Trying to decide my top 25 of all-time, i decided to update my best of the 2000s top 30 (through 2006). Mine's printed below. What is yours?

Pos Title Artist Year
01. kid a radiohead 2000
02. the moon & antarctica modest mouse 2000
03. yankee hotel foxtrot wilco 2001
04. the marshall mathers lp eminem 2000
05. heartbreaker ryan adams 2000
06. hail to the thief radiohead 2003
07. good news for people who love bad news modest mouse 2004
08. gold ryan adams 2001
09. picaresque the decemberists 2005
10. amnesiac radiohead 2001
11. logic will break your heart the stills 2004
12. chutes too narrow the shins 2003
13. cold roses ryan adams & the cardinals 2005
14. illinois sufjan stevens 2005
15. the life pursuit belle and sebastian 2006
16. the crane wife the decemberists 2006
17. i'm wide awake it's morning bright eyes 2005
18. blacklisted neko case 2002
19. a ghost is born wilco 2004
20. the eminem show eminem 2002
21. mass romantic the new pornographers 2000
22. the meadowlands the wrens 2003
23. smile the jayhawks 2000
24. twin cinema the new pornographers 2005
25. late registration kanye west 2005
26. absolution muse 2003
27. the photo album death cab for cutie 2002
28. pneumonia whiskeytown 2001
29. funeral the arcade fire 2004
30. hopes and fears keane 2004

I'll do this when I get a chance.

Yeah, this should be good. I definitely wanna play.

wow, methinks this is a "when I get home from work" task.

i think we did this before

or at least i did.

also your list is the soundtrack to the next garden state movie

1. exploding hearts
2. the blueprint

this would be so much easier if my hard drive didn't crash a few months ago, erasing all my shmoo lists since '01. i guess i could always use the search function here.

i'll try later this afternoon though.

I take back everything negative I may have said about Barker's list.

its too hard

maybe:

1. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

I'd put Exploding Hearts somewhere. Alligator & Boxer. Separation Sunday & Boys and Girls in America. Black Sheep Boy. Essence by Lucinda. Kill The Moonlight. Over the Rhine - Ohio. Hem - Rabbit Songs. White Blood Cells. Richmond Fontaine - Winnemucca. Richard Buckner - Since. MMJ - Z. The Libertines - S/T. Lucero - That Much Further West. DBT - The Dirty South.

something like that.

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Considering there was no poll before 2002, that would be erasing all shmoo lists.

damn pala - you gat served

i didn't say "shmoo poll" lists, i said "shmoo" lists...which is what i called my top 100 list before we ever started having polls. obviously.

sheesh, pay attention.

Oh that's right, I forgot that I named myself after your lists.

Okay, so I have edited this list significantly as more albums occurred to me. But here is my top 25:

Pos Title Artist Year
01. daydreams joe pisapia 2002
02. cruel to be kind (live @ the bbc) brinsley schwarz 2004
03. estuando o pagode tom zé 2006
04. abbatior blues/lyre of orpheus nick cave & the bad seeds 2005
05. dog problems the format 2006
06. the mysterious production of eggs andrew bird 2005
07. i am not afraid of you...[/i] yo la tengo 2006
08. [u]youth and young manhood kings of leon 2004
09. white blood cells the white stripes 2001
10. yankee hotel foxtrot wilco 2001
11. picaresque the decemberists 2005
12. chutes too narrow the shins 2003
13. the life pursuit belle and sebastian 2006
14. mass romantic the new pornographers 2000
15. what is?!?! king khan & the shrines 2007
16. the meadowlands the wrens 2003
17. funeral the arcade fire 2004
18. cabo verde caesaria evora 2000(?)
19. marroon webb brothers 2001
20. stankonia outkast 2001
21. kill the moonlight spoon 2003
22. Van Lear Rose loretta lynn 2004
23. send wire 2004
24. the real new fall lp the fall 2003
25. a summer tamarind martin newell 2007

(I'm not including the Shrimp Boat box set, because it's not a proper album -- or even a live album. It would have been #1, by the way.)

if i could remember what i liked in 2002 & 2003 I could do this but that's pre-obner shmoo polls and post spade kitty best of year threads. more trouble than its worth. I think this might actually be harder than just updating the listmania.

this just missed my list, along with outkast's "stankonia" and pj's "stories".

its on your list you moron

it was so close to making the list, it made the list.

will you just stop

Not in any order:

McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas
Wilco---YHF
The Notwist - Neon Golden
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
Manitoba - Up In Flames
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
TV on the Radio---Young Liars EP
Blackalicious - Nia
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound
Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Modest Mouse---The Moon & Antartica
Radiohead---Kid A
Broken Social Scene---You Forgot It In People
Spoon---Girls Can Tell
Interpol---Turn On The Bright Lights
Neko Case---Blacklisted
White Stripes---De Stijl
Arcade Fire---Funeral
Belle & Sebastian---The Life Pursuit
Twilight Singers---Blackberry Belle
GYBE---Lift Your Skinny Fists.....
Fiery Furnaces---Blueberry Boat
Andrew Bird---The Mysterious Production of Eggs
LCD SS---LCD SS
Joe Henry---Tiny Voices

I dunno. Some of these.

Little Hell - Demonic Advisory Centre
Daniel Johnston - Rejected Unknown
Butthole Surfers - Weird Revolution
The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black
A-frames - Black Forest
Chromatics - (chrome rats v...)
Earth - Hex
Clockcleaner - Nevermind
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes

i wanted to play so this is the best I could come up with:


1. Orlando "Conchaito" Lopez - Conchaito
2. Joe Pisapia - Daydreams
3. Jon Brion - Meaningless
4. Joe Henry - Tiny Voices
5. Joe Bataan - Call My Name
6. The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended
7. Frank Black - Black Letter Days
8. J. Mascis - Free So Free
9. Tribalistas - S/T
10. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
11. Caetano Veloso - Ce
12. Norman & Nancy Blake - Back Home in Sulphur Springs
13. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
14. Max de Castro - Balanco das Horas
15. Llhasa - The Living Road
16. Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
17. Jules Shear - Dreams Don't Count
18. Shins - Oh Inverted World
19. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
20. Bebo & Cigala - Lagrimas Negras
21. Marianne Faithfull - Before the Poison
22. Lloyd Cole - Anti Depressant
23. Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
24. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
25. Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues
26. Matt Keating - Summer Tonight
27. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
28. Max de Castro - Orchestra Klaxon
29. Deadstring Brothers - Starving Winter Report
30. Warren Zanes - People That I'm Wrong For