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.

The Best Albums Of 2009

Top 50

1. Dance mother - TELEPATHE
2. Exploding head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
3. The eternal - SONIC YOUTH
4. Fantasies - METRIC
5. Two suns - BAT FOR LASHES
6. It's blitz! - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
8. Fever Ray - FEVER RAY
9. Horehound - THE DEAD WEATHER
10. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
11. A brief history of love - THE BIG PINK
12. Get color - HEALTH
13. Only built 4 Cuban linx… pt. II - RAEKWON
14. Embryonic - THE FLAMING LIPS
15. I'm going away - THE FIERY FURNACES
16. Marry me tonight - HTRK
17. Face control - HANDSOME FURS
18. Post-Nothing - JAPANDROIDS
19. Fits - WHITE DENIM
20. Popular songs - YO LA TENGO
21. Rated O - ONEIDA
22. Futuro - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO
23. Dragonslayer - SUNSET RUBDOWN
24. Six - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION
25. Farm - DINOSAUR JR.
26. Dim light - GUN OUTFIT
27. Everything goes wrong - VIVIAN GIRLS
28. Rose city - VIVA VOCE
29. XX - THE XX
30. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
31. Humbug - ARCTIC MONKEYS
32. There is no enemy - BUILT TO SPILL
33. Dos - WOODEN SHJIPS
34. Primary colours - THE HORRORS
35. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - PHOENIX
36. Lungs - FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
37. Radio wars - HOWLING BELLS
38. Years of refusal - MORRISSEY
39. The ecstatic - MOS DEF
40. Dark night of the soul - DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE
41. Balf quarry - MAGIK MARKERS
42. Sewn together - MEAT PUPPETS
43. Broken - SOULSAVERS
44. Monsters Of Folk - MONSTERS OF FOLK
45. Outer south - CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND
46. Wilco (The album) - WILCO
47. The hazards of love - THE DECEMBERISTS
48. My old familiar friend - BRENDAN BENSON
49. Middle cyclone - NEKO CASE
50. Sometimes I wish we were an eagle - BILL CALLAHAN

