Feb 9, 2011

The Best Albums Of The '00s

Top 100

  1. Stories from the city, stories from the sea - P.J. HARVEY
  2. Is this it - THE STROKES
  3. Turn on the bright lights - INTERPOL
  4. Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
  5. Songs for the deaf - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  6. Elephant - THE WHITE STRIPES
  7. Fever to tell - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
  8. Exterminator - PRIMAL SCREAM
  9. The unutterable - THE FALL
  10. Dig!!! Lazarus, dig!!! - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  11. Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
  12. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
  13. Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
  14. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
  15. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
  16. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
  17. Dance mother - TELEPATHE
  18. Source tags and codes - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
  19. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
  20. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
  21. Funeral - ARCADE FIRE
  22. Yoshimi battles the pink robots - THE FLAMING LIPS
  23. The eternal - SONIC YOUTH
  24. Gimme fiction - SPOON
  25. One beat - SLEATER-KINNEY
  26. Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
  27. Group sounds - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
  28. Isolation drills - GUIDED BY VOICES
  29. Take them on, on your own - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
  30. Exploding head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
  31. Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  32. Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
  33. All is dream - MERCURY REV
  34. Let it come down - SPIRITUALIZED
  35. Fall heads roll - THE FALL
  36. Dear science - TV ON THE RADIO
  37. R - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  38. Relationship of command - AT THE DRIVE-IN
  39. All hands on the bad one - SLEATER-KINNEY
  40. The friends of Rachel Worth - THE GO-BETWEENS
  41. You are free - CAT POWER
  42. The moon and Antarctica - MODEST MOUSE
  43. Icky thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
  44. Grinderman - GRINDERMAN
  45. Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
  46. Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
  47. Louden up now - !!!
  48. Echoes - THE RAPTURE
  49. Room on fire - THE STROKES
  50. You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
  51. The sophtware slump - GRANDADDY
  52. Stephen Malkmus - STEPHEN MALKMUS
  53. White blood cells - THE WHITE STRIPES
  54. Black rebel motorcycle club - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
  55. The argument - FUGAZI
  56. Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
  57. No wow - THE KILLS
  58. Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
  59. Antics - INTERPOL
  60. Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
  61. Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
  62. We were dead before the ship even sank - MODEST MOUSE
  63. Favourite worst nightmare - ARCTIC MONKEYS
  64. You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
  65. I'm wide awake, it's morning - BRIGHT EYES
  66. Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
  67. Fantasies - METRIC
  68. Two suns - BAT FOR LASHES
  69. Merriweather post pavilion - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
  70. Antidotes - FOALS
  71. Neptune - THE DUKE SPIRIT
  72. Crystal Castles - CRYSTAL CASTLES
  73. To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
  74. It's blitz! - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
  75. Midnight boom - THE KILLS
  76. Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
  77. Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
  78. The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
  79. Neon bible - ARCADE FIRE
  80. Ancient melodies of the future - BUILT TO SPILL
  81. Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
  82. Consolers of the lonely - THE RACONTEURS
  83. Saturnalia - THE GUTTER TWINS
  84. Third - PORTISHEAD
  85. Fever Ray - FEVER RAY
  86. The teaches of Peaches - PEACHES
  87. The W - WU-TANG CLAN
  88. Evil heat - PRIMAL SCREAM
  89. A weekend in the city - BLOC PARTY
  90. 100 broken windows - IDLEWILD
  91. Highly evolved - THE VINES
  92. Original pirate material - THE STREETS
  93. You can't fight what you can't see - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  94. Title TK - BREEDERS
  95. They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top - LIARS
  96. The new romance - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
  97. The real new Fall LP (formerly ‘Country On The Click’) - THE FALL
  98. Send - WIRE
  99. You forgot it in people - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  100. Stankonia - OUTKAST
The next hundred:

First impressions of earth - THE STROKES, Our love to admire - INTERPOL, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - SPOON, Horehound - THE DEAD WEATHER, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, Beat pyramid - THESE NEW PURITANS, Give up - THE POSTAL SERVICE, Fantastic damage - EL-P, Tromatic reflexxions - VON SUDENFED, Gotham! - RADIO 4, Murray street - SONIC YOUTH, Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD, Automatic midnight - HOT SNAKES, Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND, The great destroyer - LOW, You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL, No cities left - THE DEARS, Old world underground, where are you now? - METRIC, Lovers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON, Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES, Hot fuss - THE KILLERS, Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT, Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH, Beyond - DINOSAUR JR., Baby 81 - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, I’ll sleep when you're dead - EL-P, Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK, Sound of silver - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, Proof of youth - THE GO! TEAM, Cassadaga - BRIGHT EYES, Because of the times - KINGS OF LEON, Wincing the night away - THE SHINS, In rainbows - RADIOHEAD, Sumday - GRANDADDY, Oracular spectacular - MGMT, Keep on your mean side - THE KILLS, Fatherfucker - PEACHES, A brief history of love - THE BIG PINK, Get color - HEALTH, Only built 4 Cuban linx… pt. II - RAEKWON, Iron flag - WU-TANG CLAN, Are you are missing winner - THE FALL, No more shall we part - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Ease down the road - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, It’s a wonderful life - SPARKLEHORSE, Embryonic - THE FLAMING LIPS, Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET, Get ready - NEW ORDER, 604 - LADYTRON, Souljacker - EELS, The power out - ELECTRELANE, Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN, More light - J MASCIS + THE FOG, Good news for modern man - GRANT HART, God says no - MONSTER MAGNET, Thirteen tales from urban bohemia - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Boxer - THE NATIONAL, Golden lies - MEAT PUPPETS, Change - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979, Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES, Behind the music - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, A certain feeling - BODIES OF WATER, Songs in A&E - SPIRITUALIZED, Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY, Rock N Roll - RYAN ADAMS, Blackberry belle - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY, Set yourself on fire - STARS, More adventurous - RILO KILEY, Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES, Plastic fang - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Kill the moonlight - SPOON, Loyalty to loyalty - COLD WAR KIDS, Vampire Weekend - VAMPIRE WEEKEND, Box of secrets - BLOOD RED SHOES, Chat and business - IKARA COLT, Walking with thee - CLINIC, Phrenology - THE ROOTS, The cold vein - CANNIBAL OX, #1 - FISCHERSPOONER, Sound-dust - STEREOLAB, Got it made - BRASSY, Will save us all! - CHICKS ON SPEED, Dongs of sevotion - SMOG, And then nothing turned itself inside-out - YO LA TENGO, 1000 hurts - SHELLAC, Pound for pound - ROYAL TRUX, Strays - JANE'S ADDICTION, Electric version - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Chore of enchantment - GIANT SAND, The photo album - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, I'm going away - THE FIERY FURNACES, Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD, The college dropout - KANYE WEST, Arular - M.I.A.