Top 100 Albums of the '00s.

After much scrutiny, here is the list - which I'm sure will be amendec more over time.

Some of these aren't nexessarily my "favorite" effort by the artists, but the most important or best representative of that time period (i.e. "Death Knows Your Name" is totally the best Hope Con album.) Some aren;t so much "my thing," but are jst too damn important or were too damn big to ignore; but i legitimately enjoy every album on here.

Aesop Rock – Labor Days (Def Jux, September, 2001)
American Nightmare – Background Music (Equal Vision, 2001)
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (Interscope, February 2002)
Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet (Island, November 2001)
Arcade Fire – Funeral (Merge, September 2004)
At the Drive In – Relationship of Command (Grand Royal, 2000)
Atmosphere – Godlovesugly (Def Jux, November 2002)
Battles – Mirrored (Warp, May 2007)
Boris – Heavy Rocks (2002)
Boris – Akuma No Uta (Diwphalanx, 2003)
Boris – Pink (Diwphalanx, 2005)
Boris w/ Michio Kurihara – Rainbow (Pedal, 2006)
Botch – We Are the Romans (Hydra Head, January 2000)
Breach – Kollapse (2001)
Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein (Def Jux, 2001)
Carry On – A Life Less Plagued (Bridge 9, 2001)
Celebrity Murders - A Time to Kill Space (Chainsaw Saftey, 2005)
Celtic Frost - Monotheist (2006)
City of Caterpillar – City of Caterpillar (Level Plane, 2001)
Converge – Jane Doe (Equal Vision, September 2001)
Converge – You Fail Me (Epitaph)
Converge – No Heroes (Epitaph)
Converge – Axe to Fall (Epitaph)
Cursed – One (Deathwish, 2003)
Cursed – Two (Goodfellow, 2005)
Cursive – The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek, March 2003)
Damien Rice, O (Vector, February 2002)
Dangerdoom – The Mouse and The Mask (Epitaph, 2005)
Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond (Fat Possum, 2007)
Discordance Axis – Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head, August 2000)
Earth – Hex: or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord, 2005)
Envy – Dead Sinking Story (Level Plane, August 2003)
Fucked Up – Hidden World (Jade Tree, 2006)
Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador, 2008)
Godspeed You Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heavan (Kranky, 2000)
Have Heart – Songs to Scream at the Sun (Bridge 9, 2008)
High on Fire – Blessed Black Wings (Relapse, February 2005)
The Hope Conspiracy – Coldblue (Equal Vision, 2000)
The Hope Consipracy – Endnote (Equal Vision, 2002)
In My Eyes – Nothing to Hide (Revelation, 2000)
Insect Warfare – World Extermination (Six Two Five, 2007)
Integrity – To Die For (Deathwish, 2003)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador, 2002)
Iron Lung – Life. Iron Lung. Death. (Six Two Five, 2005)
Iron Lung – Sexless//No Sex (Prank, 2008)
Isis – Oceanic (Ipecac, September 2002)
J Dilla - Donuts (Stone’s Throw, February 2006)
Jay Z – The Blueprint (Def Jam, September 2001)
Jesu – Jesu (Hydra Head, 2005)
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around (American, 2002)
Kid Dynamite – Shorter, Faster, Louder (Jade Tree, 2000)
Leviathan – Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribound Cult)
Madlib – Shades of Blue (Blue Not, July 2003)
Madvillian – Madvilliany (Stones Throw, March 2004)
Mars Volta – Frances the Mute (GSL, 2003)
Mastadon – Remission (Relapse, 2002)
Melvins – A Senile Animal (Ipecac, July 2006)
Mind Eraser – Cave (Painkiller/Collapse, 2005)
Mind Eraser – Conscious/Unconscious (Clean Plate, 2008)
Modern Life Is War – My Love. My Way. (Martyr, 2003)
Modern Life Is War – Witness (Deathwish Inc, 2005)
Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica (Epic, June 2000)
Mogwai – Rock Action (Matador, 2001)
Morrissey – You Are the Quarry (Sanctuary/Attack, May 2004)
Municipal Waste – Waste ‘Em All (Six Weeks, 2003)
Muse – Absolution (A&E, September 2003)
Napalm Death – Enemy of the Music Business (Spitfire, 2000)
Nas – Stillmatic (Ill Will/Columbia, December 2001)
Nasum – Helvete (Relapse, 2003)
Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse, 2001)
No Warning – Ill Blood (Bridge Nine, November 2002)
Om – Pilgrimage (Southern Lord, 2008)
Outkast – Stankonia (LaFace, October 2000)
Outkast – Speakerboxx/The Love Below (Laface, September 2003)
pg. 99 – Document #07 (Magic Bullet/Happy Couples Never last, 2001)
Paint It Black – Paradise (Jade Tree, 2005)
Pig Destroyer – Prowler In the Yard (Relapse, July 2001)
Prurient – And Still, Wanting (No Fun, 2008)
Q and Not U – No Kill, No Beep Beep (Dischord, 2000)
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (Interscope, 2002)
Radiohead – Kid A (EMI, October, 2000)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (Xendless Xurbia, November 2007)
Scott Walker – The Drift (4AD, 2006)
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la band with Choir – “This Is Our Punk Rock,” Thee Rusted Satellits Gather + Sing (Constellation, 2003)
Sleep – Dopesmoker (Tee Pee, April 2003)
The Suicide File – Twilight (2003)
SunnO))) – OO Void (*Hydra Head, 2000)
SunnO))) – Black One (Southern Lord, 2005)
SunnO))) & Boris – Altar (Southern Lord, 2006)
Think I Care – Think I Care (Deadalive, 2003)
Tragedy – Tragedy (Tragedy, 2000)
The Twilight Singers – Blackberry Belle (One Little Indian, October 2003)
Verse – Rebuild (Rivarly, 2004)
Walls – s/t (Painkiller, 2008)
Walls – s/t 12” (Iron Lung, 2008)
Weakling – Dead as Dreams (tUMULt, 2000)
Wolves In the Throne Room – Two Hunters (Southern Lord, September 2007)
Xasthur – Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head, September 2006)
The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – Fever to Tell (Interscope, April 2003)
Zeni Geva – 10,000 Light Years (Neurot, May 2001)

Feel like I should maybe put the Cult Ritual LP, Made Out of Baby's "Coward," or one of the Storm of Light albums on there... but what to cut? Oh shit! And Nihill?

Son of a bitch...