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!