Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by 
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2005-LOST HIGHWAY
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. Magnolia Moontan
2. Sweet Illusions
3. Meadowlake Street
4. When Will You Come Back Home
5. Beautiful Sorta
6. Now That You're Gone
7. Cherry Lane
8. Mockingbird
9. How Do You Keep Love Alive
1. Easy Plateau
2. Let It Ride
3. Rosebud
4. Cold Roses
5. If I Am A Stranger
6. Dance All Night
7. Blossom
8. Life Is Beautiful
9. Friends
2005 was quite as year for Ryan Adams. He released 3 albums, and played the Hurricane Katrina benefit, AND somehow found the time to hang out and play shows with Phil Lesh. Cold Roses was his first album of the year, and his first with The Cardinals. The album is typical Adams: some amazingly catchy and beautiful songs, surrounded by songs that just seem to scream "look at me! I'm prolific, and I'm not afraid to release anything!". Adams ups the annoyance quotient by releasing this as a double album, when the music on both discs would easily fit on one.
But, the good moments far outshine the bad, as is usually the case with Ryan Adams. The Cardinals are a great band, and he even gets the excellent Rachel Yamagata to sing along. All in all, you'll be happy with this. It's an album that has grown on me steadily over the years, and it never disappoints. Just don't pay double album price for it..buy it online for a better price. Ripping people off like that is not cool. [First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. Magnolia Moontan
2. Sweet Illusions
3. Meadowlake Street
4. When Will You Come Back Home
5. Beautiful Sorta
6. Now That You're Gone
7. Cherry Lane
8. Mockingbird
9. How Do You Keep Love Alive
1. Easy Plateau
2. Let It Ride
3. Rosebud
4. Cold Roses
5. If I Am A Stranger
6. Dance All Night
7. Blossom
8. Life Is Beautiful
9. Friends
2005 was quite as year for Ryan Adams. He released 3 albums, and played the Hurricane Katrina benefit, AND somehow found the time to hang out and play shows with Phil Lesh. Cold Roses was his first album of the year, and his first with The Cardinals. The album is typical Adams: some amazingly catchy and beautiful songs, surrounded by songs that just seem to scream "look at me! I'm prolific, and I'm not afraid to release anything!". Adams ups the annoyance quotient by releasing this as a double album, when the music on both discs would easily fit on one.
But, the good moments far outshine the bad, as is usually the case with Ryan Adams. The Cardinals are a great band, and he even gets the excellent Rachel Yamagata to sing along. All in all, you'll be happy with this. It's an album that has grown on me steadily over the years, and it never disappoints. Just don't pay double album price for it..buy it online for a better price. Ripping people off like that is not cool. [First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]
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2005
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Produced by Jay Farrar. Unfairly rated as average by many critics, and ignored unfairly by many listeners. Okemah is Son Volt regrouping and going back to what made Trace so great. Songs like the burning "Bandages And Scars", "Afterglow 61", and "Ipecac" show that Farrar was still a formidable songwriter, and that Son Volt still had plenty of greatness in them. The best moments from a Son Volt show are from this album. That's because it's a great album. Period.
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Produced by Karina Benznicki & Eli Cane. Recorded live in Chicago in 2005, this is a great document of everything that makes Wilco a great band. So many great songs from so many great albums...this two disc album could have easily been stretched to four without ever getting dull. The audience is stoked, particularly for winning tracks like "Via Chicago", "Jesus, Etc.", and "Misunderstood". A positively great performance by one of the greatest bands of our time. A must have live album.
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2005-LOST HIGHWAY
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. A Kiss Before I Go
2. The End
3. Hard Way To Fall
4. Dear John
5. The Hardest Part
6. Games
7. Silver Bullets
8. Peaceful Valley
9. September
10. My Heart Is Broken
11. Trains
12. Pa
13. Withering Heights
14. Don’t Fail Me Now
In 2005, it was hard to find anyone more prolific than Ryan Adams. He released three albums that year: Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, and 29. Jacksonville (a reference to Adam’s hometown in North Carolina) is the more country oriented of the three, and contains some of Adams’ more beautiful songs. With the opening track, Adams lets you know that this is most definitely a country album, led by Jon Graboff’s pedal steel. “Dear John” is a duet with Norah Jones, and almost all of the songs are listed as group compositions.
The album is not as strong as the excellent Cold Roses, but is still a fine album from Adams. Like all of his records, it does contain its share of filler, but unlike some of his efforts, it’s not too long that those lesser tracks become burdensome. Adams is a streaky writer…his streaks are very large, and he tends to record it all. Still, Jacksonville is a good look at the more country side of Ryan Adams. [First added to this chart: 12/12/2011]
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. A Kiss Before I Go
2. The End
3. Hard Way To Fall
4. Dear John
5. The Hardest Part
6. Games
7. Silver Bullets
8. Peaceful Valley
9. September
10. My Heart Is Broken
11. Trains
12. Pa
13. Withering Heights
14. Don’t Fail Me Now
In 2005, it was hard to find anyone more prolific than Ryan Adams. He released three albums that year: Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, and 29. Jacksonville (a reference to Adam’s hometown in North Carolina) is the more country oriented of the three, and contains some of Adams’ more beautiful songs. With the opening track, Adams lets you know that this is most definitely a country album, led by Jon Graboff’s pedal steel. “Dear John” is a duet with Norah Jones, and almost all of the songs are listed as group compositions.
