Sorting Out My Favorite Albums of the 2000s

Submitted by AAA v. 2.0 on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 14:39
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  • Top Tier
  • Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (2004)
  • Animal Collective - Water Curses EP (2008)
  • The Books - Lemon of Pink (2003)
  • Burial - Untrue (2007)
  • Cat Power - You Are Free (2003)
  • Earth - Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2008)
  • El Guincho - Alegranza! (2007)
  • The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (2004)
  • Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (2008)
  • Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (2006)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
  • Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006)
  • The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (2005)
  • Iron & Wine - Woman King EP (2005)
  • M83 - Dead Cities, Red Leaves and Lost Ghosts (2003)
  • The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (2000)
  • Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
  • The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002)
  • The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (2005)
  • Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
  • Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
  • Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)
  • Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
  • Sigur Ros - ( ) (2002)
  • Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (2004)
  • Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highways (2002)
  • Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreaks (2008)
  • Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
  • Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)

  • Second Tier
  • A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder (2004)
  • Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (2009)
  • Animal Collective - Feels (2005)
  • Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
  • Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
  • Belle & Sebastion - The Life Pursuit (2006)
  • Bjork - Selmasongs (2000)
  • Bjork - Vespertine (2001)
  • The Books - Thought for Food (2002)
  • Boris - Smile (2008)
  • Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
  • Dan Deacon - Spider-Man of the Rings (2007)
  • Deerhunter - Microcastle (2008)
  • The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (2007)
  • Dungen - 4 (2008)
  • The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird Bark (2003)
  • The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
  • Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (2008)
  • Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album (2004)
  • The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me (2004)
  • Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002)
  • Jay-Z - The Blueprint (2001)
  • LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)
  • Les Savy Fav - Let's Be Friends (2007)
  • Liars - Drum's Not Dead (2006)
  • Liars - They Threw Us all in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2001)
  • Love is All - Nine Times the Same Song (2006)
  • M83 - Saturdays = Youth (2008)
  • Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash (2008)
  • The Microphones - The Glow, pt 2 (2001)
  • Mirah - C'mon Miracle (2004)
  • Missy Elliott - Under Construction (2002)
  • The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (2002)
  • The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (2004)
  • Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water (2007)
  • The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (2008)
  • of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
  • Outkast - Stankonia (2000)
  • Paramore - RIOT! (2007)
  • Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (2006)
  • Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That (2006)
  • Portishead - Third (2008)
  • Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)
  • Sally Shapiro - Remix Romance (2008)
  • The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
  • Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (2000)
  • Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
  • Spoon - Girls Can Tell (2001)
  • Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002)
  • The Streets - Original Pirate Material (2002)
  • Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lakes State (2003)
  • Sun Kil Moon - April (2008)
  • Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
  • Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (2009)
  • T.I. - King (2006)
  • Times New Viking - Rip It Off (2008)
  • The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2003)
  • Kanye West - College Dropout (2004)
  • Kanye West - Late Registration (2005)
  • The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
  • Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
  • Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (2008)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (2009)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (2006)
  • Yellow Swans - At All Ends (2007)

  • Third Tier
  • Akron/Family - Meek Warrior (2006)
  • Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (2007)
  • Annie - Anniemal (2004)
  • Annie - Don't Stop (2009)
  • Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die (2005)
  • Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (2006)
  • Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (2007)
  • Blank Dogs - On Two Sides (2008)
  • Boris - Pink (2005)
  • Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (2006)
  • Califone - Roots and Crowns (2006)
  • Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette (2006)
  • Comets on Fire - Avatar (2006)
  • Cursive - Happy Hollow (2006)
  • Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (2004)
  • The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (2006)
  • The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts (2003)
  • Destroyer - Your Blues (2004)
  • Diplo - Florida (2004)
  • Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009)
  • Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner (2003)
  • Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (2007)
  • Eminem - The Marshal Mathers LP (2000)
  • Figurines - Skeleton (2006)
  • Girl Talk - Night Ripper (2006)
  • Herbert - Scale (2006)
  • Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown (2002)
  • I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce You to My Friends (2006)
  • Islands - Return to the Sea (2006)
  • Shogen Kunitoki - Tasankokaiku (2006)
  • Liars - Liars (2007)
  • M.I.A. - Kala (2007)
  • Man Man - Six Demon Bag (2006)
  • Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim (2008)
  • Mates of State - Team Boo (2003)
  • The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (2006)
  • Natural Snow Buildings - Laurie Bird (2008)
  • of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic (2004)
  • Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000)
  • Radical Face - Ghost (2007)
  • Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
  • Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (2007)
  • Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One (2000)
  • Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (2004)
  • Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo (2006)
  • St. Vincent - Marry Me (2007)
  • Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That… (2008)
  • The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free (2004)
  • A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal (2007)
  • T.I. - Paper Trail (2008)
  • The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006)
  • The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving (2000)
  • The White Stripes - De Stijl (2000)
  • Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (2007)
  • Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)