I like Is This It. At one point I would have considered it for my top 100 list, but now it seems to lose something every time I hear it.
I think I only really loved it the first time I heard it because it was before I really explored pre-Nirvana music in depth and it seemed exciting compared to all the other mainstream I was listening to at the time.
1 Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 Radiohead - OK Computer
3 TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
4 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
5 The White Stripes - Elephant
6 The Strokes - Is This It
7 Kanye West - College Dropout
8 Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
9 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
10 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
#11-50 if anyone cares:
11 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
12 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
13 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
14 M.I.A. - Arular
15 PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
16 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
17 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
18 The Streets - Original Pirate Material
19 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
20 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
21 Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
22 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
23 Antony & The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
24 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
25 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
26 Gorillaz - Demon Days
27 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
28 Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
29 Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
30 Missy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive
31 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
32 U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
33 Bjork - Vespertine
34 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
35 Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
36 Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
37 Bruce Springsteen - Magic
38 The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
39 Portishead - Third
40 The Roots - Phrenology
41 The National - Boxer
42 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
43 Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
44 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
45 Cat Power - The Greatest
46 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
47 The Coup - Party Music
48 The Libertines - Up the Bracket
49 Beck - Sea Change
50 Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
Keeping in mind that the 2000s is EASILY my least listened-to decade, here's what I came up with:
MY TOP 10
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Justin Timberlake- FutureSex/LoveSounds
Travis- The Man Who
Cake- Comfort Eagle
Switchfoot- The Beautiful Letdown
Johnny Cash- American IV: The Man Comes Around
Cyndi Lauper- Bring Ya to the Brink
Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
Johnny Cash- American Recordings
Jars of Clay-Good Monsters
BUBBLING UNDER
White Stripes- Icky Thump
Dietrick Haddon-Revealed
Dolly Parton- Backwoods Barbie
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
Madonna- Hard Candy
Relient K-Five Score and Seven Years Ago
Lyfe Jennings- The Phoenix
Fountains of Wayne- Welcome Interstate Managers
Magnetic fields - 69 love songs
James Hunter- People Gonna Talk
top 10 in no particular order
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times (2007)
My Morning Jacket - Z (2005)
Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illinoise (2005)
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
A few honorable mentions:
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)
Beck - Sea Change (2002)
The Black Keys - Attack and Release (2008)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (2007)
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (2005)
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves (2003)
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (2007)
The Roots - Game Theory (2006)
TV on the Radio - Dear Science (2008)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)
I'm glad to see some James Hunter, good choice Greg !
His last album "The Hard Way" is a killer too.
I've seen JH in the Paris Jazz Festival one month ago, it was a very good set of songs.
The Strokes - IS This It
Radiohead - Kid A
Interpol - Turn Off The Bright Lights
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Stephen Malkmus - S/T
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Sleater Kinney - One Beat
The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am That's What I'm Not
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Arcade Fire - Funeral
I cant's believe that Get Behind Me Satan isn't getting more love I didn't expect it to get more votes than Elephant or White Blood Cells but I always thought it was their best. Does anyone agree?
I just upgraded Fleet Foxes from 4.5 stars to 5 stars. That also means my top 10 has changed, for the Seattle band leave the 11-20 range and jump to #3:
1) The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)
2) Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
3) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
4) Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002)
5) The Rifles - No Love Lost (2006)
6) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
7) The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
8) Johan - Pergola (2001)
9) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
10) Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
1. Björk- Vespertine
2. The Cure- BloodFlowers
3. Kylie Minogue- Fever
4. Annie- Anniemal
5. Annie Lennox- Bare
6. Kylie Minogue- Body Language
7. LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
8. Janet Jackson- All for You
9. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
10. The Strokes- Room on Fire
1. Radiohead-Kid A
2. Outkast-Stankonia
3. The Field- From Here We Go Sublime
4. Kanye West-The College Dropout
5. The Strokes- Is This It?
6. Sufjan Stevens-Illinois
7. Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
8. The Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
9. Dylan-Love and Theft
10. Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP
Honorable Mentions: Brian Wilson-Smile, Arcade Fire-Funeral, LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver
Radiohead - In Rainbows
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
The Strokes - Is This It?
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Outkast - Speakerboxxx
TV On the Radio - Dear Science
Portishead - Third
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Coldplay - Vida La Vida
Joe strummer and the Mescalaroes- Streetcore
The Hives- Veni Vidi Vicious
The Shins- Chutes too narrow
The White Stripes- Elephant
Queens of the Stone Age- songs for the deaf
The Libertines-Up the bracket
Mando Diao- Ode to Ochrasy
The Strokes- Is this it
Arctic Monkeys-Whatever people say I am...
The Hives- Black and White album
also:
Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
Flaming Lips- At war with the mystics
Joe Strummer and the mescalaroes- Global a go-go
Sytem of a Down- Hypnotize
Mando Diao- Nring em in
1 - COLDPLAY - Parachutes
2 - BRIGHT EYES - I'm wide awake. It's morning
3- OF MONTREAL - Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
4 - SUFJAN STEVENS - Illinois
5 - OUTKAST - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
6- TV ON THE RADIO - Dear Science
7- BON IVER - Fo Emma, Forever ago
8 - WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
9 - THE STROKES - Is this it?
10 - FRANZ FERDINAND - Fanz Ferdinand
1. Gorillaz - Demon Days
2. Kanye West - Late Registration
3. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
4. The Good, The Bad, And The Queen - The Good, The Bad, And The Queen
5. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
6. J Dilla - Donuts
7. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part 1: 4th World War
8. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
t10. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
t10. Radiohead - Amnesiac
also:
Outkast - Stankonia
M.I.A. - Kala
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Kanye West - College Dropout
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Hot Chip - The Warning
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Daft Punk - Discovery
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Radiohead - Kid A
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam