?

Here are mine in no particular order-

Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
Okkervil River - Down The River of Golden Dreams
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Strokes - Is This It

Honorable Mention:

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
The National - Boxer
Arcade Fire - Funeral

Mine:

Radiohead - Kid A
White Stripes - Elephant
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Flaming Lips - Yoshime Battles The Pink Robots
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Others:

The National - Boxer
The Knife - Silent Shout
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Bob Dylan - Love And Theft
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Arcade Fire - Funeral

Camera Obscura- Underachiever Please Try Harder
Camera Obscura- Let's Get Out of this Country
Belle and Sebastian- the Life Pursuit
Sleater Kinney- the Woods
Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Fountains of Wayne- Welcome Interstate Managers
Sigur Ros- Takk
Tilly and the Wall- O
the Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
Franz Ferdinand- s/t

1. Björk- Vespertine (#9 overall)
2. The Cure- BloodFlowers (#13)
3. Kylie Minogue- Fever (#14)
4. Annie- Anniemal (#1
5. Annie Lennox- Bare (#20)
6. Kylie Minogue- Body Language (#24)
7. LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver (#30)
8. Janet Jackson- All for You (#33)
9. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand (#37)
10. The Strokes- Room on Fire (#39)

Next 10:

Blondie- The Curse of Blondie
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Gorillaz- Demon Days
Madonna- Confessions on a Dancefloor
Dannii Minogue- Neon Nights
Prince- 3121
Missy Elliott- Miss E... So Addictive
Morrissey- You Are the Quarry
N.E.R.D.- In Search of
Chromeo- Fancy Footwork

1 - Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (#2)
2 - Kanye West - The College Dropout (#6)
3 - Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die (#9)
4 - LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (#10)
5 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (#13)
6 - Arcade Fire - Funeral (#15)
7 - Puppetmastaz - Creature Funk (#17)
8 - Gorillaz - Demon Days (#20)
9 - Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers (#22)
10 - The Knife - Silent Shout (#25)

bubbling under :
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Thrice - Illusion of Safety
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyo
Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountains
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Elliott Smith - New Moon
The Hives - Tyranosaurus Hives

and tons of others, just my favourite decade !

I'm Suprised to see so many bad lists.

1)Radiohead - Kid A
2)Arcade Fire - Funeral
3)Joanna Newsom - Ys
4)Radiohead - In Rainbows
5)Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abbitior Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
6)PJ Harvey - stories from the city, stories From the sea
7)Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
8)Sufjan Stevens - Illinios
9)The White Stripes - Elephant
10)Panda Bear - Person Pitch
11)Radiohead - Amnesiac
12)TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
13)LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
14)Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
15)Portishead - Third
16)Bob Dylan - Modern Times
17)Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
18)Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
19)Godspeed You Black emporer - Lift your skinny fist like antennas to the heavens
20)Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
21)Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
22)Cat Power - The Greatest
23)The National - Boxer
24)The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
25)PJ Harvey - White Chalk

My list:

1. The National - Boxer (#9 overall)
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral (#10)
3. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb (#11)
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (#19)
5. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster... (#20)
6. Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers (#26)
7. The National - Alligator (#27)
8. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (#41)
9. Radiohead - Kid A (#45)
10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (#48)

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-eyed mender
Studio - Yearbook 1
The Knife - Silent Shout
Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news
CocoRosie - The adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
The Soundtrack of our lives - Behind the music
Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
Regina Spector - Begin to hope
White stripes - White blood cells

These almost made the top-10

Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Knife - Deep cuts
Magnetic fields - 69 lovesongs
Electrelane - Power out
Franz Ferdinand - s/t
Animal Collective - Feels
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche A Bamako
Bright Eyes - Digital ash in a digital urn
Camera obscura - Lets get out of this country
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Flaming lips - Yoshimi battles the pink robot
Sigur Ros - Takk

The 2008's will have to wait. However there are one or two that most likely will make the list next year.

1. Dandy Warhols- 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia
2. Radiohead- Kid A
3. Jay-Z- The Blueprint
4. Destroyer- This Night
5. Guided By Voices- Earthquake Glue
6. Blake Babies- God Bless the Blake Babies
7. Bright Eyes- Lifted...
8. Danger Mouse/Jay-Z- The Grey Album
9. Sleater Kinney- One Beat
10. Of Montreal- Sunlandic Twins
11. The Shins- Oh Inverted World
12. Death Cab For Cutie- Photo Album
13. Arcade Fire- Funeral
14. Lily Allen- Alright, Still
15. White Stripes- White Blood Cells
16. Kanye West- Graduation
17. Britney Spears- Blackout
18. Postal Service- Give Up
19. The Faint- Danse Macabre
20. Band of Horses- Everything All the Time
21. Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatorium
22. Paul McCartney- Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
23. Tegan and Sara- The Con
24. The Streets- Original Pirate Material
25. Annie- Anniemal
26. Belle and Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
27. Dandy Warhols- Welcome to the Monkey House
28. Talib Kweli- Quality
29. Love as Laughter- Sea To Shining Sea
30. Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise

1. Radiohead- Kid A (#8)
2. Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise (#12)
3. Radiohead- In Rainbows (#28)
4. Arcade Fire- Funeral (#35)
5. Outkast- Stankonia (#40)
6. TV On the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain (#43)
7. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (#49)
8. The Strokes- Is This It? (#52)
9. Joanna Newsom- YS (#59)
10. Brian Wilson- SMILE (#66)


The only 2008 entrance will probably be Dear Science and it will probably come in between 3 and 4, so ya I think its pretty good...

