I've been working on my list of albums, and I've been listening almost exclusively to music from the noughts for the last couple of months in an effort to sort it all out. One thing that this project has made clear is that there are lots of great albums that I've meant to buy but have not yet bought. In fact, most of my music purchases over the last few years have been through emusic.com and Paste magazine, which has significantly skewed my collection. So this list is not meant to be any sort of definitive commentary on historical or important albums. It is merely a list of the decade's albums that have given me the most enjoyment. I couldn't really claim that of a full 100 albums, so I went with a top 50:

50. The Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here
49. Bob Geldof - Sex, Age & Death
48. Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime
47. Scott Merritt - Detour Home
46. Paul Simon - Surprise
45. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
44. Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
43. Todd Snider - Happy to Be Here
42. Lloyd Cole - Anti Depressant
41. Warren Zevon - The Wind
40. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
39. The Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues, Part 2
38. Feist - Let It Die
37. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
36. The Rosebuds - Life Like
35. Rheostatics - Night of the Shooting Stars
34. Steve Earle - Just an American Boy
33. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
32. David Gray - Life in Slow Motion
31. The Walkabouts - Drunken Soundtracks
30. Lucinda Williams - Essence
29. Over the Rhine - Live From Nowhere Volume One
28. Todd Snider - East Nashville Skyline
27. Radiohead - In Rainbows
26. Better Than Ezra - Closer
25. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
24. Kathleen Edwards - Failer
23. John Fogerty - Revival
22. Suzanne Vega - Songs In Red And Gray
21. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
20. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
19. The Waterboys - A Rock in the Weary Land
18. My Morning Jacket - Z
17. The Strokes - Is this It?
16. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
15. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
14. U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind
13. R.E.M. - Reveal
12. Coldplay - X&Y
11. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
10. David Gray - A New Day at Midnight
9. Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
8. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
7. Over The Rhine - The Trumpet Child
6. Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don’t Tolerate
5. Tom Waits - Alice
4. Steve Earle - Jerusalem
3. The Decemberists - Picaresque
2. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral