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1 My Morning Jacket - Z
2 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
4 Radiohead - Kid A
5 White Stripes - Elephant
6 Strokes - Is This It
7 Outkast - Stankonia
8 Killers - Hot Fuss
9 Arcade Fire - Funeral
10 Green Day - American Idiot
11 My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
12 Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
13 Radiohead - In Rainbows
14 Beck - Sea Change
15 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
16 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
17 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
18 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
19 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
20 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
21 Postal Service - Give Up
22 U2 - All That You CAnt Leave Behind
23 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
24 Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
25 Kanye West - The College Dropout
26 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
27 Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
28 Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
29 Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
30 Shins - Oh Inverted World
31 My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
32 Gorillaz - Demon Days
33 White Stripes - White Blood Cells
34 Coldplay - Parachutes
35 Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
36 Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
37 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
38 Kanye West - Graduation
39 National - Boxer
40 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - fever to tell
41 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
42 Black Keys - Attack and Release
43 System of a Down - Toxicity
44 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
45 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
46 Chicks - Home
47 Beck - Guero
48 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
49 Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
50 Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
51 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
52 Johnny Cash - American IV
53 Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell - Begonias
54 Daft Punk - Discovery
55 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
56 Incubus - Morning View
57 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am Thats What Im Not
58 Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
59 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
60 Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
61 Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
62 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
63 Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
64 Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
65 Tim Krekel - Happy Town
66 Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
67 Ryan Adams - Gold
68 Beyonce - Dangerously in Love
69 Bright Eyes - Im Wide Awake Its Morning
70 M.I.A. - kala
71 Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
72 Jay Z - The Blueprint
73 Eminem - The Eminem Show
74 Brandi Carlile - The Story
75 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
76 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
77 Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
78 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
79 Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
80 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
81 Chicks - Taking the Long Way
82 Alicia Keys - Songs in a minor
83 Gorillaz - Gorillaz
84 Missy Elliot - Under Construction
85 Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
86 Audioslave - Audioslave
87 Fugazi - The Argument
88 Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
89 Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
90 Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
91 Cat Power - The Greatest
92 Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
93 Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
94 DAngelo - Voodoo
95 Soundtrack - O Brother Where Art Thou
96 Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
97 Foo Fighters - One by One
98 Britney Spears - Oops I Did it Again
99 Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
100 Todd Snider - East Nashville skyline
101 Hayes Carll - Trouble in Mind
102 New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
103 Florence and the Machine - Lungs
104 Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
105 Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
106 Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
107 Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
108 Usher - Confessions
109 Jay Z - The Black Album
110 Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
111 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin
112 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
113 Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
114 Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant
115 Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
116 Old 97s - Satellite Rides
117 New Pornographers - Electric Version
118 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
119 Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
120 Wilco - A Ghost is Born
121 J Dilla - Donuts
122 Buddy and Julie Miller - Buddy and Julie Miller
123 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
124 Kasey Chambers - Barricades and Brickwalls
125 Ben Folds - Rockin The Suburbs
126 Weezer - Green Album
127 Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
128 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz
129 Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
130 Feist - The Reminder
131 John Mayer - Continuum
132 Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
133 Cake - Comfort Eagle
134 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
135 Kanye West - Late Registration
136 Taylor Swift - Fearless
137 Madvillain - Madvillainy
138 Bjork - vespertine
139 Killers - Sams Town
140 Beyonce - BDay
141 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
142 Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
143 Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
144 Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
145 Solomon Burke - Dont Give Up On Me
146 PJ Harvey - Stories from the City Stories from the Sea
147 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
148 Bjork - Volta
149 Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
150 Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
151 Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
152 Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
153 Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
154 Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Cant Sweat Out
155 Shins - Wincing the Night Away
156 Tool - Lateralus
