Best/your favourite 21st century albums

[CellarDoor]

My Top 10 :

1 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3 - The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
4 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5 - Sigur Ros - Takk...
6 - The National - Boxer
7 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
8 - Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
9 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
10 - Grandaddy- The Sophtware Slump

[Ironic Karma]

There truly hasn't been anything in the 21st Century that is absolutely ground breaking. Some albums I think that come close:

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. The Strokes - Is This It
3. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood To the Head
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
7. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
9. Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
10. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

[Boogn1sh]

It's hard to tell if any of these will stand the test of time, we'll only really know 30 years from now when the cool new bands start namedropping, isn't that how it works? I mean who seriosuly was listening to Nick Drake or The Stooges when they first came out, nobody that's who...

My fav's no order:
Grinderman- Grinderman
Fuck Buttons- Street Horrrsing
Aesop Rock-Labor Days
Venetian Snares- Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
Yo La Tengo- An Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Animal Collective- Sung Tongs
Bob Dylan- Modern Times
The Bug- London Zoo
The Avalanches- Since I Left You
Robert Wyatt- Comicopera
The Books- Thought For Food
The Mountain Goats- The Coroner's Gambit
Jay-z- The Blueprint
Daft Punk- Alive 2007
Randy Newman- Harps and Angels
Ween - Quebec
Strokes - Is This it
Black Lips-Let It Bloom

[Guest]

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

is my favorite that I've heard from this decade

[RFNAPLES]

So far:

Björk-Vespertine
Bob Dylan-Love and Theft
Bob Dylan-Modern Times
Brian Wilson-SMiLE
Coldplay-A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay-Parachutes
Dizzee Rascal-Boy in da Corner
Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP
Franz Ferdinand-Franz Ferdinand
Herbie Hancock-River: The Joni Letters
Jay-Z-The Blueprint
Kanye West-College Dropout
Kanye West-Late Registration
LCD Soundsystem-LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver
M.I.A.-Kala
OutKast-Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast-Stankonia
PJ Harvey-Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Queens of the Stone Age-Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead-Amnesiac
Radiohead-Hail to the Thief
Radiohead-Kid A
System Of A Down-Mezmerize
The Strokes-Is This It
The White Stripes-Elephant
The White Stripes-White Blood Cells
TV On The Radio-Dear Science,
TV On The Radio-Return to Cookie Mountain
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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[Kiki]

Any other fans of Know Your Enemy by Manic Street Preachers?

That might be my personal favorite of this decade

[Freddie55]

My Top 20 of the 21st Century

Radiohead - Kid A
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Veils - Nux Vomica
My Morning Jacket - Z
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[purple]

Haven't heard as much from this decade as others, but here goes a top 5...

!. Strokes- Is This It?
@. Spoon- Kill the Moonlight
#. White Stripes- Elephant
$. Radiohead- Kid A
%. Arcade Fire- Funeral

Pretty generic, and I've only started listening to Merriweather Post Pavillion and Moon & Antarctica in the past couple days...

People have said there's nothing groundbreaking going on this decade, and though I haven't heard much from this decade, I think this is a decade of the tightest batch of albums of any other decade I've heard. Yes, it's not as creative as earlier decades, but very pleasing to listen to. It's funny because even though the 00s are a "song" culture I think earlier decades depended on basing a good album on three or four good songs (while one or two might even be skippable) and from what I've heard of this decade there are more cohesive albums, but without those songs of intense creativity.

[40footwolf]

40footwolf's Favorite Albums of the 21st Century: Expanded and Remastered

1. The Moon and Antarctica-Modest Mouse
2. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots-The Flaming Lips
3. Traced In Air-Cynic
4. Lateralus-Tool
5. Songs For The Deaf-Queens of the Stone Age
6. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed-Los Campesinos!
7. Drunken Lullabies-Flogging Molly
8. Tallahassee-The Mountain Goats
9. Boxer-The National
10. Akuma No Uta-Boris
11. Oracular Spectacular-MGMT
12. Relationship of Command-At The Drive-In
13. Mirrored-Battles
14. Crack The Skye-Mastodon
15. Renegades-Rage Against The Machine
16. Fort Nightly-White Rabbits
17. Stay Positive-The Hold Steady
18. Gimme Fiction-Spoon
19. Apologies To The Queen Mary-Wolf Parade
20. Superabundance-Young Knives
21. Hold Your Horse Is-Hella
22. Gods of the Earth-The Sword
23. Dopesmoker-Sleep
24. Cum Laude!-The Velvet Teen
25. Manners-Passion Pit

[bdeem1991]

Top ten albums of the decade (in my opinion):
1. Whatever People Say I Am That's What I Am Not- Arctic Monkeys
2. In Rainbows- Radiohead
3. Is This It- The Strokes
4. Hot Fuss- The Killers
5. Funeral- Arcade Fire
6. Aha Shake Heartbreak- Kings Of Leon
7. Dear Science- TV On The Radio
8. Kid A- Radiohead
9. The Moon & Antarctica- Modest Mouse
10. Boys & Girls In America- The Hold Steady