I fully intended to present a mid-decade review nearer the end of this year at what I imagined to be the end of the beginning of the decade. Then I did the math and realized we're there! Plus I saw that Sylus and Pitchfork already had their halfway to 2010 spots up and thought gee, might as well. So I hemmed and hawed and thought good-n-hard on it and I came up with this here list: a Mid-Decade Review of The Best Albums released between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2004. (The sticklers among you may notice some revisions of rankings from earlier lists - Best Albums of 2003, 2004. These have occured in full knowledge of the numeric discrepancies and with the full benefit of time and new entries...)
1. Radiohead "Kid A" 20002. Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" 2002
3. Gillian Welch "Time (The Revelator)" 2001
4. The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" 2002
5. Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker" 2000
6. Iron & Wine "Creek Drank the Cradle" 20027. Arcade Fire "Funeral" 2004
8. The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow" 2003
9. Secret Machines "Now Here is Nowhere" 2004
10. The Books "The Lemon of Pink" 2003
11. Queens of the Stone Age "Songs for the Deaf" 2002
12. Modest Mouse "The Moon & Antarctica" 2000
13. Liars "They Threw Us All In a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top" 2002
14. Jurassic 5 "Quality Control" 2000
15. The White Stripes "White Blood Cells" 2002
16. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Master and Everyone" 2003
17. God Speed, You Black Emperor! "Lift Your Skinny Fingers Like Antennas to Heaven" 2000
18. Spoon "Kill the Moonlight" 2002
19. Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights" 2002
20. Franz Ferdinand "s/t" 2004
21. The Microphones "The Glow Pt. 2" 2001
22. A Frames "2" 2003
23. The Strokes "Is This It" 2001
24. Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans" 2004
25. The New Pornographers "Electric Version" 2003
26. The Wrens "Meadowlands" 2003
27. My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves" 2003
28. Interpol "Antics" 2004
29. Jay Z "The Black Album" 2003
30. The Jayhawks "Rainy Day Music" 2003
31. The Black Keys "thickfreakness" 2003
32. Outkast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" 2003
33. Ryan Adams "Gold" 2001
34. Wilco "A Ghost Is Born" 2004
35. Sufjan Stevens "Greetings from Michigan" 2003
36. Loretta Lynn "Van Leer Rose" 2004
37. Loose Fur "s/t" 2003
38. Greg Davis "Curling Pond Woods" 2004
39. Super Furry Animals "Phantom Power" 2003
40. Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days" 2004
41. Damien Rice "O" 2003
42. The Postal Service "Give Up" 2003
43. Beck "Sea Change" 2002
44. Joe Henry "Scar" 2001
45. Modest Mouse "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" 2004
46. Norah Jones "Come Away With Me" 2002
47. Various Artists "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack 2000
48. The Six Parts Seven "Things Shaped in Passing" 2002
49. Billy Bragg & Wilco "Mermaid Avenue Vol. II" 2000
50. Apples In Stereo "The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone" 2000
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