Anthony’s Favorite Albums: 2000-2004 (Now With Honorable Mentions!)

1. Electric Six, Fire

2. Desaparecidos, Read Music/Speak Spanish

3. Good Charlotte, The Young And The Hopeless

4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell

5. Fugazi, The Argument

6. Hot Snakes, Automatic Midnight

7. Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights

8. The Hives, Tyrannosaurus Hives

9. Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray

10. Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand

11. The White Stripes, DeStijl

12. Eagles Of Death Metal, Peace Love Death Metal

13. Nellie McKay, Get Away From Me

14. Hot Snakes, Audit In Progress

15. The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed

16. Rocket From The Crypt, Live From Camp X-Ray

17. The Go-Betweens, Friends Of Rachel Worth

18. The Distillers, Sing Sing Death House

19. Kelly Osbourne, Shut Up!

20. Rocket From The Crypt, Group Sounds

21. Dismemberment Plan, Change

22. Rival Schools, United By Fate

23. Spoon, Girls Can Tell

24. The Strokes, Is This It

25. The All-American Rejects, The All-American Rejects

26. Radiohead, Kid A

27. Queens Of The Stone Age, Rated R

28. Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

29. Kimya Dawson, Hidden Vagenda

30. Van Hunt, Van Hunt

31. Bumblebeez 81, Printz

32. Travis Morrison, Travistan

33. R. Kelly & Jay-Z, Unfinished Business

34. The Twilight Singers, Twilight As Performed By The Twilight Singers

35. Bob Dylan, Love & Theft

36. The Dandy Warhols, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia

37. Ludacris, Back For The First Time

38. Luna, Romantica

39. Weezer, Weezer (The Green Album)

40. Superchunk, Here’s To Shutting Up

41. Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Greendale

42. Northern State, Dying In Stereo

43. Ghostface Killah, The Pretty Toney Album

44. The Donnas, Spend The Night

45. Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

46. Courtney Love, America’s Sweetheart

47. The Breeders, Title TK

48. Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts Of The Great Highway

49. New Wet Kojak, Do Things

50. Clinic, Internal Wrangler

Other artists who recorded 10 to 50 songs between 2000-2004 that I still own: Amadou & Mariam, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, David Banner, Basement Jaxx, Blink-182, Bowling For Soup, Manu Chao, Chk Chk Chk, Clem Snide, Clipse, De La Soul, Death Cab For Cutie/Postal Service, Deftones, Devin The Dude, Drive-By Truckers/Patterson Hood, Missy Elliott, Eminem, The Faint, Fiery Furnaces, Mannie Fresh, The Gossip, Grandaddy, Icarus Line, Enrique Iglesias, The Isley Brothers feat. Ronald Isley aka Mr. Biggs, Janet Jackson, Junior Boys, Kaito UK, The Knife, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Les Savy Fav, Lifter Puller/Hold Steady, Linkin Park, Low, Stephen Malkmus, McLusky, M83, Modest Mouse, Monkeywrench/Mudhoney, Nelly, Old 97s, Pitbull, Placebo, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amy Rigby, Rilo Kiley, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Regina Spektor, Streets, Tegan & Sara, The Thermals, Usher, Weakerthans, Wilco, Wu-Tang Clan, Ying Yang Twins, Young Heart Attack and Thalia Zedek

Relatively obscure indie acts on my Stylus Top 50 Albums list absent here because I lost my copies and haven’t bothered to hunt new ones down: Crooked Fingers, I Am The World Trade Center, Trouble Everyday

Pop acts on that Stylus 50 who now solely reside on the Favorite Singles 2000-2004 list I may well write someday: Liz Phair, t.A.T.u