Best Music 2006 - Michael Schwartz

• The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
• Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
• Thom Yorke - Eraser
• Comets On Fire - Avatar
• Deerhoof - The Runners Four
• Nellie Mckay - Pretty Little Head
• The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
• Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
• Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
  
• My Morning Jacket - Z
• Sufjan Stevens - Ilinoise
• Clap You Hands And Say Yeah - Clap You Hand And Say Yeah

Best Music 2005 - Michael Schwartz

* Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
* Decemberists - Picaresque
* Fiery Furnaces - EP
* Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
* Grandaddy - Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla
* New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
* Sigur Rós - Takk...
* Sleater Kinney - The Woods
* Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
* White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

Best Music 2004 - Michael Schwartz

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Delgados - Hate Delgados - Great Eastern
Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll
U2 - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

Best Music 2003 - Michael Schwartz

Best albums I bought in 2003 ( No Order )
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Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
White Stripes - Elephant
Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out Of Season The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic Mars Volta - De-loused in the Crematarium Grandaddy - Sumday / Sophtware Slump / Under The Western Freeway Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power Sigur Ros - ()

Honorable mention
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Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step Strokes - Room On Fire Longwave - The Strangest Things Jet - Get Born Audioslave - Audioslave Spirtualized - Amazing Grace The Streets - Origianl Pirate Material The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side Raveonettes - Whip It On Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own The Libertines - Up The Bracket The Postal Service - Give Up

Best Music 2002 - Michael Schwartz

1. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
3. Radiohead - Live at Salamanca
4. Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy
5. Clinic - Walking With Thee
6. Hives - Veni, Vidi, Vicious
7. Beth Orton - Daybreaker
8. Audioslave - Audioslave
9. Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
10. Apples In Stereo - Velocity Of Sound
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
12. Aimee Mann - Lost In Space
13. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
14. Trail Of The Dead - Source Tags & Codes
15. Pixies - Pixies

Disclaimer: List of the top albums that I got in 2002 that came out around 2002 ordered by my perceptions at this very moment and is subject to change at a whim without prior notice.