Top album from every year this decade...

[Andy]

Not necessarily the album you liked the best at the time, which album you like the best from each year now.

[Gilly]

2000- Radiohead: Kid A
Runner Up: Dandy Warhols: 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia

2001- Death Cab For Cutie: The Photo Album
Runner Up: Shins: Oh Inverted World

2002- Sleater-Kinney: One Beat
Runner Up: Destroyer: This Night

2003- Postal Service: Give Up
Runner Up: Guided By Voices: Earthquake Glue

2004- Arcade Fire: Funeral
Runner Up: Sadies: Favourite Colours

2005- Pernice Brothers: Discover a Lovelier You
Runner Up: Goldfrapp: Supernature

2006- My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade
Runner Up: Jay Reatard: Blood Visions

2007- Tegan and Sara: The Con
Runner Up: Kanye West: Graduation

2008- Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
Runner Up: The Week That Was: The Week That Was

2009- Decemberists: Hazards of Love
Runner Up: Regina Spektor: Far

[jbissell]

This is mostly off the top of my head so I'm sure I'm forgetting some.  2001 probably has the most albums that I really love.

2000
1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
3. OutKast - Stankonia
4. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
5. Deltron 3030

2001
1. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
2. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
3. New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
4. The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
5. Jay-Z - The Blueprint

2002
1. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
2. Neko Case - Blacklisted
3. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
4. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
5. Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange

2003
1. Angels of Light - Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home
2. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
3. TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
4. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
5. King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader

2004
1. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
2. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
3. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
4. Madvillain - Madvillainy
5. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder

2005
1. The National - Alligator
2. Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
3. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
4. Clipse - We Got it 4 Cheap, Vol. 2
5. M.I.A. - Arular

2006
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
3. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
4. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
5. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That

2007
1. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
3. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4. The National - Boxer
5. Burial - Untrue

2008
1. The Shivers - Beaks to the Moon
2. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
3. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
4. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
5. Vivian Girls - S/T

2009
1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

[methanolcereal]

This is bound to change if I had a few days/weeks/months to think about it, but here's a rough shot:

2000: GFK - Supreme Clientele, Radiohead - Kid A or Juana Molina - Segundo (I really can't decide right now)
2001: Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
2002: Sonic Youth - Murray Street
2003: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2004: Electrelane - The Power Out or the Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
2006: GFK - Fishscale
2007: Chromatics - Night Drive
2008: Juana Molina - Un Dia
2009: V/a - Summertime Showcase 2009 (Underwater Peoples)?

[buffcoat]

I'd put "Get Guilty" on there, as well.

[AaronC]

Looking at my I-tunes, these are my favorites:

2000 - Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
2001 - Fugazi - The Argument
2002 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003 - The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
2004 - Ted Leo - Shake the Sheets
2005 - The Ergs - Dorkrockcorkrod
2006 - The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2007 - Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
2008 - Lemuria - Get Better

[jbissell]

A few I can't believe I forgot:
Sun Kil Moon - "Ghosts of the Great Highway", 2003
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "No More Shall We Part", 2001
Akron/Family & Angels of Light - S/T split, 2005

[wwwes]

2000 - The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
2001 - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Tyranny of Distance (t)
2001 - The Dirtbombs, Ultraglide In Black (t)
2002 - Phantom Planet, The Guest
2003 - Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress
2004 - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets
2005 - Spoon, Gimme Fiction
2006 - The Hold Steady, Boys And Girls In America
2007 - Radiohead, In Rainbows
2008 - The Features, Some Kind Of Salvation
2009 - Various Artists, Dog

[dave from knoxville]

2000 Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2
2001 Sam Phillips - Fan Dance
2002 Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
2003 King Crimson - The Power to Believe
2004 Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
2005 Kate Bush - Aerial
2006 Roger Joseph Manning Jr - The Land of Pure Imagination
2007 PJ Harvey - White Chalk
2008 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
2009 so far, it's a toss-up between Neko Case's Middle Cyclone, Dove's Kingdom of Rust, and St Vincent's Actor

[dave from knoxville]

Might as well cover THE decade as long as I am at it

1970 Soft Machine - Third
1971 Alice Cooper - Killer
1972 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
1973 Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star
1974 Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
1975 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
1976 Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
1977 Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
1978 Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
1979 Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

[chrisfoll577]

2000 Radiohead - Kid A
2001 Clinic - Internal Wrangler
2002 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003 Grandaddy - Sumday
2004 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
2006 The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
2007 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2008 TV On The Radio - Dear Science
2009 Doves - Kingdom of Rust

[Wotally Tifficult]

2000- Elliott Smith  Figure 8
2001- Azure Ray Azure Ray
2002- Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things
2003- The Postal Service Give Up
2004- The Good Life Album of the Year
2005- Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (First guilt-free Oberst album)
2006- Bonnie "Prince" Billie The Letting Go
2007- The Good Life Help Wanted Nights
2008- Neva Dinova You May Already Be Dreaming
2009- Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen

2001 and 2008 were reaches, but I'm fairly happy with it

[namethebats]

2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
2002: McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas
2003: The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
2004: Madvillain - Madvillainy
2005: Deerhoof - The Runners Four
2006: Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
2007: LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
2008: Portishead - Third
2009: Micachu - Jewellry

[Andy]

This was harder than I thought.

2000: Starlight Mints: Dream That Stuff Was Made Of
2001: Ted Leo & RX- Tyranny of Distance
2002: Reigning Sound- Time Bomb High School
2003: Burtschi Brothers- Live in Oklahoma
2004: Old 97’s- Drag It Up
2005: Mike Doughty- Haughty Melodic
2006: Rhymefest- Blue Collar
2007: Apples In Stereo- New Magnetic Wonder
2008: Dr. Dog- Fate
2009: Donnie Dumphy- I Loves Doin' Wheelies

[Wes]

2000: Starlight Mints: Dream That Stuff Was Made Of

Great choice, this would be right there at the top for me with Kid A and Mass Romantic in 2000. I actually like their second album, Built On Squares, even more and would probably pick that for 2003. Still on the fence about the most recent one.