Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

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

06. DAMIAN MARLEY - "Welcome To Jamrock"

!!!! <3 that album

basically agree with lj's assessment of the two lists

In case anyone's interested, I compared the Pitchfork, NME, and Rolling Stone top 100 songs lists, and there were 58 songs that appeared on at least two of the three lists.

Hm. METACRITICS Best Artists Of The Decade. Interesting, tho predictable, results.

Not sure if this is appropriate for the Best of Decade Album Lists thread (it sort of fits, since METACRITICS' rating is based on METACRITIC album scores). Couldn't think of a more appropriate existing thread tho.

58 songs that appeared on at least two of the three lists

I've heard all but about 10 of these. I don't feel so completely out of it now.

That MetaCritics list is just odd. It's a strange universe in which those particular artists would be measured as best of the decade. I guess their methodology is pretty transparent, but it doesn't seem to work. I think they end up making a list of critical darlings who slogged through the decade making lots of generally well-reviewed albums that never really broke through.

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