If I could have only bought ten albums since 2000 they would have been as follows:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Wrens - Meadowlands
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy + Appendix
Subtle - For Hero:For Fool
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Radiohead - Kid A
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Explosions in the Sky - Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
The National - Boxer

In no particular order. They probably could have satisfied my musical interests for a few years.

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Originally posted by Vypa:

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:
I've got a new and slightly revamped list:

2001
Fennesz - Endless Summer

2002
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2004
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me

2005
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

2006
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

2007
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

It's fairly obvious that I'm obsessed with The Hold Steady...

Did you drop the Wrens? If so, booooooo!

Yeah, I did drop the Wrens, Challengers, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for Almost Killed Me, The Slow Wonder and Random Spirit Lover.

Have no fear, The Meadowlands is still my favorite record of 2003.

I would have kept Clap Your Hands, as I believe it's one the best albums of all time. But then again, I'm not you. At least I don't think so.

I'm gonna do my list year-by-year like LR:

2000:

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

2001:

The Strokes - Is this it?
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

2002:


2003:

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

2004:

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

2005:

Okkervil River - Blacksheep Boy

2006:

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Destroyer - Rubies

It's tough to be pinned down to 10 albums, but regardless, this is a list I could live with for a long time.

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Originally posted by goathouse:
I would have kept Clap Your Hands, as I believe it's one the best albums of all time. But then again, I'm not you. At least I don't think so.

I also love it, as it was for a while in my top 10 of the '00s and is still in, say, my top 15.

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Originally posted by ezkcdude:
I'm gonna do my list year-by-year like LR:

2000:

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

2001:

The Strokes - Is this it?
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

2002:


2003:

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

2004:

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

2005:

Okkervil River - Blacksheep Boy

2006:

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Destroyer - Rubies

It's tough to be pinned down to 10 albums, but regardless, this is a list I could live with for a long time.

Nice to see Mew in there. I don't know if it would have made my top 10 of the decade, but it's a great album.

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:

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Originally posted by goathouse:
I would have kept Clap Your Hands, as I believe it's one the best albums of all time. But then again, I'm not you. At least I don't think so.

I also love it, as it was for a while in my top 10 of the '00s and is still in, say, my top 15.

I was hoping you might take my hint and help clear up my confusion about whether or not I'm you. I'm still not really sure and I'm starting to get a little stressed about it.

ok ill do a yearly one now-
2000:

2001: Is This It

2002: Turn on the Bright Lights, You Forgot it in People

2003: Chutes too Narrow

2004: Funeral

2005: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Apologies to the Queen Mary, Twin Cinema

2006: Return to the Sea

2007: Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?

Yearly...

2000: Kid A
2001: Tyranny of Distance
2002: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: Give Up
2004: Funeral
2005: Twin Cinema
2006: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2007: Boxer

Featured in these forums only so that people will look here first before we get a thousand more “I need suggestions” and “looking for new bands/albums” threads.

I was thinking more along the lines of one thread at the top titled "Looking for Indie Recommendations?" Then you could post your spiel about how there are dozens of threads and post all the links. Just a thought.

2001
Fennesz - Endless Summer

2002
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2004
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me

2005
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

2006
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

2007
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

2008
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

I guess I will name my favorite albums of the 2000s since they are all indie in their own special way:

1. Peter and the Wolf - "Lightness"
2. The Hold Steady - "Boys and Girls in America"
3. Okkervil River - "Black Sheep Boy"
4. The Mountain Goats - "The Sunset Tree"
5. Breathe Owl Breathe - "Canadian Shield"
6. Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
7. Songs: Ohia - "Magnolia Electric Co."
8. The Handsome Family - "Singing Bones"
9. Silver Jews - "Bright Flight"
10. Okkervil River - "The Stage Names"

Some of these might not fall under the indie rock label, but these have been my most listened to and loved albums of the 2000s.

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Originally posted by typewriter:
1.Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
3. Black Keys - Rubber Factory
4. YYYs - Fever to Tell
5. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album (I think Transatlanticism is their worst album actually..I could never get into it)
6. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
7. Radiohead - Kid A
8. Modest Mouse - Moon and Anartica
9. Beck - Guero
10. Scissor Sisters - s/t

What is the Scissor Sisters s/t. Sorry its off topic but I've never heard of it.

Hmm.

I'm just gonna put 12 (?) out there, in no particular order...

- The White Stripes : Elephant.
- The Blood Brothers : Crimes.
- Tom Waits : Alice.
- Radiohead : Kid A.
- Panda Bear : Person Pitch.
- Of Montreal : Hissing Fauna...
- Beck : Guero.
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t.
- Bjork : Vespertine.
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Fever To Tell.
- Modest Mouse : The Moon & Antartica.
- M.I.A. : Arular.

Honorable Mentions:
Isolee : Wearemonster.
Broken Social Scene : You Forgot It In People.
The Books : The Lemon Of Pink.
Missy Elliott : Miss E... So Addictive.
Loretta Lynn : Van Lear Rose.
Spoon : Kill The Moonlight.
Joanna Newsom : Ys.
The Shins : Chutes Too Narrow.
Queens Of The Stone Age : Songs For The Deaf.
Madvillain : Madvillainy.


Perhaps I shoul've just made a top 20 list...

Oh well.

Not including 2008 records:

1.Arcade Fire - Funeral
2.Deerhoof - Reveille
3.Cloud Cult -Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus
4.Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
5.Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6.Circulatory System - Circulatory System
7.The National - Boxer
8.Tocotronic - Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen
9.The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
10.New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

Had to check my record collection there..Probably forgot a few records..

That Circulatory System is pretty killer.

Almost everything I have read on this thread is essential in one way or another. These are pretty much some of my favourite albums of all time in semi-order:

The Kallikak Family – May 23rd 2007 (2005)
Microphones – Mount Eerie (2003)
Eluvium – Talk Amongst the Trees (2005)
Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
Red House Painters – Old Ramon (2001)
Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker (2000)
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (2003)
Animal Collective – Hollinndagain (2002)
Joanna Newsom – Ys (2006)
THe Fun Years - Life-Sized Psychoses (2007)

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Interesting list, sicnarf. I'm surprised to see MIcrophones, Ryan Adams and Lightning Bolt all jumpbled into the same one. You have eclectic taste, obviously.

Personally, I'd have to go with Eluvium's Lambent Material as more of a must have than Talk Amongst Trees, but I agree pretty good list Sicnarf. Can you say anymore about Kallikak Family or The Fun Years. I've never heard of 'em.