For comparison here are the number of albums and songs in the Acclaimed Music top 100, 500, 1000 and overall;

Albums

2000 - 0 in the top 100, 4 in the top 500, 18 in the top 1000 and 38 overall
2001 - 1 in the top 100 (Is This It), 4 in the top 500, 8 in the top 1000 and 44 overall
2002 - 0 in the top 100, 6 in the top 500, 16 in the top 1000 and 38 overall
2003 - 0 in the top 100, 5 in the top 500, 9 in the top 1000 and 43 overall
2004 - 1 in the top 100 (Franz Ferdinand), 5 in the top 500, 17 in the top 1000 and 43 overall
2005 - 1 in the top 100 (Illnoise), 6 in the top 500, 14 in the top 1000 and 43 overall


songs
2000 - 0 in the top 100, 5 in the top 500, 8 in the top 1000 and 36 overall
2001 - 1 in the top 100 ("Get Ur Freak On"), 4 in the top 500, 11 in the top 1000 and 39 overall
2002 - 0 in the top 100, 3 in the top 500, 13 in the top 1000 and 35 overall
2003 - 2 in the top 100 ("Hey Ya!" at 47 and "Crazy In Love"), 7 in the top 500, 12 in the top 1000 and 31 overall
2004 - 1 in the top 100 ("Take Me Out"), 3 in the top 500, 10 in the top 1000 and 39 overall
2005 - 0 in the top 100 , 3 in the top 500, 11 in the top 1000 and 28 overall


Seems to suggest that 2000, 2002 and 2004 had a wealth of albums that are considered great but haven't been ordained as modern classics in the way that The Strokes, Franz, Arcade Fire etc have been. With singles again 2002 has a strong selection of really really good songs but nonw that really jump out as best of the decade contenders ("Can't Get You Out Of My Head" is 2001.)

So this is backing up my thoughts of 2002 which for me while there are only two albums that are in my most recent top 100 (Original Pirate Material and The Last Broadcast) there are plenty of others sitting just outside of it across a great variety of genres. Even the NME's EOY looked quite good this year bar the top two. Tied into this I have a 2002 double CD best of (which I may make available on here) which has not an ounce of fat on it.

So 2002 for me, what say you but more importantly WHY?

BTW my choice was not based on these figures I'm just throwing them up for discussion. While I disagree with the fact that only three albums this decade are worthy of being in the all time top three I think that those three would be among the first suggested as being near universal suggestions. Same with the singles.

No Brainer.
2002
Any one of these might have been my #1 album of 2005.

Desaperacidos- Read Music, Speak Spanish
Boards of Canada- Geogaddi
Super Furry Animals- Rings Around the World
The White Stripes- White Blood Cells
Divine Comedy- Regeneration
Sleater-Kinney- One Beat
Sonic Youth- Murray Street
The Streets- Original Pirate Material
Beck- Sea Change
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I know that SFA is 2002 in the US but White Blood Cells is def 2001 worldwide.

2003>2004>2002>20001>2000>2005

More importantly, why?

Even without White Stripes, I think my list speaks for itself. That's a classic year.

It does, I meant Artem.

It's hard for me to make a call. Every year there are 2-3 albums I really really love, and then couple dozen that I enjoy. Though my favorite 4 records of the decade are in 2002-2003, so I'll put the slight peak right in the middle of the half decade.

I just culled the tops of my year-by-year best-of lists, and as expected, it's 2003. I'd have to do a really in-depth review and go back to 2000, 2001, and 2002 to get a better gauge, though.

2003 (great singles, great albums) >>> 2005 (great singles, very good albums) > 2001 (very good singles, pretty good albums) >> 2004 (very good singles, very good albums) > 2002 (great singles, decent albums) >> 2000 (good singles, decent albums)

2000: Three 6 Mafia – Sippin’ On Some Syrup, Outkast – Bombs Over Baghdad, Daft Punk – One More Time, Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Intro / Most Wanted, Future Bible Heroes – I’m Lonely (and I Love It); Luomo – Vocal City, Pole – 3, Delgados – The Great Eastern

2001: Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, The Avalanches – Since I Left You, Basement Jaxx – Jus 1 Kiss, Daft Punk – Digital Love, Nelly – Ride Wit Me; The Avalanches – Since I Left You, Ludacris – Word of Mouf, Piano Magic – Seasonally Affective

2002: Le Knight Club – Soul Bells, Lady Stush – Dollar Sign, Archigram – Carnaval, S.I. Futures – Eurostar, Thomas Fehlmann – Du Fehlst Mir; Stew – The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs, Streets – Original Pirate Material, Cornelius – Point

