Special thanks to Paul Gower, Paste Magazine, Pitchfork, and Last FM for helping me discover many of these.
I hope you make some good discoveries of your own here -
cheers,
kevin
In no particular order...
1. New Pornographers - Electric Version
2. Feist - The Reminder
3. My Morning Jacket - Z
4. Deathcab for Cutie -Transatlanticism
5. Postal Service - The Give Up
6. Gorillaz - debut
7. Lady Ga Ga - The Fame
8. Beck - Sea Change
9. JayZ - Blueprint
10. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
11. Shins - Chutes too Narrow
12. Sufjan Stevens - (c'mon feel the) Illinoise
13. Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
14. White stripes - Elephant
15. Killers - Hot Fuss
16. Damien rice - O
17. Arcade Fire - Funeral
18. Once - Soundtrack
19. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
20. Company of Thieves - Ordinary Riches
21. Regina Spektor - Far
22. Kings of Leon - aha Shake Heartbreak
23. Ok go - oh no
24. The xx - debut
25. Tegan and Sara - So Jealous
26. PJ Harvey -Stories from the City
27. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
28. Green day - American Idiot
29. Coldplay - Rush of Blood
30. Arctic monkeys - Whatever
31. Yeah Yeah yeahs - Fever to tell
32. Evanescence - debut
33. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
34. LCD soundsystem - Sound of Silver
35. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots
36. Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
37. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
38. Elliot Smith - Figure Eight
39. We are Scientists - with Love and Squalor
40. Clap your hands say yeah - debut
41. Joe Henry - Scar
42. The National - Boxer
43. Bon Iver - for Emma
44. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
45. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
46. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
47. Broken Social Scene - You forgot it in people
48. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
49. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
50. still under consideration:
Bjork -Vespertine
Bob Dylan - love and theft
Robert Plant and Allison Krauss - Raising Sand
Knife - Silent Shout
Daft Punk - Homework
