Yeah. Xiu Xiu is always number one. I'm wearing a xiu xiu t-shirt and a zip-up right now. Superxhardcorexfanx.

eh!eh! at the ends the noise rock gonna be first of the list (more classical or not)...i think i've a beer waiting for me...

I had a harder time composing this list than the all-time list. So much shit to choose from for this decade.

I think Sonic Nurse will be somewhere near the top. It was in the top 20 for the all time list, so it should make it here easily.

Ick.

heres my list. just off the top of my head.
im suprised i mentioned my band and ASP didnt mention scissor shock
animal collective-feels
sir richard bishop-while my guitar violently bleeds
electrelane-the powerout
lightning bolt-hypermagic mountain
sonic youth-nurse
liars-the threw us in a trench and stuck a monument on top
boris-flood
om-variations on a theme
dellilah-sessions with dr luv
panda bear-person pitch

Hah.

I don't feel like I've done anything worthy of a greatest album spot. Yet.

for the ten greatest albums, i actually tried to choose the best. but for this list i chose my favorite. if i was choosiing best then i would exchange dellilah, electrelane and liars for someone else, like sun O))) maybe goslings and something else...
and i was suprised to see no boris on your list

My fav Boris albums came out in 1996, 1998, and ... oh, okay, 2000. I guess I could have put Flood on there actually, you're right. Didn't think it was a 2000 album.

Boris - Flood
maudlin of the Well - Bath
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
John Frusciante - Curtains
Richard Youngs - Sapphie
Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
A Silver Mount Zion - "This Is Our Punk Rock" blah blah blah
Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly
William Basinski - Melancholia

i dunno

Thanks to all that have sent votes so far! (thanks to you Trasher, since you have no PM space left :D)
The top is clearly taking shapes, it really has surprises, some albums I would not have expected.
Still taking votes of course...

Bump!

Derek, I don't know if Prospect Hummer qualifies as an album. It's just a little EP.

You know what I forgot?

The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Fucking classic.

Still taking votes!
(yep, a shameless bump before going to bed)

I hate doing this, because I'm sure I'll forget something I love, but what the hell...

1) Sonic Youth - NYC Ghost & FLowers
2) Legendary Pink Dots - The Poppy Variations
3) Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
4) Jandek - Worthless Recluse
5) Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
6) Einsturzende Neubauten - Silence is Sexy
7) Black Happy Day - In the Garden of Ghostflowers
8) Melvins - Electroretard
9) Autechre - Quaristice
10) Sun City Girls - Superculto

Worthless Recluse is soooooo fucking good.

One of the most frightening albums I've ever heard somehow as well.

Yeah, not too likely to make the big list, but I couldn't possibly overlook it nonetheless. It was so awesome when it came out, like the total fuck you answer to all the people who said, "He couldn't possibly get more primitive..." Why yes, he could.

harvey milk - special wishes
melvins - nude with boots
cursive - the ugly organ
radiohead - hail to the thief
feist - the reminder
dillinger escape plan - ire works
the big sleep - sleep forever
fugazi - the argument
and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart
battles - mirrored

somehow I thought NY G&F where coming out in 1999...and I forgot leaves turn inside you....

Thanks! =)