Without further adieu, here are Lee B.'s Top 50 Albums of the 00's:
50) Wu-Tang Clan , The W
49) The Raconteurs , Consolers Of The Lonely
48) 65daysofstatic , One Time For All Time
47) The Walkmen , Bows & Arrows
46) Explosions In The Sky , The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
45) Yeah Yeah Yeahs , It's Blitz!
44) iLiKETRAiNS , Progress. Reform.
43) The Strokes , Is This It?
42) The National , Boxer
41) The Decemberists , Her Majesty The Decemberists
40) Japandroids , Post-Nothing
39) M.I.A. , Arular
38) British Sea Power , Do You Like Rock Music?
37) Wolf Parade , At Mount Zoomer
36) The White Stripes , De Stijl
35) The Decemberists , Castaways and Cutouts
34) Clinic , Internal Wrangler
33) 65daysofstatic , The Destruction of Small Ideas
32) Broken Social Scene , You Forgot It In People
31) At The Drive In , Relationship Of Command
30) Lupe Fiasco , Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
29) Sufjan Stevens , Illinois
28) British Sea Power , Open Season
27) Queens Of The Stone Age , Era Vulgaris
26) The Decemberists , Picaresque
25) Spoon , Kill The Moonlight
24) Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Fever To Tell
23) Mirah , C'mon Miracle
22) The Futureheads , The Futureheads
21) The White Stripes , White Blood Cells
20) Brendan Benson , Lapalco
19) Queens Of The Stone Age , Songs For The Deaf
18) Of Montreal , The Sunlandic Twins
17) The Dismemberment Plan , Change
16) The Blood Brothers , Young Machetes
15) British Sea Power , The Decline Of British Sea Power
14) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead , The Century Of Self
13) Radiohead , Kid A
12) Radiohead , Amnesiac
11) Of Montreal , Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
10) Modest Mouse , The Moon and Antarctica
9) Radiohead , In Rainbows
8) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead , Worlds Apart
7) Radiohead , Hail To The Thief
6) Wolf Parade , Apologies To The Queen Mary
5) Interpol , Turn On The Bright Lights
4) Godspeed You! Black Emperor , Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
3) The Arcade Fire , Funeral
2) Madvillain , Madvillainy
1) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead , Source Tags & Codes
Also...
left over from the process, top tens by year:
2000
1. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
2. The Moon And Antarctica - Modest Mouse
3. Kid A - Radiohead
4. De Stijl - The White Stripes
5. Relationship Of Command - At The Drive-In
6. Internal Wrangler - Clinic
7. The W - Wu-Tang Clan
8. Stankonia - Outkast
9. The Closer You Get - Six By Seven
10. Mwng - Super Furry Animals
2001
1. Amnesiac - Radiohead
2. Change - The Dismemberment Plan
3. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
4. Is This It? - The Strokes
5. Rock Action - Mogwai
6. Advisory Committee - Mirah
7. Let It Come Down - Spiritualized
8. Natural History - I Am Kloot
9. Girls Can Tell - Spoon
10. Asleep In The Back - Elbow
2002 1. Source Tags & Codes - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
2. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
3. Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
4. Lapalco - Brendan Benson
5. Kill The Moonlight - Spoon
6. You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
7. Castaways And Cutouts - The Decemberists
8. Walking With Thee - Clinic
9. Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground - Bright Eyes
10. Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone - The Walkmen
2003
1. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
2. The Decline of British Sea Power - British Sea Power
3. Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. Her Majesty The Decemberists - The Decemberists
5. The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions In The Sky
6. Elephant - The White Stripes
7. More Parts Per Million - The Thermals
8. Beat Beat Heartbeat - The Natural History
9. Happy Songs For Happy People - Mogwai
10. Amazing Grace - Spiritualized
2004
1. Madvillainy - Madvillain
2. Funeral - Arcade Fire
3. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
4. C'mon Miracle - Mirah
5. Bows + Arrows - The Walkmen
6. Crimes - The Blood Brothers
7. The Power Out - Electrelane
8. MM...Food - MF DOOM
9. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
10. The Folded Palm - Frog Eyes
2005
1. Apologies To The Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
2. Worlds Apart - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
3. The Sunlandic Twins - Of Montreal
4. Picaresque - The Decemberists
5. Open Season - British Sea Power
6. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
7. Arular - M.I.A.
8. One Time For All Time - 65daysofstatic
9. Axes - Electrelane
10. With Love And Squalor - We Are Scientists
2006
1. Young Machetes - The Blood Brothers
2. Progress - Reform - iLiKETRAiNS
3. Having - Trespassers William
4. Kick - White Rose Movement
5. The Trials Of Van Occupanther - Midlake
6. Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse
7. Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
9. Be Your Own PET - Be Your Own PET
10. Fishscale - Ghostface Killah
2007
1. In Rainbows - Radiohead
2. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal
3. Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age
4. Lupe Fiasco's The Cool - Lupe Fiasco
5. The Destruction Of Small Ideas - 65daysofstatic
6. Boxer - The National
7. Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters - The Twilight Sad
8. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
9. No Shouts, No Calls- Electrelane
10. Friend Opportunity - Deerhoof
2008
1. At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade
2. Do You Like Rock Music? - British Sea Power
3. Consolers Of The Lonely - The Raconteurs
4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. The Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit
6. Rising Down - The Roots
7. Songs In A & E - Spiritualized
8. This Is Not The World - The Futureheads
9. Dear Science - TV On The Radio
10. Get Awkward - Be Your Own Pet
2009
1. The Century of Self - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
2. Post Nothing - Japandroids
3. It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. Forget the Night Ahead - The Twilight Sad
5. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx PT II - Raekwon
6. Born Like This - DOOM
7. It's Frightening - White Rabbits
8. Xx - The Xx
9. Jewellery - Micachu
10. The Hazards Of Love - The Decemberists
Thanks dude!
ReplyDeleteOh you don't mind?
ReplyDeleteI was worried you would be. Since I did it without asking.
Good.
Heavy on the decemberists.... I like!
ReplyDeleteBtw, I admire that you guys have the patience to do this!! I would love to, but I would get so overwhelmed trying to remember all the albums I've loved and I'd get worried that I forgot an important one. :P
ReplyDeleteIt is a hazard. You just have to make long lists then cull your favorites. Which, admittedly, takes a bit of time. Anyone can do it really.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Ness. It's too daunting a task, one that requires both extensive research and serious digging in your music collection, one that inevitably ends in frustration.
ReplyDeletethe drawback with things like this is that however much you tweak and retweak it, you take a look back just a couple of weeks later and you try to remember the crack binge you were on when you made some of those calls.
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