Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by 
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2004 – NEW WEST
Produced By DAVID BARBE
1. Where The Devil Don’t Stay
2. Tornadoes
3. The Day John Henry Died
4. Puttin’ People On The Moon
5. Carl Perkins’ Cadillac
6. The Sands Of Iwo Jima
7. Danko/Manuel
8. The Boys From Alabama
9. Cottonseed
10. The Buford Stick
11. Daddy’s Cup
12. Never Gonna Change
13. Goddamn Lonely Love
If you ask me what my favorite album is, I can’t answer that. If you ask me what my favorite song is, I’ll put on “Danko/Manuel” by Drive-By Truckers and tell you that this is as close as it gets. In fact, if you’re going to be in a band with me, being willing to play this song is the first test. The Dirty South, the Truckers fifth album, is as good as they get…and that’s pretty damned excellent. Having a songwriter like Jason Isbell limited to just four songs speaks volumes about how loaded the Truckers really were. A loose concept album about the downside of Southern living, The Dirty South marks the peak of the career of this excellent Southern rock and alt-country giant. It’s all good here.
Mike Cooley delivers some of his most memorable material in “Where The Devil Don’t Stay”, “Daddy’s Cup”, and the brilliant story song “Carl Perkins’ Cadillac”. Patterson Hood brings “Puttin’ People On The Moon”, about people driven down by environmental pollution. “Tornadoes” and “The Sands Of Iwo Jima” are excellent, and “The Boys Of Alabama” gives you the “other side of the story” of Buford Pusser and Walking Tall. And Isbell, along with the perfect “Danko/Manuel”, brings the rollicking “Never Gonna Change”, and closes things with this perfect lyric: “I’ll take two of what you’re having/I’ll take all of what you’ve got/To kill this Goddamned lonely, Goddamned lonely love”. This is a great album. Please go buy it. [First added to this chart: 12/11/2011]
Produced By DAVID BARBE
1. Where The Devil Don’t Stay
2. Tornadoes
3. The Day John Henry Died
4. Puttin’ People On The Moon
5. Carl Perkins’ Cadillac
6. The Sands Of Iwo Jima
7. Danko/Manuel
8. The Boys From Alabama
9. Cottonseed
10. The Buford Stick
11. Daddy’s Cup
12. Never Gonna Change
13. Goddamn Lonely Love
If you ask me what my favorite album is, I can’t answer that. If you ask me what my favorite song is, I’ll put on “Danko/Manuel” by Drive-By Truckers and tell you that this is as close as it gets. In fact, if you’re going to be in a band with me, being willing to play this song is the first test. The Dirty South, the Truckers fifth album, is as good as they get…and that’s pretty damned excellent. Having a songwriter like Jason Isbell limited to just four songs speaks volumes about how loaded the Truckers really were. A loose concept album about the downside of Southern living, The Dirty South marks the peak of the career of this excellent Southern rock and alt-country giant. It’s all good here.
Mike Cooley delivers some of his most memorable material in “Where The Devil Don’t Stay”, “Daddy’s Cup”, and the brilliant story song “Carl Perkins’ Cadillac”. Patterson Hood brings “Puttin’ People On The Moon”, about people driven down by environmental pollution. “Tornadoes” and “The Sands Of Iwo Jima” are excellent, and “The Boys Of Alabama” gives you the “other side of the story” of Buford Pusser and Walking Tall. And Isbell, along with the perfect “Danko/Manuel”, brings the rollicking “Never Gonna Change”, and closes things with this perfect lyric: “I’ll take two of what you’re having/I’ll take all of what you’ve got/To kill this Goddamned lonely, Goddamned lonely love”. This is a great album. Please go buy it. [First added to this chart: 12/11/2011]
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Produced by Dennis Herring. No idea what Modest Mouse was until "Float On" skewed its way into my brain in 2004. Discovering this band has been a joy, including this album, which is full of great and quirky Modest Mouse gems. This was a gateway album to the rest of their discography, for which I will be forever thankful. I know some people are disappointed by this album. I am not one of them. In fact, I believe that this album is worthy to stand next to anything else the band has done.
[First added to this chart: 01/30/2012]
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2004
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2004-NONSUCH
Produced By T BONE BURNETT
1. How To Quit
2. All Night
3. I Dreamed I Stopped Dreaming
4. Open The World
5. Red Silk Five
6. Reflecting Light
7. Infiltration
8. Draw Man
9. I Wanted To Be Alone
10. Love Changes Everything
11. If I Could Write
12. Hole In My Pocket
13. One Day Late
Not to be confused with the producer with the same name, Sam Phillips began her career as Christian artist Leslie Phillips. Once known as the Christian Cyndi Lauper, she ended her Christian career and changed her name with the release of The Indescribable Wow in 1989. She's never been a chart topper, but she's recorded consistently since 1983. Having T Bone Burnett as a husband and producer hasn't hurt.
