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This is a list of some 270 albums (give or take), that site visitors can vote on (or, they can vote for an album not on the list). There have been similar lists, where sources came up with an initial listing of albums or songs, so I figured this could be eligible (if Paste magazine is a credible course and all).
(Loretta Lynn's album was listed twice on the site, so I just removed the duplicate on here; may want to double-check the link, in case something to lost in the copy-and-pasting. ha).
Aimee Man, Bachelor No. 2 (2000)
Aimee Mann, Lost in Space (2002)
Aimee Mann, The Forgotten Arm (2005)
Alela Diane, To Be Still (2009)
Ali Farka Toure, Savane (2006)
Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor (2001)
Amos Lee, s/t (2005)
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black (2007)
Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
Annie, Anniemal (2005)
Apollo Sunshine, s/t (2005)
Arcade Fire, Funeral (2004)
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (2007)
Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not (2006)
At the Drive-in, Relationship of Command (2000)
Avalanches, Since I Left You (2001)
Avett Brothers, Emotionalism (2007)
Avett Brothers, I and Love and You (2009)
Badly Drawn Boy, The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
Band of Horses, Cease to Begin (2007)
Basement Jaxx, Rooty (2001)
Beachwood Sparks, Once We Were Trees (2001)
Beck, Guero (2005)
Beck, Sea Change (2002)
Beck, The Information (2006)
Beirut, Gulag Orkestar (2006)
Bjork, Medulla (2004)
Bjork, Vespertine (2001)
Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil (2007)
Blonde Redhead, 23 (2007)
Bob Dylan, Love and Theft (2001)
Bob Dylan, Modern Times (2006)
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Lie Down in the Light (2008)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Letting Go (2006)
Brian Wilson, SMiLE (2004)
Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005)
Bruce Cockburn, You’ve Never Seen Everything (2003)
Bruce Springsteen, Magic (2007)
Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (2002)
Buddy Miller, Universal United House of Prayer (2004)
Bug, London Zoo (2008)
Burial, Untrue (2007)
Califone, Roots & Crowns (2006)
Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career (2009)
Cannibal Ox, The Cold Vein (2001)
Cat Power, The Greatest (2006)
Cat Power, You Are Free (2003)
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, s/t (2005)
Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
Common, Be (2005)
Common, Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
Copeland, In Motion (2005)
Corey Harris, Downhome Sophisticate (2002)
Coup, Party Music (2001)
D’Angelo, Voodoo (2000)
Daft Punk, Discovery (2001)
Damien Rice, O (2003)
Danger Doom, The Mouse and the Mask (2005)
Danger Mouse, The Grey Album (2004)
David Gray, A New Day at Midnight (2002)
Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs (2008)
Death Cab for Cutie, Plans (2005)
Death Cab for Cutie, Transatlanticism (2003)
Decemberists, The Crane Wife (2006)
Decemberists, The Hazards of Love (2009)
Deerhunter, Microcastle (2008)
Dixie Chicks, Taking The Long Way (2006)
Dizzee Rascal, Boy in Da Corner
Drake, So Far Gone (2009)
Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day (2003)
Dungen, Ra Der Lugnt (2005)
Earlimart, Treble & Tremble (2004)
Ed Harcourt, From Every Sphere (2003)
Eisley, Room Noises (2005)
Elvis Costello, North (2003)
Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Elvis Perkins in Dearland (2009)
Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Erin McKeown, Grand (2003)
Erykah Badu, Mama’s Gun (2000)
Everybodyfields, Nothing Is Okay (2007)
Feist, Let It Die (2004)
Feist, The Reminder (2007)
Field, From Here We Go Sublime (2007)
Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine (2005)
Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robot (2002)
Fleet Foxes, s/t (2008)
Flood City Shootout, Flood City Shootout (2000)
