Hands down the most adventurous album they’ve done since YHF — or really before it for that matter. Love Art of Almost from start to finish. I guess they really needed to get off of their label, those things tend to hold these guys back too much!

Is it me or is Ben Gibbard doing his best Eddie Vedder in that pic?

Actually, the I found the most surprising, if not glaring omissions from the list (the whole list, not only the top 20) were The Unicorns (ranked in the top 10 in 2003) and PB&J’s Writer’s Block, which they totally loved. Personally I’ve listed to either of those albums more than I have Kid A in the past 10 years. But that’s just me.

I’d like to have seen Okkervil River’s “My life is a Movie or Maybe”, Rhead “15 Step” on there, but otherwise, i can’t really argue with the list. but then again, how do you argue with any list of 500 songs from the last decade? i bet i could pull any random 500 songs from the last decade and it’d be hard to argue with 75% of it. It was a great decade for music. cheers

RIP Les

I love the story how he originally left Gibson b/c they tried to name the SG after him when it wasn’t his design. Later on, when Clapton started playing one, he started designing them again.

Neither do the following records (in my quick estimation…): Blood on the Tracks, Nevermind, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Vampire Weekend, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.

Those are 5 GREAT albums from a couple different eras, that don’t have key changes in their songs. Chew on that for a while.

Yea, this is depressing. I can understand if Justin Vernon might need the extra scratch here, but Thom? Really? I guess this is the trade-off for giving your album away for free. Are we OK with this?

Jenny Lewis is irresistible.