suggest five albums that are personal favorites from this decade, and it might give me (and others) ideas. i need a huge concentration of suggestions, so when 9 out of every 10 albums mentioned don't interest me at all, the remainders will accumulate.

i haven't really been paying attention, and there's only 2 albums i can think of that i'd call favorites:

music, madonna
white chalk, pj harvey

fever to tell by yeah yeah yeahs is good, but there's a bunch of songs in the middle i always skip. so i'm reluctant to include it.

maybe vespertine by bjork. it's one of those albums i really like every time i listen to it, but have only felt the urge to listen to about three times.

Choosing specific albums is hard...

Modest Mouse- Moon and Antarctica
Libertines- Up The Bracket
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
White Stripes- Elephant
Maximo Park- A Certain Trigger

pretty girls make graves; élan vital
MIA; kala
natalie merchant; motherland
the knife; silent shout
xiu xiu; the air force

too obvious? probably.

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Raise the dead on your turntable.

The Organ - Grab That Gun (2004)
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back (2006)
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000
Juliana Hatfield - Beautiful Creature (2000)
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)

At the moment and in chronological order:

Tegan and Sara - This Business of Art (2000)
Tegan and Sara - If It Was You (2002)
Tegan and Sara - So Jealous (2004)
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2006)
Tegan and Sara - The Con (2007)