| 2000 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiohead | |
| 2 | Broadcast | |
| 3 | OutKast | |
| 4 | Yo La Tengo | |
| 5 | Animal Collective | Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished |
| 6 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |
| 7 | Clinic | Internal Wrangler |
| 8 | Reflection Eternal | Train of Thought |
| 9 | Modest Mouse | |
| 10 | Avalanches, The | Since I Left You |
| 11 | Thievery Corporation | |
| 12 | Microphones, The | It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water |
| 13 | Queens of the Stone Age | |
| 14 | Three 6 Mafia | |
| 15 | mclusky | My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours |
| 16 | Jurassic 5 | |
| 17 | Phoenix | United |
| 18 | At The Drive-In | Relationship of Command |
| 19 | Amon Tobin | Supermodified |
| 20 | Blonde Redhead | Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons |
| 21 | Snoop Dogg | Tha Last Meal |
| 22 | Luomo | Vocal City |
| 23 | Grandaddy | The Sophtware Slump |
| 24 | Ween | |
| 25 | PJ Harvey | |
| 26 | Jill Scott | Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 |
| 27 | Deltron 3030 | Deltron 3030 |
| 28 | Delgados | The Great Eastern |
| 29 | Do Make Say Think | Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is Dead |
| 30 | RL Burnside | |
| 31 | Bright Eyes | Fevers and Mirrors |
| 32 | Wu-Tang Clan | The W |
| 33 | King Biscuit Time | No Style EP |
| 34 | Fatboy Slim | Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars |
| 35 | Erykah Badu | Mama’s Gun |
| 36 | Summer Hymns | Voice Brother and Sister |
| 37 | Ludacris | Back for the First Time |
| 38 | Elliott Smith | Figure 8 |
| 39 | Her Space Holiday | Home Is Where You Hang Yourself |
| 40 | Peaches | The Teaches of Peaches |
| 41 | Badly Drawn Boy | The Hour of Bewilderbeast |
| 42 | New Pornographers | Mass Romantic |
| 43 | Rage Against the Machine | |
| 44 | Lambchop | Nixon |
| 45 | Sea & Cake, The | Oui |
| 46 | Quasimoto | The Unseen |
| 47 | Anniversary | Designing a Nervous Breakdown |
| 48 | White Stripes, The | De Stijl |
| 49 | Coldplay | Parachutes |
| 50 | Doves | Lost Souls |
| 14/50 | 28% |
| 2001 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strokes, The | |
| 2 | Tool | |
| 3 | Daft Punk | |
| 4 | Beta Band | |
| 5 | Radiohead | |
| 6 | Four Tet | |
| 7 | Aesop Rock | |
| 8 | Microphones, The | |
| 9 | Gorillaz | |
| 10 | Shins, The | |
| 11 | White Stripes, The | |
| 12 | Cornelius | |
| 13 | Mogwai | Rock Action |
| 14 | American Analog Set | Know By Heart |
| 15 | Aphex Twin | Drukqs |
| 16 | Jay-Z | The Blueprint |
| 17 | Röyksopp | Melody A.M. |
| 18 | Life Without Buildings | Any Other City |
| 19 | Blink 182 | |
| 20 | Low | Things We Lost in the Fire |
| 21 | Broken Social Scene | |
| 22 | Dismemberment Plan | Change |
| 23 | Explosions In The Sky | |
| 24 | M83 | M83 |
| 25 | Wu-Tang Clan | |
| 26 | Incubus | Morning View |
| 27 | Shpongle | Tales of the Inexpressible |
| 28 | Muse | Origin of Symmetry |
| 29 | Caribou | Start Breaking My Heart |
| 30 | Fugazi | |
| 31 | Tortoise | Standards |
| 32 | Hood | Cold House |
| 33 | John Frusciante | To Record Only Water For Ten Days |
| 34 | Fischerspooner | #1 |
| 35 | Opeth | Blackwater Park |
| 36 | Herbert | Bodily Functions |
| 37 | Project Pat | Mista Don’t Play Everythangs Workin |
| 38 | Sparklehorse | It’s A Wonderful Life |
| 39 | Unwound | Leaves Turn Inside You |
| 40 | From Autumn to Ashes | Too Bad You’re Beautiful |
| 41 | Kings of Convenience | Versus |
| 42 | Cake | Comfort Eagle |
| 43 | Faint, The | Danse Macabre |
| 44 | RZA as Bobby Digital | Digital Bullet |
| 45 | Elbow | Asleep In the Back |
| 46 | Weezer | Green Album |
| 47 | Slayer | God Hates Us All |
| 48 | Dntel | Life is Full of Possibilities |