The album is not as strong as the excellent Cold Roses, but is still a fine album from Adams. Like all of his records, it does contain its share of filler, but unlike some of his efforts, it’s not too long that those lesser tracks become burdensome. Adams is a streaky writer…his streaks are very large, and he tends to record it all. Still, Jacksonville is a good look at the more country side of Ryan Adams. [First added to this chart: 12/12/2011]
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Produced by Dave Sardy. When I first heard this album, I hated it. But it's been growing on me ever since. You can't think too much about the lyrics...but musically, particularly guitarist Andrew Stockdale, there's a lot going on here. "Woman" was the hit,evoking comparisons to Led Zeppelin. But there's a lot more here than just that. There are instrumental adventures all over this album, making it a surprising and more than solid debut. Not much since, but this one is a keeper.
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2005 – GEFFEN
Produced By SIGUR ROS & KEN THOMAS
1. Takk…
2. Glósóli
3. Hoppipolla
4. Með Blóðnasir
5. Sé Lest
6. Sæglópur
7. Mílanó
8. Gong
9. Andvari
10. Svo Hljótt
11. Heysátan
Post rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emporer and Explosions In The Sky tend to make music that is darker. But if you want your post rock to be lighter and happier, then you may want to check out Iceland’s own Sigur Ros. Takk… (Icelandic for thanks) is their fourth album, and there are some changes here from their first three efforts. There is a lot more guitar used here (Jonsi Birgisson uses a bow on his instrument a lot), and the vocals more are in Icelandic and less in gibberish or made up languages. The songs here are also closer to traditional arrangements. Not that there’s any rock here, nor is the music any less avant garde. It’s more like dream pop…without the actual pop. Jonsi’s extremely high falsetto vocals set the stage for a listening experience that is anything but ordinary, to say the least.
The music here is beautiful, sometimes breathtaking. You won’t understand a word, but that’s not important…what’s important are the pictures of sound that the band paints. Takk… features songs with soaring highs and pretty melodic passages, as well as a dizzying assortment of time signatures, which keeps things rhythmically challenging. And that’s the key to Sigur Ros. If you like your music to be challenging (but listenable), then this will be for you. The key to post rock is in finding ways that traditional rock instruments can make non traditional music. Sigur Ros is one of the best at it, and Takk… stands as one of their three classic albums, along with Ágætis Byrjun and the strangely titled (). Music from Iceland is definitely about more than just Bjork. If you can get into what Sigur Ros does, the joys can be many. [First added to this chart: 09/20/2024]
Produced By SIGUR ROS & KEN THOMAS
1. Takk…
2. Glósóli
3. Hoppipolla
4. Með Blóðnasir
5. Sé Lest
6. Sæglópur
7. Mílanó
8. Gong
9. Andvari
10. Svo Hljótt
11. Heysátan
Post rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emporer and Explosions In The Sky tend to make music that is darker. But if you want your post rock to be lighter and happier, then you may want to check out Iceland’s own Sigur Ros. Takk… (Icelandic for thanks) is their fourth album, and there are some changes here from their first three efforts. There is a lot more guitar used here (Jonsi Birgisson uses a bow on his instrument a lot), and the vocals more are in Icelandic and less in gibberish or made up languages. The songs here are also closer to traditional arrangements. Not that there’s any rock here, nor is the music any less avant garde. It’s more like dream pop…without the actual pop. Jonsi’s extremely high falsetto vocals set the stage for a listening experience that is anything but ordinary, to say the least.
The music here is beautiful, sometimes breathtaking. You won’t understand a word, but that’s not important…what’s important are the pictures of sound that the band paints. Takk… features songs with soaring highs and pretty melodic passages, as well as a dizzying assortment of time signatures, which keeps things rhythmically challenging. And that’s the key to Sigur Ros. If you like your music to be challenging (but listenable), then this will be for you. The key to post rock is in finding ways that traditional rock instruments can make non traditional music. Sigur Ros is one of the best at it, and Takk… stands as one of their three classic albums, along with Ágætis Byrjun and the strangely titled (). Music from Iceland is definitely about more than just Bjork. If you can get into what Sigur Ros does, the joys can be many. [First added to this chart: 09/20/2024]
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2005
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Produced by Paul Epworth and Bloc Party. You can't please all of the people all of the time, but Bloc Party certainly did try with their debut album. Silent Alarm crosses genres so many times, it's hard to keep track. The result is a fascinating and well rounded album that sounds better and better with each subsequent listening. So much to like about this..."So Here We Are", "Positive Tension", "Pioneers", "Banquet". A great collection of ambitious and well crafted songs. This deserves every bit of praise that it gets.
[First added to this chart: 04/19/2013]
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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 | 12 | 12% | |
| 2005 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2006 | 13 | 13% | |
| 2007 | 15 | 15% | |
| 2008 | 4 | 4% | |
| 2009 | 10 | 10% |
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| Drive-By Truckers | 5 | 5% | |
| Lucero | 3 | 3% | |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 3% | |
| Gomez | 3 | 3% | |
| Son Volt | 3 | 3% | |
| Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | 2 | 2% | |
| Wilco | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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70 | 70% | |
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14 | 14% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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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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95/100
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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100/100
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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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