Technically, the last year of the decade is 2010, not 2009, but only an obnoxious know-it-all would point that out.
Whew! That was close: For a minute there, I thought you said BRYAN Adams. What a relief.
RYAN Adams apparently once got into a fistfight with a heckler who kept calling him Bryan and asking for "Summer of '69." Classic. 
I think the 0s and 9s as the decade decider is tricky. Surely the Roarin' Twenties was 1920-29, not 1921-30. So I think you're A-OK.
BTW, I actually have Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash, Peter Gabriel, Green Day, and LCD Soundsystem from your list.
Gotta say I'm still leaning more for JC4 over 3; John R's shot voice - did he ever have a beautiful voice?
Yeah, I would argue that decades aren't measured the same way that centuries are, since we invariably call them "the 20s, the 90s," etc. If he had said "the first decade of the 21st century, then the 2010 argument would hold more water.
Yours is the first "best of" list I've seen that's included Calexico. Bravo!
And while technically, a decade would be 2001-2010, it just doesn't feel that way. Any year ending in zero feels like a new beginning. After all, the first ten years of a kids life start at birth, not at age 1.
I know I was just stirring up trouble with the whole decade thing.
The thing I find telling from a personal persepective is that I have no idea when the last time is that I bought an actual album. I just download individual songs. I wonder if the "album" will even be around in 10 years.
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