Top 10 of 2007

In honor of my 10 Favorite Albums of 2007 being not nearly finished, here's my top five from every year since, oh, until I get bored typing:

2006
1. Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
2. Wooden Wand - Second Attention
3. Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes
4. The Figgs - Follow Jean Through the Sea
5. I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends

2005
1. The National - Alligator
2. Love as Laughter - Laughter's Fifth
3. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
4. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
5. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll

2004
1. The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
2. Guided by Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed
3. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
4. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
5. Robert Pollard - Fiction Man

2003
1. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
2. Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue
3. The Thermals - More Parts Per Million
4. Paul Westerberg - Come Feel Me Tremble
5. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

2002
1. Guided by Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles
2. Silkworm - Italian Platinum
3. Grandpaboy - Mono
4. Cody ChesnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece
5. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas


2001
1. Airport 5 - Tower In The Fountain of Sparks
2. Ted Leo - The Tyranny of Distance
3. Andrew WK - I Get Wet
4. Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
5. Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera

2000
1. Silkworm - Lifestyle
2. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. The Kingsbury Manx - The Kingsbury Manx
5. Shellac - 1000 Hurts

1999
1. Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse
2. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
3. Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard - Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department
4. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
5. Arsonists - As The World Burns

1998
1. Silver Jews - American Water
2. The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
3. Robert Pollard - Waved Out
4. Vic Chesnutt - The Salesman and Bernadette
5. Outkast - Aquemini

1997
1. Guided by Voices - Mag Earwhig!
2. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
3. Chisel - Set You Free
4. Dwarves - Are Young and Good Looking
5. Kool Keith - Sex Style

1996
1. Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
2. Robert Pollard - Not in My Airforce
3. Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
4. Archers of Loaf - All the Nations Airports
5. Superdrag - Regretfully Yours

1995
1. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
2. Archers of Loaf - Vee Vee
3. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
4. Genius / GZA - Liquid Swords
5. Smog - Wild Love

1994
1. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
2. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
3. The Figgs - Low-Fi at Society High
4. Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
5. Weezer - Weezer

1993
1. Guided by Voices - Vampire on Titus
2. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
3. Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
4. The Grifters - One Sock Missing
5. The Wedding Present - Hit Parade 2

1992
1. Guided by Voices - Propeller
2. The Wedding Present - Hit Parade 1
3. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
4. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
5. EPMD - Business Never Personal

1991
1. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
2. Superchunk - Tossing Seeds
3. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
4. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
5. The Jesus Lizard - Goat

1990
1. Guided by Voices - Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
2. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
3. Depeche Mode - Violator
4. Pixies - Bossanova
5. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

1989
1. Pixies - Doolittle
2. The Wedding Present - Bizarro
3. Naked Raygun - Understand?
4. Fugazi - 13 Songs
5. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Got bored.