Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

al's has been the best read so far by a lot

Sampling stuff from the FACT list now. It's interesting, e.g., there's a lot of stuff on the list I've never heard before. That's good, as far as it goes (doesn't make their list better than other publications, just less predictable).

I like the quarterly reports that FACT puts on their website. I've found some great music through them.

The best albums of the decade - The Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/1201/1224259791948.html

oh, whoops! some dude is not a major web site or print publication

Considering the fact he wrote about every single album in the list, that's pretty major. I've never had the time to do something like that. If it's an ILX regular, it would be worth checking out. It's just that there's so much worthless dreck to wade through on LargeheartedBoy's lists.

Anyone know if this is available in Chicago anywhere?

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/decibel_top100.jpg

The FACT list is down to #21. Pretty interesting, like an alternate universe where rock doesn't exist except for a few odd token entries of Arctic Monkeys, White Stripes, Wilco and Arcade Fire. It reminded me to re-listen to some albums I'd forgotten about, like the Sunn 0)))/Boris collab, The Soft Pink Truth. It also has the most albums in a decade list I've never even heard of:

100: PARALLAX CORPORATION - COCADISCO (VIEWLEXX, 2001)
98: SHED - SHEDDING THE PAST (OSTGUT-TON, 2008)
96: KARL LINDH - BORTOM E4'S HORRISONT (STRANGE LIFE, 2005)
94: SENKING - LIST (RASTER-NOTON, 2007)
90: BJØRN TORSKE - FEIL KNAPP (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND, 2007)
85: REKID - MADE IN MENORCA (SOUL JAZZ, 2006)
79: DJ HARVEY - SARCASTIC DISCO VOL. 2 (SARCASTIC CLOTHING, 2001)
73: TRUS’ME - WORKING NIGHT$ (FAT CITY, 2007)
72: MONOLAKE - POLYGON CITIES (MONOLAKE / IMBALANCE COMPUTER MUSIC, 2005)
69: VARIOUS ARTISTS - RUN THE ROAD (679, 2005)
64: THEO PARRISH - SOUND SCULPTURES (SOUND SIGNATURE, 2008)
62: LAWRENCE - THE ABSENCE OF BLIGHT (DIAL, 2003)
52: JAN JELINEK - LOOP-FINDING-JAZZ-RECORDS (~SCAPE, 2001)
50: DJ SLIMZEE - SIDEWINDER TAPE (SIDEWINDER, 2002)
44: NEWWORLDAQUARIUM - THE DEAD BEARS (DELSIN, 2007)
30: WILLIAM BASINSKI - THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS (2062, 2002-2003)
29: ACTRESS - HAZYVILLE (WERK DISCS, 2008)
21: CONVEXTION (DOWN LOW MUSIC, 2006)

I wonder if recently released favorites King Midas Sound and Oneohtrix Point Never will make the top 20.

"It's just that there's so much worthless dreck to wade through on LargeheartedBoy's lists."

so true ! LB goes for quantity over quality, so many of the lists are shockingly blatant pitchfork pastiches

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4095&Itemid=103&limit=1&limitstart=8

The FACT list is complete. Not totally surprising, but also not nearly as predictable as other lists. Pretty cool. One more I hadn't heard of:

11: THE OTHER PEOPLE PLACE - LIFESTYLES OF THE LAPTOP CAFÉ (WARP, 2001)

so true ! LB goes for quantity over quality, so many of the lists are shockingly blatant pitchfork pastiches

But he isn't even going for quality-control, is he? It's presented as the most comprehensive survey of year-end (or decade-end) lists available in one place.

Fact Magazine lists are always great. Really hoping they make a best songs of the decade as well.

Hey! I like this FACT list. Burial as No. 1 es good.

I didn't intend to criticize LargeheartedBoy. I just meant that it's difficult to weed out the good lists that reflect the collaborative efforts of several people with better writing skills than your average blogger.

huh, FACT list is great, i like it a lot, maybe i should be reading FACt more. the order seems sort of arbitrary, but w/e.

Didn't like some of the choices between Nos. 20 -- 2, but still a lot of good albums on that list.

Have to agree...the FACT Magazine list is far more interesting than the others, which all seem like variations of the Pitchfork list (in other words, a little stuck in an indie rock nostalgia). Putting Burial at #1 is a far more inspired choice than The Strokes, Arcade Fire, or The White Stripes.

definitely agree with the high placements of Untrue, Alcachofa, and This Bliss.