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Actor - ST. VINCENT, Big sexy noise - BIG SEXY NOISE, I blame you - OBITS, King of jeans - PISSED JEANS, Tarot sport - FUCK BUTTONS, Love comes close - COLD CAVE, Phrazes for the young - JULIAN CASABLANCAS, Them Crooked Vultures - THEM CROOKED VULTURES, Swoon - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, In and out of control - THE RAVEONETTES, Bitte orca - DIRTY PROJECTORS, Logos - ATLAS SOUND, My maudlin career - CAMERA OBSCURA, Broken side of time - ALBERTA CROSS, Hot wax - GRANT HART, Now we can see - THE THERMALS, Spinnerette - SPINNERETTE, Til the casket drops - CLIPSE, Further complications - JARVIS COCKER, Kingdom of rust - DOVES, Baby darling doll face honey - BAND OF SKULLS, Infinite light - LIGHTNING DUST, A woman a man walked by - P.J. HARVEY & JOHN PARISH, Beware - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Petits fours - GRAND DUCHY, Backspacer - PEARL JAM, The century of self - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, 200 million thousand - BLACK LIPS, Travels with myself and another - FUTURE OF THE LEFT, Art Brut vs. Satan - ART BRUT, Ignore the ignorant - THE CRIBS, In this light and on this evening - EDITORS, Julian Plenti is… skyscraper - JULIAN PLENTI, Love hate and then there's you - THE VON BONDIES, Yours truly, the commuter - JASON LYTLE, Goodnight unknown - LOU BARLOW, Varshons - THE LEMONHEADS, The spirit of Apollo - N.A.S.A., I feel cream - PEACHES, Music for men - GOSSIP, Hush - ASOBI SEKSU, Dear John - LONEY DEAR, Two dancers - WILD BEASTS, Bird-brains - TUNE-YARDS, The airing of grievances - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Why there are mountains - CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, Love on an oil rig - THE VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB, Tentacles - CRYSTAL ANTLERS, Grace/Wastelands - PETER DOHERTY, Expressions - MUSIC GO MUSIC, Jewellery - MICACHU & THE SHAPES, All aboard future - THESE ARE POWERS, Nowhere forever - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS, Nests - SHE KEEPS BEES, After robots - BLK JKS, Hospice - THE ANTLERS, What will we be - DEVENDRA BANHART, Psychic chasms - NEON INDIAN, Dark days/Light years - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Checkmate savage - PHANTOM BAND, Armonico hewa - OOIOO, Album - GIRLS, Veckatimest - GRIZZLY BEAR, Seek magic - MEMORY TAPES, Outside love - THE PINK MOUNTAINTOPS, Romanian names - JOHN VANDERSLICE, A balloon called moaning - THE JOY FORMIDABLE, Under and under - BLANK DOGS, Kingstonlogic 2.0 - TERRY LYNN, Guns don't kill people…Lazers do - MAJOR LAZER, Three EPs - SHACKLETON, Ambivalence Avenue - BIBIO, SyMptoMs - MORDANT MUSIC, Cassette city - LUSHLIFE, Gutter tactics - DALEK, Born like this - DOOM, The blueprint 3 - JAY-Z, BlaQKout - DJ QUIK & KURUPT, Blackroc - BLACKROC, Temporary pleasure - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Begone dull care - JUNIOR BOYS, Manners - PASSION PIT, Walking on a dream - EMPIRE OF THE SUN, Rain Machine - RAIN MACHINE, Gorilla manor - LOCAL NATIVES, Harum scarum - JOE GIDEON AND THE SHARK, The sound the speed the light - MISSION OF BURMA, Trapped animal - THE SLITS, Down with liberty...Up with chains! - CHAIN AND THE GANG, Pine/Cross Dover - MASTERS OF REALITY, Goodnight Oslo - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Life and times - BOB MOULD, The real feel - SPIRAL STAIRS, Mo beauty - ALEC OUNSWORTH, The BQE - SUFJAN STEVENS, Noble beast - ANDREW BIRD, Through the devil softly - HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, Sun gangs - THE VEILS, Oh my God, Charlie Darwin - THE LOW ANTHEM, Dead Man’s Bones - DEAD MAN’S BONES, Bromst - DAN DEACON, Watch me fall - JAY REATARD, Post electric blues - IDLEWILD, Ashes grammar - A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW, 200 tons of bad luck - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX, Earthly delights - LIGHTNING BOLT, Monoliths & dimensions - SUNN O))), Crack the skye - MASTADON, Dracula boots - KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS, The visitor - JIM O'ROURKE, Monster head room - GANGLIANS, To be still - ALELA DIANE, The life of the world to come - MOUNTAIN GOATS, Songs of shame - WOODS, The Smith Westerns - THE SMITH WESTERNS, Real Estate - REAL ESTATE, It’s frightening - WHITE RABBITS, Turning the mind - MAPS, Junior - ROYKSOPP, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - KASABIAN, Only revolutions - BIFFY CLYRO, Wall of arms - THE MACCABEES, Tale to tell - MUMMERS, Kings & Queens - JAMIE T, Truelove's gutter - RICHARD HAWLEY, Far - REGINA SPECTOR, The crying light - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, One fast move or I’m gone: Music from Kerouac’s Big Sur - JAY FARRAR & BENJAMIN GIBBARD, Journal for plague lovers - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Klang - THE RAKES, Grey Britain - GALLOWS, I had the blues but I shook them loose - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, Quicken the heart - MAXIMO PARK, The resistance - MUSE, No line on the horizon - U2, Working on a dream - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Together through life - BOB DYLAN, Welcome to Mali - AMADOU & MARIAM, Imidiwan: Companions - TINARIWEN, Warm heart of Africa - THE VERY BEST, JJ no2 - JJ, Summertime! - THE DRUMS, No one's first and you're next - MODEST MOUSE, Enter The Vaselines - THE VASELINES.

