everyone else has covered most of my list, but i have two to add that i don't think anybody else has mentioned:

heartbreaker - ryan adams
fever to tell - yeah yeah yeahs

My list will seemingly look a lot like others...

10.) Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
9.) Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
8.) Aracade Fire - Funeral
7.) Broken Social Scene - S/T
6.) New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
5.) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4.) The National - Alligator
3.) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2.) Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
1.) The Wrens - Meadowlands


Honorable Mention:
Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
MewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Malajube - Trompe-L'Oeil
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

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The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Animal Collective - Feels
Arcade Fire - Funeral
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Hon. Mention: Gimme Fiction, You Forgot It In People, Blueberry Boat, Person Pitch, Ys, Destroyer's Rubies, Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?, Face the Truth, Black Sheep Boy, The Crane Wife, The Moon & Antarctica, Neon Golden, Boys & Girls in America, The Sunset Tree, The Creek Drank the Cradle, Liars, Drum's Not Dead, The Woods, CYHSY, Everything All the Time, It Still Moves, Z, Chutes Too Narrow, Mclusky Do Dallas, Turn on the Bright Lights, Shut Up I Am Dreaming, Pink, LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver, Boxer, Strange Geometry, Ta Det Lugnt, Bows & Arrows, WWCOHWWG?, You Are Free, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, The Argument, Circulatory System, The Runners Four, Myth Takes, Streethawk: A Seduction, IANAofY&IWBYAss (YLT), Gulag Orkestar, Hail to the Thief, Amnesiac, Murray Street, Kid A, and Think Tank.

Wow, most of my favorites have already been mentioned:

White Blood Cells, Elephant, Arular, Funeral (& now Neon Bible), Chutes Too Narrow, The Moon & Antartica, anything by Spoon, Twin Cinemas, Turn On The Bright Lights, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, CYHSY, Apologies To The Queen Mary, etc.

Personal favorites of mine not mentioned:

The Kills : No Wow.
White Stripes : GBMS, De Stijl.
Isolee : Wearemonster (not indie?)
Cat Power : Covers Record, You Are Free.
Panda Bear : Young Prayer, Person Pitch.
Beck : Sea Change, Guero.

I couldn't limit it to 10 (even without referring to my mp3 player or music library!) so I created a top 25. So, with that said, this is in a rough order (and I'm sure that after I post this, numerous albums are going to pop into my head that I forgot). I'm wondering why their are no Rap album's on here... I'll have to think about that and add a couple on (Fishscale, Hell Hath No Fury, and Tha Carter II seem to be sticking out). Expect this to turn into a top 50:

1. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire- Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
2. Arcade Fire- Funeral (2004)
3. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
4. Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
5. Daft Punk- Discovery (2001)
6. Sonic Youth- Sonic Nurse (2004)
7. Blonde Redhead- 23 (2007)
8. of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
9. Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2004)
10. Fugazi- The Argument (2001)
11. The Magnetic Fields- i (2004)
12. Long Blondes- Someone to Drive You Home (2006)
13. McLusky- McLusky Do Dallas (2002)
14. Arctic Monkeys- Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
15. The Knife- Silent Shout (2006)
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever to Tell (2003)
17. LCD Soundsystem- s/t (2005)
18. The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
19. Joanna Newsom- Ys (2006)
20. Sleater Kinney- The Woods (2005)
21. Mastodon- Leviathan (2004)
22. Ghostface Killah- Fishscale (2006)
23. Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt (2005)
24. Ellen Allien & Apparat- Orchestra of Bubbles (2006)
25. The Strokes- Is This It? (2001)

P.S. Yes, I know, 3 out of my top 8 of this year are on here. And yes, one of my current favorites (and soon to be my most listened album of the year) is not on here (Liars' self-titled album), but I suspect it will get added soon. I wanna let it sit and see how it holds up for a while.

And I also complete left off every Spoon album because I couldn't make up my mind on which to put where and figured that every one of their albums would wind up here.. so, I just barred them form my list. Sorry Spoon!

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ok , 10 of them...

-The Strokes – Is This It?
-Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am,That's What I'm Not
-The Libertines – Up The Bracket
-Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
-Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
-The White Stripes – Elephant
-The Unicorns - Who will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
-Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
-The Rapture – Echoes

suposse that i can come back with another 10...

-Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
-The Coral – The Coral
-Arcade Fire – Funeral
-Block Party – Silent Alarm
-Islands – Return To The Sea
-Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
-The Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
-The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
-Queens Of The Stone Age - songs for the deaf

No particular order, ones I haven't seen yet.

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
The Decemberists - Castaways And Cutouts
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Quasimoto - The Unseen
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Iron & Wine - Our Endless, Numbered Days

Ágætis Byrjun removed because I remembered it was originally released on a small Icelandic label in 1999.

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I couldn't possibly rank these albums since I love them all so much, so here they are in random order:

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Arcade Fire - Funeral
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
Fugazi - The Argument
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

Where's the love for Bows + Arrows people???

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Originally posted by sk:
ok , 10 of them...

-The Strokes – Is This It?
-Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am,That's What I'm Not
-The Libertines – Up The Bracket
-Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
-Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
-The White Stripes – Elephant
-The Unicorns - Who will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
-Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
-The Rapture – Echoes

Ohhh crap, I forgot the Rapture's "Mirror EP"!!!

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Originally posted by TotalTrash:
Where's the love for Bows + Arrows people???

It's pretty awful?

quote:

Originally posted by Jglass:
I'm wondering why their are no Rap album's on here... I'll have to think about that and add a couple on (Fishscale, Hell Hath No Fury, and Tha Carter II seem to be sticking out).

This IS the INDIE ROCK forum...

Yeah, not quite sure how Ghostface Killah, Clipse, or Lil Wayne qualify as indie.

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Originally posted by BContrat:

quote:

Originally posted by Jglass:
I'm wondering why their are no Rap album's on here... I'll have to think about that and add a couple on (Fishscale, Hell Hath No Fury, and Tha Carter II seem to be sticking out).

This IS the INDIE ROCK forum...

I pulled that straight from my blog because I didn't want to make a separate list. If we want to go straight "indie" then how do the majority of mine qualify? I'd have to remove Ellen Allien & Apparat, Daft Punk, Flaming Lips, LCD SS, Wilco, The Knife, and Mastodon. If not more. Chill out and just mentally strike out the ones you don't feel fit.

That's one of the interesting things about this thread: we get to find out a little more about people's definition of "Indie". No point in getting into a discussion about it here, though. One look at someone's list and you probably know how they feel about the subject.

Destroyer- Destroyer's Rubies
Architecture in Helsinki- In Case We Die
Tokyo Police Club- Lesson in Crime
Animal Collective- Sung tongs
Most serene Republic- Underwater Cinematographer
Peter and the Wolf- Lightness
John Rae and the River- khnow what you need
Rock Plaza Central- Are we not horses?
Sufjan Stevens- Seven swans
Andrew Bird- Mysterious Production of Eggs
Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy

In no particular order:

Radiohead - Kid A
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Andrew Bird - Mysterious Productions of Eggs
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Good to see so many people posting The Notwist, Okkervil River, and The Unicorns. Some of my faves of the last decade are:

Black Lips- Let It Bloom
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Belong- October Language
The Microphones- Mt. Eerie EP
Lansing Dreiden- The Incomplete Triangle
Papercuts- Mockingbird
Ideal Free Distribution- Self Titled
Fantomas- Delirium Cordia
Landing- Sphere
The Robot Ate Me- Carousel Waltz

And what's the point of going negative and telling people that in a thread called "Top 10 Indie Must Haves Of The Naughts" they can't post their favorite albums hip-hop or otherwise. Yes it's the Indie-Rock forum, but where else on this site can you post about independant and experimental music? I say as long as no one is trying to pass off the latest pop video starlet as their fave "indie" release, the only criteria should be:

1. Album is from 2000 and beyond
2. Artist, regardless of genre affiliation, must have some kind of connection to independant, experimental, self release, smaller labels, etc.
[Another way to say point to: ARGUABLY not mainstream]
3. Must Be A "Must Have Album"

Boy, I think I just gave myself a hedache typing all that. Also, although I didn't add it to my list one of my favorite releases of this decade is that Deltron 3030 album. If we aren't going to allow people to post about albums like that in this topic, why have this thread at all?

My personal choices:

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youths, Blood Thirsty Babes
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Fugazi - The Argument