Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

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