| ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL | |
| 1 | Strokes, The | Is This It | RCA |
| 2 | Weezer | Weezer | Interscope |
| 3 | Spoon | Girls Can Tell | Merge |
| 4 | Low | Things We Lost In The Fire | Kranky |
| 5 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | s/t | Virgin |
| 6 | Radiohead | Amnesiac | Capitol |
| 7 | White Stripes, The | White Blood Cells | Sympathy For The Record Industry |
| 8 | Jimmy Eat World | Bleed American | Dreamworks |
| 9 | Gorillaz | s/t | Virgin |
| 10 | Sigur Ros | Agætis Byrjun | Fat Cat |
| 11 | Atmosphere | Lucy Ford E.P. | Rhyme Sayers |
| 12 | Built To Spill | Ancient Melodies Of The Future | Warner Brothers |
| 13 | Dismemberment Plan, The | Change | DeSoto |
| 14 | Malkmus, Stephen | s/t | Matador |
| 15 | Death Cab For Cutie | The Photo Album | Barsuk |
| 16 | Björk | Vespertine | Elektra |
| 17 | Idlewild | 100 Broken Windows | Capitol |
| 18 | Faint, The | Danse Macabre | Saddle Creek |
| 19 | Beulah | The Coast Is Never Clear | Velocette |
| 20 | BS 2000 | Simply Mortified | Grand Royal |
| 21 | Adams, Ryan | Gold | Lost Highway/Island |
| 22 | Reiley, Ike | Salesmen And Racists | Universal |
| 23 | Fugazi | The Argument | Dischord |
| 24 | Yorn, Pete | Music For The Morning After | Columbia |
| 25 | Chao, Manu | Proxima Estacion: Esperanza | Virgin |
| 26 | Escovedo, Alejandro | A Man Under The Influence | Bloodshot |
| 27 | Sparklehorse | It's A Wonderful Life | Capitol |
| 28 | Beta Band | Hot Shots II | Astralwerks |
| 29 | Kid Dakota | So Pretty | (self-released) |
| 30 | Ivy | Long Distance | Nettwerk |
| 31 | Otis, Shuggie | Inspiration Information | Luaka Bop |
| 32 | Red House Painters | Old Ramon | Sub Pop |
| 33 | Pepe Deluxé | Super Sound | Emperor Norton |
| 34 | Iffy | Biota Bondo | Foodchain |
| 35 | Old 97's | Satellite Rides | Elektra |
| 36 | New Pornographers, The | Mass Romantic | Mint |
| 37 | Mallman, Mark & Vermont | s/t | Guilt Ridden Pop |
| 38 | Dylan, Bob | Love And Theft | Columbia |
| 39 | Black Box Recorder | The Facts Of Life | Jetset |
| 40 | Divorcee | Lovesick | (self-released) |
| 41 | Clem Snide | The Ghost Of Fashion | spinART |
| 42 | Hersh, Kristin | Sunny Border Blue | 4AD |
| 43 | Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds | No More Shall We Part | Reprise/ Mute |
| 44 | Guided By Voices | Isolation Drills | TVT |
| 45 | Low + Dirty Three | In The Fishtank Vol. 7 | Konkurrent |
| 46 | Air | 10,000 HZ Legend | Astralwerks |
| 47 | Handsome Family, The | Twilight | Carrot Top |
| 48 | Folds, Ben | Rockin' The Suburbs | Epic |
| 49 | Soulstice | Illusion | Om |
| 50 | They Might Be Giants | Mink Car | Restless |
| 51 | Shins, The | Oh, Inverted World | Sub Pop |
| 52 | Kings Of Convenience | Quiet Is The New Loud | Astralwerks |
| 53 | Leo, Ted/ Pharmacists | The Tyranny Of Distance | Lookout! |
| 54 | Sloan | Pretty Together | Murder |
| 55 | Spiritualized | Let It Come Down | Arista |
| 56 | Hicks, Dylan | Alive With Pleasure | No Alternative |
| 57 | Superchunk | Here's To Shutting Up | Merge |
| 58 | Autumns, The | Le Carillon | Absalam |
| 59 | Cafeteria | Knee Deep | Backburner |
| 60 | Mercury Rev | All Is Dream | V2 |
| 61 | Franti, Michael & Spearhead | Stay Human | Six Degrees |
| 62 | Kuti, Femi | Fight To Win | MCA |
| 63 | Rainer Maria | A Better Version Of Me | Polyvinyl |
| 64 | Honeydogs, The | Here's Luck | Palm Pictures |
| 65 | Rival Schools | United By Fate | Island |
| 66 | Gossip, The | That's Not What I Heard | Kill Rock Stars |
| 67 | Whiskeytown | Pneumonia | Lost Highway |
| 68 | Moldy Peaches, The | s/t | Rough Trade/ Sanctuary |
| 69 | (International) Noise Conspiracy, The | A New Morning, Changing Weather | Epitaph |
| 70 | Push Kings, The | Feel No Fade | Le Grand Magistery |
| 71 | Azure Ray | s/t | WARM |
| 72 | Black-Eyed Snakes, The | It's The Black-Eyed Snakes | Chair-Kicker's Music |
| 73 | Call And Response | s/t | Kindercore/ Emperor Norton |
| 74 | Etienne De Crecy | Tempovision | V2 |
| 75 | Walker Kong | There Goes The Sun | Magic Marker |
| 76 | Work Of Saws | Motivation And Watertower Grammar | Thick Furniture |
| 77 | R.E.M. | Reveal | Warner Brothers |
