Best Albums of the 2000s

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Drukqs 

 Aphex Twin

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"For whatever reason, this is one of the most emotionally resonant albums I've heard. Even the most loud erratic tracks have a calm, serene core. There's a beautiful melancholia to this album."  Reply

- SquishypuffDave | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 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:

2001

Appears in:

189 charts

Rank Score:

1,504

Rank in 2001:

18

Rank in 2000s:

171

Overall Rank:

1,149

Average Rating:

 76 (292 votes)

Comments:

12

172.

Heartbreaker 

 Ryan Adams

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"A breathtakingly heart-wrenching album, which starts off on the lighter side of heartbreak with the upbeat downer "to be young (is to be sad)". This is an "alt-country" album of unrequited love and love lost. It's both full in the firm grip of love and being choked by it. The highlights of love's...""A breathtakingly heart-wrenching album, which starts off on the lighter side of heartbreak with the upbeat downer "to be young (is to be sad)". This is an "alt-country" album of unrequited love and love lost. It's both full in the firm grip of love and being choked by it. The highlights of love's anguish come on "oh my sweet carolina", "come pick me up" and . On "oh my sweet carolina", with backing vocals from emmylou harris, ryan is a lost stray in the big city without his love singing "I was trying to find me something / But I wasn't sure just what / Man I ended up with pockets full of dust ". In "come pick me up", ryan is love sick and love vexed, unfurling his venom in the chorus: "Come pick me up / Take me out / F*ck me up / Steal my records / Screw all my friends / They're all full of shit / With a smile on your face / And then do it again / I wish you would ". Or on "don't ask for the water", where a woman caused him to "hate this old place / And what it represents / And I hate who I was / And who I ended up since / But if you learned how to swim in case you'd drowned / Don't ask her for the water / Cause she'll swallow you down ". "shakedown on 9th street" is like a well-placed joke in the dearth of a heart-wrenching drama, a welcome respite about a dust-up over a woman. But that and "to be young (to be sad)" are really the only foot-stompers. This offering is truly for the heartbroken and the weight will fill you up the most when you're feeling your worst. heartbreaker's less about the words to describe love's impact than the feeling, like the quiet-yet-heavy piano in closer "sweet lil gal (23rd/1st)" as he sings a sentiment at the heart of the album -- "when you're lonely, she makes you feel nice"."  [+]  Reply

- paladisiac | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 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:

2000

Appears in:

326 charts

Rank Score:

1,501

Rank in 2000:

22

Rank in 2000s:

172

Overall Rank:

1,154

Average Rating:

 77 (399 votes)

Comments:

19

173.

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge 

 My Chemical Romance

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"When I was 13, this album would have received a 100. But I am 21 now and while my consumption of alcohol has only increased, my exuberance for music that gets teenage blood pumping has sobered. Plenty of other bands have fallen by the wayside, but My Chemical Romance remains as one of my picks fo...""When I was 13, this album would have received a 100. But I am 21 now and while my consumption of alcohol has only increased, my exuberance for music that gets teenage blood pumping has sobered. Plenty of other bands have fallen by the wayside, but My Chemical Romance remains as one of my picks for best acts of the mid-2000's. Their image is often marred by their association with the late emo punk scene, leading to countless accusations of whiny three chord noise made in the garage of somebody's mom. But I'm willing to put my neck out for this band because I believe they are not properly merited. Three Cheers exhibits tremendous ambition by attempting to exhibit the fatalistic dramatics of The Smiths in a hardcore-inspired punk setting. Gerard Way is crafty with his singing, balancing between anthemic melodies, melodramatic sound effects, and exasperated screams. Ray Toro's guitar contributions are indispensable - his technical solo virtuosity bring in a late 80's metal energy and intricacy that only a few other bands at the time, namely Avenged Sevenfold, were displaying. The result is an album that is incredibly bloated, yet earnest. MCR had some work to do in improving their chops and sound diversity, but they came up with the exact sound they were looking for, and this indulgence in theatrics earned them a considerable loyal following."  [+]  Reply

- dmercado | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 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:

2004

Appears in:

195 charts

Rank Score:

1,498

Rank in 2004:

17

Rank in 2000s:

173

Overall Rank:

1,158

Average Rating:

 73 (349 votes)

Comments:

18

174.

