Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by Exist-en-ciel

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07.06.03 Montreal, QC
Live

Peter Gabriel

Art Rock, Progressive Rock, Pop Rock

8.8/10

Track selection: Secret World (live)

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1. Red Rain 9
2. More Than This 8.5
3. Secret World 9.5
4. Games Without Frontiers 9
5. Mercy Street 8.5
6. Darkness 8.5
7. Digging in the Dirt 9.5
8. Don't Give Up 8.5
9. The Tower That Ate People 8.5
10. Growing Up 8.5
11. San Jacinto 8.5
12. Solsbury Hill 9
13. Sledgehammer 8.5
14. Signal to Noise 9
15. In Your Eyes 9
16. Come Talk to Me 8.5
17. Shock the Monkey 8.5
18. Biko 9 [First added to this chart: 08/27/2022]

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

7 charts

Rank Score:

119

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Joanna Newsom

Chamber Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Progressive Folk

8.6/10

Track selection: Sawdust & Diamonds

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1. Emily 8.5
2. Monkey & Bear 8.5
3. Sawdust & Diamonds 9
4. Only Skin 8.5
5. Cosmia 8.5 [First added to this chart: 09/13/2022]

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

768 charts

Rank Score:

8,809

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Overall Rank:

172

Average Rating:

82 (848 votes)

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Kid A

Radiohead

Art Rock, Electronic, Experimental Rock

8.5/10

Tracks selection: Idioteque & Kid A

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1. Everything in Its Right Place 8.5
2. Kid A 9
3. The National Anthem 8.5
4. How to Disappear Completely 8.5
5. Treefingers 8
6. Optimistic 8.5
7 In Limbo 8.5
8. Idioteque 9
9. Morning Bell 8.5
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack 8.5
11. Hidden track 8 [First added to this chart: 08/25/2022]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,204 charts

Rank Score:

44,762

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Art Rock, Alternative Rock, Electronic

8.5/10

Tracks selection: All I Need & Reckoner

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1. 15 Step 8.5
2. Bodysnatchers 8.5
3. Nude 8.5
4. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi 8.5
5. All I Need 9
6. Faust Arp 8
7. Reckoner 9
8. House of Cards 8
9. Jigsaw Falling Into Place 8.5
10. Videotape 8.5 [First added to this chart: 08/25/2022]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,900 charts

Rank Score:

45,931

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Average Rating:

90 (3,921 votes)

Comments:

393

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Funeral

Arcade Fire

Indie Rock, Chamber Pop, Art Pop

8.4/10

Tracks selection: Rebellion (Lies) & Wake Up

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1. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) 8.5
2. Neighborhood #2 (Laïka) 8.5
3. Une année sans lumière 8
4. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) 8.5
5. Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) 8
6. Crown of Love 8
7. Wake Up 9
8. Haïti 8.5
9. Rebellion (Lies) 9
10. In the Backseat 8.5 [First added to this chart: 09/28/2022]

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,878 charts

Rank Score:

36,110

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Average Rating:

88 (3,656 votes)

Comments:

401

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Vespertine

Björk

Art Pop, Electronic, Ambient Pop

8.4/10

Track selection: Unison

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1. Hidden Place 8.5
2. Cocoon 8.5
3. It's Not Up to You 8.5
4. Undo 8.5
5. Pagan Poetry 8.5
6. Frosti 8
7. Aurora 8.5
8. An Echo, a Stain 8
9. Sun in My Mouth 8
10. Heirloom 8.5
11. Harm of Will 8
12. Unison 9.5 [First added to this chart: 08/25/2022]

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

826 charts

Rank Score:

9,436

Rank in 2001:

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Overall Rank:

159

Average Rating:

83 (993 votes)

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In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

Boards Of Canada

IDM, Downtempo, Ambient

8.4/10

Track selection: Kid for Today

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1. Kid for Today 8.5
2. Amo Bishop Roden 8.5
3. In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country 8.5
4. Zoetrope 8 [First added to this chart: 01/07/2025]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

88 charts

Rank Score:

381

Rank in 2000:

Rank in 2000s:

644

Overall Rank:

3,811

Average Rating:

80 (148 votes)

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Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

Chamber Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Chamber Folk

8.4/10

Track selectiom: Chicago & Come On! Feel the Illinoise!

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1. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois 8.5
2. The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience, but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, "I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!" 8.5
3. Come On! Feel the Illinoise! 9
4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. 8.5
5. Jacksonville 8.5
6. A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons 8
7. Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! 8.5
8. One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman 7.5
9. Chicago 9.5
10. Casimir Pulaski Day 8.5
11. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament 8
12. The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts 8.5
13. Prairie Fire That Wanders About 8
14. A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze 8
15. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! 8.5
16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh! 8.5
17. Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell 8
18. In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth 8
19. The Seer's Tower 8.5
20. The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders 8.5
21. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few 8
22. Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt From My Sandals as I Run 8.5 [First added to this chart: 11/27/2024]

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

1,647 charts

Rank Score:

21,159

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Average Rating:

86 (1,902 votes)

Comments:

168

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Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band

Joanna Newsom

Chamber Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Progressive Folk

8.3/10

Track selection: Cosmia

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1. Colleen 8.5
2. Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie 8
3. Cosmia 8.5 [First added to this chart: 10/13/2022]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

24 charts

Rank Score:

129

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Le Cours Des Jours

Dumas

Art Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Pop Rock

8.3/10

Tracks selection: J'erre & Linoléum

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1. Hélium 8
2. Le cours des jours 8.5
3. Vénus 8
4. J'erre 9.5
5. Je ne sais pas 8
6. Arizona 8
7. Le désir comme tel 8
8. Vol en éclat 8.5
9. Vision pornographique 8
10. Avant l'aube 8
11. Linoléum 9
12. Outro 8 [First added to this chart: 08/29/2022]

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

5 charts

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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	11	11%
2001	10	10%
2002	10	10%
2003	16	16%
2004	11	11%
2005	8	8%
2006	8	8%
2007	10	10%
2008	7	7%
2009	9	9%

Artist	Albums	%

Radiohead	7	7%
Björk	5	5%
Peter Gabriel	4	4%
Joanna Newsom	3	3%
The National	3	3%
The Microphones	3	3%
Sweet Trip	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%

	44	44%
	28	28%
	8	8%
	8	8%
	5	5%
	3	3%
	2	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	94	94%
Yes	6	6%

Live?	Albums	%
No	97	97%
Yes	3	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	99	99%
Yes	1	1%

Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s chart changes

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