| The Great Albums of the New Millennium: 2000-2009 Of course right now it is only 2007, so this ain't finished yet. I don't like lists to have limits like "50" or "100", so this is just all of the albums i consider great, a masterpiece, or for the top five or so, close to perfect. new! = new addition up - moved up the list since last time down - moved down the list since last time 1.Funeral - The Arcade Fire 2.Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio 3.Gallowbraid's Park - The Firey Furnaces up 4.Wilderness- Archer Prewitt 5.Electric Version - The New Pornographers 6.The Great Eastern - The Delgados 7.The Meadowlands - The Wrens 8.The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats 9.Trust - Low 10.Girls Can Tell - Spoon 11.Our Love to Admire - Interpol new! 12.If We Can't Trust the Doctors - Blanche 13.Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age 14.The Woods - Sleater Kinney 15.The Argument - Fugazi down 16.Oh, Inverted World - The Shins down 17.Ys - Joanna Newsom new! 18.Rubber Factory - The Black Keys 19.Here Come the Miracles - Steve Wynn 20.Each One Teach One - Oneida 21.In Advance of a Broken Arm - Marnie Stern up 22.Rock it to the Moon - Electrelane - new! 23.Window City - Fiery Furnaces new! 24.Allegory of Hearing - Roy Montgomery 25.Echoes - The Rapture 25.Is This It - The Strokes 26.Garden Ruin - Calexico 27.The Slow Wonder - A.C. Newman 28.Leaves Turn Inside You - Unwound 29.Kill the Moonlight - Spoon 30.Neon Bible - Arcade Fire 31.Birds Make Good Neighbors - The Rosebuds 32.Let in the Light - Shannon Wright new! 33.Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews 34.Lullibies to Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age 35.Chutes too Narrow - The Shins 36.Things We Lost in the Fire - Low 37.The Coast is Never Clear- Beulah 38.Boxer - The National new! 39.My Music @ Work - The Tragically Hip 40.The Boxing Mirror - Alejandro Escovedo 41.Ancient Melodies of the Future - Built to Spill 42.Boys and Girls in America - The Hold Steady 43.Please….Mr Baulbous - King's X 44.Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You Black Emperor 45.Cast of Thousands - Elbow - new! 46.Fields Recordings from the Sun - Comets on Fire up 47.Mirrored - Battles new! 48.Blueberry Boat - The Fiery Furnaces 49.One Beat - Sleater Kinney 50.Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats 51.De Stijl - White Stripes 52.Friend or Foe - Menomena new! 53.You Forgot it In People - Broken Social Scene 54.Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts - M83 55.For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver new! 56.Bows and Arrows - The Walkmen 57.Drums not Dead - Liars 58.Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective new! 59.Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not - The Arctic Monkees 60.Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem 61.Blessing and a Curse - Drive by Truckers 62.The Creek Drank the Cradle - Iron and Wine Liars - s/t new! 63.Ceaders - Clearlake down 64.Gypsy Freedom - Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice 65.That's Your Fire - Aloha new! 66.Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers - The National 67.Up the Bracket - The Libertines 68.Aztec Discpline - Kingsbury Manx 69.Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade 70.Some Echoes - Aloha 71.Alternative to Love- Branden Benson 72.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands say Yeah 73.All Hail West Texas - Mountain Goats 74.Warning - Green Day 75.The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse 76.The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn - Cocorosie 77.Feels - Animal Collective new! 78.It Still Moves - My Morning Jacket 79.Turn off the Bright Lights - Interpol 80.Low Kick and Hard Bop - Solex 81.Gulag Orkestar - Beirut 82.Translations - Sylvie Lewis new! 83.The Glands - The Glands 84.Sermon on Exposition Blvd - Rickie Lee Jones 85.Onoffon - Mission of Burma 86.Sybris - Sybris 87.Cathedral - Castanets 88.Over the Sun - Shannon Wright 89.St. Arkansas - Pere Ubu 90.Jessica Bailiff - Jessica Bailiff 91.Bang Bang Rock 'n Roll - Art Brut 92.You are Free - Cat Power 93Visiter - The Dodos new! 94.Thickfreakness - The Black Keys 95.Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers 96.Z - My Morning Jacket 97.Hate - The Delgados 98.Black Eyes - s/t 99.The Mysterious Production of Eggs - Andrew Bird 100.Rejoicing in the Hands - Devendra Banhart 101.Castaways and Cutouts - The Decemberists 102.The Back Room - The Editors 103.Last Exit - Junior Boys 104.The Crane Wife - Decemberists new! 105.Fur and Gold - Bat for Lashes new! 106.Tangos and Tanturms - Sylvie Lewis 107.Paracuthes - Coldplay down 108.Love is Red - David Poe 109.Blinking Lights and Other Observations - The Eels up 110.Maroon - Barenaked Ladies 111.The Rising - Bruce Springsteen 112.Blacklisted - Neko Case 113.Spirt They're Gone, Spirt They've Vanished - Animal Collective 114.Comets on Fire - s/t 115.The Milk Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom 116.Hour of the Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy 117.Feast of Wire - Calexico 118.Sea Change - Beck 119.Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes - TV on the Radio 120.The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine new! 121.Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine 122.A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones 123.Real Gone - Tom Waits 124.Seperation Sunday - The Hold Steady 125.Solitude - Volebeats 126.Mapmaker - Parts and Labor new! 127.Murray Street - Sonic Youth 128.Life on other Planets - Supergrass 129.Avatar - Comets on Fire new! 130.The Last Broadcast - The Doves 131.The Big Come Up - The Black Keys 132.Pound for Pound - Royal Trux 133.Alligator - The National 134.Writer's Block - Peter, Bjorn, and John new! 135.A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party 136.Hypnotic Underworld - Ghost 137.All You Can't Leave Behind - U2 138.Diaries of Private Henry Hill - Blow Up Hollywood 139.The Universe Will Provide - Mike Kenally 140.First Impressions on Earth - The Strokes 141.Brightblack Morning Light - s/t new! 142.Marry Me - St. Vincent new! 143.Non Stop Je Te Pile Deux - We are Wolves new! 144.A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park new! |
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