Best Albums of the 2000s

Listed below are the best albums of the 2000s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 2 hours ago).
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2000s decade summaryThe best artists of the 2000s were Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Coldplay, Sufjan Stevens, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, Wilco and Animal Collective.
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"This is my favourite album ever. 1st listen: What the fuck is going on? This is nothing like OK Computer 3rd listen: I don't know what is bringing me back to this, I don't really like it but I can still somehow tell it's well made regardless 5th listen: OK, I like Everything In It's Right Place, ..."  [More]  Reply  
- Jordbord | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +22 votes (22 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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Top rated album (89/100 - 4490 votes)  89 (4,490 votes)
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"I think that my vocabulary is not sufficient to convey what this album illustrates in my mind. Its an epic affair. I feel like when I really give in and immerse myself in this record I am sort of confronting and feeling some concept as big as civilization itself. It feel at times like the beginni..."  [More]  Reply  
- Mercury | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +22 votes (22 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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Top rated album (86/100 - 1347 votes)  86 (1,347 votes)
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"Happymeal has obviously not noticed the album is in the top 100 by now. While we wait patiently for his excited comment, I'll take the time to express my own love for the album. This is the kind of sound that takes you completely by surprise. And no, not in some flashy or strange way, but in the ..."  [More]  Reply  
- sageamagoo | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (10 helpful | 1 unhelpful) Help 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.
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"It's like swimming in a sea of lemon lime & bitters, then flying away on a Pegasus and performing the best beatbox of all time. And there is cake. And you're a millionaire."  Reply  
- SquishypuffDave | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +24 votes (24 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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"There's a lot of hate for Coldplay, a lot of times deserved. They've sold out hard since de mid-00s but nevertheless I will defend this album to death. Yeah, it's nothing groundbreaking and it's cheesy as hell, but there's some dumb honesty and simplicity underneath it all I simply enjoy a lot. I..."  [More]  Reply  
- SamNassiri98 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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"Some of the pop references date this album and it is much more silly than The Eminem Show which I prefer over this. Can't deny the effect it had on pop culture. Can't deny his word play and linguistics. Even if the topics are now seen as immature now, they were rule benders and breakers at the ti..."  [More]  Reply  
- Edwarda85 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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"This album gets unfairly labeled as a two/three hit wonder. First off, two of those three songs individually are greater than some artists entire discographies. Secondly, there are some majorly overlooked tracks on this album. B Real is on fire on Xplosion. Gasoline Dreams is one of Outkast's har..."  [More]  Reply  
- ShaneSpear | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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"A blistering return to form after the slight disappointment of, is this desire?. Stories of the city, is a beautifully produced record, PJ Harvey's New York album is dripping with references to the big Apple, and is without doubt one of her best LP's. Great songs in, kamikaze, beautiful feeling, ..."  [More]  Reply  
- garycottier | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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"It's very difficult for me to break apart albums such as this one because nu-metal is not a genre that I'm familiar with. I find it hard to decipher between the songs that I'm hearing as being thorough and strongly executed ideas and what is filler/what are the weaker tracks. But I think this alb..."  [More]  Reply  
- koner1 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help 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.
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