Fountains of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers (2003)
Four Tet, Rounds (2003)
Gentleman Jesse, Introducing Gentleman Jesse (2008)
Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele (2000)
Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (2001)
Girl Talk, Feed the Animals (2008)
Go-Betweens, The Friends of Rachel Worth (2000)
Gomez, How We Operate (2006)
Gorillaz, s/t (2001)
Grizzly Bear, Veckamist (2009)
Hem, Rabbit Songs (2002)
Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America (2006)
Hold Steady, Stay Positive (2008)
Horsepower, Folklore (2002)
Hot Chip, Made in the Dark (2008)
Ida Maria, Fortress ‘Round My Heart (2008)
Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
Iron & Wine, The Shepherd’s Dog (2007)
Isolee, Wearemonster (2005)
Jay Reatard, Watch Me Fall (2009)
Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (2003)
Jay-Z, The Blueprint (2001)
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)
Jens Lekman, Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)
Jill Scott, Who Is Jill Scott? Words & Sounds Vol. 1 (2000)
Joanna Newsom, Ys (2006)
Joe Henry, Tiny Voices (2003)
Jolie Holland, Escondida (2004)
Joseph Arthur, Nuclear Daydream (2006)
Joseph Arthur, Redemption’s Son (2002)
Josh Ritter, The Animal Years (2006)
Josh Ritter, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (2007)
Josh Rouse, Under Cold Blue Stars (2002)
Junior Boys, Begone Dull Care (2009)
Jurassic 5, Quality Control (2000)
Kanye West, Graduation (2007)
Kanye West, Late Registration (2005)
Kanye West, The College Dropout (2004)
Kings of Leon, Because of These Times (2007)
Langhorne Slim, s/t (2008)
LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver (2007)
Led Zeppelin, How the West Was Won (2003)
Libertines, Up The Bracket (2003)
Lightning Bolt, Hypermagic Mountain (2005)
Loney, Dear, Loney, Noir (2007)
Long Winters, Putting the Days to Bed (2006)
Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (2004)
Los Super Seven, Canto (2001)
Low Anthem, Oh My God Charlie Darwin (2009)
Low, The Great Destroyer (2005)
Lucinda Williams, Essence (2001)
Lucinda Williams, Little Honey (2008)
Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears (2003)
Luke Doucet, Broken and Other Rogue States (2006)
M. Ward, Post War (2006)
M. Ward, Transistor Radio (2005)
M.I.A., Arular (2005)
M.I.A., Kala (2007)
Madonna, Music (2000)
Madvillainy, Madvillain (2004)
Manu Chao, Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (2001)
Marah, Kids in Philly (2000)
Mastodon, Blood Mountain (2006)
Mates of State, Bring it Back (2006)
Mates of State, Re-Arrange Us (2008)
Mavis Staples, Have a Little Faith (2004)
Midlake, Bamnan & Silvercork (2004)
Midlake, Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)
Mika Miko, We Be Xuxa (2009)
Mindy Smith, One Moment More (2004)
Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007)
Missy Elliott, Miss E…So Addictive (2001)
Modern Skirts, Catalogue of Generous Men (2005)
Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
Mugison, Mugiboogie (2008)
Mugison, Mugimama! Is the Monkey (2005)
My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges (2008)
My Morning Jacket, Z (2005)
National, Boxer (2007)
Neko Case, Blacklisted (2002)
Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)
New Order, Get Ready (2001)
New Pornographers, Mass Romantic (2001)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (2008)
No Age, Nouns (2008)
Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (2002)
Notwist, Neon Golden (2003)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001)
Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping (2008)
Okkervil River, The Stand Ins (2008)
OutKast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
OutKast, Stankonia (2000)
Over the Rhine, OHIO (2003)
Over the Rhine, The Trumpet Child (2007)
Panda Bear, Person Pitch (2007)
Passion Pit, Manners (2009)
Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses (2002)
Patty Griffin, Children Running Through (2007)
Patty Griffin, Impossible Dream (2004)
Paul Simon, Surprise (2006)
