According to Seattle’s KEXP. Whattya think? Do we agree??
Rank Artist Album Label Year
1 Arcade Fire Funeral Merge (2004)
2 Radiohead Kid A Capitol (2000)
3 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Nonesuch (2002)
4 Radiohead In Rainbows ATO (2007)
5 Sufjan Stevens Illinois Asthmatic Kitty (2005)
6 Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism Barsuk (2003)
7 The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Warner Bros (2002)
8 Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica Epic (2000)
9 Band of Horses Everything All the Time Sub Pop (2006)
10 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Sub Pop (2008)
11 The Strokes Is This It RCA (2001)
12 The National Boxer Beggars Banquet (2007)
13 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow Sub Pop (2003)
14 Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights Matador (2002)
15 The White Stripes Elephant V2 (2003)
16 The Postal Service Give Up Sub Pop (2003)
17 LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver Capitol (2007)
18 Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Anti- (2006)
19 Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge (2007)
20 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Domino (2009)
21 PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From the Sea Island (2000)
22 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People Arts & Crafts/Paper Bag (2003)
23 The Wrens The Meadowlands Absolutely Kosher (2003)
24 The White Stripes White Blood Cells Sympathy for the Record Industry (2001)
25 Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun Fatcat (2001)
26 Sigur Ros Takk Geffen (2005)
27 Radiohead Amnesiac Capitol (2001)
28 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell Interscope (2003)
29 Beck Sea Change DGC (2002)
30 Radiohead Hail to the Thief Capitol (2003)
31 Bjork Vespertine Elektra (2001)
32 Elliott Smith Figure 8 Dreamworks (2000)
33 Amy Winehouse Back to Black Universal Republic (2007)
34 Beck Guero Interscope (2005)
35 TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain Touch and Go (2006)
36 Neko Case Blacklisted Bloodshot (2002)
37 Shins Oh, Inverted World Sub Pop (2001)
38 Bright Eyes I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning Saddle Creek (2005)
39 Bloc Party Silent Alarm Vice (2005)
40 Ryan Adams Heartbreaker Bloodshot (2000)
41 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America Vagrant (2006)
42 Death Cab for Cutie Plans Atlantic (2005)
43 Outkast Stankonia LaFace / Arista (2000)
44 Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News Epic (2004)
46 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah self-released (2005)
47 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not Domino (2006)
48 Sigur Ros ( ) Fat Cat (2002)
49 The Decemberists The Crane Wife Capitol (2006)
50 M.I.A. Arular XL (2005)
51 Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary Sub Pop (2005)
52 Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak RCA (2005)
53 Spoon Gimme Fiction Merge (2005)
54 Spoon Kill the Moonlight Merge (2002)
55 Devotchka How It Ends Cicero (2004)
56 Nada Surf Let Go Barsuk (2003)
57 My Morning Jacket Z ATO/ RCA (2005)
58 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend XL (2008)
59 Band of Horses Cease to Begin Sub Pop (2007)
60 Beirut The Flying Club Cup Ba Da Bing (2007)
61 M.I.A. Kala Interscope (2007)
62 TV on the Radio Dear Science Interscope (2008)
63 The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree 4AD (2005)
64 The Knife Silent Shout Mute (2006)
65 Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Saddle Creek (2002)
66 Beirut Gulag Orkestar Ba Da Bing! (2006)
67 Mclusky Mclusky Do Dallas Too Pure (2002)
68 Interpol Antics Matador (2004)
69 The Decemberists Picaresque Kill Rock Stars (2005)
70 The Black Keys Rubber Factory Fat Possum (2004)
71 The Black Angels Passover Light in the Attic (2006)
72 Grizzly Bear Yellow House Warp (2006)
73 Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Fat Possum (2007)
74 Silversun Pickups Carnavas Dangerbird (2006)
75 Wilco Sky Blue Sky Nonesuch (2007)
76 My Morning Jacket It Still Moves ATO/RCA (2003)
77 Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Merge (2007)
78 The Shins Wincing the Night Away Sub Pop (2007)
79 Panda Bear Person Pitch Paw Tracks (2007)
80 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Glassnote (2009)
81 Built to Spill You in Reverse Warner Bros (2006)
82 Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days Sub Pop (2004)
83 The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics Warner Bros (2006)
84 Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere Downtown (2006)
85 The Thermals The Body The Blood The Machine Sub Pop (2006)
86 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Domino (2004)
87 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago Jagjaguwar (2008)
88 Tom Waits Orphans Anti- (2006)
89 Animal Collective Strawberry Jam Domino (2007)
90 Peter Bjorn and John Writer’s Block Wichita (2006)
90.3 Portishead Third Mercury (2008)
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