The Audiozine

So last night, BK asked me for a top 10 list of best albums from 2000-2009. Narrowing down such a list is impossibly arbitrary, so the discussion naturally spun out into a broad survey of the last ten years' worth of music. Eventually D.G. Rogge, Sherv/Ramin, and a few other good folks ended up taking part in the discussion and after literally hours of listing albums I think we still managed to leave a lot of good stuff out. Here is a partial sampling of stuff we either discussed or that I would've brought up if time had allowed:

Radiohead – Kid A
The Strokes – Is This It
Beck – Sea Change
White Stripes – White Blood Cells (vs. Elephant?)
Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights
Andrew WK – I Get Wet
Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Justin Timberlake – Justified (vs. Futuresex/Lovesounds)
Neptunes – (compile their top productions onto one disc)
Jay-Z – The Blueprint (vs. The Black Album)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Lil Wayne – (compile his best tracks onto one disc)
Dangermouse – The Grey Album (maybe not for the music itself, but definitely for the cultural impact)
Animal Collective – Feels
Madvillain – Madvillainy
J Dilla – Donuts
Dismemberment Plan – Change
Arthur Russell – (the guy was basically rediscovered this decade…that counts, right?)
Daft Punk – Discovery
MIA – Kala
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Ben Allison – Riding the Nuclear Tiger
Arcade Fire – Funeral (vs. Neon Bible)
TV On The Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain (vs. Dear Science, which is my fav)
Eminem – Slim Shady vs. Marshall Mathers LP?
Aphex Twin – DrukQs
Autechre – Confield
Squarepusher – Ultravisitor
Bjork – Vespertine
Missy Elliott – (compile her best work onto one disc)
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
Kanye West – College Dropout (vs. Late Registration, which I prefer)
Brian Wilson – Smile
Coldplay – (this was the source of much debate)
Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (though my preference is their new disc, “Embryonic”)
System of a Down – Toxicity
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Source Tags and Codes
Mars Volta – De-Loused In The Comatorium
Spoon – Kill The Moonlight (vs. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War

What have we left out? What albums have no right to be on this list? P.S. I can't let go of this decade without mentioning a few of my personal fav albums, namely Zirafa's Turnstyles, Aaron Albin's Echoes of the Past, Orange Drink's Widowmaker, and Smalltown Dogma's Nancy EP. Each of those albums provided me with enormous inspiration. Thanks guys.