Best Albums of the '00s

		Boxer
		The National
		2007
		"Start a War"
		Picaresque
		The Decemberists
		2005
		"16 Military Wives"
		Out of the Shadow
		Rogue Wave
		2004
		"Every Moment"
		Oracular Spectacular
		MGMT
		2008
		"Time to Pretend"
		Hail to the Thief
		Radiohead
		2003
		"There There"
		Franz Ferdinand
		Franz Ferdinand
		2004
		"The Dark of the Matinee"
		Chutes Too Narrow
		The Shins
		2003
		"So Says I"
		Alphabetical
		Phoenix
		2004
		"Everything is Everything"
		Bitte Orca
		Dirty Projectors
		2009
		"Two Doves"
		Our Endless Numbered Days
		Iron & Wine
		2004
		"Passing Afternoon"
		The Mysterious Production of Eggs
		Andrew Bird
		2005
		"Fake Palindromes"
		American Idiot
		Green Day
		2004
		"American Idiot"
		Transatlanticism
		Death Cab for Cutie
		2003
		"Title and Registration"
		Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
		Arctic Monkeys
		2006
		"Fake Tales of San Francisco"
		Lifted, Or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
		Bright Eyes
		2002
		"Lover I Don't Have to Love"
		Merriweather Post Pavilion
		Animal Collective
		2009
		"Brother Sport"
		Hot Fuss
		The Killers
		2004
		"Somebody Told Me"
		White Blood Cells
		The White Stripes
		2001
		"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
		Return to Cookie Mountain
		TV on the Radio
		2006
		"I Was a Lover"
		LCD Soundsystem
		LCD Soundsystem
		2005
		"Tribulations"
		Fleet Foxes
		Fleet Foxes
		2008
		"Your Protector"
		You Forgot It in People
		Broken Social Scene
		2003
		"Anthems for a 17-Year-Old Girl"
		A Rush of Blood to the Head
		Coldplay
		2002
		"The Scientist"
		The Moon & Antarctica
		Modest Mouse
		2000
		"Gravity Rides Everything"
		Fever to Tell
		Yeah Yeah Yeahs
		2003
		"Y Control"
		In Rainbows
		Radiohead
		2007
		"Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
		Vampire Weekend
		Vampire Weekend
		2008
		"A-Punk"
		Silent Alarm
		Bloc Party
		2005
		"Helicopter"
		Turn on the Bright Lights
		Interpol
		2002
		"NYC"
		Kill the Moonlight
		Spoon
		2002
		"The Way We Get By"
		Veckatimest
		Grizzly Bear
		2009
		"Cheerleader"
		You Are Free
		Cat Power
		2003
		"He War"
		For Emma, Forever Ago
		Bon Iver
		2007
		"Blindsided"
		Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
		Wilco
		2002
		"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"
		Illinois
		Sufjan Stevens
		2005
		"Chicago"
		Elephant
		The White Stripes
		2003
		"Black Math"
		Sea Change
		Beck
		2002
		"Lost Cause"
		Funeral
		Arcade Fire
		2004
		"Neighborhood #2 (Laika)"
		Kid A
		Radiohead
		2000
		"The National Anthem"
		Is This It
		The Strokes
		2001
		"Someday"

Comments

[Pierre Massé]

I completely agree with your top 3.

[Christopher]

All of these are excellent albums, but I think you overlooked a few great albums which belong here in place of some of the weaker choices (i.e. Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys...)

Bob Dylan - Love and Theft

Brian Wilson - SMILE

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Tom Waits - Real Gone

Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

Ray LaMontagne - Trouble

[Luzz]

Kid A #1... and the strokes are a bit overrated in my opinion...

[Napisarik]

Pretty decent list, certainly not an easy one. I'm glad to see Sea Change rated so highly.

I would consider adding Deerhunter (Microcastle, Cryptograms), Bjork (Vespertine), and Elbow (Cast of Thousands, The Seldom Seen Kid).
Coldplay is weak as hell compared to the similar but incredibly talented Elbow.

[musicnerd225488]

Thank you for your great taste in music. Also, Interpol should be higher:).

[Batis]

What about muse? I can't believe you dont't choose Origin of Symetri for this list. Anyway, good job Jonk!