Imagine a world where none of the albums on P2K were ever made. What would the list look like now?

Here's 50 to start.

1. The Drones: Wait long by the river...
2. Grandaddy: The sophtware slump
3. DJ Shadow: The Private Press
4. Lucinda Williams: World without tears
5. Islands: Return to Sea
6. Josh Rouse: 1972
7. Calexico: Feast of Wire
8. Augie March: Sunset Studies
9. The Roots: Phrenology
10. Wilco: a ghost is born
11. JAYLIB: Champion Sound
12. Muse: Absolution
13. Blackalicious: Blazing Arrow
14. The Dandy Warhols: Thirteen tales...
15. Doves: Lost Souls
16. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
17. Les Savy Fav: Lets stay friends
18. Tom Waits: Alice
19. The Drones: Gala Mill
20. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: no more shall we part
21. The National: Sad Songs for Dirty lovers
22. Johnny Cash: American 3/4/5
23. Blue Bottle Kiss: Doubt Seeds
24. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
25. Soulsavers: Broken
26. M. Ward: Trasfiguration of Vincent
27. Lucinda Williams: Essence
28. Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)
29. The Good, the bad, the Queen: The Good....
30. Neil Young: Greendale
31. Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R
32. Jurasic 5: Quality Control
33. Tex, Don and Charlie: All is forgiven
34. Cornelius: Point
35. Wagons: Draw Blood
36. Tom Waits: Real Gone
37. Machine Translations: Happy
38. Okkervil River: The Stage Names
39. Paul Kelly: Foggy Highway
40. Eels: Blinking Lights and other revelations
41. Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, Its morning
42. Mark Lanegan Band: Bubblegum
43. Shearwater: Rook
44. Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
45. Outkast: Speakerbox/The love below
46. School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms
47. Drive By Truckers: A blessing and a curse
48. The XX: The XX
49. Cat Power: The Greatest
50. Blur: Think Tank

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Interesting premise. Surely all of the head-scratching absences like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and all those albums befallen by the 3-album-per-artist rule like Gimme Fiction should be included. But what else? Certainly, your Lost Souls pick is near and dear to my heart.

The Getty Address and Rise Above : Dirty Projectors
The Flying Club Cup and The Gulag Orkestar : Beirut
. . . and now that Backcountry mentions it, A Ghost Is Born was a surprise exclusion.

Though I'm not suprised, as another Melbournian I also miss the lack of Aussie bands from the list (though the Avalanches did well) (Don't forget Eddy Current Suppression Ring's "Primary Colours".) I agree Grandaddy, Bob Dylan, and Gillian Welch were criminally ignored. I also would have included, among others, Fiona Apple's "Extraordinary Machine", She and Him's "Volume One", and King's Of Leon's "Aha Shake Heartbreak".

Stocky, can you believe I dont have the Eddy Current Album! I blame Canberra on this: I moved here a few years ago and am now without a scene to take my cues from.

Dont get too bashed up about the lack of Australian albums in any North American (scum ) list. It's not like we would have a list full of South African or Irish bands. Sometimes its good to keep our secrets just that.

Does Henry Wagons still have a residency in local pubs down the way? That would not happen if he was ever pitchforked.

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Yeah, if ECSR played in a huge venue it wouldn't be the same.
Other Aussies on my albums of the decade are Darren Hanlon's "Hello Stranger", Art Of Fighting's "Second Storey", Grand Salvo's "The Temporal Wheel" and let's not forget The Dirty Three's "Whatever You Love, You Are" from early 2000. It's arguable, but I've come to the conclusion that it's their best album.

wait clap your hands and say yeah didn't make it? Didn't they give that album a 9+.

I'm Australian and I basically hate every Australian band, except for cut copy, nick cave and the avalanches.

Bizzaro top twenty:

1. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
2. Labor Days - Aesop Rock
3. Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective
4. Before The Dawn Heals Us - M83
5. Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters - The Twilight Sad
6. Inches - Les Savy Fav
7. The Stage Names - Okkervil River
8. Vaudeville Villain - Viktor Vaughn
9. Rise Above - Dirty Projectors
10. Blood Mountain - Mastodon
11. Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
12. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
13. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
14. The Drift - Scott Walker
15. From A Basement On A Hill - Elliott Smith
16. Hospice - The Antlers
17. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
18. Demon Days - Gorillaz
19. Fantastic Damage - El-p
20. Colors - Between The Buried & Me

So if I'm getting it right, this is a list of our favorite albums of the decade minus pitchfork's?

