I didn’t actually vote in the Pitchfork list thing but here’s a pretty good approximation of my favorite albums, 1996-2011

[I am totally braindead right now so make of that what you will. Also, I don’t think there’s a single album on here that’s actually from 2011.]

1. Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
2. Kristin Hersh, Sunny Border Blue
3. Pulp, This Is Hardcore
4. MIA, Kala
5. Bjork, Homogenic
6. The Kills, Midnight Boom
7. Erykah Badu, Baduizm
8. The Breeders, Title TK
9. Cat Power, The Covers Record
10. Pink, Try This

11. Rosebuds, Night of the Furies
12. Le Tigre, Le Tigre
13. The Knife, Deep Cuts
14. Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs
15. Clinic, Walking With Thee
16. Portishead, Third
17. Belle and Sebastian, If You’re Feeling Sinister
18. Stereo Total, Paris/Berlin
19. Everything But The Girl, Walking Wounded
20. The Knife, Silent Shout

21. Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds
22. Nelly Furtado, Loose
23. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part 1
24. Madonna, GHV2
25. Janelle Monae, The Archandroid
26. Ladytron, 604
27. Franz Ferdinand, Tonight
28. Juana Molina, Son
29. Blur, 13
30. The Long Blondes, Someone To Drive You Home

31. Keren Ann, Keren Ann
32. John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey, Dance Hall at Louse Point
33. Dean & Britta, 13 Most Beautiful
34. Tracey Thorn, Out of the Woods
35. Justin Timberlake, Justified
36. The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
37. Beth Orton, Trailer Park
38. Saint Etienne, Good Humor
39. Alkaline Trio, Good Mourning
40. Britney Spears, Blackout

41. Missy Elliott, Under Construction
42. Magnetic Fields, Distortion
43. Sleater-Kinney, All Hands On The Bad One
44. Super Furry Animals, Mwng
45. Of Montreal, The Sunlandic Twins
46. Suzanne Vega, Nine Objects of Desire
47. Blood Brothers, Crimes
48. Black Heart Procession, #2
49. Imperial Teen, Seasick
50. Jewel, 0304

51. La Roux, La Roux
52. Elastica, The Menace
53. MIA, Arular
54. Lissie, Catching A Tiger
55. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
56. Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile
57. Kylie Minogue, Fever
58. Brand New, Daisy
59. Clinic, Bubblegum
60. Queens of the Stone Age, Rated R*

61. You Say Party We Say Die, XXXX
62. Fever Ray, Fever Ray
63. Black Box Recorder, Passionoia
64. Jimmy Eat World, Bleed American
65. Hefner, Breaking God’s Heart
66. Lansing-Dreiden, The Incomplete Triangle
67. Gwen Stefani, Love Angel Music Baby
68. Clem Snide, The Ghost of Fashion
69. Low, Things We Lost In The Fire
70. Tori Amos, Boys for Pele

71. The Organ, Grab That Gun
72. David Bowie, Heathen
73. Kele, The Boxer
74. Fiona Apple, Tidal*
75. Antony and the Johnsons, I Am A Bird Now

(*Not really, these would both be way higher, but I didn’t remember them until I had already started numbering.)