My favorite records of the last 25 years Part 1
2024 marks two occasions the first being that at the end of this year the 2020s will be halfway done. The other milestone is that we are now 25 years into the 2000s. With that in mind here are my favorite records from 2000-present. |
| 1 |  | Radiohead
Kid A |
| 2 |  | Deftones
White Pony |
| 3 |  | Arcade Fire
Funeral |
| 4 |  | Death Cab for Cutie
Transatlanticism |
| 5 |  | The Decemberists
Picaresque |
| 6 |  | The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow |
| 7 |  | Sigur Ros
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| 8 |  | Interpol
Turn on the Bright Lights |
| 9 |  | Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica |
| 10 |  | Broadcast
The Noise Made by People |
| 11 |  | Pelican
The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| 12 |  | The National
High Violet |
| 13 |  | Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| 14 |  | Camera Obscura
Let's Get Out of This Country |
| 15 |  | The New Pornographers
Twin Cinema |
| 16 |  | The Aislers Set
The Last Match |
| 17 |  | Okkervil River
The Stage Names |
| 18 |  | The Thermals
Fuckin' A |
| 19 |  | Ladytron
Witching Hour |
| 20 |  | Beach House
Teen Dream |
| 21 |  | Headlights
Some Racing, Some Stopping |
| 22 |  | Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It in People |
| 23 |  | Los Campesinos!
Hold On Now, Youngster... |
| 24 |  | Nada Surf
The Weight Is a Gift |
| 25 |  | Doves (UK)
The Last Broadcast |
| 26 |  | The Clientele
Strange Geometry |
| 27 |  | Dakota Suite
Signal Hill |
| 28 |  | Band of Horses
Cease to Begin |
| 29 |  | The Blue Nile
High |
| 30 |  | Belle and Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| 31 |  | Interpol
Antics |
| 32 |  | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| 33 |  | Rivulets
You Are My Home |
| 34 |  | The National
Alligator |
| 35 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus |
| 36 |  | Thrice
Beggars |
| 37 |  | Hiss Golden Messenger
Haw |
| 38 |  | Shout Out Louds
Our Ill Wills |
| 39 |  | The Fiery Furnaces
Gallowsbird's Bark |
| 40 |  | The Apples in Stereo
A Discovery of a World Inside the Moone |
| 41 |  | Sun Airway
Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier |
| 42 |  | Destroyer
Destroyer's Rubies |
| 43 |  | Death Cab for Cutie
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes |
| 44 |  | Brand New
Deja Entendu |
| 45 |  | The Walkmen
Bows + Arrows |
| 46 |  | The Decemberists
The King Is Dead |
| 47 |  | The Dodos
Visiter |
| 48 |  | Fields
Everything Last Winter |
| 49 |  | The Antlers
Burst Apart |
| 50 |  | Beach House
Bloom |
| 51 |  | The Brother Kite
Waiting For the Time to be Right |
| 52 |  | Dum Dum Girls
I Will Be |
| 53 |  | Love Is All
Nine Times That Same Song |
| 54 |  | Metric
Old World Underground, Where Are You Now |
| 55 |  | Rilo Kiley
The Execution of All Things |
| 56 |  | Nina Nastasia
The Blackened Air |
| 57 |  | Smog
A River Ain't Too Much To Love |
| 58 |  | Animal Collective
Sung Tongs |
| 59 |  | Acid House Kings
Mondays Are Like Tuesdays and Tuesdays.. |
| 60 |  | Superchunk
Here's To Shutting Up |
| 61 |  | Allo Darlin'
Allo Darlin' |
| 62 |  | Cats on Fire
All Blackshirts to Me |
| 63 |  | Isis
Oceanic |
| 64 |  | Iron And Wine
The Creek Drank the Cradle |
| 65 |  | of Montreal
The Sunlandic Twins |
| 66 |  | The New Pornographers
Challengers |
| 67 |  | Elbow
Asleep In The Back |
| 68 |  | Pepper Rabbit
Beauregard |
| 69 |  | The Veils
Sun Gangs |
| 70 |  | The Shins
Oh, Inverted World |
| 71 |  | Okkervil River
Black Sheep Boy |
| 72 |  | Guided by Voices
Universal Truths and Cycles |
| 73 |  | Bishop Allen
The Broken String |
| 74 |  | Cloud Cult
The Meaning of 8 |
| 75 |  | Wilco
Sky Blue Sky |
| 76 |  | Lost In The Trees
All Alone In An Empty House |
| 77 |  | Architecture In Helsinki
Fingers Crossed |
| 78 |  | The Long Winters
The Worst You Can Do Is Harm |
| 79 |  | Viva Voce
Rose City |
| 80 |  | Ladytron
Velocifero |
| 81 |  | The Delgados
Universal Audio |
| 82 |  | Teenage Fanclub
Howdy! |
| 83 |  | Band of Horses
Everything All the Time |
| 84 |  | Shout Out Louds
Howl Howl Gaff Gaff |
| 85 |  | Taking Back Sunday
Tell All Your Friends |
| 86 |  | A Girl Called Eddy
A Girl Called Eddy |
| 87 |  | Editors
The Back Room |
| 88 |  | Destroyer
This Night |
| 89 |  | Electrelane
No Shouts, No Calls |
| 90 |  | Sigur Ros
Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| 91 |  | Bodies of Water
Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink |
| 92 |  | The Besnard Lakes
The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse |
| 93 |  | Plants and Animals
Parc Avenue |
| 94 |  | The Broken West
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On |
| 95 |  | Broadcast
Haha Sound |
| 96 |  | Pia Fraus
After Summer |
| 97 |  | Autodrone
Strike a Match |
| 98 |  | Peter Bjorn and John
Writer's Block |
| 99 |  | Air Formation
Ends In Light |
| 100 |  | Beach House
Devotion |
| 101 |  | The Killers
Hot Fuss |
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