11-20

 

20. Tindersticks - Can Our Love
The saddest records are sometimes the sexiest records.

 

19. M. Ward - Transistor Radio

 

18. Outkast - Stankonia
I know, I know, it's problematic for someone who has no other hip-hop on this list to rank this album so highly. But can you deny that "B.O.B." was a peek into the musical utopia that, somehow, we collectively failed to achieve this decade?

 

17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

 

16. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life

 

15. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Tough call picking one album to place Rufus on this list (although the other choices would end by Want Two).

 

14. The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark

 

13. Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
Broadcast had a great decade elaborating a basic premise: Petula Clark trapped on the village in "The Prisoner."

 

12. The Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere

 

11. The Dears - No Cities Left

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