Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Best Albums of the Oughts

Here's the decade's recap in descending order...

100. St. Vincent - Marry Me

99. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
98. Silver Jews - Bright Flight
97. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
96. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
95. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
94. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
93. Radiohead - Amnesiac
92. The White Stripes - Elephant
91. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
90. Handsome Furs - Face Control
89. The National - Boxer
88. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
87. Fugazi - The Argument
86. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
85. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
84. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
83. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
82. Atlas Sound - Logos
81. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
80. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
79. Thao Nguyen and Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All
78. The Strokes - Is This It
77. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
76. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Codes and Tags
75. Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
74. The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches
73. Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
72. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
71. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
70. M Ward - The Transfiguration of Vincent
69. Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
68. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
67. Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
66. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
65. Cat Power - You Are Free
64. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
63. Loose Fur - Loose Fur
62. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
61. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
60. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
59. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
58. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
57. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
56. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
55. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
54. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
53. She and Him - Volume One
52. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
51. Feist - The Reminder
50. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
49. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
48. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
47. Eef Barzelay - Bitter Honey
46. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
45. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
44. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
43. Cat Power - The Greatest
42. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
41. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
40. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
39. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
38. Okkervil River - Don't Fall In Love with Everyone You See
37. Dearhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
36. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youths, Blood Thirsty Babes
35. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
34. The White Stripes - De Stijl
33. Sonic Youth - NYC Ghost and Flowers
32. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
31. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Superwolf
30. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Stephen Malkmus
29. Radiohead - Kid A
28. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
27. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
26. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
25. Caribou - Andorra
24. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
23. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
22. Port O'Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing
21. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
20. Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
19. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
18. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
17. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
16. The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
15. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
14. Beck - Sea Change
13. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
12. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
11. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
10. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
9. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
8. The Walkmen - You and Me
7. Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
6. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


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What did I leave out? My guess is that some are numbers 101+, but I'm sure I missed some great albums.

There are still a few more lists to come...

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