Under The Radar: Best Of The Decade – Top 200 Albums of the Decade

At the end of 2009 New Music Excess listed the top 10 albums from Under The Radar’s – Top 200 Albums of the Decade. https://newmusicexcess.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/under-the-radar-best-of-the-decade-albums-1-10/

So, by way of completion, here is the Top 200 in full as listed by Under The Radar magazine’s Best of The Decade issue http://www.undertheradarmag.com/issues/3302/.

1. Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
2. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
3. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
4. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country (2006)
5. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005) 
6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (2009)
7. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
8. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
9. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
10. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People (2002)
11. Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (2000)
12. Bright Eyes – Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
13. Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
14. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)
15. Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump (2000)
16. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (2001)
17. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)
18. Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
19. The Dears – No Cities Left (2003)
20. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun (2000)
21. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
22. Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous (2004)
23. Bat For Lashes – Fur For Gold (2006)
24. Charlotte Gainsbourg – 555 (2006)
25. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
26. Feist – The Reminder (2007)
27. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007)
28. Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit (2006)
29. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)
30. Peter Bjorn and John – Writer’s Block (2006)
31. The White Stripes – Elephant (2003)
32. Beck – Sea Change (2002)
33. Spiritualized – Let It Come Down (2001)
34. Tegan and Sara – The Con (2007)
35. Doves – The Last Broadcast (2002)
36. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (2004)
37. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (2008)
38. The Postal Service – Give Up (2003)
39. Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)
40. Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica (2000)
41. The Shins – Oh Inverted World (2001)
42. Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World (2001)
43. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
44. of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
45. M83 – Saturdays=Youth (2008)
46. The Bees – Free The Bees (2004)
47. Clinic – Internal Wrangler (2000)
48. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns (2009)
49. The Concretes – The Concretes (2003)
50. Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
51. Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things (2002)
52. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of the Bewilderbeast (2000)
53. Mew – Frengers (2003)
54. M. Ward – Transfiguration of Vincent (2003)
55. My Morning Jacket – Z (2005)
56. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief (2003)
57. Joanna Newsom – Y’s (2006)
58. The Delgados – The Great Eastern (2000)
59. Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain (2000)
60. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (2005)
61. Portishead – Third (2008)
62. Antony & the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now (2005)
63. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
64. The Strokes – This Is It (2001)
65. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar (2006)
66. Broadcast – HaHa Sound (2003)
67. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue (2008)
68. Death Cab for Cutie – We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes (2000)
69. The Divine Comedy – Absent Friends (2004)
70. Richard Hawley – Coles Corner (2005)
71. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema (2005)
72. Okkervil River – The Stage Names (2007)
73. Cursive – The Ugly Organ ( 2003)
74. Panda Bear – Person Pitch (2007)
75. Air – Talkie Walkie (2004)
76. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
77. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
78. The National – Boxer (2007)
79. OutKast – Stankonia (2000)
80. Elliott Smith – From a Basement on a Hill (2004)
81. Spoon – Gimme Fiction (2005)
82. Spoon – Kill The Moonlight (2002)
83. Iron & Wine – The Creek that Drank the Cradle (2002)
84. The Dodos – Visiter (2008)
85. Coldplay – Parachutes (2000)
86. The Dears – Missiles (2008)
87. Love Is All – Nine Times That Same Song (2006)
88. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House (2006)
89. The Decemberists – Castaways and Cutouts (2002)
90. Cat Power – The Greatest (2006)
91. Deerhunter – Microcastle (2008)
92. OutKast – Speakerboxx/The Love Below (2003)
93. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
94. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife (2006)
95. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic (2000)
