My 250 Favorite Songs of the 2000s - #160-151

#160 - She Moves She - Four Tet

Rounds (2003)

#159 - Specialist - Interpol

Interpol EP (2002)

#158 - The Upper Peninsula - Sufjan Stevens

Michigan (2003)

#157 - Company Calls Epilogue - Death Cab for Cutie

We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)

#156 - The Operator - Barbara Morgenstern

The Grass is Always Greener (2006)

#155 - Happy - The Wrens

The Meadowlands (2003)

#154 - Intervention - Arcade Fire

Neon Bible (2007)

#153 - America's Boy - Broadcast

Tender Buttons (2005)

#152 - Time Bomb - The Dismemberment Plan

Change (2001)

#151 - To the East - Electrelane

No Shouts, No Calls (2007)

My 25 Favorite Artists of the 2000s - #6

#6 - Arcade Fire

More than any other album this decade, Arcade Fire's 2004 debut Funeral was able to make the listener feel the emotions of the songwriters as if you had actually experienced the tragedies that had beset them. From beginning to end, it's probably the single most important album of the last 10 years, and all by itself is enough to warrant the band this spot on my list. The hype that preceded their follow-up album Neon Bible was also more than any other band experienced. While that album may not have been as emotionally charged as it's predecessor, it certainly wasn't any slouch itself, and went a long way towards proving that Arcade Fire is one band that will survive into the ages.

My Favorite Albums:

1. Funeral (2004)

2. Neon Bible (2007)

49. Arcade Fire - In the Back Seat (2004)

It still amazes me that to this day, 5 years after the release of this fantastically amazing album, it continues to give me the chills in a different spot every single time that I listen to it. The only way I can describe the emotional impact of Funeral is to compare it to the most wonderful, heart-wrenching movie that you've ever seen....and take the feelings you got from it and think of how those feelings would sound. When the members of this band got together to make this, they took all of the heartbreak of losing family members and created some of the most lasting emotional achievements that have ever been put to record. This song from Regine Chassagne is like the come down at the end of all the glorious highs that preceded it, and is just.....perfect. Obviously, there just aren't enough words to express how I feel about this album.