50 Muse – black holes and revelations
49 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – show your bones
48 My Morning Jacket – z
47 Joy Denalane – born & raised
46 Jason Collett – idols of exile
45 Espers – espers II
44 Die Sterne – räuber und gedärm
43 The Divine Comedy – victory for the comic muse
42 The Mars Volta – amputechture
41 The Rapture – pieces of the people we love
40 Ben Kweller – ben kweller
39 Mogwai – mr. beast
38 Trentemøller – the last resort
37 Thom Yorke – the eraser
36 Georgia Anne Muldrow – olesi: fragments of an earth
35 Bonnie “Prince” Billy – the letting go
34 Adam Green – jacket full of danger
33 Lily Allen – alright, still…
32 The Flaming Lips – at war with the mystics
31 The Duke Special – songs from the deep forest
30 The Kooks – inside in / inside out
29 Ryan Adams – 29
28 Belle & Sebastian – the life pursuit
27 M. Ward – post-war
26 Sonic Youth – rather ripped
25 Die Goldenen Zitronen – lenin
24 Gnarls Barkley – st. elsewhere
23 Morrissey – ringleader of the tormentors
22 Blumfeld – verbotene früchte
21 The Thermals – the body, the blood, the machine
20 Yo La Tengo – i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass
19 Ghostface Killah – fishscale
18 The Raconteurs – broken boy soldiers
17 Sufjan Stevens – the avalanche
16 The Rifles – no love lost
15 Dirty Pretty Things – waterloo to anywhere
14 Cat Power – the greatest
13 The Long Blondes – someone to drive you home
12 Bob Dylan – modern times
11 We are Scientists – with love and squalor
10 Mando Diao – ode to ochrasy
09 Cursive – happy hollow
08 The Strokes – first impressions of earth
07 Joanna Newsom – ys
06 And you will know us by the Trail of Dead – so divided
05 Hot Chip – the warning
04 TV on the Radio – return to cookie mountain
03 Midlake – the trials of van occupanther
02 Arctic Monkeys – whatever people say i am, that’ what i’m not
01 Kante – die tiere sind unruhig