Paul Westerberg, Folker (2004)
Pedro the Lion, Control (2002)
Pernice Brothers, The World Won’t End (2001)
Pete Yorn, Nightcrawler (2006)
Phosphorescent, To Willie (2009)
PJ Harvey, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
Plush, Fed (2008)
Polyphonic Spree, Together We’re Heavy (2004)
Primal Scream, XTRMN8R (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age, R (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age, Songs For the Deaf (2002)
Radiohead, Amnesiac (2001)
Radiohead, In Rainbows (2007)
Radiohead, Kid A (2000)
Raveonettes, Lust Lust Lust (2008)
Ray Lamontagne, Trouble (2004)
Rilo Kiley, More Adventurous (2004)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Raising Sand (2007)
Rodney Crowell, Fate’s Right Hand (2003)
Ron Sexsmith, Retriever (2004)
Rosie Thomas, When We Were Small (2002)
Rufus Wainwright, Poses (2001)
Rufus Wainwright, Want One (2003)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights (2005)
Ryan Adams, Demolition (2002)
Ryan Adams, Easy Tiger (2007)
Ryan Adams, Gold (2001)
Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (2000)
Ryan Adams, Rock N Roll (2003)
Sade, Lovers Rock (2000)
Sam Roberts, We Were Born in a Flame (2004)
Santogold & Diplo, Top Ranking (2008)
She & Him, Volume 1 (2008)
Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (2000)
Shelby Lynne, Identity Crisis (2003)
Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Shugo Takumaru, Exit (2008)
Sigur Rós, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust (2008)
Sigur Ros, Agaetis Byrjun (2001)
Sigur Ros, () (2003)
Sigur Ros, Takk… (2005)
Sleater-Kinney, All Hands on the Bad One (2000)
Sleater-Kinney, The Woods (2005)
Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up on Me (2002)
Sondre Lerche, Faces Down (2002)
Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped (2006)
Spoon, Gimme Fiction (2005)
Spoon, Kill the Moonlight (2002)
Steely Dan, Two Against Nature (2000)
Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues (2000)
Steven Delopoulos, Me Died Blue (2003)
Streets, Original Pirate Material (2002)
Strokes, Is This It (2001)
Sufjan Stevens, Illinois (2005)
Sun Kil Moon, April (2008)
Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts of the Great Highway (2003)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Living With the Living (2007)
The White Stripes, White Blood Cells (2001)
Todd Snider, Near Truths & Hotel Rooms (2003)
Tom Waits, Blood Money and Alice (2002)
Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)
Tom Waits, Real Gone (2004)
Travis, The Man Who (2000)
TV On The Radio, Dear Science (2008)
TV On The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend (2008)
Weepies, Say I Am You (2006)
Weezer, Weezer "The Green Album" (2001)
White Stripes, Elephant (2003)
White Stripes, Icky Thump (2007)
Wilco, A Ghost is Born (2004)
Wilco, Sky Blue Sky (2007)
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Wild Light, Adult Nights (2009)
Yo La Tengo, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000)
Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)
Didn't Paste already release a list of the 50 best albums of the decade?
Or, the additional 219 albums (assuming that the 50 albums are all in here) could perhaps be regarded as their 51-269 favorite albums. What do you think? (Harold, if you like this idea, they should have place 160 in the spreadsheet.)
Yes, the top 50 is on page 2, so I missed that.
That's not a bad idea, Henrik- of course, as long as the top 50 that it posted are among the 269 listed here (I haven't done that check yet).
It's not often that a source will list other albums it considers its favorite- I sometimes wonder, "What other albums were they mulling over that didn't make the cut"?
49 of the 50 albums from the top 50 list are in this initial list- except "Once: Music From the Motion Picture." At first I thought "O Brother..." wasn't here, but it was listed undrr "O." "Once," however, is not. Perhaps it got left out by Loretta Lynn's duplicate listing, who knows.
