I know i'm gonna catch some flack for my list ...i just know it! ...here it is, the top 82 albums of the new millennium according to moi!

Some selections are solid and have legs, others, admittedly, not so much so; we will put them in the category of "temporal but of great significance in one way or another".


1-Arcade Fire, Funeral
2-Jack Johnson, Thicker Than Water
3-Antibalas, Talkatif
4-Suba, Sao Paulo Confessions
5-St Germain, Tourist
6-Getatchew Mekuria, The Ex and Guests, Moa Anbessa
7-Broken Social Scene, You Forgot it in People
8-Soil and Pimp Sessions, Pimp of the Year
9-Bugge Wesseltoft, Moving
10-Calexico, Feast of Wire
11-Brad Mehldau, Live in Tokyo
12-Koop, Waltz for Koop
13-Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
14-Clinic, Walking With Thee
15-Gotan Project, La Revancha Del Tango
16-The Strokes, Room on Fire
17-Death Cab for Cutie, Plans
18-Jack Johnson, Brushfire Fairytales
19-Sigur Ros, ()
20-Moby, 18
21-Wilco, A Ghost is Born
22-Air, Virgin Suicides
23-Dandy Warhols, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
24-The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
25-Pawa Up First, Introducing New Details
26-South, From Here On In
27-Garbage, Beautiful Garbage
28-Soil and Pimp Sessions, Pimp Master
29-Jolie Holland, Escondida
30-Bebel Gilberto, Tanto Tempo
31-Lilly Allen, Alright Still
32-Interpol, Antics
33-Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
34-Zero Seven, Simple Things
35-Franz, Ferdinand
36-Femi Kuti, Fight To Win
37-Eivind Aarset, Connected
38-Amon Tobin, Supermodified
39-Four Hero, Creating Patterns
40-Ladytron, Witching Hour
41-Antibalas, Who is This America
42-Bugge Wesseltoft, IM
43-Bonobo, Animal Magic
44-MIA, Arular
45-Soil and Pimp Sessions, Pimpoint
46-The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow
47-Beastie Boys, To the Boroughs
48-Outkast, Stankonia
49-The Avalanches, Since I Left You
50-Spoon, Gimme Fiction
51-Bugge Wesseltoft, New Conceptions of Jazz Live
52-Do Make say Think, & Yet & Yet
53-The Walkmen, Bows & Arrows
54-Mum, Finally We Are No One
55-Feist, Let it Die
56-Antibalas, Security
57-Built to Spill, You in Reverse
58-The White Stripes, Elephant
59-Pernice Brothers, Yours Mine & Ours
60-Jack Johnson, On and On
61-Bugge Wesseltoft, New conceptions of Jazz
62-Dzihan & Kamien, Freaks and Icons
63-Guided By Voices, Earthquake Glue
64-Beck, Guero
65-Thievery Corporation, The Mirror Conspiracy
66-Hawaii
67-Moby, Hotel
68-Sergio Mendes, Timeless
69-Eivind Aarset, Electonique Noire
70-Sam Roberts, Chemical City
71-Explosions in the Sky, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Plan
72-Jack Johnson, In Between Dreams
73-Gnarles Barkley, St Elseware
74-Hope Sandaval, Bavarian Fruit Bread
75-Banca de Gaia, Last Train to Lhasa
76-Snow Patrol, Final Straw
77-Nils Petter Molvaer, er
78-Eivind Aarset, Electonique Noire – Light Extracts
79-Joseph Malik, Diverse
80-Manitoba, Start Breaking my Heart
The Decemberists, Picaresque (late addition not sequenced)
Shout Out Louds, Howl Howl, Gaff Gaff (late addition not sequenced)