this is probably a crap time to start this thread, but i just finished updating my 'top 50' list of last year, which has now turned into a 'top 100' as there were so many new additions!

so basically my 100 favourite albums in approximate order:

1. 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
2. 65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
3. The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
4. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
5. At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
6. Million Dead - A Song To Ruin
7. Oceansize - Effloresce
8. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
9. Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
10. 65daysofstatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas
11. Isis - Panopticon
12. The Bronx - The Bronx
13. Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies - Hurrah!...
14. Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
15. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer?
16. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
17. Radiohead - Kid A
18. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
19. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
20. Four Tet - Rounds
21. The Go! Team - Thunder! Lightning! Strike!
22. Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die…
23. Hope Of The States - The Lost Riots
24. Radiohead - OK Computer
25. Cats and Cats and Cats - Sweet Drunk Everyone
26. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
27. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
28. Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
29. Mew - Frengers
30. Isis - Oceanic
31. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
32. Million Dead - Harmony No Harmony
33. Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
34. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
35. Battles - Mirrored
36. Tellison - Contact! Contact!
37. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
38. Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
39. The Samuel Jackson Five - Easily Misunderstood
40. The Strokes - Is This It?
41. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!
42. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
43. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
44. Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
45. !!! - Myth Takes
46. Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky
47. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
48. Arcade Fire - Funeral
49. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
50. Islands - Return To The Sea
51. The Knife - Silent Shout
52. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
53. AFX - Chosen Lords
54. Bjork - Vespertine
55. Dive Dive - Tilting At Windmills
56. The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger
57. Tool - Lateralus
58. Meet Me In St. Louis - Variations On Swing
59. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youths, Bloodthirsty Babes
60. Cursive - Happy Hollow
61. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
62. Rival Schools - United By Fate
63. Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
64. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
65. Dartz! - This Is My Ship
66. Jeniferever - Choose A Bright Morning
67. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
68. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
69. Beirut - Gulag Orkestrar
70. Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
71. Jesu - Silver
72. Sikth - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild
73. Jeremy Warmsley - The Art Of Fiction
74. The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose
75. Mclusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire
76. Holy Fuck - LP
77. Capdown - Civil Disobedients
78. Coldcut - Let Us Play
79. Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
80. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
81. Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust
82. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
83. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
84. Bjork - Homegenic
85. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
86. Grails - Burning Off Impurities
87. !!! - Louden Up Now
88. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
89. Feedle - Leave Now For Adventure
90. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
91. Blood Brothers - Crimes
92. Forward Russia! - Give Me A Wall
93. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
94. Johann Johannsson - IBM 1401 - A Users Manual
95. Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here…
96. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
97. Vex Red - Start With A Strong And Persistent Desire
98. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
99. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
100. The Rapture - Echoes

now you go! (there could be a long wait here if people have to make these lists, but i suppose some people may already have done them...)