Pointless Lists Week.

#6 My Favourite Albums, 2000 – 2009, limited to one per artist.


1. Comet Gain – Realistes
2. The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
3. Mclusky – Do Dallas
4. The Detroit Cobras – Life, Love & Leaving
5. The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic
6. Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
7. The Thermals – More Parts Per Million
8. Guided By Voices – Isolation Drills
9. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10. Herman Dune – Switzerland Heritage
11. Oneida – Anthem of the Moon
12. Dead Meadow – Shivering King & Others
13. Jeffrey Lewis – Em Are I
14. Birchville Cat Motel – Our Love Will Destroy The World
15. The Caretaker – A Stairway to the Stars
16. The Heads – Under Sided
17. Help She Can’t Swim – Fashionista Super Dance Troupe
18. Mr. Airplane Man – Moanin’
19. Lift To Experience – The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
20. Cat Power – You Are Free


Runners up (no particular order):

Melt Banana – Cellscape
Greg Ashley – Medicine Fuck Dream
The Dirtbombs – Ultraglide in Black
Vivian Girls – s/t
Those Dancing Days – s/t
Future Of The Left – Travels With Myself And Another
Robert Wyatt – Comicopera
Nodzzz – s/t
Stephen Malkmus – s/t
Holly Golightly - Down Gina's At 3
The Wave Pictures – Instant Coffee Baby
Apples in Stereo – Velocity of Sound
Mastodon – Leviathan
Electrelane – Rock It To The Moon
The Buff Medways - Steady The Buffs
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabete – In the Heart of the Moon
Helen Love – Love & Glitter, Hot Days & Music
Slumber Party – s/t
Charalambides – Joy Shapes
Grant – Something to Believe In
Party of One – Caught the Blast
Le Tigre – s/t
Ikara Colt – Chat & Business
Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
Animal Collective – Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished
The Micragirls - Feeling Dizzy Honey
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Madonna
Vibracathedral Orchestra – Hex Hostess
Hang On The Box – For Every Punk Bitch & Asshole
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Horse of the Dog
Pelt – An Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
The Loves - Love
Todd – first EP
Hotpants Romance - It's A Heatwave
Sunn 0))) – White One
Carla Bozulich – The Red Headed Stranger
Jennifer Gentle – Valende
The Boredoms – VisionCreationNewSun
Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines
Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
David Thomas Broughton & 7 Hertz
Weird War – If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Bite ‘Em
Tinariwen - Amassakoul
Double Leopards – Halve Mean
Fursaxa – Mandrake
The 5678s – Teenage Mojo Workout
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro


Well I’m bloody glad I got that out of the way.

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Labels: best of the 2000s, Comet Gain, Pointless Lists Week