I just found records of my Top 10 albums going back to 2000. I wish i had more as I've been compiling since mid-90's. Oh well. Here goes:
2000:
1. eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
2. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
5. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
6. Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
7. Ween - White Pepper
8. Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child
9. Cat Power - The Covers Album
10. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
2001:
1. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
2. Stephen Malkmus - s/t
3. The Strokes - Is This It?
4. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
5. Evan Dando - Live at the Brattle Theater
6. Weezer - "green album"
7. Gorillaz - s/t
8. The Get Up Kids - Eudora
9. Dump - That Skinny Motherfucker With The High Voice?
10. The Frogs - Hopscotch Lollipop
2002:
1. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
2. Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither
3. Squarephusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?
4. RJD2 - Deadringer
5. DJ Spooky - Optometry
6. Venetian Snares - Winter in the Belly of a Snake
7. Milemarker - Satanic Versus
8. Max Tundra - Masered by Guy at The Exchange
9. Cex - Tall, Dark and Handcuffed
10. Kid606 - The Action Packed Mentalist Brings You The Fucking Jams
2003:
1. Cex - Being Ridden
2. Cex - Maryland Mansions
3. Kool Keith - Presents Thee Undertakerz
4. µ-Ziq - Bilious Paths
5. Venetian Snares - Find Candace
6. Cat Power - You Are Free
7. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
8. Jay-Z - The Black Album
9. Evan Dando - Baby I"m Bored
10. Ween - Quebec
2004:
1. Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album
2. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
3. RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
4. Sage Francis - Sickly Business
5. Bjork - Medulla
6. Passage - The Forcefield Kids
7. The Faint - Wet From Birth
8. Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylandar Box Unfolding
9. Madvillain - Madvillainy
10. Clouddeaded - Ten
2005:
1. Dangerdoom - The Mouse And The Mask
2. MF Doom - Special Herbs 9 + 0
3. LCD Soundsystem - s/t
4. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
5. Beck - Guero
6. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture Vol 1
7. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
8. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
9. Devo - Live 1980
10. Gorillaz - Demon Dayz
2006:
1. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
2. Melvins - A Live History of Gluttony
3. Kid606 - Pretty Girls Make Raves
4. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
5. The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
6. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
7. The Lemonheads - s/t
8. Mos Def - Tru3 Magic
9. The DFA - Remixes Chapter One
10. The DFA - Remixes Chapter Two
2007:
1. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. TI - TI Vs TIP
4. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
5. Prodigy - Return of the Mac
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
8. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
9. Ratatat - Remixes Vol 2
10. Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
2008:
1. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle
3. Jim Jones - Harlem's American Gangster
4. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead
5. TI - Papertrail
6. Portishead - Third
7. The Game - LAX
8. Re-Up Gang - We Got it For Cheap Vol 3
9. Cat Power - Jukebox
10. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
2009:
1. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
4. Lil Wayne - No Ceilings
5. The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care
6. Slim Thug - Boss of All Bosses
7. MF Doom - Born Like This
8. The Lemonheads - Varshons
9. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I wish We Were an Eagle
10. Ben Weasel - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
2010:
1. Lil Wayne - Rebirth
2. Drake - Thank Me Later
3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Record Club - Kick
5. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
6. Earl Sweatshirt - Earl
7. Meth, Ghost & Rae - Wu-Massacre
8. Lil Wayne - I am Not a Human Being
9. Gucci Mane - Free Gucci: The Best of the Cold War Mixtapes
10. Christina Aguilera - Bionic
2011:
1. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
2. Sonic Youth - SYR9: Simon Werner A Dispparu
3. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
4. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
5. Big KRIT - Return of 4eva
6. Ritualz - Ghetto Ass Witch
7. Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
8. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
9. Tyler The Creator - Goblin
10. Lil B - Bitch Mobb Respect the Bitch
2012:
1. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
2. Sonic Youth - Smart Bar Chicago 1985
3. Nas - Life is Good
4. GOOD Music - Cruel Summer
5. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
6. The Game - Jesus Piece
7. The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceana
8. Wu-Block - s/t
9. Masta Ace - MA DOOM: Son of Yvonne
10. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
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