Best Albums of the 2000s

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151.

Man On The Moon: The End Of Day 

 Kid Cudi

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"A good gateway to hip-hop for those that aren't that into it"  Reply

- lanadeleswift | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

238 charts

Rank Score:

1,719

Rank in 2009:

11

Rank in 2000s:

151

Overall Rank:

1,005

Average Rating:

 77 (353 votes)

Comments:

22

152.

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out 

 Yo La Tengo

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"You’ve just had the perfect day. Sun drenched and bone tired, you gather up your things with your friends. There is sand in your hair and on your bare feet, but you don’t care. You can wash it off tomorrow. You pile into the car laughing about some inside joke that no one outside that day would e...""You’ve just had the perfect day. Sun drenched and bone tired, you gather up your things with your friends. There is sand in your hair and on your bare feet, but you don’t care. You can wash it off tomorrow. You pile into the car laughing about some inside joke that no one outside that day would ever understand. The car hits the road and everyone grows silent, lost in their own little world as they reminisce and take in the day. Sinking into their seats as the sun begins to set on the horizon. THIS is the album for that ride home. No one says a word. No one needs to say a word. There’s nothing to say. The days fond memories and the music meld perfectly together as the wind the from the half open car windows plays with your hair. And you all fall half asleep with a half smile on your face thinking the same thought - this was the greatest day. Grade: A. Finishing perhaps one of the greatest four run album runs in indie, hell rock history, …And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out is Yo La Tengo at their mellowest. They know the perfect music for the ride back from the Jersey shore, and this is it. Like all the albums in this four run stretch from Painful to ATNTIIO, this is essential indie rock. Yo La Tengo always got a bit overlooked perhaps because they never broke up or maybe because their music was always a bit more understated and less headline grabbing, but they are easily one of the greatest indie rock bands of the 90s. And you need to look no further than this (almost) seamless masterpiece to find out why. Aside: My one (minor) quibble with this album is with “Cherry Chapstick”. It’s a great song, but breaks up the super mellow vibe of the rest of the album. It’s a song that would have fit much better on Electr-o-pura or I Am Not Afraid of You and Will Beat Your Ass. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

340 charts

Rank Score:

1,717

Rank in 2000:

19

Rank in 2000s:

152

Overall Rank:

1,008

Average Rating:

 79 (342 votes)

Comments:

14

153.

Audioslave 

 Audioslave

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"I dunno why this album doesn't have a higher average rating. It's great not a bad song on it. Does get weaker after track 8 and it's a bit too long though. Favourite tracks: Cochise, Like A Stone, I Am The Highway"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

341 charts

Rank Score:

1,713

Rank in 2002:

17

Rank in 2000s:

153

Overall Rank:

1,013

Average Rating:

 74 (509 votes)

Comments:

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154.

Aerial 

 Kate Bush

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"Can't enjoy this as much as her previous works. And I seldom heard high notes from her now on this record, perhaps due to her aging. But her vocal line still sounds sweet, only less sexy though. It's still a very edgy work when compared to other messes on the current market. Fav track: Nocturn."  Reply

- ilovelctr | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (4 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

270 charts

Rank Score:

1,692

Rank in 2005:

17

Rank in 2000s:

154

Overall Rank:

1,023

Average Rating:

 78 (368 votes)

Comments:

19

155.

It's Blitz! 

 Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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"One of those albums thats nostalgic to a fault for me. Hysteric is my wedding song. Is it a 100? Maybe not, but for me it is. Every song sparks a magic in me that is undeniable. Listen to the extended version, so much beautiful music. Thank you YYY for letting this record exist."  Reply

- micah88800 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

342 charts

Rank Score:

1,678

Rank in 2009:

12

Rank in 2000s:

155

Overall Rank:

1,035

Average Rating:

 78 (501 votes)

Comments:

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156.

Fallen 

 Evanescence

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"W A K E M E U P Wakemeupinside C A N T W A K E U P"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

229 charts

Rank Score:

1,675

Rank in 2003:

19

Rank in 2000s:

156

Overall Rank:

1,036

Average Rating:

 66 (386 votes)

Comments:

37

157.

Picaresque 

 The Decemberists

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"Picaresque is my favorite album from the Decemberists. It starts off with a muted tribal horn i often blast before the drums beat in with Colin narrating the premise of "the infanta": "Here she comes in her palanquin / on the back of an elephant / on a bed made of linen and sequins and silk / all...""Picaresque is my favorite album from the Decemberists. It starts off with a muted tribal horn i often blast before the drums beat in with Colin narrating the premise of "the infanta": "Here she comes in her palanquin / on the back of an elephant / on a bed made of linen and sequins and silk / all astride on her father's line / with the king and his concubines / and her nurse with her pitchers of liquors and milk / and we'll all come praise the infanta". The charging literature of the song is finely offset by the quieter, pensive, recharging bridge. The lyrics on "infanta" are the best decemberists lyrics yet (and i love intelligent lyrics), replete with high-point scrabble words like "palanquin", "pachyderm" and "folderol", tied with another picaresque tune, the epic "mariner's revenge song", probably my favorite decemberists songs of all-time. "mariner's" starts in flashback mode "in this belly of a whale" recalling a "rake and a rastabout" who moved in on the narrator's mother when he was 14 "Leaving my mother A poor consumptive wretch" with a killer-yet-frail chorus delivered by Jenny wisping "Find him, bind him / Tie him to a pole and break / His fingers to splinters / Drag him to a hole until he / Wakes up naked / Clawing at the ceiling / Of his grave". The narrator later was hired in a priory "But never once in the employ / Of these holy men / Did I ever once turn my mind / From the thought of revenge" hearing about a captain known for "wanton cruelty", the man who left his mother destitute in death. There's even a pensive instrumental passage as the narrator contemplates commiting a "wicked deed" (to kill that captain) which nails the sound of the old sea (as only the Decemberists can!). Then "And then that fateful night / We had you in our sight / After twenty months at sea / Your starboard flank abeam / I was getting my muskets clean / When came this rumbling from beneath" as the whale rose from beneath which chews up all but our two antagonists. Marvelous storytelling and delivery including an energized ending. All tunes have the feel of tales of centuries ago, classic stories charles dickens or herman melville would be proud of, full of motorcars and muskets ablaze. "we both go down together" is a tale of a couple who commit suicide knowing their families will never allow them together ("Meet me on my vast veranda / My sweet untouched Miranda / and while the seagulls are crying / we fall but our souls are flying"). That Colin can make such wordsmithy, sea shanties so catchy and endearing is a testament to his intelligence and ability to tap the human condition. Like on "eli the barrow boy", the soliloquied epitaph of a loved one, singing "Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe / Made of gold and silk Arabian thread / But she is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove / And I must push my barrow all the day". Or the humorously playful "the sporting life": "I fell on the playing field / the work of an errant heel / the din of the crowd and the loud commotion / went deafening silence and stopped emotion" . The instrumentation on this album kicks arse too, from the fiddle on "together" to the organ and horns on "16 military wives" to the accordion on "mariner's revenge song". The slower numbers work well too, from the crime scene buildup of "the bagman's gambit" ("On the lam from the law / on the steps of the capitol / you shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock") and literally lost love "from my own true love (lost at sea)", to what i feel is Colin's first love song "of angels and angles". Beautiful acoustic guitar prefaces simply-felt lines like "there are angels in your angles, there's a low moon caught in your tangles", the perfectly understated closer to offset the literary bombast of "infanta". The sentiment is as saddening-sweet on "the engine driver" with a chorus pleading "and if you don't love me, let me go", and even on the lyrically-simple-life-of-a-male-prostitute of "on a bus mall" illustrating "here in our hovel we fuse like a family, / But I will not mourn for you. / So take off your makeup / And pocket your pills away. / We're kings among runaways / On the bus mall." . There's even a jab at politics in "16 military wives": "Cheer them on to their rivals / Cause America can, and America can't say no / And America does, if America says it's so". "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

278 charts

Rank Score:

1,648

Rank in 2005:

18

Rank in 2000s:

157

Overall Rank:

1,054

Average Rating:

 78 (301 votes)

Comments:

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158.