| 49 | Super Furry Animals | Rings Around the World |
| 50 | Ben Folds | Rockin’ the Suburbs |
| 17/50 | 34% |
| 2002 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken Social Scene | |
| 2 | Queens of the Stone Age | |
| 3 | Boards of Canada | |
| 4 | Notwist, The | Neon Golden |
| 5 | Out Hud | S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. |
| 6 | John Parish | How Animals Move |
| 7 | RjD2 | |
| 8 | Flaming Lips, The | |
| 9 | Roots, The | Phrenology |
| 10 | Spoon | |
| 11 | Interpol | Turn On The Bright Lights |
| 12 | Beck | Sea Change |
| 13 | Tom Waits | |
| 14 | DJ Shadow | The Private Press |
| 15 | Bright Eyes | |
| 16 | Talib Kweli | Quality |
| 17 | Chemical Brothers | |
| 18 | Tom Waits | |
| 19 | …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead | |
| 20 | Isis | Oceanic |
| 21 | Clinic | Walking With Thee |
| 22 | The Warlocks | Phoenix |
| 23 | Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| 24 | Sigur Rós | ( ) |
| 25 | Sonic Youth | Murray Street |
| 26 | Thievery Corporation | |
| 27 | Jurassic 5 | |
| 28 | Mastodon | Remission |
| 29 | Augie March | Strange Bird |
| 30 | Nappy Roots | Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz |
| 31 | Múm | Finally We Are No One |
| 32 | Ms. John Soda | No P. or D. |
| 33 | Clipse | Lord Willin’ |
| 34 | mclusky | Mclusky Do Dallas |
| 35 | Johnny Cash | American IV: The Man Comes Around |
| 36 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Yanqui U.X.O. |
| 37 | El-P | Fantastic Damage |
| 38 | Taking Back Sunday | Tell All Your Friends |
| 39 | Rilo Kiley | The Execution of all things |
| 40 | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | The Last DJ |
| 41 | Opeth | Deliverance |
| 42 | The Future Sound of London | The Isness |
| 43 | Books, The | Thought For Food |
| 44 | NERD | In Search of… |
| 45 | Aim | Hinterland |
| 46 | Delgados | Hate |
| 47 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | By The Way |
| 48 | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | Thug World Order |
| 49 | Foo Fighters | One by One |
| 50 | Damien Rice | O |
| 13/50 | 26% |
| 2003 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | |
| 2 | Postal Service, The | |
| 3 | OutKast | |
| 4 | Mew | |
| 5 | Radiohead | |
| 6 | Four Tet | |
| 7 | Viktor Vaughn | Vaudeville Villain |
| 8 | Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People |
| 9 | Menomena | I Am the Fun Blame Monster |
| 10 | White Stripes, The | Elephant |
| 11 | Mars Volta, The | |
| 12 | Matmos | The Civil War |
| 13 | Knife, The | Deep Cuts |
| 14 | Ween | Quebec |
| 15 | My Morning Jacket | It Still Moves |
| 16 | Lightning Bolt | Wonderful Rainbow |
| 17 | Three 6 Mafia | Da Unbreakables |
| 18 | Super Furry Animals | Phantom Power |
| 19 | Do Make Say Think | Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| 20 | Songs:Ohia | The Magnolia Electric Co. |
| 21 | Explosions In The Sky | |
| 22 | Books, The | |
| 23 | Coheed and Cambria | In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 |
| 24 | Radio Dept. | Lesser Matters |
| 25 | Caribou | Up In Flames |
| 26 | Jay-Z | The Black Album |
| 27 | José González | |
| 28 | Wrens, The | The Meadowlands |
| 29 | Rapture, The | Echoes |
| 30 | Muse | Absolution |
| 31 | Broadcast | Haha Sound |
| 32 | Black Keys, The | Thickfreakness |
| 33 | Dizzee Rascal | Boy In Da Corner |
| 34 | Sleep | Dopesmoker |
| 35 | M83 | Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts |
| 36 | Elbow | Cast of Thousands |
| 37 | Atmosphere | |
| 38 | Blink-182 | |
| 39 | Stars | |
| 40 | Metric | Old World Underground, Where are you Now? |
| 41 | Animal Collective | Here Comes The Indian |
| 42 | Aesop Rock | Bazooka Tooth |
| 43 | Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism |
