Top 100 Albums of the '00s

In an attempt to beat Pitchfork to the punch with their best-of-the-decade list I, along with a few friends, have put together our own lists. Mine is below. Now, 100 albums over 10 years is a lot of music from a lot of bands and as such, I don't feel obligated to distinguish an album that gets #84 from #85. My solution is to break it down into tiers (listed alphabetically) and then do a ranked top 10. So, here it is.

Tier 4

Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Ellen Allien - Sool
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds
Layo & Bushwacka! - Nightworks
Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
Ratatat - Ratatat
VHS or BETA - Le Funk
Zomby - Where Were U In '92

Tier 3:

Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Beck - Sea Change
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Booka Shade - Movements
Carl Craig - Sessions
Chemical Bros - Come With Us
Chromatics - Night Drive
Clogs - Stick Music
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Deadbeat - Roots And Wire
DJ Shadow - Private Press
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Mylo - Destroy Rock And Roll
Pillows - FLCL OSTs
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Ratatat - Remixes Vol 2
Retro Studios - Metroid Prime 2 Soundtrack
RJD2 - Deadringer
Royksopp - Junior
Soulwax - Nite Versions
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
William Basinski - Disintegration Loops

Tier 2:

!!! - Myth Takes
Advantage - Elf Titled
Air France - No Way Down
Alan Braxe - Uppercuts
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Battles - Mirrored
Caribou - Milk Of Human Kindness
Clark - Body Riddle
Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
Fiery Furnaces - EP
Four Tet - Rounds
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
Isolee - Wearemonster
Jackson + His Computer Band - Smash
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Junior Senior - Heyheymymyyoyo
Justice - Cross
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Minilogue - Animals
Orbital - Live At Galstonbury
Portishead - Third
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - In Rainbows
RJD2 - Since we last spoke
Royksopp - Melody AM
Various Artists - Katamari Damacy OST

Tier 1:

Air - Talkie Walkie
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better...
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Herbert - Scale
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
Hot Chip - The Warning
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
Knife - Silent Shout
Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
Studio - Yearbook 1
Tough Alliance - New Chance
Trentemoller - Last Resort
Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When You're Gone
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

Top 10:

10. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

9. King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader

8. Rapture - Echoes

7. Radiohead - Kid A

6. Burial - Untrue

5. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

4. Field - From Here We Go Sublime

3. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas And Lost Ghosts

2. Avalanches - Since I Left You

1. Daft Punk - Discovery