That Reena Girl

Better late than never!

Ok so first off, I should specify what “best” means to me. These albums might not be the most mindblowing musically or have had the greatest impact, but they did on my life. When I was putting this list together I asked myself the following questions:

1. What albums have you listened to over and over and over?
2. What albums bring you back to a certain time in you life every time you hear them?
3. What albums can you listen to start to finish?
4. What albums have you loved the longest?
5. What albums mean the most to you?

So here is answer. Please feel free to leave your lists in the comments.

This really hard, but I think I have it narrowed down…for now.

Best Albums of the Decade:

1. Fevers and Mirrors- Bright Eyes 2000
2. Full Collapse- Thursday 2001
3. Tell All You Friends- Taking Back Sunday 2002
4. The Execution of All Things- Rilo Kiley 2002
5. Ugly Organ- Cursive 2003
6. Give Up- The Postal Service
7. Transatlanticism- Death Cab for Cutie
8. What to do When You are Dead- Armor for Sleep 2005
9. Juturna- Circa Survive 2005
10. The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me- Brand New 2006

Honorable Mentions:

• If They Move… Kill Them- Fairweather 2001
• Second Stage Turbine Blade- Coheed and Cambria 2002
• The Artist in the Ambulance- Thrice 2003
• War All the Time- Thursday 2003
• In Keeping Secrets of the Silent Earth:3- Coheed and Cambria 2003
• Who WIll Survive and What Will Be Left of Them- Murder By Death 2003
• Deja Entendu- Brand New 2003
• Funeral- Arcade Fire (Only reason it didn’t make the above list is because I didn’t get into Arcade Fire until 2007. Late to the party, I know)
• The December; It’s One More and I’m Free- Lydia 2005
• Between the Heart and the Synapse- The Receiving End of Sirens 2005
• Everything in Transit- Jack’s Mannequin 2005
• Kid A- Radiohead (I refuse to put it just for the fact of the matter that EVERYONE has put it)

Ones I wish made the list but were from 1999:

• Something to Write Home About- The Get Up Kids
• Clarity- Jimmy Eat World
• Through Being Cool- Saves the Day

Best Albums of 2009: Ones That You Probably Didn’t Hear

1. As Cities Burn- Hell or High Water
2. Thrice- Beggars
3. The Dear Hunter- Act III
4. As Tall As Lions- You Can’t Take It With You
5. Manchester Orchestra- Mean Everything to Nothing
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Its Blitz
7. Therefore I Am- The Sound of Human Lives
8. Metric- Fantasies
9. New Moon Soundtrack (You know its an amazing collection of songs for an awful movie)
10. Lady Gaga- The Fame Monster.

Honorable Mentions:

• Paramore- Brand New Eyes
• Brand New- Daisy

Conclusion:
I am so emo…as if you didn’t know from the previous post.

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