Friday, January 1, 2010

Best of the Decade!

A friend sent me the following note from the No Depression folks with the list of the best cds of the decade! See how many of these cds you have - I have quite a few myself...not sure I'd vote for every one of these or not - but, for the most part, I think they're right on!

Have a happy new year to whoever is out there and reads this blog!! I'm looking forward to a great musical 2010!

Coming up with this community's Top 20 Albums of the Decade was a little more complicated than compiling the communal votes for the Best of 2009. Most of you agreed on artists whose albums had helped define the decade, but there was much less agreement about specific albums which stood out across the whole decade. So, we decided to knock it off at a Top 20 list, since all the albums included herein appeared on more than two people's lists (meaning there was at least some level of consensus from the community).

Those included here were voted by the ND community and weighted based on the most votes and the highest placement on voters' personal Top 10 lists (Folks' #1 pick received 10 points, #2 got 9 points, etc). Gillian Welch's Time (the Revelator) topped the most lists and can thus be considered the ND community's favorite album of the past ten years. The full list follows.

1. Gillian Welch- Time (the Revelator)
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
4. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
5. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
6. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
7. Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under The Influence
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack)
9. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
10. Broken Family Band - Welcome Home Loser
11. Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
12. Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
13. Buddy and Julie Miller - Written in Chalk
14. Buddy Miller - Universal United House of Prayer
15. Laura Veirs - Triumphs and Travails Of Orphan Mae
16. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Growl
17. Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
18. Thad Cockrell & Caitlin Cary - Begonias
19. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
20. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

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