So, I’m late getting my year-end lists out. But it’s the end of a decade, so cut me some slack.

Before I get to 2009, here’s a recap and revised history of the best albums of the decade.

2000

Doves – Lost Souls – Album
New Model Army – Eight – Album
PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea – Album
Shelby Lynne – I Am Shelby Lynne – Album
South – From Here On In – Album
U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind – Album

2001

Ash – Free All Angels – Album
Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast – Album
Joe Strummer – Global A Go-Go – Album
Magoo – Realist Week – Album
Ryan Adams – Gold – Album
Spiritualized – Let It Come Down – Album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Album

2002

The Anniversary – Your Majesty – Album
David Bowie – Heathen – Album
Doves – The Last Broadcast – Album
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots – Album

2003

The Alarm – In The Poppyfields # 1 – #5 – Album
The Decemberists – Her Majesty The Decemberists – Album
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People – Album
Joe Strummer – Streetcore – Album
Over The Rhine – Ohio – Album
Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch – Album
The Stratford 4 – Love & Distortion – Album
T.S.O.L. – Divided We Stand – Album

2004

Bad Religion – The Empire Strikes First – Album
Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt – Album
The Explosion – Black Tape – Album
Green Day – American Idiot – Album
Leatherface – Dog Disco – Album
Mission Of Burma – ONoffON – Album
Tilly and the Wall – Wild Like Children – Album

2005

Against Me! – Searching For A Former Clarity – Album
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene – Album
Gorillaz – Demon Days – Album
The Kills – No Wow – Album
Reigning Sound – Live At Goner Records – Album

2006

Cat Power – The Greatest – Album
Defiance, Ohio – The Great Depression – Album
The Hold Steady – Boys And Girls In America – Album
Lilys – Everything Wrong Is Imaginary – Album
The Riverboat Gamblers – To The Confusion Of Our Enemies – Album
This is My Fist – A History of Rats – Album
The World / Inferno Friendship Society – Red-Eyed Soul – Album

2007

Against Me! – New Wave – Album
Bishop Allen – The Broken String – Album
David Vandervelde – The Moonstation House Band – Album
Fake Problems – How Far Our Bodies Go – Album
The Gaslight Anthem – Sink Or Swim – Album
The Innocence Mission – We Walked In Song – Album
The National – Boxer – Album
The World / Inferno Friendship Society – Addicted to Bad Ideas – Album

2008

Cloud Cult – Feel Good Ghosts – Album
The Dutchess and the Duke – She’s The Dutchess, He’s The Duke – Album
Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life – Album
The Gaslight Anthem – The ‘59 Sound – Album
HiFi Handgrenades – Carry On – Album
Poi Dog Pondering – 7 – Album
Street Dogs – State of Grace – Album