The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:

I'm going to tease this out just a bit more before the reveal of the Top 11 of the decade. Until then, here are the runner-ups. Those who were good...but maybe...just not good enough.

The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:

1. ...And You Will Know Us - Source Tags & Codes
2. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
3. Against Me! - New Wave
4. Alicia Keyes - The Diary of Alicia Keyes
5. Animal Collective - Feels
6. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
7. The Anniversary - Your Majesty
8. At The Drive-In - Relationship in Command
9. Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
10. Beck - Guero
11. Black Rebel Motorcycle - Black Rebel Motorcycle
12. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
13. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake and It's Morning
14. Bright Eyes - Cassadega
15. Burial - Untrue
16. Cat Power - The Greatest
17. Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards (Hospital Beds)
18. Cursive - Happy Hollow
19. Cursive - The Ugly Organ (Sierra)
20. Damien Rice - O
21. Danger Mouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
22. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
23. The Darkness - Permission To Land
24. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
25. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (The New Year)
26. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We Are Voting Yes
27. The Decemberists - Her Majesty
28. The Decemberists - Picaresque
29. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
30. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
31. Drive By Truckers - Dirty South
32. Elliott Smith - Basement on the Hill
33. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
34. The Faint - Danse Macabre
35. FELT - A Tribute to Lisa Bonet
36. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
37. The Foo Fighters - There Is Something Left To Lose
38. Fugazi - The Argument
39. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
40. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks
41. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
42. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
43. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
44. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
45. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
46. Iron and Wine/Calexico - In The Reins
47. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
48. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3.0
49. Jay-Z - MTV Unplugged
50. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
51. Joanna Newsom - Ys
52. John Legend - Get Lifted
53. Kayne West - 808s and Heartbreak
54. The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
55. The Knife - Silent Shout
56. The Libertines - The Libertines
57. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
58. Loretta Lynne - Van Leer Rose
59. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
60. M. Ward - Post War
61. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion
62. Mastodon - Leviathon
63. Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
64. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
65. Metallica - Death Magnetic
66. M.I.A. - Arular
67. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
68. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive
69. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
70. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
71. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
72. Mr. Lif - I Phantom
73. Muse - Absolution
74. Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead
75. Neko Case - Fox Confesor Brings The Flood
76. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
77. Okkervil River - Stage Names
78. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
79. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
80. The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
81. Q-Tip - Kamaal: the Abstract
82. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
83. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
84. Radiohead - Amnesiac
85. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
86. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
87. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
88. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
89. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
90. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
91. Santogold - Santogold
92. She and Him - Volume One
93. Sia - Colour The Small One
94. Sigur Ros - ()
95. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (The Ghost of You Lingers)
96. The Strokes - Room On Fire
97. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
98. Talib Kweli - Quality
99. Tapes and Tapes - The Loon
100. Tegan and Sara - The Con
101. Tool - 10,000 Days
102. Tool - Lateralus
103. Travis - The Invisible Band
104. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
105. U2 - How To Build An Atomic Bomb
106. Usher - Confessions
107. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
108. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
109. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
110. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
111. Wilco - The Album
     
     
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