As 2009 was drawing to a close, I thought it was a good time to compile one of my first ever album lists. These are most of my favorite albums from 2000-2009. I tried to balance what I thought were well-constructed as well as influential albums, and those I've listened to a whole lot. The first ten are in fairly particular order, the rest is only kind of in order. Probably forgot a bunch.

  1. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (2002)
  2. The Dears - No Cities Left (2003)
  3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
  4. Mahjongg - Kontpab (2008)
  5. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)
  6. !!! - Louden Up Now (2004)
  7. Black Eyes - S/T (2003)
  8. The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows (2004)
  9. A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms (2000)
  10. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000)
  11. Tortoise - Standards (2001)
  12. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
  13. The Mae Shi - Hlllyh (2008)
  14. Deerhoof - Milk Man (2004)
  15. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Tyranny of Distance (2001)
  16. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (2004)
  17. The Slackers - Wasted Days (2001)
  18. The Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2001)
  19. Holy Fuck - S/T (2005)
  20. Q & Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000)
  21. Q & Not U - Power (2004)
  22. Ratatat - S/T (2004)
  23. The Decemberists - Picaresque (2005)
  24. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
  25. Vampire Weekend - S/T (2008)
  26. Ambulance Ltd - LP (2004)
  27. Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (2008)
  28. Fugazi - The Argument (2001)
  29. Konono No. 1 - Congotronics (2005)
  30. Air - 10000Hz Legend (2001)
  31. American Analog Set - Know By Heart (2001)
  32. Geoff Farina - Reverse Eclipse (2001)
  33. Clues - S/T (2009)
  34. The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (2002)
  35. Sigur Ros - () (2002)
  36. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004)
  37. Cursive - Domestica (2000)
  38. The Dears - Missiles (2008)
  39. Metronomy - Nights Out (2008)
  40. Murder By Death - Like The Exorcist, But More Breakdancing (2002)
  41. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003)
  42. Apostle of Hustle - Folkloric Feel (2004)
  43. A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky (2005)
  44. The Faint - Wet From Birth (2004)
  45. Aesop Rock - Labor Days (2001)
  46. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
  47. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll (2005)
  48. Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk (2005)
  49. Bell Orchestre - Recording A Tape the Colour of the Light (2005)
  50. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (2005)
  51. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T (2005)
  52. The Futureheads - S/T (2004)
  53. Hockey Night - Keep Guessin' (2005)
  54. The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone (2002)
  55. Make Believe - Shock of Being (2005)
  56. Lake - Let's Build a Roof (2009)
  57. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2005)
  58. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
  59. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft (2005)
  60. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon (2005)
  61. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (2007)
  62. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)
  63. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
  64. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (2006)
  65. The Evens - Get Evens (2006)
  66. Film School - S/T (2006)
  67. Fleet Foxes - S/T (2008)
  68. Maps & Atlases - Trees, Swallows, Houses (2006)
  69. Walls of Jericho - With Devils Amongst Us All (2006)
  70. The Lawrence Arms - Ghost Stories (2000)
  71. The Whitest Boy Alive – Dreams (2006)
  72. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
  73. Celebration - The Modern Tribe (2007)
  74. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (2008)
  75. Deerhunter - Microcastle (2008)
  76. Icy Demons - Miami Ice (2007)
  77. José Gonzalez - In Our Nature
  78. Studio - Yearbook 1 (2007)
  79. White Rabbits - Fort Nightly (2007)
  80. White Williams - Smoke (2007)
  81. YACHT - I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. (2008)
  82. YACHT - See Mystery Lights (2009)
  83. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (2007)
  84. Beach House - Devotion (2008)
  85. Crystal Castles - S/T (2008)
  86. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (2008)
  87. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)
  88. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002)
  89. The Dodos - Visiter (2008)
  90. Hercules & Love Affair - S/T (2008)
  91. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (2008)
  92. Juana Molina - Un Dia (2008)
  93. M83 - Before the Dawn Hears Us (2005)
  94. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
  95. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005)
  96. Deleted Scenes - Birdseed Shirt (2009)
  97. HEALTH - Get Color (2009)
  98. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain (2009)
  99. The Juan MacLean - The Future Will Come (2009)
  100. Mt St Helens Vietnam Band - S/T (2009)