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50. Cat Power - You Are Free (2003)


Best Tracks: Good Woman, He War, Names






49. Hawksley Workman - Lover/Fighter (2003)


Best Tracks: We Will Still Need A Song, Anger As Beauty, Even An Ugly Man






48. Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)


Best Tracks: Rise Up With Fists!!!, The Charging Sky, Melt Your Heart





47. Feist - Let It Die (2004)


Best Tracks: Mushaboom, Let It Die, One Evening






46. Matthew Good - Hospital Music (2007)


Best Tracks: Champions of Nothing, Born Losers, Odette





45. Radiohead - Hail To The Theif (2003)


Best Tracks: 2+2=5, There There, A Punch Up at A Wedding






44.M.I.A.- Arular (2005)


Best Tracks: Sunshowers, Bingo, 10 Dollar






43. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)


Best Tracks: Inní mér syngur vitleysingur. Gobbledigook, Ára Bátur





42. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III (2008)


Best Tracks: Shoot Me Down, 3 Pear, Mr. Carter





41. Interpol - Antics (2004)


Best Tracks: Take You On A Cruise, Next Exit, Evil






40. Kanye West - Graduation (2007)


Best Tracks: Good Morning, Flashing Lights, Everything I Am





39.Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (2005)


Best Tracks: Marching Bands of Manhattan, What Sarah Said, Soul Meets Body






38. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State (2003)


Best Tracks: Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid), For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti, The Upper Penisula




37. Kanye West - The College Dropout (2004)


Best Tracks: Spaceship, All Falls Down, Jesus Walks





36. The New Pornographers- Twin Cinema (2005)


Best Tracks: Sing Me Spanish Techno, The Bleeding Heart Show, Use It






35. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)


Best Tracks: The Modern Leper, I Feel Better, Backwards Walk





34. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)


Best Tracks: The World At Large, Float On, Bury Me With It





33. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)


Best Tracks: Spitting Venom, People As Places As People, March Into the Sea






32. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool (2007)


Best Tracks: Hip-Hop Saved My Life (featuring Nikki Jean), Intruder Alert, Little Weapon






31. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)


Best Tracks: Untitled, NYC, Stella Was A Diver and She Was Always Down






30. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (2000)


Best Tracks: Life Like Weeds, Paper Thin Walls, Lives






29. Kanye West - Late Registration (2005)


Best Tracks: Heard ‘Em Say, Touch the Sky, Diamonds From Sierra Leone





28. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (2006)


Best Tracks: The Crane Wife 3, The Island, Sons and Daughters





27. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)


Best Tracks: My Girls, In the Flowers, Summertime Clothes





26. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)


Best Tracks: Re:Stacks, Skinny Love, Blindsided





25. Cat Power - The Greatest (2006)


Best Tracks: Lived in Bars, Living Proof, The Greatest






24.. Matthew Good - VANCOUVER (2009)


Best Tracks: Empty’s Theme Park, The Boy Who Could Explode, The Vancouver National Anthem





23 . Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)


Best Tracks: Title and Registration, Transatlanticism, Lack of Color





22 . Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (2009)


Best Tracks: Siren Song, Daniel, Pearl’s Dream





21 . Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005)


Best Tracks: Like Eating Glass, Pioneers, This Modern Love






20 . Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor (2006)


Best Tracks: The Instrumental , American Terrorist, Hurt Me Soul





19 . Jimmy Eat World - Futures (2004)


Best Tracks: 23, Polaris, Futures





18. Feist - The Reminder (2007)


Best Tracks: 1234, My Moon, My Man, So Sorry





17. The Decemberists - Picaresque (2005)


Best Tracks: The Engine Driver, On the Bus Mall, We Both Go Down Together






16.Sigur Rós - Takk… (2005)


Best Tracks: Saeglópur, Hoppípolla, Glósóli






15.Rilo Kiley - More Adventerous (2004)


Best Tracks: Portions For Foxes, The Absence of God, It’s A Hit






14.Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (2005)


Best Tracks: It’s All Gonna Break, 7/4 (Shoreline), Windsurfing Nation





13.Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being (2001)


Best Tracks: Advertising on Police Cars, Tripoli, Sort of A Protest Song







12.k-os - Joyful Rebellion (2004)


Best Tracks: The Love Song, Crucial, Man I Used to Be






11.Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)


Best Tracks: Modern World, Shine A Light, I’ll Believe in Anything





10. The National - Boxer (2007)


Best Tracks: Fake Empire, Mistaken For Strangers, Slow Show






09. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)


Best Tracks: Videotape, Reckoner, 15 Step





08. M.I.A. - Kala (2007)


Best Tracks: Bamboo Banga, Paper Planes, 20 Dollar







07. The National - Alligator (2005)


Best Tracks: Abel, Mr. November, Secret Meeting





06. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)


Best Tracks: The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!, They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!, Chicago





05. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People (2002)


Best Tracks: Shampoo Suicide, Looks Just Like the Sun, Lover’s Spit, Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl, Almost Crimes






04 .Radiohead - Kid A (2000)


Best Tracks: Motion Picture Soundtrack, How To Disappear Completely, Everything In It’s Right Place, Optimistic, Idioteque






03.Matthew Good - Avalanche (2003)


Best Tracks: Weapon, Avalanche, While We Were Hunting Rabbits, Pledge of Allegiance, Near Fantastica






02.Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

Best Tracks: Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), Haiti, Rebellion (Lies), Wake Up





01 .Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)


Best Tracks: Cautioners, A Praise Chorus, If You Don’t, Don’t, Hear You Me, Bleed American




Yup, Bleed American at #1. Despite the fact that it was raked across the coals by Pitchfork, it was my quintessential album during those early university years. I probably won't have held it such high regard had it been released a few years ago, but the album still holds up today. Jim's dual vocals with Rachel Haden on tracks like "Cautioners" are close to perfection. It's one of the few albums i'd say is consistently strong from top to bottom. I think the album, (and the band in general) are pretty underrated and get unfairly lumped with other pop-rock/emo bands. Chase This Light didn't help to shake that stigma, but i'm hopeful for the new album.

Arcade Fire at #2 was a no-brainer. Avalanche probably would have had that spot if Matt chose to omit "Song for the Girl" from the record but it's easily his best solo record to date. Kid A is everyone's favourite, and with good reason, - being the album that re-invented Radiohead and ushered in the "digital age" of music. In Rainbows was a worthy follow-up in 2007. Both National records were fantastic, Broken Social Scene were one of the best live bands of the decade and thanks in part to it's all star cast featured on You Forgot It In People. M.I.A.'s long awaited follow up to Arular exceeded expectations and propelled her to stardom, thanks to the success of Paper Planes, even though the rest of the album is just as good. And Sufjan Stevens second album in his now abandoned fifty states project was epic. And that's it for list making for a long time.