# Best albums of the 00s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460 "2009-12-08T15:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cullain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cullain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cullain)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/21 "2009-12-10T06:22:08Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > 69 Love Songs came out in 1999 if I’m not mistaken. It is a fantastic album either way. I was going by what iTunes said - didn’t research it at all. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/22 "2009-12-10T06:31:26Z")
[Since I Left You](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfexqq0ldse) If I had to pick one album to keep for the rest of my life, this would be it. 80s, 90s, 00s. Doesn’t matter. This is the best album I’ve heard, well, probably ever. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/23 "2009-12-10T06:34:44Z")
**Pepe Deluxé** - Spare Time Machine - [Ms. Wilhelmina And Her Hat](http://www.last.fm/music/Pepe+Delux%C3%A9/_/Ms.+Wilhelmina+And+Her+Hat) is my song of the decade **Komeda** - Kokomemedada ---
**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/24 "2009-12-10T06:54:20Z")
in no particular order, here’s a quick top 50: Rowe/Tilbury - _Duos for Doris_ Coil - _Ape of Naples_ Birchville Cat Motel - _Beautiful Speck Triumph_ GYBE - _Lift Your Skinny Fists_ Lionel Marchetti - _Red Dust_ Burial - _Burial_ and _Untrue_ Current 93 - _Black Ships Ate the Sky_ Kevin Drumm - _Sheer Hellish Miasma_ Mission of Burma - _The Obliterati_ Throbbing Gristle - _Part Two: the Endless Not_ Jason Lescalleet - _The Pilgrim_ Durrant/Lehn/Malfatti - _Dach_ Filament - _Filament Box_ Pere Ubu - _Why I Hate Women_ Scritti Politti - _White Bread Black Beer_ A Silver Mt. Zion - _He Has Left Us Alone But…_ Sachiko M - _Salon de Sachiko_ Nurse With Wound - _Salt Marie Celeste_ the Delgados - _The Great Eastern_ Scott Walker - _The Drift_ Wolf Eyes - _Burned Mind_ Susan Howe/David Grubbs - _Thiefth_ Julien Ottavi - _Nervure Magnetique_ Li Jianhong - _San Sheng Shi_ Sunn O))) - _Black One_ Junior Boys - _So This Is Goodbye_ Khanate - _Things Viral_ Anaal Nathrakh - _The Codex Necro_ Deathprod - _Morals and Dogma_ Bjork - _Medulla_ Boris - _Feedbacker_ Earth - _Hex_ Smog - _Dongs of Sevotion_ Lou Reed - _Ecstasy_ Echospace - _The Coldest Season_ (love falling asleep to this one) Richard Youngs - _River Through Howling Sky_ Set Fire to Flames - _Sings Reign Rebuilder_ Graham Lambkin - _Salmon Run_ PJ Harvey - _Uh Huh Her_ Robert Ashley - _Dust_ Nick Cave - _No More Shall We Part_ the Caretaker - _Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia_ Leonard Cohen - _Ten New Songs_ Fuhler/Prins - _The Flirts_ Eric Cordier - _Breizhiselad_ Patti Smith - _Trampin’_ Stars of the Lid - _Tired Sounds_ Advisory Circle - _Other Channels_ Oren Ambarchi - _In the Pendulum’s Embrace_ ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/25 "2009-12-10T13:05:08Z")
Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Boris - Akuma No Uta Film School - Film School MIA - Kala A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers Panda Bear - Person Pitch The National - Boxer Girltalk - Unstoppable Editors - The Back Room ---
**Author:** ![initech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@initech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/initech)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/26 "2009-12-10T14:58:35Z")
In no particular order: Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Old 97s - Satellite Rides Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Americano Beatles - Love Page France - Hello, Dear Wind Sloan - Never Hear the End of It The New Pornographers - Challengers Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Wilco probably takes the top slot, but FoW and Sloan are fighting for a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/27 "2009-12-10T15:15:20Z")
Editors - The Back Room Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not Killers - Hot Fuss Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum Gorillaz - Gorillaz ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/28 "2009-12-11T15:13:27Z")
Billboard’s top albums of the decade list is out. [Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video](http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-decade-end/billboard-200-albums?year=2009) It will come as no surprise that it doesn’t look anything like the lists being posted here. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/29 "2009-12-11T15:32:37Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > Billboard’s top albums of the decade list is out. [Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video](http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-decade-end/billboard-200-albums?year=2009) > > It will come as no surprise that it doesn’t look anything like the lists being posted here. I’m surprised that I actually own two of those albums, but like I warned people, _Heavier Things_ and _From Under the Cork Tree_, while I like them, only qualify for my best of the decade top 50 because I haven’t bought 50 albums from this decade. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/30 "2009-12-11T16:19:51Z")
In no particular order: Fratellis- Costello Music White Stripes- Icky Thump Amy Winehouse- Back to Black The Killers- Hot Fuss Outkast- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Justin Timberlake- Future Sex/Love Sounds (yeah, I said it.) ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/31 "2009-12-11T19:57:35Z")
I don’t know about best albums of the decade, but here are a few I liked in no particular order. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way The Killers - Hot Fuzz Kent - Vapen & ammunition Kent - Du & jag döden Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness PMMP - Kovemmat kädet Apulanta - Hiekka Muse - Black Holes and Revelations Gorillaz - Gorillaz Hellacopters - By the Grace of God ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/32 "2009-12-11T20:31:48Z")
_Relationship of Command_ - At the Drive In. Just squeeks in to the 00s, came out in 2000. Along with a few others mentioned already (QotSA, White Stripes) one of the best harder rock albums of the decade. I’d also throw in SoaD’s _Toxicity_. They got mega popular on the back of it, and the stuff that followed was a bit patchy, but Toxicity is a great, great rock album. _The Cold Vein_ by Cannibal Ox (2001) was the best rap album I heard by a country mile. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/33 "2009-12-11T21:03:28Z")
