Top Albums of the 2000's

Reading through Lineout on the Stranger this morning, David Schmader made a lame attempt at formulating his Top 10 albums of the decade and it got me thinking that I will start on mine as well. I won't re-post his list, but can tell you that he must've not started listening to music until about 2004 and that only a couple records on our lists match.

Now, before you go off readin half-cocked, I'll explain how I came to this list. I'd say 60% of my reasoning goes into how much I think the songs from these albums will be listened to in the future or their staying power. Another 15% into their popularity at the time of release or soon after and another 15% into the quality of the music and songs. The final 10% must come down to personal taste, because it is impossible to make such a list without this influencing the outcome. I'll continue to look at this and maybe even rank them in the coming months.

Without further ballyhoo, here's the beginning of my list with a Top 25 (in alphabetical order at this point):

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Burial - Untrue
Common - Be
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Damien Jurado - I Break Chairs
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
the Decemberists - Picaresque
Deltron 3030 - S/T
Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
the Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
the Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
John Vanderslice - Time Travel is Lonely
Mum - Finally We Are No One
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City Stories from the Sea
the Postal Service - Give Up
Radiohead - Kid A
Sigus Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
System of A Down - Toxicity
the Knife - Silent Shout
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Yo La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out