Albums

One of the things you should know about me is that I love music. Here is a list of some of my favorite music over the past 15 years or so.

2011 Top 15 Albums

1. Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2. The Head and the Heart, The Head and the Heart
3. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
4. Blind Pilot, We Are the Tide
5. The Decemberists, The King is Dead
6. Iron & Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean
7. The Apache Relay, American Nomad
8. Wilco, The Whole Love
9. The Civil Wars, Barton Hollow
10. Gabe Dixon, One Spark
11. Dawes, Nothing Is Wrong
12. Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto
13. Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Sleep With One Eye Open
14. Eddie Vedder, Ukelele Songs
15. The Strokes, Angles

2010 Top 20 Albums

1. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
   
2. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More
   
3. Vampire Weekend, Contra
   
4. The National, High Violet
5. Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs, God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise
   
6. Band of Horses, Infinite Arms
   
7. Jakob Dylan, Women & Country
   
8. The Black Keys, Brothers
9. Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave
   
10. Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown
11. Josh Ritter, So Runs the World Away
    
12. The Radio Dept., Clinging To A Scheme
13. Phosphorescent, Here’s To Taking It Easy
    
14. The Gaslight Anthem, American Slang
    
15. Justin Townes Earle, Harlem River Blues
    
16. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, I Learned the Hard Way
    
17. She & Him, Vol. II
    
18. Matthew Barber, True Believer
    
19. Damien Jurado, Saint Bartlett
    
20. Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz
    

2009 Top 20 Albums

1. U2, No Line on the Horizon
2. M Ward, Hold Time
3. The Avett Brothers, I and Love and You
4. Eels, Hombre Lobo
5. Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies
6. Dawes, North Hills
7. Pearl Jam, Backspacer
8. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Monsters of Folk, Monsters of Folk
10. Bruce Springsteen, Working on a Dream
11. Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band, Outer South
12. Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
13. Slaid Cleaves, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
14. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
15. Magnolia Electric Co., Josephine
16. Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels
17. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
18. David Bazan, Curse Your Branches
19. Regina Spektor, Far
20. Ben Kweller, Changing Horses

2008 Top 15 Albums

1. Coldplay, Viva La Vida
2. The Gabe Dixon Band, The Gabe Dixon Band
3. Mark Erelli, Delivered
4. Ryan Adams, Cardinology
5. Brett Dennen, Hope for the Hopeless
6. Matthew Barber, Ghost Notes
7. David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
8. Jakob Dylan, Seeing Things
9. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
10. Killers, Day & Age
11. Sheryl Crow, Detours
12. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
13. Keane, Perfect Symmetry
14. Denison Witmer, Carry the Weight
15. David Cook, David Cook

2007 Top 15 Albums

1. The Avett Brothers, Emotionalism
2. Radiohead, In Rainbows
3. The National, Boxer
4. Michael McDermott, Noise From Words
5. Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
6. Bruce Springsteen, Magic
7. Josh Ritter, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
8. Scott Orr, Miles From Today
9. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Lifeline
11. David Crowder Band, Remedy
12. Wilco, Blue Sky Blue
13. Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
14. Derek Webb, The Ringing Bell
15. Matt Nathanson, Some Mad Hope

2006 Top 10 Albums

1. Michael Giacchino, LOST (Original Television Soundtrack)
2. Johnny Cash, American V: A Hundred Highways
3. The Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way
4. Josh Ritter, The Animal Years
5. Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome
6. Jars of Clay, Good Monsters
7. Old Crow Medicine Show, Big Iron World
8. Ben Kweller, Ben Kweller
9. Chris Tomlin, See The Morning
10. Keane, Under the Iron Sea
    

2005 Top 5 Albums

1. David Crowder Band, A Collision
2. Derek Webb, Mockingbird
3. Coldplay, X&Y
4. Lost & Found, Pronto
5. Jars of Clay, Redemption Songs

2004 Top 5 Albums

1. Johnny Cash, My Mother’s Hymn Book
2. U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
3. Ray Lamontagne, Trouble
4. Old Crow Medicine Show, O.C.M.S.
5. Arcade Fire, Funeral
   

2003 Album of the Year – The Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music

2002 Album of the Year – Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around

2001 Album of the Year – The Strokes, Is This It?

2000 Album of the Year – U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind

1999 Album of the Year – Moby, Play

1998 Album of the Year – Pearl Jam, Yield

1997 Album of the Year – The Verve, Urban Hymns

1996 Album of the Year – The Wallflowers, Bringing Down the Horse

1995 Album of the Year – Michael McDermott, Michael McDermott