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Top 50 Albums

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1
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2
Wilco
Wilco The Album
3
The Avett Brothers
I And Love And You
4
Rosanne Cash
The List
5
Monsters Of Folk
Monsters Of Folk
6
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Up From Below
7
Passion Pit
Manners
8
Dave Matthews Band
Big Whiskey and The GrooGrux King
9
Neko Case
Middle Cyclone
10
Bob Dylan
Together Through Life
11
Pearl Jam
Backspacer
12
U2
No Line On The Horizon
13
Brandi Carlile
Give Up The Ghost
14
Phish
Joy
15
Bruce Springsteen
Working On A Dream
16
Moby
Wait For Me
17
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
18
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
19
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
11:11
20
Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears
Tell Em What Your Name Is
21
Melody Gardot
My One And Only Thrill
22
Regina Spektor
Far
23
Derek Trucks Band
Already Free
24
Mayer Hawthorne
A Strange Arrangement
25
The Decemberists
Hazards Of Love
26
Lilly Allen
It's Not Me It's You
27
Mark Knopfler
Get Lucky
28
Bell X1
Blue Lights On The Runway
29
Various Artists
New Moon Soundtrack
30
Shemekia Copeland
Never Going Back
31
Andrew Bird
Noble Beast
32
Ingrid Michaelson
Everybody
33
M Ward
Hold Time
34
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz
35
Silversun Pickups
Swoon
36
The Swell Season
Strict Joy
37
Son Volt
American Central Dust
38
David Gray
Draw The Line
39
Muse
The Resistance
40
Fanfarlo
Reservoir
41
Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
42
Dan Auerbach
Keep It Hid
43
James Maddock
Sunrise on Avenue C
44
Norah Jones
The Fall
45
Peter Bjorn & John
Living Thing
46
Leonard Cohen
Live In London
47
Gomez
A New Tide
48
One Eskimo
One Eskimo
49
Pete Yorn
Back and Fourth
50
Metric
Fantasies