Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of 2000-2004

Submitted by sleestak on Fri, 02/11/2005 - 10:42
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  1. Radiohead, Kid A*
  2. Jay-Z, The Blueprint
  3. Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights*
  4. Outkast, Stankonia
  5. The Avalanches, Since I Left You
  6. Sigur Ros, Ágætis Byrjun*
  7. Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica*
  8. The White Stripes,White Blood Cells*
  9. Animal Collective, Sung Tongs*
  10. The Streets, Original Pirate Material*
  11. Wilco, Yankee Foxtrot Hotel*
  12. Daft Punk, Discovery
  13. Madvillain, Madvillainy*
  14. Spoon, Kill the Moonlight*
  15. Dizzee Rascal, Boy in the Corner
  16. The Strokes, Is This It*
  17. Boredoms, Vision Creation Newsun
  18. Devendra BanhartRejoicing in the Hands
  19. Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele
  20. The Books, The Lemon of Pink*
  21. Radiohead, Amnesiac
  22. The Microphones, The Glow, Pt. 2*
  23. The Notwist, Neon Golden*
  24. Boards of Canada, Geogaddi*
  25. Brian Wilson, SMiLE*
  26. Fennesz, Endless Summer
  27. Broken Social Scene, You Forgot it In People*
  28. Liars, They Threw Us All In a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top*
  29. Fugazi, The Argument*
  30. Clinic, Internal Wrangler*
  31. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, The Tyranny of Distance*
  32. The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots*
  33. Missy Elliot, Under Construction
  34. Sufjan Stevens, Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State*
  35. Jay-Z, The Black Album
  36. The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free*
  37. Ghostface, The Pretty Toney Album
  38. The Rapture, Echoes*
  39. Radiohead, Hail to the Thief
  40. The Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat*
  41. Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven*
  42. Manitoba, Up In Flames*
  43. Mclusky, Do Dallas*
  44. Deerhoof, Apple O'*
  45. The Arcade Fire, Funeral*
  46. TV on the Radio, Young Liars e.p.
  47. The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow*
  48. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Source Tags and Codes*
  49. Lightning Bolt, Wonderful Rainbow*
  50. Kanye West, The College Dropout
  51. Prefuse 75, One Word Extinguisher/Extinguished
  52. Max Tundra, Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
  53. The Dismemberment Plan, Change*
  54. Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender*
  55. Cannibal Ox, The Cold Vein
  56. The Postal Service, Give Up*
  57. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Hearts of Oak*
  58. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell*
  59. M.I.A./Diplo, Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1*
  60. Spoon, Girls Can Tell*
  61. The Books, Thought for Food
  62. Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank the Cradle
  63. Cat Power, You Are Free*
  64. Animal Collective, Here Come the Indians*
  65. Basement Jaxx, Rooty
  66. Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash*
  67. Herbert, Bodily Functions
  68. 2 Many DJs, As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Vol. 2
  69. Erlend Øye, DJ-Kicks
  70. Sonic Youth, Murray Street
  71. The Shins, Oh, Inverted World*
  72. Sleater-Kinney, One Beat*
  73. Deerhoof, Reveille*
  74. Aesop Rock, Labor Days*
  75. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts*
  76. Missy Elliot, Miss E...So Addictive
  77. The Wrens, The Meadowlands*
  78. The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic*
  79. The Go! Team, Thunder Lightning Strike
  80. Annie, Anniemal
  81. Les Savy Fav, Rome (Written Upside Down)*
  82. King Geedorah, Take Me to Your Leader
  83. Prefuse 75, Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives
  84. Mu, Afro Finger and Gel
  85. Keith Fullerton Whitman, Playthroughs
  86. Björk, Medulla*
  87. Ekkehard Ehlers, Plays
  88. Viktor Vaughn, Vaudeville Villain
  89. Franz Ferdinand, s/t*
  90. DJ/Rupture, Minesweeper Suite
  91. Yo La Tengo, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out*
  92. The Clientele, Suburban Light*
  93. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
  94. The Strokes, Room on Fire
  95. Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You
  96. The Decemberists, Castaways & Cutouts*
  97. Black Dice, Beaches and Canyons
  98. Clipse, Lord Willin'
  99. The Unicorns, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone*
  100. Various Artists, DFA Compilation #2
Author Comments: 

The too-cool-for-school kids at Pitchfork recently published their picks for the best 100 albums of the 2000s (so far.) It's a fairly diverse list, although I'm puzzled by the presence of three (overrated) Radiohead and BOTH Strokes' albums. Still, many of my favorites make an appearance, so I can't bitch too much.

I've starred the ones I have, a suprisingly large number of which I own on vinyl.