The Top 200 Albums from the 2000s
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Time | Artist | Album | Year | Buy at
Amazon | Song
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| 1 | 55 |
Arcade Fire
| Funeral
| 2004
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| 2 | 56 |
The Strokes
| Is This It
| 2001
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| 3 | 78 |
Radiohead
| Kid A
| 2000
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Listen
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| 4 | 105 |
Wilco
| Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
| 2002
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Listen
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| 5 | 106 |
The White Stripes
| Elephant
| 2003
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Listen
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| 6 | 115 |
Sufjan Stevens
| Illinois
| 2005
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Listen
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| 7 | 154 |
OutKast
| Stankonia
| 2000
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| 8 | 157 |
Radiohead
| In Rainbows
| 2007
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| 9 | 158 |
LCD Soundsystem
| Sound of Silver
| 2007
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| 10 | 174 |
Franz Ferdinand
| Franz Ferdinand
| 2004
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| 11 | 184 |
The White Stripes
| White Blood Cells
| 2001
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Listen
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| 12 | 191 |
Eminem
| The Marshall Mathers LP
| 2000
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| 13 | 197 |
TV on the Radio
| Return to Cookie Mountain
| 2006
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| 14 | 225 |
The Streets
| Original Pirate Material
| 2002
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| 15 | 238 |
Kanye West
| The College Dropout
| 2004
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| 16 | 240 |
Jay-Z
| The Blueprint
| 2001
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| 17 | 252 |
Antony and The Johnsons
| I Am a Bird Now
| 2005
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| 18 | 254 |
OutKast
| Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
| 2003
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| 19 | 263 |
Portishead
| Third
| 2008
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| 20 | 278 |
Fleet Foxes
| Fleet Foxes
| 2008
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| 21 |
287 | Arctic Monkeys
| Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
| 2006
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| 22 | 311 |
Queens of the Stone Age
| Songs for the Deaf
| 2002
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| 23 | 321 |
M.I.A.
| Arular
| 2005
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| 24 | 325 |
Joanna Newsom
| Ys
| 2006
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| 25 | 328 |
Arcade Fire
| Neon Bible
| 2007
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| 26 | 338 |
Coldplay
| A Rush of Blood to the Head
| 2002
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Listen
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| 27 | 340 |
M.I.A.
| Kala
| 2007
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| 28 | 363 |
The Flaming Lips
| Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
| 2002
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| 29 | 365 |
TV on the Radio
| Dear Science
| 2008
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| 30 | 369 |
Dizzee Rascal
| Boy in da Corner
| 2003
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| 31 | 370 |
Primal Scream
| Xtrmntr
| 2000
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| 32 | 380 |
Interpol
| Turn On the Bright Lights
| 2002
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| 33 | 388 |
PJ Harvey
| Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
| 2000
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| 34 | 414 |
Panda Bear
| Person Pitch
| 2007
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| 35 | 419 |
The Libertines
| Up the Bracket
| 2002
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| 36 | 421 |
Amy Winehouse
| Back to Black
| 2006
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| 37 | 425 |
The Shins
| Chutes Too Narrow
| 2003
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| 38 | 431 |
Bon Iver
| For Emma, Forever Ago
| 2007
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| 39 | 437 |
Bob Dylan
| Love and Theft
| 2001
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| 40 | 442 |
Vampire Weekend
| Vampire Weekend
| 2008
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| 41 | 444 |
The Knife
| Silent Shout
| 2006
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Listen
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| 42 | 449 |
LCD Soundsystem
| LCD Soundsystem
| 2005
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| 43 | 451 |
Brian Wilson
| SMiLE
| 2004
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| 44 | 454 |
The Avalanches
| Since I Left You
| 2000
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| 45 | 471 |
The National
| Boxer
| 2007
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| 46 | 479 |
Burial
| Untrue
| 2007
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| 47 | 503 |
Ryan Adams
| Heartbreaker
| 2000
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Listen
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| 48 | 504 |
Radiohead
| Amnesiac
| 2001
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Listen
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| 49 | 510 |
Kanye West
| Late Registration
| 2005
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Listen
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| 50 | 513 |
Wilco
| A Ghost Is Born
| 2004
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Listen
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| 51 | 516 |
Björk
| Vespertine
| 2001
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Listen
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| 52 | 522 |
Radiohead
| Hail to the Thief
| 2003
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Listen
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| 53 | 527 |
Modest Mouse
| The Moon & Antarctica
| 2000
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Listen
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| 54 | 535 |
Coldplay
| Parachutes
| 2000
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Listen
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| 55 | 539 |
Cat Power
| The Greatest
| 2006
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Listen
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| 56 | 547 |
Daft Punk
| Discovery
| 2001
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Listen
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| 57 |
553 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
| Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
| 2004
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| 58 | 564 |
Broken Social Scene
| You Forgot It in People
| 2002
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Listen
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| 59 | 566 |
Bob Dylan
| Modern Times
| 2006
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Listen
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| 60 | 568 |
At the Drive-In
| Relationship of Command
| 2000
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Listen
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| 61 | 585 |
The Streets
| A Grand Don't Come for Free
| 2004
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Listen
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| 62 | 598 |
MGMT
| Oracular Spectacular
| 2007
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| 63 | 599 |
Bloc Party
| Silent Alarm
| 2005
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Listen
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| 64 | 600 |
Gnarls Barkley
| St. Elsewhere
| 2006
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Listen
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| 65 | 609 |
Bright Eyes
| I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
| 2005
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Listen
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| 66 | 627 |
Madvillain
| Madvillainy
| 2004
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Listen
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| 67 | 634 |
D'Angelo
| Voodoo
| 2000
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Listen
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| 68 | 649 |
Battles
| Mirrored
| 2007
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Listen
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| 69 | 654 |
Ghostface Killah
| Fishscale
| 2006
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Listen
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| 70 |
656 | Godspeed You Black Emperor!
| Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
| 2000
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| 71 | 657 |
Beck
| Sea Change
| 2002
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Listen
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| 72 | 659 |
System of a Down
| Toxicity
| 2001
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Listen
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| 73 | 677 |
Deerhunter
| Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
| 2008
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| 74 | 682 |
The Libertines
| The Libertines
| 2004
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Listen
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| 75 | 684 |
Queens of the Stone Age
| Rated R
| 2000
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Listen
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| 76 | 691 |
Cat Power
| You Are Free
| 2003
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| 77 | 710 |
N.E.R.D.
| In Search of…
| 2001
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| 78 | 712 |
Boards of Canada
| Geogaddi
| 2002
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Listen
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| 79 | 728 |
The Notwist
| Neon Golden
| 2002
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Listen
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| 80 | 736 |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
| Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
| 2008
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| 81 | 741 |
Devendra Banhart
| Rejoicing in the Hands
| 2004
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Listen
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| 82 | 751 |
Hot Chip
| The Warning
| 2006
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| 83 | 763 |
Yo La Tengo
| And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
| 2000
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| 84 | 774 |
Missy Elliott
| Miss E… So Addictive
| 2001
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Listen
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| 85 | 775 |
Loretta Lynn
| Van Lear Rose
| 2004
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Listen
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| 86 | 777 |
Blur
| Think Tank
| 2003
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Listen
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| 87 | 781 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
| Fever to Tell
| 2003
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Listen
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| 88 | 793 |
Spoon
| Kill the Moonlight
| 2002
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Listen
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| 89 | 797 |
The Postal Service
| Give Up
| 2003
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Listen
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| 90 | 817 |
Johnny Cash
| American IV: The Man Comes Around
| 2002
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Listen
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| 91 | 838 |
Clipse
| Hell Hath No Fury
| 2006
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| 92 | 847 |
Sleater-Kinney
| The Woods
| 2005
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Listen
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| 93 | 848 |
Justice
| †
| 2007
|
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Listen
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| 94 | 852 |
The Rapture
| Echoes
| 2003
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Listen
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| 95 | 866 |
Gorillaz
| Demon Days
| 2005
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Listen
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| 96 | 868 |
Santogold
| Santogold
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 97 | 870 |
Johnny Cash
| American III: Solitary Man
| 2000
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Listen
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| 98 | 871 |
The Hold Steady
| Boys and Girls in America
| 2006
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Listen
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| 99 | 872 |
Green Day
| American Idiot
| 2004
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Listen
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| 100 | 880 |
Scott Walker
| The Drift
| 2006
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| 101 | 894 |
TV on the Radio
| Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
| 2004
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Listen
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| 102 | 896 |
Badly Drawn Boy
| The Hour of Bewilderbeast
| 2000
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Listen
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| 103 | 903 |
Röyksopp
| Melody A.M.
