"Music Makes the People Come Together...Yeah..."

In honor of this past Saturday's Record Store Day and the Boston Marathon (good luck all you abominatedly good at running people!), below is a extended list of the most accomplished full-length albums of the past decade. A lot of these lists, chronicling the best of the best in singles and albums were released during the first half of last year, and often clogged their lists with songs and artists based on overt popularity than both popularity and cultural relevance, but these lists are nothing more than opinion. It's not really and shouldn't be about what was blasted through everyone's speakers and what wasn't. The music chosen are the ones that years from now will sound as fantastic as the first time your ear drums understood what heaven was in their version of audible wasteland. Some may to quick to say that music sucks nowadays, but some us choose to still believe.

So here's to the short list of albums full of unequivocal paeans for days to come in our already complicated lives. Maybe you'll "re-discover" an album you hadn't given a chance, or realize you weren't the only one you thought that album was worth every blood, sweat, and tears it took to make it. Yes, a majority of the list is from "mainstream" acts, but don't let that sway you, there's a little something here for everyone. You may even see an album that you listened to endlessly back in high school, and there's nothing like those albums that were there for you during the hard times and the good days. No paragraph reasoning underneath each listed album; once you hear them (if you haven't already), they'll certainly sing or beat-box for themselves. Let it be, my friends, let it be.

"I've got my 45 on so I...can rock on..." -"Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow

Some of the albums that mattered most from 2000-2009 (otherwise known as The Aughts)

• She Wolf by Shakira
• Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
• Stankonia by OutKast
• La Roux by La Roux
• Ultraviolet by Kid Sister

• Come Home With Me by Cam'ron
• Rock Steady by No Doubt
• Gold Medal by The Donnas
• Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
• Get Rich or Die Tryin' by 50 Cent
• In Rainbows by Radiohead
• Bleed Like Me by Garbage

• Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel by Mariah Carey
• The College Graduate by Kanye West
• The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem
• Rated R by Rihanna
• Toxicity by System of a Down
• Music by Madonna

• White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
• Elan Vital by Pretty Girls Make Graves
• Funeral by The Arcade Fire

• The Information by Beck
• Stories from the City, Stories From the Sea by PJ Harvey
• Whoa, Nelly! by Nelly Furtado

• Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape by Me'shell Ndegeocello
• Blackout by Britney Spears
• Fallen by Evanescence
• Midnight Boom by The Kills

• X by Kylie Minogue
• Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
• The Woods by Sleater-Kinney

• Change It All by Goapele
• In Search Of... by N.E.R.D.
• Food & Liquor by Lupe Fiasco

• Rooty by Basement Jaxx
• Intimacy by Bloc Party
• Afrodiasic by Brandy

• A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by Panic! At the Disco
• Annimal by Annie
• Robyn by Robyn

• BLACKsummer's night by Maxwell
• It's Not You, It's Me by Lily Allen
• Kala by M.I.A.

• Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
• Fever to Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Under the Blacklight by Rilo Kiley

• Two Suns by Bat for Lashes
• We Are The Pipettes by The Pipettes
• Cross by Justice

• Hell Hath No Fury by The Clipse
• New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War by Erykah Badu
• The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga

• Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
• Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne
• Santogold by Santigold

• Words and Sounds, Vol.1 by Jill Scott
• Fantasies by Metric
• Little Voice by Sara Bareilles
• 19 by Adele

• I Am...Sasha Fierce by Beyonce
• Colour Me Free! by Joss Stone
• Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson
• Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
• In Love & War by Amerie
• In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy

• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
• Is This It? by The Strokes
• Night Ripper by Girl Talk
• Consolers of the Lonely by The Raconteurs