Orchestra Baobab2009; (Still in progress)
1 Alela Diane - To Be Still
2 Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
3 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5 Dez Mona - Hilfe Kommt
6 Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World
7 The Veils - Sun Gangs
8 Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW
9 Soulsavers - Broken
10 A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
11 Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
12 Archive - Controlling Crowds
13 Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones
14 The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
15 Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad Of John Henry
2008;
1 Grace Jones - Hurricane
2 Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
3 Portishead - Third
4 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
5 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6 Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
7 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
8 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
9 Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
10 Barry Adamson - Back To The Cat
11 Lulu Rouge - Bless you
12 Shearwater - Rook
13 Calexico - Carried To Dust
14 Herman Düne - Next Year in Zion
15 The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
2007;
1 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
2 The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs
3 Radiohead - In Rainbows
4 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
5 Bruce Springsteen - Magic
6 Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
7 The Angels of Light - We Are Him
8 Adrian Orange & Her Band - Adrian Orange & Her Band
9 The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
10 Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
11 Tinariwen - Aman Iman; Water Is Life
12 Okkervil River - The Stage Names
13 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
14 Editors - An End Has An Start
15 Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight And Dark
2006;
1 Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
2 Tom Waits - Orphans
3 Ray LaMontagne - 'Till The Sun Turns Black
4 Alela Diane - The Pirate's Gospel
5 !!! - Myth Takes
6 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
7 Burial - Burial
8 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
9 Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
10 Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard De L'independance
11 Oneida - Happy New Year
12 Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
13 Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
14 The Black Angels - Passover
15 Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
2005;
1 Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
2 Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
3 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
4 Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
5 The Kills - No Wow
6 Black Mountain - Black Mountain
7 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
8 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
9 Ali Farka Touré - In the Heart of the Moon
10 Gorillaz - Demon Days
11 El Michels Affair - Sounding Out the City
12 Tosca - J.A.C.
13 Alice Russell - My Favourite Letters
14 Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story
15 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2004;
1 Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
3 Björk - Medúlla
4 Los Lobos - The Ride
5 Madvillain - Madvillainy
6 Zita Swoon - A Song About a Girls
7 The Roots - The Tipping Point
8 Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
9 Electrelane - The Power Out
10 J.J. Cale - To Tulsa and Back
11 Kings of Convenience - Riot On Empty Street
12 Ozomatli - Street Signs
13 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
14 Mory Kante - Sabou
15 Razorlight - Up All Night
2003;
1 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
2 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
3 The White Stripes - Elephant
4 Lhasa - The Living Road
5 Hieroglyphics - Full Circle
6 Calexico - Feast of Wire
7 A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts - Tricka Technology
8 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
9 Amy Winehouse - Frank
10 Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
11 Tindersticks - Waiting for the Moon
12 Vetiver - Vetiver
13 Kelis - Tasty
14 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buenos Hermanos
15 Rufus Wainwright - Want One
2002;
1 N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
2 Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
3 Missy Elliott - Under Construction
4 Peter Gabriel - Up
5 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6 Orchestra Baobab - Specialist In All Styles
7 Moloko - Statues
8 Clinic - Walking With Thee
9 Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
10 Spinvis - Spinvis
11 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
12 Archive - You All Look The Same To Me
13 Sigur Rós - ( )
14 Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
15 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2001;
1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
2 Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion; Esperanza
3 Tinariwen - The Radio Tisdas Sessions
4 Angie Stone - Mahogany Soul
5 Gorillaz - Gorillaz
6 Rufus Wainwright - Poses
7 The Strokes - Is This It
8 Noir Désir - Des visages des figures
9 Björk - Vespertine
10 Yann Tiersen - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
11 Bilal - 1st Born Second
12 Gomez - Liquid Skin
13 Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres
14 Angels Of Light - How I Loved You
15 Fanfare Ciocarlia - Iag Bari
2000;
1 Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
2 U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
3 Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott?
