Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade

FWIW I could have easily put Fishscale and maybe even Pretty Toney on there, but Supreme Clientele is already there and I wanted to give some other rappers some shine. I know I have 2 albums each from Daft Punk and Radiohead, but in both cases they seem like such different records, both essential in their own way. I think LCD SS deserves a spot too, but I couldn't decide on one. I think 43:55 is my favorite, but it doesn't seem like enough of an ALBUM, y'know?

the Coup album is a nice (and unexpected) pick.

Jon Lewis OTM about these two :
Alexandre Desplat- Girl With A Pearl Earring
Elmer Bernstein- Far From Heaven
The two best soundtracks of this decade imo

top 15 (not in order)
1. John Shough - Ultra Vega
2. Radiohead - Amnesiac
3. Thingy - To the Innocent
4. Archer Prewitt - Three
5. Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
6. King Creosote - Kenny and Beth's Musakal Boat Rides
7. King Creosote - Rocket D.I.Y.
8. King Creosote - KC Rules OK
9. Califone - All My Friend's Are Funeral Singers
10. Sin Ropas - Trickboxes on the Pony Line
11. The Sea and Cake - Glass EP
12. Kevin Ayers - Unfairground
13. Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
14. Jim Guthrie - Now More Than Ever
15. Death in June - All Pigs Must Die
(granted that all of these albums have klunkers on them. I just press skip and enjoy a shorter album if need be)

top 10 honorable mentions:
The Sea and Cake - Oui
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Pinback - Offcell EP
Radiohead - Kid A
Tortoise - It's All Around You
Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
Autechre - Confield
Brian Wilson - Smile
Quasi - Hot Shit
Archer Prewitt - Wilderness

notice that of the 25 albums I mentioned only 4 of them made Pitchfork's top 200: Brian Wilson, Radiohead, Radiohead, Jim O'Rourke (plz correct me if or if I'm wrong or missing one)

Man I want to make a singles list, but it's gonna be so tough! There are just a ridiculous number of songs I love from the last 10 years, just in hip hop alone! Not nearly as easy to quantify as albums IMO.

Likely my top pick though, a true all-time incredible classic, is "Le Retournille" by Sébastien Tellier. I hope it gets its due on the ILX poll (was it even on the Pitchfork list at all?)

Couldn't get the list below 20 albums. Sue me:

•Richard Hawley – The Ocean

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― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, May 24, 2009

Messed up. Richard Hawley's disc is Cole's Corner (The Ocean is the first single from it). What a fantastic disc, especially as summer fades into autumn.