NPR’s Most Important Recordings of the Decade

I’ve thought long and hard about the list favorite music for the past decade and the year.When I start thinking about it, I start to panic. There’s too much good music to lump in a simple list. There’s albums that I’ve listened to when I was on top of the world that will stay with me forever, and others when I’ve thought that life was cruel and hoped for death. NPR has done a fantastic job of compiling a comprehensive and fair list of the decade’s treasures. You can read more, here.

The 50 Most Important Recordings According to NPR:

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A-C (John Adams to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

C-J (Kelly Clarkson to Jay-Z)

J-M (Norah Jones to Jason Moran)

O-S (OutKast to Sigur Ros)

S-W (Britney Spears to Amy Winehouse)

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