| 44 | Sufjan Stevens | Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State |
| 45 | Brand New | Deja Entendu |
| 46 | Poison the Well | You Come Before You |
| 47 | 50 Cent | Get Rich or Die Tryin’ |
| 48 | Her Space Holiday | The Young Machines |
| 49 | Unicorns, The | Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? |
| 50 | Belle & Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| 13/50 | 26% |
| 2004 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walkmen, The | |
| 2 | Arcade Fire | |
| 3 | Lali Puna | |
| 4 | Modest Mouse | |
| 5 | Duo505 | |
| 6 | Wilco | |
| 7 | CocoRosie | |
| 8 | Kanye West | |
| 9 | Secret Machines, The | |
| 10 | The Sun | Did Your Mother Tell You? |
| 11 | Comets On Fire | Blue Cathedral |
| 12 | Autolux | Future Perfect |
| 13 | Junior Boys | Last Exit |
| 14 | John Vanderslice | Cellar Door |
| 15 | Mastodon | |
| 16 | Talib Kweli | The Beautiful Struggle |
| 17 | Tom Waits | |
| 18 | Cut Copy | |
| 19 | of Montreal | |
| 20 | TV on the Radio | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes |
| 21 | Pinback | |
| 22 | Windsor for the Derby | We Fight Til Death |
| 23 | Stars | Set Yourself on Fire |
| 24 | Interpol | Antics |
| 25 | Nas | Street’s Disciple |
| 26 | Isis | Panopticon |
| 27 | Animal Collective | Sung Tongs |
| 28 | Feist | Let It Die |
| 29 | Psapp | Tiger, My Friend |
| 30 | Black Keys, The | Rubber Factory |
| 31 | 65daysofstatic | The Fall of Math |
| 32 | Phoenix | Alphabetical |
| 33 | Ratatat | |
| 34 | Incubus | A Crow Left of the Murder |
| 35 | Lamb of God | Ashes of the Wake |
| 36 | Roots, The | Tipping Point |
| 37 | Album Leaf, The | In A Safe Place |
| 38 | Juana Molina | Tres Cosas |
| 39 | Say Anything | …Is A Real Boy |
| 40 | Go! Team, The | Thunder, Lightning, Strike |
| 41 | Death From Above 1979 | You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine |
| 42 | Beta Band, The | |
| 43 | Dungen | Ta Det Lugnt |
| 44 | Regina Spektor | Soviet Kitsch |
| 45 | Earlimart | Treble and Tremble |
| 46 | RJd2 | |
| 47 | Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans |
| 48 | Icarus Line, The | Penance Soiree |
| 49 | Chromeo | |
| 50 | K-os | Joyful Rebellion |
| 18/50 | 36% |
| 2005 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mars Volta | |
| 2 | Broken Social Scene | |
| 3 | M83 | |
| 4 | Mew | |
| 5 | 65daysofstatic | |
| 6 | Gorillaz | |
| 7 | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm |
| 8 | Sufjan Stevens | |
| 9 | CocoRosie | |
| 10 | My Morning Jacket | |
| 11 | Animal Collective | |
| 12 | LCD Soundsystem | |
| 13 | Nine Inch Nails | |
| 14 | Bright Eyes | |
| 15 | Bright Eyes | |
| 16 | Thievery Corporation | |
| 17 | Aqueduct | I Sold Gold |
| 18 | Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies To Paralyze |
| 19 | El Ten Eleven | |
| 20 | The Sun | Blame It on the Youth |
| 21 | New Pornographers, The | Twin Cinema |
| 22 | Kanye West | |
| 23 | Coheed and Cambria | Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV |
| 24 | Headphones | |
| 25 | Beck | Guero |
| 26 | Daft Punk | |
| 27 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | |
| 28 | Sage Francis | |
| 29 | White Stripes, The | Get Behind Me Satan |
| 30 | Straylight Run | |
| 31 | Stephen Malkmus | Face the Truth |
| 32 | Minus the Bear | |
| 33 | Damian Marley | Welcome to Jamrock |
| 34 | Stereophonics | Language. Sex. Violence. Other? |
| 35 | Wolf Parade | Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| 36 | DangerDoom | |
| 37 | Pendulum | Hold Your Colour |
| 38 | Caribou | The Milk of Human Kindness |
| 39 | Spoon | |
| 40 | Röyksopp | The Understanding |
| 41 | Fiona Apple | Extraordinary Machine |
| 42 | MIA | |
| 43 | Ladytron | Witching Hour |
