BCB's Top 100 Albums of the 21st Century

[Oscar]

My original bucket of choices... truly shocked that some of these haven't made it...
Air The Virgin Suicides 2000
Badly Drawn Boy The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast 2000
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 2000
Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead 2000
Doves Lost Souls 2000
Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump 2000
Lambchop Nixon 2000
Múm Yesterday was dramatic - today is OK 2000
Radiohead Kid A 2000
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 2000
Björk Vespertine 2001
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein 2001
Daft Punk Discovery 2001
Dntel Life Is Full Of Possibilities 2001
Elbow Asleep In The Back 2001
Low Things We Lost In The Fire 2001
New Order Get Ready 2001
Nick Lowe Convincer 2001
Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me 2001
The Strokes Is This It? 2001
Tindersticks Can Our Love... 2001
Boards of Canada Geogaddi 2002
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People 2002
Bryan Ferry Frantic 2002
DJ Shadow The Private Press 2002
Edwyn Collins Doctor Syntax 2002
El-P Fantastic Damage 2002
Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around 2002
Max Richter memoryhouse 2002
Múm Finally We Are No One 2002
Sigur Rós ( ) 2002
The Streets Original Pirate Material 2002
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Master and Everyone 2003
Four Tet Rounds 2003
Josh Rouse 1972 2003
Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons 2003
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts 2003
Manitoba Up In Flames 2003
Rachel's Systems/Layers 2003
Sufjan Stevens Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State 2003
The American Analog Set Promise Of Love 2003
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow 2003
George Michael Patience 2004
Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days 2004
Leonard Cohen Dear Heather 2004
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks 2004
Morrissey You Are The Quarry 2004
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Abbatoire Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus 2004
skinnyman Council Estate of Mind 2004
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans 2004
The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free 2004
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning 2005
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat 2005
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy Superwolf 2005
Sufjan Stevens Illinoise 2005
Amy Winehouse Back To Black 2006
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006
Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual 2006
Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther 2006
Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormentors 2006
Burial Untrue 2007
Rachel Unthank And The Winterset The Bairns 2007
Radiohead In Rainbows 2007
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 2008
Glasvegas Glasvegas 2008
Johann Johannsson Fordlândia 2008
Peter Broderick Home 2008
Atlas Sound Logos 2009
Föllakzoid Föllakzoid 2009
Jónsi & Alex Riceboy Sleeps 2009
Nils Frahm Wintermusik 2009
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest 2010
John Grant Queen Of Denmark 2010
Nest Retold 2010
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory For The Sullen 2011
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues 2011
James Blake James Blake 2011
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine 2011
Kendrick Lamar Good Kid M.A.A.D City-(Deluxe Edition) 2012
Max Richter Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons 2012
Daft Punk Random Access Memories 2013
John Grant Pale Green Ghosts 2013
Jon Hopkins Immunity 2013
A Winged Victory For The Sullen Atomos 2014
Beck Morning Phase 2014
Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 2014
Sleaford Mods Divide and Exit 2014
The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream 2014
Four Tet Morning Evening 2015
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 2015
New Order Music Complete 2015
Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott The Chopin Project (Bonus Track Version) 2015
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell 2015
David Bowie Blackstar 2016
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker 2016
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree 2016
Underworld Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future 2016

[The Modernist]

Eurghh..it's like you've just copied all the critic approved records from each year you're meant to like!

[Oscar]

Eurghh..it's like you've just copied all the critic approved records from each year you're meant to like!

Yep and that is just how incredibly fucking cool my taste in music is

[Dayodead]

