The Best Albums Of 2005

Top 50

1. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
2. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
3. Gimme fiction - SPOON
4. Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
5. Fall heads roll - THE FALL
6. Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
7. No wow - THE KILLS
8. You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
9. I'm wide awake, it's morning / Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES
10. Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
11. Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT
12. Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
13. The great destroyer - LOW
14. Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
15. Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET
16. Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD
17. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
18. The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY
19. Witching hour - LADYTRON
20. Set yourself on fire - STARS
21. Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES
22. Twin cinema - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
23. The secret migration - MERCURY REV
24. Plans - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
25. Ex hex - MARY TIMONY
26. Face the truth - STEPHEN MALKMUS
27. Late registration - KANYE WEST
28. Get behind me Satan - THE WHITE STRIPES
29. Cripple crow - DEVENDRA BANHART
30. The mouse and the mask - DANGER DOOM
31. Apologies to the Queen Mary - WOLF PARADE
32. Live it out - METRIC
33. Grab that gun - THE ORGAN
34. The back room - EDITORS
35. Absence - DALEK
36. Wilderness - WILDERNESS
37. Elevator - HOT HOT HEAT
38. Employment - KAISER CHIEFS
39. Stars of CCTV - HARD-FI
40. Capture / Release - THE RAKES
41. A certain trigger - MAXIMO PARK
42. Tree city - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET
43. The Bravery - THE BRAVERY
44. Arular - M.I.A.
45. We have sound - TOM VEK
46. Feels - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
47. Tournament of hearts - CONSTANTINES
48. The alternative to love - BRENDAN BENSON
49. Man-made - TEENAGE FANCLUB
50. Oceans apart - THE GO-BETWEENS

Also recommended:

Separation Sunday - THE HOLD STEADY, Black forest - A FRAMES, The repulsion box - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Waiting for the sirens' call - NEW ORDER, Odyssey - FISCHERSPOONER, The documentary - THE GAME, Surrounded by silence - PREFUSE 73, The new fellas - THE CRIBS, Tanglewood numbers - SILVER JEWS, A river ain't too much to love - SMOG, Take fountain - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Menos El Oso - MINUS THE BEAR, Birds make good neighbors - THE ROSEBUDS, Descended like vultures - ROGUE WAVE, The invisible invasion - THE CORAL, The Magic Numbers - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, Some cities - DOVES, Black Mountain - BLACK MOUNTAIN, Z - MY MORNING JACKET, Demon days - GORILLAZ, Guero - BECK, Lost and safe - THE BOOKS, Noah's ark - COCOROSIE, Year of meteors - LAURA VEIRS, Pixel revolt - JOHN VANDERSLICE, Discover a lovelier you - PERNICE BROTHERS, …Tick…Tick…Tick - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Worlds apart - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Howl - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Hearts and unicorns - GIANT DRAG, Nice and nicely done - SPINTO BAND, Underwater cinematographer - MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Duel at dawn - MOMMY AND DADDY, With love and squalor - WE ARE SCIENTISTS, Weight is a gift - NADA SURF, Down in Albion - BABYSHAMBLES, Black rays defense - THE BEAT UP, The Others - THE OTHERS, Harmonies for the haunted - STELLASTARR*, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Push the button - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Before the dawn heals us - M83, In the clear - IVY, Open season - BRITISH SEA POWER, Oh no - OK GO, Gimmie trouble - ADULT., Home sweet home - KANO, You can't imagine how much fun we're having - ATMOSPHERE, In your honor - FOO FIGHTERS, Warnings / Promises - IDLEWILD, Laughter's fifth - LOVE AS LAUGHTER, Emoh - LOU BARLOW, Infiniheart - CHAD VANGAALEN, Blinking lights and other revelations - EELS, Cold roses / Jacksonville city nights - RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, 29 - RYAN ADAMS, Rehearsing my choir / EP - THE FIERY FURNACES, Everything is - NINE BLACK ALPS, For screening purposes only - TEST ICICLES, The Dead 60's - THE DEAD 60'S, Axes - ELECTRELANE, Bleed like me - GARBAGE, Frances the mute - THE MARS VOLTA, What comes after the blues - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Trials & errors - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Loose in the air - THE DOUBLE, Pony Up! - PONY UP!, Matson Jones - MATSON JONES, The wedding - ONEIDA, I am a bird now - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, Andrew Bird & the mysterious production of eggs - ANDREW BIRD, Somebody’s miracle - LIZ PHAIR, Be - COMMON, Black dialogue - PERCEPTIONISTS, In case we die - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI, Black sheep boy - OKKERVIL RIVER, All harm ends here - EARLY DAY MINERS, Howl howl gaff gaff - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Flex time - THE DIALS, The runners four - DEERHOOF, Tender buttons - BROADCAST, The best party ever - THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, Superwolf  - MATT SWEENEY AND BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Takk - SIGUR ROS, Bang bang rock and roll - ART BRUT, Give blood - BRAKES, Heat - COLDER, Awfully deep - ROOTS MANUVA, Grandmasters - DJ MUGGS VS. GZA/GENIUS, New whirl odor - PUBLIC ENEMY, My machine - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Purple haze - CAM'RON,  Beauty and the beat - EDAN, Out of breach (Manchester's revenge) - MU, Extraordinary machine - FIONA APPLE, Aerial - KATE BUSH, As is now - PAUL WELLER, Devils and dust - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Honeycomb - FRANK BLACK, Body of song - BOB MOULD, TheFutureEmbrace - BILLY CORGAN, Made in China - JULIANA HATFIELD, Pocket revolution - dEUS, Fires in distant buildings - GRAVENHURST, The lighthouse - ANA DA SILVA, Knuckle down - ANI DIFRANCO, Awake is the new sleep - BEN LEE, Nashville - JOSH ROUSE, Transistor radio - M WARD, On my way to absence - DAMIEN JURADO, Dignity and shame - CROOKED FINGERS, The view from the floor - SLOW DAZZLE, At the national grid - THE BATS, Spelled in bones - FRUIT BATS, More deep cuts - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Alpine static - KINSKI, Mezmerize / Hypnotize - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, With teeth - NINE INCH NAILS, Out of my head - THE D4, Such triumph - NARRATOR, I was born at night - MENEGUAR, Black comet - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Hurricane bar - MANDO DIAO, Celebration - CELEBRATION, Aw come aw wry - PHOSPHORESCENT, Quit +/or fight - HOLOPAW, The color and the light - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Okemah and the melody of riot - SON VOLT, Engineers - ENGINEERS, Field Music - FIELD MUSIC, Road to Rouen - SUPERGRASS, Here come The Tears - THE TEARS, Super extra gravity - THE CARDIGANS, Alligator - THE NATIONAL, OK cowboy - VITALIC, Jesu - JESU, Gypsy punks: Underdog world strike - GOGOL BORDELLO, The best little secrets are kept - LOUIS XIV, Easy beat - DR. DOG, The last romance - ARAB STRAP, Lucky dog recordings 03-04 - STUART A STAPLES, Strange geometry - THE CLIENTELE, Let it die - FEIST, The baby and the satellite - MICAH P HINSON, Tiger, my friend - PSAPP, God's money - GANG GANG DANCE, Woman king - IRON AND WINE, In the reins - CALEXICO / IRON AND WINE, Excerpts from the diary of Todd Zilla - GRANDADDY, Oscillons from the anti-sun - STEREOLAB, Prisoners of love - YO LA TENGO, The complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 - THE FALL, B-sides & rarities - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

The Best Albums Of 2004

Top 50

1. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
2. Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
3. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
4. Louden up now - !!!
5. Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
6. Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
7. Antics - INTERPOL
8. You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
9. Funeral - THE ARCADE FIRE
10. Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
11. Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD
12. Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND
13. No cities left - THE DEARS
14. To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
15. Hot fuss - THE KILLERS
16. The power out - ELECTRELANE
17. Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN
18. You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
19. Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES
20. Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY
21. More adventurous - RILO KILEY
22. The Concretes - THE CONCRETES
23. Thunder, lightning, strike - THE GO! TEAM
24. The Futureheads - THE FUTUREHEADS
25. The royal society - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
26. Audit in progress - HOT SNAKES
27. This island - LE TIGRE
28. The college dropout - KANYE WEST
29. American idiot - GREEN DAY
30. Shake the sheets - TED LEO + THE PHARMACISTS
31. Damage - BLUES EXPLOSION
32. Auf Der Maur - AUF DER MAUR
33. Cellar door - JOHN VANDERSLICE
34. Our endless numbered days - IRON AND WINE
35. The dirty south - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
36. Love songs for patriots - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
37. Is all over the map - GIANT SAND
38. Universal audio - THE DELGADOS
39. LP - AMBULANCE LTD
40. They were wrong, so we drowned - LIARS
41. Sur les traces de black eskimo - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD
42. 76/77 - COBRA KILLER
43. Stealing of a nation - RADIO 4
44. Margerine eclipse - STEREOLAB
45. La maison de mon reve - COCOROSIE
46. Love and distance - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
47. Almost killed me - THE HOLD STEADY
48. Fuckin A - THE THERMALS
49. The Libertines - THE LIBERTINES
50. Showtime - DIZZEE RASCAL

Also recommended:

Wet from birth - THE FAINT, Future perfect - AUTOLUX, Midnight Movies - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Out of the shadow - ROGUE WAVE, These were The Earlies - THE EARLIES, Origin vol. 1 - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Sex, love and rock 'n' roll - SOCIAL DISTORTION, Half smiles of the decomposed - GUIDED BY VOICES, A-ha shake heart break - KINGS OF LEON, 22-20s - 22-20s, Rubber factory - THE BLACK KEYS, Madvillainy - MADVILLAIN, Murs 3:16 the 9th edition - MURS, The tipping point - THE ROOTS, Faking the books - LALI PUNA, The new danger - MOS DEF, White people - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL, Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever - FELIX DA HOUSECAT, I com - MISS KITTIN, A grand don't come for free - THE STREETS, Winchester cathedral - CLINIC, Monolithic baby! - MONSTER MAGNET, Now here is nowhere - SECRET MACHINES, Lesser matters - THE RADIO DEPT., Around the sun - R.E.M., A ghost is born - WILCO, From a basement on the hill - ELLIOTT SMITH, She loves you - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, America’s sweetheart - COURTNEY LOVE, Baby - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Three fingers - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Thunder + lightning - MODEY LEMON, Street’s disciple - NAS, The grey album - DANGER MOUSE, Das not compute - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Leave no ashes - BURNING BRIDES, Winning days - THE VINES, Up all night - RAZORLIGHT, Modern apprentice - IKARA COLT, Blueberry boat - THE FIERY FURNACES, 50 foot wave - 50 FOOT WAVE, Love the cup - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, All songs written by: Human Television - HUMAN TELEVISION, Awcmon Noyoucmon - LAMBCHOP, Monsoon - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Onoffon - MISSION OF BURMA, Porcelain - SPARTA, Secret wars - ONEIDA, Penance soiree - THE ICARUS LINE, 04 - SIX BY SEVEN, Heroes to zeros - THE BETA BAND, In exile deo - JULIANA HATFIELD, Whiskey tango ghosts - TANYA DONELLY, Tasty - KELIS, Revolutionary but gangsta - DEAD PREZ, Tical 0: the prequel - METHOD MAN, In a safe place - THE ALBUM LEAF, As the cry flows - SEAFOOD, Armed love - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY, Fur - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT, Wild like children - TILLY AND THE WALL, One plus one is one - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Achilles heel - PEDRO THE LION, Panda park - 90 DAY MEN, The Dresden Dolls - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Treble and tremble - EARLIMART, Folker - PAUL WESTERBERG, Together we’re heavy - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, The laughing stock of indie rock - SOLEX, Rejoicing in the hands / Nino rojo - DEVANDRA BANHART, The delivery man - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS, New roman times - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Fine lines - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Radios burn faster - READ YELLOW, Yes to everything - THE WASHDOWN, Red bedroom - THE FEVER, School of etiquette - BOYSKOUT, Girls of war - DIE MONITR BATSS, No wicked heart shall prosper - SELFISH C*NT, Radical connector - MOUSE ON MARS, Ten - CLOUDDEAD, The handler - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, The Pretty Toney album - GHOSTFACE, Encore - EMINEM, The beautiful struggle - TALIB KWELI, Cee-Lo Green is the soul machine - CEE-LO, Talkie walkie - AIR, Medulla - BJORK, Blue cathedral - COMETS ON FIRE, Burned mind - WOLF EYES, Summer in Abaddon - PINBACK, Trial of the century - FRENCH KICKS, Fontaine Toups - FONTAINE TOUPS, The difference between you and me is that I’m not on fire - McLUSKY, Kiss and tell - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Gold medal - THE DONNAS, Winged life - SHEARWATER, The lost riots - HOPE OF THE STATES, Over the counter culture - THE ORDINARY BOYS, Phantom Planet - PHANTOM PLANET, Drill a hole in that substrate & tell me what you see - JIM WHITE, Seven swans - SUFJAN STEVENS, Micah P Hinson and The Gospel Of Progress - MICAH P HINSON AND THE GOSPEL OF PROGRESS, Real gone - TOM WAITS, Where the humans eat - WILLY MASON, Post to wire - RICHMOND FONTAINE, The heat - JESSE MALIN, Soviet kitsch - REGINA SPEKTOR, Satan’s circus - DEATH IN VEGAS, Always outnumbered, never outgunned - THE PRODIGY, Any minute now - SOULWAX, C.aarme - C.AARME, Power - Q AND NOT U, Purity pledge - TODD, Named and shamed - THE FLAMING STARS, i - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Alphabetical - PHOENIX, Scissor Sisters - SCISSOR SISTERS, How to dismantle an atomic bomb - U2, Trampin’ - PATTI SMITH, Educated guess - ANI DIFRANCO, The milk-eyed mender - JOANNA NEWSOM, Spooked - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Van Lear Rose - LORETTA LYNN, Rendezvous - LUNA, No more songs about sleep and fire - POSTER CHILDREN, Those are not my bongos - FUCK, Pyramid Electric Co. - JASON MOLINA, Bangers vs. fuckers - COACHWHIPS, Get saved - PILOT TO GUNNER, Moratoria - BIKINI ATOLL, Inches - LES SAVY FAV, Interim - THE FALL