2003: Ce’Cile – Rude Boy Thug Life, Scissor Sisters – Comfortably Numb, R Kelly – Ignition (Remix), 50 Cent – In Da Club, Vybz Kartel – Sweet to the Belly; The Knife – Deep Cuts, Ulrich Schnauss – Strangely Isolated Place, Jay-Z – The Black Album

2004: The Knife – Heartbeats, Girls Aloud – The Show, Mannie Fresh – Real Big, Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Rubicon / Arena / Crystal City, Shapeshifters – Lola’s Theme; Girls Aloud – What Will the Neighbours Say? Lansing-Dreiden – The Incomplete Triangle, Swayzak – Loops From the Bergerie

2005: Feist – Inside and Out / Inside and Out (Ewan Pearson Remix), Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch, T.I. – A.S.A.P., Ada – Blondix 2 (Maps (Thomas/Mayer Remix) / Cool My Fire (Erelend Oye Remix)), Bobby Valentino – Slow Down; Out Hud – Let Us Never Speak Of It Again, The Russian Futurists – Our Thickness, Isolee – We Are Monster

2002.

Why?


Decembers Child - Mark Olson
Original Pirate Material - the Streets
Sea Change - Beck
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot



All of those records I consider classics that still get played regularly.

2003.

The Strokes - Room on Fire
The Rain Band - s/t

2002 for YHF, Interpol, Trail of Dead, Sea Change, and the year I started to understand this whole indie music thing.

But for shits and gigles, my albums of the year for this decade

2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: The Strokes - Is This It
2002: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

2000
01. radiohead - kid a
02. modest mouse - moon & antarctica
03. d'angelo - voodoo
04. outkast - stankonia
05. godspeed you black emperor! - lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaves

this year had very few good albums released, but of those that were released most turned out to be truly classics of this decade. i like 2000, but my only problem with that year is that there aren't that many albums in it. i don't even have a top 10 for that year. i only bought 8 albums from that year.

2001
01. radiohead - amnesiac
02. jay-z - the blueprint
03. daft punk - discovery
04. the strokes - is this it
05. the white stripes - white blood cells
06. the avalanches - since i left you
07. the shins - oh, inverted world
08. aphex twin - druqks
09. basement jaxx - rooty
10. the silver mt. zion memorial orchestra & tra-la-la band - born into trouble as the sparks fly upward

a bit better than the previous year. again, filled with classics.

2002
01. interpol - turn on the bright lights
02. sigur ros - ( )
03. lars - they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
04. the streets - oroginal pirate material
05. rjd2 - deadringer
06. the flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
07. wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
08. the notwist - neon golden
09. missy elliott - under construction
10. beck - sea change

this is where decade picks it up. very diverse year too. so many great albums that my top 10 for it constantly changes.

2003
01. radiohead - hail to the thief
02. jay-z - the black album
03. my morning jacket - it still moves
04. the white stripes - elephant
05. outkast - speakerbox/the love below
06. explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
07. british sea power - the decline of the british sea power
08. the darkness - permission to land
09. blur - think tank
10. prefuse 73 - one word extinguisher

my favourite year of the decade. 2003 just rocks the hell out of all the other years from this decade. so much energy in all those albums that it's just incredible. also "hail to the thief" makes this year a very special one for me, because it was the release from radiohead that i was waiting for, even though i still like "kid a" and "amnesiac" more that "hail to the thief". i remember buying "there there" signle the day it came out and listening to it on my boombox, and it was really one of the best days in my life.

2004
01. franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
02. the arcade fire - funeral
03. junior boys - last exit
04. kanye west - the college dropout
05. interpol - antics
06. loretta lynn - van lear rose
07. ghostface - the pretty toney album
08. scissor sisters - scissor sisters
09. bjork - medulla
10. cam'ron - purple haze

very similiar to the previous year. to me this year did have many classics, maybe not as many as 2003, but i think 2004 was the most fun year in terms of "this year albums" kind of moments - albums that really fit well in that year, and not necessarily did that great in the overall decade top. just great fun albums, like that de la soul release for example, or the concretes one.

2005

01. antony & the johnsons - i am a bird now
02. isolee - we are monster
03. m.i.a. - arular
04. boris - pink
05. franz ferdinand - you could have it so much better
06. kanye west - late registration
07. robyn - robyn
08. vashti bunyan - lookaftering
09. block party - silent alarm
10. dominik eulberg - kreucht & fleucht

the year of let downs for me. so many of my favourite artists released really poor albums (sigur ros, the white stripes, my morning jacket, m83). that's why it's my least favourite year. but on the good side, this was the year for me to get into new genres like minimal techno and that ambient metal music a la sunn 0)))

it's too early to make predictions for current year, but so far it's been very good. i'm very excited about it and i think it might turn out as good as 2004 or 2003 was. here are some of my favourite releases from it.

2006
01. ghostface killah - fishscale
02. the flaming lips - at war with the mystics
03. cat power - the greatest
04. t.i. - king
05. the knife - silent shout
06. band of horses - everything all the time
07. liars - drum's not dead

2004: Arcade Fire, Junior Boys, Madvillain, DEP, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, Jens Lekman, Streets, Franz, DFA1979, Scissor Sisters, Dizzee, Futureheads, Feist, Girl Called Eddy, Annie, Isis, Lansing-Dreiden, Converge, Fantomas, Nick Cave, Apostle of Hustle, Nightwish, Carina Round, PLUS, massive box sets by Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, the first four Can reissues, and Clash/Pavement deluxe editions. Whew!

i didn't get back into music until 2004, after being away from it for about 7 years.

Hard to say, 2002 or 2004

2002:
The Streets- Original Pirate Material
Beck- Sea Change
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Super Furry Animals- Rings Around the World
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi

2004:
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
Franz Ferdinand
Erlend Oye's DJ Kicks gave me a new open mind on dance music

2002 easiy,
Beck- Sea Change
Interpol- TOTBL
QOTSA- Songs for the death
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi and,
Wilco- Yankee Hotel, even though I hated it when it came out, I realise how brilliant it is now, but the first song "Trying to break your hot", is just an awful bore

Very close between '02 and '05 for me.

2002:
Wilco
FLips
Beck
Missy E (2005's not nearly as awesome)
likewise with Doves
SFA
Spoon
a GOOD Sleater-Kinney album
BSS (sort of)

2005:
Sufjan
AiH
Spoon
best New Porn yet
Kanye
Go! Team
assloads of amazing singles

2005 is without a doubt the best singles year this demi-decade

honestly after going through my favorites list, no year sticks out as all around best. It seems to me I hardly listen to anything past my tenth slot for any year any more. Sad.

i am actually going to go with 2004, which outside of my top four really brought nothing to the table, but the highs were worth it.

streets - a grand don't come for free (brilliant, just plain brilliant)
destroyer - your blues
roger clyne and the peacemakers - americano!
kanye west - the college dropout

'02 - '04 were all real fucking solid. Tough one.

actaully looking through everything, i probalby listen to stuff from 2001 the most, but i cant really find that ONE album that defines that year, or rises above the rest. which is maybe why no one has voted for it.

2001 & 2003 have a slight edge over 2002.

2001:
Alien Ant Farm--Anthology
Candiria--300 Percent Density
Dredg--Leitmotif
Incubus--Morning View
King Crimson--Level 5
King's X--Manic Moonlight
Moke--Carnival
Dave Navarro--Trust No One
Sevendust--Animosity
Tomahawk--Tomahawk
Tool--Lateralus
Chris Whitley--Rocket House


2002:
4Front--Gravity
Dredg--El Cielo
The Jelly Jam--The Jelly Jam
Jughead--Jughead
Megadeth--Rude Awakening
Papa Roach--Lovehatetragedy
QOTSA--Songs for the Deaf
Sparta--Wiretap Scars
System of a Down--Steal this Album!
Andy West--Rama 1
Chris Whitley--Pigs Will Fly OST

2003:
A Perfect Circle--Thirteenth Step
Alien Ant Farm--Truant
Children of Bodom--Hate Crew Deathroll
Coheed & Cambria--In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth...
The Fire Theft--The Fire Theft
Lamb of God--As the Palaces Burn
Daniel Lanois--Shine
The Magic Elf--Heavy Meddle
Nothingface--Skeletons
Raising Lazarus--Raising Lazarus
Sevendust--Seasons
Chris Whitley--Hotel Vast Horizon
Chris Whitley--Weed

hold on
hold on

2003 for me, for sure.

Two of my top five albums (Brand New, Death Cab for Cutie), along with other amazing records from The Format, Muse, Matthew Good, Thursday, and so many others. After that, it's hard to say. Maybe 2001 (Muse, Ben Folds, MGB, etc.).

2002 or 2004.

2002 had interpol, YHF, Broken Social Scene, Sigur Ros, The Microphones, and The Books.

2004 had a ton of great albums. I voted 2002 but I think I convinced myself other wise. its hard.


2004 had a ton of really really good albums. 2002 had 3 absolute amazing albums.

