Top 25 Albums of 1996-2006 (x-post/Music Forum)

[Jack of Arcades]

A few posters got together and decided to make a list of the top 25 albums from 1996-2006. A couple people haven't made their list yet, but so far we have 3: MacDaddy Warsaw, Soul Daddy, and me.

Feel free to nitpick, argue, make your own list, or ask for an expansion of these lists (either for more albums or more years).

We're missing CMI and jgorham's lists.

Here are the lists:

Soul Daddy
25. Radiohead - Hail To the Thief (2003)
24. The National - Alligator (2005)
23. Ted Leo - Hearts of Oak (2003)
22. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes (2002)
21. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000)
20. Elliott Smith - XO (1998)
19. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002)
18. Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001 (2000)
17. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
16. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004)
15. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry (2004)
14. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
13. The White Stripes - De Stijl (2000)
12. Beck - Sea Change (2002)
11. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)
10. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
9. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
7. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
6. The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
4. Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
3. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
1. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)

Macdaddy Warsaw
25. Blink 182 - Dude Ranch (1997)
24. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2005)
23. The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
22. Annie - Annimal (2005)
21. The Wrens - Meadowlands (2003)
20. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (2004)
19. Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again (2005)
18. Caribou - Up in Flames (2003)
17. Ratatat - Ratatat (2004)
16. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (2003)
15. DJ Optimo - How to Kill the DJ Part 2 (2004)
14. Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence (2000)
13. Destroyer - Your Blues (2004)
12. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004)
11. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (2002)
10. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
9. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)
8. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000)
7. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
6. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
5. Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)
4. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (1999)
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
2. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
1. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On (1997)

Jack of Arcades
25. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
24. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret (1999)
23. The Wrens - Meadowlands (2003)
22. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (1999)
21. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004)
20. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (2006)
19. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (2003).
18. Non Prophets - Hope (2003)
17. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (2005)
16. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts (2003)
15. Elliott Smith - XO (1998)
14. Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness (1999)
13. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
12. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (2002)
11. Outkast - Stankonia (2000)
10. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)
9. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me (1996)
8. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes (2002)
7. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
6. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
5. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)
4. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
2. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

[Bob Sacamano]

Didn't look at the lists yet.

Without order, I would say:

OK Computer
Twin Cinema
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Kid A
Hail to the Thief
Chutes Too Narrow
White Blood Cells
Elephant
Room on Fire
Marshall Mathers LP
The College Dropout
Late Registration
Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
Scenes From a Memory
Lateralus
Aenima
Transatlanticism
In the Aeroplane
XO
Figure 8
Either/Or
I See a Darkness
Gimme Fiction
The Execution of All Things
Keep it Like a Secret

OK, there's my final 25. Slim Shady LP was real close.

[Bob Sacamano]

[censored], Go! Team should be on here too. Tough imo.

[Zak McKracken]

Here's my top 10. I'm surpised the two Flaming Lips records weren't on any of the initial lists.

10) Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
9) New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
8) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7) Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things
6) Elliot Smith – Either/Or
5) NMH – In the Aeroplane over the Sea
4) Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3) Radiohead – OK Computer
2) Nickel Creek – Why Should the Fire Die?
1) Arcade Fire - Funeral

[Jack of Arcades]

The Soft Bulletin is in the two upcoming lists...

[davidwilcock]

The ones in the OP are all pretty much last 10yrs rather than last 25yrs

[Zak McKracken]

I believe that is the point of this thread.

[Bob Sacamano]

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The ones in the OP are all pretty much last 10yrs rather than last 25yrs

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orly

[Jack of Arcades]

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The ones in the OP are all pretty much last 10yrs rather than last 25yrs

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Thanks for playing.

[ScottyP431]

Fantastic Planet is an awesome pick.

How is The Color and the Shape not on any of these lists?