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My top 100 favourite/most listened to albums of the 00s
Inspired by Pitchfork's countdown of the decades best music, here's my top 100 albums:
1. In Rainbows - Radiohead
2. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
3. Ratatat – Ratatat
4. I’m A Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons
5. Kid A – Radiohead
6. Funeral - Arcade Fire
7. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
8. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
9. Trials Of Van Occupanther - Midlake
10. Yellow House - Grizzly Bear
11. Wolfgang Phoenix - Phoenix
12. Discovery - Daft Punk
13. Before The Dawn Heals Us - M83
14. Myth Takes - !!!
15. Dear Science, - TV on the Radio
16. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
17. Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
18. Antics - Interpol
19. Silent Alarms - Bloc Party
20. The Boxer - The National
21. The Renaissance - Q-Tip
22. Classics - Ratatat
23. Lamb Anger - Mr. Oizo
24. Return To Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
25. Mirrored - Battles
26. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
27. Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
28. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
29. Gold - Ryan Adams
30. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - of Montreal
31. In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
32. The Reminder - Feist
33. Want (One & Two) - Rufus Wainwright
34. Viva La Vida - Coldplay
35. Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State - Sufjan Stevens
36. Takk… - Sigur Rós
37. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
38. Black Fantasy Channel - Late of the Pier
39. You and Me - The Walkmen
40. Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
41. Demon Days - Gorillaz
42. Nights Out - Metronomy
43. Amnesiac - Radiohead
44. A Ghost Is Born - Wilco
45. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
46. Pause - Four Tet
47. Give Up - Postal Service
48. Parachutes - Coldplay
49. Los Angeles - Flying Lotus
50. The Greatest - Cat Power
51. Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
52. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
53. Its Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
54. Rubber Factory - The Black Keys
55. Stories By The City, Stories By The Sea - PJ Harvey
56. Third - Portishead
57. You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
58. Feels - Animal Collective
59. The Last Broadcast - Doves
60. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
61. Person Pitch - Panda Bear
62. Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
63. Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
64. LP3 - Ratatat
65. Louden Up Now - !!!
66. Jewellery - Micachu
67. Lookaftering - Vashti Bunyan
68. Talkie Walkie - Air
69. Friend Opportunity - Deerhoof
70. Attack Sustain Release - Simian Mobile Disco
71. Sung Tongs - Animal Collective
72. The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
73. From Here to Sublime - The Field
74. Chaos and Creation In the Backyard - Paul McCartney
75. I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning - Bright Eyes
76. Nite Versions - Soulwax
77. Cast Of Thousands - Elbow
78. Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle and Sebastian
79. When The Haar Rolls In - James Yorkston
80. Hour of the Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy
81. Heathen - David Bowie
82. Is This It? - The Strokes
83. ( ) - Sigur Rós
84. Brainwasted – George Harrison
85. Cross - Justice
86. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
87. Hello Mom! - Modeseleckor
88. Think Tank - Blur
89. Untrue - Burial
90. Z - My Morning Jacket
91. The Warning - Hot Chip
92. Toxicity - System of a Down
93. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
94. Graduation - Kanye West
95. Mothers Daughter and Other Songs - Tunng
96. Happy Songs For Happy People - Mogwai
97. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
98. Since I Left You - The Avalanches
99. Silent Shout – The Knife
100. Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Honorable Mention:
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Microcastles - Deerhunter
Drum's Not Dead - Liars
Up In Flames - Manitoba
Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine
Kala - M.I.A.