Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s
by New Music Express (2009)

This list, although I know very little about 2000s music vis-à-vis earlier decades, is even worse if anything than NME’s all-time Top 500 Albums list from 2016.

For starters, why is Joanna Newsom, whose four albums are a series of masterpieces not rivalled by anyone, not included for even one of them??

Then there is the whole “freak folk” scene entirely omitted, and too many soppy, annoying pop bands like Blur, the White Stripes, the Strokes and even the overrated Arcade Fire. Having industry representatives, as one “janitor-x” said back when ‘Rolling Stone’ did their first ‘Top 500 Albums’, on a panel is a sure way to make a bad list. It also tend to contradict a great deal of what musicians themselves are likely to know.

Kinda hard to do a greatest list for this decade without at least mentioning Kanye...

I keep trying to like This Is It as much as everyone else does ... it's a cool album but not the best of the decade. Funeral, In Rainbows, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are all better, to me

Much better than Rolling Stone's list. Arctic Monkeys are well deserving of that spot. Good to see In Rainbows getting the credit it deserves as well.

NME, the best musical magazine ever! take that rolling stone and q the music.

Shocking order really, so-called music experts should know In Rainbows and Kid A are better than where they are. As well as Muse albums should be higher too as well as missing Origins of symmetry...

From Grzywa 06/20/2014 13:26 | #114873

It's a good one, though very indie-leaning.

From GandalfORiley345 03/27/2014 03:23 | #107716

Is This It better that Whatever People Say I am, I don´t if that´s ok

I dig The Streets, but not over Dizzee Rascal.

From tgarritsen 12/14/2013 02:42 | #97521

Pretty good list. I like it because as it doesn't put Kid A or Funeral on top as most 2000's charts do. Insteed it shows more of the rock side of the 2000's with Is This It?, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Up The Bracket.