The whole world seems to be compiling best of the decade lists so I thought I'd do the same.

These aren't in any particular order.

Top 10 albums of the decade.

1. The Strokes - Is this it?
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, it's morining
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Modest Mouse - Antartica and the Moon
6. The Libertines - Up in Brackets
7. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
8. The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
9. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
10.Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Tool - Lateralus
Joel Plasket - Ashtray Rock
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
Tom Fun Orchestra - You Will Land with a thud


Top 10 movies of the decade.

1. The Dark Knight
2. The LOTR trilogy
3. Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
4. Kill Bill: vol 1 and 2
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The Departed
7. Spirited Away
8. Wall-E
9. The Royal Tenenbaums
10. No Country for Old Men

Runner-ups

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Inglorious Basterds
Ghost World
Pan's Labyrinth
Letters from Iwo Jima

1. Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin

I first heard Houses of the Holy at some point during 9th grade. I was at my friend's house and we were looking through his Dad's old vinyls and we discovered this treasure of an album. You have to realize that at this point my musical taste had not matured yet and were pretty awful. At this point I was listening to Nickleback... ugh. So Houses of the Holy was my introduction to classic rock. Well that is not necessarily true, my dad had gotten me into Styx around the 7th grade but I was quickly pulled in by the mainstream. So basically I consider Led Zeppelin as my gateway into what I consider music of good taste. It's not really my favorite of their albums but its the one that has affected me the most.

2. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Another great leaps into the world of music was the first time I head Like a Rolling Stone from Bob Dylan. It was like rolling thunder. The song hits you, it changes you, you'll never be the same again. Bob Dylan, especially this album introduced me to a whole new level of songwriting. Three of my favorite songs of his are on this album; Like A Rolling Stone, Desolation Row, and Ballad of a Thin Man (which has a really interesting story behind it). Bob Dylan also introduced me to a love of folk and folk-rock which I still have today. I saw Bob Dylan in concert last year, while it was a good show, he isn't someone that aged well... there lacked a certain stage present. But just the fact that I was this close to him was quite impressive.

3. Ok Computer - Radiohead

I think Ok Computer is probably on many people's list of influential albums. You can almost say it might be the album of the decade... on can almost think of music in terms of pre-Ok computer and post-Ok Computer. I was in tenth grade, it was during an improv tournament and my friend who was already a big fan of Radiohead introduced me to them. I listened to a few songs, I think one of them was probably Paranoid Android... I was hooked! It was my first real introduction to alternative rock. As soon as I got home I downloaded pretty much the whole album. Today, I'm not really sure which Radiohead album is my favorite but this one is pretty high up.

4. London Calling - The Clash

After my journey into classic rock, I began to hate punk music with a passion. What I associated with punk was Blink 182, Sum 41 and the likes... which to me is a knock off version of punk and doesnt really follow what punk is really about. My attitude towards punk rock changed when I first The Clash, though I had heard them before without really knowing (like Should I stay or Should I go). I remember the first Time I heard London Calling (the song), there was so much intensity... it was genius. I then proceeded to look further into older punk bands like Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Elvis Costello, Gang of Four, etc. Searching for Punk bands led me to discover post-punk where my true love lies, it's still one of my favorite genre of music. Bands like Joy Division, The Fall, Talking Heads, The Church, U2, Chameleons, and others were all kids who group up listening to punk rock but as they came to form their own bands they pushed the genre in more experimental directions.

5. We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank - Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse was my first "indie" band. I put quotations because they've gotten pretty big since their indie origins. Is an indie band still indie once he makes it big? Who knows... it's one those labels that seem very strange to me. Identifying a certain sound based on its origin, and even then there are many indie sounds. Anyway, back to the point... Modest Mouse, this album intorduced me to a whole new world of indie music. I know a lot of people seem to prefer Good News for People who Like Bad News or their previous albums, but I like this one as much as the others... it has Johnny Marr (of The Smiths fame) as a band member and he's awesome so it has to be awesome, right?

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