The Best of the Decade: And the Rest...

Presented in no particular order and without comment, here's the rest of the stuff that made this decade a lot better than Time Magazine would have you believe:

The Hold Steady: Separation Sunday

Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca

The Gourds: Cow Fish Fowl or Pig

New Pornographers: Challengers

Josh Ritter: Hello Starling

Josh Rouse: 1972

Drive By Truckers: Brighter than Creation's Dark

The Hold Steady: Stay Positive

Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock & Roll

Lupe Fiasco: Food and Liquor

Brian Wilson: Smile

Ron Sexsmith: Exit Strategy of the Soul

Drive By Truckers: A Blessing and a Curse

Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros: Global a-Go-Go

Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Soundtrack: I'm Not There

Lambchop: Nixon

Roll with You: Eli Reed and the Paperboys

Spoon: Gimme Fiction

XTC: Wasp Star: Apple Venus, Vol. 2

Laura Viers: Saltbreakers

Okkervil River: The Stage Names

Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall

Accelerate: R.E.M.

White Stripes: White Blood Cells

Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat

Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

Joe Henry: Scar

Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

Wilco: Sky Blue Sky

Avett Brothers: I and Love and You

Dirty Projectors: Rise Above

The Bad Plus: Prog

Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose

Paul Simon: Surprise

Midlake: The Trials of Von Occupanther

Radiohead: In Rainbows

Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter

Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Dr. Dog: Fate

The Wood Brothers: Ways Not to Lose

Lay It Down: Al Green

Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood

She & Him: She & Him

Girl Talk: Feed the Animals