| 44 | Broadcast | Tender Buttons |
| 45 | Architecture in Helsinki | In Case We Die |
| 46 | …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead | Worlds Apart |
| 47 | FELT | Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet |
| 48 | Imogen Heap | Speak for Yourself |
| 49 | Fischerspooner | Odyssey |
| 50 | BoomBox | Visions of Backbeat |
| 26/50 | 52% |
| 2006 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TV on the Radio | |
| 2 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | |
| 3 | Booka Shade | Movements |
| 4 | Ellen Allien & Apparat | Orchestra of Bubbles |
| 5 | Bat for Lashes | Fur and Gold |
| 6 | Artic Monkeys | |
| 7 | Casiotone for the Painfully Alone | Etiquette |
| 8 | Junior Boys | So This Is Goodbye |
| 9 | Bonobo | |
| 10 | Thom Yorke | |
| 11 | Girl Talk | |
| 12 | Mastodon | |
| 13 | Yo La Tengo | |
| 14 | Mars Volta, The | |
| 15 | Gnarls Barkley | |
| 16 | Peter Bjorn and John | Writer’s Block |
| 17 | Sunset Rubdown | Shut Up. I Am Dreaming |
| 18 | J Dilla | |
| 19 | Band of Horses | Everything All the Time |
| 20 | Silversun Pickups | Carnavas |
| 21 | Black Keys, the | Magic Potion |
| 22 | Electric President | S / T |
| 23 | All That Remains | |
| 24 | Clipse | Hell Hath No Fury |
| 25 | Radio Citizen | Berlin Serengeti |
| 26 | Ratatat | |
| 27 | Califone | Roots & Crowns |
| 28 | Kooks, The | Inside In/Inside Out |
| 29 | Sonic Youth | |
| 30 | Under the Influence of Giants | Under the Influence of Giants |
| 31 | MSTRKRFT | The Looks |
| 32 | Brightback Morning Light | Brightback Morning Light |
| 33 | Phoenix | It’s Never Been Like That |
| 34 | Decemberists, The | |
| 35 | Lupe Fiasco | Food & Liquor |
| 36 | She Wants Revenge | She Wants Revenge |
| 37 | All Shall Perish | The Price of Existence |
| 38 | Built to Spill | You In Reverse |
| 39 | Grizzly Bear | Yellow House |
| 40 | Little People | Mickey Mouse Operation |
| 41 | Knife, The | Silent Shout |
| 42 | Blow, The | Paper Television |
| 43 | Brand New | The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me |
| 44 | Tool | 10,000 Days |
| 45 | Jurassic 5 | Feedback |
| 46 | Sparklehorse | Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain |
| 47 | Flaming Lips, The | At War with the Mystics |
| 48 | Raconteurs, The | Broken Boy Soldiers |
| 49 | Fujiya & Miyagi | Transparent Things |
| 50 | Islands | Return to the Sea |
| 15/50 | 30% |
| 2007 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiohead | |
| 2 | LCD Soundsystem | |
| 3 | Battles | |
| 4 | Justice | |
| 5 | Animal Collective | |
| 6 | Burial | |
| 7 | Studio | Yearbook 1 |
| 8 | of Montreal | |
| 9 | Panda Bear | |
| 10 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible |
| 11 | Shins, The | |
| 12 | Cribs, The | Mens Needs, Womens Needs, Whatever |
| 13 | Modest Mouse | |
| 14 | Arctic Monkeys | Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| 15 | Caribou | |
| 16 | Aesop Rock | None Shall Pass |
| 17 | Handsome Furs | |
| 18 | Klaxons | Myths of the Near Future |
| 19 | CocoRosie | |
| 20 | Menomena | Friend and Foe |
| 21 | Spoon | |
| 22 | National, The | |
| 23 | MIA | |
| 24 | Blonde Redhead | |
| 25 | Against Me! | New Wave |
| 26 | Holy Fuck | |
| 27 | Modeselektor | Happy Birthday! |
| 28 | UGK | Underground Kingz |
| 29 | Okkervil River | The Stage Names |
| 30 | Avett Brothers, The | Emotionalism |
| 31 | Between The Buried and Me | |
| 32 | Elliott Smith | |
| 33 | El-P | I’ll Sleep When you’re Dead |
| 34 | Dan Deacon | |
| 35 | Chromeo | Fancy Footwork |
| 36 | Muscles | Guns Babes Lemonade |
| 37 | Kanye West | |
| 38 | Apparat | Walls |
| 39 | Kings of Leon | |
| 40 | Queens of the Stone Age | Era Vulgaris |
| 41 | Sean Hayes | Flowering Spade |
| 42 | Lupe Fiasco | The Cool |
