Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Best of the 2000s

The top 100 records of the last decade. I spent way too much time debating and searching and perusing and I'm still sure there are things I missed. A lot of good music here. It is not in any kind of order or rank - just a list. Feel free to remind me of what you think I missed...

1. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus
2. Royksopp - Melody AM
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
5. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
6. The White Stripes - Elephant
7. The Strokes - Is This It?
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
10. Miike Snow - Miike Snow
11. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
12. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
13. Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines
14. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
15. Santigold - Santigold
16. Datarock - Red
17. The Young Knives - Superabundance
18. Ambulance Ltd - LP
19. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
20. Metric - Old World Undeground, Where Are You Now?
21. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
22. The Knife - Silent Shout
23. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
24. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
25. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
26. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
27. Plaid - Double Figure
28. The Bees - Free the Bees
29. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
30. Caribou - Up In Flames
31. BLK JKS - After Robots
32. M.I.A. - Kala
33. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
34. Ladytron - The Witching Hour
35. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
36. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
37. Barry Adamson - The King of Nothing Hill
38. Frank Black and the Catholics - Dog in the Sand
39. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
40. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
41. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
42. Elbow - Asleep In The Back
43. Beck - Sea Change
44. Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
45. The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
46. Gorillaz - Demon Days
47. Poni Hoax - Poni Hoax
48. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
49. Ima Robot - Ima Robot
50. Common - Electric Circus
51. Soulsavers - Broken
52. The Roots - Phrenology
53. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
54. Bent - The Everlasting Blink
55. Kerrier District - Kerrier District
56. Phoenix - Alphabetical
57. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
58. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
59. Radio 4 - Gotham!
60. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
61. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
62. Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract
63. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
64. Supergrass - Supergrass
65. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
66. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
67. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion Esperanza
68. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
69. Kings of Leon - Of Youth & Young Manhood
70. Amadou & Miriam - Dimanche A Bamako
71. Danger Doom - The Mouse And The Mask
72. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
73. Kanye West - Late Registration
74. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
75. Luke Vibert - Rhythm
76. Basement Jaxx - Rooty
77. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
78. 2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2
79. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
80. Hot Chip - The Warning
81. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
82. The Rapture - Echoes
83. Clinic - Internal Wrangler
84. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
85. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
86. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
87. The Notwist - Neon Golden
88. Four Tet - Rounds
89. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
90. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
91. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
92. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
93. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
94. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
95. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
96. Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect imperfections
97. Add N To (X) - Loud like Nature
98. Zero 7 - Simple Things
99. Joy Zipper - American Whip
100. Moonbabies - The Orange Billboard

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