Best Albums of the 2000s

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211.

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished 

 Avey Tare & Panda Bear

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"So, after doing some research and realizing Animal Collective was (and still is) one of the most influential and innovative bands of the last decade I decided to listen to all of their albums. So far this is the only one I have listened to, and man it is LOVELY. The first track is really annoying...""So, after doing some research and realizing Animal Collective was (and still is) one of the most influential and innovative bands of the last decade I decided to listen to all of their albums. So far this is the only one I have listened to, and man it is LOVELY. The first track is really annoying tho, but annoyingly hipnotic, and Alvin Row is a masterpiece. I also read that later on these guys release their best albums, so there are 2 options about their discography: 1: It is absolutely INCREDIBLE and the first album is only the beggining of the awesomeness OR 2: Their debut is really underrated and their most acclaimed albums (Strawberry Jam, Merriweather Post Pavillion) are just as good"  [+]  Reply

- hachedoso | 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:

2000

Appears in:

181 charts

Rank Score:

1,216

Rank in 2000:

26

Rank in 2000s:

211

Overall Rank:

1,394

Average Rating:

 78 (326 votes)

Comments:

25

212.

Let It Be... Naked 

 The Beatles

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"Excellent idea by Paul McCartney to produce the Let it Be album the way it should have been at the time. Extra points for including the excellent Don’t Let me Down. Though to be honest, I do miss John’s humorous comments from the original album."  Reply

- Nowhereman1965 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 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:

136 charts

Rank Score:

1,214

Rank in 2003:

27

Rank in 2000s:

212

Overall Rank:

1,397

Average Rating:

 82 (471 votes)

Comments:

22

213.

Primary Colours 

 The Horrors (UK)

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"If you love Joy Division, there's no doubt in my mind, you'll love this as well. Weird Post-punk with shoegaze elements and creepy and eerie vocals/lyrics. Give it some time to grow on you."  Reply

- PrinceMush | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 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:

251 charts

Rank Score:

1,210

Rank in 2009:

15

Rank in 2000s:

213

Overall Rank:

1,401

Average Rating:

 77 (305 votes)

Comments:

24

214.

Actor 

 St. Vincent

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"St. Vincent's "Actor" may be her most ambitious work to date. While "Strange Mercy" and "St. Vincent" developed her pop sense as well as built what has rapidly been recognized as her signature style, "Actor" lacked parameters for its songs and did little more (and perhaps less) than its predecess...""St. Vincent's "Actor" may be her most ambitious work to date. While "Strange Mercy" and "St. Vincent" developed her pop sense as well as built what has rapidly been recognized as her signature style, "Actor" lacked parameters for its songs and did little more (and perhaps less) than its predecessor to appeal to a more general audience. Singles like "Marrow" or "Actor Out of Work" are dizzying and reptilian, gutting the listener with their building sense of peril. "The Party" and "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood" are forerunners of Annie's darker tones being layered into beautiful or simple melodies and instrumentation that are only noted on repeated listens. This was also her last album (aside from the "Love This Giant" collaboration) that utilized her ability to construct songs that abandoned pop for layered majesty in the climax with stand out (and knock out punch tracks) "Black Rainbow" and "Just the Same but Brand New". As much as I continue to admire and garner new types of respect for Annie's career, her shift to beating listeners over the head with the overt darkness of her lyrics as well as the simplification of the songs (although a deceptive simplicity), It saddens me that many of the tools that made "Actor" stand over "Marry Me" have been lost with the later releases."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

249 charts

Rank Score:

1,209

Rank in 2009:

16

Rank in 2000s:

214

Overall Rank:

1,404

Average Rating:

 79 (353 votes)

Comments:

13

215.

Mirrored 

 Battles

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"The incredibly high dosage of poppers led the animated character to extreme hyperactivity and the occasional panic attack."  Reply

- meccalecca | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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:

2007

Appears in:

235 charts

Rank Score:

1,205

Rank in 2007:

23

Rank in 2000s:

215

Overall Rank:

1,411

Average Rating:

 77 (259 votes)

Comments:

7

216.

The Argument 

 Fugazi

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"Opened my ears to a whole new world of music, that I was yet to really explore. Epic."  Reply

- moppolog | 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:

2001

Appears in:

244 charts

Rank Score:

1,200

Rank in 2001:

22

Rank in 2000s:

216

Overall Rank:

1,416

Average Rating:

 80 (269 votes)

Comments:

10

217.

