Your Favorite Album of the Year: 2000-2012.

[affy18]

What are your favorite albums of every year from 2000 to this year, 2012?

You can include runners-up, if you wish.

2000: Kid A - Radiohead
(RU: Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

2001: Vespertine - Björk
(RU: Amnesiac - Radiohead)

2002: The Disintegration Loops - William Basinski
(RU: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco)

2003: You Are Free - Cat Power
(RU: Boy in da Corner - Dizzee Rascal)

2004: SMiLE - Brian Wilson
(RU: The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom)

2005: Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
(RU: Late Registration - Kanye West)

2006: Ys - Joanna Newsom
(RU: Harmony in Ultraviolet - Tim Hecker)

2007: In Rainbows - Radiohead
(RU: Person Pitch - Panda Bear)

2008: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
(RU: Third - Portishead)

2009: Hospice - The Antlers
(RU: Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors)

2010: Body Talk - Robyn
(RU: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West)

2011: Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
(RU: Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li)

2012: The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple
(RU: Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Max Richter)

[Largo]

Christ this was hard. Considering I was nine in 2000...

2012: Channel Orange, Frank Ocean
r/u: The Hunger Games, Various Artists

2011: Soul Punk, Patrick Stump
r/u: The Book of Mormon, Original Cast

2010: Plastic Beach, Gorillaz
r/u: Brothers, The Black Keys

2009: IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg
r/u: Incredibad, The Lonely Island

2008: Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy
r/u: Rockferry, Duffy

2007: Oracular Spectacular, MGMT
r/u: 100 Days, 100 Nights, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

2006: Back to Black, Amy Winehouse
r/u: Welcome To The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance

2005: Demon Days, Gorillaz
r/u: none. I am appallingly behind on the works of 2005, mostly because I spent all of 2005 listening to this and nothing else.

2004: Love.Angel.Music.Baby., Gwen Stefani
r/u: Horse of a Different Color, Big & Rich

2003: Mud on the Tires, Brad Paisley
r/u: Indestructible, Rancid

2002: Home, The Dixie Chicks
r/u: Be Not Nobody, Vanessa Carlton

2001: Comfort Eagle, Cake
r/u: Gorillaz, Gorillaz

2000: O Brother Where Art Thou?, Various
r/u: The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem

[Aldo]

2012 godspeed you! black emperor: allelujah! don't bend! ascend!
_frank ocean: channel orange

2011 wu lyf: go tell fire on the mountain
_pj harvey: let england shake

2010 these new puritans: hidden
_kanye west: my beautiful dark twisted fantasy

2009 the xx: xx
_animal collective: merriweather post pavillion

2008 fleet foxes: fleet foxes
_hercules and love affair: hercules and love affair

2007 radiohead: in rainbows
_kanye west: graduation

2006 juana molina: son
_beirut: gulag orkestar

2005 sigur rós: takk
_sufjan stevens: illinoise!

2004 devendra banhart: niño rojo
_björk: medulla

2003 outkast: speakerboxx/the love below
_the knife: deep cuts

2002 wilco: yankee hotel foxtrot
_sigur rós: ()

2001 daft punk: discovery
_björk: vespertine

2000 sigur rós: agaetis birjun
_radiohead: kid a

2001 and 2007 being epic years.

[cdmc]

2000: Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
2001: Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
2004: Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
2005: Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
2006: Burial - Burial
2007: Panda Bear - Person Pitch
2008: Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
2009: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
2010: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
2011: John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
2012: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

[Rage Colored Glasses]

2000- Kid A (Radiohead)
Runner-up: The Real Slim Shady (Eminem)

2001- The Blueprint (Jay-Z)
Runner-up: Discovery (Daft Punk)

2002- You Forgot it in People (Broken Social Scene)
Runner-up: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Wilco)

2003- Speakerboxx/The Love Below (Outkast)
Runner-up: Room On Fire (The Strokes)

2004- College Dropout (Kanye West)
Runner-up: The Dirty South (Drive By Truckers)

2005- Separation Sunday (The Hold Steady)
Runner-up: Late Registration (Kanye West)

2006- Hell Hath No Fury (Clipse)
Runner-up: Futuresex/Lovesounds (Justin Timberlake)

2007- Alive 2007 (Daft Punk)
Runner-up: In Rainbows (Radiohead)

2008: Dear Science (TV On The Radio)
Runner-up: The Cool (Lupe Fiasco)

2009: The xx (The xx)
Runner-up: Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. 2 (Raekwon)

2010: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West)
Runner-up: Plastic Beach (Gorillaz)

2011: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (M83)
Runner-up: James Blake (James Blake)

2012: Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City (Kendrick Lamar)
Runner-up: Channel Orange (Frank Ocean)

[Salladeel]

LOL, this is a bit of a shit-show. A lot of years with an embarrassment of options (2001, 2008), and a lot where I struggled to even come up with two (2003, 2009).

2012: Swans - The Seer
r/u: Jessie Ware - Devotion

2011: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
r/u: Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

2010: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
r/u: Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid

2009: Rihanna - Rated R
r/u: The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

2008: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
r/u: Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War)

2007: The Everybodyfields - Nothing is Okay
r/u: Burial - Untrue

2006: The Knife - Silent Shout
r/u: Sibylle Baier - Colour Green

2005: Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
r/u: M.I.A. - Arular

2004: Tom Waits - Real Gone
r/u: Bjork - Medulla

2003: Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan, the Great Lakes State
r/u: Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance

2002: Clipse - Lord Willin'
r/u: Tom Waits - Blood Money

2001: Bjork - Vespertine
r/u: Aaliyah - Aaliyah

2000: The Avalanches - Since I Left You
r/u: D'Angelo - Voodoo

[lazarus]

Feel like we did this not too long ago. Wish I could look mine up.

2000: PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
r/u: Phoenix - United

2001: Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
r/u: Radiohead - Amnesiac

2002: Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
r/u Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

2003: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
r/u: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib

2004: U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
r/u: Arcade Fire - Funeral

2005: Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
r/u: Kanye West - Late Registration

2006: Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
r/u: Prince - 3121

2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
r/u: Bob Dylan - Modern Times

2008 - Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
r/u: Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash

2009: U2 - No Line On The Horizon
r/u: Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

2010: Los Campesinos!- Romance Is Boring
r/u: LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

2011: M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
r/u: Tom Waits - Bad As Me

2012: Cat Power - Sun
r/u: Passion Pit - Gossamer

[haqyunus]

Maybe it is the current year and all the music is so fresh that 2012 was so hard for me to decide.

2000
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
RU: Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2

2001
Radiohead - Amnesiac
RU: Zero 7 - Simple Things

2002
Frou Frou - Details
RU: Neko Case - Blacklisted

2003
Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper
RU: Black Cherry - Goldfrapp

2004
KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope
RU: Keane - Hopes and Fears

2005
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
RU: Shakira - Fijación Oral Vol. 1

2006
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
RU: Various Artists - Original Soundtrack from 'Omkara'

2007
Norah Jones - Not Too Late
RU: Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight

2008
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
RU: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

2009
The Decembrists - The Hazards of Love
RU: Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill

2010
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
RU:The National - High Violet

2011
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
RU: Florence & the Machines - Ceremonials

2012
Jack White - Blunderbuss
RU: Chairlift - Something