96. She & Him – Volume One (2008)
97. CSS – Cansel de Ser Sexy (2006)
98. Neko Case – Blacklisted (2002)
99. Emily Haines – Knives Don’t Have Your Back (2006)
100. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker (2000)
101. Pulp – We Love Life (2001)
102. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005)
103. Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites (2005)
104. The Decemberists – Her Majesty The Decemberists (2003)
105. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (2009)
106. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell (2003)
107. Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha (2007)
108. The Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight (2003)
109. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam (2007)
110. M.I.A. – Kala (2007)
111. Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power (2003)
112. Sparklehorse – It’s a Wonderful Life (2001)
113. The Veils – Nux Vomica (2009)
114. Cat Power – You Are Free (2003)
115. Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans (2004)
116. Super Furry Animals – Love Kraft (2005)
117. Loney, Dear – Loney, Noir (2005)
118. Kanye West – The College Dropout (2004)
119. Beck – Guero (2005)
120. Spiritualized – Amazing Grace (2003)
121. Spoon – Girls Can Tell (2001)
122. Feist – Let It Die (2004)
123. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)
124. The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004)
125. The Duke Spirit – Neptune (2008)
126. Doves – Some Cities (2005)
127. Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
128. Jamie Lidell – Multiply (2005)
129. Band of Horses – Everything All the Time (2006)
130. Rogue Wave – Descended Like Vultures (2005)
131. Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires (2008)
132. Ladytron – The Witching Hour (2005)
133. Air – The Virgin Suicides (2000)
134. Lambchop – Nixon (2000)
135. The Pipettes – We Are the Pipettes (2006)
136. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (2007)
137. Death Cab For Cutie – The Photo Album (2001)
138. Beirut – The Flying Cup (2007)
139. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky (2007)
140. Morrissey – You Are The Quarry (2004)
141. Doves – Lost Souls (2000)
142. Death cab For Cutie – Plans (2005)
143. Lykke Li – Youth Novels (2008)
144. Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing in the Hands (2004)
145. Grandaddy – Sumday (2003)
146. Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt (2004)
147. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere (2006)
148. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
149. Kanye West – Late Registration (2005)
150. of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping (2008)
151. Air – 10,ooo Hz Legend (2001)
152. Stephen Malkmus – Stephen Malkmus (2001)
153. The Walkmen – Bows and Arrows (2004)
154. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away (2007)
155. Electrelane – The Power Out (2004)
156. of Montreal – The Sunlandic Twins (2005)
157. Blonde Redhead – Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000)
158. Shout Out Louds – Our III Wills (2007)
159. Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
160. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005)
161. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene (2005)
162. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
163. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America (2006)
164. Broadcast – The Noise Made By People (2000)
165. The National – Alligator (2005)
166. Calexico – Feast Of Wire (2003)
167. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)
168. Supergrass – Life on Other Planets (2002)
169. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)
170. My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves (2003)
171. Tindersticks – Can Our Love… (2001)
172. Rilo Kiley – Take-Offs and Landings (2001)
173. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (2005)
174. Johnny Cash – American III: Solitary Man (2000)
175. M. Ward – Post-War (2006)
176. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
177. Lansing-Dreiden – The Dividing Island (2006)
178. The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat (2004)
179. Daft Punk – Discovery (2001)
180. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004)
181. The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Behind the Music (2001)
182. Girl Talk – Night Ripper (2006)
183. Taken By Trees – East Of Eden (2009)
184. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career (2009)
185. Desaparecidos – Read Music Speak Spanish (2002)
186. St. Vincent – Marry Me (2007)
187. Sufjan Stevens – Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State (2003)
188. Liars – They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2002)
189. The Cardigans – Super Extra Gravity (2005)
190. The Dears – Gang of Losers (2006)
191. Caribou – Andorra (2007)
192. Sonic Youth – Murray Street (2002)
193. R.E.M. – Accelerate (2008)
194. The Avalanches – Since I Left You (2000)
195. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
196. The New Pornographers – Electric Version (2003)
197. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods (2005)
198. Mercury Rev – All Is Dream (2001)
199. LCD Soundsystem – The Sound of Silver (2007)
200. Stars – Set Yourself on Fire (2004)

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