My original bucket of choices... truly shocked that some of these haven't made it...
Air The Virgin Suicides 2000
Badly Drawn Boy The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast 2000
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 2000
Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead 2000
Doves Lost Souls 2000
Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump 2000
Lambchop Nixon 2000
Múm Yesterday was dramatic - today is OK 2000
Radiohead Kid A 2000
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 2000
Björk Vespertine 2001
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein 2001
Daft Punk Discovery 2001
Dntel Life Is Full Of Possibilities 2001
Elbow Asleep In The Back 2001
Low Things We Lost In The Fire 2001
New Order Get Ready 2001
Nick Lowe Convincer 2001
Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me 2001
The Strokes Is This It? 2001
Tindersticks Can Our Love... 2001
Boards of Canada Geogaddi 2002
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People 2002
Bryan Ferry Frantic 2002
DJ Shadow The Private Press 2002
Edwyn Collins Doctor Syntax 2002
El-P Fantastic Damage 2002
Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around 2002
Max Richter memoryhouse 2002
Múm Finally We Are No One 2002
Sigur Rós ( ) 2002
The Streets Original Pirate Material 2002
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Master and Everyone 2003
Four Tet Rounds 2003
Josh Rouse 1972 2003
Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons 2003
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts 2003
Manitoba Up In Flames 2003
Rachel's Systems/Layers 2003
Sufjan Stevens Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State 2003
The American Analog Set Promise Of Love 2003
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow 2003
George Michael Patience 2004
Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days 2004
Leonard Cohen Dear Heather 2004
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks 2004
Morrissey You Are The Quarry 2004
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Abbatoire Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus 2004
skinnyman Council Estate of Mind 2004
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans 2004
The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free 2004
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning 2005
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat 2005
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy Superwolf 2005
Sufjan Stevens Illinoise 2005
Amy Winehouse Back To Black 2006
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006
Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual 2006
Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther 2006
Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormentors 2006
Burial Untrue 2007
Rachel Unthank And The Winterset The Bairns 2007
Radiohead In Rainbows 2007
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 2008
Glasvegas Glasvegas 2008
Johann Johannsson Fordlândia 2008
Peter Broderick Home 2008
Atlas Sound Logos 2009
Föllakzoid Föllakzoid 2009
Jónsi & Alex Riceboy Sleeps 2009
Nils Frahm Wintermusik 2009
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest 2010
John Grant Queen Of Denmark 2010
Nest Retold 2010
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory For The Sullen 2011
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues 2011
James Blake James Blake 2011
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine 2011
Kendrick Lamar Good Kid M.A.A.D City-(Deluxe Edition) 2012
Max Richter Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons 2012
Daft Punk Random Access Memories 2013
John Grant Pale Green Ghosts 2013
Jon Hopkins Immunity 2013
A Winged Victory For The Sullen Atomos 2014
Beck Morning Phase 2014
Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 2014
Sleaford Mods Divide and Exit 2014
The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream 2014
Four Tet Morning Evening 2015
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 2015
New Order Music Complete 2015
Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott The Chopin Project (Bonus Track Version) 2015
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell 2015
David Bowie Blackstar 2016
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker 2016
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree 2016
Underworld Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future 2016

I like these from your list: (And finally one other person mentions my #1- Yo la Tengo- And then nothing turns itself inside-out)
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 2000
Air The Virgin Suicides 2000
Lambchop Nixon 2000
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein 2001
Dntel Life Is Full Of Possibilities 2001
Low Things We Lost In The Fire 2001
New Order Get Ready 2001
The Strokes Is This It? 2001
Boards of Canada Geogaddi 2002
DJ Shadow The Private Press 2002
El-P Fantastic Damage 2002
Manitoba (Caribou) Up In Flames 2003
The American Analog Set Promise Of Love 2003
Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormentors 2006
Radiohead In Rainbows 2007
Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 2014
Four Tet Morning Evening 2015
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 2015
David Bowie Blackstar 2016
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree 2016
Underworld Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future 2016


Radiohead Kid A 2000
Burial Untrue 2007
The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream 2014
Björk Vespertine 2001
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow 2003
Morrissey You Are The Quarry 2004
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Abbatoire Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus 2004
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest 2010

[Oscar]

And finally one other person mentions my #1- Yo la Tengo- And then nothing turns itself inside-out

I used to be obsessed with the track "Tears Are In Your Eyes" for years! I think I may give the album a spin now!

