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: 6 hours ago).
"This is to Radiohead what Exile on Main Street is to Revolver. It's slightly less perfect, but it's edginess goes and still puts it in a league of it's own. This album isn't overrated. At all."
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Applerill | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (10 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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Applerill | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (10 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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Year of Release:
2003
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7,886
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"I'll admit, I never really had an interest in listening to Amy Winehouse for some reason, and then she died, and I wanted to know what she sounded like. So I listened to a song from this album...and then the entire album. What a great, soulful work this is, with powerful vocals and melodies and l..." [More]
- clockworkfiction3 | 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.
- clockworkfiction3 | 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:
2006
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7,759
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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."
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SquishypuffDave | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +23 votes (23 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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SquishypuffDave | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +23 votes (23 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Year of Release:
2000
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7,695
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"I listened to this album a few times about a year ago, but I couldn't completely get into it. Shows how much my taste has changed, as now it seems miles better than what I remember. Really loving it now."
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pearljammer13 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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pearljammer13 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Year of Release:
2001
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7,516
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"When will everyone realise the absolute brilliance of Megalomania, Space Dementia and Micro Cuts? And when will Citizen Erased become, rightfully, the highest rated song on the album?"
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Dingerbell | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Dingerbell | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2001
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7,399
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"Seldom in music history has an album featured such a glaring disjunction between brilliant singles (three of them, here) and horrible, mind-numbingly forgettable filler."
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jhuik | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (6 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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jhuik | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (6 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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Year of Release:
2004
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7,244
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"Criticize Coldplay's other albums all you want, but I'll defend this one to the death. This is a beautiful, reflective piece of work that never fails to move me in one way or another, like some sort of idyllic sepia-toned landscape. It is also full of tastefully understated moments like We Never ..." [More]
- SquishypuffDave | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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SquishypuffDave | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Year of Release:
2000
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7,099
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"One of those rare albums that when you first get it you need to play it over and over again. Crazy tempo changes, great harmonies, strong lyrical content and moments of soft beauty followed immediately by intense agression. It actually kind of shocked me that this album got so much radio airplay,..." [More]
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Decurso | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Decurso | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Year of Release:
2001
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6,592
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"vampire weekend blatantly rip off paul simon (or peter gabriel, as name-dropped) and maybe a little police as well. And like those artists, nearly every song sounds like a hit on this album. i love the shimmering guitars, off-kilter drumming and violin on "mansard roof". "oxford comma" is preppy ..." [More]
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (3 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (3 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2008
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6,578
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"Such a great album with such great songs. Barely a flaw. If I had to pick one fav track: Map of the Problematique"
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silverwing | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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silverwing | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Year of Release:
2006
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6,182
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 4 of 100
Best Albums of the 2000s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2000 | 106 | 11% | |
| 2001 | 101 | 10% | |
| 2002 | 109 | 11% | |
| 2003 | 112 | 11% | |
| 2004 | 86 | 9% | |
| 2005 | 110 | 11% | |
| 2006 | 97 | 10% | |
| 2007 | 91 | 9% | |
| 2008 | 89 | 9% | |
| 2009 | 102 | 10% |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 0% | |
| Bright Eyes | 5 | 0% | |
| Dream Theater | 5 | 0% | |
| Wilco | 5 | 0% | |
| Opeth | 5 | 0% | |
| Animal Collective | 5 | 0% | |
| Modest Mouse | 5 | 0% | |
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554 | 55% | |
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221 | 22% | |
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54 | 5% | |
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34 | 3% | |
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24 | 2% | |
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23 | 2% | |
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19 | 2% | |
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| Best Artists of 2011 | |
|---|---|
| 1. Fleet Foxes | |
| 2. Bon Iver | |
| 3. PJ Harvey | |
| 4. The Beach Boys | |
| 5. Radiohead | |
| 6. The Black Keys | |
| 7. Destroyer | |
| 8. M83 | |
| 9. Adele | |
| 10. Foo Fighters | |
| 11. St. Vincent | |
| 12. The Weeknd | |
| 13. Drake | |
| 14. James Blake | |
| 15. Kendrick Lamar | |
| 16. Death Grips | |
| 17. Florence + The Machine | |
| 18. Arctic Monkeys | |
| 19. Foster The People | |
| 20. Yuck |