The Best Albums Of 2008

Top 50

1. Dig!!! Lazarus dig!!! - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
2. Dear science - TV ON THE RADIO
3. Antidotes - FOALS
4. Neptune - THE DUKE SPIRIT
5. Crystal Castles - CRYSTAL CASTLES
6. Midnight boom - THE KILLS
7. Consolers of the lonely - THE RACONTEURS
8. Saturnalia - THE GUTTER TWINS
9. Third - PORTISHEAD
10. Beat pyramid - THESE NEW PURITANS
11. Oracular spectacular - MGMT
12. A certain feeling - BODIES OF WATER
13. Songs in A&E - SPIRITUALIZED
14. Loyalty to loyalty - COLD WAR KIDS
15. Stay positive - THE HOLD STEADY
16. Box of secrets - BLOOD RED SHOES
17. Vampire Weekend - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
18. Conor Oberst - CONOR OBERST
19. Intimacy - BLOC PARTY
20. Santogold - SANTOGOLD
21. Velocifero - LADYTRON
22. Re-arrange us - MATES OF STATE
23. Imperial wax solvent - THE FALL
24. Beautiful future - PRIMAL SCREAM
25. Saint Dymphna - GANG GANG DANCE
26. Donkey - CSS
27. Partie traumatic - BLACK KIDS
28. The bake sale - THE COOL KIDS
29. Narrow stairs - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
30. Lookout mountain, lookout sea - SILVER JEWS
31. Fleet Foxes - FLEET FOXES
32. Only by the night - KINGS OF LEON
33. Accelerate - R.E.M.
34. Microcastle / Weird era continued - DEERHUNTER
35. Alpinisms - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
36. Something for all of us… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: BRENDAN CANNING
37. Object 47 - WIRE
38. Walk it off - TAPES 'N TAPES
39. The chemistry of common life - FUCKED UP
40. In the future - BLACK MOUNTAIN
41. The lucky ones - MUDHONEY
42. Provisions - GIANT SAND
43. Keep your eyes ahead - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
44. The age of the understatement - THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
45. Elephant shell - TOKYO POLICE CLUB
46. Lightbulbs - FUJIYA & MIYAGI
47. London zoo - THE BUG
48. Modern guilt - BECK
49. Real emotional trash - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
50. Alight of night - CRYSTAL STILTS

Also recommended:

Take it personally - THE STARLITE DESPERATION, Workout holiday - WHITE DENIM, Secret Machines - SECRET MACHINES, Evil urges - MY MORNING JACKET, Skeletal lamping - OF MONTREAL, Jukebox - CAT POWER, Acid tongue - JENNY LEWIS, Chemical chords - STEREOLAB, At Mount Zoomer - WOLF PARADE, The stand ins - OKKERVIL RIVER, O - TILLY AND THE WALL, Some are lakes - LAND OF TALK, Get awkward - BE YOUR OWN PET, Nouns - NO AGE, Bits - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Vivian Girls - VIVIAN GIRLS, Fortress ’round my heart - IDA MARIA, Alopecia - WHY?, Free gold! - INDIAN JEWELRY, High Places - HIGH PLACES, The Week That Was - THE WEEK THAT WAS, Twenty one - MYSTERY JETS, Friendly Fires - FRIENDLY FIRES, Forth - THE VERVE, Snowflake midnight - MERCURY REV, Directions to see a ghost - THE BLACK ANGELS, Attack and release - THE BLACK KEYS, This gift - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Glasvegas - GLASVEGAS, The golden age - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, Lie down in the light - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Carried to dust - CALEXICO, The golden hour - FIREWATER, Missiles - THE DEARS, District line - BOB MOULD, This is not the world - THE FUTUREHEADS, Mega breakfast - THE CHAP, Does you inspire you - CHAIRLIFT, Youth novels - LYKKE LI, Oh (Ohio) - LAMBCHOP, Sunday at Devil Dirt - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, Knowle West boy - TRICKY, Tha Carter III - LIL WAYNE, Made in the dark - HOT CHIP. Como te llama? - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., You & me - THE WALKMEN, Mountain battles - THE BREEDERS, Inherit - FREE KITTEN, Retribution Gospel Choir - RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR, Svn fngrs - BLACK FRANCIS, Do it! - CLINIC, Kensington Heights - CONSTANTINES, The evangelist - ROBERT FORSTER, Crossing Dragon Bridge - STEVE WYNN, Do you like rock music? - BRITISH SEA POWER, Off with their heads - KAISER CHIEFS, Day and age - THE KILLERS, Rascalize - THE RASCALS, Motion to rejoin - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, For Emma, forever ago - BON IVER, Los Angeles - FLYING LOTUS, Pro tools - GZA, The Bronx (III) - THE BRONX, Delayer - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Promises, promises - DIE! DIE! DIE!, Ladyhawke - LADYHAWKE, Red, yellow and blue - BORN RUFFIANS, Upbeat love - THREATMANTICS, Εl Rey - WEDDING PRESENT, 22 dreams - PAUL WELLER, Brighter than creation's dark - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The '59 sound - THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Xs on your eyes - +/-, Street horrrsing - FUCK BUTTONS, In ghost colours - CUT COPY, Feed the animals - GIRL TALK, LP3 - RATATAT, The holy pictures - DAVID HOLMES, Dig out your soul - OASIS, You cross my path - THE CHARLATANS, The hungry saw - TINDERSTICKS, Couples - THE LONG BLONDES, The way we ride - FULTON LIGHTS, Ringer - FOUR TET, Fantasy black channel - LATE OF THE PIER, Cage The Elephant - CAGE THE ELEPHANT, We are beautiful, we are doomed - LOS CAMPESINOS!, Burnt out landscapes - THE MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, A hundred things that keep me up at night - LOVE IS ALL, Waited up 'til it was light - JOHNNY FOREIGNER, Stainless style - NEON NEON, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust - SIGUR ROS, 13 blues for thirteen moons - SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA AND TRA-LA-LA BAND, The hawk is howling - MOGWAI, Little death - PETE AND THE PIRATES, Falling off the Lavender Bridge - LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION, Alas I cannot swim - LAURA MARLING, No way down - AIR FRANCE, Rising down - THE ROOTS, When life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold - ATMOSPHERE, Rabbit hats - MAN MAN, Swimming - FRENCH KICKS, Black sheep - JULIAN COPE, How to walk away - JULIANA HATFIELD, Hymn & her - EARLIMART, Morning tide - THE LITTLE ONES, Moonwink - THE SPINTO BAND, Soft airplane - CHAD VANGAALEN, Forfeit / Fortune - CROOKED FINGERS, Preteen weaponry - ONEIDA, The rhumb line - RA RA RIOT, Bluebeard's rooms - DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE, The midnight organ fight - FRIGHTENED RABBIT, Now or heaven - THE BROKEN WEST, Cardinology - RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS, Everything that happens will happen today - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE, 4:13 Dream - THE CURE, The seldom seen kid - ELBOW, Luna - THE ALIENS, Disco - HEALTH, A land for renegades - ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, Repercussions - DISTANCE, The renaissance - Q-TIP, 808s and heartbreak - KANYE WEST, Hercules And Love Affair - HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR, Odd couple - GNARLS BARKLEY, Alegranza - EL GUINCHO, Nights out - METRONOMY, Saturdays = Youth - M83, Volume one - SHE & HIM, Furr - BLITZEN TRAPPER, Distortion - MAGNETIC FIELDS, Offend Maggie - DEERHOOF, Visiter - THE DODOS, Rook - SHEARWATER, Here with me - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Oceans will rise - THE STILLS, Earth to The Dandy Warhols - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Sea lion - RUBY SUNS, Rest now, weary head! You will get well soon - GET WELL SOON, Avatar - MONIKA, Remember - THE FIERY FURNACES, Christmas on Mars - THE FLAMING LIPS

