The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:

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I’m going to tease this out just a bit more before the reveal of the Top 11 of the decade.  Until then,  here are the runner-ups.  Those who were good…but maybe…just not good enough.
The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:
 
  1. …And You Will Know Us – Source Tags & Codes
  2. Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
  3. Against Me! – New Wave
  4. Alicia Keyes – The Diary of Alicia Keyes
  5. Animal Collective – Feels
  6. Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
  7. The Anniversary – Your Majesty
  8. At The Drive-In – Relationship in Command
  9. Band of Horses – Everything all the Time
  10. Beck – Guero
  11. Black Rebel Motorcycle – Black Rebel Motorcycle
  12. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
  13. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake and It’s Morning
  14. Bright Eyes – Cassadega
  15. Burial – Untrue
  16. Cat Power – The Greatest 
  17. Cold War Kids – Robbers and Cowards (Hospital Beds)
  18. Cursive – Happy Hollow 
  19. Cursive – The Ugly Organ (Sierra)
  20. Damien Rice – O
  21. Danger Mouse and Jemini – Ghetto Pop Life
  22. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
  23. The Darkness – Permission To Land
  24. Dashboard Confessional – The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
  25. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (The New Year)
  26. Death Cab For Cutie – We Have The Facts and We Are Voting Yes
  27. The Decemberists – Her Majesty
  28. The Decemberists – Picaresque
  29. Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies 
  30. DJ Shadow – The Private Press
  31. Drive By Truckers – Dirty South
  32. Elliott Smith – Basement on the Hill
  33. Explosions in the Sky – All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
  34. The Faint – Danse Macabre
  35. FELT – A Tribute to Lisa Bonet
  36. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
  37. The Foo Fighters – There Is Something Left To Lose
  38. Fugazi – The Argument
  39. Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
  40. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks
  41. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
  42. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
  43. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
  44. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
  45. Iron and Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
  46. Iron and Wine/Calexico – In The Reins
  47. Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams
  48. Jay-Z – Blueprint 3.0
  49. Jay-Z – MTV Unplugged
  50. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
  51. Joanna Newsom – Ys
  52. John Legend – Get Lifted
  53. Kayne West – 808s and Heartbreak
  54. The Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
  55. The Knife – Silent Shout
  56. The Libertines – The Libertines
  57. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter II
  58. Loretta Lynne – Van Leer Rose
  59. Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
  60. M. Ward – Post War
  61. Manu Chao – Proxima Estacion
  62. Mastodon – Leviathon
  63. Matisyahu – Live at Stubbs
  64. The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
  65. Metallica – Death Magnetic
  66. M.I.A. – Arular
  67. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
  68. Missy Elliott – Miss E…So Addictive
  69. Modest Mouse – The Moon And Antarctica
  70. Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
  71. Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
  72. Mr. Lif – I Phantom
  73. Muse – Absolution
  74. Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead
  75. Neko Case – Fox Confesor Brings The Flood
  76. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
  77. Okkervil River – Stage Names
  78. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
  79. Peter Bjorn and John – Writer’s Block
  80. The Polyphonic Spree – The Beginning Stages Of…
  81. Q-Tip – Kamaal:  the Abstract
  82. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
  83. The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
  84. Radiohead – Amnesiac
  85. Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things
  86. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Rodrigo y Gabriela
  87. Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll
  88. Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell
  89. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
  90. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
  91. Santogold – Santogold
  92. She and Him – Volume One
  93. Sia – Colour The Small One
  94. Sigur Ros – ()
  95. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (The Ghost of You Lingers)
  96. The Strokes – Room On Fire
  97. The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
  98. Talib Kweli – Quality
  99. Tapes and Tapes – The Loon
  100. Tegan and Sara – The Con
  101. Tool – 10,000 Days
  102. Tool – Lateralus
  103. Travis – The Invisible Band
  104. TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
  105. U2 – How To Build An Atomic Bomb
  106. Usher – Confessions
  107. The Walkmen – Bows and Arrows
  108. Whiskeytown – Pneumonia
  109. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
  110. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
  111. Wilco – The Album