05/12/2009

Best albums of the '00s

post by Bill Christides

1. THE STROKES
Is This It
2001 - Rough Trade
"compulsively listenable debut" - All Music






2. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS
I am a bird now

2005 - Rough Trade
"a beautiful, emotive, glorious, and sometimes sinister album that will top many a critic's list come the end-of-year polls, and justifiably so" - Drowned in Sound




3. THE NATIONAL
Alligator
2005 - Beggars UK
"an unabashedly powerful and deceptively primal work" - Pitchfork





4. SIGUR ROS
()
2002 - MCA
"It's just as excessive in length as its elder siblings, it's just as precious and almost as over-the-top sounding" - All Music



5. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Merriweather Post Pavilion
2009 - Domino
"Merriweather Post Pavilion doesn't just seem like one of the first great records of 2009, it feels like one of the landmark American albums of the century so far" - Uncut




6. ARCTIC MONKEYS
Whatever people say I am that's what I'm not
2006 - Domino
"Arctic Monkeys bundle their influences together with such compelling urgency and snotty confidence that they sound like a kind of culmination" - Guardian



7. INTERPOL
Antics
2004 - Matador Records
"this is an album to be treasured and adored." - Drowned in Sound




8. FRANZ FERDINAND
Franz Ferdinand
2004 - Sony
"Like all lasting records, Franz Ferdinand steps up to the plate and boldly bangs on the door to stardom." - Pitchfork




9. BEIRUT
Gulag Orkestar
2006 - Ba Da Bing!
"Bleeps and shifting rhythms punctuate the sepia sound of old eastern Europe" - Guardian




10. SUFJAN STEVENS
Illinoise
2005 - Asthmatic Kitty
"The bittersweet twists and turns of a lifetime eloquently described in a folk-pop song; these songs that must be heard to be believed." - Pop Matters


11. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (2007)
12. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co (2003)
13. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
14. The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
15. Cat Power - You Are Free (2003)
16. The Decemberists - Picaresque (2005)
17. Belle And Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, Yoy Walk Like A Peasant (2000)
18. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
19. Bright Eyes - I'M Wide Awake It'S Morning (2005)
20. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005)
21. Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butetrfly (2004)
22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (2003)
23. Sparklehorse - It'S A Wonderful Life (2001)
24. Songs: Ohia - The Lioness (2000)
25. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
26. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
27. The Strokes - Room On Fire (2003)
28. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
29. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)
30. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (2004)
31. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)
32. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (2005)
33. The National - Boxer (2007)
34. The Decemberists - Castaways And Cutouts (2002)
35. The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart (2005)
36. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
37. Ratatat - Classics (2006)
38. Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is Ok (2000)
39. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire (2001)
40. Cat Power - The Greatest (2006)
41. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out Of Season (2002)
42. Air - The Virgin Suicides (2000)
43. Belle And Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
44. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream (2001)
45. Ryan Adams - Gold (2001)
46. Yeah Yeah Yeahs -Show Your Bones (2006)
47. The Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico (2002)
48. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
49. Smog - Dongs Of Sevotion (2000)
50. Lali Puna - Scary World Theory (2001)
51. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)
52. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go (2006)
53. Band Oh Horses - Everything All The Time (2006)
54. Isobell Cambell+Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas (2006)
55. Hidden Cameras - Mississagua Goddam (2004)
56. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009)
57. The Rapture - Echoes (2003)
58. Coco Rosie - Noah'S Ark (2005)
59. Florence And The Machine - Lungs (2008)
60. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)
61. Portishead - Third (2008)
62. TV On The Radio - Dear Science (2008)
63. Deerhunter - Microcastle (2008)
64. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)
65. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (2009)
66. The Coral - The Coral (2002)
67. Thom York - The Eraser (2006)
68. Feist - Reminder (2007)
69. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
70. Lcd Soundsystem - Lcd Soundsystem (2005)
71. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands (2004)
72. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000)
73. Lambchop - Nixon (2000)
74. Delgados - The Great Eastern (2000)
75. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)
76. Css - Css (2006)
77. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2006)
78. Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (2002)
79. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (2003)
80. The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows (2004)
81. La Roux - La Roux (2009)
82. Destroyer - Destroyer'S Rubies (2006)
83. Josh Rouse - 1972 (2003)
84. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
85. Espers - Espers (2004)
86. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther (2006)
87. Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors (2005)
88. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (2007)
89. Regina Spector - Begin To Hope (2006)
90. Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005)
91. Avalanches - Since I Left You (2001)
92. Neko Case - Blacklisted (2002)
93. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (2007)
94. The Notwist - Neon Golden (2002)
95. Pj Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (2000)
96. Four Tet - Rounds (2003)
97. Lilly Allen - All Right Still (2006)
98. Coldplay - Parachutes (2000)
99. Bjork - Vespertine (2001)
100. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (2004)
post by Bill Christides

2 comments:

  1. Ξέχασες το Crimes των Blood Brothers... Απαράδεκτο...

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  2. Όχι όχιιιι...δηλαδή respect για όσους είναι στη λίστα αλλά βάλτε μέσα και τους Black Rebel Motorcycle Club με το ομώνυμό τους "B.R.M.C."...το ένα διαμάντι μετά το άλλο...

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