The 50 Most Important Records from this Decade

November 20th, 2009 § 0 comments

W+K NY got this list from NPR. How many of these records have you listened to? Have they inspired you to create, do, or think? In bold are my favorite 10 from the list.


What are yours?


01. John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls

02. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

03. The Arcade Fire: Funeral

04. The Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas

05. Beyonce: Dangerously In Love

06. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

07. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning

08. Burial: Untrue

09. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: S/T

10. Kelly Clarkson: Breakaway

11. Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head

12. Danger Mouse: The Grey Album

13. Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism

14. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife

15. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP

16. The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

17. Osvaldo Golijov: La Pasión Segun San Marcos (Saint Mark’s Passion)

18. Green Day: American Idiot

19. Iron And Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days

20. Jay-Z: The Blueprint

21. Norah Jones: Come Away With Me

22. Juanes: Fijate Bien

23. LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver

24. Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter III

25. Little Brother: The Listening

26. M.I.A.: Kala

27. Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet

28. Mastodon: Leviathan

29. Jason Moran: Black Stars

30. OutKast: Stankonia

31. Brad Paisley: 5th Gear

32. Panda Bear: Person Pitch

33. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand

34. The Postal Service: Give Up

35. Radiohead: In Rainbows

36. Radiohead: Kid A

37. Shakira: Fijación Oral, Vol. 1

38. Sigur Ros: ( )

39. Britney Spears: In The Zone

40. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

41. The Strokes: Is This It

42. The Swell Season: Once Soundtrack

43. Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: In The Heart Of The Moon

44. TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain

45. Various: Garden State Soundtrack

46. Various: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack

47. Kanye West: The College Dropout

48. The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

49. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

50. Amy Winehouse: Back To Black


via W+K NY

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