Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

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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

no worse than putting Coldplay and U2 (all three albums ffs!) in there, more unexpected tho i guess yeah

74 | Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium

wtf

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Haven't looked at the list yet, but if it's Rolling Stone and there's only ONE WTF, it's probably their best list ever.

Rest easy. Rolling Stone's list is full of sterling WTF moments.

Yeah, but that's not nearly as horrible as it could have been. There's no Peter Wolf, for example. Or Mark Knopfler.

did tht chris cornell record chart yet

THREE fucking Kings of Leon albums in there too.

lol. ACT OF THE DECADE, obv.

2 | The Strokes: Is This It

lol usa

as opposed to NME in the UK making it #1

MGMT is a fine record. Not sure it's the 18th best of the entire decade.

It's funny--I like a lot of these records, love a few, and don't hate all that many. And yet seeing them listed like that just siphons all the joy out of music for me.

^otm^

If you have "all the joy" siphoned out of music by some stupid magazine printing a list, you are taking things way the fuck too seriously. These are actually pretty easy to ignore!

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

7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP
8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times

the 2000s stopped at 2001, I see

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Yes, I obviously meant that I'll never be able to listen to music again and I'll never get over that list and it will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Bob Dylan: Modern Times

This was released in 2006

i got it mixed up with love and theft (#11)

Comparing RS top 10 and P4k rankings (in parentheses):

1 | Radiohead: Kid A (#1)
2 | The Strokes: Is This It (#7)
3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (#4)
4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint (#5)
5 | The White Stripes: Elephant (#74, White Blood Cells at #12)
6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral (#2)
7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP
8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times
9 | M.I.A.: Kala (#22)
10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout (#28, Late Registration at #18)

Seems like a lot of consensus, with the main exceptions being Eminem and Dylan.

Kanye's 4 for 4 in RS, impressive.

from what I can tell, the RS list has one album from 2009 (may have missed some):

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

eminem was on the p4k list too

You could poll any time period in virtually any magazine and you'd get exactly the same trend. A pile of madrigals from 1211 and just the one from 1219.

I would like to lodge a formal complaint about the great Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? not making many best-of decade lists.

eminem was on the p4k list too

I only looked through the top 100 - I didn't see it there, but maybe it placed lower or I missed it.

duly noted! (xp)

complaint seconded, tho it made the p4k list iirc

lol at actual of montreal fan k3vin k.

eminem was on the p4k list too

I only looked through the top 100 - I didn't see it there, but maybe it placed lower or I missed it.

― o. nate, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 3:38 PM

The Marshall Mathers LP clocked in at #119 on the P4K list.

I don't know if this is getting printed anywhere but I feel it is so important that you know what Lars and Kirk from Metallica's top 25s are that I am just gonna ignore that rule

Lars:
01. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
02. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Toxicity"
03. THE SWORD - "Age Of Winters"
04. KINGS OF LEON - "Aha Shake Heartbreak"
05. THE WHITE STRIPES - "Elephant"
06. GREEN DAY - "American Idiot"
07. SLIPKNOT - "Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses"
08. EMINEM - "The Eminem Show"
09. WOLFMOTHER - "Wolfmother"
10. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - "Renegades"
11. U2 - "No Line On The Horizon"
12. KASABIAN - "Kasabian"
13. THE MARS VOLTA - "De-Loused in the Comatorium"
14. OASIS - "Don't Believe The Truth"
15. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Rated R"
16. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Mezmerize"
17. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Favorite Worst Nightmare"
18. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Black Gives Way To Blue"
19. THE BLACK KEYS - "Attack & Release"
20. AUDIOSLAVE - "Audioslave"
21. MASTODON - "Crack The Skye"
22. MOTÖRHEAD - "Inferno"
23. GUNS N' ROSES - "Chinese Democracy"
24. THE DATSUNS - "The Datsuns"
25. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS - "The Age Of The Understatement"

Kirk:
01. RADIOHEAD - "Kid A"
02. THE MARS VOLTA - "De-Loused in the Comatorium"
03. SIGUR ROS - ()
04. MUSE - "Absolution"
05. LAMB OF GOD - "Ashes Of The Wake"
06. DAMIAN MARLEY - "Welcome To Jamrock"
07. MASTODON - "Crack The Skye"
08. OUTKAST - "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below"
09. INTERPOL - "Turn On The Bright Lights"
10. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS - "100 Days, 100 Nights"
11. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Mezmerize"
12. THE BLACK KEYS - "Magic Potion"
13. PJ HARVEY - "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea"
14. SINÉAD O'CONNOR - "Faith And Courage"
15. GOJIRA - "The Way Of All Flesh"
16. MACHINE HEAD - "The Blackening"
17. RY COODER & MANUEL GALBAN - "Mambo Sinuendo"
18. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Rated R"
19. TOOL - "Lateralus"
20. TOM WAITS - "Alice"
21. MY MORNING JACKET - "It Still Moves"
22. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Black Gives Way To Blue"
23. THE SWORD - "Age Of Winters"
24. PINK MARTINI - "Hey Eugene!"
25. ALL SHALL PERISH - "Awaken The Dreamers"

dear lars, what the fuck, luv moi

kirk's isn't bad in a kinda lol indie way

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