2000s

Charles and Kevin discussed the top albums of 2000-09 at some point this weekend, although I'm not sure what that discussion actually consisted of. After joining I spent most of my time arguing that it didn't really matter for a variety of reasons, and that probably any choice would have serious failings.

Regardless, I felt inclined to make my own list, which consisted of a process of successive elimination, winnowing down seven times. Here are the top six:

1. Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye
2. Keith Fullerton Whitman Playthroughs
3. Burial Burial
4. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
5. Yo La Tengo And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
6. The Clientele Suburban Light

UPDATE

And now, the second and third tiers, unordered:

• The Arcade Fire Funeral
• The Black Keys Rubber Factory
• Manitoba/Caribou Up in Flames
• The Clientele Strange Geometry
• Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
• The Futureheads The Futureheads
• M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent
• Ricardo Villalobos Achso
• The Thermals More Parts Per Million

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands
• Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day
• Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold, Dead Place
• Greg Davis Arbor
• Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
• Junior Boys Dead Horse EP
• Junior Boys Last Exit
• Keith Fullerton Whitman Multiples
• LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
• My Morning Jacket At Dawn
• My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
• Out Hud S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
• Panda Bear Young Prayer
• Radiohead Kid A
• Songs: Ohia Magnolia Electric Co.
• Spoon Gimme Fiction
• The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free
• The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine