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

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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
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8,752
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1970-1975 (Box Set) 
Compilation
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Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog

8.6/10

10 Genesis 1970-1975 favorite songs:

1. The Cinema Show (1973)
2. Supper's Ready (1972)
3. The Musical Box (1971)
4. Firth of Fifth (1973)
5. In the Cage (1974)
6. The Fountain of Salmacis (1971)
7. The Return of the Giant Hogweed (1971)
8. Carpet Crawlers (1974)
9. Watcher of the Skies (1972)
10. Stagnation (1970)

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• Trespass (1970) 8.6
1. Looking for Someone 8.5
2. White Mountain 8.5
3. Visions of Angels 8
4. Stagnation 9
5. Dusk 8.5
6. The Knife 9
• Nursery Cryme (1971) 8.8
7. The Musical Box 9.5
8. For Absent Friends 8
9. The Return of the Giant Hogweed 9.5
10. Seven Stones 8.5
11. Harold the Barrel 8.5
12. Harlequin 8.5
13. The Fountain of Salmacis 9.5
• Foxtrot (1972) 8.8
14. Watcher of the Skies 9.5
15. Time Table 8
16. Get 'Em Out by Friday 8.5
17. Can-utility and the Coastliners 9
18. Horizons 8.5
19. Supper's Ready 9.5
• Selling England by the Pound (1973) 8.8
20. Dancing With the Moonlit Knight 9
21. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 8.5
22. Firth of Fifth 9.5
23. More Fool Me 8
24. The Battle of Epping Forest 9
25. After the Ordeal 8.5
26. The Cinema Show 9.5
27. Aisle of Plenty 9
• The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) 8.6
28. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 9
29. Fly on a Windshield 9
30. Broadway Melody of 1974 8.5
31. Cuckoo Cocoon 8.5
32. In the Cage 9.5
33. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging 8.5
34. Back in N.Y.C. 9
35. Hairless Heart 8.5
36. Counting Out Time 8.5
37. Carpet Crawlers 9.5
38. The Chamber of 32 Doors 8.5
39. Lilywhite Lilith 8.5
40. The Waiting Room 9
41. Anyway 8.5
42. Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist 8.5
43. The Lamia 8.5
44. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats 8.5
45. The Colony of Slippermen 9
46. Ravine 8
47. The Light Dies Down on Broadway 8.5
48. Riding the Scree 8.5
49. In the Rapids 8.5
50. It 8.5
• Extra tracks 7.8
51. Happy the Man 8
52. Twilight Alehouse 8.5
53. Shepherd (BBC) 7.5
54. Pacidy (BBC) 7.5
55. Let Us Now Make Love (BBC) 7.5
56. Going Out to Get You (Demo) 7.5
57. Provocation (Demo) 8
58. Frustation (Demo) 8
59. Manipulation (Demo) 8
60. Resignation (Demo) 8
[First added to this chart: 08/27/2022]
Year of Release:
2008
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200
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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
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44,105
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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
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45,214
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Greatest Hits 
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Art Pop, Electronic, Trip Hop

8.4/10

Track selection: All Is Full of Love

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1. All Is Full of Love 9
2. Hyperballad 9.5
3. Human Behaviour 8.5
4. Joga 8.5
5. Bachelorette 8.5
6. Army of Me 8.5
7. Pagan Poetry 8.5
8. Big Time Sensuality 8
9. Venus as a Boy 8.5
10. Hunter 8.5
11. Hidden Place 8.5
12. Isobel 8.5
13. Possibly Maybe 8
14. Play Dead 8
15. It's in Our Hands 8
[First added to this chart: 10/19/2022]
Year of Release:
2002
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56
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Hit 
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Art Rock, Progressive Rock

8.4/10

Tracks selection: The Tower That Ate People (Steve Osborne Mix) & Downside Up (Live)

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1. Solsbury Hill 9
2. Shock the Monkey 8.5
3. Sledgehammer 8.5
4. Don't Give Up 8.5
5. Games Without Frontiers 9
6. Big Time 8
7. Burn You Up, Burn You Down 8
8. Growing Up (Tom Lord-Alge Mix) 8
9. Digging in the Dirt 9.5
10. Blood of Eden 8.5
11. More Than This 8.5
12. Biko 8.5
13. Steam 8.5
14. Red Rain 9
15. Here Comes the Flood 8.5
16. San Jacinto 8.5
17. No Self-Control 8
18. Cloudless 8
19. The Rhythm of the Heat 8
20. I Have the Touch 9
21. I Grieve 8.5
22. D.I.Y. 8
23. A Different Drum 8.5
24. The Drop 8
25. The Tower That Ate People (Steve Osborne Mix) 8.5
26. Lovetown 8
27. Father, Son 8.5
28. Signal to Noise 8.5
29. Downside Up (Live) 8.5
30. Washing of the Water 8.5
[First added to this chart: 09/08/2022]
Year of Release:
2003
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136
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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
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35,720
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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
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9,427
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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
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381
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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
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20,906
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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%
The Microphones 3 3%
Joanna Newsom 3 3%
The National 3 3%
Sigur Rós 2 2%
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Country Albums %


United States 44 44%
United Kingdom 28 28%
Canada 8 8%
Iceland 8 8%
Mixed Nationality 5 5%
Japan 3 3%
Sweden 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%

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1. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
3. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar
4. The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
5. Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
6. A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
7. Lonerism by Tame Impala
8. Blond by Frank Ocean
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10. High Violet by The National
11. Modern Vampires Of The City by Vampire Weekend
12. Teen Dream by Beach House
13. Currents by Tame Impala
14. Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
15. Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs
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20. Bloom by Beach House
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