Here's my list. The numbers really aren't all that important for the most part, because it's a pretty personal list with motivations that don't have a lot to do with purely sonic measurements.
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1. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (2005)
2. Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Raising Sand (2007)
3. Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors (2005)
4. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is In the Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (2002)
5. Brand of Horses - Cease To Begin (2007)
6. Frou Frou - Frou Frou (2002)
7. Dr. Dog - Fate (2008)
8. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (2003)
9. Metric - Fantasies (2009)
10. Jay-Z - The Blueprint (2001)
11. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (2009)
12. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)
13. Little Brother - The Listening (2003)
14. Interpol - Antics (2004)
15. The National - Boxer (2007)
16. Blindside - About A Burning Fire (2004)
17. The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)
18. Tegan and Sara - This Business of Art (2000)
19. Ray Lamontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black (2006)
20. Appleseed Cast - Peregrine (2006)
21. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
22. Keren Ann - Nolita (2004)
23. Coldplay - Parachutes (2000)
24. Other Lives - Other Lives (2009)
25. Field Music - Tones of Town (2007)
26. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (2009)
27. Heartless Bastards - All This Time (2006)
28. Julieta Venegas - Bueninvento (2000)
29. Mirah - Aspera (2009)
30. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (2009)
31. Outkast - Stankonia (2000)
32. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006)
33. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (2008)
34. Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling (2008)
35. Flaw - Through The Eyes (2001)
36. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
37. Cake - Fashion Nugget (2001)
38. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antartica (2000)
39. Architecture In Helsinki - Fingers Crossed (2004)
40. 30 Seconds To Mars - 30 Seconds To Mars (2002)
41. Ha Ha Tonka - Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South (2009)
42. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (2005)
43. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
44. Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)
45. Nelly - Country Grammar (2000)
46. Kanye West - The College Dropout (2004)
47. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (2006)
48. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (2008)
49. Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 (2000)
50. Passion Pit - Manners (2009)
51. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital (2006)
52. TV On The Radio - Dear Science (2008)
53. Sondre Lerche - Faces Down (2002)
54. Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat (2006)
55. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
56. System Of A Down - Toxicity (2001)
57. The Dears - Gang of Losers (2006)
58. Deftones - White Pony (2000)
59. Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza (2008)
60. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005)
61. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War (2008)
62. Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood (2003)
63. Circa Survive - On Letting Go (2007)
64. Dungen - Tio Bitar (2007)
65. Devotchka - A Mad & Faithful Telling (2008)
66. The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army (2007)
67. The xx - xx (2009)
68. Feist - The Reminder (2007)
69. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (2007)
70. God Forbid - Earthsblood (2009)
71. Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005)
72. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift (2005)
73. Floetry - Floetic (2002)
74. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (2000)
75. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)
76. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (2008)
77. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
78. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (2001)
79. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (2002)
80. The Wrens - Meadowlands (2003)
81. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000)
82. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
83. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (2005)
84. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (2006)
85. Land of Talk - Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss (2006)
86. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (2006)
87. Two Gallants - Two Gallants (2007)
88. Black Gold - Rush (2009)
89. Stew - Something Deeper Than These Changes (2003)
90. The Strokes - Is This It? (2001)
91. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (2007)
92. Zero 7 - The Garden (2006)
93. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009)
94. Guster - Keep It Together (2003)
95. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of... (2002)
96. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows (2000)
97. Spoon - Gimmie Fiction (2005)
98. Murs - Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition (2004)
99. Foreign Born - Person To Person (2009)
100. The Roots - Game Theory (2006)
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Most overrated album of the decade?
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2006)
Runner up: Vampire Weekend (2008)
Most underrated album of the decade?
Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown (2007)
Runner up: Hilary Hahn - Violin Concertos (Mendelssohn/Shostakovich) (2002)
Song of the Decade:
Plus/Minus (+/-) Steal The Blueprints (2006)