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2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994

I make a 65 best albums list each year, and keep the top 21 albums of each year listed here. They are occasionally updated.

2006
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You
3. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards The Sun
4. Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem
5. Damien Jurado - And Now That I'm in Your Shadow
6. B. Fleischmann - The Humbucking Coil
7. Angel Eyes - Something To Do With Death
8. Under Byen - Samme Stof Som Stof
9. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
10. The Advantage - Elf-Titled
11. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
12. Rf - Views of Distant Towns
13. Mono - You Are There
14. The Black Heart Procession - The Spell
15. Zaar - Zaar
16. Tenebre - In Everything Give Thanks
17. Calexico - Garden Ruin
18. Because Of Ghosts - The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday
19. Ahleuchatistas - What You Will
20. Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
21. Seawhores - Forest
22. Jason Molina - Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go
23. Noxagt - Noxagt
24. Mogwai - Mr Beast
25. Gregor Samsa - 55:12
26. Helios - Eingya
27. Condre SCR - Jar Marsen
28. A Whisper In The Noise - As The Bluebird Sings
29. STNNNG - Fake Fake
30. Flying Lotus - 1983
31. Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project - The House Of Apples & Eyeballs
32. The Plastic Constellations - Crusades
33. Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails
34. Lone Wolf And Cub - Wonder
35. Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
36. Zebulon Pike - Zebulon Pike II: The Deafening Twilight
37. Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses
38. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
39. Danielson - Ships
40. Haley Bonar - Lure the Fox
41. Tone - Solidarity
42. Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic
43. The Seven Mile Journey - The Journey Studies
44. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
45. Half-Handed Cloud - Halos & Lassos
46. Converge - No Heroes
47. Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
48. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side
49. Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia
50. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
51. Spider - The Way To Bitter Lake
52. Casey Dienel - Wind-Up Canary
53. I Am Robot and Proud - The Electricity In Your House Wants to Sing
54. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
55. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
56. Horse Feathers - Words Are Dead
57. Swan Lake - Beast Moans
58. Mastodon - Call of Mastodon
59. Spitfire - Self-Help
60. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
61. Thunderbear - Thunderbear
62. Cat Power - The Greatest
63. Dosh - The Lost Take
64. Mammatus - Mammatus
65. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
(Updated: Dec 2006)

2005
1. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
2. Ticonderoga - Ticonderoga
3. The Dead Science - Frost Giant
4. The Robot Ate Me - Carousel Waltz
5. Sigur Rós - Takk
6. Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout
7. 65 Days of Static - One Time for All Time
8. Mi & l'Au - Mi & l'Au
9. Jr - La Jr
10. The Headphones - The Headphones
11. Akron/Family - Akron/Family
12. Half-Handed Cloud - Thy is a Word and Feet Need Lamps
13. Khanate - Capture & Release
14. Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
15. Amandine - This Is Where Our Hearts Collide
16. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
17. Dälek - Absence
18. CocoRosie - Noah's Ark
19. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
20. Manuok - Manuok
21. Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence
(Updated: Dec 2005)

2004
1. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
2. Pedro The Lion – Achilles Heel
3. Julie Doiron – Goodnight Nobody
4. The Robot Ate Me – On Vacation
5. Frog Eyes – The Folded Palm
6. Mt Eerie – Seven New Songs
7. The Advantage – The Advantage
8. Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
9. Blonde Redhead – Misery is a Butterfly
10. Mason Jennings – Use Your Voice
11. 90 Day Men – Panda Park
12. Mono – Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined
13. The Walkmen – Bows + Arrows
14. edIT – Crying Over Pros For No Reason
15. Woelv – Pamplemoussi
16. Swod – Gehen
17. Hot Snakes – Audit in Progress
18. Mirah – C’mon Miracle
19. Helios – Unomia
20. Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing in the Hands
21. Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Like Bad News
(Updated Dec 2004)

