Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by Romanelli

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Everyone Is Here

The Finn Brothers

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]

Year of Release:

2004

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28 charts

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Sirens Of The Ditch

Jason Isbell

Produced by Jason Isbell & Patterson Hood. Drive-By Truckers were just a stepping stone for Jason Isbell, and everyone pretty much knew it. You can't keep a songwriter as prolific and as good as Isbell to 3 songs per album for long. Sirens is his solo debut, and it's bursting with an "I'm free" attitude. Isbell is all about great songs, and this album is loaded with them. If country music used Jason Isbell as its career model instead of trucks and beer and basic redneckery, we'd all be living in a better place...and we'd all like country music a lot more. [First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]

Year of Release:

2007

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33 charts

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Live At Massey Hall 1971
Live

Neil Young

2007- REPRISE
Produced By DAVID BRIGGS & NEIL YOUNG

1. On The Way Home
2. Tell Me Why
3. Old Man
4. Journey Through The Past
5. Helpless
6. Love In Mind
7. A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold Suite
8. Cowgirl In The Sand
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down
10. There's A World
11. Bad Fog Of Loneliness
12. The Needle And The Damage Done
13. Ohio
14. See The Sky About To Rain
15. Down By The River
16. Dance Dance Dance
17. I Am A Child

For the most part, I'm not a big fan of "lost" tracks. But it's different when an artist like Neil Young makes live recordings from his private archives public. Live At Massey Hall was recorded during Young's Journey Through The Past Solo Tour in 1971 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The album features only Young on guitar and piano, and is an amazingly well played set. Young has said that this should have been the record that came out between After The Gold Rush and Harvest, but he opted for a studio release.

Many of the songs here had yet to see record yet (all of the Harvest tracks, plus some others that surfaced on later albums). "Bad Fog Of Loneliness" is heard on record for the first time here, and "Dance Dance Dance" turned out to be an early version of "Love Is A Rose". In all, Massey Hall is a great record, well with the 34 year wait.

This is the second in the Neil Young Archives Performance Series. Thanks for sharing, Neil! [First added to this chart: 12/05/2011]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

130 charts

Rank Score:

457

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552

Overall Rank:

3,250

Average Rating:

82 (240 votes)

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Big Iron World

Old Crow Medicine Show

[First added to this chart: 05/28/2017]

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

10 charts

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musicforthemorningafter

Pete Yorn

[First added to this chart: 04/03/2023]

Year of Release:

2001

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37 charts

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191

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Okemah And The Melody Of Riot

Son Volt

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. [First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]

Year of Release:

2005

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28 charts

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Cease To Begin

Band Of Horses

[First added to this chart: 09/23/2012]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

214 charts

Rank Score:

1,143

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240

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1,506

Average Rating:

76 (245 votes)

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Rebuild The Wall

Luther Wright & The Wrongs

[First added to this chart: 09/26/2015]

Year of Release:

2001

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3 charts

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Them Crooked Vultures

Produced by Them Crooked Vultures. A power trio supergroup like we haven't seen since Cream, Them Crooked Vultures (Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones)play heavy and exciting music on their only album to date. Their pedigree suggests that they have a lot to live up to, and from the opening notes of "Mind Eraser, No Chaser", the truth is out that they succeed. I believe this album deserves a lot more recognition than it gets. Maybe that will happen if and when they decide to make another one. [First added to this chart: 12/11/2011]

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

236 charts

Rank Score:

1,064

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258

Overall Rank:

1,605

Average Rating:

75 (379 votes)

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Kicking Television Live In Chicago
Live

Wilco

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. [First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

61 charts

Rank Score:

280

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853

Overall Rank:

4,933

Average Rating:

79 (91 votes)

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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

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%

Artist	Albums	%

Drive-By Truckers	5	5%
Son Volt	3	3%
Lucero	3	3%
The White Stripes	3	3%
Gomez	3	3%
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals	2	2%
Wilco	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%

	69	69%
	15	15%
	4	4%
	4	4%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	1	1%
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Live?	Albums	%
No	93	93%
Yes	7	7%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	98	98%
Yes	2	2%

Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 3 from 52nd to 49th Get Born by Jet

Biggest fallers
Down 1 from 49th to 50th Live From Madison Square Garden by Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
Down 1 from 50th to 51st Wincing The Night Away by The Shins
Down 1 from 51st to 52nd Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix

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80/100	01/20/2021 22:27	Juneof44	52	83/100
100/100	01/20/2021 21:06	Rhyner	1,448	99/100
100/100	07/27/2020 14:43	Timestarter	114	90/100
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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

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

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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greatson 03/28/2015 11:20

well done!

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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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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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HoldenM 03/12/2015 08:08

A ton I need to go find and hear.

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