The Best Albums Of 2007

Top 50

1. Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
2. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
3. Icky thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
4. Grinderman - GRINDERMAN
5. We were dead before the ship even sank - MODEST MOUSE
6. Favourite worst nightmare - ARCTIC MONKEYS
7. A weekend in the city - BLOC PARTY
8. Neon bible - ARCADE FIRE
9. Our love to admire - INTERPOL
10. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - SPOON
11. Tromatic reflexxions - VON SUDENFED
12. Baby 81 - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
13. Beyond - DINOSAUR JR.
14. I’ll sleep when you're dead - EL-P
15. Sound of silver - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
16. Proof of youth - THE GO! TEAM
17. Cassadaga - BRIGHT EYES
18. Because of the times - KINGS OF LEON
19. Wincing the night away - THE SHINS
20. In rainbows - RADIOHEAD
21. Boxer - THE NATIONAL
22. Under the blacklight - RILO KILEY
23. Boss - MAGIK MARKERS
24. Curses - FUTURE OF THE LEFT
25. LP - HOLY FUCK
26. Myth takes - !!!
27. Spirit if… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: KEVIN DREW
28. Mosaic - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
29. Lose all time - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
30. A Place To Bury Strangers - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
31. Era vulgaris - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
32. The black and white album - THE HIVES
33. Voxtrot - VOXTROT
34. All hour cymbals - YEASAYER
35. The shepherd's dog - IRON AND WINE
36. Learn to sing like a star - KRISTIN HERSH
37. The shapes we make - MARY TIMONY BAND
38. No shouts no calls - ELECTRELANE
39. Everything last winter - FIELDS
40. Plague park - HANDSOME FURS
41. Liars - LIARS
42. Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer? - OF MONTREAL
43. The flying club cup - BEIRUT
44. Fur and gold - BAT FOR LASHES
45. White chalk - P.J. HARVEY
46. Bluefinger - BLACK FRANCIS
47. Excellent Italian greyhound - SHELLAC
48. Reformation post TLC - THE FALL
49. Widow city - THE FIERY FURNACES
50. Men's needs, women's needs, whatever - THE CRIBS

Also recommended:

