Private Press
• Doves: Lost Souls
• Doves: The Last Broadcast
• Evpatoria Report: Golevka
• Explosions in the Sky: The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
• Feist: Let it Die
• Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere
• God is an Astronaut: The End of the Beginning
• Gojira: The Way of All Flesh
• Gorillaz: Demon Days
• Grizzly Bear: Yellow House
• Iron & Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle
• Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
• Isis: In the Absence of Truth
• Japandroids: Post-Nothing
• Jesu: Conqueror
• Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender
• Justice: Cross
• Kaiser Chiefs : Employment
• Koop: Waltz for Koop
• M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
• Mastodon: Leviathan
• Meshuggah: ObZen
• Meshuggah: Nothing
• MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
• MIA: Arular
• MIA: Kala
• Microphones: The Glow, Pt. 2
• Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Like Bad News
• Mogwai: Happy Songs for Happy People
• My Morning Jacket: At Dawn
• Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
• Neurosis: Given to the Rising
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
• Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
• Porcupine Tree: Fear of a Blank Planet
• Porcupine Tree: In Abstentia
• Portishead: Third
• Queens of the Stone Age: R
• Radiohead: In Rainbows
• Radiohead: Amnesiac
• Rage Against the Machine: Renegades
• Red Hot Chili Peppers: By the Way
• Red Sparowes: Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
• Royksopp: Melody A.M.
• Sigur Ros: ()
• Spoon: Girls Can Tell
• Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
• Supergrass: Life on Other Planets
• System of a Down: Toxicity
• The Dears: No Cities Left
• The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
• The Dresden Dolls: The Dresden Dolls
• The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
• The Gathering: If_Then_Else
• The Most Serene Republic: Population
• The National: Boxer
• The New Pornographers: Electric Version
• The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
• The Ocean: Precambrian
• The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
• The Streets: Original Pirate Material
• The Strokes: Is This It?
• Thievery Corporation: The Mirror Conspiracy
• Ulrich Schnauss : A Strangely Isolated Place
• Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
• White Stripes: White Blood Cells
• Wilco: A Ghost is Born
• Wolf Parade: At Mount Zoomer