I dont know. shut up

The last time I did a top 50 of the decade, it looked something like this:

Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads - 2001
Cave In - Jupiter - 2000
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium - 2003
Radiohead - Kid A - 2000
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R - 2000
Tool - Lateralus - 2001
Converge - Jane Doe - 2001
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun - 2000
Outkast - Stankonia - 2000
Dungen - Ta Det Lungt - 2004
Bjork - Vespertine - 2001
RTX - Transmaniacon - 2004
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye - 2003
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD - 2001
Andrew WK - I Get Wet - 2001
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - 2000
Ex-Girl - Endangered Species - 2004
Fantomas - The Director’s Cut - 2001
Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes - 2002
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets - 2001
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld - 2004
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs - 2001
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein - 2001
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where - 2002
Isis - Oceanic - 2002
Lambchop - Nixon - 2000
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine - 2004
Tortoise - Standards - 2001
Unida - Songs For The Working Man - 2003
Tomahawk - Tomahawk - 2001
Wilt - Bastinado - 2000
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of… - 2001
Anti-pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue - 2000
Missy Elliott - Miss E… So Addictive - 2001
Old Man Gloom - Christmas - 2004
Outkast - The Love Below/Speakerboxxx - 2003
Dykehouse - Midrange - 2004
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command - 2000
Boris - Flood - 2000
Casino vs. Japan - Whole Numbers Play The Basics - 2002
Converge - You Fail Me - 2004
Plantlife - Return Of Jack Splash - 2004
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part - 2001
Boom Bip & Dose One - (circle) - 2002
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - 2002
Cornelius - Point - 2002
Coco Rosie - La Maison De Mon Rêve - 2004
Great Lake Swimmers - Great Lake Swimmers - 2003
Four Tet - Rounds - 2003
Fugazi - The Argument - 2001

***

2000 has a lot of really fucking good albums. The high-end stuff (top 6 or so - Cave In, QOTSA, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Godspeed, Outkast) was impeccable, though there was a dropoff after ATD-i or Wilt. Very solid year though.

I'm reckoning 2001 is my pick, as it has my AOTD, as well as a top 20 which is really fucking good:

Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
Tool - Lateralus
Converge - Jane Doe
Bjork - Vespertine
Andrew WK - I Get Wet
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Tortoise - Standards
Fugazi - The Argument
Fantomas - The Director’s Cut
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs
The Angels of Light - How I Loved You
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of…
Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
Missy Elliott - Miss E… So Addictive
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong


2002 was a fuck of a dropoff for me. Big disappointments from QOTSA, Sigur Ros, Godspeed (worst albums of those bands' careers?), as well as Audioslave, Wilco, DJ Shadow, Boards, Lambchop et al underwhelming. Thank fuck, then, for Amon Tobin, Xinlisupreme and Isis, who really came up with the goods.

2003 was better. Great albums from Mars Volta anbd Kayo Dot, as well as a bunch of stuff that was really enjoyable to listen to, like Broadcast, Outkast etc. Not an amazing year though.

2004 was great for heavy music. Electric Wizard brought the goods, as did Old Man Gloom, Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan and Enslaved. There was also strong material from Trans Am, Ghost, Dykehouse, CocoRosie. Top 3 was Dungen, RTX and Ex-Girl, which are all great (and probably preferable to anything from 2002).

2005 is probably my second favourite year of this batch. Not wanting to divulge too much before my long-delayed Top 50, but there was action at the top between Jaga, Boris, S-K, Propagandhi and Earth. While bands continued to slide (Sigur and Queens), others made themselves known to me for the first time. Biosphere, Hulk, Minamo, Om, Jesu, Hyatari, Skullflower and tons more made it a hell of a year.

Best place for this I guess - Reworked.

2000
1 Xtrmntr Primal Scream
2 Kid A Radiohead
3 The Great Eastern The Delgados
4 The Hour of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy
5 Lost Souls Doves
6 Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey
7 Stankonia Outkast
8 Mwng Super Furry Animals
9 The Sophtware Slump Grandaddy
10 Felt Mountain Goldfrapp
11 Blue Jam Chris Morris
12 The Blue Tree Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
13 Nixon Lambchop
14 Relationship of Command At The Drive-In
15 The Noise Made By People Broadcast
16 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem
17 American III Johnny Cash
18 Heartbreaker Ryan Adams
19 Rated R QOTSA
20 The Facts Of Life Black Box Recorder


