Best Albums of the 2000s
Listed below are the best albums of the 2000s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
"I'm a huge Elliott Smith fan and I love this record. However, this is certainly not his best work. There are a lot of excellent songs but there is also a bit of filler, which simply doesn't exist on his earlier albums. The sound is bigger and takes away a bit of the intimacy but it works really w..." [+] Reply
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2000
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2,616
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"What a disappointment after Hot Fuss, which I found much better. It has two great songs (Read My Mind and When You Were Young), two good songs (Bones and For Reasons Unknwon) and the rest is utterly forgettable." Reply
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2006
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2,583
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"I grew up with Gorillaz (starting with Demon Days,) and working backwards has been strange. That album is definitely more accessible, but this isn't Demon Days. It's more ambitious, in that it isn't afraid to try all kinds of different sounds that still work with one another really well. Damon Al..." [+] Reply
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HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2001
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2,571
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"A very sad album, but a good listen. He clearly knows he hasn't much time left with some of his song choices - In My Life, We'll Meet Again etc. His voice is clearly going in some of the tracks - In My Life is sung out of tune. Hurt for me is the stand-out track. Very poignant." Reply
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albummaster | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2002
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"Intimate, not whiny. Emotional, not overacted. Confident, not self-indulgent. Original, not recycled. Telling, not yelling. That's why this album is so great and the ones that came after it aren't." Reply
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9999 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2002
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2,512
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"Feels like a day in a city ruled by teenaged graffiti artists. It's guitars are wild, the drums are spontaneous in the beginning and Karen O likes the fact that you're breaking the rules and the cops are chasing you. She's like that laid-back, cool girl who joins the gangs who ride motorcycles an..." [+] Reply
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HazeyTwilight | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2003
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"Released as an Outkast album, it's the Boi on one disc and Andre on the other. And while Andre scored the biggest hit "hey ya!" that everyone from your grandma to your grandson loves, Boi delivers the most consistent goods throughout his disc. Favorites on disc 1 are the hyper-frenetic "ghettomus..." [+] Reply
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2003
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"A beautiful album, romantic and heartbreaking and extremely powerful for the LGBT community" Reply
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2005
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2,498
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"Getting used to her voice takes a lot of time, but when you do, it's well worth it. (Don't play her in front of your friends unless you want to cop a lot of grief...)" Reply
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eclab | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (12 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2004
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2,492
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"Maybe it's the addition of the horn sections, but almost all songs on this album sound so damn funky. They're still proponents of the 3-minute-ish, concise indie-pop-rock song. There's some air of danger ("Clubs and sticks and bats and balls / For nuclear dicks with their dialect drawls") with op..." [+] Reply
- paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2007
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2,480
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 11 of 100
Best Albums of the 2000s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2000 | 102 | 10% | |
| 2001 | 100 | 10% | |
| 2002 | 109 | 11% | |
| 2003 | 110 | 11% | |
| 2004 | 86 | 9% | |
| 2005 | 110 | 11% | |
| 2006 | 99 | 10% | |
| 2007 | 91 | 9% | |
| 2008 | 88 | 9% | |
| 2009 | 105 | 11% |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 1% | |
| Opeth | 5 | 1% | |
| Wilco | 5 | 1% | |
| Animal Collective | 5 | 1% | |
| Bright Eyes | 5 | 1% | |
| Dream Theater | 5 | 1% | |
| Modest Mouse | 5 | 1% | |
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546 | 55% | |
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222 | 22% | |
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55 | 6% | |
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40 | 4% | |
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24 | 2% | |
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23 | 2% | |
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18 | 2% | |
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