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I wish I could be more orderly and concise, but the only way I could shorten it would be to firstly restrict it to one album per artist, but then that throws up dilemmas in itself (how can choose between Alligator and Boxer), so here is 20 in alphabetical/chronological order (probably neglected the early noughties due to lack of memory):

Arab Strap - Monday At the Hug and Pint

Arab Strap - The Last Romance

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights

Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye

M83 - Saturdays=Youth

Mew - ...And the Glass Handed Kites

The National - Alligator

The National - Boxer

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Detroyer?

Okkervil River - The Stage Names

Pulp - We Love Life

Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

The XX - XX

Argh, no room for ATDI, Spoon and many others.

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here's a list of 50 albums from the past decade i still listen to regularly, i can't be bothered pruning the list any more

a sunny day in glasgow - scribble mural comic journal

alamos - s-t

and you will know us by the trail of dead - source tags and codes

at the drive in - relationship of command

atlas sound - logos

belong - october language

black francis - bluefinger

bloc party - silent alarm

boards of canada - geogaddi

broken social scene - you forgot it in people

charlottefield - what are friends for?

clinic - internal wrangler

clogs - lantern

dananananaykroyd - hey everyone

deerhunter - cryptograms

doves - the last broadcast

elbow - asleep in the back

enablers - tundra

field music - field music

field music - tones of town

four tet - ringer

ghosts and vodka - addicts and drunks

gogogo airheart - exitheuxa

grizzly bear - veckatimest

grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill

hella - the devil isn't red

helvetia - the clever north wind

hot snakes - suicide invoice

jim o'rourke - insignificance

lcd.soundsystem - sound of silver

liars - drum's not dead

life without buildings - any other city

mclusky - mclusky do dallas

mclusky - the difference between me and you is that i'm not on fire

mogwai - happy songs for happy people

no age - nouns

okker - two axes

owls - s-t

papier tigre - s-t

phoenix - it's never been like that

radiohead - kid a

sonic youth - murray street

the cairo gang - s-t

the electric soft parade - holes in the wall

the national - alligator

the new year - the end is near

the twilight sad - fourteen autumns and fifteen winters

the walkmen - bows and arrows

volcano! - beautiful seizure

wilco - a ghost is born

yo la tengo - i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass

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MY FIFTEEN FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF THE DECADE

in no particular order, with the exception of #1 on the list.

1. LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS ANY OTHER CITY

7. DESAPARECIDOS READ MUSIC / SPEAK SPANISH

ARGH I FORGOT 'RELATIONSHIP OF COMMAND' !!!

AND 'THE ARGUMENT' !!!

For some reason I peg all four albums here as late '90s albums. All excellent though, and their excellence is probably why it feels like they'be been out forever.

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Favourite 18 of the last decade (in no particular order):

Ben Folds - Rocking The Suburbs

The Divine Comedy - Regeneration

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Rfufs Wainwright - Want

Camille - Le Fil

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake its Morning

Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise

Brendan Benson - Alternative to Love

The Pearlfishers - Up With the Larks

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News

The New Pornographers - Challengers

Fancey - Schmancey

Field Music- Tones of Town

School of Language - Sea From Shore

The Week That Was - The Week That Was

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Challengers over Twin Cinema or Mass Romantic? I love The New Pornographers but I was kind of disappointed with Challengers.

Yeah, never really gotten into Twin Cinema or Mass Romantic. Then again, I came to them after Challengers, so who knows, I may change my mind as the years go by. But as it stands, Challengers is my New Pornos album of choice.

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Yeah, never really gotten into Twin Cinema or Mass Romantic. Then again, I came to them after Challengers, so who knows, I may change my mind as the years go by. But as it stands, Challengers is my New Pornos album of choice.

Fair play. I heard Twin Cinema first and got really into it to the point where I think it's about all I listened to for the month I heard it.

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MY FIFTEEN FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF THE DECADE

in no particular order, with the exception of #1 on the list.

1. LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS ANY OTHER CITY

7. DESAPARECIDOS READ MUSIC / SPEAK SPANISH

ARGH I FORGOT 'RELATIONSHIP OF COMMAND' !!!

AND 'THE ARGUMENT' !!!

For some reason I peg all four albums here as late '90s albums. All excellent though, and

their excellence is probably why it feels like they'be been out forever.

yeah so did i initially, especially life without buildings. probably because i speant many years avoiding them cos i had them mixed up with bis. oops!

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