Jane Doe 

 Converge

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"One of the most complex and deeply rooted pieces of loud music ever recorded. Vile, poetic, emotional, and pure, Jane Doe is indeed a piece of music history. It needs more than one listen to get into, but once it has rampaged through your mind, it will quickly become one of the best things you'll...""One of the most complex and deeply rooted pieces of loud music ever recorded. Vile, poetic, emotional, and pure, Jane Doe is indeed a piece of music history. It needs more than one listen to get into, but once it has rampaged through your mind, it will quickly become one of the best things you'll ever hear."  [+]  Reply

- considerthejosh | 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:

2001

Appears in:

172 charts

Rank Score:

1,490

Rank in 2001:

19

Rank in 2000s:

174

Overall Rank:

1,165

Average Rating:

 76 (239 votes)

Comments:

24

175.

Mount Eerie 

 The Microphones

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"I used to compare Phil Elvrum's works as the musical equivalent of Lars Von Trier's movies. The Boldness is combined with a sense of creativity that spills emotion all over the listener, He/She is ripped out from the comfort zone and thrown out in the middle of a hurricane without any clues of ho...""I used to compare Phil Elvrum's works as the musical equivalent of Lars Von Trier's movies. The Boldness is combined with a sense of creativity that spills emotion all over the listener, He/She is ripped out from the comfort zone and thrown out in the middle of a hurricane without any clues of how he got there, and how Elvrum decides to treat us is insanely weird, he quietly comes closer and closer until we can listen to him breathing, so close that we can hear his blood moving through his veins, so close that we can see that wilderness that is covered behind his eyes. He appears alone to calm down the disorder that is established in "The Sun", and inserts us in some kind of stellar ritual, with the moon and the sun as witnesses, the abstract glow is now swallow by a big mass of vacuum and negative energy coming from a big black hole. What I most love in Phil's works is how much it seems personal and how much it represents the chaos that is the human mind, our pessimism personified in trumpets and nymphs' voices, inducting you to be weaker and weaker. "Solar System" is the perfect ode to the myth of the eternal return, The troubadour that interacts with his loneliness and outside forces to wish his lover comeback, The continuous use of "I Know you're out there" reinforces the feeling of how much he has waited and will wait for her to be back, let it rain, let there be sun, the world will end and his dreams will still be floating in the ether. In "universe I" the band join its multi-instrumental magic to give life to the fragility of human conscience and confidence, from the lonely guitar that follows Elvrum through the glow of the moon, going through reflexes in mud puddles with her curves drawn, until our hero down to his knees offers himself to the force that moves the universe, and we are brought then to a weird journey that is mount eerie, a force that purifies and devours each piece of your soul. The eclipse starts, his eyes are burnt, he is tilting towards the sun, and the mount eerie wakes from his thrones and begins to drain any light that remains in the listener's hope. This has been a hell of an adventure huh? When I first completed Mount Eerie I got myself theorizing all night and dawn, what the hell did I just passed through? Is this some kind of metaphor to the trifling human emotions and feelings? That's why I consider this record to be so great, it explores the outside world of music, it's not just about listening to something, but rather taking a philosophical walk to somewhere, we are humans and overall we should know how soulless we have become in the last years. We have stars and galaxies inside us, we are a whole universe of deception and loneliness, love and hate, we are a big avalanche of synesthesia, we are a big mess of sense. And In the end we will be all swallow and superb about how deep our night is, how coloured our supernovas are, how enormous our soul is."  [+]  Reply

- Antonio-Pedro | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 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:

2003

Appears in:

185 charts

Rank Score:

1,489

Rank in 2003:

23

Rank in 2000s:

175

Overall Rank:

1,167

Average Rating:

 79 (235 votes)

Comments:

6

176.

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 

 Modest Mouse

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"One of the best albums of the 2000's, Modest Mouse puts out their third classic in a row. The most common criticism for this album is that no track really stand out, but I beg to differ. This album contains two of the greatest songs MM ever recorded, The Parting of the Sensory and Missed the Boat...""One of the best albums of the 2000's, Modest Mouse puts out their third classic in a row. The most common criticism for this album is that no track really stand out, but I beg to differ. This album contains two of the greatest songs MM ever recorded, The Parting of the Sensory and Missed the Boat. While the lyricism in this album doesn't quite reach The Moon & Antarctica levels, it's still far superior to the songwriting of most artists. It's a solid album all the way through, and the first six songs really stand out. The second half is weaker, but Education, Little Motel, and Spitting Venom are all very entertaining. Spitting Venom is the longest track on the album, but its good all the way through, but it isn't as great as say The Stars Are Projectors."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

297 charts

Rank Score:

1,483

Rank in 2007:

18

Rank in 2000s:

176

Overall Rank:

1,170

Average Rating:

 77 (494 votes)

Comments:

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177.