| 2001
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Listen
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| 104 | 908
| Hercules and Love Affair
| Hercules and Love Affair
| 2008
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| 105 | 910 |
Liars
| Drum's Not Dead
| 2006
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Listen
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| 106 | 915 |
Grandaddy
| The Sophtware Slump
| 2000
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Listen
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| 107 | 916 |
Animal Collective
| Strawberry Jam
| 2007
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Listen
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| 108 | 930 |
Feist
| The Reminder
| 2007
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Listen
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| 109 | 931 |
Four Tet
| Rounds
| 2003
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Listen
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| 110 |
933 | …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
| Source Tags & Codes
| 2002
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| Listen
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| 111 | 937 |
Gillian Welch
| Time (The Revelator)
| 2001
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Listen
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| 112 | 938 |
My Morning Jacket
| Z
| 2005
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Listen
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| 113 | 950 |
The Microphones
| The Glow, Pt. 2
| 2001
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| 114 | 956 |
The Mars Volta
| De-Loused in the Comatorium
| 2003
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Listen
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| 115 | 959 |
My Morning Jacket
| It Still Moves
| 2003
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Listen
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| 116 | 960 |
Tom Waits
| Real Gone
| 2004
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Listen
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| 117 | 962 |
Spoon
| Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
| 2007
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Listen
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| 118 | 965 |
Death Cab for Cutie
| Transatlanticism
| 2003
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Listen
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| 119 | 976 |
Morrissey
| You Are the Quarry
| 2004
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Listen
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| 120 | 978 |
Justin Timberlake
| FutureSex/LoveSounds
| 2006
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Listen
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| 121 | 979 |
Franz Ferdinand
| You Could Have It So Much Better
| 2005
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Listen
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| 122 | 981 |
Animal Collective
| Feels
| 2005
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| 123 | 982 |
The Strokes
| Room On Fire
| 2003
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Listen
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| 124 | 987 |
Cut Copy
| In Ghost Colors
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 125 | 989 |
U2
| All That You Can't Leave Behind
| 2000
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Listen
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| 126 | 999 |
Sigur Rós
| Takk…
| 2005
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Listen
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| 127 | 1000 |
Elbow
| The Seldom Seen Kid
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 128 | 1002 |
Sigur Rós
| Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 129 | 1011 |
Elliott Smith
| From a Basement on the Hill
| 2004
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Listen
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| 130 | 1012 |
J Dilla aka Jay Dee
| Donuts
| 2006
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Listen
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| 131 | 1018 |
Lambchop
| Nixon
| 2000
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Listen
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| 132 | 1029 |
The White Stripes
| Get Behind Me Satan
| 2005
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Listen
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| 133 | 1036 |
Jay-Z
| The Black Album
| 2003
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Listen
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| 134 | 1045 |
Ryan Adams
| Gold
| 2001
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Listen
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| 135 | 1051 |
Interpol
| Antics
| 2004
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Listen
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| 136 | 1058 |
Lil Wayne
| Tha Carter III
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 137 | 1062 |
Tom Waits
| Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
| 2006
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Listen
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| 138 | 1064 |
The Roots
| Phrenology
| 2002
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Listen
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| 139 | 1068 |
Ghostface Killah
| Supreme Clientele
| 2000
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Listen
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| 140 | 1079 |
Scissor Sisters
| Scissor Sisters
| 2004
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Listen
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| 141 | 1081 |
Rufus Wainwright
| Want One
| 2003
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Listen
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| 142 | 1091 |
Sigur Rós
| ( )
| 2002
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Listen
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| 143 | 1094 |
Solomon Burke
| Don't Give Up On Me
| 2002
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Listen
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| 144 | 1103 |
50 Cent
| Get Rich or Die Tryin'
| 2003
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Listen
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| 145 | 1107 |
Kanye West
| Graduation
| 2007
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Listen
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| 146 | 1111 |
Erykah Badu
| New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 147 | 1112 |
Wolf Parade
| Apologies to the Queen Mary
| 2005
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Listen
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| 148 | 1120 |
PJ Harvey
| White Chalk
| 2007
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Listen
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| 149 | 1126 |
Super Furry Animals
| Rings Around the World
| 2001
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Listen
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| 150 | 1140 |
Norah Jones
| Come Away with Me
| 2002
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Listen
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| 151 | 1141 |
Calexico
| Feast of Wire
| 2003
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Listen
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| 152 | 1146 |
Fennesz
| Endless Summer
| 2001