FACT list is great. I sort of expected placings from Benga, Ellen Allien, Jay Haze, Roots Manuva, Hawtin's dex, fx, 909 mix, Omar S, Ghostface, Mr. Lif, Basement Jaxx, Santogold. I also thought that Isolee might take this. But I now have a dozen or so albums to check out. Great!

has 'cold house' turned up on any of these lists yet?

Decibel list
1. Converge - Jane Doe
2. Cave In - Jupiter
3. Opeth - Blackwater Park
4. Isis - Oceanic
5. Mastodon - Remission
6. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
7. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
8. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
9. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
10. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
11. Torche - Meanderthal
12. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
13. Baroness - Blue Record
14. Napalm Death - Enemy of the Music Business
15. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
16. The Red Chord - Clients
17. Converge - Axe to Fall
18. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
19. Melt-Banana - CellScape
20. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
21. Enslaved - Isa
22. Tragedy - Tragedy
23. Fugazi - The Argument
24. Mare - Mare
25. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
26. Jesu - Silver
27. High on Fire - Surrounded By Thieves
28. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
29. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
30. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
31. Mastodon - Leviathan
32. Craft - Fuck the Universe
33. Isis - Panopticon
34. Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
35. Shellac - 1000 Hurts
36. Witchcraft - Witchcraft
37. Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
38. Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
39. Converge - You Fail Me
40. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
41. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
42. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
43. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
44. Watain - Sworn to the Dark
45. Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
46. Evoken - Quietus
47. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
48. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
49. Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
50. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
51. Ludicra - Fex Urbis, Lex Orbis
52. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
53. Isis - Celestial
54. Jesu - Jesu
55. Enslaved - Below the Lights
56. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
57. High on Fire - Death Is This Communion
58. Disfear - Live the Storm
59. Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition
60. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
61. Deftones - White Pony
62. Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends
63. Converge - No Heroes
64. Hatebreed - Perseverance
65. Withered - Memento Mori
66. Leviathan - Tentacles of Whorror
67. Meshuggah - Catch 33
68. Thorns - Thorns
69. Rotten Sound - Murderworks
70. Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise
71. Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages
72. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I
73. Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
74. Nasum - Human 2.0
75. Fucked Up - Hidden World
76. Neurosis - Given to the Rising
77. Taint - The Ruin of Nova Roma
78. System of a Down - Toxicity
79. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
80. Warhorse - As Heaven Turns to Ash
81. Mayhem - Chimera
82. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
83. Drowningman - How They Light Cigarettes in Prison
84. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
85. Watain - Casus Luciferi
86. Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
87. Psyopus - Ideas of Reference
88. The Haunted- The Haunted Made Me Do It
89. Cryptopsy - ...And Then You'll Beg
90. Asunder - Works Will Come Undone
91. Godflesh - Hymns
92. Cathedral - Endtyme
93. The Paper Chase - Now You Are One Of Us
94. Decapitated - Nihility
95. Coalesce - Ox
96. In Flames - Clayman
97. Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights
98. Cobalt - Gin
99. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
100. Slayer - World Painted Blood

Hawtin's dex, fx, 909 mix

This came out in '99 fwiw

blue record so high in best of the decade already?

some good stuff in that decibel list. some very good stuff. especially:

1. Converge - Jane Doe
5. Mastodon - Remission
7. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
17. Converge - Axe to Fall
18. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
19. Melt-Banana - CellScape
24. Mare - Mare
30. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
39. Converge - You Fail Me
40. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
50. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
52. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
61. Deftones - White Pony
63. Converge - No Heroes
67. Meshuggah - Catch 33
78. System of a Down - Toxicity
97. Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights

blue record's great too btw I just wasn't sure it's even out yet

its been out months

out is a nebulous term these days

anyway whatever it's great

you gone metal this year cozen?

I listen to lots of stuff :)

Herman, you rule. A very interesting list. I'm wondering, did Converge do so well in the year-end polls with those previous albums, or did the latest one help boost opinion of the others? It's also interesting how both Mastodon and Opeth did so well most of the decade, but their most recent didn't even make the list. Cool to see metalhead luv for Fugazi and Shellac. Would have been interesting if the reunited Jesus Lizard came out with an album this year. I'll still buy this issue when I find it.

well i think (scott i think) who posted the link on the metal thread to the terrorizer forum which has the list.
Jane Doe won Terrorizer AOTY when it came out.

thank

summary of FACT 00s album list

summary via Acclaimed Music Forum

100: PARALLAX CORPORATION- COCADISCO
99: LATE OF THE PIER- FANTASY BLACK CHANNEL
98: SHED- SHEDDING THE PAST
97: ANNIE- ANNIEMAL
96: KARL LINDH- BORTOM E4'S HORRISONT
95: PREFUSE 73- ONE WORD EXTINGUISHER
94: SENKING- LIST
93: CAMERA OBSCURA- LET'S GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY
92: MISS KITTIN AND THE HACKER- FIRST ALBUM
91: WILCO- YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
90: BJØRN TORSKE- FEIL KNAPP
89: ZOMBY- WHERE WERE U IN 92?
88: MICHAEL MAYER- IMMER
87: NO AGE- NOUNS
86: COCOROSIE- LA MAISON DE MON REVE
85: REKID- MADE IN MENORCA
84: ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS- I AM A BIRD NOW
83: GHOSTFACE KILLAH- SUPREME CLIENTELE
82: BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE- YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE
81: NEIL LANDSTRUMM- SHE TOOK A BULLET MEANT FOR ME

80: KODE9 & SPACEAPE- MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
79: DJ HARVEY- SARCASTIC DISCO VOL. 2
78: THE BUG- LONDON ZOO
77: LIL WAYNE- THE CARTER II
76: THE KNIFE- SILENT SHOUT
75: QUIET VILLAGE- SILENT MOVIE
74: MANITOBA- START BREAKING MY HEART
73: TRUS’ME- WORKING NIGHT$
72: MONOLAKE- POLYGON CITIES
71: THE SOFT PINK TRUTH- DO YOU WANT NEW WAVE OR DO YOU WANT THE SOFT PINK TRUTH?
70: LUOMO- VOCALCITY
69: VARIOUS ARTISTS- RUN THE ROAD
68: SUNNO))) & BORIS- ALTAR
67: QUASIMOTO- THE UNSEEN
66: RICARDO VILLALOBOS- THE AU HAREM D'ARCHIMEDE
65: THE BOOKS- THE LEMON OF PINK
64: THEO PARRISH- SOUND SCULPTURES
63: FIERY FURNACES- BLUEBERRY BOAT
62: LAWRENCE- THE ABSENCE OF BLIGHT
61: ARCTIC MONKEYS- WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT

60: MATIAS AGUAYO- ARE YOU REALLY LOST
59: WHITE STRIPES- WHITE BLOOD CELLS
58: HORSEPOWER PRODUCTIONS- IN FINE STYLE
57: STUDIO- WEST COAST
56: RHYTHM & SOUND- W/ THE ARTISTS
55: MATTHEW DEAR- ASA BREED
54: BOREDOMS- VISION CREATION NEWSUN
53: THE XX- THE XX
52: JAN JELINEK- LOOP-FINDING-JAZZ-RECORDS
51: J DILLA- DONUTS
50: DJ SLIMZEE- SIDEWINDER TAPE
49: DAFT PUNK- DISCOVERY
48: OUTKAST- STANKONIA
47: THE STREETS- ORIGINAL PIRATE MATERIAL
46: THE CARETAKER- A STAIRWAY TO THE STARS
45: ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT- ORCHESTRA OF BUBBLES
44: NEWWORLDAQUARIUM- THE DEAD BEARS
43: CLIPSE- WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP VOL. 2
42: GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR- LIFT YR. SKINNY FISTS LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN
41: BELBURY POLY- THE WILLOWS

40: BEIRUT- THE FLYING CLUB CUP
39: HERBERT- BODILY FUNCTIONS
38: BLACK DICE- BEACHES AND CANYONS
37: CANNIBAL OX- THE COLD VEIN
36: M.I.A.- ARULAR
35: ISOLEE- WE ARE MONSTER
34: 2 MANY DJS- AS HEARD ON RADIO SOULWAX PT. 2
33: JOANNA NEWSOM- YS
32: GAS- POP
31: PINCH- UNDERWATER DANCEHALL
30: WILLIAM BASINSKI- THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS
29: ACTRESS- HAZYVILLE
28: PORTISHEAD- THIRD
27: ARCADE FIRE- FUNERAL
26: CHROMATICS- NIGHT DRIVE
25: HOT CHIP- THE WARNING
24: KELLEY POLAR- LOVE SONGS OF THE HANGING GARDENS
23: FENNESZ- ENDLESS SUMMER
22: BURIAL- BURIAL
21: CONVEXTION- CONVEXTION

20: KANYE WEST- THE COLLEGE DROPOUT
19: METRO AREA- METRO AREA
18: VAMPIRE WEEKEND- VAMPIRE WEEKEND
17: ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI- THE DOLDRUMS
16: MAX RICHTER- THE BLUE NOTEBOOKS
15: ROBYN- ROBYN
14: MADVILLAIN- MADVILLAINY
13: BJORK- VESPERTINE
12: PANDA BEAR- PERSON PITCH
11: THE OTHER PEOPLE PLACE- LIFESTYLES OF THE LAPTOP CAFÉ
10: GANG GANG DANCE- SAINT DYMPHNA
09: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM- SOUND OF SILVER
08: PANTHA DU PRINCE- THIS BLISS
07: RADIOHEAD- KID A
06: M.I.A.- KALA
05: JAY-Z- THE BLUEPRINT
04: VILLALOBOS- ALCACHOFA
03: DIZZEE RASCAL- BOY IN DA CORNER
02: THE STROKES- IS THIS IT
01: BURIAL- UNTRUE

and still Kid A and Is This It get in their top 10

Is This It? is a good album. I spent a delighted hour browsing that Fact list (with more to come) - have heard of virtually none of it, have heard even less, the writing made me want to hear the rest, so far liking it very much.

carrie brownstein and co. did a whole big end-of-decade thing on her npr blog. (insert npr joke here.)

their 50 most important recordings are in alphabetical order, not numeric. from john adams to amy winehouse. basically 0 out of 50 for surprises.

I contributed a few blurbs to that NPR thing! some fun stuff in there.

Complex did a list, but you have to click through 100 pages to see it all, or at least I haven't seen anyone reproduce it on one page yet: http://www.complex.com/blogs/2009/09/09/complex-presents-the-100-best-albums-of-the-2000s/

very happy to see saint dymphna in the top 10 on the FACT list. that album's been missing from a lot of lists.

Rolling Stone Top 100 albums of the 2000s

1 | Radiohead: Kid A
2 | The Strokes: Is This It
3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint
5 | The White Stripes: Elephant
6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral
7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP
8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times
9 | M.I.A.: Kala
10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout
11 | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
12 | LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
13 | U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
14 | Jay-Z: The Black Album
15 | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
16 | OutKast: Stankonia
17 | Beck: Sea Change
18 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
19 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells
21 | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
22 | Green Day: American Idiot
23 | D'Angelo: Voodoo
24 | Bruce Springsteen: Magic
25 | Radiohead: Amnesiac
26 | Cat Power: The Greates
27 | The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
28 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
29 | Sigur Rós: Ágaetis Byrjun
30 | Radiohead: In Rainbows
31 | My Morning Jacket: Z
32 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
33 | Daft Punk: Discovery
34 | OutKast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
35 | PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
36 | U2: No Line on the Horizon
37 | 50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
38 | Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
39 | Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak
40 | Kanye West: Late Registration
41 | Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
42 | Elliott Smith: Figure 8
43 | The Killers: Hot Fuss
44 | System of a Down: Toxicity
45 | Kanye West: Graduation
46 | Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds
47 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
48 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science
49 | Fiona Apple: Extraordionary Machine
50 | Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
51 | Spoon: Kill the Moonlight
52 | M.I.A.: Arular
53 | Kings of Leon: Only By the Night
54 | Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
55 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
56 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
57 | Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
58 | Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
59 | Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
60 | Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
61 | The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
62 | Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man
63 | Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak
64 | Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator
65 | Manu Chao: Próxima Estación Esperanza
66 | Antony & the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
67 | Björk: Vespertine
68 | U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
69 | Missy Elliott: Under Construction
70 | Sleater-Kinney: The Woods
71 | Bright Eyes: Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Eart to the Ground
72 | Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
73 | Coldplay: Parachutes
74 | Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
75 | Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
76 | Sigur Rós: ()
77 | Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
78 | Sufjan Stevens: Come On, Feel The Illinoise
79 | The New Pornographers: Electric Version
80 | Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood
81 | Ryan Adams: Gold
82 | Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R
83 | The Black Keys: Attack and Release
84 | Eminem: The Eminem Show
85 | Coldplay: Viva La Vida
86 | The Postal Service: Give Up
87 | Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere
88 | Brian Wilson: Smile
89 | Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
90 | Amadou & Miriam: Dimanche a Bamako
91 | The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious
92 | Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
93 | Johnny Cash: Unearthed
94 | The Libertines: Up the Brackett
95 | Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor
96 | The Streets: Original Pirate Material
97 | Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
98 | TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
99 | The Hold Steady: Almost Killed Me
100 | Leonard Cohen: 10 New Songs

3 Kings of Leon records and nothing by the Drive-By Truckers = Barf Out

That Fact list is terrific.

Not heard the Other People Place, Pantha du Prince or Villalobos albums from the Fact top 20. Are they that good?

And yeah, it's a great list. I love the fact that the Rolling Stone/P4K/Uncut consensus choices are scattered throughout instead of being in Lex-style indie denial so you get Wilco in there but just below Bjorn Torske.

FACT list does stand out and is full of stuff i like/love that wouldn't get a look in elsewhere, but the persisting inclusion and high rank of over-rated 'in every other top 10' LPs still annoys. they can't win. putting both Burial albums in the top 25 just seems silly too.

The Other People Place album is really deep Detroit techno from a Drexciya character - I think it's good but not listened to it for years

poor Drexciya's 'Neptune's Lair' LP came out 10 years ago this month iirc, too late for 90s lists and too early for 00s lists (not that it would get on 99% of them anyway but its probably better than 'Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe' which i also do like)

45: ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT- ORCHESTRA OF BUBBLES

this is the album i'm most proud to see in the fact list - no ellen & apparat no credibility as far as i'm concerned

That is a great album. Surprised it didn't make the P4K list, actually. They seemed to love it at the time.

Dorian - The Pantha album is a masterpiece for 'Saturn Strobe' alone.

It's sort of very melodic, twinkly, chimey minimal house music. Someone described it as 'glassy' over on their own thread, which is an excellent description.

same point applies w/alcahofa for 'easy lee' and 'dexter'

74 | Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium

wtf

I like that list!

;)

:D

i wouldn't argue with your top three at all

Loving these lists, especially to see the intersections and disagreements with my own. Closest so far is Whiney's, kind of surprising I guess but maybe not. All I can think of are the albums that didn't make it onto the list that really really should have.

^ interesting. i'm brazilian living in france, so this might explain, but the inclusion of daniela, itiberê, heloísa mixed with the-dream/cannibal ox/shakira got me pumpin

Terrorizer Critics’ Albums Of The Decade

http://newmusicexcess.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/terrorizer-critics-albums-of-the-decade/

Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (Rise Above, 2000)
Celtic Frost – Monotheist (Century Media, 2006)
Watain – Sworn Of The Dark (Season Of Mist, 2007)
Converge – Jane Doe (Equal Vision, 2001)
Opeth – Blackwater Park (Music For Nations, 2001)
Negura Bunget – Om (Code 666, 2006)
Deathspell Omega – Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (Norma Evangelium Diaboli, 2004)
Enslaved – Ruun (Tabu, 2006)
Clutch – Pure Rock Fury (Atlantic, 2001)
Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise (Candlelight, 2001)
Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness (Nuclear Blast, 2002)
Iron Maiden – A Matter Of Life And Death (EMI, 2006)
Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer (Relapse, 2004)
Mastodon – Leviathan (Relapse, 2004)
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm, 2001)
Gojira – From Mars To Sirius (Listenable, 2005)
Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree (Nuclear Blast, 2005)
Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse, 2001)
Primordial – To The Nameless Dead (Metal Blade, 2007)
Napalm Death – Enemy Of The Music Business (Dreamcatcher, 2000)
Isis – Oceanic (Ipecac, 2002)
Drudkh – Forgotten Legends (Supernal, 2003)
Dissection – Reinkaos (Black Horizon, 2006)
Motorhead – Inferno (Steamhammer/SPV, 2004)
Reverend Bizarre – In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend (Sinister Figure, 2002)
Blut Aus Nord – The Work Which Transforms God (Candlelight, 2003)
Thorns – Thorns (Moonfog, 2001)
Wolf – Black Things (No Fashion, 2002)
Hammers Of Misfortune – The August Engine (Cruz Del Sur, 2003)
Hate Eternal – King Of All Kings (Earache, 2002)
Lightning Bolt – Ride The Skies (Load, 2001)
Ephel Duath – The Painters Palette (Elitist, 2003)
High On Fire – Death Is Communion (Relapse, 2007)
Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head, 2000)
Strapping Young Lad – Alien (Century Media, 2005)
Whitehouse – Bird Seed (Susan Lawley, 2003)
Melt-Banana – Cell Scape (A-Zap, 2003)
Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (Earache, 2005)
Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media, 2002)
Tool – Lateralus (Zoo, 2001)
Nile – Black Seeds Of Vengeance (Relapse, 2000)
Rammstein – Mutter (UMVD, 2001)
Weakling – Dead As Dreams (Tumult, 2000)
Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal (Metal Blade, 2005)
Cynic – Traced In Air (Season Of Mist, 2008)
Insect Warfare – World Extermination (625 Thrash, 2007)
Nasum – Helvete (Relapse, 2003)
Behemoth – Demigod (Regain, 2004)
Anata – The Conductor’s Departure (Earache, 2006)
Entombed – Serpent Saint: The Ten Amendments (Candlelight, 2007)
Sunn O))) – Black One (Southern Lord, 2005)
Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash (Southern Lord, 2001)
Decapitated – Organic Hallucinosis (Earache, 2006)
Big Business – Here Come The Waterworks (Hydrahead, 2007)
Warning – Watching From A Distance (The Miskatonic Foundation, 2006)
Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine (Relapse, 2004)
Unsane – Visqueen (Ipecac, 2007)
Funeral Mist – Salvation (Norma Evangelium Diaboli, 2003)
Municipal Waste – Hazardous Mutation (Earache, 2005)
Between The Buried And Me – Colors (Victory, 2007)
Deicide – The Stench Of Redemption (Earache, 2006)
Necrophagist – Epitaph (Relapse, 2004)
Amorphis – Eclipse (Nuclear Blast, 2006)
Disfear – Live The Storm (Relapse, 2008)
Ensiferum – Ensiferum (Spinefarm, 2001)
Metallica – Death Magnetic (Warner Bros, 2008)
Ulver – Shadows Of The Sun (Jester, 2007)
Wolves In The Throne Room – Diadem Of The 12 Stars (Southern Lord, 2006)
Witchcraft – Firewood (Rise Above, 2005)
Angels Of Light – We Are Him (Young God, 2007)
Darkest Hour – Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation (Victory, 2003)
Kreator – Enemy Of God (Steamhammer/SPV, 2005)
Absu – Tara (Osmose, 2001)
Death Breath – Stinking Up The Night (Black Lodge, 2006)
Melechesh – Sphynx (Osmose, 2003)
Rotting Christ – Theogonia (Season Of Mist, 2007)
The Red Chord – Fused Together In Revolving Doors (Robotic Empire, 2002)
Melvins – (A) Senile Animal (Ipecac, 2006)
Torche – Meanderthal (Hydra Head, 2008)
Anathema – A Natural Disaster (Music For Nations, 2003)
Cathedral – The garden Of Unearthly Delights (Nuclear Blast, 2005)
Turisas – Battle Metal (Century Media, 2004)
Xasthur – Telepathic With The Deceased (Moribund, 2004)
Nightwish – Once (Nuclear Blast, 2004)
Paradise Lost – Paradise Lost (Gun, 2005)
Slough Feg – Traveller (Dragonheart, 2003)
Enforcer – Into The Night (Heavy Artillery, 2008)
Laibach – Wat (Mute, 2003)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Frozen Corpses Stuffed With Dope (Relapse, 2002)
Nifelheim – Servants Of Darkness (Blacksun, 2000)
Katatonia – The Great Cold Distance (Peaceville, 2006)
Dying Fetus – Stop At Nothing (Relapse, 2003)
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing (Lava, 2005)
Cryptopsy – And Then You’ll Beg (Century Media, 2000)
Morbid Angel – Gateways To Annihilation (Earache, 2000)
Boris – Pink (Caroline, 2005)
Sonata Arctica – Winterhearts Guild (Spinefarm, 2003)
Shining – V: Halmstad (Osmose, 2007)
Satyricon – Now, Diaboolical (Roadrunner, 2006)
Children Of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll (Spinefarm, 2003)

Q: compare Decibel and Terrorizer top 100 00s lists, how many albums appear on both?

Terrorizer overlook Agalloch again !

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^ interesting. i'm brazilian living in france, so this might explain, but the inclusion of daniela, itiberê, heloísa mixed with the-dream/cannibal ox/shakira got me pumpin

― moullet, Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:42 PM (1 week ago)

Yeah and I also put on Cris Aflalo, Virginia Rodrigues, Trio Mocotó, Caetano, Gil, and a bunch of others, just ran out of room for Brazilians. Glad you liked it!

Resident Advisor Top 100 albums of the '00s:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1144

Albums per year on the RA list:

2000 : 9
2001 : 12
2002: 14
2003 : 8
2004 : 4
2005 : 7
2006 : 15
2007 : 14
2008 : 13
2009 : 4

Interesting to me, and it seems about right in terms of what I remember about electronic music in those years.

And, obv., in terms of what RA champions. (Not talking about my own tastes here so much.)

not sure i'll ever come round to Alcahofa

pretty dope that they waited until after the decade was over imo

another late entry http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/5204/top100albums-2000s?pg=1

looooooool @ Wolf Parade at #5

Flipping through the list... kudos for including Joy Shapes, The Drift, Vocalcity, Laulu Laakson Kukista, Aaliyah, Endless Summer, Berlinette, Pop, Tronic, The Tired Sounds of..., This Bliss, Beauty and the Beat, Saint Dymphna, Lisbon (#26!!), Donuts, New Amerykah... these are all excellent and I'd like to see them more consistently on decade-end lists.

Kid A at #7 sounds about right.

New Amerykah at #4 is excellent, and the top 5 looks really solid... except for, uh, Wolf Parade.

wolf parade at #4 > > > Arcade Fire at #2 on Pitchfork

word

I'm not a big Arcade Fire fan but that's delusional.

I was making carrot cake when I realized that. I put bourbon in my cream cheese icing to make it less cheesy; the Avalanches somehow strike the same balance and avoid a slight half-step left to cheese-stache purgatory.

i guess j0rdan and i are delusional--oh well.

Arcade Fire can lick the right nut.

the my

challenging opinion, that

What can ya do?

New Amerykah at #4 is excellent,

^this

i hate the cannibal ox album (#3)

94 :: Fire Show - Saint the Fire Show (Perishable; 2002)

Awesome, I loved the Fire Show! Saw them open for Dalek and Eleventh Dream Day and one headline gig, then they split.

72 :: OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (Avex/Thrill Jockey; 2009)

Nice one, this album didn't get enough love.

Waiting a few months after the end of the decade was a good idea, one of the more interesting lists, though I don't care for the top 6.

now that we have 10 years of perspective on it, what musician / artist / band had the best recorded catalog of the 2000s (i.e. releases between 1/1/00 and 12/31/09)?

There's a few but I still want to say Oneida

gut instinct says Animal Collective case they meant a lot to me at the time, but I'm having difficulty getting nostalgic for this decade really. the idea of doing the poll is a bit stomach churning

Queens of the Stone Age

what musician / artist / band had the best recorded catalog of the 2000s (i.e. releases between 1/1/00 and 12/31/09)?

Don’t know (and don’t really care) about arguing “best” — but The Fiery Furnaces and Neil Michael Hagerty/The Howling Hex were my favorites.

Broadcast

if I limit it to artists with at least three great albums in the decade the my list would be:

Ghostface
Junior Boys
Lil Wayne (includes mixtapes)
Miranda Lambert
Neko Case
Radiohead
Sleater-Kinney
Spoon
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The Fiery Furnaces

I wouldn't consider either to be among my all-time favorites but just in terms of sheer number of very good albums released in this arbitrary timeframe my answer might be Neko or Spoon.

Blonde Redhead, but I think Broadcast is the best answer here.

Nina Nastasia showed up, dropped excellent albums for those ten years exploring and expanding a very distinct style, then stopped.

Deerhoof had a great five-album run from 2002's Reveille to 2007's Friend Opportunity. But they also had 3 other albums in the decade that I think are OK at best.

also, i admit grudgingly, Kanye had his 3 best albums, and 808s was influential, at least.

another vote for hey there's a poll in a week or two, we'll find out then ;)

sorry, i didn't realize there was a poll happening

although i assume it will end up producing a list of albums for the decade, right? which is different than what i'm trying to get at. (granted, what i'm getting at is probably easier considered with those poll results on hand.)

school of seven bells

wrong decade