Illustration of ‘Kid A’ by Kristina Ng of The Daily Californian

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and we at the arts staff have already spent approximately the last two weeks being thankful for this decade in the arts. Last Thursday, we released our Retrospective issue, which looked back at the past 10 years in film, music and TV.

Those lists were compiled through preliminary voting to see what albums and movies would be in contention, then long discussion (through which all of the top 5 for both movies and music were decided) and then two separate voting blocks. It was a lot different than writers just submitting personal lists. But we definitely don’t discount such lists at all, especially since everyone’s taste is so idiosyncratic that they’re bound to be fascinating.

Thus, we now present personal lists for all our writers who chose to submit them. They are up to 25 places long, though some contain 26 or 27 choices through ties. But really, how can we be totally certain of our choices? Here are the lists that reflect what we thought in just one time, at one place, no more, no less:

Camden Andrews

1. In Rainbows by Radiohead
2. Neon Golden by the Notwist
3. Funeral by Arcade Fire
4. Reinventing Axl Rose by Against Me!
5. Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
6. Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine
7. Feels by Animal Collective
8. Cum Laude! by the Velvet Teen
9. Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In
10. Give Up by the Postal Service
11. Source Tags and Codes by …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
12. Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta
13. Person Pitch by Panda Bear
14. Kid A by Radiohead
15. Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn by Do Make Say Think
16. Absolution by Muse
17. Broken Social Scene by Broken Social Scene
18. Silent Shout by the Knife
19. …Burn, Piano Island, Burn by the Blood Brothers
20. Labor Days by Aesop Rock
21. Visiter by The Dodos
22. Night Ripper by Girl Talk
23. Microphonepet by Mochipet
24. Doppelganger by the Fall of Troy
25. Stankonia by OutKast

Bryan Gerhart

1. Is This It by the Strokes
2. Good Bad Not Evil by the Black Lips
3. White Blood Cells by the White Stripes
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
5. Up The Bracket by the Libertines
6. Veni Vidi Vicious by the Hives
7. Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Thunder, Lightning, Strike by the Go! Team
9. We Are Electrocution by Le Shok
10. Bad Dudes by Bad Dudes
11. C.Y.S.L.A.B.F. by Mika Miko
12. The Life Aquatic Soundtrack by Various Artists
13. Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killah
14. Weirdo Rippers by No Age
15. Love Visions by Nobunny
16. Let It Bloom by the Black Lips
17. Stankonia by OutKast
18. Person Pitch by Panda Bear
19. Album by Girls
20. Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal
21. Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol
22. The Bake Sale by the Cool Kids
23. Rockin’ The Suburbs by Ben Folds
24. Pet Sounds In The Key of Dee by Bullion
25. Myths of the Near Future by Klaxons

HM: SMiLE by Brian Wilson

David Liu

1. Is This It by The Strokes
2. Late Registration by Kanye West
3. Ratatat by Ratatat
4. Discovery by Daft Punk
5. Stankonia by OutKast
6. Eight Dimensions by Jay Chou
7. There Will Be Blood OST by Jonny Greenwood
8. Graduation by Kanye West
9. Absolution by Muse
10. Like Water for Chocolate by Common
11. Funeral by The Arcade Fire
12. Blue Scholars by Blue Scholars
13. Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor
14. Yundi Li: Liszt by Li Yundi / Franz Liszt
15. Room on Fire by the Strokes
16. The Black Album by Jay-Z
17. Kid A by Radiohead
18. Oldboy OST by Jo Yeong-wook
19. Continuum by John Mayer
20. Demon Days by Gorillaz
21. The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem
22. Modern Times by Bob Dylan
23. The Blueprint by Jay-Z
24. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
25. The College Dropout by Kanye West

Max Siegel

1. Kid A by Radiohead
2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
3. Sea Change by Beck
4. Demon Days by Gorillaz
5. In Rainbows by Radiohead
6. Is This It by the Strokes
7. Funeral by Arcade Fire
8. Elephant by the White Stripes
9. Speak For Yourself by Imogen Heap
10. American Idiot by Green Day
11. Late Registration by Kanye West
12. The Grey Album by Danger Mouse
13. Plans by Death Cab for Cutie
14. Unravel by Lynn Miles

Rajesh Srinivasan

1. Kid A by Radiohead
2. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
3. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? by of Montreal
4. Late Registration & The College Dropout by Kanye West
5. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
6. A Grand Don’t Come For Free by the Streets
7. Person Pitch by Panda Bear
8. Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
9. Ys by Joanna Newsom
10. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon
11. Funeral by Arcade Fire
12. Madvillainy by Madvillain
13. Bachelor No. 2 by Aimee Mann
14. Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
15. The Blueprint by Jay-Z
16. Stankonia by OutKast
17. Sea Change by Beck
18. Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
19. Night Falls Over Kortedala by Jens Lekman
20. Bromst by Dan Deacon
21. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips
22. 808s and Heartbreak by Kanye West
23. Kala by M.I.A.
24. New Amerykah (4th World War) by Erykah Badu
25. Exit by Shugo Tokumaru

Sam Stander

1. Silent Shout by the Knife
2. The Milk-eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
3. He Poos Clouds by Final Fantasy
4. Elephant by the White Stripes
5. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
6. Your Blues by Destroyer
7. Funeral by Arcade Fire
8. Mass Romantic by the New Pornographers
9. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? by of Montreal
10. Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? by Metric
11. Kala by M.I.A.
12. Burial by Burial
13. Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike by Gogol Bordello
14. Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor
15. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips
16. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
17. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case
18. Reconstruciton Site by the Weakerthans
19. Feels by Animal Collective
20. Madvillainy by Madvillain
21. Heretic Pride by the Mountain Goats
22. Knuckle Down by Ani DiFranco
23. Milk Man by Deerhoof
24. Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
25. Memories of the Future by Kode9 & the Spaceape

David Wagner

1. In Rainbows by Radiohead
2. Stankonia by OutKast
3. Exit by Shugo Tokumaru
4. Madvillainy by Madvillain
5. Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
6. For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
7. Funeral by Arcade Fire
8. Donuts by J Dilla
9. Discovery by Daft Punk
10. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
11. Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
12. White Blood Cells by White Stripes
13. The Blueprint by Jay-Z
14. Phrenology by the Roots
15. Untrue by Burial
16. Album by Girls
17. Fever to Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson
19. Late Registration by Kanye West
20. Give Up by Postal Service
21. Kid A by Radiohead|
22. Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad
23. The Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse
24. The Mysterious Production of Eggs by Andrew Bird
25. Writer’s Block by Peter Bjorn & John

Image Source: Illustration by Kristina Ng of The Daily Californian