white radical nerd lady in my 30s
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previously on Best Albums Lists too late to turn back now:
1960’s —— 1970’s —— 1980’s —- 1990’s
2000: Radiohead - Kid A

(runners-up: Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica; The Avalanches - Since I Left You; Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030; The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic)
2001: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

(runners-up: Low - Things We Lost in the Fire; The White Stripes - White Blood Cells; Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part)
2002: The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas AND Tallahassee (since both of these amazing albums came out the same year I’m going to cheat on this one)


(runners-up: Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights; Neko Case - Blacklisted; The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots; The Streets - Original Pirate Material; The Notwist - Neon Golden)
2003: Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co

(runners-up: The Postal Service - Give Up; Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below; M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts; Goldfrapp - Black Cherry)
2004: Stars - Set Yourself On Fire

(runners-up: Air - Talkie Walkie; The Arcade Fire - Funeral; Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender; Morrissey - You Are the Quarry; Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand)
2005: Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

(runners-up: The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree; Wolfmother - Wolfmother; Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now; Sleater-Kinney - The Woods)
2006: The Knife - Silent Shout

(runners-up: TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain; Amy Winehouse - Back to Black; The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones; Hot Chip - The Warning)
2007: Panda Bear - Person Pitch

(runners-up: M.I.A. - Kala; LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver; Burial - Untrue; Kanye West - Graduation)
2008: Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair

(runners-up: Santogold - Santogold; Portishead - Third; TV on the Radio - Dear Science; Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak; Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles)
2009: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

(runners-up: Fever Ray - Fever Ray; Florence and the Machine- Lungs; Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca; School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms; The XX- The XX; Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion; Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest; The Antlers - Hospice; The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz; Bat for Lashes - Two Suns; Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light; Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle)