The Best 50 Albums of the Decade

Yes, fans and fervent followers:  another one of my year end lists for you to devour, decipher and dis. But this one happens to be Decade-licious and not focused on 2009. Without further ado : My 50 Best Albums of the Decade!!

1.         Kid A –Radiohead -2000

2.         Songs For the Deaf-Queens of the Stone Age- 2002

3.         Them Crooked Vultures- 2009

4.         Wilco- A Ghost is Born- 2004

5.         Mark Lanegan-Field Songs- 2001

6.         Beck-Sea Change- 2002

7.         Allison Krauss and Robert Plant-Raising Sand -2007

8.         In Rainbows-Radiohead -2007

9.         Mastodon-Crack The Skye- 2009

10.       White Stripes-De Stijl- 2000

11.       Mars Volta-Deloused in the Comatorium-2003

12.       Queens of the Stone Age-Rated R-2000

13.       Kings of Leon-Youth and Young Manhood-2003

14.       Drive By Truckers-The Southern Rock Opera-2001

15.       The Hold Steady-Separation Sunday-2005

16.       Built to Spill-You In Reverse-2006

17.       Ray LaMontagne-Trouble-2004

18.       Radiohead-Amnesiac-2001

19.       Clutch-Pure Rock Fury-2001

20.       U2-No Line on the Horizon-2009

21. Elliott Smith- From a Basement On a Hill- 2004

21.       My Morning Jacket-Z-2005

22.       Heartless Bastards-The Mountain-2009

23.       High On Fire-Death is This Communion-2007

24.       Neko Case-Middle Cyclone-2009

25.       Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-Dig! Lazarus Dig!-2008

26.       Eagles of Death Metal-Peace, Love and Death Metal-2004

27.       Black Keys-Attack and Release-2008

28.       Valient Thorr-Immortalizer-2008

29.       LCD Soundsystem-self titled-2005

30.       Diamond Nights-Popsicle-2005

31.       Iron and Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days-2004

32.       Death From Above 1979- You’re a Woman, I’m A Machine- 2004

33.       Blitzen Trapper-Furr-2008

34.       Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-2002

35.       Spoon-Kill The Moonlight-2002

36.       The Darkness-Permission to Land-2003

37.       Comets On Fire-Blue Cathedral 2004

38.       Mark Lanegan-Bubblegum-2004

39.       Mastodon-Leviathan-2004

40.       Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots-2002

41.       The Sword-Gods of the Earth-2008

42.       The Parlor Mob-And You Were a Crow-2008

43.       Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit- 2009

44.       Thom Yorke-The Eraser-2006

45.       Priestess-Lay Down-2006

46.       Black Mountain-In the Future-2008

47.       Early Man-Closing In-2005

48.       Black Crowes-Warpaint-2008

49.       Howlin’ Rain- (self titled) 2006

50.       JJ Grey and Mofro- Lochloosa- 2004

I'm sure I've surprised a large majority of you with my diversity. Hell, you should see all of the different flags that I have hanging off of the front of my house. The neighbors all scratch their heads as their little foofy dogs crap on my immaculately manicured lawn. The fact is, you never know what you'll get here at Circle of Fits. Sometimes full circle, always a fit.

The Archive

In my opinion, music news is slow near the end of the year. There are painful Grammy Nominations to spray with verbal bullets, There is Bob Dylan's new Xmas album to decimate, and every day Lady Gaga's attempt via costume to hide her butterface get more grandiose and forced...but why bother going into depth with the obvious?
Even though I'm not really a music news blogger, I do my best to cherry pick the best bits and spit out the pits. But I think I'm just going to have fun and dig deep to find items that fulfill my fancy until I do my best and worst of 2009 lists in a week or so.

Today I found a snippet of a film called The Archive, by Sean Dunne about a man in Pittsburgh who claims to have the world's largest record collection. Here's a 4 minute clip. This makes me want to go get that stylus that I've needed for 16 years, and maybe back away from the Ipod a little.

Couldn't we all chip in, set up a Pay Pal account in his name and buy this sucker? We could empty out a Best Buy near one of our homes and keep it there. We could charge all of people a dollar and a half just to see 'em. And for an extra 50 cents, anyone 21 or under gets to actually hold an LP..maybe get their picture taken with it.