My 250 Favorite Songs of the 2000s - #120-111

#120 - The Pain - Murs

Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition (2004)

#119 - Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)

#118 - Velvet - The Big Pink

A Brief History of Love (2009)

#117 - While You Wait For the Others - Grizzly Bear

Veckatimest (2009)

#116 - Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Ros

Agaetis Byrjun (2000)

#115 - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes - The Johnny Boy

You Are the Generation..... (2004)

#114 - Float On - Modest Mouse

Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)

#113 - Malcolm - Ghostface Killah

Supreme Clientele (2000)

#112 - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura

Let's Get Out of This Country (2006)

#111 - Scenic World - Beirut

Lon Gisland (2007)

My 250 Favorite Songs of the 2000s - #220-211

#220 - All I Need - Jay-Z

The Blueprint (2001)

#219 - Take Me to the Riot - Stars

In Our Bedroom After the War (2007)

#218 - The Eraser - Thom Yorke

The Eraser (2006)

#217 - Jezebel - Iron & Wine

Woman King (2005)

#216 - Microtonic Wave - Pinback

Offcell (2003)

#215 - Mushaboom - Feist

Let It Die (2004)

#214 - The Power Is On - The Go! Team

Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004)

#213 - I Came As a Rat - Modest Mouse

The Moon & Antarctica (2000)

#212 - The Late Great Libido - Menomena

I Am the Fun Blame Monster (2003)

#211 - 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene (2005)

My 25 Favorite Artists of the 2000s - #10

#10 - Modest Mouse

Typically when a band moves onto a major label, their first album sounds overproduced, and loses much of the rawness that made that certain band who they were in the first place. This should have been especially true with Modest Mouse, a band whose recordings in the 90s were SO reliant upon the rough, Pixies-like sound they had formed. When The Moon & Antarctica was released in 2000, however, any notion of a flop was dispelled the second the first track came into your ears. This album was one of the greatest odes to the fears of death ever written, and is both lyrically and instrumentally amazing. One of the strangest moments of the decade was when the song "Float On" off of their next album became a #1 hit in the US....a moment no Modest Mouse ever anticipated.

My Favorite Albums:

1. The Moon & Antarctica (2000)

2. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)

3. Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004)