50.
Cat Power -
You Are Free (2003)
Best Tracks: Good Woman, He War, Names
49.
Hawksley Workman -
Lover/Fighter (2003)
Best Tracks: We Will Still Need A Song, Anger As Beauty, Even An Ugly Man
48.
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins -
Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)
Best Tracks: Rise Up With Fists!!!, The Charging Sky, Melt Your Heart
47.
Feist -
Let It Die (2004)
Best Tracks: Mushaboom, Let It Die, One Evening
46.
Matthew Good -
Hospital Music (2007)
Best Tracks: Champions of Nothing, Born Losers, Odette
45.
Radiohead -
Hail To The Theif (2003)
Best Tracks: 2+2=5, There There, A Punch Up at A Wedding
44.
M.I.A.-
Arular (2005)
Best Tracks: Sunshowers, Bingo, 10 Dollar
43.
Sigur Rós -
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)
Best Tracks: Inní mér syngur vitleysingur. Gobbledigook, Ára Bátur
42.
Lil' Wayne -
Tha Carter III (2008)
Best Tracks: Shoot Me Down, 3 Pear, Mr. Carter
41.
Interpol -
Antics (2004)
Best Tracks: Take You On A Cruise, Next Exit, Evil
40.
Kanye West -
Graduation (2007)
Best Tracks: Good Morning, Flashing Lights, Everything I Am
39.
Death Cab for Cutie -
Plans (2005)
Best Tracks: Marching Bands of Manhattan, What Sarah Said, Soul Meets Body
38.
Sufjan Stevens -
Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State (2003)
Best Tracks: Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid), For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti, The Upper Penisula
37.
Kanye West -
The College Dropout (2004)
Best Tracks: Spaceship, All Falls Down, Jesus Walks
36.
The New Pornographers-
Twin Cinema (2005)
Best Tracks: Sing Me Spanish Techno, The Bleeding Heart Show, Use It
35.
Frightened Rabbit -
The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
Best Tracks: The Modern Leper, I Feel Better, Backwards Walk
34.
Modest Mouse -
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
Best Tracks: The World At Large, Float On, Bury Me With It
33.
Modest Mouse -
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
Best Tracks: Spitting Venom, People As Places As People, March Into the Sea
32.
Lupe Fiasco -
The Cool (2007)
Best Tracks: Hip-Hop Saved My Life (featuring Nikki Jean), Intruder Alert, Little Weapon
31.
Interpol -
Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
Best Tracks: Untitled, NYC, Stella Was A Diver and She Was Always Down
30.
Modest Mouse -
The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
Best Tracks: Life Like Weeds, Paper Thin Walls, Lives
29.
Kanye West -
Late Registration (2005)
Best Tracks: Heard ‘Em Say, Touch the Sky, Diamonds From Sierra Leone
28.
The Decemberists -
The Crane Wife (2006)
Best Tracks: The Crane Wife 3, The Island, Sons and Daughters
27.
Animal Collective -
Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
Best Tracks: My Girls, In the Flowers, Summertime Clothes
26.
Bon Iver -
For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
Best Tracks: Re:Stacks, Skinny Love, Blindsided
25.
Cat Power -
The Greatest (2006)
Best Tracks: Lived in Bars, Living Proof, The Greatest
24..
Matthew Good -
VANCOUVER (2009)
Best Tracks: Empty’s Theme Park, The Boy Who Could Explode, The Vancouver National Anthem
23 .
Death Cab for Cutie -
Transatlanticism (2003)
Best Tracks: Title and Registration, Transatlanticism, Lack of Color
22 .
Bat for Lashes -
Two Suns (2009)
Best Tracks: Siren Song, Daniel, Pearl’s Dream
21 .
Bloc Party -
Silent Alarm (2005)
Best Tracks: Like Eating Glass, Pioneers, This Modern Love
20 .
Lupe Fiasco -
Food and Liquor (2006)
Best Tracks: The Instrumental , American Terrorist, Hurt Me Soul
19 .
Jimmy Eat World -
Futures (2004)
Best Tracks: 23, Polaris, Futures
18.
Feist -
The Reminder (2007)
Best Tracks: 1234, My Moon, My Man, So Sorry
17.
The Decemberists -
Picaresque (2005)
Best Tracks: The Engine Driver, On the Bus Mall, We Both Go Down Together
16.
Sigur Rós -
Takk… (2005)
Best Tracks: Saeglópur, Hoppípolla, Glósóli
15.
Rilo Kiley -
More Adventerous (2004)
Best Tracks: Portions For Foxes, The Absence of God, It’s A Hit
14.
Broken Social Scene -
Broken Social Scene (2005)
Best Tracks: It’s All Gonna Break, 7/4 (Shoreline), Windsurfing Nation
13.
Matthew Good Band -
The Audio of Being (2001)
Best Tracks: Advertising on Police Cars, Tripoli, Sort of A Protest Song
12.
k-os -
Joyful Rebellion (2004)
Best Tracks: The Love Song, Crucial, Man I Used to Be
11.
Wolf Parade -
Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
Best Tracks: Modern World, Shine A Light, I’ll Believe in Anything
10.
The National -
Boxer (2007)
Best Tracks: Fake Empire, Mistaken For Strangers, Slow Show
09.
Radiohead -
In Rainbows (2007)
Best Tracks: Videotape, Reckoner, 15 Step
08.
M.I.A. -
Kala (2007)
Best Tracks: Bamboo Banga, Paper Planes, 20 Dollar
07.
The National -
Alligator (2005)
Best Tracks: Abel, Mr. November, Secret Meeting
06.
Sufjan Stevens -
Illinois (2005)
Best Tracks: The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!, They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!, Chicago
05.
Broken Social Scene -
You Forgot It in People (2002)
Best Tracks: Shampoo Suicide, Looks Just Like the Sun, Lover’s Spit, Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl, Almost Crimes
04 .
Radiohead -
Kid A (2000)
Best Tracks: Motion Picture Soundtrack, How To Disappear Completely, Everything In It’s Right Place, Optimistic, Idioteque
03.
Matthew Good -
Avalanche (2003)
Best Tracks: Weapon, Avalanche, While We Were Hunting Rabbits, Pledge of Allegiance, Near Fantastica
02.
Arcade Fire -
Funeral (2004)
Best Tracks: Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), Haiti, Rebellion (Lies), Wake Up
01 .
Jimmy Eat World -
Bleed American (2001)
Best Tracks: Cautioners, A Praise Chorus, If You Don’t, Don’t, Hear You Me, Bleed American
Yup, Bleed American at #1. Despite the fact that it was
raked across the coals by Pitchfork, it was my quintessential album during those early university years. I probably won't have held it such high regard had it been released a few years ago, but the album still holds up today. Jim's dual vocals with Rachel Haden on tracks like "Cautioners" are close to perfection. It's one of the few albums i'd say is consistently strong from top to bottom. I think the album, (and the band in general) are pretty underrated and get unfairly lumped with other pop-rock/emo bands. Chase This Light didn't help to shake that stigma, but i'm hopeful for the new album.
Arcade Fire at #2 was a no-brainer. Avalanche probably would have had that spot if Matt chose to omit "Song for the Girl" from the record but it's easily his best solo record to date. Kid A is everyone's favourite, and with good reason, - being the album that re-invented Radiohead and ushered in the "digital age" of music. In Rainbows was a worthy follow-up in 2007. Both National records were fantastic, Broken Social Scene were one of the best live bands of the decade and thanks in part to it's all star cast featured on You Forgot It In People. M.I.A.'s long awaited follow up to Arular exceeded expectations and propelled her to stardom, thanks to the success of Paper Planes, even though the rest of the album is just as good. And Sufjan Stevens second album in his now abandoned fifty states project was epic. And that's it for list making for a long time.
The New Pornographers
