As I’m sure most of you have noticed by now, my interest in music goes a little beyond what is expected of your average person (case in point, the now deceased Silent Sound Waves). With SSW no longer active, I thought I’d use this here little blog to publish my picks when it comes to albums of the year and decade (I’m a sucker for lists). Year is easy enough, but decade is a lot harded, and I’m bound to forget quite a few good ones, and that’s why I’ll start the process by sharing my shortlist.

And hopefully some fellow music fans out there can join in with their own picks and remind me of some of the great albums I’m surely forgetting, or even missed out own completely!

These are the albums currently nominated for my list, alphabetically arranged by artist thanks to using my iTunes library as a starting point:

    • Against Me! – New Wave (2008)
    • Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (2008)
    • Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
    • Athlete – Tourist (2005)
    • Audioslave – Audioslave (2002)
    • Augustana – Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt (2008)
    • Band of Horses – Cease to Begin (2007)
    • Beirut – Gulag Orketar (2006)
    • Blitzen Trapper – Furr (2008)
    • Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
    • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Lie Down in the Light (2008)
    • Brand New – Deja Entendu (2003)
    • Brand New – The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)
    • Bright Eyes – Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
    • Coldplay – Parachutes (2000)
    • Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
    • Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst (2008)
    • Damien Rice – O (2003)
    • Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)
    • Death Cab for Cutie – Plans (2005)
    • Discplines – Smoking Kills (2008)
    • Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (2000)
    • Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
    • Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (2004)
    • The Gaslight Anthem – The ‘59 Sound (2008)
    • Grizzly Bear – Yellow House (2006)
    • The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious (2000)
    • House of Heroes – The End Is Not The End (2008)
    • The Hush Sound – Like Vines (2006)
    • I’m From Barcelona – Let Me Introduce My Friends (2006)
    • Jack’s Mannequin – Everything In Transit (2005)
    • Jason Molina – Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go (2006)
    • John Mayer – Continuum (2006)
    • Johnossi – Johnossi (2005)
    • Jose Gonzales – Veneer (2005)
    • Joshua Radin – We Were Here (2006)
    • Keane – Hopes and Fears (2004)
    • Kent – Vapen och Ammuition (2002)
    • Kevin Devine – Brother’s Blood (2009)
    • The Killers – Sam’s Town (2006)
    • Kings of Convenience – Quiet Is the New Loud (2001)
    • Kings of Leon – Because of the Times (2007)
    • The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out (2006)
    • Manchester Orchestra – I’m Like A Virgin Losing a Child (2006)
    • Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing (2009)
    • Mando Diao – Ode to Ochrasy (2006)
    • Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s – The Dust of Retreat (2006)
    • Mew – Frengers (2003)
    • MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (2008)
    • Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
    • Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
    • Muse – Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
    • My Chemical Romance – The Blakc Parade (2006)
    • The National – Boxer (2007)
    • Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (2005)
    • Pedro The Lion – Control (2002)
    • The Postal Service – Give Up (2003)
    • Razorlight – Up All Night (2004)
    • Right Away, Great Captain! – The Bitter End (2006)
    • Rise Against – Appeal To Reason (2008)
    • She & Him – Volume One (2008)
    • The Shins – Wincing The Night Away (2007)
    • Something Corporate – Leaving Through The Window (2002)
    • Stickboy – Pointing at Clouds (2008)
    • Thrice – Beggars (2009)
    • Tom McRae – Just Like Blood (2003)
    • Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (2008)
    • The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site (2003)
    • Weezer – Green Album (2001)
    • Wilco – Yankee Foxtrot Hotel (2002)

      There we have it. 70 nominees so far, all which will be cut down to a top 32 or something like that. But I know that I have forgotten at least 70 other great albums from great artists that for some reason isn’t represented in my iTunes library at the moment, and that is why I need all of the three or perhaps four persons that will be reading this to compliment my nominations with their own. Use the comments, and if you have compiled a list of your own feel free to share a link to it!