157 Beyonce - I Am Sasha Fierce
158 Pearl Jam - Binaural
159 Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
160 Black Keys - Rubber Factory
161 Coldplay - XandY
162 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
163 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
164 Linkin Park - hybrid theory
165 Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die
166 U2 - How to dismantle an Atomic Bomb
167 Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
168 White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
169 John Mayer - Room For Squares
170 Tim Krekel - Soul Season
171 Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
172 Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
173 Buddy and Julie Miller - Written In Chalk
174 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist
175 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
176 Evanescence - Fallen
177 Avril Lavigne - Let Go
178 Rufus Wainwright - Want One
179 Erykah Badu - Mamas Gun
180 Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
181 Dr Dre - 2001
182 Sam Phillips - A Boot and a Shoe
183 Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
184 XX - XX
185 Brian Wilson - Smile
186 A perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
187 Christina Aguilera - Stripped
188 Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
189 Sleater Kinney - The Woods
190 Counting Crows - Hard Candy
191 Tift Merritt - Tambourine
192 Jason isbell - Sirens of the Ditch
193 REM - Reveal
194 Sade - Lovers Rock
195 Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
196 Simple Plan - No Pads No Helmets Just Balls
197 Neil Young - Prairie Wind
198 Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
199 VHS or Beta - Night on Fire
200 Prince - Musicology
201 Soundtrack - Garden State
202 Radiohead - Amnesiac
203 Frightened rabbit - the midnight organ fight
204 Pearl Jam - Backspacer
205 Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby
206 Old crow medicine show - OCMS
207 Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
208 Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America
209 Destinys Child - Survivor
210 Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
211 Depeche Mode - Exciter
212 Decemberists - Picaresque
213 Decemberists - The Crane Wife
214 Missy Elliott - Miss E: So Addictive
215 Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun
216 White Stripes - De Stijl
217 M Ward - Post War
218 Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
219 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
220 Lee Ann Womack - Theres More Where That Came From
221 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
222 Miranda Lambert - Crazy ExGirlfriend
223 Madonna - Music
224 All American Rejects - The All American Rejects
225 David Bowie - Reality
226 Tim Krekel - World Keeps Turnin
227 Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
228 Strokes - Room on Fire
229 Fratellis - Costello Music
230 Black Keys - Thickfreakness
231 Britney Spears - In The Zone
232 Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
233 Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
234 Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
235 Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
236 Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2
237 A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
238 Iron and Wine - Creek Drank the Cradle
239 Tom Waits - Alice
240 Santigold - Santigold
241 Pete Yorn - Day I Forgot
242 Jayhawks - Smile
243 Nelly - Country Grammar
244 Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
245 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
246 Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
247 Rufus Wainwright - Poses
248 Van Morrison - Magic Time
249 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
250 Paul Westerberg - Folker
251 At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
252 Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
253 Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
254 Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
255 Sheryl Crow - C'Mon C'mon
256 Tom Petty - Last DJ
257 KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope
258 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
259 Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
260 Phoenix - United
261 Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
262 Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
263 Goo Goo Dolls - Gutterflower
264 Yes - Magnification
265 Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam (Avacado)
266 Deftones - White Pony
267 Elliott Smith - Figure 8
268 Beck - Modern Guilt
269 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
270 Tom Waits - Blood Money
271 No Doubt - Return of Saturn
272 Interpol - Antics
273 Jamey Johnson - That Lonesome Song
274 Dawes - North Hills
275 TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes
276 Phish - farmhouse
277 St Vincent - Actor
278 kd lang - Hymns of The 49th Parallel
279 Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless
280 Lucero - Tennessee
281 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
282 Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
283 Damien Rice - O
284 Spoon - Girls Can Tell
285 Adele - 19
286 Tori Amos - Scarlets Walk
287 Paramore - Riot
288 Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
289 Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
290 Kathleen Edwards - Failer
291 Air - Talkie Walkie
292 Blink 182 - Blink 182
293 Weezer - Make Believe
294 Digby - Falling Up
295 Portishead - Third
296 Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
297 Prince - 3121
298 Pink - Mssundaztood
299 Garbage - Bleed Like Me
300 Pearl Jam - Riot Act
301 White Stripes - Icky Thump
302 Aaliyah - Aaliyah
303 No Doubt - Rock Steady
304 Bob Dylan - Modern Times
305 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
306 Brandi Carlile - Give up the ghost
307 Beck - The Information
308 Ben Sollee - Learning to Bend
309 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
310 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
311 Dr Dog - Fate
312 Feist - Let It Die
313 Damien Rice - 9
314 Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor
315 Steve Earle - Jerusalem
316 Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
317 Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
318 Cat Power - You Are Free
319 New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
320 Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards
321 Hank III - Straight To Hell
322 Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
323 Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
324 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
325 David Bowie - Heathen
326 Tom Waits - Orphans
327 Silversun Pickups - Swoon
328 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
329 Neko Case - Blacklisted
330 Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
