Top 10 Albums of the 00s: Everything In Its Right Place

So another stellar decade in music has passed, with ample delicious ear candy for us musicheads to feast upon. This past 10 years has seen the complete transformation of how music is made, distributed, and listened to. Bands today now worry about how the "Rock Band" version of their songs is going to look and feel, and how fans will be receiving and experiencing the music, not to mention whether they will be paying for it at all.

I did my own personal list, to add to the myriad of "best of the decade" lists out there. Before I start, I must honor my late, great, wonderful father by pointing out, as he would have, that it is not actually the end of the decade yet, and that we'll all have to wait another year before doing the best of the decade lists. Most people don't consider the fact that there was no Year Zero, and therefore each decade of ten years begins with the "1" and ends at the end of the "0" year, so really 2010 is the last year of the decade.

But the mass media feel otherwise, so I will join those who want to look back on this first "completed" decade of the new century and talk about what it all meant. Here is my list of the top 10 or 20 best albums of the 00s, with apologies to my Dad, who would have disagreed with my math -- not to mention he would not have liked Radiohead one bit.