My 100 Favorite Albums of the Decade

This is my list for best 100 albums of the decade. Making this list was a lot harder then my previous list. There are tons of repeat artists in this, but that is to be expected. I have changed some things, like added and subtracted albums from previous "top albums" lists I have done.

2000
Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasent
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast
Taproot- Gift
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
Five For Fighting - Americatown
Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines
Eve 6 - Horrorscope
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Twothirtyeight - Regulate the Chemicals
best album: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
honorable mention: Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2

2001
Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
Thursday - Full Collapse
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Our Lady Peace - Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch
Old 97s - Satelite Rides
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Incubus - Morning View
best album: The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
honorable mention: Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

2002
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy Soundtrack
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Breaking Benjamin - Saturate
best album: Desaparecidos - Read English/Speak Spanish
honorable mention: Beck - Sea Change

2003
Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein
Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
The Format - Interventions + Lullabies
Criteria - En Garde
Jose Gonzalez - Veener
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
best album: Brand New - Deja Entendu
honorable mention: Something Corporate - North

2004
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who, Love Bad News
Pedro the Lion - Achilles Heel
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
The Garden State Soundtrack
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Tilly and the Wall - Wild Like Children
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
best album: The Good Life - Album of the Year
honorable mention: Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

2005
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Day
Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
My Morning Jacket - Z
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
best album: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
honorable mention: Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness

2006
Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Gin Blossoms - Major Lodge Victory
Cursive - Happy Hollow
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You
Ray LaMontagne - Til The Sun Turns Black
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
best album: The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
honorable mention: The Kooks - Inside In/ Inside Out

2007
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim
Rilo Kiley - Under the Black Light
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild Soundtrack
best album: Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
honorable mention: Bright Eyes - Four Winds EP

2008
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
She & Him - Volume One
Frontier Ruckus - The Orien Songbook
best album: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
honorable mention: Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords

2009
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
Pete Yorn - Back and Forth
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
M. Ward - Hold Time
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
best album: Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
honorable mention: Brand New - Daisy