4 Antony and the Johnsons - Antony and the Johnsons
5 Radiohead - Kid A
6 Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
7 Amon Tobin - Supermodified
8 A Silver Mt. Zion - He has left us alone, but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms
9 16 Horsepower - Secret South
10 Jurrasic 5 - quality control
11 Rubén González - Chanchullo
12 D'Angelo - Voodoo
13 Elevator Suite - Barefoot & Shitfaced
14 Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
15 The Avalanches - Since I Left You
See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29
Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29
Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29
Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29
Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29
1 Alela Diane - To Be Still
2 Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
3 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5 Dez Mona - Hilfe Kommt
6 Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World
7 The Veils - Sun Gangs
8 Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW
9 Soulsavers - Broken
10 A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
11 Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
12 Archive - Controlling Crowds
13 Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones
14 The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
15 Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad Of John Henry
2008;
1 Grace Jones - Hurricane
2 Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
3 Portishead - Third
4 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
5 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6 Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
7 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
8 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
9 Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
10 Barry Adamson - Back To The Cat
11 Lulu Rouge - Bless you
12 Shearwater - Rook
13 Calexico - Carried To Dust
14 Herman Düne - Next Year in Zion
15 The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
2007;
1 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
2 The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs
3 Radiohead - In Rainbows
4 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
5 Bruce Springsteen - Magic
6 Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
7 The Angels of Light - We Are Him
8 Adrian Orange & Her Band - Adrian Orange & Her Band
9 The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
10 Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
11 Tinariwen - Aman Iman; Water Is Life
12 Okkervil River - The Stage Names
13 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
14 Editors - An End Has An Start
15 Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight And Dark
2006;
1 Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
2 Tom Waits - Orphans
3 Ray LaMontagne - 'Till The Sun Turns Black
4 Alela Diane - The Pirate's Gospel
5 !!! - Myth Takes
6 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
7 Burial - Burial
8 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
9 Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
10 Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard De L'independance
11 Oneida - Happy New Year
12 Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
13 Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
14 The Black Angels - Passover
15 Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
2005;
1 Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
2 Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
3 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
4 Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
5 The Kills - No Wow
6 Black Mountain - Black Mountain
7 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
8 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
9 Ali Farka Touré - In the Heart of the Moon
10 Gorillaz - Demon Days
11 El Michels Affair - Sounding Out the City
12 Tosca - J.A.C.
13 Alice Russell - My Favourite Letters
14 Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story
15 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2004;
1 Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
3 Björk - Medúlla
4 Los Lobos - The Ride
5 Madvillain - Madvillainy
6 Zita Swoon - A Song About a Girls
7 The Roots - The Tipping Point
8 Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
9 Electrelane - The Power Out
10 J.J. Cale - To Tulsa and Back
11 Kings of Convenience - Riot On Empty Street
12 Ozomatli - Street Signs
13 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
14 Mory Kante - Sabou
15 Razorlight - Up All Night
2003;
1 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
2 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
3 The White Stripes - Elephant
4 Lhasa - The Living Road
5 Hieroglyphics - Full Circle
6 Calexico - Feast of Wire
7 A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts - Tricka Technology
8 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
9 Amy Winehouse - Frank
10 Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
11 Tindersticks - Waiting for the Moon
12 Vetiver - Vetiver
13 Kelis - Tasty
14 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buenos Hermanos
15 Rufus Wainwright - Want One
2002;
1 N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
2 Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
3 Missy Elliott - Under Construction
4 Peter Gabriel - Up
5 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6 Orchestra Baobab - Specialist In All Styles
7 Moloko - Statues
8 Clinic - Walking With Thee
9 Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
10 Spinvis - Spinvis
11 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
12 Archive - You All Look The Same To Me
13 Sigur Rós - ( )
14 Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
15 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2001;
1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
2 Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion; Esperanza
3 Tinariwen - The Radio Tisdas Sessions
4 Angie Stone - Mahogany Soul
5 Gorillaz - Gorillaz
6 Rufus Wainwright - Poses
7 The Strokes - Is This It
8 Noir Désir - Des visages des figures
9 Björk - Vespertine
10 Yann Tiersen - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
11 Bilal - 1st Born Second
12 Gomez - Liquid Skin
13 Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres
14 Angels Of Light - How I Loved You
15 Fanfare Ciocarlia - Iag Bari
2000;
1 Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
2 U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
3 Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott?
4 Antony and the Johnsons - Antony and the Johnsons
5 Radiohead - Kid A
6 Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
7 Amon Tobin - Supermodified
8 A Silver Mt. Zion - He has left us alone, but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms
9 16 Horsepower - Secret South
10 Jurrasic 5 - quality control
11 Rubén González - Chanchullo
12 D'Angelo - Voodoo
13 Elevator Suite - Barefoot & Shitfaced
14 Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
15 The Avalanches - Since I Left You
See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29
Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29
Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29
Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29
Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29
