I set forth a few rules for doing this you might want to know. If not, feel free to skip this boring stuff and get to the goodness below. Otherwise, please read rules below.

• no compilations, live recordings, re-releases, etc.
• electronic (primarily) and/or instrumental albums have a seperate list (see below)
• starting this year, each end of year list may contain albums released over last 15 months. this is to account for amazing releases which occur near the end of the year and may “slip through the cracks.”
• Once an album is rated, it may not appear on a subsequent list, regardless of whether it remains in 15 month window.

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Top 25

01) Fever Ray – Fever Ray
02) School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms (Originally Released Oct 28, 2008)
03) The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
04) Mew – No more stories… I’m tired Let’s wash away
04) Circulatory System – Signal Morning
05) Cotton Jones – Paranoid Cocoon
06) Deastro – Moondagger
07) Bear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
08) Atlas Sound – Logos
09) IAMX – Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction
10) The Dodos – Time To Die
11) Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
12) The XX – xx
13) Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
14) The Antlers – Hospice
15) Au Revoir Simone – Still Night, Still Light
16) St. Vincent – Actor
17) The Clientele – Bonfires on the Heath
18) Girls – Album
19) Yacht – See Mystery Lights
20) Devendra Bandhart – What Will We Be
21) The Mountain Goats – The Life Of The World To Come
22) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
23) Asobi Seksu – Hush
24) The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
25) Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue

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electronic (primarily) and/or instrumental

01) Vitalic – Flashmob
02) Moderat – Moderat
03) Tim Exile – Listening Tree
04) Zombi – Spirit Animal
05) Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
06) Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
07) Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us
08) Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
09) Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
10) Broadcast & The Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

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Other Good Stuff (no particular oder):

Tara Jane O’Neil – A Ways Away
Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
The Dutchess and The Duke – Sunset/Sunrise
Bowerbirds – Upper Air
Elvis Perkins – Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Patients – Volume I
Michael Parallax – ha ha hallelujah!
Michael Parallax – HEAAVY THINGS
Matias Aguayo – Ay Ay Ay
Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood
M. Ward – Hold Time
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Warpaint – Exquisite Corpse (EP)
Bon Iver – Blood Bank (EP)
Fanfarlo – Reservoir
Air – Love 2
Trembling Bells – Carbeth
Telepathe – Dance Mother
Marmoset – Tea Tornado
Megafaun – Gather, Form And Fly
Noah And The Whale – The First Days of Spring
Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
Vetiver – Tight Knit
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
A.A. Bondy – When the Devil’s Loose
Marissa Nadler – Little Hells
Passion Pit – Manners
Micachu – Jewellery
Harlem Shakes – Technicolor Health

…and probably others I won’t know about for weeks/months/years to come…

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Albums I Wanted To Check Out But Never Got To:

Wavves – Wavvves
Kings Of Convenience – Declaration Of Dependence
Wooden Shjips – Dos
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Eels – Hombre Lobo
Tegan And Sara – Sainthood
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Regina Spektor – Far

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Popular Yet Disappointing / Didn’t Care For / (?HATED IT?):

Norah Jones – The Fall
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
The Flaming Lips – Dark Side Of The Moon
The Dead Weather – Horehound
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Royksöpp – Junior
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul
Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young

2010 has come, and so we are blasted with tons of best of year / best of decade lists… albums, songs (paste actually has created enough lists to make you want to vomit a little), etc.  Frankly, I haven’t seen one list I can wholly identify with yet, so here’s the official Snowdenology best albums of the decade list for you. This is the result of almost two months of intermittent work, and most recently – hours upon hours of banging head into desk, blurry vision, laughing, crying, and listening to albums over and over going a bit mad to be quite honest. Hope you enjoy!

Notes:

I set forth a few rules for doing this you might want to know. If not, feel free to skip this boring stuff and get to the goodness below. Otherwise, please read rules below.

• No compilations.
• No covers records.
• No EPs.
• Instrumental and electronic (primarily) records will have their own list (coming soon).
• Order will never be perfect, just try to get it as close as possible.

The Top 50 Albums of 2000~2009

50) Björk – Vespertine

49) M.I.A. – Kala

48) Beck – The Information

47) Cotton Jones – Paranoid Cocoon

46) Circulatory System – Signal Morning

45) Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors

44) Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins – Rabbit Furcoat

43) Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim

42) The Knife – Deep Cuts

41) Rasputina – Oh Perilous World

40) Joanna Newsom – Milk Eyed Mender

39) Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway

38) Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha

37) Postal Service – Give Up

36) Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine

35) IAMX – The Alternative

34) Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue

33) Mew – No more stories Are told today I’m sorry They washed away No more stories The world is grey I’m tired Let’s wash away

32) Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth

31) Asobi Seksu – Citrus

30) Radiohead – In Rainbows

29) Rasputina – Frustration Plantation

28) Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride

27) Get Well Soon – Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon

26) Of Montreal – Sunlandic Twins

25) Of Montreal – Satanic Panic In The Attic

24) The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love

23) Doug Martsch – Now You Know

22) LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver

21) Iron & Wine – The Shepard’s Dog

20) Mew – And The Glass Handed Kites

19) Dresden Dolls – Dresden Dolls

18) Broadcast- Haha Sound

17) Grizzly Bear – Yellow House

16) Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer

15) School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms

14) Circulatory System – Circulatory System

13) The Clientele – Strange Geometry

12) Beck – Sea Change

11) Le Tigre – Feminist Sweepstakes

The Top 10

10) Rasputina – Cabin Fever!

09) The Knife – Silent Shout

08) Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

07) Fever Ray – Fever Ray

06) Beck – Guero

05) Radiohead – Hail To The Thief

04) Devendra Banhart- Cripple Crow

03) Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

02) Snowden – Anti-Anti

01) Elliott Smith – Figure 8

Honorable Mentions (No Particular Order):

• Future Bible Heroes – Eternal Youth
• Air – Talkie Walkie
• Bat For Lashes – Fur And Gold
• The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
• Marbles – Expo
• Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
• Magnetic Fields – I
• Au Revoir Simone – The Bird Of Music
• Radical Face – Ghost
• Radiohead – Kid A / Amsnesiac
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Broom
• Feist – The Reminder
• The Sunshine Fix – Age of the Sun
• !!! – Myth Takes
• Le Tigre – Le Tigre
• Great Lake Swimmers – Bodies and Minds
• A Perfect Little Angel – Florida
• Beck – Modern Guilt
• David Byrne – Grown Backwards
• The Mountain Goats – We Shall All Be Healed
• Lovage – Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By
• Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
• My Robot Friend- Hot Action Electro-Trash
• The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
• Gabby Lala – Be Careful What You Wish For
• Tender Forever – The Soft And The Hardcore
• Sufjan Stevens – Illinois

many many more I won’t try to list.