Aesthetic Octopus' Attempt At a Top 25 Albums of the Decade List. Yeah!

So even though we are still just little children when it comes to knowing things and what not, we decided to be audacious enough to create a best of the decade list! Yeah! Excitement! Also we are very aware (more aware than you will ever know you will find out just how aware we are in the future when they create mind reading devices, as long as this happens before 2012) that every other end of decade list has already surfaced and that we are the last ones to post. Well allow us to assure you that this was intentional! We thought it was ridiculous that the other sites had zero faith that something great would emerge in the last few days of December that could enter our lists, and so we waited and waited…until right now which is midnight 2:10 am! Turns out they were completely right and nothing great emerged as artists are smart enough to realize that all the lists were in and they would be forgotten forever, but wouldn’t those blogs have felt silly if things had happened otherwise! Yeah, so so silly.

Anyways…!

These choices were based on various criteria such as; quality, goodness, and quality. We spent a great deal of time in the laboratory coming up with the perfect lists, so you best treat them like gold.

We have two lists two share with you, two readers. The first one will be done by a member of the Aesthetic Octopus radio show. The second one will have an identical format. They will both cover the title topic, “the best 25 albums of the decade.”

Here they are…exclamation point.

The Eurocentric’s Top 25 Albums of the Decade…

1. Arcade Fire – Funeral
2. Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
3. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
4. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
5. MIA – Kala
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
7. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
8. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
9. Florence + The Machine – Lungs
10. Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
11. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
12. Lily Allen – Alright, Still
13. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
14. The Strokes – Room on Fire
15. Santigold – Santigold
16. Kanye West – Late Registration
17. She & Him – Volume One
18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
19. Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
20. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
21. Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line
22. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country
23. Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards
24. Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
25. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Honorable Mentions…

• Radiohead – Kid A
• Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga
• The National – Boxer
• Kanye West – Graduation
• Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
• MIA – Arular
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• Jens Lekman – Nights Over Kortedala
• Voxtrot – Voxtrot
• Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell

Doctorate Upholder’s Top 25 Albums of the Decade…

And again!

1. Funeral – Arcade Fire
2. Kid A – Radiohead
3. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
4. Neon Bible – Arcade Fire
5. Illinois – Sufjan Stevens
6. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
7. In Rainbows – Radiohead
8. St. Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley
9. Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
10. Return To Cookie Mountain – TV On The Radio
11. Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear
12. Transatlanticism – Death Cab For Cutie
13. Elephant – The White Stripes
14. I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning – Bright Eyes
15. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys
16. Person Pitch – Panda Bear
17. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
18. The College Dropout – Kanye West
19. Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords
20. The Sunlandic Twins – Of Montreal
21. The Rhumb Line – Ra Ra Riot
22. Song Islands – Microphones
23. The Virgins ’07 EP – The Virgins
24. Ágætis Byrjun – Sigur Ros
25. Is This It – The Strokes

Honorable Mentions…

• Fever To Tell & It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Oracular Spectacular – MGMT
• Two Suns – Bat For Lashes
• Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
• Songs For Christmas – Sufjan Stevens
• White Blood Cells – The White Stripes

So yeah!