The Rising 

 Bruce Springsteen

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"In the late nineties and early 2000's, Bruce Springsteen was at a bit of a loss. He had recently reformed the E street band for a successful tour, but Springsteen hadn't released an album of new material since, the ghost of Tom Joad, in 1995. Springsteen was also at his best when he had something...""In the late nineties and early 2000's, Bruce Springsteen was at a bit of a loss. He had recently reformed the E street band for a successful tour, but Springsteen hadn't released an album of new material since, the ghost of Tom Joad, in 1995. Springsteen was also at his best when he had something to say, when he was inspired, when there was 'something to push against', as he would later say. That inspiration came on 11th September 2001, when terrorists attacked the United States of America, in the worst U.S. tragedy since pearl harbour 60 years before. Soon after 9/11, Springsteen was in a parking lot when a voice called out to him. 'We need you now', the voice said. Springsteen heard. In July the following year, Bruce Springsteen was back. The rising, was a fantastic collection of songs, concerning the events of 9/11. From devastated family members, to the courageous emergency services, even to the thoughts of a suicide bomber. It was moving stuff. The rising, is easily springsteen's best E street album since, born to run. Working with producer Brendan O'Brien who had previously recorded pearl jam, the band sounded bigger and better than ever. Lonesome day, is a fantastic opener, followed by the moving, into the fire. Other 9/11 inspired tracks were, empty sky, world's apart, paradise, and the title track itself, all brilliant. There are lighter moments, waitin'on a sunny day, and the wonderful Motown pastiche, Mary's place, are great fun. Other standouts are, the contemplative, nothing man, the rocking, further on up the road, and the excellent, you're missing. If there are any lightweight moments, it's the throwaway, let's be friends. Elsewhere though, it's brilliant, ending with the uplifting, my city of ruins. The rising, Is a fantastic record, that goes down as one of Bruce's best. It's a moving album that only someone with the stature of Bruce Springsteen could have pulled off. Marvellous. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

316 charts

Rank Score:

1,624

Rank in 2002:

18

Rank in 2000s:

158

Overall Rank:

1,067

Average Rating:

 75 (495 votes)

Comments:

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159.

Fever Ray 

 Fever Ray

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"Karin Dreijer Andersson is one of the greatest minds currently active in pop music. She can write a hook as well as anyone can but then masks it in this dark, almost Lynchian weirdness. Her vocals, manipulated and not, are always compelling even though somewhat alien and usually creepy. And her l...""Karin Dreijer Andersson is one of the greatest minds currently active in pop music. She can write a hook as well as anyone can but then masks it in this dark, almost Lynchian weirdness. Her vocals, manipulated and not, are always compelling even though somewhat alien and usually creepy. And her lyrics are full of vivid imagery that also wouldn't seem out of place in, say Twin Peaks or Mulholland Dr. There's no one really doing what she's doing, not exactly anyway. This album had me from the first seconds of the first track and is absolutely relentless. Coconut is an astounding track, and is a perfect closer. When I Grow Up and Dry and Dusty are the other two highlights. I also had the good fortune of seeing a Fever Ray performance, and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Here's to hoping she does something else as Fever Ray."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

306 charts

Rank Score:

1,622

Rank in 2009:

13

Rank in 2000s:

159

Overall Rank:

1,068

Average Rating:

 78 (350 votes)

Comments:

18

160.

Crack The Skye 

 Mastodon

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"Mastodon kills it! The whole album rocks and the finale "The Last Baron" is 13 minutes of excellence! the thundering beast isnt dead"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

290 charts

Rank Score:

1,611

Rank in 2009:

14

Rank in 2000s:

160

Overall Rank:

1,076

Average Rating:

 81 (381 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2000	105	11%
2001	102	10%
2002	111	11%
2003	111	11%
2004	88	9%
2005	110	11%
2006	97	10%
2007	92	9%
2008	88	9%
2009	102	10%

Artist	Albums	%
Radiohead	5	0%
Dream Theater	5	0%
Bright Eyes	5	0%
Wilco	5	0%
Opeth	5	0%
Animal Collective	5	0%
The Black Keys	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	555	55%
	221	22%
	54	5%
	34	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	992	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	997	99%
Yes	9	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	994	99%
Yes	12	1%