One side effect of iTunes, smart playlists and listening to songs over albums is that I've really become a lot more of a "songs guy" over being an "album guy". I was more of an album guy back when I was buying vinyl and CDs in the 80s and 90s and I'd throw them on the turntable or in the CD player and listen to the whole things end to end.
That's my explanation for why my best albums list is so much shorter than my best songs list, anyway.
- The National - High Violet
- The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
- Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
- The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
- The Whigs - In The Dark
- Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
- The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
- The New Pornographers - Together
- Les Savy Fav - Root For Ruin
- Robyn - Body Talk
- Hard Fi - Killer Sounds
- John Grant - The Queen of Denmark
- The Black Keys - Brothers
- Army Navy - The Last Place
- The Posies - Blood/Candy
- The Kills - Blood Pressures
- Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
- Telekinesis - 12 Desparate Straight Lines
- Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
- Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
- Stars - The Five Ghosts
- Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
- We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach
- Kasabian - Velociraptor!
- The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You
- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Sky Larkin - Kaleide
- The Thermals - Personal Life
- Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
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