[Oscar]

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[Jumper K]

Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
Super Chron Flight Brothers – Emergency Powers
Dalek – Abandoned Language
Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
Jean Grae - Jeanius
Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030
EL-P – Fantastic Damage
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Skitz - Countryman
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment – Surf
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah
Billy Woods – History Will Absolve Me
Georgia Anne Maldrow – A Thoughtiverse Unmarred
Blu and Exile – Below The Clouds
Burial – Untrue
The Mitchell Brothers – A Breath of Fresh Attire
Giraffe Nuts – Eat ‘em
Eyedea and Abilities – By The Throat
Cecil Otter – Rebel Yellow
Astronautalis – This Is Our Science
The Perceptionists – Black Dialogue
3 Melancholy Gypsys – Grand Caravan To The Rim of the World
Brother Ali – Shadows on the Sun
Lyrics Born – Later That Day
Emanon – The Waiting Room
Dessa – A Badly Broken Code
The Coup – Pick a Bigger Weapon
Hi-Coup and Devynity – Domestic Violence
The Bronx – The Bronx (2003)

Heres my final list. I'm alarmed that Oscar has surprisingly good taste. When it comes to hip-hop.

[WG Kaspar]

Where the fuck is Dan Sartain Frank?

[Penk!]

The real best albums of the century so far:

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly - 10
Fennesz - Venice - 10
Fever Ray - S/T - 10
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise - 10
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City - 10
Objekt - Flatland - 7
Radiohead - In Rainbows - 7
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought - 7
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness - 7
Demdike Stare - Tryptych - 7
Moderat - S/T - 7
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People - 7
Luomo - Vocalcity - 7
Fennesz - Endless Summer - 7
Deerhunter - Microcastle - 7
LCD Soundsystem - S/T - 2
Animal Collective - Feels - 2
Burial - Untrue - 2
Arcade Fire - Funeral - 2
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere - 2
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command - 2
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest - 2
Scott Walker - The Drift - 2
Actress - Hazyville - 2
Björk - Vulnicura - 2
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City - 2
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today - 2
Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay - 2
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of SOTL - 2
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt - 2

[Jumper K]

Where the fuck is Dan Sartain Frank?

I would have put Join in Theo but stuck to proper modern music

[The Write Profile]

Everyone else is doing it....

9 points

JAY-Z- The Blueprint
KENDRICK LAMAAR- To Pimp A Butterfly
THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION- Happy Ending
DIMMER- I Believe You Are A Star
GHOSTFACE KILLAH- Fishscale

6 points
ARCADE FIRE- The Suburbs
COURTNEY BARNETT- Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit
OUTKAST- Stankonia
AT THE DRIVE-IN- Relationship of Command
DAFT PUNK- Discovery
SLEATER-KINNEY- The Woods
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM- Sound of Silver
CLIPSE- Hell Hath No Fury
SKINNYMAN- Council Estate of Mind
JOANNA NEWSOM- The Milk-Eyed Mender

3 points
MIA- Kala
THE GO! TEAM- Thunder, Lightning, Strike!
D'ANGELO- Voodoo
THE NATIONAL- High Violet
SJD- Lost Soul Music

THE SHINS- Chutes Too Narrow
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE- Rated R
TV ON THE RADIO- Dear Science
WHITE STRIPES- De Stijl
ROBYN- S/T
BJORK- Medulla

FOUR TET- Rounds
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS- Dig! Lazarus Dig!
LAMBCHOP- Nixon
THE BOOKS- Lost and Safe
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular

[Darkness_Fish]

Ok, I posted mine in the wrong thread. I'll add it here too, because I'M THAT IMPORTANT.

The Cherry Blossoms - The Cherry Blossoms (2000) 5
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark² (2000) 7
The Angels of Light - How I Loved You (2001) 5
U.S. Maple - Acre Thrills (2001)5
Foetus - Flow (2001) 5

Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (2002) 5
Coil - Live Four (2003) 5
Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home (2003) 5
Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape (2003) 1
Crescent - By the Roads and the Fields (2003) 7

Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (2003) 5
Nancy Elizabeth - Dancing (2013) 5
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004) 7
Dälek - Absence (2005) 5
Paavoharju - Yhä hämärää (2005) 7

Coil - The Ape of Naples (2005) 5
Auto da Fe - The Spectre (2006) 5
Curse ov Dialect - Wooden Tongues (2006) 5
Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006) 1
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'autre cap (2007) 5

