As you'll have noticed, I completely failed to finish my end of decade lists. Suprised? Me either.
There are a number of factors, the biggest being my indecision.

When looking at most influential dance album, was it always going to be Daft Punk - Discovery? It should've been, but I was already into "dance" music and my real appreciation of electronic music came much later than this album, even though I had owned it for years.

Most influential guitar album? Silent Alarm surely? Well probably not. I have always had Garbage as a guilty pleasure and V2.0 is still a classic album that stands head and shoulders above a lot of others. However, its more of a crossover and probably more influential on my guitar listening than Silent Alarm, given that I was already lsitening to that kind of stuff.


There were conflicts like this all over the place and when it came to deciding, actually picking an album that is better than any other of the last decade, I couldn't I cant choose Silent Alarm over The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place over Attack Decay Sustain Release over Untrue.

Most importantly perhaps, I like it like that. I like that the albums I cant choose between are all entirely different, in their production values, in the way they choose to communicate with the listener, in the way they are performed live and in Untrue's case, not performed at all.

I have nothing against one album being better than another, or even one being better than everything else. However, I worry that one album, that is truly superior, may one day not be. These albums, for me, are genre-defining albums and were hugely influential in what they represented. They should all be top of the list