What's surprising me most about these lists is how many people are putting records from this decade in the all time top ten already.

I'd probably put Kid A and Elephant in my all time top twenty, and a couple more in top fifty, but none in top ten yet.

Top 10 in chronological order:

Johan - Pergola (2001)
Lucinda Williams - Essence (2001)
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002)
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
The Rifles - No Love Lost (2006)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

Next 10 in alphabetical order:

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)
Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy (2000)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
The National - Boxer (2007)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
TV On The Radio - Dear Science (2008)
Wilco - Kicking Television: Live In Chicago (2005)
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (2007)
Amy Winehouse - Back To Back (2006)

So far, this 'century', I only consider 3 albums with 5 stars:

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (#22)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (#38)
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (#45)

The rest, as listed in my previous post, is worth 4.5 stars to me.

1 Radiohead - Kid A
2 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
3 The Strokes - Is This It ?
4 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
5 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6 The White Strips - Elephant
7 The White Strips - White Blood Cells
8 Bjork - Vespertine
9 Tom Waits - Orphans
10 PJ Harvey - Stories Form the City...

I haven't heard the new TV On the Radio album yet.

And I would put Kid A in my personal #21 if you ask me. According to my tastes this decade is (or would be) the worst of the last 50 years.

Top 10:

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
2. Four Tet - Rounds (2003)
3. The Fall - The Real New Fall LP: Formerly Country on the Click (2003)
4. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)
5. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (2002)
6. Day One - Ordinary Man (2000)
7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)
8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)9. Cat Power - You Are Free (2003)
10. Elliott Smith- From a Basement on the Hill (2004)


Bubbling under :

TV on the Radio - Dear Science (2008)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)
Menomena - Friend and Foe (2007)
Why? - Elephant Eyelash (2005)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005)
I Am Kloot - Natural History (2001)
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (2000)
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy (2000)
Programme - Mon cerveau dans ma bouche (2000)

1. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising (2002)
2. Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues (2000)
3. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea (2003)
4. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day (2003)
5. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
6. Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA/The Machines of God (2000)
7. Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin (2006)
8. Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner (2005)
9. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South (2004)
10. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet (2001)
11. The Darkness - Permission to Land (2003)
12. Burial - s/t (2007)
13. Warren Zevon - The Wind (2003)
14. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (2000)
15. Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (2001)
16. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
17. Tom Waits - Alice (2002)
18. Josh Rouse - 1972 (2003)
19. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
20. Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine (2005)

The fact is, every year I'm more out of the loop on new music, so I'm heavier on earlier in the decade albums. It's a little jumbled from my album poll entry, with only one top-20 newcomer.

1. Gimme Fiction - Spoon
2. Rings Around the World - Super Furry Animals
3. Funeral - Arcade Fire
4. Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey
5. The College Dropout - Kanye West
6. Discovery - Daft Punk
7. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
8. Is This It - The Strokes
9. The Grey Album - Danger Mouse
10. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
11. Sea Change - Beck
12. Elephant - The White Stripes
13. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
14. Kid A - Radiohead
15. D-D-Don't Stop the Beat - Junior Senior
16. Kala - M.I.A.
17. Phantom Power - Super Furry Animals
18. The World Won't End - The Pernice Brothers
19. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - Yo La Tengo
20. Since I Left You - The Avalanches

Bubbling: A Grand Don't Come For Free (The Streets); Halos and Horns (Dolly Parton); Give Up (The Postal Service); Veni Vidi Vicious (The Hives); Stankonia (OutKast); Nice and Nicely Done (The Spinto Band); Kill The Moonlight (Spoon); Agaetis Byrjun (Sigur Ros); The Magic Numbers (The Magic Numbers); Illinois (Sufjan Stevens); Amnesiac (Radiohead); Together We're Heavy (The Polyphonic Spree)

1. Tribute To Brother Weldon - Monk Hughes & The Outer Realm (2004)
2. Is This It? ~ The Strokes (2001)
3. Madvillainy ~ Madvillain (2004)
4. Beet, Maize & Corn ~ The High Llamas (2003)
5. ? (2008)
6. In Search of... ~ N.E.R.D. (2002)
7. Get Away From Me ~ Nellie McKay (2004)
8. Beauty and The Beat ~ Edan (2005)
9. Two Against Nature ~ Steely Dan (2000)
10. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven ~ Godspeed You Black Emperor (2000)
11. Supreme Clientele ~ Ghostface Killah (2000)
12. Parachutes ~ Coldplay (2000)
13. The Love Below ~ Andre 3000 (2003)
14. David Axelrod ~ David Axelrod (2001)
15. SMiLE ~ Brian Wilson (2004)

