Albums of the Decade?

[Sage 703]

In listening to the new Arcade Fire record (which I think is absolutely phenomenal), I started thinking - how does this compare to the other records I've really fallen in love with?
 
 So I've been trying to compile a list of my favorite albums of the decade - records that I feel stand out in my memory as the truly remarkable albums thus far in the 00s.
 
 I'm curious as to what people would include.  So - what are your top five records of the decade thus far?
 
 My list thus far, in no order:
 
 Radiohead - Kid A
 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
 Sigur Ros - ()
 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
 
 and frankly, the new Arcade Fire might eventually be included as well...because I like it as much or more than Funeral at this point.
 
 Thoughts?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I have a running list of my top 100 albums of the decade, which I will share at the end of 2009. None of those you list are in my current top 5, though one of them is in my top 100. I can't even think of what the top five on my list are, off the top of my head.

[bearman🐻]

5) The Shins -- Chutes Too Narrow
 4) Air -- Talkie Walkie
 3) PJ Harvey -- Stories from the City, Stories From the Sea
 2) Queens of the Stone Age -- Songs for the Deaf
 
 and hands down, no contest:
 
 1) Elliott Smith -- Figure 8

[Sage 703]

Nice on the Elliott Smith.  I forgot that qualified.

[bellenseb]

I'd have to really think about that, but off the top of my head, ones that would probably be in the top 10:
 
 Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End
 Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
 Don Lennon - Routine

[palahniukkubrick]

I'd add Steve Earle's Transcendental Blues, Outkast's Stankonia, Dylan's Love and Theft, The Grey Album, and Beck's Sea Change to those already mentioned.
 
 By the way, Here is X-gau's site if you need help remembering what has come out since 2000.

[allmy$to930]

I don't have my mp3 player in front of me.  However, this is what comes to mind (in no particular order)
 
 Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
 Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
 Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
 Postal Service: Give Up
 Modest Mouse: The Moon and Antarctica
 Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
 Sun Kill Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway
 Arcade Fire: Funeral
 Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Michigan
 The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Don't you guys listen to anything other than indie rock?

[godsshoeshine]

moon & antarctica (epic records)

[attache]

I'd add:
 Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
 Amadou and Miriam - Dimanche a Bamako
 Toumani Diabate Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard de I'Indpendance
 Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate - In the Heart of the Moon

[lily1]

u2-atyclb
 prayer boat-polichinelle
 interpol-turn on the bright lights

[Vas Deferens]

Isn't it too early for this? You mean the best albums of the past 6 years?  

[Sage 703]

i forgot that Heartbreaker is this decade.  That definitely makes my list.
 
 and I don't know that its too early.  We're over halfway through.  Albums of the Decade....so far.

[smakawhat]

"Don't you guys listen to anything other than indie rock? "
 
 no that would be too much of a stretch, and besides it allows us to keep our elitist no sell out tendencies.

[Sage 703]

why can't we quote things on this board anymore?