Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by DriftingOrpheus
- Chart updated: 04/07/2024 14:15
- (Created: 04/03/2020 02:36).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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It's true there are a startling lack of traditional instrumentation here, but the band has never upped the ante like this before or since. While the group had previously made stellar, conscious efforts to avoid being pigeonholed, Kid A marked the planting of a flag which flew colors of musical experimentation and encased Radiohead in the annals of music history as they stared down the barrel of studio pressures for a 'conventional' LP. What the band hand-delivered towards the end of 2000, as the shadow of an unfulfilled Y2K dissipated, was their vision of an approaching apocalypse that would be patient in temperament and self-inflicted.
A dystopian, shivering piece of art, depicting a future that has completely gone metallic, Kid A is the brain's answer to OK Computer's heart. It was here where the marriage of the band and synthesizer incorporation was fused as they devised chemical processes like crazed alchemists in order to weld tracks which could survive both boiling heat and glacial cold. The opening tones of Everything in its Right Place encapsulate a sound which would soon serve as an idiosyncratic anthem as Radiohead firmly shook the hand of the 21st century. The skittering, emergency siren of Idioteque snags a snapshot of a world on the brink of collapse, too preoccupied to sense impending armageddon. Finally, the faux comfort of better times evaporates during the final moments of Motion Picture Soundtrack, ending the album with metaphorical hands full of ash.
Radiohead didn't redefine the rock record with Kid A, for there is no all-encompassing definition. What the band truly managed, was the elusive task of redefining themselves, synchronously altering expectations for their subsequent work and thrusting headlong into an unbroken cycle of phoenix-like reincarnation and reinvention bedizened with staggering success.
"Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? I have seen too much. I haven't seen enough."
- Idioteque
Standout Tracks:
1. Idioteque
2. How to Disappear Completely
3. Everything in its Right Place
102.2 [First added to this chart: 04/25/2020]
The band collectively "letting their hair down" has led to an undeniably earnest entry in the Radiohead canon. Emerging with the bouncy, yet refined 15 Step, it's easy to admire Phil Selway's percussion on the track. The 5/4 time signature creates the illusion of a mutated pop song, awash in sarcastic wit. Bodysnatchers seems to rekindle the band's love for guitar rock as Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien imprint their likenesses all over the thundering track. Nude, track three, could easily take the cake for Radiohead's pinnacle of aesthetic beauty, a song that unfurls slowly and fades into the ether ever so softly. Yorke's vocals on this cut are among the finest he's ever produced. It's very apropos that a song about physical vanity ends up being so tangibly gorgeous.
Late album entries such as Reckoner, Jigsaw Falling Into Place and the heartbreaking Videotape, bookend an album submerged in consistency. Still, there is no grand memorandum, no life-lesson other than what it means to be human, whether fallible, physically self-conscious or devoid of direction. Radiohead have made a name for themselves by zigging and subsequently zagging, but In Rainbows resides on the straightest of lines. A line that is neither accessible nor challenging, existential nor nihilistic. Ten tracks of simply being, at the heights of exuberance and the base of sorrow. A full spectrum of emotion, paralleled by the spectrum of light that dons the album cover.
"No matter what happens now
You shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been
The most perfect day I've ever seen."
-Videotape
Standout Tracks:
1. Nude
2. Videotape
3. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
95.9 [First added to this chart: 04/25/2020]
* Not the correct version of the album, but BEA prohibits the 2009 release, which is vastly superior. [First added to this chart: 03/13/2022]
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s composition
Year | Albums | % | |
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2000 | 10 | 10% | |
2001 | 12 | 12% | |
2002 | 7 | 7% | |
2003 | 11 | 11% | |
2004 | 11 | 11% | |
2005 | 8 | 8% | |
2006 | 7 | 7% | |
2007 | 17 | 17% | |
2008 | 9 | 9% | |
2009 | 7 | 7% |
Artist | Albums | % | |
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Cancerslug | 11 | 11% | |
Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
Angels Of Light | 4 | 4% | |
Deerhunter | 4 | 4% | |
Blitzkid | 4 | 4% | |
The National | 4 | 4% | |
Animal Collective | 3 | 3% | |
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Country | Albums | % | |
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63 | 63% | ||
17 | 17% | ||
5 | 5% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
2 | 2% | ||
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s chart changes
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Up 1 from 86th to 85th Akron/Family & Angels Of Light by Akron/Family & Angels Of Light |
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Down 1 from 85th to 86th We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love by Dax Riggs |
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