1. Bob Dylan- “Love and Theft”

Listen: “Cry A While”

2. The Strokes- Is This It

Listen: “Hard to Explain”

3. Jay-Z- The Blueprint

Listen: “Renegade”

4. The White Stripes- White Blood Cells

Listen: “Fell in Love with a Girl”

5. Daft Punk- Discovery

Listen: “Something About Us”

6. System of a Down- Toxicity

Listen: “Prison Song”

7. Ted Leo- The Tyranny of Distance

Listen: “Biomusicology”

8. Missy Elliott- Miss E…So Addictive

Listen: “Get Ur Freak On”

9. Stephen Malkmus- Stephen Malkmus

Listen: “Black Book”

10. Bjork- Vespertine

Listen: “Pagan Poetry”

Honorable Mention: Ben Folds’ Rockin’ the Suburbs

Updated: December 31, 2011

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1. Radiohead- OK Computer

Listen: “Let Down”

2. Bjork- Homogenic

Listen: “Joga”

3. Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Listen: “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space”

4. Teenage Fanclub- Songs from Northern Britain

Listen: “I Don’t Want Control of You”

5. Erykah Badu- Baduizm

Listen: “Next Lifetime”

6. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- The Boatman’s Call

Listen: “Into My Arms”

7. Yo La Tengo- I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One

Listen: “My Little Corner of the World”

8. Bob Dylan- Time Out of Mind

Listen: “Standing in the Doorway”

9. Missy Elliott- Supa Dupa Fly

Listen: “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)”

10. Vigilantes of Love- Slow Dark Train

Honorable Mention: Blur’s Blur, The Chemical Brothers’ Dig Your Own Hole

Updated: May 12, 2012

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