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Musings on Music, top 50 albums of the decade

Nov 26, 2009, 1:09am

In thinking on the top 50 albums of the decade, I tried to distill down what I've listened to over the last ten years into the best of the best. Game changers, genre busters, glorious illustrations of brilliance, subtle tomes of awesome, albums that made you laugh, albums that made you cry, artists that noone had ever heard of 11 years ago, artists that reinvented themselves in the ensuing years, new collaborations, new forms of music. The decade has seen the internet completely change the landscape of the arena of music. At the end of [...]

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