This is the “Long Lost” of candidates for the “Top Albums of the 2000s”
Ordered by artist.
| 1 | !!! | Myth Takes | |
| 2 | Akron/Family | Love Is Simple | |
| 3 | Animal Collective | Fall Be Kind (EP) | |
| 4 | Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavillion | |
| 5 | Arcade Fire | Funeral | |
| 6 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible | |
| 7 | Beck | Sea Change | |
| 8 | Bon Iver | For Emma, Forever Ago | |
| 9 | Boris | Pink | |
| 10 | Bright Eyes | I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning | |
| 11 | Calexico | Feast of Wire | |
| 12 | Dangermouse & Sparklehorse | Dark Night Of The Soul | |
| 13 | Decemberists, The | Castaways and Cutouts | |
| 14 | Decemberists, The | Hazards Of Love | |
| 15 | Decemberists, The | The Crane Wife | |
| 16 | Dr. Dog | Fate | |
| 17 | Elliot Smith | Figure 8 | |
| 18 | Elliot Smith | From A Basement On A Hill | |
| 19 | Flaming Lips, The | Yoshimi Battle The Pink Robots | |
| 20 | Grandaddy | Just Like The Fambly Cat | |
| 21 | Grandaddy | Sumday | |
| 22 | GYBE! | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae to Heaven | |
| 23 | GYBE! | Yanqui U.X.O. | |
| 24 | Hold Steady, The | Boys & Girls In America | |
| 25 | Jason Lytle | Yours Truly The Commuter | |
| 26 | Jenny Lewis | Rabbit Fur Coat | |
| 27 | Jim O’Rourke | The Visitor | |
| 28 | Jim White | Transnormal Skipperoo | |
| 29 | LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem | |
| 30 | Loose Fur | Born Again In The USA | |
| 31 | MGMT | Oracular Spectacular | |
| 32 | Midlake | The Trials of Van Occupanther | |
| 33 | My Morning Jacket | Okonokos | |
| 34 | New Pornographers, The | Challengers | |
| 35 | New Pornographers, The | Mass Romantic | |
| 36 | Okkervil River | Black Sheep Boy | |
| 37 | Panda Bear | Person Pitch | |
| 38 | Phish | The Siket Disc | |
| 39 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | |
| 40 | Polyphonic Spree, The | Together We’re Heavy | |
| 41 | Radiohead | Amnesiac | |
| 42 | Radiohead | In Rainbows | |
| 43 | Radiohead | Hail To the Thief | |
| 44 | Radiohead | Kid A | |
| 45 | Rapture, The | Echoes | |
| 46 | Rilo Kiley | More Adventurous | |
| 47 | Ryan Adams | Gold | |
| 48 | Ryan Adams | Heartbreaker | |
| 49 | Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | Cold Roses | |
| 50 | sigur rós | () | |
| 51 | sigur rós | Hvarf/Heim | |
| 52 | sigur rós | með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust | |
| 53 | sigur rós | Takk | |
| 54 | Spiritualized | Amazing Grace | |
| 55 | Spiritualized | Let It Come Down | |
| 56 | Spiritualized | Songs In A&E | |
| 57 | Strokes, The | Is This It | |
| 58 | Super Furry Animals | Phantom Power | |
| 59 | Super Furry Animals | Rings Around The World | |
| 60 | Wilco | Sky Blue Sky | |
| 61 | Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | |
| 62 | Wilco | A Ghost Is Born | |
| 63 | Wrens, The | The Meadowlands |