Top 50 Albums From Past 15 Years

Podcast

On this week’s episode of Encore we looked at the top ten albums from the past fifteen years. The goal was to pick our favorite ten albums that came out between 2001 and 2015. This was way harder than I expected it to be and I ended up cutting out albums I love, being surprised at what albums I knew had to make the cut, and you can hear my entire (strange) thought process on the episode. If you hit read more you can read the last 50 that made the cut.

The Top 10

  • Bon Iver – ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’
  • Jimmy Eat World – ‘Futures’
  • Brand New – ‘The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me’
  • Kanye West – ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’
  • The Gaslight Anthem – ‘The ’59 Sound’
  • Jack’s Mannequin – ‘Everything in Transit’
  • Radiohead – ‘King of Limbs’
  • The Postal Service – ‘Give Up’
  • Sufjan Stevens – ‘Illinois’
  • Against Me! – ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’

The Rest

  • A Wilhelm Scream – ‘Ruiner’
  • Against Me! – ‘New Wave’
  • Alicia Keys – ‘Songs in a Minor’
  • Augustana – ‘Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt’
  • Bob Dylan – ‘Modern Times’
  • Brand New – ‘Deja Entendu’
  • Bright Eyes – ‘Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground’
  • Butch Walker – ‘Letters’
  • Butch Walker – ‘Sycamore Meadows’
  • Coldplay – ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’
  • Daft Punk – Discovery
  • Death Cab for Cutie – ‘Transatlanticism’
  • Frightened Rabbit – ‘Pedestrian Verse’
  • Gillian Welch – ‘Time’
  • Hellogoodbye – ‘Would It Kill You’
  • The Japandroids – ‘Celebration Rock’
  • Justin Timberlake – ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’
  • Kanye West – ‘808s and Heartbreak’
  • Kendrick Lamar – ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
  • Morrissey – ‘You Are the Quarry’
  • MUTEMATH – ‘Armistice’
  • Noah Gundersen – ‘Ledges’
  • OutKast – ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Below’
  • P.O.S. – ‘Never Better’
  • Paramore – ‘Brand New Eyes’
  • Phoenix – ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’
  • Ryan Adams – ‘Gold’
  • Ryan Adams – ‘Heartbreaker’
  • The 1975 – ‘The 1975’
  • The Format – ‘Interventions + Lullabies’
  • The Horrible Crowes – ‘Elsie’
  • The Hotelier – ‘Home, Like Noplace Is There’
  • The Killers – ‘Hot Fuss’
  • The Menzingers – ‘On the Impossible Past’
  • The National – ‘High Violet’
  • The Shins – ‘Chutes Too Narrow’
  • Thrice – ‘Vheissu’
  • TV on the Radio – ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’
  • Wilco – ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’
  • Yellowcard – ‘Southern Air’