2003
1. Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye
2. Explosions In The Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
3. Pelican – Australasia
4. 90 Day Men – To Everybody
5. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism
6. Flim – Helio
7. Wixel - Bob
8. Worm Is Green – Automagic
9. Tiki Obmar – High School Confidential
10. Happy Apple – Youth Oriented
11. B Fleischmann – Welcome Tourist
12. Denali – The Instinct
13. I Am Robot and Proud – Grace Days
14. Menomena - I am the Fun Blame Monster
15. Lullatone – Computer Recital
16. Nina Nastasia – Run To Ruin
17. The Decemerists – Castaways and Cutouts
18. Mono – One More Step and You Die
19. The Innocence Misson - Befriended
20. Midwest Product – World Series Of Love
21. Dosh – Dosh
(Updated: Nov 2005)

2002
1. Pedro the Lion – Control
2. Tom Waits – Alice
3. Julie Doiron – Heart and Crime
4. Sigur Rós – ( )
5. Müm – Finally We Are No One
6. Kaizers Orchestra - Evig Pint
7. Telefon Tel Aviv – Fahrenheit Fair Enough
8. Engine Down – Demure
9. Wilco – Foxtrot Yankee Hotel
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O.
11. Julie Doiron & the Wooden Stars – S/T
12. Of Montreal – Aldhils Arboretum
13. Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision
14. The Notwist – Neon Golden
15. Karate – Some Boots
16. The Robot Ate Me – They Ate Themselves
17. Frog Eyes - The Bloody Hand
18. Hot Snakes – Suicide Invoice
19. Rf - Interno
20. A Whisper In the Noise - Through the Ides of March
21. The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2
(Updated: Nov 2005)

2001
1. Björk – Vespertine
2. Julie Doiron – Desormais
3. Dave Fischoff – The Ox and the Rainbow
4. Maudlin of the Well - Bath
5. Frodus – And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea
6. Autechre – Confield
7. Ben Folds – Rockin’ the Suburbs
8. Radiohead – Amnesiac
9. Pernice Brothers – World Won’t End
10. Shiner – The Egg
11. Of Montreal – Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
12. Explosions In The Sky – Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live
13. Danielson Famile – Fetch the Compass Kids
14. Mono - Under the Pipal Tree
15. Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
16. Bonnie Prince Billy – Ease on Down the Road
17. Low – Things We Lost in the Fire
18. The Innocence Mission – Small Planes
19. Ex Models – Other Mathematics
20. Isis - Celestial
21. Death Cab for Cutie – The Photo Album
(Updated: Nov 2005)

2000
1. Radiohead – Kid A
2. Lifter Puller – Fiestas + Fiascos
3. Pedro the Lion – Winners Never Quit
4. The Black Heart Procession – 3
5. Elliot Smith – Figure 8
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
7. Explosions in the Sky – How Strange, Innocence
8. Death Cab for Cutie – We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes
9. Karate – Unsolved
10. Geoff Farina – Reverse Eclipse
11. Cat Power - The Covers Record
12. Shannon Wright – Maps of Tacit
13. Hot Snakes – Automatic Midnight
14. Don Caballero – American Don
15. D'Angelo - Voodoo
16. 12Rods – Seperation Anxieties
17. Spoon – Girls Can Tell
18. Common - Like Water for Chocolate
19. Sleater Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One
20. Joe Pernice – Big Tobacco
21. Engine Down – To Bury Within the Sound
(Updated: Nov 2005)

1999
1. Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
2. Damien Jurado – Rehearsals For Departure
3. Ben Folds Five – Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
4. Nina Nastasia – Dogs
5. Built to Spill – Keep it Like a Secret
6. Sleater Kinney – The Hot Rock
7. Low – Secret Name
8. Autechre – EP7
9. The Black Heart Procession – 2
10. Deerhoof – Holdy Paws
11. Happy Apple – Body Popping Moon Walking Top Rocking
12. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
13. The Plastic Constellations – We Got the Movement
14. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
15. The Innocence Mission – Birds of my Neighborhood
16. Wilco – Summer Teeth
17. Tom Waits – Mule Variations
18. Shannon Wright – Flightsafety
19. Sam Prekop – S/T
20. Engine Down - Under the Pretense of Present Tense
21. Opiate – Objects For An Ideal Home
(Updated: Nov 2005)