Well, I’m officially ancient. I’ve listened to none of the albums on that list, and only three of the albums on the Billboard top 100. You kids get your MP3s off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/34 "2009-12-11T21:47:22Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > 1. Fiery Furnaces - Widow City > 2. Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea ( So sue me. I know this band takes several listenings to get used to, but this kind of thing is the reason I listen to music. These two albums are not much alike BTW.) > … > 3. MIA - Kayla Well, your list is the most similar to mine I guess (even though I like a different Fiery Furnaces album more). There’s no way I could accurately compile a list of my favourite of this decade, but here are ten that would be high up, if not my absolute favourites (I know I’m missing some important ones though) – my list is going to be quite different from most others on here though: Poe – Haunted Girls Aloud – Chemistry Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat John Zorn – IAO Björk – Vespertine Swizz Beatz – G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories MIA – Kala Christina Aguilera – Stripped Liars – They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/35 "2009-12-11T22:41:42Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > In no particular order: > > Justin Timberlake- Future Sex/Love Sounds (yeah, I said it.) Thank goodness–it’s about the only artist I recognize. ::slinks away to listen to mainstream classic rock ---
**Author:** ![Robbin\_Hood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Robbin\_Hood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robbin_Hood)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/36 "2009-12-12T00:06:57Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Thank goodness–it’s about the only artist I recognize. ::slinks away to listen to mainstream classic rock Don’t slink away! I’ve never heard most of the stuff on these lists! 😃 My humble choices are: Fallen - Evanescence How to Save A Life - The Fray Growing Pains - Mary J. Blige Come Away With Me - Norah Jones Unstoppable - Rascal Flatts Rissi Palmer - Rissi Palmer The Evolution of Robin Thicke - Robin Thicke Transformers: The Score - Steve Jablonsky Twilight Saga: New Moon The Score - Alexandre Desplat ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/37 "2009-12-12T02:09:24Z")
I’m surprised nobody has yet mentioned Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst, who gets my vote as artist of the decade thanks to a three-album string that runs from the emo _Fevers and Mirrors_ (2000) to the multi-genre _Lifted_ (2002) to the alt-country/folk _I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning_ (2005). His other releases this decade have been impressive as well, but those three track a progression that is simply fascinating to see and the kid has an ear for poetic lyrics. My top 10: 1. Bright Eyes - Lifted (2002) 2. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power (2003) 3. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005) 4. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005) 5. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (2009) 6. Beck - Guero (2005) 7. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day (2003) 8. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (2006) 9. G. Love - Lemonade 10. The Rosebuds - Make Out (2003) Honorable mentions to: Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks (2006) The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (2008) Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (2008) The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (2005) The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (2002) The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004) Iron & Wine/Calexico - In the Reins (2005) The Wrens - The Meadowlands (2003) James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In (2008) Jay-Z/DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Album (2004) Jens Lekman - Oh You’re So Silent Jens (2005) Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004) My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006) New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2005) The Out Crowd - Go On, Give a Damn (2003) Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (2000) ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/38 "2009-12-12T03:15:20Z")
Yo, **I’m Not…** , I like your taste. Conor Oberst is pretty much the man. I must admit I like the old overwrought, literary style more than the newly relaxed, take it as it comes traveler’s music. Although **Outer South** was pretty good. SO weird to hear vicious guitar and Oberst on one song. Mah list: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. \<- This is it right here. White Stripes - White Blood Cells Bright Eyes - Lifted Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker At the Drive In - Relationship of Command Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica The Microphones - The Glow pt. 2 The Postal Service - Give Up Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s - The Dust of Retreat A lot of mine had been said before. I think albums that everyone should be able to agree on include **Give Up** and **Yankee Hotel Foxtrot**. **Heartbreaker**. Where’s e’ryone else? ---
**Author:** ![luxiia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@luxiia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luxiia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/39 "2009-12-14T06:30:23Z")
My list, in no particular order, except the first two: Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous Damien Rice - O Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope Dave Matthews Band - Groo Grux King The Postal Service - Give Up Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News Alix Olson - Built Like That The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Jack’s Mannequin - Everything In Transit Having listened to parts, but not all of, Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago” I’d like to include it, but since I haven’t heard the whole album, I won’t - what I have heard is just heart-wrenchingly amazing. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460/40 "2009-12-14T07:58:09Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > . The classic 2000’s argument is “what is Emo?” Falling Forward- Hand Me Down Boy Sets Fire- The Day the Sun Went Out Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary If it doesn’t sound like any of those, it has no right to call itself “emo.” Argument over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-albums-of-the-00s/520460.md?page=1)