Wow, what a fun exercise! Also way more difficult for me than it probably should have been. Here are 25 selections from the first 25 years of the millennium that I feel especially connected to since hearing and playing them on KGNU.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label | Release Year |
| 1 | Juana Molina | Segundo | Bla Bla Discos | 2000 |
| 2 | White Stripes | Elephant | Third Man Records | 2003 |
| 3 | Wine Lips | Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party | Stomp Records | 2021 |
| 4 | Parquet Courts | Light Up Gold | What’s Your Rupture? | 2012 |
| 5 | Menomena | Mines | Barsuk Records | 2010 |
| 6 | Dirty Projectors | Swing Lo Magellan | Domino Recording Co. | 2012 |
| 7 | Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | Domino | 2009 |
| 8 | Nico Muhly | Mothertongue | Bedroom Community | 2008 |
| 9 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | City Slang | 2010 |
| 10 | Eric Bachmann | To The Races | Saddle Creek | 2006 |
| 11 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | Sub Pop | 2008 |
| 12 | Black Lips | 200 Million Thousand | In The Red Recordings | 2011 |
| 13 | Suuns | Images Du Futur | Secretly Canadian | 2013 |
| 14 | VietNam | VietNam | Kemado Records | 2007 |
| 15 | The Books | Lost And Safe | Tomlab / Temporary Recordings | 2005 |
| 16 | Battles | Mirrored | Warp Records | 2007 |
| 17 | Guilty Connector | Beats, Noise, And Life | Planet Mu | 2006 |
| 18 | Boards Of Canada | Geogaddi | Warp Records | 2002 |
| 19 | Peaches | The Teaches Of Peaches | Kitty-Yo / XL Recordings | 2000 |
| 20 | Zero dB | Bongos, Bleeps & Basslines | Ninja Tune | 2006 |
| 21 | Spoon | Gimme Fiction | Merge Records | 2005 |
| 22 | The Chats | Get Fucked | Bargain Bin Records | 2022 |
| 23 | Cornelius | Point | Warner Music Japan | 2001 |
| 24 | Caribou | The Milk Of Human Kindness | Leaf | 2005 |
| 25 | Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine | Rampton | Southern Lord | 2002 |
