Pitchfork - People's List

  1. SIGUR RÓS ( )
  2. THE STROKES Room on Fire
  3. WILCO Summerteeth
  4. ELLIOTT SMITH XO
  5. JUSTICE †
  6. DEERHUNTER Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
  7. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
  8. FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues
  9. THE KNIFE Silent Shout
  10. OUTKAST Aquemini
  11. TV ON THE RADIO Return to Cookie Mountain
  12. BUILT TO SPILL Keep it Like a Secret
  13. AIR Moon Safari
  14. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra
  15. OUTKAST Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
  16. KANYE WEST Graduation
  17. WOLF PARADE Apologies to the Queen Mary
  18. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem
  19. THE ANTLERS Hospice
  20. JAY-Z The Black Album
  21. OF MONTREAL Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
  22. SPOON Kill the Moonlight
  23. SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
  24. M.I.A. Kala
  25. GIRLS Album
  26. THE MICROPHONES The Glow, Pt. 2
  27. JOANNA NEWSOM Ys
  28. APHEX TWIN The Richard D. James Album
  29. THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN Emergency and I
  30. BUILT TO SPILL Perfect from Now On
  31. GRIZZLY BEAR Yellow House
  32. INTERPOL Antics
  33. M83 Saturdays=Youth
  34. THE WEEKND House of Balloons
  35. BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY I See a Darkness
  36. BLUR 13
  37. J DILLA Donuts
  38. ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy
  39. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FutureSex/LoveSounds
  40. DESTROYER Kaputt
  41. FEIST The Reminder
  42. RYAN ADAMS Heartbreaker
  43. WEEZER Pinkerton
  44. IRON & WINE Our Endless Numbered Days
  45. REAL ESTATE Days
  46. EMINEM The Marshall Mathers LP
  47. GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost
  48. FLYING LOTUS Cosmogramma
  49. ELLIOTT SMITH Figure 8
  50. PJ HARVEY Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
  51. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
  52. JAY-Z / KANYE WEST Watch the Throne
  53. SUFJAN STEVENS The Age of Adz
  54. CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles
  55. BAND OF HORSES Everything All the Time
  56. SLEIGH BELLS Treats
  57. JAPANDROIDS Post-Nothing
  58. YO LA TENGO And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
  59. BATTLES Mirrored
  60. MY MORNING JACKET Z
  61. BJÖRK Vespertine
  62. TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor
  63. GORILLAZ Plastic Beach
  64. SUFJAN STEVENS Seven Swans
  65. PJ HARVEY Let England Shake
  66. ST. VINCENT Actor
  67. TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l
  68. JOANNA NEWSOM The Milk-Eyed Mender
  69. THE UNICORNS Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
  70. CARIBOU Swim
  71. PASSION PIT Manners
  72. THE HOLD STEADY Boys and Girls in America
  73. TAME IMPALA Innerspeaker
  74. CAT POWER You Are Free
  75. THE WALKMEN Bows and Arrows
  76. SPOON Gimme Fiction
  77. BECK Midnite Vultures
  78. BEACH HOUSE Devotion
  79. YEAH YEAH YEAHS It's Blitz
  80. WILCO Being There
  81. SILVER JEWS American Water
  82. FUGAZI The Argument
  83. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Twin Cinema
  84. FEVER RAY Fever Ray
  85. GRANDADDY The Sophtware Slump
  86. D'ANGELO VooDoo
  87. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Before Today
  88. BEIRUT The Flying Club Cup
  89. THE STREETS Original Pirate Material
  90. MOGWAI Young Team
  91. …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD Source Tags & Codes
  92. M.I.A. Arular
  93. TOM WAITS Mule Variations
  94. JOANNA NEWSOM Have One on Me
  95. THE DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife
  96. BOARDS OF CANADA Geogaddi
  97. FRANK OCEAN Nostalgia, Ultra.
  98. GHOSTFACE KILLAH Supreme Clientele
  99. THE LIBERTINES Up the Bracket
  100. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Wild Hunt
  101. ROBYN Body Talk
  102. JANELLE MONÁE The ArchAndroid
  103. KURT VILE Smoke Ring For My Halo
  104. THE RAPTURE Echoes
  105. ANDREW BIRD Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
  106. KANYE WEST 808s and Heartbreak
  107. CLIPSE Hell Hath No Fury
  108. BIG BOI Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
  109. TV ON THE RADIO Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
  110. STEREOLAB Emperor Tomato Ketchup
  111. THE WRENS The Meadowlands
  112. MY MORNING JACKET It Still Moves
  113. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Mass Romantic
  114. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
  115. DEERHUNTER Cryptograms
  116. SPOON Girls Can Tell
  117. M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
  118. BRIGHT EYES Fevers and Mirrors
  119. GIRL TALK Feed the Animals
  120. SANTOGOLD Santogold
  121. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit
  122. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours
  123. THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  124. DRAKE Take Care
  125. JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala