OUCH... my head hurts. I've been trying to turn 10 years' worth of music into a concise list - replaying albums, thinking about their impact, how the fans and critics raved. At the heart of it, I've tried to lay personal feelings aside and think objectively about the albums that shaped the Double-Os - the ones that shaped music, culture and really affected people. There's a couple of albums here I don't even like but can't ignore. But we all know deep down that musical taste is pretty subjective... oh well. Also I've limited each band to one entry only on the list so it doesn't fill up with Radiohead, Muse and Gomez albums.
I do kinda regret putting them in order... maybe I should have just gone with alphabetical order....
1. Kid A - Radiohead (2000)
2. Since I Left You - The Avalanches (2000)
3. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
4. Is This It - The Strokes (2001)
5. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips (2002)
6. Highly Evolved - The Vines (2002)
7. Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2004)
8. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse (2006)
9. Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Ros (2000)
10. Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age (2002)
11. Hot Fuss - The Killers (2004)
12. Because Of The Times - Kings Of Leon (2007)
13. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party (2005)
14. Elephant - The White Stripes (2003)
15. Young Modern - Silverchair (2007)
16. Good News For People Who Like Bad News - Modest Mouse (2004)
17. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys (2006)
18. Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs (2006)
19. The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives (2004)
20. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem (2000)
21. American Idiot - Green Day (2004)
22. Wasp Star - XTC (2000)
23. Liquid Skin - Gomez (2001)
24. White Pepper - Ween (2000)
25. Toxicity - System Of A Down (2001)
26. The Woods - Sleater-Kinney (2005)
27. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco (2002)
28. Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia - The Dandy Warhols (2000)
29. Parachutes - Coldplay (2000)
30. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)
31. Relationship Of Command - At The Drive-In (2000)
32. Sunset Studies - Augie March (2000)
33. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT (2007)
34. Leaders Of The Free World - Elbow (2005)
35. Demon Days - Gorillaz (2005)
36. Like Drawing Blood - Gotye (2006)
37. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (2009)
38. The Eraser - Thom Yorke (2006)
39. Real Gone - Tom Waits (2004)
40. Notes From A Ceiling - The Mess Hall (2005)
41. Married Alive - The Mood Elevator (2003)
42. Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle (2000)
43. Z - My Morning Jacket (2005)
44. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance (2006)
45. Alphabetical - Phoenix (2004)
46. Lateralus - Tool (2001)
47. Renegades - Rage Against The Machine (2000)
48. Daisies Of The Galaxy - The Eels (2000)
49. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast (2003)
50. Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2005)
51. F**k The Golden Youth - The Mint Chicks (2005)
52. Any Minute Now - Soulwax (2004)
53. Lovers - The Sleepy Jackson (2003)
54. Suck - The Revs (2003)
55. Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey (2000)
56. Lost Souls - Doves (2000)
57. In Case We Die - Architecture In Helsinki (2005)
58. Aiming For Your Head - Betchadupa (2004)
59. The Tabloid Blues - Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males (2004)
60. Echobrain - Echobrain (2002)
61. Lost In Space - Aimee Mann (2002)
62. One Nil - Neil Finn (2001)
63. End Of Fashion - End Of Fashion (2005)
64. Buck Fever - Estradasphere (2001)
65. There Is Nothing Left To Lose - Foo Fighters (2000)
66. Antics - Interpol (2004)
67. Panic Prevention - Jamie T (2007)
68. Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By - Lovage (2001)
69. Version - Mark Ronson (2007)
70. De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta (2003)
71. The Overture & The Underscore - Sarah Blasko (2004)
72. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (2004)
73. Sea Change - Beck (2002)
74. Snowman - Snowman (2006)
75. Face The Truth - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (2005)
76. An Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Pick - Ground Components (2006)
77. Elevator - Hot Hot Heat (2005)
78. BigBigLove - Little Birdy (2003)
79. Hand Built By Robots - Newton Faulkner (2007)
80. Everything Is - Nine Black Alps (2005)
81. A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets (2004)
82. Together We're Heavy - The Polyphonic Spree (2004)
83. Apocalypso - The Presets (2008)
84. The Hard Road - Hilltop Hoods (2006)
85. Who Killed... The Zutons? - The Zutons (2004)
86. Tomahawk - Tomahawk (2001)
87. Smile - Brian Wilson (2004)
88. Source Tags & Codes - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (2002)
89. Convicts - You Am I (2006)
90. Permission To Land - The Darkness (2003)
91. Cancer - My Disco (2006)
92. St Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley (2006)
93. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers (2006)
94. Universes - Birds Of Tokyo (2008)
95. Maladroit - Weezer (2002)
96. Listen To The Radio - The Smallgoods (2003)
97. Addicted Romantic - Faker (2005)
98. Begin To Hope - Regina Spektor (2006)
99. Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet (2004)
100. Tenacious D - Tenacious D (2001)
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