Modern Times 

 Bob Dylan

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"I don't quite understand why this album is so highly rated. I think it's a dreary album full of tired old twelve bars and derivative re-writes of old pop and folk tunes. Too many Dylan albums are like this these days. I must admit though I think working man blues is brilliant and thunder on the m...""I don't quite understand why this album is so highly rated. I think it's a dreary album full of tired old twelve bars and derivative re-writes of old pop and folk tunes. Too many Dylan albums are like this these days. I must admit though I think working man blues is brilliant and thunder on the mountain and nettie Moore good but the rest, maybe apart from ain't talkin' are awful. Spirit on the water, is quite nice, with some nice harmonica at the end, but it goes on forever, and the lyrics would have been beneath Dylan in the sixties. Rollin''n'tumblin', the 'new' version of an old blues song is dreadful, so so boring. The levee's gonna break, is even worse,another 'new' version , and, when the deal goes down, is just a re-write of an old Bing Crosby song. Beyond the horizon,is also based on an old tune, red sails in the sunset. A lot of the lyrics are also stolen from older songs and poems too. Where's the invention,?, where's the originality? Dylan is simply not the force he once was. I mean, listen to this record and then listen to his classic sixties and mid-seventies albums. Stop encouraging this man with your over praising. Highway 61 and blonde on blonde it is not. "  [+]  Reply

- garycottier | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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:

2006

Appears in:

272 charts

Rank Score:

1,200

Rank in 2006:

18

Rank in 2000s:

217

Overall Rank:

1,417

Average Rating:

 75 (417 votes)

Comments:

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218.

The Sunset Tree 

 The Mountain Goats

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"John Darnielle of the mountain goats is the preacher before the dawn, telling intricate, interesting tales of characters giving abandon to hope and hope to hopelessness. As he said in a recent interview (paraphrased), his characters are like a good friend who's also a chronic liar. "The Sunset Tr...""John Darnielle of the mountain goats is the preacher before the dawn, telling intricate, interesting tales of characters giving abandon to hope and hope to hopelessness. As he said in a recent interview (paraphrased), his characters are like a good friend who's also a chronic liar. "The Sunset Tree" probably contains my favorite mountain goats song of all-time, "this year" with a chorus of "i am going to make it through this year if it kills me" sung with conviction and testament of having a bad year, starting with abandon singing "I broke free on a saturday morning. / I put the pedal to the floor. / headed north on mills avenue, / and listened to the engine roar." (i LOVE singing the line "there will be feasting and dancing in jerusalum next year!" for some odd reason.) i hear that sentiment again on opener "you or your memory" where Darnielle's character reaches for some courage singing "down there in the dark i could see the real truth about me, / as clear as day, / Lord if i make it through tonight / then i will make my ammends and walk the straight path to the end of my days:". Other major highlights for me are "pale green things", "dilaudid", ""lion's teeth" and "love love love". "dilaudid" continues the abandon (and recklessness?) of its characters, almost daring "We won't pass this way again. / So kiss me with your mouth open. / Turn the tires toward the street. / And stay sweet. " "doing things our bodies weren't meant to". "up the wolves" looks for ghosts in closets confessing "there'll always be a few things...that you're going to find really difficult to forgive" but "there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home". "lion's teeth" aggressively owns up to the truth and confrontation ("in come the cops / they blow torch the doors. / I start wailing. / the lion roars./ there's no good way to end this.") knowing the outcome might not be good ("I am going to regret the day that I was born"). Violins punctuate the tension and ease while the combatants hold on. Dirty deeds go down for love on "love love love" as summed by the chorus "some things you do for money and some you do for love love love". "pale green things" notes how life goes on after the loss of a father remembering "got up before dawn / went down to the racetrack. / riding with the windows down / shortly after your first heart attack" noting "and that morning at the race track was one thing I remembered. / I turned it over in my mind / like a living chinese finger trap. / seaweed and indiana sawgrass ... pale green things". Easy to imagine this person just staring down at the sidewalk at the track remembering his father. "dance music" is upbeat, drowning out familial chaos. There's impending near-apocalyptic tragedy everywhere, from "magpie" ("shore up the crucifixes / above the archways and the doors. / the magpie will come at midday./ and you will go down on all fours.") to acceptance of such tragedies on "song for dennis brown" ("on the day that dennis brown's lung collapsed, spring rain was misting down on kingston" and "and when the birds come home in spring, / we will fill them full of buckshot. / and jets of contaminated blood / will cloud the rivers and the lakes.") because life & loss go hand-in-hand on "the sunset tree", quite aptly named. Most of the songs are brief and to the point, which benefits the songs' urgency and bluntness. I'm drawn to really strong songwriters, and Darnielle fits that description."  [+]  Reply

- paladisiac | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 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:

2005

Appears in:

210 charts

Rank Score:

1,189

Rank in 2005:

27

Rank in 2000s:

218

Overall Rank:

1,428

Average Rating:

 79 (212 votes)

Comments:

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219.

A Grand Don't Come For Free 

 The Streets

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"Love the story. Mike Skinner's wit is brilliant."  Reply

- AranD | 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:

2004

Appears in:

261 charts

Rank Score:

1,186

Rank in 2004:

23

Rank in 2000s:

219

Overall Rank:

1,433

Average Rating:

 75 (331 votes)

Comments:

17

220.

You Are Free 

 Cat Power

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"I have in the mood to listen to this. Good, nothing remarkable"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

232 charts

Rank Score:

1,183

Rank in 2003:

28

Rank in 2000s:

220

Overall Rank:

1,436

Average Rating:

 79 (239 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%
Show all

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%