Music Lists

Updated 1/11/12

Best Albums of 2011
1. Panda Bear - Tomboy
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
4. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
5. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
6. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
7. James Blake - Self-titled
8. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
9. Dredg - Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy
10. Glassjaw - Coloring Book

Best Albums of 2010
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. The National - High Violet
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. Beach House - Teen Dream
6. Spoon - Transference
7. How to Destroy Angels - Self-titled
8. Gorillaz - The Fall
9. Girl Talk - All Day
10. MC Chris - MC Chris Goes to Hell

Best Albums of the 00s
1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
3. Dredg - El Cielo
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
6. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
7. Brand New - Deja Entendu
8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
10. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
11. Portishead - Third
12. Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
13. The Antlers - Hospice
14. Muse - Absolution
15. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
16. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
17. Sigur Rós - ( )
18. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
19. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
20. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
21. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
22. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
24. Gorillaz - Demon Days
25. Radiohead - In Rainbows

Best Albums of 2009
1. The Antlers - Hospice
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
5. Brand New - Daisy
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
7. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self
8. Cursive - Happy Hollow
9. The Lonely Island - Incredibad
10. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

Best Albums of 2008
1. Portishead - Third
2. Fleet Foxes - Self-titled
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
5. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
7. This Will Destroy You - Self-titled
8. MC Chris - MC Chris Is Dead
9. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
10. The Raveonettes - Beauty Dies

Best Albums of 2007
1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5. The National - Boxer
6. Apparat - Walls
7. Burial - Untrue
8. Kanye West - Graduation
9. The Good, the Bad, & the Queen - Self-titled (kinda)
10. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Best Albums of 2006
1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
4. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
5. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
6. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
7. Cursive - Happy Hollow
8. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
9. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
10. The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics

Best Albums of 2005
1. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
2. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
5. The National - Alligator
6. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
7. Sigur Rós- Takk...
8. Kanye West - Late Registration
9. Dream Theater - Octavarium
10. Longwave - There's a Fire

Best Albums of 2004
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
3. Kanye West - The College Dropout
4. Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
5. Emery - The Weak's End
6. Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
7. Denver Harbor - Scenic
8. The Killers - Hot Fuss
9. Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here
10. MC Chris - Eating's Not Cheating

Best Albums of 2003
1. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2. Brand New - Deja Entendu
3. Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
4. Muse - Absolution
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
6. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
7. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
8. Opeth - Damnation
9. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Best Albums of 2002
1. Dredg - El Cielo
2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
3. Sigur Rós - ( )
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
6. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
7. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
8. Clinic - Walking With Thee
9. Audioslave - Self-titled
10. Finch - What It Is to Burn

Best Albums of 2001
1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2. Gorillaz - Self-titled
3. Radiohead - Amnesiac
4. Starsailor - Love Is Here
5. System of a Down - Toxicity
6. Daft Punk - Discovery
7. Tenacious D - Self-titled
8. Incubus - Morning View
9. MC Chris - Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp
10. Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler

Best Albums of 2000
1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. OutKast - Stankonia
4. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
5. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
6. The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
7. Deftones - White Pony
8. Coldplay - Parachutes
9. Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
10. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Best Albums of the 90s
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Radiohead - The Bends
5. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
6. Incubus - Make Yourself
7. Portishead - Dummy
8. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
9. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
10. Dredg - Leitmotif
11. Ween - Pure Guava
12. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
13. Beck - Odelay
14. Sonic Youth - Goo
15. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
16. Portishead - Self-titled
17. Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
19. Pixies - Bossanova
20. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
21. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
22. Deftones - Around the Fur
23. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Madonna
24. Beck - Mellow Gold
25. Nirvana - Nevermind

Best Albums Year by Year
1985. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
1986. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1987. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
1988. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989. Pixies - Doolittle
1990. Sonic Youth - Goo
1991. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
1992. Ween - Pure Guava
1993. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
1994. Portishead - Dummy
1995. Radiohead - The Bends
1996. Beck - Odelay
1997. Radiohead - OK Computer
1998. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2000. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2001. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002. Dredg - El Cielo
2003. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2004. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
2006. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2007. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2008. Portishead - Third
2009. The Antlers - Hospice
2010. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011. Panda Bear - Tomboy