Pitchfork - USA - top 200
BetterPropaganda - USA - top 100
Complex - USA - top 100
Lost At Sea - USA - top 50
Gigwise - UK - top 50
Uncut - UK - top 150
Sounds - Germany - top 50
# - Pts - Lists - Artist - Album
01 - 354 - 6 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
02 - 316 - 6 - Radiohead - Kid A
03 - 311 - 6 - Strokes, The - Is This It
04 - 239 - 7 - OutKast - Stankonia
05 - 226 - 5 - LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
06 - 210 - 5 - Jay-Z - The Blueprint
07 - 189 - 6 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
08 - 148 - 4 - White Stripes, The - White Blood Cells
09 - 147 - 4 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
10 - 146 - 5 - M.I.A. - Kala
11 - 144 - 4 - White Stripes, The - Elephant
12 - 141 - 4 - Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
13 - 131 - 5 - Stevens, Sufjan - Illinois
14 - 127 - 4 - Knife, The - Silent Shout
15 - 121 - 4 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
16 - 119 - 4 - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
17 - 117 - 4 - Daft Punk - Discovery
18 - 116 - 5 - Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
19 - 112 - 4 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
20 - 108 - 6 - Flaming Lips, The - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot
21 - 105 - 4 - West, Kanye - College Dropout
22 - 100 - 4 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
23 - 99 - 5 - Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
24 - 99 - 5 - Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
25 - 97 - 5 - Avalanches, The - Since I Left You
26 - 91 - 3 - Panda Bear - Person Pitch
27 - 90 - 3 - Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
28 - 89 - 4 - Winehouse, Amy - Back to Black
29 - 85 - 2 - Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
30 - 84 - 4 - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
31 - 81 - 4 - Libertines, The - Up the Bracket
32 - 81 - 4 - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
33 - 80 - 5 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
34 - 78 - 3 - Antony and The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
35 - 78 - 4 - D'Angelo - Voodoo
36 - 75 - 3 - West, Kanye - Graduation
37 - 73 - 2 - Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun
38 - 67 - 3 - Microphones, The - The Glow, Pt. 2
39 - 65 - 4 - Battles - Mirrored
40 - 65 - 3 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
41 - 63 - 3 - Streets, The - Original Pirate Material
42 - 62 - 3 - Adams, Ryan - Heartbreaker
43 - 62 - 4 - Harvey, PJ - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
44 - 62 - 4 - Streets, The - A Grand Don't Come for Free
45 - 61 - 3 - Shins, The - Chutes Too Narrow
46 - 61 - 1 - Dylan, Bob - Love and Theft
47 - 60 - 3 - Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
48 - 60 - 3 - National, The - Boxer
49 - 59 - 3 - Newsom, Joanna - Ys
50 - 59 - 3 - M.I.A. - Arular
Pitchfork - USA - top 200
BetterPropaganda - USA - top 100
Complex - USA - top 100
Lost At Sea - USA - top 50
Gigwise - UK - top 50
Uncut - UK - top 150
Sounds - Germany - top 50
# - Pts - Lists - Artist - Album
01 - 354 - 6 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
02 - 316 - 6 - Radiohead - Kid A
03 - 311 - 6 - Strokes, The - Is This It
04 - 239 - 7 - OutKast - Stankonia
05 - 226 - 5 - LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
06 - 210 - 5 - Jay-Z - The Blueprint
07 - 189 - 6 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
08 - 148 - 4 - White Stripes, The - White Blood Cells
09 - 147 - 4 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
10 - 146 - 5 - M.I.A. - Kala
11 - 144 - 4 - White Stripes, The - Elephant
12 - 141 - 4 - Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
13 - 131 - 5 - Stevens, Sufjan - Illinois
14 - 127 - 4 - Knife, The - Silent Shout
15 - 121 - 4 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
16 - 119 - 4 - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
17 - 117 - 4 - Daft Punk - Discovery
18 - 116 - 5 - Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
19 - 112 - 4 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
20 - 108 - 6 - Flaming Lips, The - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot
21 - 105 - 4 - West, Kanye - College Dropout
22 - 100 - 4 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
23 - 99 - 5 - Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
24 - 99 - 5 - Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
25 - 97 - 5 - Avalanches, The - Since I Left You
26 - 91 - 3 - Panda Bear - Person Pitch
27 - 90 - 3 - Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
28 - 89 - 4 - Winehouse, Amy - Back to Black
29 - 85 - 2 - Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
30 - 84 - 4 - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
31 - 81 - 4 - Libertines, The - Up the Bracket
32 - 81 - 4 - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
33 - 80 - 5 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
34 - 78 - 3 - Antony and The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
35 - 78 - 4 - D'Angelo - Voodoo
36 - 75 - 3 - West, Kanye - Graduation
37 - 73 - 2 - Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun
38 - 67 - 3 - Microphones, The - The Glow, Pt. 2
39 - 65 - 4 - Battles - Mirrored
40 - 65 - 3 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
41 - 63 - 3 - Streets, The - Original Pirate Material
42 - 62 - 3 - Adams, Ryan - Heartbreaker
43 - 62 - 4 - Harvey, PJ - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
44 - 62 - 4 - Streets, The - A Grand Don't Come for Free
45 - 61 - 3 - Shins, The - Chutes Too Narrow
46 - 61 - 1 - Dylan, Bob - Love and Theft
47 - 60 - 3 - Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
48 - 60 - 3 - National, The - Boxer
49 - 59 - 3 - Newsom, Joanna - Ys
50 - 59 - 3 - M.I.A. - Arular
I hope YHF breaks into the top 5. I personally consider it #1, but I realize it has some stiff competition.
Glad to see The Stripes taking a slight hit; They're a great band, but I've never considered any of their albums front to back masterpieces.
GREAT to see The Glow Part 2 getting props. That's one of my top 10 albums of the 00s, and when it was low on the pitchfork list, I figured it was pretty much done for.
Does anyone else find it interesting that while Funeral is soaring, Neon Bible is sinking? I thought that was considered a great Critical 1-2 punch. Now it's looking more and more like a steep drop off in the vein of Marquee Moon/ Adventure or Entertainment!/ Solid Gold.
I think Wilco can take Jay Z, but I have a feeling Sound of Silver and Stankonia will both be very hard to top. Because YHF has a jump on both of them in the current AM list though, I have a feeling it will maintain it's position in the AM 2000s T5.
Besides, even if YHF switched spots (Henrik implied that spots would just be switched, that the #1 of the decade won't become #30 of all time, due to weighting) it would only switch down from like 125 to 129. Not a big drop.
It might even move up two spots since both Franz Ferdinand and Elephant (which aren't that much higher than Foxtrot in the rankings) are taking hits.
Kid A, Funeral, and Foxtrot would be a dream top 3.
An album that I think is sadly falling through the cracks is Demon Days. No album this decade has better captured the thick fog of fear that has defined the decade. I think it deserves to be in the top 10.
I have a feeling that when the mainstream press publishes their lists, the cumulative list is going to drastically alter.
I think everything currently in the top 10 is safe, but I think some of the more indie album favs that didn't get a lot of hype from RS and Spin like Silent Shout, Moon & Antarctica, Discovery, and Geogaddi will take big dips.
Hopefully the mainstream critics give the list some balance; several great albums like Love & Theft and SMiLE are being held down for decidely more indie releases.