Continuum 

 John Mayer

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"Don't believe all the negativity on this. For my money this is a very very good album. From top to bottom it really holds up. "Gravity" is a highlight, unbelievable blues guitar there. "Vultures" and "I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You" have a very well executed soul/funk sound with excellent g...""Don't believe all the negativity on this. For my money this is a very very good album. From top to bottom it really holds up. "Gravity" is a highlight, unbelievable blues guitar there. "Vultures" and "I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You" have a very well executed soul/funk sound with excellent guitar work. The acoustic/folk on "Heart of Life" and "Stop this Train" is stellar , and just really really well done. The blues riffs and leads are pretty much all spot on. The guitar work in "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room" is really incredibly emotional. The song "Dreaming with A Broken Heart" is gorgeous too! And the 2 really socially conscious songs "Waiting On The World To Change" and "Belief" are excellent. The first of those has been a bit overplayed, but still good. And "Belief" may be the emotional and artistic high point of the album (either that or "Gravity"). All in all this record features very good songwriting, great guitar playing, a very varied and symmetrical flow and sound. It's by far John Mayer's best album in my opinion. Probably most of the criticism this album gets is based off reputation and not the music itself. Yeah, if you only wanna listen to cool music, maybe you'll avoid this because it says John Mayer on it. But that's actually dumb. Although that's a crime I myself may be guilty of. For all I know lady gaga or Katy perry have made BRILLIANT albums that I've never listened to because I just don't go for that. So, I do understand that some pop stars put a certain stigma on records even before you've heard them. But i just wanna say this dude was and is very talented and this is a brilliant brilliant album. When I get enough "points" to do decade lists you'll see this on my top albums of the 2000s definitely! I will say a couple tracks at the end of the record slow the momentum on the album. The pseudo-soul of "I'm gonna find another you" I just can't get into. But ladies and gentlemen, I assure you this is a very good record!"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

220 charts

Rank Score:

1,473

Rank in 2006:

15

Rank in 2000s:

177

Overall Rank:

1,178

Average Rating:

 73 (370 votes)

Comments:

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178.

Crystal Castles 

 Crystal Castles

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"Forever thankful for this album because it got me into electronic music. Personally to me it is one of those moments where you are like "Wow I didn't know music can sound like this". Objectively speaking, this album does have flaws and has some filler tracks mostly because CC just wanted to put o...""Forever thankful for this album because it got me into electronic music. Personally to me it is one of those moments where you are like "Wow I didn't know music can sound like this". Objectively speaking, this album does have flaws and has some filler tracks mostly because CC just wanted to put out as much material as possible on their first big release. Still contains many classics and I always find myself going back to it."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

258 charts

Rank Score:

1,466

Rank in 2008:

12

Rank in 2000s:

178

Overall Rank:

1,184

Average Rating:

 77 (365 votes)

Comments:

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179.

† [Cross] 

 Justice (FR)

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"Important album for the electronic/dance genre. Justice exploded with fame and did so much for the genre just with one album. The harder dance/house nature of this album would prove as a precursor to all the aggressive dubstep now that has grown in the past year. There's something revolutionary a...""Important album for the electronic/dance genre. Justice exploded with fame and did so much for the genre just with one album. The harder dance/house nature of this album would prove as a precursor to all the aggressive dubstep now that has grown in the past year. There's something revolutionary about certain foreign DJing dance duos."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

316 charts

Rank Score:

1,464

Rank in 2007:

19

Rank in 2000s:

179

Overall Rank:

1,185

Average Rating:

 77 (449 votes)

Comments:

28

180.

First Impressions Of Earth 

 The Strokes

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"Barely saved from the doom of oblivion thanks to the band's international name and its singles, this album is horribly weak for me. I am not able to listen to the whole Juicebox song without hating myself and the bassist of this band. However, Razorblade is an amazingly fun song, and YOLO is... w...""Barely saved from the doom of oblivion thanks to the band's international name and its singles, this album is horribly weak for me. I am not able to listen to the whole Juicebox song without hating myself and the bassist of this band. However, Razorblade is an amazingly fun song, and YOLO is... well, it has one of the most memorable riffs of the last decade and has an incredibly catchy composition. How someone that has such an incredible talent lets such a foul LP get released with its name is something that escapes my understanding, unless it is simply a great example of what laziness can achieve."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

326 charts

Rank Score:

1,463

Rank in 2005:

21

Rank in 2000s:

180

Overall Rank:

1,188

Average Rating:

 73 (720 votes)

Comments:

49

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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%