2001
1 Since I Left You The Avalanches
2 White Blood Cells The White Stripes
3 Discovery Daft Punk
4 Is This It The Strokes
5 Amnesiac Radiohead
6 Rooty Basment Jaxx
7 Asleep In The Back Elbow
8 The Optimist LP Turin Brakes
9 Run Come Save Me Roots Manuva
10 Bob Dylan Love and Theft
11 Poses Rufus Wainwright
12 Loss Mull Historical Society
13 Miss E… So Addictive Missy Elliot
14 BRMC Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
15 Let It Come Down Spiritualized
16 All Is Dream Mercury Rev
17 Rings Around The World Super Furry Animals
18 We Love Life Pulp
19 Gorrilaz Gorrilaz
20 Bjork Vespertine



2002
1 A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets
2 The Coral The Coral
3 The Last Broadcast Doves
4 I Might Be Wrong Radiohead
5 As Heard on Radio Soulwax 2 Many DJ's
6 Up The Bracket The Libertines
7 Holes In The Wall Electric Soft Parade
8 Sea Change Beck
9 Geogaddi Boards of Canada
10 Songs For The Deaf QOTSA
11 Yankee Foxtrot Hotel Wilco
12 McLusky Do Dallas McLusky Do Dallas
13 You Forgot It In People Broken Social Scene
14 Life On Other Planets Supergrass
15 Sunshine Hit Me The Bees
16 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips
17 BRMC BMRC
18 A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay
19 The Beginning Stages Of… The Polyphonic Spree
20 Turn On The Bright Lights Interpol


2003
1 The Decline of British Sea Power British Sea Power
2 Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal
3 Cast of Thousands Elbow
4 Echoes The Rapture
5 Lovers Sleepy Jackson
6 Rounds Four Tet
7 Room On Fire The Strokes
8 Chain Gang of Love Raveonettes
9 Up In Flames Manitoba
10 The Black Album Jay-Z
11 It Still Moves My Morning Jacket
12 Youth and Young Manhood Kings of Leon
13 Elephant The White Stripes
14 Hail To The Thief Radiohead
15 Kish Kash Basment Jaxx
16 Permission To Land The Darkness
17 Black Cherry Goldfrapp
18 Magic and Medicene The Coral
19 Lycanthropy Patrick Wolf
20 Phantom Power Super Furry Animals


2004
1 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
2 Funeral Arcade Fire
3 A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets
4 College Dropout Kanye West
5 Thunder! Lightning! Strike! The Go! Team
6 The Futureheads The Futureheads
7 The Lost Riots Hope of The States
8 Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banheart
9 Let It Die Feist
10 The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire McClusky
11 Anniemal Annie
12 Happiness In Magazines Graham Coxon
13 The Libertines The Libertines
14 Showtime Dizzie Rascal
15 You Are The Quarry Morrissey
16 Who Killed The Zutons The Zutons
17 Now Here Is Nowhere Secret Machines
18 The Grey Album Dangermouse
19 Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon
20 The Concretes The Concretes


2005
1 I Am A Bird Now Antony and The Johnsons
2 Open Season British Sea Power
3 Alligator The National
4 Demon Days Gorrilaz
5 Coles Corner Richard Hawley
6 Leaders of The Free World Elbow
7 LCD Soundsytem LCD Soundsytem
8 A Certain Trigger Maxïmo Park
9 Z My Morning Jacket
10 The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
11 Give Blood Brakes
12 Silent Alarm Bloc Party
13 Some Cities Doves
14 Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes
15 Arular MIA
16 Illnois Sufjan Stevens
17 Gimmie Fiction Spoon
18 Field Music Field Music
19 You Can Have It So Much Better with… Franz Ferdinand
20 The New Fellas The Cribs


2006
1 Fur and Gold Bat For Lashes
2 Through The Window Pane Guillemots
3 Somone To Drive Me Home The Long Blondes
4 Cansei de Ser Sexy CSS
5 Voices Of Animals and Men The Young Knives
6 The Warning Hot Chip
7 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys
8 Alright, Still Lily Allen
9 ...The Corner of Miles and Gill Shack
10 Ys Joanna Newsom
11 Modern Times Bob Dylan
12 The Beatific Visions Brakes
13 Everything All Of The Time Band of Horses
14 Destroyer's Rubies Destroyer
15 Ringleaders Of The Tormentors Morrissey
16 Return To Cookie Mountain TV On The Radio
17 Making Dens Mystery Jets
18 Silent Shout The Knife
19 The Eraser Thom Yorke
20 Burial Burial

2003 for Sun Kil Moon, Elephant, and My Morning Jacket.

tough call between '01, '02, and '03

2000-2004 were pretty much all golden, i could give the call to any, although i'd be more inclined to pick 00 or 02. 2007 is also as great as the first 5 years of the decade, it may even be my #3 after 00 and 02.

see this is why classic is a bad word.