ihrtmusique's Top 50 Albums of 2000 - 2009

After the mammoth ihrtmusique Top 100 Songs of 2000 - 2009 I couldn't forget about doing an album poll, but as befits the decade that saw the rise of the consumer's ability to cherry pick songs without buying whole albums, I knew that my best albums list couldn't hope to be as extensive as the songs list. So no great hyperbole about the entries in the list below - the majority of these artists are featured in the songs list anyway, so check that out for some more extensive analysis) and instead here's a straight-up list of the albums that have rocked my noughties so far. Enjoy.


1. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes


2. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend


3. The Knife – Silent Shout


4. Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American


5. Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin


6. Jay-Z – The Black Album


7. Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell


8. Daft Punk – Discovery


9. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago


10. Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank The Cradle


11. LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver


12. Beck – Sea Change


13. Jay-Z – The Blueprint


14. Red Hot Chili Peppers – By The Way


15. Ryan Adams – Gold


16. Fever Ray – Fever Ray


17. Bruce Springsteen – Devils & Dust


18. Okkervil River – The Stage Names


19. Outkast – Stankonia


20. The Strokes – Is This It?


21. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days


22. 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’


23. Foo Fighters – In Your Honour


24. The Hold Steady – Boys And Girls In America


25. The Arcade Fire – Funeral


26. Rodrigo Y Gabriela – Rodrigo Y Gabriela


27. The Roots – Game Theory


28. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand


29. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf


30. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am That’s What
I’m Not


31. Radiohead – In Rainbows


32. Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires


33. Tinariwen – Aman Iman


34. The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound


35. Justice - †


36. Coldplay – Parachutes


37. Beastie Boys – To The Five Boroughs


38. The Roots – Phrenology


39. Neon Neon – Stainless Style


40. Passion Pit – Manners


41. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular


42. TV On The Radio – Dear Science


43. Beck – Guero


44. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head


45. The Killers – Hot Fuss


46. The Felice Brothers – The Felice Brothers


47. Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury


48. Ryan Adams – 29


49. M.I.A. – Kala


50. Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around