Giant Skyflower Band - Blood of the Sunworm (2007) 5
Meg Baird - Dear Companion (2007) 5
Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles wieder offen (2007) 5
Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni (2010) 5
The Ex - Catch My Shoe (2010) 5

Reigns - The Widow Blades (2011) 5
Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing (2012) 5
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones (2016) 5
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (2017) 5
Richard Dawson - Peasant (2017) 5

[The Red Heifer]

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2)
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command (2)
The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2)
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (2)
Beck - Modern Guilt (2)
Brendan Benson - Lapalco (2)
Bright Eyes - Lifted (2)
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness (2)
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (2)
Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most (5)
Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy (2)
Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (10)
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2)
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (2)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (5)
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Gurrumul (2)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2)
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (2)
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (5)
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (5)
The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium (5)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (10)
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (10)
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (5)
Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below (5)
Phoenix - United (15)
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (10)
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (5)
Sia - We Are Born (10)
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (15)

[toomanyhatz]

Figure 8 – Eliot smith – 5
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean -1
Meow the Jewels – Run the Jewels - 1
Ballad of the Broken Seas – Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan - 5
Sunday at Devil Dirt – Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan -4
Sea Change – Beck - 6
Elephant – White stripes -9
Hospice – Antlers – 10
Familiars – Antlers – 8
The Grey Album – Danger Mouse - 12
Meet You There – Oysterband – 6
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard – Macca - 1
I Love You Honeybear - Father John Misty - 10
Pure Comedy – Father John Misty - 6
Queen 0f Denmark - John Grant - 12
Pale Green Ghosts – John Grant - 2
Modern Times – Bob Dylan - 7
Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch - 8
Chutes Too Narrow – The shins - 1
Shine for All the People – Mike Farris – 1
How the West Was Won – Peter Perrett - 1
Sigh No More – Mumford & Sons - 1
A Larum – Johnny Flynn- 4
Smile – Brian Wilson - 9
American III: Solitary Man – Johnny Cash - 5
American IV: The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash - 8
Get Behind Me Satan – The White Stripes - 2
Psychedelic Pill – Neil Young - 1
To Pimp a Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar - 1
Genuine Negro Jig – The Carolina Chocolate Drops - 3

[toomanyhatz]

Beck and Cash being completely shut out surprises me.

Those Campbell/Lanegan albums being shut out appalls me.

[never/ever]

1. Sigur Ros- Takk (12)
2. Steven Wilson- The Raven That Refused To Sing (11)
3. Black Angels- Directions To See A Ghost (10)
4. Jon Hopkins- Immunity (8)
5. Kiasmos- Kiasmos (7)
6. Porcupine Tree- In Absentia (7)
7. A Winged Victory For The Sullen- A Winged Victory For The Sullen (7)
8. War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (6)
9. M83- Before The Dawn Heals Us (6)
10. Steven Wilson- Insurgentes (6)
11. Porcupine Tree- Lightbulb Sun (5)
12. Swans - The Seer (5)
13. War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (5)
14. Sigur Ros- ( ) (5)
15. No-Man- Together We're Stranger (5)
16. Godspeed you! Black Emperor- Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (5)
17. Stars Of The Lid- Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid (4)
18. Fuck Buttons- Tarot Sport (4)
19. David Bridie- Act Of Free Choice (4)
20. Anathema - Distant Satellites (4)
21. Blue Nile- High (4)
22. The Church- After Everything Now This (3)
23. Dälek- Absence (3)
24. Jon Hassell- Last Night the Moon Came Down And Dropped Its Clothes (3)
25. Songs Of Green Pheasant- Songs Of Green Pheasant (3)
26. Julia Holter- Loud City Song (2)
27. Ali Farka Toure/Toumani Diabate- In The Heart Of The Moon (2)
28. Interpol- Turn On The Bright Lights (2)
29. Jonsi & Alex- Riceboy Sleeps (1)
30. Johann Johansson- Englaborn (1)


These were the albums I played the most over a decade and a half. There were a couple in the overall list that I remember being fond of at the time- Arcade Fire, Kid A and Broken Social Scene but most of the 'regular indie'-stuff picked never really did much for me.