331 John Prine - Fair and Square
332 beach house - beach house
333 Sonic Youth - Murray Street
334 Brett Dennen - Hope for the Hopeless
335 Gomez - In Our Gun
336 Lucero - Nobodys Darlins
337 Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott
338 Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
339 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
340 Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
341 Built To Spill - You In Reverse
342 Muckrakers - Front of the Parade
343 Muse - Absolution
344 Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out of this Country
345 Ingrid Michaelson - Be OK
346 Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
347 Lucinda Williams - Essence
348 Johnny Cash - American III
349 Alicia Keys - As I Am
350 Mos def - the ecstatic
351 Gomez - How We Operate
352 Bruce Springsteen - Magic
353 John Mayer - Heavier Things
354 Nelly - Nellyville
355 Black Keys - Magic Potion
356 Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
357 Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
358 Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri- La De Da
359 Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons
360 Angie Stone - Mahogany Soul
361 Paolo Nutini - These Streets
362 Talib Kweli - Quality
363 The Life Aquatic - Soundtrack
364 Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
365 Todd Rundgren - Liars
366 Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
367 Juno - Soundtrack
368 M83 - Saturdays=Youth
369 Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
370 Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
371 Soundtrack - 8 Mile
372 Souljacker - Eels
373 Beth Orton - Daybreaker
374 Snow Patrol - Final Straw
375 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
376 Sara Bareilles - Little Voice
377 High Fidelity - Soundtrack
378 Tom Waits - Real Gone
379 Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin
380 Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
381 Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
382 Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
383 Alanis Morissette - So-Called Chaos
384 Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
385 Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
386 Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
387 Marie Antoinette - Soundtrack
388 Roots - Phrenology
389 Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
390 Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
391 Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
392 Jack Johnson - On and On
393 Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
394 Tom Petty - Highway Companion
395 Over the Rhine - Films for Radio
396 Foo Fighters - Echos Silence Patience and Grace
397 The Corrs - In Blue
398 Joe Henry - Scar
399 Jet - Get Born
400 johnny cash - Unearthed
401 Poe - Haunted
402 Janet Jackson - All For You
403 Sigur Ros - Takk
404 Justice - Justice
405 Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
406 Southern Culture on the Skids - Liquored Up and Lacquer Down
407 Vanilla Sky - Soundtrack
408 Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept
409 Corinne Bailey Ray - Corinne Bailey Rae
410 Michael Franti - Yell Fire
411 Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys
412 Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
413 Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
414 Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
415 Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - 100 days 100 Nights
416 Kylie Minogue - Fever
417 Bob Dylan - Love And Theft
418 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
419 Wilco and Billy Bragg - Mermaid Avenue II
420 José González - In Our Nature
421 National - Alligator
422 Spoon - Gimme Fiction
423 Used - In Love and Death
424 Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
425 Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
426 Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
427 Tegan and Sara - The Con
428 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Up From Below
429 The Darkness - Permission to Land
430 Killers - Day & Age
431 Lost in Translation - Soundtrack
432 Travis - The Invisible Band
433 John Legend - Once Again
434 Zero 7 - Simple Things
435 Sleater Kinney - One Beat
436 Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
437 Joss Stone - Mind Body & Soul
438 Nelly Furtado - Whoa, Nelly
439 I'm Not There - Soundtrack
440 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
441 Tenacious D - self titled
442 Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
443 Enya - A Day Without Rain
444 Over the Rhine - Ohio
445 Soundtrack - Cold Mountain
446 Robyn - Robyn
447 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
448 The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
449 Tool - 10000 days
450 Sparklehorse - dreamt for lightyears in the belly of a mountain
451 Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
452 Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
453 Sheryl Crow - Wildflowers
454 Dashboard Confessional - The Places you have come to fear the most
455 Jay-Z - The Blueprint III
456 Slaid Cleaves - Broke Down
457 Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
458 Stereophonics - LanguageSexViolence Other
459 Widespread Panic - Ball
460 Mary J Blige - No More Drama
461 Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
462 Stereophonics - You Gotta Go There To Come Back
463 Remy Zero - The Golden Hum
464 Nikka Costa - Everybody Got Their Something
465 Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
466 Sigur Ros - ()
467 Doves - Lost Souls
468 Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
469 Tegan and Sara - So Jealous
470 Passion Pit - Manners
471 Wolfmother - Wolfmother
472 Ween - White Pepper
473 Moby - 18
474 Rosanne Cash - Rules of Travel
475 John Legend - Get Lifted
476 Soundtrack - Once
477 Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II
478 The Twilight Saga: New Moon - Soundtrack
479 Lily Allen - Alright, Still
480 Smog - A River Aint Too Much to Love
481 Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
482 Toots and the Maytals - True Love
483 Ray LaMontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
484 Snow Patrol - A Hundred Millions Suns
485 She and Him - Volume One
486 Jack Johnson - Sing-a-Longs and Lullabies
487 Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
488 Liz Phair - Liz Phair
489 Duffy - Rockferry
490 Rilo Kiley - Under the Black Light
491 Tahiti 80 - Fosbury
492 Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
493 Sheryl Crow - Detours
494 Roots - The Tipping Point
495 Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
496 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
497 Royksopp - Melody AM
498 Gavin DeGraw - Chariot
499 Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport
500 U2 - No Line on the Horizon
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