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.