1998
1. [Cardigans] Gran Turismo
2. [Black Heard Procession] 1
3. [Sunny Day Real Estate] How It Feels to be Something On
4. [Neutral Milk Hotel] In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. [Dave Fischoff] Winston Park
6. [Lauryn Hill] The Mideducation of Lauryn Hill
7. [Mason Jennings] Mason Jennings
8. [Pedro The Lion] It’s Hard to Find a Friend
9. [Sixpence None The Richer] Sixpence None The Richer
10. [Bonnie “Prince” Billy] Blue Lotus Feet
11. [Karate] Bed is in the Ocean
12. [Pernice Brothers] Overcome by Happiness
13. [Rufus Wainwright] Rufus Wainwright
14. [Godspeed You! Black Emperor] F#A# ∞
15. [Botch] American Nervose
16. [Elliot Smith] XO
17. [Notwist] Shrink
18. [Don Caballero] What Burns Never Returns
19. [Saint Etienne] Good Humor
20. [Belle & Sebastian] The Boy With The Arab Strap
21. [Cat Power] Moon Pix
(Updated: Feb 2004)

1997
1. Portishead - Portishead
2. Three Mile Pilot - Another Desert, Another Sea
3. Bjork - Homogenic
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
6. Julie Doiron - Lonliest in the Morning
7. Ben Folds - Whatever & Ever, Amen
8. Blur - Blur
9. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
10. Roadside Monument - Eight Hours Away From Being a Man
11. Lifter Puller - Lifter Puller
12. Dwindle - Recently Okay
13. Green Day - Nimrod
14. Starflyer 59 - Americana
15. Lifter Puller - Half Dead and Dynamite
16. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded WEst
17. The Jayhawks - Sound of Lies
18. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
19. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
20. Damien Jurado - Waters Ave S
21. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
(Updated: Nov 2005)

1996
1. Jeremy Enigk - Return of the Frog Queen
2. The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
3. Weezer - Pinkerton
4. Cake - Fashion Nugget
5. Scut Mountain Boys - Massachusetts
6. The For Carnation - Marshmallows
7. Wilco - Being There
8. Bedhead - Beheaded
9. Low - Songs For A Dead Pilot
10. The Violet Burning - The Violet Burning
11. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
12. The Fugees - The Score
13. Velour100 - Fall Sounds
14. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
15. Tool - Anemea
16. Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss
17. Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
18. Unwound - Repetition
19. Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
20. Modest Mouse - Interstate 8
21. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
(Updated: Nov 2005)

1995
1. Sunny Day Real Estate – LP2
2. Starflyer 59 – Starflyer 59 [Gold]
3. Don Caballero – Don Caballero 2
4. The Cardigans – Life
5. Ben Folds Five – Ben Folds Five
6. The Flaming Lips – Clouds Taste Metallic
7. Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
8. The Jayhawks – Tomorrow The Green Grass
9. Pulp – Different Class
10. The Innocence Mission – Glow
11. Roadside Monument – Beside This Brief Hexagonal
12. D’angelo – Brown Sugar
13. Radiohead – The Bends
14. Yo La Tengo – Elect-O-Pura
15. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
16. Sleater-Kinney – Sleater-Ikinney
17. Blonde Redhead – Blonde Redhead
18. Red House Painters – Ocean Beach
19. Morella’s Forest Super Deluxe
20. Mineral – The Power Of Failing
21. Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee
(Updated: Dec 2005)

1994
1. Portishead – Dummy
2. Jeff Buckley – Grace
3. Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary
4. Starflyer 59 – Starflyer 59 [Silver]
5. Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
6. Codeine – The White Birch
7. Weezer – Weezer
8. Green Day – Dookie
9. Sebedoh – Bakesale
10. Low – I Could Live In Hope
11. Cake – Motorcade Of Generosity
12. Three Mile Pilot – The Chief Assasin To The Sinister
13. Bedhead – Whatfunlifewas
14. Johnny Cash – American Recordings
15. The Cardigans – Emmerdale
16. Shellac – At Action Park
17. Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom
18. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
19. Tori Amos- Under The Pink
20. Palace Brothers – Days In The Wake
21. Elliot Smith – Roman Candle
(Updated: Dec 2005)