I was going to post this a month ago but never really got around to it, partly because I was busy and partly because I think it's a pretty half-assed list. Actually, totally because I think it's a half-assed list. Apparently indicative of the week it took me to slap this thing together, I came back to something Greil Marcus said once:
"List making is definitely the first retreat of the lazy. It is obviously easier to make a list than it is to write an essay. Still, an essay is fundamentally one idea that you play out; this kind of column is much more complicated. And making a good list, while fun, is difficult because it has to be done relatively quickly. If you belabor it, then it collapses under its own weight."
Fine from a guy who has made more lists than fucking Kris Kringle, less respectable coming from a person who has only been doing this professionally for a year. A lot of this stuff was ranked completely in spite of merit; most of these were records that I listened to the most, period. Hell, there are records I heard this year that I'd put ahead of more than a few of these. I know full well that Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? is not even remotely better than Silent Shout. Some of it is pure nostalgia (I was only 14 when Kid A came out, mind you). There isn't a single EP on the whole list. Whole genres have been ignored. There are entries I couldn't make a solid case for if given time. Bottom line is that I love lists, and I love list season, so here's one more.
1. Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
2. Radiohead: Kid A
3. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
4. Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary
5. Strokes: Is This It
6. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
7. Broken Social Scene : You Forgot It in People
8. OutKast: Stankonia
9. Hold Steady: Boys and Girls In America
10. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
11. TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
12. D'Angelo: Voodoo
13. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
14. Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury
15. Burial: Untrue
16. Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R
17. Jay-Z: The Blueprint
18. White Stripes: Elephant
19. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
20. Girl Talk: Night Ripper
21. Arcade Fire: Funeral
22. Kanye West: Late Registration
23. Thrills: So Much for the City
24. Rapture: Echoes
25. Animal Collective: Sung Tongs
26. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak
27. Morrissey: You Are the Quarry
28. Liars: Drum's Not Dead
29. Avalanches: Since I Left You
30. Beck: Sea Change
31. M.I.A.: Kala
32. Black Lips: Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo
33. Clipse: We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2
34. Streets: Original Pirate Material
35. Rufus Wainwright: Want One
36. Spoon: Kill the Moonlight
37. Basement Jaxx: Rooty
38. Common: Like Water for Chocolate
39. My Morning Jacket: Z
40. Jay-Z: The Black Album
41. Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
42. TV on the Radio: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
43. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
44. J Dilla: Donuts
45. Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea
46. Walkmen: Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
47. Slim Thug: Already Platinum
48. New Pornographers: Electric Version
49. Mastodon: Leviathan
50. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
51. Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
52. Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner
53. Radiohead: In Rainbows
54. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
55. Kanye West: Graduation
56. Liars: Liars
57. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
58. N.E.R.D.: In Search of…
59. Clinic: Walking With Thee
60. Radiohead: Hail to the Theif
61. At the Drive-In: Relationship of Command
62. Libertines: Up the Bracket
63. Cam'Ron: Come Home With Me
64. Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender
65. Icarus Line: Penance Soiree
66. Blood on the Wall: Awesomer
67. White Stripes: White Blood Cells
68. Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
69. Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor
70. Deerhunter: Microcastle
71. National: Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
72. Clem Snide: The Ghost of Fashion
73. My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves
74. No Age: Nouns
75. Spank Rock: Yoyoyoyoyo
76. of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
77. Battles: Mirrored
78. Coup: Party Music
79. Walkmen: Bows and Arrows
80. Secret Machines: Now Here Is Nowhere
81. Unicorns: Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
82. Knife: Silent Shout
83. Ghostface: The Pretty Toney Album
84. Interpol: Antics
85. Man Man: Rabbit Habits
86. Bright Eyes: Lifted, or, the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
87. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
88. Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
89. Animal Collective: Feels
90. Wolf Eyes: Burned Mind
91. Wilco: A Ghost Is Born
92. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
93. T.I.: King
94. Spoon: Gimme Fiction
95. Zwan: Mary, Star of the Sea
96. Black Keys: The Big Come Up
97. Cat Power: The Greatest
98. Warlocks: Phoenix Album
99. Bullion: Pet Sounds: Songs In the Key of Dee
100. xx: xx
glad you put this up
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