Best Albums of the 2000s

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91.

10,000 Days 

 Tool

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"The more I listen, the more magnificent it becomes. 75/100 is unbelievably low for this record. The Pot, Vicarious, Right in Two, and Jambi are all instant classic Tool songs. But what makes this album great is the duo of Wings Part 1 and 2. I'm a firm believer that 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2) is ...""The more I listen, the more magnificent it becomes. 75/100 is unbelievably low for this record. The Pot, Vicarious, Right in Two, and Jambi are all instant classic Tool songs. But what makes this album great is the duo of Wings Part 1 and 2. I'm a firm believer that 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2) is one of the greatest songs ever written. The more I learn about it and the lyrical content, the more I listen closely to the ethereal nature, the layering, the harmonies, the more I'm absolutely blown away. It's scary how good that song is, so deep and so beautiful. Overall the 2nd half doesn't hold up to the impeccable 1st half, but as a whole it's great. "  [+]  Reply

- AAL2014 | 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:

2006

Appears in:

391 charts

Rank Score:

3,027

Rank in 2006:

8

Rank in 2000s:

91

Overall Rank:

565

Average Rating:

 79 (677 votes)

Comments:

37

92.

Stadium Arcadium 

 Red Hot Chili Peppers

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"I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but I think this is their best album. It may not have some of the big and timeless hits as their other albums did and Dani California was played WAY too much on the radio, but I cannot find a bad song on this album. That's amazing for a 28 song album....""I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but I think this is their best album. It may not have some of the big and timeless hits as their other albums did and Dani California was played WAY too much on the radio, but I cannot find a bad song on this album. That's amazing for a 28 song album. There are only a few that I would say are average, but the rest are above average or real good. My favorites are Snow(Hey Oh), Charlie, Desecration Smile, Tell Me Baby, and Readymade."  [+]  Reply

- Rounder89 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (7 helpful | 2 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:

488 charts

Rank Score:

2,965

Rank in 2006:

9

Rank in 2000s:

92

Overall Rank:

573

Average Rating:

 73 (952 votes)

Comments:

56

93.

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 

 of Montreal

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""The Past is a Grotesque Animal" changed my perception of reality. Also it made me violently move my body parts in a rhythmic fashion. Also it's a fantastic song."  Reply

- SquishypuffDave | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (12 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:

437 charts

Rank Score:

2,955

Rank in 2007:

13

Rank in 2000s:

93

Overall Rank:

574

Average Rating:

 79 (495 votes)

Comments:

23

94.

Rated R 

 Queens Of The Stone Age

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"This whole album is an accurate narrative of a crazy drug trip. First the fun rush (Feel Good Hit of the Summer), then the horny feeling (Auto Pilot), the height of the trip where the world starts spinning (Better Living Through Chemistry), the slow fallout along with a second wind (In the Fade),...""This whole album is an accurate narrative of a crazy drug trip. First the fun rush (Feel Good Hit of the Summer), then the horny feeling (Auto Pilot), the height of the trip where the world starts spinning (Better Living Through Chemistry), the slow fallout along with a second wind (In the Fade), and finally, the stumbling walk back home (I Think I l Lost My Headache)."  [+]  Reply

- Beef-Wellington | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (8 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:

2000

Appears in:

557 charts

Rank Score:

2,908

Rank in 2000:

13

Rank in 2000s:

94

Overall Rank:

581

Average Rating:

 80 (852 votes)

Comments:

33

95.

Up The Bracket 

 The Libertines

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"One of the greatest albums of all time. Every track is brilliant and the album has plenty of energy."  Reply

- clarkejames94 | 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:

2002

Appears in:

485 charts

Rank Score:

2,877

Rank in 2002:

12

Rank in 2000s:

95

Overall Rank:

590

Average Rating:

 77 (682 votes)

Comments:

35

96.

Feels 

 Animal Collective

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"Oh boy, I "avoided" this band for so long, I didn't know what I was missing! This might be their best, or at the very least it best represents the band as a whole. There are the somewhat crazy, but super fun songs like Grass and Purple Bottle, and then there are the stripped down, psychedelic, so...""Oh boy, I "avoided" this band for so long, I didn't know what I was missing! This might be their best, or at the very least it best represents the band as a whole. There are the somewhat crazy, but super fun songs like Grass and Purple Bottle, and then there are the stripped down, psychedelic, sometimes borderline ambient pieces, like Bees, Daffy Duck - the latter reminds me of Talk Talk at their finest. Awesome stuff, awesome band."  [+]  Reply

- 19loveless91 | 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:

2005

Appears in:

417 charts

Rank Score:

2,842

Rank in 2005:

9

Rank in 2000s:

96

Overall Rank:

598

Average Rating:

 79 (602 votes)

Comments:

34

97.

