1. Kid A, Radiohead (2000)
Essential Track: “Everything in Its Right Place”
2. Funeral, Arcade Fire (2004)
Essential Track: “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)”
3. In Rainbows, Radiohead (2007)
Essential Track: “Reckoner”
4. Is This It, The Strokes (2001)
Essential Track: “Last Nite”
5. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, Arctic Monkeys (2006)
Essential Track: “A Certain Romance”
6. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco (2002) Essential Track: “Jesus, Etc.”
7. Elephant, The White Stripes (2003)
Essential Track: “Seven Nation Army”
8. Illinois, Sufjan Stevens (2005)
Essential Track: “Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois”
9. A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay (2002)
Essential Track: “Clocks”
10. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips (2002)
Essential Track: “Do You Realize??”
11. Turn on the Bright Lights, Interpol (2002)
Essential Track: “Obstacle 1”
12. Neon Bible, Arcade Fire (2007)
Essential Track: “Intervention”
13. Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective (2009)
Essential Track: “My Girls”
14. For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver (2008)
Essential Track: “Skinny Love”
15. The Moon & Antarctica, Modest Mouse (2000)
Essential Track: “3rd Planet”
16. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes (2008)
Essential Track: “Ragged Wood”
17. Absolution, Muse (2004)
Essential Track: “Hysteria”
18. Amnesiac, Radiohead (2001)
Essential Track: “Pyramid Song”
19. Hail to the Thief, Radiohead (2003)
Essential Track: “There, There (The Boney King of Nowhere)”
20. Songs for the Deaf, Queens Of The Stone Age (2002)
Essential Track: “No One Knows”