The end of 2009 will soon be upon us and music blogs and magazines are already preparing their top ten lists for the year. But what’s special about this year is that it’s also the end of a decade. Meaning that not only will we see countless lists of top albums of the year but also top albums of the century.

Pitchfork has been hard at work getting their lists together even including a top 500 albums of the decade and now Uncut has presented their list for the top 150 albums of ’00. But everybody only really cares about the top 20 so you can see those below. Along with their list Uncut also names Jack White as the “Man of The Century”. I must admit that it has been a pretty stellar decade for White. The list includes 5 white stripes albums, two of which are in the to 20, and both Raconteurs albums.

20 Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
19 Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
18 Kate Bush – Aerial
17 The White Stripes – Elephant
16 LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
15 Radiohead – In Rainbows
14 Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
13 Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
12 Portishead – Third
11 The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10 Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
09 Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
08 Bob Dylan – Modern Times
07 Arcade Fire – Funeral
06 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
05 The Strokes – Is This It
04 Brian Wilson – Smile
03 Wilco – A Ghost is Born
02 Bob Dylan – ‘Love and Theft’
01 The White Stripes – White Blood Cells