808s & Heartbreak 

 Kanye West

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"Okay, for those who don’t know the album or didn’t listen to it with a perspective of what was going on in Kanye’s life, this album came in 2008, a year later than Graduation and it featured a major change of direction respect any of his albums that came before. And this is because Kanye was goin...""Okay, for those who don’t know the album or didn’t listen to it with a perspective of what was going on in Kanye’s life, this album came in 2008, a year later than Graduation and it featured a major change of direction respect any of his albums that came before. And this is because Kanye was going through a hell of a year (in the bad sense): he had lost his mother (to whom he was truly connected), separated from his fiancé & surrendered to alcoholism. The first impression you have when listening to this album is the state of devastation you can only assume Kanye was in during that time. It was an artist fully opening his emotions & trying to clean his soul of sadness, sorrow, anger & pain. But for the average hip hop listener of 2008, the emotions coming through the speakers in the form of AutoTune, heavy drums & electric instruments & synthesizers, was nothing they wanted from Kanye. Where were the soul samples (or even the electronic samples of Graduation), the lyrics, the rapping, that warm feeling of albums like College Dropout & Late Registration? Nowhere to be found, so the backlash this album received was enormous. But it just works so well retrospectively, comparing it to Kanye’s subsequent career. I’m not sure fans would have continued to go down the rabbit hole with him, had he stayed fully emerged in the electropop genre. But MBDTF cemented him as a true artist who was unafraid to experiment and pull things from different sounds. The truth is that this album's core aesthetic was like nothing in hip-hop: freshly butchered feelings enumerated in detail, but masked by digital processing; beds of spare synths used to balance a mix of singing and rapping. A masterpiece and a triumph of ahestetics."  [+]  Reply

- catalam1234 | 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:

2008

Appears in:

411 charts

Rank Score:

2,770

Rank in 2008:

8

Rank in 2000s:

97

Overall Rank:

609

Average Rating:

 76 (943 votes)

Comments:

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98.

Oh, Inverted World 

 The Shins

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"Unlike many, I didn't discover The Shins through the movie Garden State and the song from that movie soundtrack, New Slang (it will 'change your life' and all that). I was initially blown away by their second album Chutes To Narrow which led me on to this other excellent album of theirs. Like Chu...""Unlike many, I didn't discover The Shins through the movie Garden State and the song from that movie soundtrack, New Slang (it will 'change your life' and all that). I was initially blown away by their second album Chutes To Narrow which led me on to this other excellent album of theirs. Like Chutes, there isn't a bad tune here. It's understated production makes it less glossy in sound but a bit more cred as an indie classic. And while New Slang won't necessarily change your life, it will give you a satisfied smile which is just as important sometimes."  [+]  Reply

- Strangel | 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:

468 charts

Rank Score:

2,735

Rank in 2001:

11

Rank in 2000s:

98

Overall Rank:

622

Average Rating:

 79 (694 votes)

Comments:

33

99.

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place 

 Explosions In The Sky

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"This is one of my favourite albums of the 00's. Truly a beautiful and unique experience to listen to from beginning to end. EITS are one of the most underrated bands of our time."  Reply

- jqmusiclove | 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:

2003

Appears in:

380 charts

Rank Score:

2,616

Rank in 2003:

10

Rank in 2000s:

99

Overall Rank:

652

Average Rating:

 79 (522 votes)

Comments:

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100.

The Resistance 

 Muse

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"I pick this more because of the message, than it being their best album, if that makes any sense. The lyrics to this album are what sold it to me to be better than Absolution. 1-7 are great, 8 kinda sucks, but the symphony at the end makes up for it. What band has a self produced album with a sym...""I pick this more because of the message, than it being their best album, if that makes any sense. The lyrics to this album are what sold it to me to be better than Absolution. 1-7 are great, 8 kinda sucks, but the symphony at the end makes up for it. What band has a self produced album with a symphony at the end?"  [+]  Reply

- RoundTheBend | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (5 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:

2009

Appears in:

417 charts

Rank Score:

2,614

Rank in 2009:

6

Rank in 2000s:

100

Overall Rank:

653

Average Rating:

 70 (1,079 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2000	102	10%
2001	101	10%
2002	110	11%
2003	112	11%
2004	86	9%
2005	111	11%
2006	99	10%
2007	91	9%
2008	87	9%
2009	102	10%

Artist	Albums	%
Porcupine Tree	5	0%
The White Stripes	5	0%
Bruce Springsteen	5	0%
Radiohead	5	0%
The Black Keys	5	0%
Dream Theater	5	0%
Bright Eyes	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	548	55%
	219	22%
	55	5%
	41	4%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	18	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	987	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	993	99%
Yes	8	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%