The Best Albums of the 2000s: #100-51

100. Antony and the Johnsons | I Am a Bird Now(Secretly Canadian, 2005)Antony Hegarty's soulful voice, so high and crisp, just slightly wavery and watery, is the perfect vehicle for his ballads of yearning and melancholy. The very first words heard on this album are, "hope there's someone who'll take care of me/ when I die, when I go." But this isn't hopeless or ugly music, it's epic and