The Best Albums Of 2003

Top 50

1. Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
2. Elephant - THE WHITE STRIPES
3. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
4. Fever to tell - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
5. Take them on, on your own - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
6. Echoes - THE RAPTURE
7. Room on fire - THE STROKES
8. You are free - CAT POWER
9. The new romance - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
10. The real new Fall LP (formerly ‘Country On The Click’) - THE FALL
11. Send - WIRE
12. Sumday - GRANDADDY
13. Keep on your mean side - THE KILLS
14. Fatherfucker - PEACHES
15. Give up - THE POSTAL SERVICE
16. You forgot it in people - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
17. Old world underground, where are you now? - METRIC
18. Lovers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
19. Rock N Roll - RYAN ADAMS
20. Blackberry belle - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
21. Strays - JANE'S ADDICTION
22. La musica negra - VERBENA
23. Electric version - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
24. Logic will break your heart - THE STILLS
25. The Bronx - THE BRONX
26. Rounds - FOUR TET
27. Speakerboxxx / The love below - OUTKAST
28. Hail to the thief - RADIOHEAD
29. The New Folk Implosion - FOLK IMPLOSION
30. This is the glamorous - NEW WET KOJAK
31. Nocturama - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
32. Feast of wire - CALEXICO
33. Youth and young manhood - KINGS OF LEON
34. Gallowsbird’s bark - THE FIERY FURNACES
35. 99 Cents - CHICKS ON SPEED
36. Wherever I am I am what is missing - LAIKA
37. The instinct - DENALI
38. Please believe it - THE PARTY OF HELICOPTERS
39. Long knives drawn - RAINER MARIA
40. Earthquake glue - GUIDED BY VOICES
41. De-loused in the comatorium - THE MARS VOLTA
42. Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE
43. Baby I'm bored - EVAN DANDO
44. Magic and medicine - THE CORAL
45. Think tank - BLUR
46. Stellastarr* - STELLASTARR*
47. Bazooka!!! - THE STAR SPANGLES
48. Hocus - pocus - ENON
49. Alter - PLEASURE FOREVER
50. Mary star of the sea - ZWAN

Also recommended:

Amazing grace - SPIRITUALIZED, Bright yellow bright orange - THE GO-BETWEENS, Come feel me tremble - PAUL WESTERBERG, Chutes too narrow - THE SHINS, Vulnerable - TRICKY, Liz Phair - LIZ PHAIR, A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. WEAPONS, Gettin wise - BRASSY, Down for whatever - VUE, Shine a light - CONSTANTINES, Motherfuckers be trippin' - SUPERSUCKERS, Static transmission - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Yours, mine & ours - PERNICE BROTHERS, Whenever you're ready - SWELL, Supper - SMOG, Magnolia electric co. - SONGS: OHIA, It still moves - MY MORNING JACKET, Transatlanticism - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, One word extinguisher - PREFUSE 73, Revolutionary Vol. 2 - IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, The black album - JAY-Z, Chain gang of love - THE RAVEONETTES, Everyone down here - EARLIMART, Yoko - BEULAH, The Desert Sessions 9 & 10 - DESERT SESSIONS, The red, white & black - THE BELLRAYS, Dangerous magical noise - THE DIRTBOMBS, Voice of treason - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Pig lib - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Summer sun - YO LA TENGO, How I learned to write backwards - THE AISLERS SET, At crystal palace - ERASE ERRATA, Purely evil - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Anxiety always - ADULT., Do rabbits wonder? - WHIRLWIND HEAT, Kill them with kindness - THE JEALOUS SOUND, One bedroom - THE SEA AND CAKE, Heart - STARS, Monday at the Hug & Pint - ARAB STRAP, Shootenanny! - EELS, Show me your tears - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Sleeping with ghosts - PLACEBO, Welcome to the monkey house - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Haha sound - BROADCAST, Bad timing - GRAND MAL, The listener - HOWE HOME, Still lookin' good to me - THE BAND OF…BLACKY RANCHETTE, Master and everyone - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, The grotto - KRISTIN HERSH, Regard the end - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Waiting for the moon - TINDERSTICKS, Hot shit - QUASI, Decoration day - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The ugly organ - CURSIVE, The decline of British Sea Power - BRITISH SEA POWER, Shades of black - EASTERN LANE, Torch division - THE WISDOM OF HARRY, Airs above your station - KINSKI, Young liars - TV ON THE RADIO, The secret of Elena’s tomb - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Here comes that weird chill - MARK LANEGAN BAND, Love is hell pt.1 / pt.2 - RYAN ADAMS, Seven easy pieces - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Instant 0 in the universe - STEREOLAB, Roll, spirit, roll - THE DUKE SPIRIT, Hidden between sleeves - IMMENSE, Boy in da corner - DIZZEE RASCAL, Get rich or die tryin' - 50 CENT, Get born - JET, 39 minutes of bliss (in an otherwise meaningless world) - CAESARS, Thickfreakness - THE BLACK KEYS, Hearts of oak - TED LEO/PHARMACISTS, Two conversations - THE APPLESEED CAST, Built on squares - STARLIGHT MINTS, Movement - THE GOSSIP, Team boo - MATES OF STATE, Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State - SUFJAN STEVENS, Her Majesty the Decemberists - THE DECEMBERISTS, Dressy Bessy - DRESSY BESSY, Triggers - APRIL MARCH, Don’t try this at home - LAPTOP, Afro finger & gel - MU, Ghetto pop life - DANGER MOUSE AND JEMINI, Bazooka tooth - AESOP ROCK, Birth of a prince - RZA, This is not a test - MISSY ELLIOTT, The ownerz - GANG STARR, Seven’s travels - ATMOSPHERE, Take me to your leader - KING GEEDORAH, Vaudeville Villain - VIKTOR VAUGHN, Wallpaper for the soul - TAHITI 80, Black cherry - GOLDFRAPP, Radio blackout - T. RAUMSCHMIERE, Again - COLDER, Dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts - M83, Deux hot dogs moutarde chou - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD, Youth controllerzz - DIE MONITR BATSS, MNML - S PRCSS, Ima Robot - IMA ROBOT, Cedars - CLEARLAKE, View of an orbiting man - TENKI, Phoenix - WARLOCKS, The meadowlands - WRENS, The summer of the shark - PORTASTATIC, You are here - +/-, The black babies - DEVENDRA BANHART, The transient - DAVID DONDERO, Ghosts of the great highway - SUN KIL MOON, Per second, per second, per second… every second - WHEAT, 3 - SLUMBER PARTY, From the attic - DAMONE, Highly refined pirates - MINUS THE BEAR, The smell of our own - THE HIDDEN CAMERAS, Never never land - UNKLE, 100th window - MASSIVE ATTACK, The lemon of pink - THE BOOKS, Berlinette - ELLEN ALLIEN, Evolve - ANI DIFRANCO, A mark, a mission, a brand, a scar - DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, Loses control - HEY MERCEDES, Kick up the fire and let the flames break loose - COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE, So much for the city - THE THRILLS, Cast of thousands - ELBOW, Phantom power - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Dear catastrophe waitress - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Underachievers please try harder - CAMERA OBSCURA, Happy songs for happy people - MOGWAI, Promise of love - THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET, Fiends on dope island - THE CRAMPS, Sleep and release - AEREOGRAMME, The Concretes - THE CONCRETES, Want one - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, 1972 - JOSH ROUSE, Run to ruin - NINA NASTASIA, The ugly American - MARK EITZEL, Red devil dawn - CROOKED FINGERS, From every sphere - ED HARCOURT, Day I forgot - PETE YORN, Absolution - MUSE, Silence is easy - STARSAILOR, Welcome interstate managers - FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE, Midnight at the black nail polish factory - THE DEATHRAY DAVIES, Panic movement - THE HISS, The strangest things - LONGWAVE, War all the time - THURSDAY, The artist in the ambulance - THRICE, Antenna - CAVE IN, Sing the sorrow - AFI, Slow motion daydream - EVERCLEAR, Lost dogs - PEARL JAM, Cool as - INSPIRAL CARPETS, Wig in a Box - Songs from & inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch - VARIOUS ARTISTS

The Best Albums Of 2002

Top 50

1. Turn on the bright lights - INTERPOL
2. Songs for the deaf - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
3. Source tags and codes - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
4. One beat - SLEATER-KINNEY
5. Yoshimi battles the pink robots - THE FLAMING LIPS
6. Evil heat - PRIMAL SCREAM
7. Highly evolved - THE VINES
8. Original pirate material - THE STREETS
9. You can't fight what you can't see - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
10. Title TK - BREEDERS
11. They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top - LIARS
12. Gotham! - RADIO 4
13. Fantastic damage - EL-P
14. Murray street - SONIC YOUTH
15. Suicide invoice - HOT SNAKES
16. Chat and business - IKARA COLT
17. Good health - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
18. Plastic fang - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
19. Kill the moonlight - SPOON
20. Walking with thee - CLINIC
21. All artists are criminals - CHA CHA COHEN
22. Phrenology - THE ROOTS
23. The remote part - IDLEWILD
24. One by one - FOO FIGHTERS
25. The way I feel today - SIX BY SEVEN
26. Scorpio rising - DEATH IN VEGAS
27. To everybody - 90 DAY MEN
28. Free so free - J MASCIS + THE FOG
29. Universal truths and cycles - GUIDED BY VOICES
30. Since we've become translucent - MUDHONEY
31. Six twenty - THE D4
32. Lapalco - BRENDAN BENSON
33. Lifted or The story is in the soil, keep your ear to the ground - BRIGHT EYES
34. Have you fed the fish? - BADLY DRAWN BOY
35. Handcream for a generation - CORNERSHOP
36. Light and magic - LADYTRON
37. The golden dove - MARY TIMONY
38. Amore del tropico - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION
39. Yankee hotel foxtrot - WILCO
40. Nextdoorland - THE SOFT BOYS
41. Riot act - PEARL JAM
42. At sixes and sevens - JASON LOEWENSTEIN
43. Horse of the dog - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
44. Make up the breakdown - HOT HOT HEAT
45. Fall of the plastic empire - BURNING BRIDES
46. American supreme - SUICIDE
47. Legend of the liquid sword - GZA
48. The Eminem show - EMINEM
49. You can feel me - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR
50. Up the bracket - THE LIBERTINES

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Real feelness - THE PATTERN, Your majesty - THE ANNIVERSARY, Italian platinum - SILKWORM, Wiretap scars - SPARTA, Loud like nature - ADD N TO (X), Intelligence and sacrifice - ALEC EMPIRE, The private press - DJ SHADOW, Trust - LOW, When I was cruel - ELVIS COSTELLO, Eyes Adrift - EYES ADRIFT, Spend the night - THE DONNAS, Let go - NADA SURF, Hate - THE DELGADOS, Got what we want - THE SIGHTS, Maladroit - WEEZER, Life on other planets - SUPERGRASS, California crossing - FU MANCHU, The Datsuns - THE DATSUNS, Quality - TALIB KWELI, God’s son - NAS, Come with us - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, A hundred days off - UNDERWORLD, Don't be afraid of love - LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS, Romantica - LUNA, Cover magazine - GIANT SAND, Is a woman - LAMBCHOP, Beautysleep - TANYA DONNELLY, Devil's workshop - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Folklore - SIXTEEN HORSEPOWER, Are you earthed? - APPLIANCE, Whip it on - THE RAVEONETTES, Read & Burn 01/ Read & Burn 02 - WIRE, Out of the races and onto the tracks - THE RAPTURE, Wood/Water - PROMISE RING, Everyone who pretended to like me is gone - THE WALKMEN, Fire music - GALLON DRUNK, Heathen chemistry - OASIS, Modulate - BOB MOULD, Flood - RAINING PLEASURE, Presidential suite - GONZALES, Genetic world - TELEPOPMUSIK, Meet the Bellrays - THE BELLRAYS, Now you know - DOUG MARTSCH, Each one teach one - ONEIDA, Call and response - BANGS, Italiano - BEATINGS, Electric sweat - THE MOONEY SUZUKI, Deadringer - RJD2, Arrhythmia - ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM, High society - ENON, Black letter days - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Black city - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Jennie bomb - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Sing sing deathhouse - THE DISTILLERS, I name you destroyer - JUCIFER, They raging, quiet army - DETACHMENT KIT, McLusky do Dallas - McLUSKY, Steal your soul and dare your spirit to move - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Grit - MADRUGADA, Some boots - KARATE, Geogaddi - BOARDS OF CANADA, Lost horizons - LEMON JELLY, Or - GOLDEN BOY WITH MISS KITTIN, In search of... - N*E*R*D, The blueprint 2: The gift & the curse - JAY-Z, Under construction - MISSY ELLIOTT, The fix - SCARFACE, I Phantom - MR. LIF, Nobody knows this is everywhere - 764-HERO, Skyscraper national park - HAYDEN, Sha Sha - BEN KWELLER, The fine art of self destruction - JESSE MALIN, Didn’t it rain - SONGS: OHIA, Hold tight the ropes - ELK CITY, The beginning stages of... - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, Sea change - BECK, The golden state - MIA DOI TODD, The nature of maps / The green fury - MATT POND PA, Neon golden - NOTWIST, Zoomer - SCHNEIDER TM, ( ) - SIGUR ROS, Yanqui UXO - GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR, A rush of blood to the head - COLDPLAY, The last broadcast - DOVES, The Coral - THE CORAL, Blacklisted - NEKO CASE, The blackened air - NINA NASTASIA, Steady The Buffs - THE BUFF MEDWAYS, I break chairs - DAMIEN JURADO AND GATHERED IN SONG, Under cold blue stars - JOSH ROUSE, On - IMPERIAL TEEN, Whatever, mortal - PAPA M, Holes in the wall - ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE, See this through and leave - COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE, Ideas above our station - HUNDRED REASONS, By the way - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Illumination - PAUL WELLER, The rising - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Alice / Blood Money - TOM WAITS, Jerusalem - STEVE EARLE, Stereo/Mono - PAUL WESTERBERG, Hitting the ground - GORDON GANO, Demolition - RYAN ADAMS, Don't worry about me - JOEY RAMONE, Heathen - DAVID BOWIE, Buzzkunst - SHELLEY DEVOTO, Step off - ESG, Metro Area - METRO AREA, Vulnerabilia - MY COMPUTER, Every day - CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, Out of season - BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN, Daybreaker - BETH ORTON, A little deeper - MS DYNAMITE, Power in numbers - JURASSIC 5, Cee-Lo Green and his perfect imperfections - CEE-LO, Beaches and canyons - BLACK DICE, Thought for food - THE BOOKS, Perfecting loneliness - JETS TO BRAZIL, Control - PEDRO THE LION, Skorborealis - DANIELLE HOWLE AND THE TANTRUMS, OK Go - OK GO, Point - CORNELIUS, 18 - MOBY, We are science - DOT ALLISON, Redemption's son - JOSEPH ARTHUR, +/- - +/-, Calling zero - GO BACK SNOWBALL, Thriller - NEW END ORIGINAL, Basement apes - GLUECIFER, Pixies - PIXIES, 2G+2 - THE FALL