01. Spoon: Gimme Fiction
02. The Books: The Lemon of Pink
03. Explosions in the Sky: The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
04. Girls: Album
05. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
06. Dungen: Ta Det Lugnt
07. Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
08. El-P: Fantastic Damage
09. Pinback: Summer in Abaddon
10. Wilco: A Ghost is Born
11. Eluvium: Copia
12. The Gaslight Anthem: The 59 Sound
13. Les Savy Fav: Inches
14. The Tallest Man on Earth: Shallow Grave
15. Aesop Rock: Labor Days
16. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
17. Junior Boys: So This is Goodbye
18. The Unicorns: Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
19. Japandroids: Post-Nothing
20. Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You
21. Beirut: The Gulag Orkestar
22. Wale: The Mixtape About Nothing
23. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
24. Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump
25. Jurassic 5: Quality Control

Most of these are top 100 for me..

Do you know what makes me happy? To know not only that a lot of the albums that made Pitchfork's list are awesome, but a lot of the stuff that DIDN'T make it is equally awesome. I love the end of the year (in the case, decade) that allows us all to celebrate so much great music.

I'm going to also second votes for I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Stay Positive.

In my top 10: Random Spirit Lover, Ta Det Lugnt, and Harmony in Ultraviolet.

Also: Streethawk: A Seduction, Serena-Maneesh, Takk.

I can see the rest of my list being open for debate.

I'm guessing Bizarro Pitchfork includes a lot of U2.

Since two Grizzly Bear albums are assumed to not exist, can we all agree on The Department of Eagles now? Personally I prefer it to the Grizzly Bears even, but I'm fairly certain if Yellow House and Veckatimest had never existed, and Dept. Eagles wasn't considered a side project, In Ear Park would have been Huge.

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I'm guessing Bizarro Pitchfork includes a lot of U2.

and Coldplay

Mainly my favorite '08 albums were ignored

Not counting '09 albums, SMiLE, or Inches:

01. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (2007)
02. The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir (2005)
03. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (2008)
04. Deerhoof - Reveille (2002)
05. Mu - Afro Finger and Gel (2003)
06. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (2007)
07. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too (2008)
08. The Books - The Lemon of Pink (2003)
09. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (2008)
10. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (2007)
11. Liars - Liars (2007)
12. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (2005)
13. King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader (2003)
14. El Guincho - Alegranza! (2007)
15. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
16. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (2008)
17. Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
18. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (2006)
19. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles (2004)
20. The Walkmen - You & Me (2008)
21. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light (2007)
22. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006)
23. Various Artists - After Dark (2007)
24. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can Feel but Cannot See (2008)
25. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea (2006)
26. Okkervil River - The Stage Names (2007)
27. The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (2000)
28. Björk - Medúlla (2004)
29. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (2008)
30. Caribou - Andorra (2007)

I love that I'm not the only one that thinks both Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You and Tim Hecker's Harmony in Ultraviolet are brilliant.

I don't think anybody has mentioned this one yet, so I will.

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire

The more we list albums here, the more I think that P2k list is absolutely foreign to my personal musical interests (I.E. it's crap).

Here are 30 that should make my top 100. Could be mistaken on a few of these, I'm going off of memory from their list...

1. Unicorns - WWCOHWWG?
2. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
3. Deerhoof - Runners Four
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
5. Broken Social Scene - s/t
6. Deerhoof - Reveille
7. Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
8. The Microphones - It was hot, we stayed in the Water
9. Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
10. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
11. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
12. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
13. Interpol - Antics
14. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
15. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
16. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
17. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster
18. Deerhoof - Milk Man
19. Peter, Bjorn & John - Writers Block
20. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
21. Black Keys - Thickfreakness
22. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
23. Islands - Return to the Sea
24. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
25. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
26. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
27. Menomena - Friend & Foe
28. Loose Fur - s/t
29. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
30. Iron & Wine - The Shepherds Dog