Positive modern music thread: newer pop and rock albums you love

[mvd]

Here are some of mine from this year. But you can go back a few years for your choices -

Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
The Corrs - Home
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
Nina Gordon - Bleeding Heart Graffiti
Damone - Out Here All Night
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
Leigh Nash - Blue On Blue
Thea Gilmore - Harpo's Ghost
Jennifer O'Connor - Over The Mountain...
Neil Young - Living With War
Lillix - Inside The Hollow
The Weepies - Say I Am You
Persephone's Bees - Notes from the Underworld
Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler
Stefy - The Orange Album
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Hem - Funnel Cloud
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Guster - Ganging Up On The Sun
Margot & Nuclear So & So's - Dust of Retreat
Josh Ritter - Animal Years
Cat Power - The Greatest
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Susan Cagle - The Subway Recordings
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Some Girls - Crushing Love
Ingrid Michaelson - Girls & Boys
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
Pearl Jam - self-titled
Holly Brook - Like Blood Like Honey
Amy Millan - Honey From The Tombs
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Pink - I'm Not Dead
Allison Moorer - Getting Somewhere
Gomez - How We Operate
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Dirtie Blonde - self-titled
Rainer Maria - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Paul Simon - Surprise
Pink Spiders - Teenage Graffiti
Ane Brun - A Tempoary Dive
Mary Lee's Corvette - Love, Loss & Lunacy
Sonya Kitchell - Words Came Back To Me
Magneta Lane - Dancing With Daggars
Cheyenne Kimball - The Day Has Come
Built To Spill - You In Reverse
Goldfrapp - Supernature
The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

BTW, not sure if The Wreckers would be pop or country, but if pop, their album is a 2006 favorite.

And more, plus additional ones added when I hear the albums.

[mvd]

1. And from last year

Again, just many of them.

New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Wussy - Funeral Dress
Stacie Rose - Shadow And Splender
Hope 7 - self-titled
The Like - Are You Feeling What I'm Thinking
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Veronicas - Secret Life Of The Veronicas
Cindy Alexander - Angels & Demons
Brandi Carlile - self-titled
Faders - Plug In And Play
The Pierces - Light Of The Moon
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Martha Wainwright - self-titled
Anna Nalick - Wreck Of The Day
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Liz Phair - Somebody's Miracle
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
Amy Rigby - Little Fugitive
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Decemberists - Picaresque
Eisley - Room Noises
David Gray - Life In Slow Motion
Katherine Schell - Emptier Streets
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Courtney Jaye - Traveling Light
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Saving Jane - Girl Next Door
Brie Larson - Finally Out Of P.E.
Bruce Springsteen - Devils And Dust
Julie Gribble - So Typical
Emma - Free Me
Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
Jerra - Play Like A Girl
Doves - Some Cities
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
Annie - Anniemal
Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
Marion Raven - Here I Am
Aslyn - Lemon Love
Tara Angell - Come Down
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor
Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart
Fisher - The Lovely Years
Sheryl Crow - Wildflower
Tracy Bonham - Blink The Brightest
Metric - Live It Out
Sigur Ros - Takk
My Morning Jacket - Z
Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors
Miss Mary - Ready 2 Pop
Kat Parsons - No Will Power
All American Rejects - Move Along
Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me
Mae - The Everglow

[Lautremont]

2. Lots of your picks would be on my list too.

I'd add albums by The Mountain Goats (Get Lonely, The Sunset Tree), M. Ward (Post-War, Transistor Radio), Christine Fellows (Paper Anniversary), Final Fantasy, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, and probably many more I can't think of.

[mvd]

3. I've been thinking about getting the M. Ward, Mountain Goats,

and Wolf Parade albums. We have even more in common. :hi:

[Lautremont]

4. Ooh, get 'em, get 'em.

I'm sure you'll like them. I'll add more when I think of them.

[mvd]

5. Any other recommendations?