Here are my 40 favorite albums of 2015!

• The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
• Peace - Happy People
• Stereophonics - Keep the Village Alive
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
• Desaparecidos - Payola
• Electric Light Orchestra - Alone in the Universe
• Murder by Death - Big Dark Love
• The Fratellis - Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied
• Muse - Drones
• Circa Waves - Young Chasers
• AWOLNATION - Run
• Ash - Kablammo!
• Third Eye Blind - Dopamine
• Palma Violets - Danger in the Club
• Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep
• Chris Cornell - Higher Truth
• Rob Thomas - The Great Unknown

Here are my 50 favorite albums of 2013!

• Manic Street Preachers - Rewind the Film
• Stereophonics - Graffiti on the Train
• Placebo - Loud Like Love
• Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium
• The Cat Empire - Steal the Light
• Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
• Los Campesinos! - No Blues
• Palma Violets - 180
• Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
• Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
• Travis - Where You Stand
• Johnny Marr - The Messenger
• Cage the Elephant - Melophobia
• The Airborne Toxic Event - Such Hot Blood
• Biffy Clyro - Opposites
• Pure Love - Anthems
• Beady Eye - BE
• Mazes - Ores And Minerals
• The Men - New Moon

(Independently owned)

• Flipside Records - Clawson, Michigan
• Encore Records - Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Dearborn Music - Dearborn, Michigan
• The Record Collector - Ferndale, Michigan
• Rock of Ages - Garden City, Michigan
• Melodies & Memories - Eastpointe, Michigan
• Solo Records - Royal Oak, Michigan
• Underground Sounds - Ann Arbor, Michigan
• UHF - Royal Oak, Michigan
• Street Corner Music - Oak Park, Michigan

Albums I've heard from 2012, from most loved to most hated.

• The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
• Tribes - Baby
• The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Rot Gut, Domestic
• Foxy Shazam - The Church of Rock and Roll
• Jack White - Blunderbuss
• The Darkness - Hot Cakes
• The Vaccines - Come of Age
• Mumford & Sons - Babel
• Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
• Pepe Deluxé - Queen of the Wave
• Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
• Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
• Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
• Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme
• Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is an Anima...

My order of preference.

• The Help
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• The Tree of Life
• Midnight in Paris
• The Descendants
• The Artist
• Hugo
• Moneyball
• War Horse

Here are my 40 favorite albums of 2016!

• Conor Oberst - Ruminations
• Joyce Manor - Cody
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
• Richard Ashcroft - These People
• Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
• Against Me! - Shape Shift with Me
• Travis - Everything at Once
• Bleeker - Erase You
• Pete Doherty - Hamburg Demonstrations
• Green Day - Revolution Radio
• Kings of Leon - Walls
• Poets of the Fall - Clearview
• Volbeat - Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie
• Viola Beach - Viola Beach
• Moose Blood - Blush
• The Thermals - We Disappear
• The Hotelier - Goodness
• Blink-182 - California
• Wilco - Schmilco

Here are my 40 favorite albums of 2014!

• Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
• Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Slingshot to Heaven
• The Orwells - Disgraceland
• Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland
• Jack White - Lazaretto
• The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
• Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain
• The Menzingers - Rented World
• Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines
• Train - Bulletproof Picasso
• Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
• Spoon - They Want My Soul
• Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
• Axxa/Abraxas - Axxa/Abraxas
• Withered Hand - New Gods
• Sam Roberts Band - Lo-Fantasy

Albums I've heard from 2011, from most loved to most hated. This list is final.

• Bright Eyes - The People's Key
• WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
• Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
• Kasabian - Velociraptor!
• Tori Amos - Night of Hunters
• The Decemberists - The King is Dead
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You
• Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
• Amos Lee - Mission Bell
• Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
• City and Colour - Little Hell
• Yuck - Yuck
• Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
• R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
• Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
• Sam Roberts - Collider
• The Horrors - Skying

This is how I currently rank the 2011 releases I've seen. The order may change at any time.

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• The Help
• Super 8
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• The Tree of Life
• Midnight in Paris
• The Muppets
• Insidious
• Fright Night
• Bridesmaids
• Rango
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• The Descendants
• The Artist
• Winnie the Pooh
• Paranormal Activity 3
• I Am Number Four

Note that foreign films are listed by their original titles first.

• Across the Universe
• Adam
• Adam & Steve
• Adoration
• Airplane!
• Alexander
• Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut
• Almost Famous
• Amadeus
• American Beauty
• American Dreamz
• American History X
• American Meth
• American Psycho
• The Amityville Horror (1979)
• As Good as it Gets
• Ask the Dust
• Australia
• Babe

(1) Only one song per band or artist and (2) not necessarily singles, but songs that are on an album released in 2012

• Of Monsters and Men - "Little Talks"
• Tribes - "We Were Children"
• The Smashing Pumpkins - "The Celestials"
• Lana Del Rey - "Born to Die"
• Mumford & Sons - "Below My Feet"
• The Menzingers - "Good Things"
• Band of Horses - "Heartbreak on the 101"
• Train - "You Can Finally Meet My Mom"
• Foxy Shazam - "Holy Touch"
• Morning Parade - "Us & Ourselves"
• First Aid Kit (feat. Conor Oberst) - "King of the World"
• Alcest - "Autre Temps"

• Iron & Wine - "Your Fake Name Is Good Enough for Me"
• Bright Eyes - "Ladder Song"
• Amos Lee - "Violin"
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "The Death of You and Me"
• R.E.M. - "Blue"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Brendan's Death Song"
• The Decemberists - "This Is Why We Fight"
• Coldplay - "Paradise"
• R.E.M. - "ÜBerlin"
• Beady Eye - "The Roller"
• The Decemberists - "Down By the Water"
• Iron & Wine - "Walking Far from Home"
• Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues"
• Adele - "Someone Like You"
• Bright Eyes - "Beginner's Mind"
• Viva Brother - "Time Machine"
• The Decemberists - "Rox in the Box"

This is how I currently rank the 2010 releases I've seen. The order may change at any time.

• Shutter Island
• Inception
• Never Let Me Go
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Black Swan
• 127 Hours
• Toy Story 3
• Ondine
• The King's Speech
• Blue Valentine
• Alice in Wonderland
• Rabbit Hole
• The Fighter
• Remember Me
• Repo Men
• Animal Kingdom
• The Losers

This is how I currently rank the 2010 releases I've heard. The order may change at any time.

• Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
• The Cat Empire - Cinema
• Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
• David Gray - Foundling
• Goo Goo Dolls - Something for the Rest of Us
• Lifehouse - Smoke and Mirrors
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Neon Trees - Habits
• The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
• Taylor Swift - Speak Now