My Top 40 Favorite Albums of 2010

I forgot to post this before the end of the year...

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. The National - High Violet
3. Jónsi - Go
4. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
5. Sharon Van Etten - epic
6. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
7. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
8. Josh Ritter - So Runs The World Away
9. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
10. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
11. Best Coast - Crazy For You
12. The Roots - How I Got Over
13. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
14. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
15. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
16. Beach House - Teen Dream
17. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
18. Sleigh Bells - Treats
19. Vampire Weekend - Contra
20. The Black Keys - Brothers
21. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Chico Dusty
22. Robyn - Body Talk
23. Lost In The Trees - All Alone In An Empty House
24. Girl Talk - All Day
25. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
26. Girls - Broken Dreams Club
27. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
28. Wavves - King Of The Beach
29. Tracey Thorn - Love And Its Opposite
30. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
31. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
32. Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing
33. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
34. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
35. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
36. Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love
37. The Walkmen - Lisbon
38. Lissie - Catching A Tiger
39. Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer
40. Warpaint - The Fool

Top 68 Albums of the Decade (2000-2009)

1. Radiohead - Kid A

2. Arcade Fire - Funeral

3. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

5. Kanye West - The College Dropout

6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

8. The White Stripes - Elephant

9. The Strokes - Is This It

10. Daft Punk - Discovery

11. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

12. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

14. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

15. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

16. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

17. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

18. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

19. Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now

20. OutKast - Stankonia

21. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

22. Sigur Ros - ()

23. The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

24. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2

25. The Postal Service - Give Up

26. Radiohead - In Rainbows

27. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

28. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Music From The Motion Picture Once

29. M.I.A. - Kala

30. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

31. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

32. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning

33. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

34. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

35. Radiohead - Amnesiac

36. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

37. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

38. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

39. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

40. Eminem - The Marshal Mathers LP

41. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

42. The Knife - Silent Shout

43. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

44. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

45. Jay-Z - The Blueprint

46. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

47. Cat Power - You Are Free

48. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

49. Beck - Sea Change

50. Kanye West - Late Registration

51. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

52. Damien Rice - O

53. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

54. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

55. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

56. Björk - Vespertine

57. Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

58. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years

59. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands

60. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlantacism

61. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

62. The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music

63. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

64. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

65. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

66. The Notwist - Neon Golden

67. The National - Boxer

68. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

Top 23 Albums of 2009

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

5. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

6. The Swell Season - Strict Joy

7. St. Vincent - Actor

8. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

9. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light

10. Neko Case - The Middle Cyclone

11. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

12. Dark Was The Night

13. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk

14. Metric - Fantasies

15. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches

16. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)

17. Girls - Album

18. Tegan & Sara - Sainthood

19. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

20. Mos Def - The Ecstatic

21. Real Estate - Real Estate

22. Florence and the Machine - Lungs

23. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Top 53 Songs of 2009

1. Phoenix - 1901

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

3. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move

4. Animal Collective - My Girls

5. Greg Laswell - This Woman's Work

6. Bon Iver - Blood Bank

7. Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)

8. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

9. Thom Yorke - All For The Best

10. Camera Obscura - French Navy

11. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance

12. The Swell Season - In These Arms

13. Tegan & Sara - Hell

14. St. Vincent - The Strangers

15. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

16. Bat For Lashes - Daniel

17. Volcano Choir - Island, IS

18. Sufjan Stevens - You Are The Blood

19. Antony & The Johnsons - Aeon

20. David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please

21. The Decemberists - The Rake's Song

22. Wilco - One Wing

23. The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin

24. Metric - Help I'm Alive

25. Regina Spektor - Laughing With

26. Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - Roll Bus Roll

27. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (w/Noah Lennox)

28. Real Estate - Beach Comber

29. Other Lives - Paper Cities

30. Girls - Hellhole Ratrace

31. Florence and the Machine - Drumming

32. Amadou & Mariam - Sabali

33. Derek Webb - What Matters More

34. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You

35. Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot

36. Annie - Songs Remind Me Of You

37. The xx - Islands

38. Bear In Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers

39. Monsters of Folk - Say Please

40. Devendra Banhart - Baby

41. Passion Pit - The Reeling

42. Miike Snow - Animal

43. Apsci - Crazy Crazy Insane

44. The Lonely Island - I'm On A Boat (ft. T-Pain)

45. Blue Roses - I Am Leaving

46. The Dodos - Fables

47. Yeasayer - Tightrope

48. K'naan - Dreamer

49. Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch

50. Mos Def - Casa Bey

51. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Contender

52. Drake - Successful (feat. Trey Songz & Lil' Wayne)

53. The Flaming Lips - Watching The Planets