Babyshambles – Down In Albion (2005) – The Faces, let alone the Libertines, were never such a glorious mess.
Be Your Own Pet – Be Your Own Pet (2006) – Resembling Rancid or the Ramones in its consistency of sound.
Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward (2008) – Resembling Be Your Own Pet in its consistency of sound.
Beck – Sea Change (2002) – As good a heartbreaker as 808s and Heartbreaks
Bjork – Selmasongs (2000) – The movie was just as good.
Bjork – Volta (2007) – return to form after some Bjorks most bewildering exercises. Still waiting for the Dirty Projectors collaboration to see the light of day.
Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. (2009) – The remix as art form, best album of 2009.
Black Kids – Partie Traumatic (2008) – indie dance bend, but won't teach your bofriend gow to.
Blue October – Appreoaching Normal (2009) – Cuz Helen sez soBob Dylan – Love And Theft (2001) – One of the finest albums of his career -more songs about aging and loss.
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue (2002) – After the terrible Hard Rain, this live album is a complete shocker. One of dylan's best tours almost lost in time.
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Iver can sound a little, I dunno, stilted, samey? But the sameneess is such a cold and bleak and haunting day you don't mind reliving it.
Booker T. – Potato Hole (2009) – The great keyboard player rocks it hard with a coupla Drive By Truckers.
Born Ruffians – I Need A Life EP (2008) – Youthful and strange singalongs.
Boyz Noize – Oi Oi Oi (2007) – Nobody does "more bass" wilder than this german DJ
Brad Paisley – American Saturday Night (2009) – Enough great songs to make it his best since Who Needs Pictures.
Bright Eyes – Fevers And Mirrors (2000) – Listen to Conor become Conor. One of his masterpieces.
Bright Eyes – Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002) – "Let's Not Shit Ourselves" is one of the songs of the decade
Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005) – Album Of the decade
Bright Eyes – Motion Sickness: Live Recordings (2005)- The "Make War" and "True Blue" are standard bearers.
Bright Eyes – Cassadega (2007) – I prefer it to Wide Awake in some ways. It peaks enormously high with "Hot Knives" and Conor was never better than on this tour.
Britney Spears – In The Zone (2003) – This is the one in which she gives Madonna a run for her money, literally on "Me Against The Machine", figuratively on "Toxic"
Britney Spears – Blackout (2007) – Fucked up divorcee gets back on the dancefloor.
Britney Spears – Circus (2009) – Recherchez dance queen gets back on stage.
Britney Spears – The Singles Collection (2009) Works the remix better than anything this side of Black Eyed Peas.
Buddy Holly – Down The Line Rarities (2009) – With of the albums of the year fifty years after he died.
frazzled!
you mean year instead of decade…. a little tired this morning?
I had to throw down Blue October, had to! Actually would have chosen History For Sale, had I read the catagory as decade instead of year!Wow, HUGE undertaking! k… I can try
i am up to letter C…. that was letter b u just commented on
k… where is yr best of the decade?
BLUE OCTOBER -APPROACHING NORMALcuz I say so