Hooray for decades! Hooray for music! Hooray for lists!

Three lists, in fact: favorite albums of the decade, favorite albums of the year, and favorite songs of the year.

Here we go!

10 favorite albums of the decade

1. Arcade Fire – Funeral

2. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born

3. Radiohead – Kid A

4. Sufjan Stevens – Michigan

5. Bob Dylan – Love And Theft

6. Beck – Sea Change

7. David Crowder*Band – A Collision

8. Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha

9. Jars Of Clay – Good Monsters

10. U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind

10 favorite albums of the year (2009)

1. The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You

2. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

3. St. Vincent – Actor

4. Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Self-titled

5. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing

6. Passion Pit – Manners

7. U2 – No Line On The Horizon

8. Sufjan Stevens – The BQE

9. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast

10. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Favorite songs of the year (2009) (in alphabetical order, by artist)

Alela Diane – Lady Divine

Andrew Bird – Souverian

Animal Collective – Bluish

The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room

Bob Dylan – I Feel A Change Comin’ On

David Crowder*Band – God Almighty, None Compares

The Dead Weather – Bone House

Derek Webb – American Flag Umbrella

Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Chains, Chains, Chains

Fiction Family – Look For Me Baby

Jars Of Clay – Scenic Route

Joe Henry – Death To The Storm

Joshua James – Pitchfork

Major Lazer – Anything Goes

Manchester Orchestra – The River

Passion Pit – Sleepyhead

St. Vincent – Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood

Sufjan Stevens – Movement I: In The Countenance Of Kings

Switchfoot – Always

U2 – Cedars Of Lebanon

Wilco – Bull Black Nova

These songs are all on iTunes, so have fun!