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It’s that time again, our annual list of our favorite music from each year. New for 2007’s best of list is far more detail and interactivity than before, and it’s even linked to the fak3r’s aStore at Amazon in case you want to pick up any of the recommendations from the page, how convenient!  As always, scroll to the bottom for picks from years past.

Full Amaon Store, or continue reading below for our best of back to 2001.

2006

• Band of Horses “Everything All the Time“
• Beck “The Information“
• Beirut “The Gulag Orkestar“
• Birdy Nam Nam “Birdy Nam Nam“
• Dixie Chicks “Taking The Long Way“
• Girl Talk “Night Ripper“
• Jenny Lewis “Rabbit Fur Coat“
• Lily Allen “Alright, Still“
• Mogwai “Mr. Beast“
• Silversun Pickups “Carnavas“
• Sonic Youth “Rather Ripped“
• Tokyo Police Club “A Lesson in Crime“
• Whitest Boy Alive “Dreams“
• Thom Yorke “The Eraser“

2005

• Ben Folds “Songs for Silverman”
• Bloc Party ”Silent Alarm”
• Danger Doom ”The Mouse And The Mask”
• DJ Shadow ”Endtroducing… [Deluxe Edition]”
• Fiona Apple ”Extraordinary Machine”
• Gorillaz ”Demon Days”
• John Vanderslice ”Pixel Revolt”
• The Lucksmiths ”Warmer Corners”
• Sigur Ros ”Takk…”
• Sleater-Kinney ”The Woods”
• Spoon ”Gimme Fiction”
• The Stars ”Set Yourself On Fire”
• Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane “At Carnegie Hall”
• Teenage Fanclub ”Man-Made”
• The Wedding Present ”Take Fountain”
• Lucinda Williams ”Live @ the Fillmore”

2004

• Elliot Smith “From a Basement on a Hill”
• Interpol “Antics”
• John Vanderslice “Cellar Door”
• Modest Mouse “Good News For People Who Love Bad News”
• PJ Harvey “Uh Huh Her”
• Silkworm “It’d Be Cool”
• The New Year “The End Is Near”
• Tobin Sprout “Live From The Horseshoe”
• Tragically Hip “In Between Evolution”
• Rufus Wainwright “Want Two”
• The Von Bondies “Pawn Shoppe Heart”

2003

• Blur “Think Tank“
• Broken Social Scene “You Forgot It In People“
• Cat Power “You Are Free“
• Guided by Voices “Human Amusement at Hourly Rates: The Best of Guided by Voices“
• Radiohead “Hail To The Thief“
• Ramones “NYC 1978“
• The Strokes “Room On Fire“
• The New Pornographers “Electric Version“
• Rufus Wainwright “Want One“
• Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs “Fever To Tell“

2002

• …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead “Source Tags And Codes”
• Badly Drawn Boy “About A Boy Soundtrack”
• Kasey Chambers “Barricades And Brickwalls”
• Death Cab For Cutie “The Photo Album”
• Neil Finn “One Nil”
• Fugazi “The Argument”
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy “A New Morning, Changing Weather”
• Interpol “Turn On The Bright Lights”
• Mary Lou Lord “Live City Sounds”
• Sleater-Kinney “One Beat”
• Spoon “Kill The Moonlight”
• The Strokes “Is This It” (Australian Reissue with DVD)
• You Am I “Deliverance”

2001

• Ben Folds “Rockin’ the Suburbs”
• Guided by Voices “Isolation Drills”
• The New Pornographers “Mass Romantic”
• Radiohead “Amnesiac”
• Shins “Oh, Inverted World”
• Spoon “Girls Can Tell”
• The Strokes “Is this it?”
• John Vanderslice “Time Travel is Lonely”
• Rufus Wainwright “Poses”
• Weezer “Weezer (Green Album)”
• Whiskeytown “Pneumonia”
• Wilco “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”
• Lucinda Williams “Essence”