Monday, December 14, 2009

My Personal Top 100 Albums of the 2000s

1. Spoon - Girls Can Tell (2001)
2. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)
3. Five Gears In Reverse - You're Not Asking the Right Questions (2000)
4. Half Acre Day - Fourteen Trips Around the Sun (2007)
5. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (2000)
6. Jay-Z - The Black Album (2003)
7. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)
8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
9. Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)
10. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
11. John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt (2005)
12. Two Ton Boa - Paraciticide (2006)
13. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002)
14. Kickball - Huckleberry Eater (2003)
15. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
16. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000)
17. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
18. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
19. Pinback - Blue Screen Life (2001)
20. Racetrack - Go Ahead and Say It (2006)
21. Tom Waits - Real Gone (2004)
22. The Ruby Doe - Dream Engine Blue (2002)
23. Llama - Llama (2005)
24. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
25. Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)
26. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)
27. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
28. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002)
29. Pete Krebs and the Gossamer Wings - I Know It By Heart (2005)
30. Mclusky - Mcluskyism (2006)
31. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another (2009)
32. Connecticut Four - Tigershark ep (2009)
33. The Lonely Forest - We Sing the Body Electric! (2009)
34. Eminem - Encore (2004)
35. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
36. Luke Temple - Hold a Match for a Gasoline World (2005)
37. Half Acre Day - Primo de la Rocket Suit (2002)
38. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs (2008)
39. David Garza - A Strange Mess of Flowers (2004)
40. Eleni Mandell - Thrill (2002)
41. The Beatles - Love (2006)
42. Lily Allen - Alright, Still (2006)
43. Future of the Left - Curses! (2007)
44. Tegan and Sara - So Jealous (2004)
45. Russian Circles - Station (2008)
46. The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)
47. Coldplay - Parachutes (2000)
48. The Long Winters - The Worst You Can Do is Harm (2002)
49. Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster! (2003)
50. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)
51. Shellac - 1000 Hurts (2000)
52. Speaker Speaker - Call It Off (2007)
53. Peter Parker - Semiautobiographical (2001)
54. The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
55. David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! (2002)
56. Dear John Letters - Rewriting the Wrongs (2001)
57. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (2007)
58. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (2008)
59. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
60. Patton Oswalt - Werewolves and Lollipops (2007)
61. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It (2006)
62. Obie Trice - Cheers (2003)
63. Ken Stringfellow - Touched (2001)
64. Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense (2001)
65. Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel (2002)
66. Jay-Z - American Gangster (2007)
67. The Revolutionary Hydra - Knockout To Dispense (2002)
68. Harvey Danger - King James Version (2000)
69. Dutch Elms - Music For Happiness (2004)
70. So Many Dynamos - When I Explode (2004)
71. The Cripples - Dirty Head (2002)
72. Elliott Smith - New Moon (2007)
73. Sloan - Parallel Play (2008)
74. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche (2006)
75. Teddybears - Soft Machine (2006)
76. People Eating People - People Eating People (2009)
77. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
78. Beck - Sea Change (2002)
79. Menomena - Friend and Foe (2007)
80. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - soundtrack (2004)
81. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall (2003)
82. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)
83. Bishop Allen - The Broken String (2007)
84. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (2002)
85. Russian Circles - Geneva
86. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
87. Eugene Mirman - En Garde, Society! (2006)
88. Andrea Maxand - Where the Words Go (2004)
89. Laura Viers - Year of Meteors (2005)
90. The Dismemberment Plan - Change (2001)
91. Grand Hallway - Yes Is the Answer (2007)
92. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs ep (2001)
93. Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (2006)
94. Turin Brakes - The Optimist Lp (2001)
95. Lovage - Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By (2001)
96. Cat Power - The Greatest (2006)
97. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door (2004)
98. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets (2004)
99. The Can't See - Coma Comma No More (2005)
100. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)

These lists are entirely unscientific. I might do it slightly differently next week, but roughly this is close. I happily made choices based on sentimentality and nostalgia a lot of the time.

What's yr list??