And here is the link, which I neglected to post earlier9vr3:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/08/whats-your-favorite-album-of-the-decade.html
Or, the additional 219 albums (assuming that the 50 albums are all in here) could perhaps be regarded as their 51-269 favorite albums. What do you think? (Harold, if you like this idea, they should have place 160 in the spreadsheet.)
I'd be willing to add the rest of the albums if you think the expanded list is eligible. If they went to the trouble of compiling it, it carries some weight. I don't think I'll get to it right away, though.
Here's another unordered list from rocksbackpages. Apparently, they sent this list out to users and then asked for recommendations for albums they may have missed. I don't know how this will be treated- if they'll eventually present an ordered list including the user-submitted albums or not, but I think this unranked list will at least be eligible.
Thanks, Henrik! I admit that I feel a bit guilty finding all of these lists and having you assess their eligibility, and you always come through promptly and courteously. Thanks for that.
The original thread seems to have disappeared, but I found it through google's cache.
Here's the unranked list. We'll see if they come out with a ranked one.
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Air - 10 000 Hz Legend
Air - Talkie Walkie
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Annie - Anniemal
Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
Beck - Sea Change
Beck - The Information
Beck - Modern Guilt
Bjork - Vespertine
Bjork - Medulla
Black Mountain - Black Mountain
Black Mountain - In the Future
Blur - Think Tank
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
David Bowie - Heathen
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
Burial - Burial
Burial - Untrue
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
Kate Bush - Aerial
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!! Lazarus, Dig!!
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
The Coral - The Coral
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Daft Punk - Discovery
Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
The Delgados - The Great Eastern
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
The Duckworth-Lewis Method - The Duckworth-Lewis Method
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Missy Elliott - Miss E. So Addictive
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Field Music - Field Music
Field Music - Write Your Own History
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Gang Starr - The Ownerz
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Hal - Hal
Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
P.J. Harvey - White Chalk
P.J. Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Jamie T - Panic Prevention
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening of My Best Day
Salif Keita - Mouffou
Kelis - Kaleidoscope
The Killers - Sam's Town
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
The Knife - Silent Shout
Lambchop - Nixon
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
LCD Soundsystem - The Sound Of Silver
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
The Libertines - The Libertines
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Mercury Rev - All is Dream
Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
Stephin Merritt - 69 Love Songs
Merz - Loveheart
MIA - Arular
MIA - Kala
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Mr Scruff - Keep it Unreal
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
My Morning Jacket - Z (2005)
The National - Boxer
Youssou N'dour - Egypt
The Necks - Drive By
N*E*R*D - In Search Of.
Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
Joanna Newsom - Ys.
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast - Stankonia
Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife
Phoenix - United
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Plush - Fed
Portishead - Third
Primal Scream - xtrmntr
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rae & Christian - Sleepwalking
The Rapture - Echoes
R.E.M. - Reveal
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
Ron Sexsmith - Blue Boy
Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjum
Sigur Ros - Takk
Sigur Ros - ()
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
Steely Dan - Everything Must Go
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
Ken Stringfellow - Touched
The Strokes - Is This It
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Supergrass - Life on Other Planets
Super Furry Animals - Mwng
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Lewis Taylor - The Lost Album
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Tinariwen - Aman: Water is Life
Tinariwen - Amassakoul
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Tom Waits - Alice
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Kanye West - Late Registration
Kanye West - Graduation
Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
The White Stripes - Elephant
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The White Stripes - De Stijl
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me, Satan
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Lucinda Williams - Essence
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Brian Wilson - Smile
Wu Tang Clan - The W
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya
Warren Zevon - The Wind
Didn't Paste already release their EOD list? I remember it being posted on the forum, with Illinois as #1.
as noted, this is a list of albums Paste compiled (that staff thought to be the best), asking readers to vote on the best albums from the list. What would happen is, the top 50 Paste published would get the 1-50 rankings, and then these would get an unranked citation (if included).