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Listen
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| 153 | 1150 |
Modest Mouse
| Good News for People Who Love Bad News
| 2004
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Listen
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| 154 |
1151 | The Dandy Warhols
| Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
| 2000
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| Listen
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| 155 | 1157 |
Common
| Be
| 2005
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Listen
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| 156 | 1169 |
The Decemberists
| The Crane Wife
| 2006
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Listen
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| 157 | 1176 |
The New Pornographers
| Twin Cinema
| 2005
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Listen
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| 158 | 1177 |
The Darkness
| Permission to Land
| 2003
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Listen
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| 159 | 1178 |
Fugazi
| The Argument
| 2001
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Listen
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| 160 | 1193 |
The Raconteurs
| Broken Boy Soldiers
| 2006
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Listen
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| 161 | 1209 |
Gorillaz
| Gorillaz
| 2001
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Listen
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| 162 | 1213 |
Damien Rice
| O
| 2002
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Listen
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| 163 | 1216 |
Eminem
| The Eminem Show
| 2002
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Listen
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| 164 | 1228 |
Wilco
| Sky Blue Sky
| 2007
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Listen
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| 165 | 1229 |
M83
| Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
| 2003
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Listen
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| 166 | 1245 |
Cannibal Ox
| The Cold Vein
| 2001
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Listen
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| 167 | 1247 |
Muse
| Origin of Symmetry
| 2001
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Listen
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| 168 | 1248 |
The Hold Steady
| Stay Positive
| 2008
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| 169 | 1249 |
No Age
| Nouns
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 170 |
1256 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
| 2005
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| 171 | 1260 |
Sleater-Kinney
| One Beat
| 2002
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Listen
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| 172 | 1268 |
Common
| Like Water for Chocolate
| 2000
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Listen
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| 173 | 1278 |
The National
| Alligator
| 2005
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| 174 | 1280 |
The Bug
| London Zoo
| 2008
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| 175 | 1286 |
Sonic Youth
| Murray Street
| 2002
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Listen
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| 176 |
1295 | The Good, the Bad and the Queen
| The Good, the Bad and the Queen
| 2007
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| 177 | 1301 |
DJ Shadow
| The Private Press
| 2002
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Listen
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| 178 | 1310 |
Beirut
| Gulag Orkestar
| 2006
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Listen
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| 179 | 1321 |
Missy Elliott
| Under Construction
| 2002
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Listen
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| 180 | 1325 |
Junior Boys
| So This Is Goodbye
| 2006
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Listen
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| 181 | 1330 |
Basement Jaxx
| Rooty
| 2001
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Listen
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| 182 | 1348 |
Madonna
| Music
| 2000
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Listen
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| 183 | 1349 |
Grinderman
| Grinderman
| 2007
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Listen
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| 184 | 1359 |
Elliott Smith
| Figure 8
| 2000
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Listen
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| 185 | 1364 |
The Field
| From Here We Go Sublime
| 2007
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| 186 | 1366 |
Björk
| Medulla
| 2004
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Listen
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| 187 | 1367 |
Of Montreal
| Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
| 2007
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Listen
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| 188 | 1369 | M83
| Saturdays = Youth
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 189 | 1376 |
Kate Bush
| Aerial
| 2005
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Listen
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| 190 |
1382 | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
| Raising Sand
| 2007
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| Listen
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| 191 |
1390 | Yo La Tengo
| I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
| 2006
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| Listen
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| 192 | 1419 |
Neko Case
| Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
| 2006
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Listen
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| 193 | 1446 |
Arctic Monkeys
| Favourite Worst Nightmare
| 2007
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Listen
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| 194 | 1449 |
M. Ward
| Post-War
| 2006
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Listen
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| 195 | 1450 |
The White Stripes
| Icky Thump
| 2007
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Listen
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| 196 | 1460 |
Grizzly Bear
| Yellow House
| 2006
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Listen
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| 197 | 1476 |
Glasvegas
| Glasvegas
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 198 | 1478 |
Hot Chip
| Made in the Dark
| 2008
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| Listen
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| 199 |
1479 | Bright Eyes
| Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil,
Keep Your Ear to the Ground
| 2002
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| Listen
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| 200 | 1483 |
Devendra Banhart
| Cripple Crow
| 2005
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