More judgment not necessarily wisdom:

This is when I started listening to new music more avidly than I had since the 70's.

There are 4 categories: 1. Discoveries that I really liked; 2. Discoveries that I didn't like or didn't understand; 3. Music that I only heard a little but didn't have strong opinions either way; 4. Music I never picked up on (and still haven't to this day)--no reflection on the quality of the music per se.

1. Loved: And Then Nothing--also one of my favorite albums. The Postal Service. Radiohead. The Flaming Lips. Regins Spektor. Wilco.

2. Didn't love / didn't get: Sigur Ros. Interpol. Jack White. Green Day. Modest Mouse.

Everybody else is pretty much in the don't know enough categories 3 & 4. Music still to be discovered.

I'm going to make one recommendation from this decade: "More Modern Short Stories from Hello Saferide" (2008). The title might seem a little pretentious, but this is the most literate album I know (not literarily self-conscious / allusive--except maybe "Sancho Panza"), but rich and ambiguous and thematically interesting--like a great short story collection, but in song version. She's often tarred with the "twee" brush, but it's her characters / personas who are twee. Norlin herself keeps an aloof and respectful distance.