Derek's Decade Faves

BEST OF 2009 list 
by Derek James of THE ENTRANCE BAND

Here's my top 100 records/artists (no artists repeated) for the decade (sorted by top 10 for each year).  Here 'tis :

2009:

1. Bill Callahan “Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle” (Drag City)

2. Kurt Vile “Childish Prodigy” (Matador)

3. The Growlers “Are You In Or Are You Out” (Everloving)

4. Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh "Overloaded Ark" (Drag City)

5. Vetiver “Tight Knit” (Sub Pop)

6. Bat For Lashes “Two Suns” (Astralwerks)

7. Girls “Album” (True Panther Sound)

8. Group Bombino “Guitars From Agadez Vol. 2” (Subliminal Frequencies)

9. Thee Oh Sees “Help” (In the Red)

10. Magik Markers “Balf Quarry” (Drag City)

2008:

1. Beach House “Devotion” (Carpark)

2. Al Green “Lay It Down” (Blue Note)

3. The Black Angels “Directions To See A Ghost” (Light In the Attic)

4. Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)

5. The Verve “Forth” (On Your Own)

6. Sebastian Tellier “Sexuality” (Record Makers)

7. Howlin’ Rain “Magnificent Fiend” (Birdman)

8. Richard Swift “Richard Swift As Onasis” (Secretly Canadian)

9. RTX "JJ Got Live Ratx" (Drag City)

10. Boris “Smile” (Southern Lord)

2007:

1. Panda Bear “Person Pitch” (Paw Tracks)

2. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss “Raising Sand” (Rounder)

3. Tinariwen "Aman Iman" (Independiente)

4. MGMT “Oracular Spectacular” (Columbia)

5. R Kelly “Double Up” (Jive)

6. M.I.A. "Kala" (XL)

7. James Blackshaw “The Cloud of Unknowing” (Tompkins Square)

8. Alasdair Roberts “The Amber Gatherers” (Drag City)

9. Daniel Higgs “Metempsychotic Melodies” (Holy Mountain)

10. White Rainbow “Prism of Eternal Now” (Kranky)

2006:

1. Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)

2. Bonnie Prince Billy “The Letting Go” (Drag City)

3. Joanna Newsom “Ys” (Drag City)

4. Bob Dylan “Modern Times” (Columbia)

5. Jarvis Cocker “The Jarvis Cocker Record” (Rough Trade)

6. Tom Petty ”Highway Companion” (American)

7. Bert Jansch “The Black Swan” (Drag City)

8. Charlotte Gainsbourg  “5:55” (Because)

9. White Magic “Dat Rosa Mel Apibus” (Drag City)

10. Psychic Ills “Dins” (The Social Registry)

2005:

1. Six  Organs of Admittace “School of the Flower” (Drag City)

2. The Howling Hex “All Night Fox” (Drag City)

3. The Clientele “Strange Geometry” (Merge)

4. Dead Meadow “Feathers” (Matador))

5. Dirty Three “Cinder” (Touch and Go)

6. Om “Variations On a Theme” (Holy Mountain)

7. Amadou and Miriam “Dimache a Bamako” (Nonesuch)

8. Vashti Bunyan “Lookaftering” (Fat Cat)

9. Silver Jews “Tanglewood Numbers” (Drag City)

10. Sunburned Hand of the Man “Complexion” (Records)

2004:

1. Animal Collective “Sung Tongs” (Fat Cat)

2. Ghost “Hypnotic Underworld” (Drag City)

3. Brian Wilson “Smile” (Nonesuch)

4. Dungen “Ta Det Lungt” (Subliminal Sounds)

5. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “The Doldrums” (Paw Tracks)

6. All Night Radio “Spirit Stereo Frequency” (Sub Pop)

7. Fursaxa “Mandrake” (Eclipse)

8. Hiroshi Higashi “Solo” (Galactic Zoo Disk)

9. Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In the Hands" (Young God)

10. Comets on Fire “Blue Cathedral” (Sub Pop)

2003:

1. Cat Power “You Are Free” (Matador)

2. The Angels of Light “Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home” (Young God)

3. John Fahey “Red Cross” (Revenant)

4. Sun Kil Moon “Ghost of the Great Highway” (Badman)

5. Ulrich Schnauss “A Strangely Isolated Place” (Domino)

6. v/a Lost In Translation Soundtrack (Emperor Norton)

7. Outkast “Speakerbox/The Love Below” (Arista)

8. Jack Rose “Opium Musick” (Eclipse)

9. Growing  “The Sky’s Run Into the Sea” (Kranky)

10. Loose Fur (Drag City)

2002:

1. Sonic Youth “Murray Street” (Geffen)

2. Primal Scream “Evil Heat” (Sony)

3. Plush “Fed”  (Blues International/After Hours)

4. Wilco “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” (Nonesuch)

5. Black Dice “Beaches and Canyons” (DFA)

6. Weird War (Drag City)

7. DJ Shadow “The Private Press” (Mo Wax/Island)

8. Sigur Ros “( )” (Smekkleysa)

9. Solomon Burke “Don’t Give Up On Me” (Fat Possum)

10. Johnny Cash: “American IV: The Man Comes Around” (American)

2001:

1. The Strokes “Is This It?” (Rough Trade)

2. Neurosis “A Sun That Never Sets” (Relapse)

3. Low “Things We Lost in the Fire” (Kranky)

4. Mercury Rev “All Is Dream” (V2)

5. Pulp “We Love Life” (Island)

6. Tortoise “Standards” (Thrill Jockey)

7. Papa M “Whatever, Mortal” (Drag City)

8. Hope Sandoval and Warm Inventinos "Bavarian Fruit Bread (Rough Trade)

9. Spiritualized “Let It Come Down” (Arista/BMG)

10. Jim O’Rourke “Insignificance” (Drag City)

2000:

1. Radiohead "Kid A" (EMI)

2. D’Angelo “Voodoo” (Virgin)

3. Yo La Tengo “And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out” (Matador)

4. Air “The Virgin Suicides” score (Astralwerks)

5. The Sea and Cake “Oui” (Thrill Jockey)

6. Smog “Dongs of Sevotion” (Drag City)

7. Blonde Redhead "Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons" (Touch and Go)

8. Shellac “1,000 Hurts” (Touch and Go)

9. Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. "La Novia" (Eclipse)

10. Godspeed You Black Emperor “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven” (Constellation