| 43 | Band of Horses | Cease to Begin |
| 44 | Liars | Liars |
| 45 | Wax Tailor | Hope & Sorrow |
| 46 | Architecture in Helsinki | Places Like This |
| 47 | White Stripes, The | Icky Thump |
| 48 | Explosions In the Sky | |
| 49 | Bloc Party | A Weekend In The City |
| 50 | Air | Pocket Symphonies |
| 24/50 | 48% |
| 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MGMT | |
| 2 | TV on the Radio | |
| 3 | Crystal Castles | |
| 4 | Portishead | |
| 5 | Meshuggah | |
| 6 | Hercules and Love Affair | Hercules and Love Affair |
| 7 | M83 | |
| 8 | Mae Shi, The | HLLLYH |
| 9 | Santigold | |
| 10 | Bon Iver | |
| 11 | Pretty Lights | Filling Up The City Skies |
| 12 | Vampire Weekend | |
| 13 | Foals | Antidotes |
| 14 | Cloud Cult | Feel Good Ghosts |
| 15 | School of Seven Bells | Alpinisms |
| 16 | Black Keys, The | Attack and Release |
| 17 | Weepies, The | Hideaway |
| 18 | Passion Pit | Chunk of Change EP |
| 19 | Does It Offend You, Yeah? | You have No Idea What You’re Getting yourself into |
| 20 | My Morning Jacket | |
| 21 | Air France | No Way Down |
| 22 | Hot Chip | Made in the Dark |
| 23 | Duo505 | Another Illusion |
| 24 | Fuck Buttons | |
| 25 | Fleet Foxes | |
| 26 | Rogue Audio | Haphazard |
| 27 | Flying Lotus | Los Angeles |
| 28 | Cage the Elephant | Cage the Elephant |
| 29 | Noah and the Whale | |
| 30 | Ida Maria | Fortress Round My Heart |
| 31 | Los Campesinos! | Hold On Now, Youngster… |
| 32 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter III |
| 33 | Frightened Rabbit | The Midnight Organ Fight |
| 34 | Beck | |
| 35 | Late of the Pier | Fantasy Black Channel |
| 36 | STS9 | Peaceblaster |
| 37 | Beach House | |
| 38 | Friendly Fires | Friendly Fires |
| 39 | Kanye West | 808s and Heartbreak |
| 40 | Cut Copy | In Ghost Colours |
| 41 | Nine Inch Nails | |
| 42 | No Age | |
| 43 | Los Campensinos! | We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed |
| 44 | EOTO | Razed |
| 45 | Black Kids | Partie Traumatic |
| 46 | Bloc Party | Intimacy |
| 47 | Lykke Li | Youth Novels |
| 48 | Raconteurs, The | Consolers of the Lonely |
| 49 | Torche | Meanderthal |
| 50 | Albert Hammond Jr | |
| 18/50 | 36% |
| 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bibio | |
| 2 | Animal Collective | |
| 3 | tUnE-yArDs | |
| 4 | Fuck Buttons | Tarot Sport |
| 5 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | |
| 6 | xx, The | |
| 7 | Dan Deacon | |
| 8 | Kid Cudi | |
| 9 | Moderat | |
| 10 | Phantogram | |
| 11 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| 12 | Royksopp | Junior |
| 13 | Cobalt | Gin |
| 14 | Memory Tapes | Seek magic |
| 15 | Mono | |
| 16 | FELT | |
| 17 | Grizzly Bear | |
| 18 | Baroness | |
| 19 | Bat for Lashes | Two Suns |
| 20 | Volcano Choir | |
| 21 | Heavy, The | |
| 22 | Girls | Album |
| 23 | Between the Buried and Me | |
| 24 | Peter Bjorn and John | Living Thing |
| 25 | Passion Pit | Manners |
| 26 | Blakroc | |
| 27 | Cold Cave | Love Comes Close |
| 28 | Big Pink, The | |
| 29 | Micachu and the Shapes | Jewellery |
| 30 | Brand New | Daisy |
| 31 | Wild Beasts | Two Dancers |
| 32 | Dirty Projectors | |
| 33 | Manchester Orchestra | Mean Everything to Nothing |
| 34 | Jay-Z | The Blueprint III |
| 35 | Converge | Axe to Fall |
| 36 | White Denim | Fits |
| 37 | MSTRKRFT | Fist of God |
| 38 | Tyler, the Creator | Bastard |
| 39 | Umphrey’s McGee | |
| 40 | Monsters of Folk | Monsters of Folk |
| 41 | Mastodon | |
| 42 | Fever Ray | Fever Ray |
| 43 | Miike Snow | |
| 44 | Matt and Kim | Grand |
| 45 | modwheelmood | Pearls to Pigs |
| 46 | Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Up From Below |
| 47 | jj | |
| 48 | Flaming Lips, The | |
| 49 | Dan Auerbach | Keep It Hid |
| 50 | Moby | |
| 25/50 | 50% |