BTID’s 150 Most Essential Albums of The ’00′s

It seems like just yesterday…

1. DeVotchKa – How It Ends (2004)
2. The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up – It’s Winter Here (2001)
3. The Wrens – The Meadowlands (2003)
4. The Kamikaze Hearts – The Kamikaze Hearts (2003)
5. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)

6. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker (2000)
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven! (2000)
8. Emperor X – Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldune (And The Dreams That Resulted) (2005)
9. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (2008)
10. Wintersleep – Untitled (2005)

11. Matt Costa – Songs We Sing (2005)
12. Old Canes – Early Morning Hymns (2004)
13. Easterly – Easterly (2003)
14. The Everybodyfields – Nothing Is Okay (2007)
15. Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004)

16. Owen – No Good For No One Now (2002)
17. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
18. Ray LaMontagne – Trouble (2004)
19. Sufjan Stevens – (Come On Feel The) Illinoise (2005)
20. Songs:Ohia – The Lioness (2000)

21. Minus The Bear – This Is What i Know About Being Gigantic (2001)
22. of Montreal – Aldhils Arboretum (2002)
23. Last Days Of April – Angel Youth (2001)
24. Paul Hogan – Frances (2004)
25. Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump (2000)

26. Menomena – I Am The Fun Blame Monster (2003)
27. Penfold – Our First Taste Of Escape (2002)
28. Cloud Cult – Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus (2005)
29. M. Ward – Transfiguration of Vincent (2003)
30. The Milwaukees – Missile Command (2000)

31. Malcolm Middleton – 5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine (2002)
32. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005)
33. Astronautalis – You And Yer Good Ideas (2005)
34. The Mysteries Of Life – Distant Relative (2001)
35. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)

36. Summer At Shatter Creek – Summer At Shatter Creek (2003)
37. Gogol Bordello – Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony (2002)
38. The Joggers – Solid Guild (2003)
39. The Postal Service – Give Up (2003)
40. Kite Operations – Dandelion Day (2005)

41. Augie March – Strange Bird (2002)
42. The Broken Family Band – Hello Love (2007)
43. The Gifted Children – Chinese Food Takeover (2001)
44. Hammock – Kenotic (2005)
45. Kristofer Åström – Loupita (2004)

46. The Glands – The Glands (2000)
47. Machine Go Boom – Thank You Captain Obvious (2004)
48. Thinking Machines – Dream In Lo-Fi (2002)
49. Isolation Years – Inland Traveller (2001)
50. The Argument – Recess Serenade (2004)

51. Brendan Benson – Lapalco (2002)
52. The Hidden Cameras – The Smell Of Our Own (2003)
53. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns (2009)
54. The Alexander – City In Ruins (2004)
55. Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer – Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer (2002)

56. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Pocket Symphonies For Lonesome Subway Cars (2001)
57. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
58. Phosphorescent – A Hundred Times Or More (2003)
59. Dark Mean – Frankencottage EP (2009)
60. Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)

61. Owen – At Home With (2006)
62. The Dodos – Visiter (2008)
63. Mobius Band – The Loving Sounds Of Static (2005)
64. The Appleseed Cast – Low Level Owl Vol. 1 & 2 (2001)
65. Helio Sequence – Keep Your Eyes Ahead (2008)

66. The Capstan Shafts – Chick Cigarettes (2004)
67. The London Apartments – Romanticism Aside (2005)
68. Starlings, TN – Between Hell and Baton Rouge (2004)
69. The Gazillions! – Have Landed (2000)
70. Spoon – Kill The Moonlight (2002)

71. 65daysofstatic – The Fall Of Math (2004)
72. Maestro Echoplex – Last Night I Saw God On The Dancefloor EP (2001)
73. C’est Mortel – C’est Mortel (2002)
74. The Mendoza Line – Lost In Revelry (2002)
75. Youth Pictures Of Florence Henderson – Unnoticeable In A Tiny Town Invisible In The City (2005)

76. Binary Dolls – Too Much Thinking Sinks Ships (2005)
77. Weakerthans – Left and Leaving (2000)
78. The Thermals – The Body The Blood The Machine (2006)
79. William Fitzsimmons – Until When We Are Ghosts (2005)
80. Anathallo – Floating World (2006)

