Best of Lists - the 2000s

I'm prepped my list of the best albums of 2007. This will be the third year I've done it. Before I go out with my list though, I wanted to make top 10 lists for the other years this decade (and update 2005 and 2006):

Best of 2000
I was mostly listening to boybands and Britney Spears back then. Radiohead and New Pornoraphers are a more recent discovery. The album I listened to death that year was Madonna's.

1. Madonna - Music
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Coldplay - Parachutes
4. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
5. Sade - Lover's Rock
6. Kylie Minogue - Light Years
7. Robbie Williams - Sing When You're Winning
8. Enya - A Day Without Rain
9. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
10. N Sync - No Strings Attached

Best of 2001
A weak year when I look back, save for Kylie, which is probably my favorite album of the decade. I generally wouldn't put a greatest hits album on a year-end list, but Steps collection is fantastic fun (and why would anyone buy a Steps album?).

1. Kylie Minogue - Fever
2. Dido - No Angel
3. The Strokes - Is This It?
4. Steps - Gold: The Greatest Hits
5. Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning
6. Airlock - Drystar
7. Cher - Living Proof
8. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
9. Radiohead - Amnesiac
10. Pink - Missundaztood

Best of 2002

1. Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
2. Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
3. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4. David Gray - A New Day at Midnight
5. Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
6. Moby - 18
7. Justin Timberlake - Justified
8. Sugababes - Angels with Dirty Faces
9. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
10. Shania Twain - Up

Best of 2003

Dido used to rule this list, but she's slipped in my mind of late, and the Goldfrapp album just gets better (I moved their 2005 album up that list too). I also moved the Kylie album down, which apart from the first few tracks, wasn't very strong.

1. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
2. Dido - Life for Rent
3. The White Stripes - Elephant
4. Will Young - Friday's Child
5. Dannii Minogue - Neon Nights
6. Kylie Minogue - Body Language
7. Sugababes - Three
8. Evanescence - Fallen
9. Amy Winehouse - Frank
10. Snow Patrol - Final Straw

Best of 2004

I'd rate this the best year for music so far this decade. There's a lot of other good albums from this year--U2, Liz Phair, The Streets, Norah Jones, Nellie McKay, Jem, Natasha Bedingfield, Loretta Lynn, etc.

1. Keane - Hopes and Fears
2. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
3. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
4. Air - Talkie Walkie
5. The Killers - Hot Fuss
6. Embrace - Out of Nothing
7. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
8. Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
9. Delta Goodrem - Mistaken Identity
10. Green Day - American Idiot

Best of 2005 (Click for original list)

1. Coldplay - X&Y
2. Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor
3. Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
4. Goldfrapp - Supernature
5. James Blunt - Back to Bedlam
6. Natalie Imbruglia - Counting Down the Days
7. Will Young - Keep On
8. Supergrass - Road to Rouen
9. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
10. Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV

Best of 2006 (click for original list)

1. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
2. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
3. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
4. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
5. Keane - Under the Iron Sea
6. Jamelia - Walk with Me
7. The Editors - The Back Room
8. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
9. The Killers - Sam's Town
10. The Feeling - Twelve Stops and Home