Seven 9s and 10s

The Influence

OK. I give in.

Here are my top 30 albums of the decade, 3 per year.  This was not easy to do.  There was a lot more great music this decade than I generally let myself believe.  I could’ve easily picked 5 per year.

2000
Superdrag - In The Valley Of Dying Stars
Harvey Danger - King James Version
Hawksley Workman - For Him And The Girls

2001
Toadies - Hell Below / Stars Above
Splashdown - Blueshift
Radiohead - Amnesiac

2002
Pedro The Lion - Control
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
(Shameless Honorable Mention - FMGreen - Yellow #5)

2003
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Nada Surf - Let Go
The Darkness - Permission To Land

2004
Green Day - American Idiot
The Special Goodness - Land, Air, Sea
They Might Be Giants - The Spine

2005
Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
Headphones - Headphones
Queens of the Stones Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
(Shameless Honorable Mention: FMGreen - 3 2 1 Go!)

2006
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Jucifer - If Thine Enemy Hunger
David Bazan - Fewer Moving Parts

2007
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Radiohead - In Rainbows

2008
Jucifer - L’Autrichienne
weezer - weezer (Red Album)
Nada Surf - Lucky

2009
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Silversun Pickups - Swoon

Other artists that deserve a mention for spending significant time in my car stereo, alphabetically: The Anniversary, Burden Brothers, Cake, Rivers Cuomo (Alone releases), Daft Punk, Electric Eel Shock, The Flaming Lips, Ben Folds, Gnarls Barkley, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Imperial Teen, Ozma, Phantom Planet, Pinback, Sarah Slean, SNMNMNM, Tool.


My artist of the decade is David Bazan/Pedro The Lion.  No single artist has created more music in the past 10 years that influenced me as a musician and as a human than has David Bazan.  I believe he’s the greatest songwriter of my generation and his body of work speaks for itself.  His transformation over the past 10 years, from evangelical Christian to alcoholic father to healthy agnostic, has given birth to an incredible catalog of heartbreaking and inspiring music.

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