1. Bryan Scary - "The shredding tears" (2006)
2. The Go! Team - "Thunder, lightning, strike" (2004)
3. Richard Swift - "The novelist/Walking without effort" (2005)
4. Dungen - "Ta Det Lungt" (2004)
5. Sondre Lerche - "Faces down" (2001)
6. Ed Harcourt - "Here be monsters" (2001)
7. Todd Rundgren - "Liars" (2004)
8. Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - "The land of pure imagination" (2006)
9. Wondermints - "Mind if we make love to you" (2002)
10.The Red Button - "She's about to cross my mind" (2007)

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Anouar Brahem - Le Voyage de Sahar
3. Thomas Newman - American Beauty
4. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
5. Björk - Vespertine
6. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
7. Radiohead - Amnesiac
8. Beck - Sea Change
9. Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
10. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

What, no Up The Bracket - The Libertines??

I agree with most of the records others have mentioned. I won't make an actual list because it changes every day for me, but that would always be on any list of mine.

Interesting that you put Amnesiac, but not Kid A, Henrik. I too might be partial to Amnesiac. Kudos.

id say taylor swift

1. Wilco Sky Blue Sky
2. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
3. The Streets Original Pirate Material
4. Fabulous Trobadors Duels de tchatche et autres trucs du folklore toulousain
5. Johnny Cash American Recordings III : Solitary Man
6. Moussu T E Lei Jovents Forever Polida
7. Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump
8. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
9. The Strokes Is This It ?
10. The Coral Magic and Medicine

Wow, nicolas, surprised to see Sky Blue Sky as your #1!

It must have been about a year ago now, when I played that album multiple times a day, it really had put a (pleasant) spell on me. During my holiday in Canada, July last year, I was only 2 hours driving away from Toronto, where they were playing. I really regret that I have missed out on that concert, Tweedy & Co. remain #1 on my wishlist.

Albums like Funeral (Arcade Fire) and Oh, Inverted World (Shins), I keep loving and can still listen to any time, any day. Unlike SBS, so I guess I must have heard it too often back then. Not in my top of the decade, but still 4,5 stars and bubbling under.

Haven't heard it for a while now, so maybe I should give it a listen soon again...?

1- Sound of Silver
2- Destroyer's Rubies
3- Strawberry Jam
4- Hercules & Love Affair
5- Funeral
6- Mirrored
7- Is This It
8- Apologies to the Queen Mary
9- The Moon and Antarctica
10- Hail to the Thief

^ glad to see Strawberry Jam and Hercules & Love Affair getting some love

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (#2 overall)
2. My Morning Jacket - Z (#4 overall)
3. The Sunday Drivers - Little Heart Attacks (#10 overall)
4. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (#11 overall)
5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (#13 overall)
6. People Under the Stairs - O.S.T. (#18 overall)
7. DeVotchKa - How It Ends (#19 overall)
8. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (#20 overall)
9. Blur - Think Tank (#23 overall)
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t (#24 overall)

Humm, I have a lot more new albums near the top than I thought...oh well, I am a product of my times. I think Dig! Lazarus! Dig! or Stay Positive are the only ones from '08 that might approach the top 10 of the decade for me.

1. Sigur Ros - () (#3)
2. Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun (#6)
3. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (#7)
4. Radiohead - Kid A (#14)
5. Animal Collective - Feels (#16)
6. Deerhoof - Apple O' (#18)
7. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (#19)
8. The Cure - Bloodflowers (#21)
9. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (#27)
10. Portishead - Third (#29)

It's been a great, great decade for music.

no love for the strokes!?!? i don't understand. for me, it's an easy no#1. i know that i'll be listening to this for a long time. i can't say that about any other album, really. except maybe st. elsewhere.

of the 7 #1's of the last seven years (and I guess this year too) Is This It? is my fave. That's not saying much since most of these records are ridiculously overrated.

billadama, i only started listening to music at the end of 2004. at best, i've only been listening to anything for 4 years, regardless of when it was released. most of my top 10 are albums that i've only been listening to for a matter of months.

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

Er... with #2 I meant: Radiohead - Kid A (I obviously love OK Computer so much that it appears in every list I make).

If OK Computer would count as 'this decade', than it would end up at #1. Or, in other words, love it too.

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

Greg, Travis' album is from 1999, not this decade. Nice album though

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.

No particular order....

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. Castaways And Cutouts - The Decemberists (2002)
2. Unclassified - Robert Randolph & The Family Band (2003)
3. Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly (2002)
4. Jet Set Radio Future Soundtrack - Various Artists (2002)
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)
6. Lupe Fiasco's The Cool - Lupe Fiasco (2007)
7. Discovery - Daft Punk (2000)
8. Is This It? - The Strokes (2001)
9. Sea Change - Beck (2002)
10. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens (2005)

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