Myths of the near future - KLAXONS, Fantastic playroom - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, Kala - M.I.A., None shall pass - AESOP ROCK, 8 diagrams - WU TANG CLAN, The big doe rehab - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, Good bad not evil - THE BLACK LIPS, Lust lust lust - THE RAVEONETTES, Grand animals - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Cease to begin - BAND OF HORSES, In our bedroom after the war - STARS, Lion the girl - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Friend and foe - MENOMENA, Challengers - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Turn the lights out - THE PONYS, Pre-emptive false rapture - CHROME HOOF, Strawberry jam - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Trees outside the academy - THURSTON MOORE, Woke on a whaleheart - BILL CALLAHAN, A brighter beat - MALCOLM MIDDLETON, Prinzhorn Dance School - PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL, It's a bit complicated - ART BRUT, Yours truly, angry mob - KAISER CHIEFS, An end has a start - EDITORS, Ten new messages - THE RAKES, War stories - UNKLE, Random spirit lover - SUNSET RUBDOWN, Some loud thunder - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, Wooden Shjips - WOODEN SHJIPS, Drums and guns - LOW, Rise to your knees - MEAT PUPPETS, Smokey rolls down thunder canyon - DEVENDRA BANHART, Shotter's nation - BABYSHAMBLES, Our earthly pleasures - MAXIMO PARK, Friend opportunity - DEERHOOF, Read & burn 03 - WIRE, Mantaray - SIOUXSIE, Let in the light - SHANNON WRIGHT, The adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn - COCOROSIE, The Good, The Bad & The Queen - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN, Make another world - IDLEWILD, Yes yes vindictive - OPERATOR PLEASE, The Blakes - THE BLAKES, Strange house - THE HORRORS, Attack decay sustain release - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Person pitch - PANDA BEAR, Mirrored - BATTLES, We can create - MAPS, Ash Wednesday - ELVIS PERKINS, The western lands - GRAVENHURST, Tied & true - THE DETROIT COBRAS, What’s the time Mr. Wolf? - NOISETTES, Happiness Ltd. - HOT HOT HEAT, Once upon a time in the west - HARD-FI, Easy tiger - RYAN ADAMS, Sky blue sky - WILCO, The stage names - OKKERVIL RIVER, The reminder - FEIST, Untrue - BURIAL, Graduation - KANYE WEST, American gangster - JAY-Z, New wave - AGAINST ME!, Cast iron soul - DANNY AND DUSTY, Three easy pieces - BUFFALO TOM, Zeitgeist - SMASHING PUMPKINS, Echoes, silence, patience and grace - FOO FIGHTERS, The sun and the moon - THE BRAVERY, Sex change - TRANS AM, Emerald city - JOHN VANDERSLICE, The inevitable rise and liberation of NiggyTardust! - SAUL WILLIAMS, Hope for men - PISSED JEANS, Weirdo rippers - NO AGE, Cryptograms - DEERHUNTER, Oblivion with bells - UNDERWORLD, Night of the furies - THE ROSEBUDS, Asleep at heaven's gate - ROGUE WAVE, Living with the living - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, In the garden - EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, Little amber bottles - BLANCHE, Armchair apocrypha - ANDREW BIRD, Saltbreakers - LAURA VEIRS, Astronomy for dogs - THE ALIENS, Roots and echoes - THE CORAL, Hey trouble - THE CONCRETES, Applause cheer boo hiss - LAND OF TALK, The modern tribe - CELEBRATION, Why bother - ADULT., † - JUSTICE, Andorra - CARIBOU, Finding forever - COMMON, Maths & English - DIZZEE RASCAL, Back to bizznizz - LETHAL BIZZLE, Datarock - DATAROCK, Love/Hate - NINE BLACK ALPS, Cookies - 1990s, Volta - BJORK, The enemy chorus - THE EARLIES, Puzzle - BIFFY CLYRO, Magic - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Chrome dreams II - NEIL YOUNG, Comicopera - ROBERT WYATT, Washington square serenade - STEVE EARLE, West - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, You follow me - NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE, 12 Crass songs - JEFFREY LEWIS, Watch the fireworks - EMMA POLLOCK, Besnard Lakes are the dark horse - BESNARD LAKES, Panic prevention - JAMIE T, New magnetic wonder - THE APPLES IN STEREO, Going way out with Heavy Trash - HEAVY TRASH, Candylion - GRUFF RHYS, Western Xterminator - RTX, If the ocean gets rough - WILLY MASON, Book of bad breaks - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Ode to ochrasy - MANDO DIAO, All that to the wall - THE NARRATOR, God save the Clientele - THE CLIENTELE, Release the stars - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Forts - THE BOGGS, Abandoned language - DALEK, Dumb luck - DNTEL, Sticking fingers into sockets - LOS CAMPESINOS!, In camera - ARTHUR AND YU, It's not how far you fall, it's the way you land - SOULSAVERS, New seasons - THE SADIES, Fourteen autumns and fifteen winters - TWILIGHT SAD, With lasers - BONDE DO ROLE, Orchestra of wolves - GALLOWS, Bad football - THE TAKEOVERS, Best friends in love - BANG LIME, Super taranta! - GOGOL BORDELLO, We are the night - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, From here we go sublime - THE FIELD, Twilight of the innocents - ASH, Control - GOODBOOKS, Girls and weather - RUMBLE STRIPS, We'll live and die in these towns - THE ENEMY, Teenager - THE THRILLS, The hair the TV the baby and the band - IMPERIAL TEEN, Anytown graffiti - PELA, Country mouse city house - JOSH ROUSE, Lady's bridge - RICHARD HAWLEY, Made of bricks - KATE NASH, Elegies to lessons learnt - ILIKETRAINS, Hvarf / Heim - SIGUR ROS, 4 way diablo - MONSTER MAGNET, Hideout - FILM SCHOOL, Our ill wills - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Autumn of the seraphs - PINBACK, Transnormal skiperoo - JIM WHITE, I can't go on I’ll go on - THE BROKEN WEST, Love is simple - AKRON/FAMILY, Fort nightly - WHITE RABBITS, Shelter from the ash - SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Kingdom of fear - SHITDISCO, Pilgrimage - OM, Down below it’s chaos - KINSKI, Close to paradise - PATRICK WATSON, Yes U - DEVASTATIONS, Manhattan Love Suicides - MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, Voice Of The Seven Woods - VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS, Population - THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Sawdust - THE KILLERS

