The official 31 list was born in 2004 but, as it continued on year after year, there was a certain inelegance to the starting year. So we went into the past, reviewed albums released in 2000, and retroactively picked our top 31.

This list may not be 100% accurate to what we listened to at the time. But, it’s close and it’s free. Plus we get to bring some old favorites into the group that had stopped producing music by 2004.

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