Will, Barrett and Chris discuss our favorite music of the past decade. In this podcast we count down the top five on our respective lists. Here are the lists: Will's Top Ten: 1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) 2. The National - Boxer (2007) 3. The Brother Kite - Waiting for the Time to be Right (2006) 4. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005) 5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) 6. Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8 (2007) 7. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003) 8. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (2002) 9. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers (2003) 10. Nada Surf - Let Go (2002) Barrett's Top Ten: 1. Radiohead - Kid A (2000) 2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) 3. The Strokes - Is This It (2001) 4. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001) 5. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007) 6. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001) 7. Beck - Sea Change (2002) 8. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (2002) 9. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2005) 10. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006) Chris's Top Ten: 1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005) 2. OutKast - Stankonia (2000) 3. Clem Snide - Your Favorite Music (2000) 4. Clap Your Hand Say Yeah (2005) 5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007) 6. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002) 7. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet (2002) 8. Green Day - American Idiot (2004) 9. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Master and Everyone (2003) 10. The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious (2000)

Holiday music special -- Here are ten holiday-themed songs we hope you will like. 1. Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas 2. The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Angels We Have Heard On High 3. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas 4. Bill Evans - Santa Claus is Coming to Town 5. Bob Dylan - Here Comes Santa Claus 6. The Flaming Lips - White Christmas 7. Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 8. Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman 9. The Raveonettes - Come On Santa 10. Dan Wilson - What a Year for a New Year Next week we will publish part 2 of our favorite music of the decade.

Will, Barrett and Chris discuss our favorite music of the past decade. In this podcast we count down numbers 10 through 6 on our respective lists.

Chris hosts a special edition of the podcast in which we discuss our favorite music of 2009.

Will's top ten:

1. There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks

2. Girls — Album

3. The Decemberists — The Hazards of Love

4. The Answering Machine — Another City, Another Sorry

5. Neko Case — Middle Cyclone

6. Marching Band — Spark Large

7. Metric — Fantasies

8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs — It’s Blitz

9. Phoenix — Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

10. Dananananaykroyd — Hey Everyone

Barrett's top ten:

1. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

2. Girls - Album

3. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring

4. BLK JKS - After Robots

5. Raveonettes - In and Out of Control

6. Animal Collective - Meriweather Post Pavilion

7. Decemberists - The Hazards of Live

8. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)

9. Woods - Songs of Shame

10. Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day

Chris's top ten:

1. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

3. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring

4. Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be

5. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg

6. Laura Gibson - Beasts of Seasons

7. Tinted Windows

8. Floating Action

9. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another

10. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

Will, Barrett and Chris discuss the new album by Bill Callahan and, as usual, get distracted by various other topics.