81. Solly – Get It Wrong It’s Alright (2005)
82. Say Hi To Your Mom – Numbers and Mumbles (2004)
83. Tom McRae – All Maps Welcome (2005)
84. Oxes – Oxes (2000)
85. Jens Lekman – When i Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog (2004)

86. The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (2002)
87. Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind (2009)
88. Langhorne Slim – When The Sun’s Gone Down (2005)
89. The Stars Of Track and Field – Centuries Of Love and War (2006)
90. Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (2005)

91. Shearwater – Rook (2008)
92. James William Hindle – Town Feeling (2005)
93. The Acorn – Glory Hope Mountain (2007)
94. The Hotel Alexis – Goliath, I’m On Your Side (2007)
95. Sigur Rós – Hvarf/Heim (2007)

96. Flotation Toy Warning – Bluffer’s Guide To The Flight Deck (2004)
97. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar (2006)
98. Halley – Forget The Leaves, Autumn Will Change Us (2002)
99. My Education – 5 Popes (2001)
100. Bikeride – Morning Macumba (2002)

101. Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ’08 (2008)
102. Cloud Cult – Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) (2008)
103. Astronautalis – The Mighty Ocean And Nine Dark Theaters (2006)
104. The Slats – Boom Patrol (2006)
105. First Coat – Move Like Sparrows (2005)

106. The Prayers and Tears Of Arthur Digby Sellers – The Mother Of Love Emulates The Shapes Of Cynthia (2005)
107. Destroyer – Your Blues (2004)
108. A.A. Bondy – American Hearts (2007)
109. The Gifted Children – Colorfast Anthems (2000)
110. Bluebottle Kiss – Come Across (2003)

111. The Kallikak Family – The Vineland Social Maturity Scale (2004)
112. Cars Can Be Blue – All The Stuff We Do (2005)
113. Akron/Family – Akron/Family (2005)
114. Dealership – TV Highway To The Stars (2001)
115. The Drift – Noumena (2005)

116. Clue To Kalo – One Way, The Only Way (2005)
117. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (2005)
118. Soltero – Defrocked and Kicking The Habit (2003)
119. The Dollyrots – Eat My Heart Out (2003)
120. Jamie Barnes – Honey From The Ribcage (2005)

121. Syme – Swing Swing (2005)
122. Five Dollar Day – Black Bears (2005)
123. The Long Winters – When i Pretend To Fall (2003)
124. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (2009)
125. Idaho – The Lone Gunman (2005)

126. The Slats – Pick It Up (2004)
127. Jack Rose – Kensington Blues (2005)
128. The Broken Family Band – Balls (2006)
129. Matt Pond PA – Emblems (2004)
130. Songs:Ohia – Didn’t It Rain (2002)

131. Damien Rice – 9 (2006)
132. The Turn-Ons – East (2004)
133. Tullycraft – Disenchanted Hearts Unite (2005)
134. Mono – You Are There (2006)
135. A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Ashes/Grammar (2009)

136. Islands – Return To The Sea (2006)
137. Say Hi To Your Mom – Impeccable Blahs (2006)
138. Fionn Regan – The End Of History (2006)
139. The Clientele – Strange Geometry (2005)
140. Longwave – The Strangest Things (2003)

141. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Down At The Khyber (2001)
142. Silence Kit – Pieonear (2004)
143. The Unlovables – Crush-Boyfriend-Heartbreak (2004)
144. Biirdie – Morning Kills The Dark (2005)
145. Sprites – Starling, Spiders, Tiger and Sprites (2003)

146. Two-Minute Miracles – Vol. 3: The Silence Of Animals (2003)
147. The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (2003)
148. The Potomac Accord – Silver Line On A Black Sea (2001)
149. 65daysofstatic – One Time For All Time (2006)
150. James Orr Complex – Chori’s Bundle (2003)

Albums I’ve realized I omitted after the fact and will someday incorporate into the list:

Rogue Wave – Asleep At Heaven’s Gate (2007)
The Strokes – Is This It (2001)
Ben Folds – Rockin’ The Suburbs (2001)