Stephen attacks the top 100 albums of the noughties

My friend Stephen spends his days surrounded by literal mountains of music. A wall of vinyl here, a room of cds there - he works in a record store and even runs his own market stall selling cds and vinyl. As such, when asking him to compile his list of favourite albums of the last decade it was always going to be epic. Here's is Stephen's picks which he has entitled The most brilliant and life-changing albums of "the noughties' - Listed in strict order from 'most' to 'least-most' 2000-2009.

1. Fountains of Wayne- Welcome Interstate Managers
2. The Necks - Homebush (Live)
3. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Pig Lib
4. M. Ward - Transfiguration Of Vincent
5. Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions - Bavarian Fruit Bread
6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease On Down The Road
7. Stereolab - Sound-Dust
8. Yo La Tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside-out
9. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
10. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
11. Daniel Johnston - Fear Yourself
12. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
13. Tindersticks - Waiting For The Moon
14. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
15. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
16. Bjork - Vespertine
17. Warmer - The Cat's Miaow
18. MachineMachine - machinemachine
19. Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave And The Bold
20. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
21. The Woods Themselves - The Woods Themselves
22. Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
23. Espers - III
24. M. Ward - Post War
25. Portishead - 3rd
26. Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills
27. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
28. The Bees - Free The Bees
29. Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez
30. Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
31. Lucinda Williams - Live at the Fillmore
32. Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions- Through the Devil Softly
33. Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
34. REM - Accelerate
35. The Bees - Octopus
36. Ween - Quebec
37. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
38. Edan - Beauty And The Beat
39. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
40. The Fall - The Real New Fall LP... Formerly 'Country on the Click'
41. Kelly Stoltz - Antique Glow
42. The Strokes - Is This It
43. Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
44. The Raveonettes - Pretty in Black
45. Laura Veirs - Troubled By The Fire
46. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
47. Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
48. Sleater Kinney - One Beat
49. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
50. Sloan - Parallel Play
51. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
52. The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
53. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
54. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
55. She & Him - Volume 1
56. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
57. Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason
58. Wire - Send
59. Joseph Leonard - Weather Vane Woman
60. Espers - Espers
61. Beasts of Bourbon - Low Life (Live)
62. The Drones - Live at the Annandale Hotel 2007
63. Charlotte Hatherly - Grey Will Fade
64. Ween - White Pepper
65. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
66. Karl Blau- Beneath Waves
67. Whopping Big Naughty - Bender
68. Tortoise - Standards
69. Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
70. Broadcast - HaHa Sound
71. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
72. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
73. The Breeders - Mountain Battles
74. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
75. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
76. Missy Elliott - This Is Not A Test
77. Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches
78. PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
79. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
80. Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
81. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
82. Beaches - Beaches
83. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
84. Le Tigre - Le Tigre
85. Preston School of Industry - Monsoon
86. Little Joy - Little Joy
87. The Amazing - The Amazing
88. Joseph Leonard - Soft on the Small Moon
89. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
90. Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue
91. Mission of Burma - ON off ON
92. Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
93. Beck - Seachange
94. Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo
95. The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
96. Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just As Good
97. Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds - Dracula Boots
98. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
99. Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
100. Battles - Mirrored

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