A Boot And A Shoe is her 10th album, recorded while she and Burnett were divorcing. It's stripped down, with the bass and drums at the front, and a very mature album. Phillips' knack for excellent hooks is here ("All Night" should have been a hit), and her slightly quirky style works very well. The album flows beautifully, and is a haunting work. Not as rocking as her previous albums, it's ultimately the songs and the voice that carries it, and it's extremely well done. One of her best albums overall. Phillips continues to record regularly...she's released multiple albums since without Burnett, handling the production herself. An underrated and prolific artist. [First added to this chart: 06/01/2020]
Produced By T BONE BURNETT
1. How To Quit
2. All Night
3. I Dreamed I Stopped Dreaming
4. Open The World
5. Red Silk Five
6. Reflecting Light
7. Infiltration
8. Draw Man
9. I Wanted To Be Alone
10. Love Changes Everything
11. If I Could Write
12. Hole In My Pocket
13. One Day Late
Not to be confused with the producer with the same name, Sam Phillips began her career as Christian artist Leslie Phillips. Once known as the Christian Cyndi Lauper, she ended her Christian career and changed her name with the release of The Indescribable Wow in 1989. She's never been a chart topper, but she's recorded consistently since 1983. Having T Bone Burnett as a husband and producer hasn't hurt.
A Boot And A Shoe is her 10th album, recorded while she and Burnett were divorcing. It's stripped down, with the bass and drums at the front, and a very mature album. Phillips' knack for excellent hooks is here ("All Night" should have been a hit), and her slightly quirky style works very well. The album flows beautifully, and is a haunting work. Not as rocking as her previous albums, it's ultimately the songs and the voice that carries it, and it's extremely well done. One of her best albums overall. Phillips continues to record regularly...she's released multiple albums since without Burnett, handling the production herself. An underrated and prolific artist. [First added to this chart: 06/01/2020]
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Produced by Mitchell Froom, Jon Brion & Tony Visconti. Great vocal harmonies are an important part of my life, and no one pulls them off more excitingly than Tim and Neil Finn. This album brings the best of Woodface, and every other thing they did together into one fantastic vocal album. The Finn's are the modern day Everly Brothers...they should record together more. They should record together all the time. If you sing, this is an album that shows you how it should be done.
[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
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Produced by John Alagia. An underneath the radar, moderately successful artist, Yamagata's debut, Happenstance, is one of those albums that brings a smile to my face for reasons that aren't immediately obvious. She's a good songwriter, and has a warm and welcoming voice, and seems to be nothing amazing...yet I always come back for more of this record. It's consistently good, and great in ways I haven't yet figured out. Maybe someday I will...but I'm not going to think about it too much. Just enjoy, dammit.
[First added to this chart: 12/06/2011]
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[First added to this chart: 11/27/2014]
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2004 – SUB POP
Produced By BRIAN DECK
1. On Your Wings
2. Naked As We Came
3. Cinder And Smoke
4. Sunset Soon Forgotten
5. Teeth In The Grass
6. Love And Some Verses
7. Radio War
8. Each Coming Night
9. Free Until They Cut Me Down
10. Fever Dream
11. Sodom, South Georgia
12. Passing Afternoon
Iron & Wine is the stage name of Sam Beam, an indie folk artist from the Southern United States. His first album was a true solo effort, a demo recorded at his home that found its way to the head of Sub Pop Records. He was also helped by his recording of “Such Great Heights”, which The Postal Service included on their single version of the same song. The second Iron & Wine album, Our Endless Numbered Days, contains the same beautiful playing and melodies as his debut, but it’s helped by the inclusion of sparingly used rock instruments and a professional studio. While this album was a large step forward for him, and received a lot of critical acclaim, it failed to chart pretty much anywhere, but has since become his best selling album.
There are truly beautiful moments here. “Naked As We Came” is a triumph. “Passing Afternoon” features a full band led by producer Brian Deck on piano, and is a lovely track. “Sunset Soon Forgotten” and “Each Coming Night” are also standouts. Iron & Wine continues today, having not only released a handful of solo albums, but also many soundtrack contributions and collaborations with artists like Ben Bridwell and Calexico. His music is reminiscent of Nick Drake and Elliot Smith, and while he has experimented with more electric instruments, it’s back to this more acoustic sound that he seems to always return to. This is a fine album, well worth checking out. You may want to hear more from him. [First added to this chart: 12/31/2024]
Produced By BRIAN DECK
1. On Your Wings
2. Naked As We Came
3. Cinder And Smoke
4. Sunset Soon Forgotten
5. Teeth In The Grass
6. Love And Some Verses
7. Radio War
8. Each Coming Night
9. Free Until They Cut Me Down
10. Fever Dream
11. Sodom, South Georgia
12. Passing Afternoon
Iron & Wine is the stage name of Sam Beam, an indie folk artist from the Southern United States. His first album was a true solo effort, a demo recorded at his home that found its way to the head of Sub Pop Records. He was also helped by his recording of “Such Great Heights”, which The Postal Service included on their single version of the same song. The second Iron & Wine album, Our Endless Numbered Days, contains the same beautiful playing and melodies as his debut, but it’s helped by the inclusion of sparingly used rock instruments and a professional studio. While this album was a large step forward for him, and received a lot of critical acclaim, it failed to chart pretty much anywhere, but has since become his best selling album.
There are truly beautiful moments here. “Naked As We Came” is a triumph. “Passing Afternoon” features a full band led by producer Brian Deck on piano, and is a lovely track. “Sunset Soon Forgotten” and “Each Coming Night” are also standouts. Iron & Wine continues today, having not only released a handful of solo albums, but also many soundtrack contributions and collaborations with artists like Ben Bridwell and Calexico. His music is reminiscent of Nick Drake and Elliot Smith, and while he has experimented with more electric instruments, it’s back to this more acoustic sound that he seems to always return to. This is a fine album, well worth checking out. You may want to hear more from him. [First added to this chart: 12/31/2024]
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[First added to this chart: 09/22/2012]
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2000 | 8 | 8% | |
| 2001 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2002 | 9 | 9% | |
| 2003 | 7 | 7% | |
| 2004 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2005 | 12 | 12% | |
| 2006 | 13 | 13% | |
| 2007 | 15 | 15% | |
| 2008 | 4 | 4% | |
| 2009 | 10 | 10% |
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| Drive-By Truckers | 5 | 5% | |
| Son Volt | 3 | 3% | |
| Lucero | 3 | 3% | |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 3% | |
| Gomez | 3 | 3% | |
| Alison Krauss & Union Station | 2 | 2% | |
| Band Of Horses | 2 | 2% | |
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69 | 69% | |
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15 | 15% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s chart changes
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| Down 1 from 94th to 95th Live by Alison Krauss & Union Station |
| Down 1 from 95th to 96th A New Tide by Gomez |
| Down 1 from 96th to 97th Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear |
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 Employmentby Kaiser Chiefs |
| Leavers |
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 Hot Fussby The Killers |
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From Larcx13 09/10/2024 19:53
Larcx13 09/10/2024 19:53
I love this chart for the descriptions as well as the amount of music for me to discover.
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From LankyLen 10/07/2019 01:13
nice list. Love the DBT love!!
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OreoPanda 07/12/2018 22:49
OreoPanda 07/12/2018 22:49
When I think of the 2000s, I think of punk, post-grunge, and alternative rock. That's almost nonexistent here, or at least ones that I like. I hate country, so we clearly have very different tastes but I don't care. There are some good ones like Green Day, The Killers, Weezer, Modest Mouse, Gorillaz etc., but that's few and far between. Overall, pretty boring and flat.
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buzzdainer 10/05/2016 20:18
buzzdainer 10/05/2016 20:18
I couldn't agree more with your decision to list Cold Roses at #1, as it's definitely the album from the 2000s that has meant the most to me. Just a fantastic rock album, bringing together elements that remind me of much of the rock that I loved in the seventies: Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones especially. I also love Funeral (I know everyone does, but it's for good reason), The Dirty South, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and many others from your list. Tons of great Americana here--a fantastic list.
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80/100
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greatson 03/28/2015 11:20
greatson 03/28/2015 11:20
well done!
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75/100
From eyal91 03/12/2015 19:42
I also prefer the American cover of Is This It.
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85/100
From maverick470 03/12/2015 18:06
Great chart, love the alt-country feel. Ryan Adams' catalogue is very underrated so good to see the representation here.
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90/100
From manurock 03/12/2015 16:33
I haven't listened to many of the albums so I can't judge completely. However your comments are great, you are a Jayhawks fan like me (I wish we lived in that world where everyone loved RDM), you include other artists and bands I like like Wilco (Being There is great), Muse (you must include OOS!) or The Shins and I see no album I dislike so congrats for the chart.
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95/100
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samistake2ice 03/12/2015 13:20
samistake2ice 03/12/2015 13:20
Man this chart is awesome. 23 albums in common with mine, but i love more than half of the albums on this chart. Never could quite get in to Gomez, maybe hes due for an other listen. Also, havent listened to most of the later stuff by older artists. Anyway, great list!
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85/100
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HoldenM 03/12/2015 08:08
HoldenM 03/12/2015 08:08
A ton I need to go find and hear.
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