The Best Albums Of 2006

Top 50

1. Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
2. Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
3. Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
4. Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
5. Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
6. Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
7. The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
8. First impressions of earth - THE STROKES
9. You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL
10. Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH
11. Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
12. Pieces of the people we love - THE RAPTURE
13. Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
14. Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK
15. Standing in the way of control - GOSSIP
16. Ringleader of the tormentors - MORRISSEY
17. I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass - YO LA TENGO
18. Rabbit fur coat - JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS
19. Robbers & cowards - COLD WAR KIDS
20. Hit the floor! - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
21. Sam’s town - THE KILLERS
22. The Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
23. The Bronx - THE BRONX
24. The invisible deck - THE ROGERS SISTERS
25. The body the blood the machine - THE THERMALS
26. Drum's not dead - LIARS
27. Impeach my bush - PEACHES
28. The greatest - CAT POWER
29. Broken boy soldiers - THE RACONTEURS
30. Avatar - COMETS ON FIRE
31. Powder burns - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
32. In colour - THE CONCRETES
33. Someone to drive you home - THE LONG BLONDES
34. Bottoms of barrels - TILLY AND THE WALL
35. Gulag Orkestar - BEIRUT
36. Putting the days to bed - THE LONG WINTERS
37. The loon - TAPES 'N TAPES
38. A hundred miles off - THE WALKMEN
39. Zeroes and ones - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
40. Everything all the time - BAND OF HORSES
41. Howling Bells - HOWLING BELLS
42. Make love to the judges with your eyes - PONY UP!
43. We are The Pipettes - THE PIPETTES
44. Bring it back - MATES OF STATE
45. Gang of losers - THE DEARS
46. Let’s get out of this country - CAMERA OBSCURA
47. Fox confessor brings the flood - NEKO CASE
48. Pearl Jam - PEARL JAM
49. Under a billion suns - MUDHONEY
50. Hell hath no fury - CLIPSE

Also recommended:

Transparent things - FUJIYA AND MIYAGI, The warning - HOT CHIP, Yes, Virginia… - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Knives don't have your back - EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON, The life pursuit - BELLE & SEBASTIAN, Balled of broken seas - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, The trials of Van Occupanther - MIDLAKE, Happy new year - ONEIDA, At war with the mystics - THE FLAMING LIPS, The information - BECK, Food & liquor - LUPE FIASCO, Silent shout - THE KNIFE, Fab four suture - STEREOLAB, Carnavas - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, News and tributes - THE FUTUREHEADS, Remember the night parties - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Nightlife - ERASE ERRATA, Nine times that same song - LOVE IS ALL, Dancing with daggers - MAGNETA LANE, Elan Vital - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES, Just like the fambly cat - GRANDADDY, 'Sno angel like you - HOWE GELB, Brightblack Morning Light - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, Dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain - SPARKLEHORSE, The spell - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, The letting go - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Damaged - LAMBCHOP, The avalanche - SUFJAN STEVENS, Serena-Maneesh - SERENA-MANEESH, So this is goodbye - JUNIOR BOYS, A lesson in crime - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, The Obliterati - MISSION OF BURMA, Zodiac zoo - MADE IN MEXICO, Happy Hollow - CURSIVE, Enemies like this - RADIO 4, Ten silver drops - SECRET MACHINES, Fear is on our side - I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS, Passover - THE BLACK ANGELS, Visitations - CLINIC, Born in the UK - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Personality (one was a spider, one was a bird) - THE SLEEPY JACKSON, Idlewild - OUTKAST, Game theory - THE ROOTS, Doctor’s advocate - THE GAME, Meds - PLACEBO, So divided - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Without feathers - THE STILLS, Over the mountain, across the valley, and back to the stars - JENNIFER O’CONNOR, Garden ruin - CALEXICO, From a compound eye - ROBERT POLLARD, Greg Dulli's Amber headlights - GREG DULLI, Film school - FILM SCHOOL, Cannibal sea - THE ESSEX GREEN, This hungry life - TANYA DONELLY, Fading trails - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Types of wood - WHIRLWIND HEAT, Bitter tea - THE FIERY FURNACES, Coal - DEVASTATIONS, Silver - JESU, Vessel states - WILDERNESS, Stadium Arcadium - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Vision valley - THE VINES, Inside in / Inside out - THE KOOKS, Look at who you’re talking to - HUMAN TELEVISION, Fantastic success - MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA, Yellow house - GRIZZLY BEAR, Live a little - PERNICE BROTHERS, The eraser - THOM YORKE, St. Elsewhere - GNARLS BARKLEY, Varcharz - MOUSE ON MARS, Writer's block - PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Skelliconnection - CHAD VANGAALEN, Let's build a fire - +/-, Post-war - M. WARD, Begin to hope - REGINA SPEKTOR, Real life - JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN, Drowaton - STARLIGHT MINTS, Catastrophe keeps us together - RAINER MARIA, Give me a wall- !FORWARD RUSSIA!, Voices of animals and men - THE YOUNG KNIVES, Those the brokes - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, White bread, black beer - SCRITTI POLITTI, Orphans: Brawlers, bawlers and bastards - TOM WAITS, Living with war - NEIL YOUNG, Modern times - BOB DYLAN, Espers II - ESPERS, To find me gone - VETIVER, Ys - JOANNA NEWSOM, Micah P Hinson and the Opera Circuit - MICAH P HINSON, A blessing and a curse - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Human animal - WOLF EYES, Easter - THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, The hardest walk - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Magic potion - THE BLACK KEYS, In the city of sleep - THE FEVER, Yours to keep - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., Into the blue again - THE ALBUM LEAF, Tell me - CATFISH HAVEN, Black holes & revelations - MUSE, Empire - KASABIAN, Riot city blues - PRIMAL SCREAM, Waterloo to anywhere - DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, Razorlight - RAZORLIGHT, A call and response - THE LONGCUT, Not accepted anywhere - THE AUTOMATIC, Raise the alarm - THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND, Making dens - MYSTERY JETS, Through the window pain - GUILLEMOTS, Jarvis - JARVIS COCKER, Chronicles of a bohemian teenager - GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY, Civilian - BOY KILL BOY, The only thing I ever wanted - PSAPP, The beatific visions - BRAKES, Mr Beast - MOGWAI, 10,000 Days - TOOL, Blood mountain - MASTODON, Wolfmother - WOLFMOTHER, Six demon bag - MAN MAN, What the toll tells - TWO GALLANTS, Zeno beach - RADIO BIRDMAN, My dark places - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Olé! Tarantula - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3, When the going gets dark - QUASI, Shut up I am dreaming - SUNSET RUBDOWN, The rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast - MATMOS, Night ripper - GIRL TALK, The audience's listening - CUT CHEMIST, Live and learn - MEKALEK, King - T.I., Public warning - LADY SOVEREIGN, Pick a bigger weapon - THE COUP, Murray's revenge - MURS, Burial - BURIAL, The outsider - DJ SHADOW, Sound mirrors - COLDCUT, The hardest way to make an easy living - THE STREETS, Back to black - AMY WINEHOUSE, It’s never been like that - PHOENIX, Collisions - CALLA, Ships - DANIELSON, Roots & crowns - CALIFONE, Tragic treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events - GOTHIC ARCHES, Destroyer's rubies - DESTROYER, Dits from the commuter belt - BROMHEADS JACKET, The last temptation of... the Low Frequency in Stereo - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO, Threes - SPARTA, Seven from the village - FIELDS, Singles & sessions 1979 - 81 - DELTA 5, McLuskyism - McLUSKY, Echoes of the past - DEAD MOON, And I feel fine…The best of the IRS years 1982-1987 - R.E.M., The Peel Sessions 1991 - 2004 - PJ HARVEY, The destroyed room B-sides and rarities - SONIC YOUTH