I have not listened to every album from the 2000s. But it's arguably my personal favorite decade in music (if not the 90s). I listen to tons of music from this era and I love it. While I have a soft spot in my heart for music I discovered at the time as a teenager, I keep discovering more hidden gems of 2000s music the older I get. And I still have plenty more to listen to. Just know that it's April 20th, 2021, and at this moment, these are my picks for the best albums of the 2000s.
Or are they just my favorites? It's hard not to come into this super biased. I'm trying to mix albums I always comfortably come back to with albums that impressively challenge me.
I decided to make the list 150 albums long. I considered stopping the list at 100, but had a ton of albums I considered putting on that list. And 200 is really stretching. Like, there are probably plenty of 2000s albums I haven't heard yet that I can presume are better than whatever the heck my #197 album of the decade is. Making lists is hard. But it's also fun. Here, I try to balance between both.
I realize this undertaking is both ambitious and stupid. And I assume only a few people will look at the list. And even less will care about it. And every one of them will be disappointed. But I'm doing this anyways.
I decided I'd introduce the list by sharing album collages of my favorite albums from each year. Already regretting a couple choices, but not by that much. I believe there are 191 albums total here, so obviously not everything you see will make my top 150. But I'm gonna make you guess.
I will post the actual list 50 albums at a time. I'll kick that off in the next couple days.
2000
Radiohead. D'Angelo. OutKast. Sigur Ròs. The Avalanches. Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Modest Mouse. Yo La Tengo. Boredoms. Eminem. Erykah Badu. The Clientele. Ghostface Killah. Luomo. Common. Clinic. Lambchop. Gas. Ryan Adams. The New Pornographers. PJ Harvey. Bright Eyes. múm. The Microphones. Queens Of The Stone Age. Quasimoto. Grandaddy. Elliott Smith.
2001
The Strokes. Jay-Z. Daft Punk. The Microphones. Cannibal Ox. The White Stripes. Basement Jaxx. Radiohead. Fennesz. Björk. Unwound. Destroyer. Stars Of The Lid. Fugazi. Matmos. Super Furry Animals. Low. Herbert. The Shins. Ted Leo And The Pharmacists.
2002
Wilco. Broken Social Scene. The Streets. The Books. The Flaming Lips. Interpol. Spoon. Black Dice. Blackalicious. Beck. Queens Of The Stone Age. Iron & Wine. El-P. Boards Of Canada. The Mountain Goats. Talib Kweli. Bright Eyes. Kevin Drumm. Mclusky. RJD2. Scarface. Keith Fullerton Whitman. Deerhoof. Neko Case.
2003
Dizzee Rascal. The Postal Service. The White Stripes. Sufjan Stevens. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Songs: Ohia. Cat Power. Lightning Bolt. Jay-Z. The Unicorns. Death Cab For Cutie. The Strokes. Manitoba. Sun Kil Moon. Radiohead. The Books. M83. The Microphones. Four Tet. The Rapture. Prefuse 73. Animal Collective. MU. Josh Ritter.
2004
Arcade Fire. Madvilain. Kanye West. Animal Collective. Xiu Xiu. Devendra Banhart. The Streets. Joanna Newsom. Iron & Wine. Sufjan Stevens. The Fiery Furnaces. Björk. The Walkmen. TV On The Radio. Modest Mouse. Wilco.
2005
Sufjan Stevens. Kanye West. M.I.A. Animal Collective. Bright Eyes. The Mountain Goats. Wolf Parade. Antony And The Johnsons. The New Pornographers. LCD Soundsystem. Boris. Okkervil River. The National. My Morning Jacket. Sleater-Kinney. Sunn O))). The Decemberists. Andrew Bird. Deerhoof. Vashti Bunyan.
2006
Joanna Newsom. TV On The Radio. J Dilla. Clipse. Ghostface Killah. The Knife. Grizzly Bear. Liars. The Hold Steady. Scott Walker. Tim Hecker. Destroyer. Hot Chip. Camera Obscura. The Thermals.
2007
Radiohead. LCD Soundsystm. M.I.A. Panda Bear. Burial. Bon Iver. Animal Collective. Jens Lekman. The National. Of Montreal. Feist. Spoon. Deerhunter. Battles. Arcade Fire. Jay-Z. Iron & Wine. The Field. Justice. Kanye West.
2008
Fleet Foxes. Vampire Weekend. TV On The Radio. Deerhunter. No Age. Portishead. Erykah Badu. Beach House. Cut Copy. Hercules And Love Affair. Have A Nice Life. M83.
2009
Animal Collective. Dirty Projectors. The Flaming Lips. Raekwon. Grizzly Bear. Girls. Fever Ray. Bat For Lashes. Bill Callahan. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. The xx. The Very Best.
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