I gotta admit that I have no idea how people come up with the order for these kinds of lists. I can come up with my fave 30 albums of the '00s, but the difference between #1 and #30 is pretty negligible. Ditto my shmoople lists, for those of you playing the home game.

1. Frank Black Black Letter Days
2. Ike Reilly Salesmen & Racists
3. Tsar Tsar
4. The Bicycle Thief You Come and Go Like A Pop Song
5. Joe Henry Scar
6. Spoon Gimme Fiction
7. Reigning Sound Time Bomb High School
8. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists Tyranny of Distance
9. The Strokes Is This It
10. You Am I Dress Me Slowly
11. The Libertines Up The Bracket
12. Drive-by Truckers The Dirty South
13. The Notwist Neon Golden
14. Cat Power The Greatest
15. Grand Mal Bad Timing
16. My Morning Jacket Okonokos
17. Weakerthans Reconstruction Site
18. Sparklehorse Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
19. Dom Mariani Homespun Blues and Greens
20. Joe Pisapia Daydreams
21. Jim White Drill A Hole in That Substrate...
22. Warren Zanes Memory Girls
23. Rancid Indestructible
24. Tift Merritt Tambourine
25. Ween White Pepper
26. Veal The Embattled Hearts
27. Jon Brion Meaningless
28. Marah If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry
29. Shelby Lynne I Am Shelby Lynne
30. Blues Explosion Damage

what a good guy

I feel the same way, which is why I do the points on my shmoo poll the way I do.



Wow. I didn't know anyone else had heard this album.

Pretty much agreed.

I think the order is generally relevant in blocks of five or ten but the difference between say 13 & 14 is indeed often neglible. Thus shmoo's methodology.

placeholder

1.Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
2.Marah - If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry
3.Frank Black & The Catholics - Dog In The Sand
4.Ike Reilly - Salesmen and Racists
5.The Strokes - Room On Fire
6.My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
7.New Pornographers - Electric Version
8.Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
9.The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
10.Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
11.Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
12.The Libertines - s/t
13.Lucero - Rebels, Rogues and Sworn Brothers
14.The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
15.Beulah - Yoko
16.Phoenix - Its Never Been Like That
17.Built To Spill - You In Reverse
18.Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
19.Calexico - Garden Ruin
20.Cracker - Countrysides
21.M.Ward - Post-War
22.Arcade Fire - Funeral
23.Built To Spill - You In Reverse
24.Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
25.Spoon - Gimme Fiction
26.Ryan Adams - Gold
27.Stephen Malkmus - s/t
28.Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go
29.The International Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love
30.Widespread Panic - Don't Tell The Band

This'l Do:

The Strokes - Room on Fire
Ike Reilly - Salesmen and Racists
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
Lucero -That Much Further West
Drive-By Truckers - Dirty South
Bobby Bare, Jr. -Young Criminals Starvation League
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
The Strokes - Is This It
Libertines S/T
TI – King
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Young Jeezy
Loretta Lynn -Van Lear Rose
Jay-Z The Black Album
Deadstring Brothers - Starving Winter Report
Willie Nile - Streets of New York
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love
Jesse Malin – Fine Art of Self Destrction
Josh Rouse – Nashville
Old 97s Satellite Rides
The Sleepy Jackson – S/T
Solomon Burke – Don’t Give up on Me
The Thrills – So Much for the City
Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
Kathleen Edwards - Failer
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

wow you like that better then "that much further west"???? maybe i need to check out that album some more

not by much but yeah, something about it does me right

Why don't you and Bloor just merge your lists so we can get the hick crap out of the way.

saywhatnow?

Aw, someone is craving attention.

In only a weak order, probably with a more thought, there would likely be a few deletions and additions

The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
Lucero That Much Further West
Libertines Up the Bracket
New Pornographers Electric Version
Deadstring Brothers Starving Winter Report
Drive By Truckers Decoration Day
Tsar Tsar
Tragically Hip In Violet Light
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Strokes Is This It?
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
Arcade Fire Funeral
Tragically Hip In Between Evolution
The White Stripes Elephant
Neil Young Prairie Wind
Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood
Lucero Rebels Rebels, Rogues and Sworn Brothers
The Streets Original Pirate Material
Radiohead Kid A
Drive By Truckers Dirty South
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Frank Black Fastman/Raiderman
Marah If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry
New Pornographers Mass Romantic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
Counting Crows Hard Candy
The Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House
The Steets A Grand Don't Come for Free
Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose

dump jack got a little ppdd there

It was inevitable since there were such a limited pool for DJ to choose from. Foghat, Uriah Heep and Black Oak Arkansas didn't release anything new in the 00's.

Idiot.

damn, this was a lot harder than i thought it would be. especially trying to only allow one album per artist. 2nd and even 3rd albums by some of these guys would fill up some of the slots here.

i also tried to not put antying on from this year, but that richard hawley is too good.

no order here:


wilco.a ghost is born
my morning jacket.at dawn
sigur ros.agaetis byrjun
the strokes.is this it
iron & wine.the creek drank the cradle
joe strummer & the mescaleros.global a go-go
the libertines.s/t
doves.lost souls
the national.sad songs for dirty lovers
M83.dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
tv on the radio.return to cookie mountain
manitoba.up in flames
belle & sebastian.the life pursuit
the constantines.shine a light
m. ward.transfiguration of vincent
radio dept.lesser matters
nick cave.abattoir blues/the lyre of orpheus
llhasa.the living road
bonnie "prince" billy.ease down the road
elbow.asleep in the back
and you will know us by the trail of dead.source tags and codes
ali farka touré.savane
hot chip.the warning
nathan fake.drowning in a sea of love
yo la tengo.and then everything turned itself inside-out
delgados.hate
kings of convenience.quiet is the new loud
songs: ohia.didn't it rain
decemberists.castaways and cutouts
richard hawley.lady's bridge

Of course with 8 years of Konstantiranks behind me I'm well placed to produce my Top 100 albums of the 00's, established over a decade with consistant methodology, on the 1st Jan 2010.

The current standings are **top secret** but as a teaser I'll give you my 101 - 110.

101 The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
102 King Creosote - Rocket D.I.Y (2005)
103 New Order - Get Ready (2001)
104 Little Barrie - Stand Your Ground (2007)
105 Million Dead - A Song To Ruin (2003)
106 Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase (2005)
107 Amon Tobin - From Out From Out Where (2002)
108 Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (2007)
109 Roddy Frame - Western Skies (2006)
110 Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep (2005)

guys im pretty sure that paladisiac post is high brow satire

nobody has taste that boring without intentionally trying to be humourous

Failed heterosexual.

i'll play. re-visit this in a few.

i want to re-do my listmania eventually as well.

Can I just extract this into my Amazon Wish List?