The Best Albums Of 2001

Top 50

1. Is this it - THE STROKES
2. Group sounds - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
3. Isolation drills - GUIDED BY VOICES
4. All is dream - MERCURY REV
5. Let it come down - SPIRITUALIZED
6. Stephen Malkmus - STEPHEN MALKMUS
7. White blood cells - THE WHITE STRIPES
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
9. The argument - FUGAZI
10. Iron flag - WU-TANG CLAN
11. Ancient melodies of the future - BUILT TO SPILL
12. Are you are missing winner - THE FALL
13. No more shall we part - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
14. Ease down the road - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
15. It’s a wonderful life - SPARKLEHORSE
16. Get ready - NEW ORDER
17. 604 - LADYTRON
18. Souljacker - EELS
19. Change - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN
20. Behind the music - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
21. The cold vein - CANNIBAL OX
22. #1 - FISCHERSPOONER
23. Song yet to be sung - PERRY FARRELL
24. Sound-dust - STEREOLAB
25. The red thread - ARAB STRAP
26. Rain on lens - SMOG
27. Sunny border blue - KRISTIN HERSH
28. Girls can tell - SPOON
29. When do we start fighting - SEAFOOD
30. The photo album - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
31. Take back the universe and give me yesterday - CREEPER LAGOON
32. Feminist sweepstakes - LE TIGRE
33. Sea to shining sea - LOVE AS LAUGHTER
34. A new morning, changing weather - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
35. Here's to shutting up - SUPERCHUNK
36. Bright flight - SILVER JEWS
37. Here come the miracles - STEVE WYNN
38. Ultraglide in black - THE DIRTBOMBS
39. United by fate - RIVAL SCHOOLS
40. Weird revolution - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
41. Run come save me - ROOTS MANUVA
42. Drukqs - APHEX TWIN
43. Gorillaz - GORILLAZ
44. Hot shots II - THE BETA BAND
45. The Moldy Peaches - THE MOLDY PEACHES
46. Anthem of the moon - ONEIDA
47. Field songs - MARK LANEGAN
48. Life, love and leaving - THE DETROIT COBRAS
49. The world won't end - PERNICE BROTHERS
50. Reveal - R.E.M.

Also recommended:

Things we lost in the fire - LOW, Insignificance - JIM O’ROURKE, Gold - RYAN ADAMS, The coast is never clear - BEULAH, Mass romantic - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Dyed in the wool - SHANNON WRIGHT, Leaves turn inside you - UNWOUND, Rock action - MOGWAI, Lack of communication - THE VON BONDIES, Charged - NEBULA, Turn 21 - THE DONNAS, A better version of me - RAINER MARIA, All this sounds gas - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Everybody wants to know - SWELL, Low kick and hard bop - SOLEX, Labor days - AESOP ROCK, The blueprint - JAY-Z, Blowback - TRICKY, Nice - ROLLINS BAND, Weezer (The green album) - WEEZER, Free all angels - ASH, The tracksuit trilogy - THE EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND, Imperial metric - APPLIANCE, The invisible man - MARK EITZEL, Vespertine - BJORK, We love life - PULP, Beautiful Garbage - GARBAGE, Short-staffed at the gene pool - RUBY, God bless the Blake Babies - THE BLAKE BABIES, The Texas Jerusalem crossroads - LIFT TO EXPERIENCE, Can our love...- TINDERSTICKS, The sword of God - QUASI, Danse macabre - THE FAINT, Love is here - STARSAILOR, The old me versus the new you / Opening credits - LAPTOP, That's not what I heard - THE GOSSIP, Sport fury - BEACHBUGGY, Amnesiac - RADIOHEAD, Gift - CURVE, Hip check - THE COME ONS, Confluence - HOWE GELB, No such place - JIM WHITE, Dog in the sand - FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS, Pleased to meet you - JAMES, From the desk of Mr. Lady - LE TIGRE, Thelema - MURDER CITY DEVILS, Your new favourite band - THE HIVES, Pleasure Forever - PLEASURE FOREVER, A future lived in past tense - JUNO, Find your home - VUE, Rock it to the moon - ELECTRELANE, Bleed American - JIMMY EAT WORLD, Every night fire works - HEY MERCEDES, Mono - ICARUS LINE, Revelling/Reckoning - ANI DIFRANCO, Bavarian fruit bread - HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, The optimist LP - TURIN BRAKES, The Glow, part II - THE MICROPHONES, A dream in sound - ELF POWER, Asleep in the back - ELBOW, A story in white - AEREOGRAMME, Cold house - HOOD, Go plastic - SQUAREPUSHER, Princess Superstar is - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Bulletproof wallets - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, Digital bullet - RZA, Expansion team - DILATED PEOPLES, A journey to anywhere - UGLY DUCKLING, Lateralus - TOOL, Identikit - BURNING AIRLINES, A flight and a crash / Never ender - HOT WATER MUSIC, Causey vs. everything - CAUSEY WAY, Party music - THE COUP, Devil’s night - D-12, The reason - BEANIE SIGEL, Space boogie: Smoke Oddessey - KURUPT, The skinny - SLIMM CALHOUN, 9 lives - AZ, Pity the fool - MR. LEN, XO Experience - THA LIKS, The sneak attack - KRS-ONE, Take it or squeeze it - BEATNUTS, Psyco On Da Bus - PSYCO ON DA BUS, Execute - OXIDE & NEUTRINO, In search of... - N*E*R*D, Kill your darlings - KID LOCO, Melody AM - ROYKSOPP, Happiness - FRIDGE, Been here and gone - THALIA ZEDEK, Everything's fine - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Psychopharmacology - FIREWATER, Quiet is the new loud - KINGS OF CONVENIENCE, Tiny waves, mighty sea - FUTURE PILOT AKA, Visioncreationnewsun - BOREDOMS, Standards - TORTOISE, Dilate - BARDO POND, Profane - COUCH, Lido - CLEARLAKE, Know your enemy - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Rings around the world - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, How I long to feel that summer in my heart - GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Wonderland - THE CHARLATANS, The Oliver Twist manifesto - LUKE HAINES, Love and theft - BOB DYLAN, Global a go-go - JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS, Próxima estación: Esperanza - MANU CHAO, Look into the eyeball - DAVID BYRNE, Poses - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Musicforthemorningafter - PETE YORN, Here be monsters - ED HARCOURT, Essence - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Once we were trees - BEACHWOOD SPARKS, Surf’s up - DAVID THOMAS & THE TWO PALE BOYS, Deep in the hole - MASTERS OF REALITY, Toxicity - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Comfort eagle - CAKE, Miss E … So addictive - MISSY ELLIOTT, Since I left you - THE AVALANCHES, Idiology - MOUSE ON MARS, The Altogether - ORBITAL, Discovery - DAFT PUNK, 10000 Hz legend - AIR, Rooty - BASEMENT JAXX, Exciter - DEPECHE MODE, Phanerothyme - MOTORPSYCHO, Ghost ship - THE SULTANS, More revery - BONNIE BILLY, The e-music singles collection - STEVE WYNN, Rotten apples - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, Looking for the perfect beat - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, The Radio One sessions - ELASTICA, Complete 'B' Sides - PIXIES, The essential Radio Birdman (1974 - 1978) - RADIO BIRDMAN, The world bewitched - THE FALL