Best Albums of the 2000s: Q1 • Page 2

Weird to think that we’re a quarter of the way through this century. Needs some thought but my initial bias is against any list that doesn’t contain at least one mewithoutYou album. Their releases have been the pinnacle of music listening experiences for me.

 

Here's a big list that I am going to narrow down to something resembling an accurate top 10:

 

I also plan on going back through RYM top albums and checking out some of my blind spots. Doing Boris's Flood now.

 

I’ll get into this too

 

me too

 

im not gonna do this but im gonna do the best albums of 2019 as it's the best year for recorded music by far

Big Thief - UFOF
Big Thief - Two Hands
Alex G - House of Sugar
100 gecs - 1000 gecs
Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
Glass Beach - the first glass beach album
22 degrees Halo - 22 degrees Halo
Angelo de Augustine - Tomb
Strange Ranger - Remembering the Rockets
Porches - the song rangerover which is incredible

what am I missing?

 

1. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
2. My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002)
3. Kamelot - Epica (2003)
4. Fightstar - Grand Unification (2006)
5. Kamelot - The Black Halo (2005)
6. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)
7. The Used - The Used (2002)
8. Frou Frou - Details (2002)
9. Evanescence - Fallen (2003)
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)
    
    
11. Joshua Radin - We Were Here (2006)
12. Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me (2007)
13. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)
14. fun. - Aim and Ignite (2009)
15. The Format - Dog Problems (2006)
16. John Mayer - Continuum (2006)
17. Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy (2004)
18. City Sleeps - Not an Angel (2007)
19. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You? (2010)
20. Fightstar - One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours (2007)
    
    
21. Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself (2005)
22. Busted - A Present for Everyone (2003)
23. Infinity Crush - When We're Snow (2013)
24. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
25. Charlie Simpson - Young Pilgrim (2011)
26. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (2005)
27. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory (2005)
28. Kamelot - Karma (2001)
29. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
30. Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat (2006)
    
    
31. The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)
32. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (2006)
33. mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes (2004)
34. Moving Mountains - Pneuma (2007)
35. Anberlin - Cities (2007)
36. Frank Turner - Love Ire & Song (2008)
37. The Reign of Kindo - This Is What Happens (2010)
38. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010)
39. La Dispute - Wildlife (2011)
40. Damien Rice - O (2003)
    
    
41. Copeland - Ixora (2014)
42. fun. - Some Nights (2012)
43. Acceptance - Phantoms (2005)
44. There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks (2009)
45. Fightstar - Behind the Devil's Back (2015)
46. Fightstar - Be Human (2009)
47. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It (2016)
48. Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter (2022)
49. Chad Perrone - Wake (2008)
50. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005)

 

50 faves in no order, one album per artist. leans heavy early 2000s ofc:

every time i die radical
tape luminarium
stars of the lid and their refinement of the decline
juno a future lived in past tense
pulp we love life
brand new science fiction
okkervil river away
radiohead kid a
the clientele strange geometry
future of the left travels with myself and another
gillian welch time (the revelator)
dillinger escape plan ire works
jim guthrie now more than ever
augie march strange bird
ka honor killed the samurai
kathleen edwards asking for flowers
the cooper temple clause kick up the fire and let the flames break loose
the icarus line penance soiree
appleseed cast low level owl
the blood brothers ...burn, piano island, burn
the wrens the meadowlands
low trust
made out of babies the ruiner
disfear live the storm
d'angelo voodoo
the gathering souvenirs
godspeed you! black emperor lift your skinny fists...
propagandhi supporting caste
super furry animals rings around the world
julien baker sprained ankle
american music club the golden age
motorpsycho the death defying unicorn
the bug london zoo
gorguts colored sands
deftones white pony
dillinger four versus god
melt yourself down melt yourself down
junior boys so this is goodbye
gareth liddiard strange tourist
bohren & der club of gore black earth
grandaddy the sophtware slump
the unthanks here’s the tender coming
pinetop seven the night’s bloom
guided by voices human amusements at hourly rates
aimee mann mental illness
tindersticks across six leap years
the deadly snakes porcella
htrk venus in leo
the apartments in and out of the light
autechre nts sessions

 

1. The Hotelier - Goodness
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
4. Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Kanye West - The College Dropout
7. German Error Message - After the Warmth
8. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
9. Bear vs. Shark - Right Now, You’re in the Best of Hands…
10. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
    
    
11. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
12. Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter
13. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
14. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
15. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain…
16. Kanye West - MBDTF
17. Against Me - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
18. Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance
19. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
20. Outkast - Stankonia
    
    
21. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
22. The Postal Service - Give Up
23. The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
24. Kanye West - Late Registration
25. Arrange - Blood Dust
26. MF DOOM - Mm..Food
27. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
28. Taylor Swift - Red
29. Radiohead - In Rainbows
30. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be

I'd probably have 1-2 Brand New albums in there too but...fuck em. I will probably keep editing it as I read over it and get more and more unhappy with placement.

 

Here is a link to the Best EP's of the 2000s: Q1 thread

Best EP's of the 2000s: Q1 • forum.chorus.fm

Thank you for inspiring it

 

Some version of this.

1. Butch Walker - Letters
2. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
3. Jack’s Mannequin - Everything in Transit
4. Taylor Swift - Red
5. Matt Nathanson - Some Mad Hope
6. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
7. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
8. Green Day - American Idiot
9. The Gaslight Anthem - The ’59 Sound
10. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
    
    
11. Gang of Youths - angel in realtime.
12. Taylor Swift - folklore
13. John Mayer - Continuum
14. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely
15. The Dangerous Summer - Reach for the Sun
16. Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows
17. Field Report - Marigolden
18. U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind
19. Counting Crows - Hard Candy
20. Katie Pruitt -Expectations
    
    
21. Ken Yates - Quiet Talkers
22. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
23. Butch Walker - Stay Gold
24. Cary Brothers - Who You Are
25. Coldplay - Ghost Stories
26. Jack’s Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
27. Jason Isbell - Reunions
28. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
29. Caitlyn Smith - Starfire
30. Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt
    
    
31. Donovan Woods - Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now
32. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
33. The Dangerous Summer - War Paint
34. Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart
35. Keane - Hopes & Fears
36. Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are
37. Kelsea Ballerini - Rolling up the Welcome Mat
38. Yellowcard - Lift a Sail
39. Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
40. Chad Perrone - Release
    
    
41. Matchbox Twenty - Where the Light Goes
42. The Chicks - Taking the Long Way
43. Charlie Worsham - Rubberband
44. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
45. Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer
46. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
47. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
48. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
49. Butch Walker - The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites!
50. Taylor Swift - 1989
    
    
51. Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
52. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
53. Dawes - Stories Don't End
54. The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
55. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
56. Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life
57. Taylor Swift - evermore
58. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
59. Jon McLaughlin - Indiana
60. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
    
    
61. The Damnwells - No One Listens to the Band Anymore
62. Noah Gundersen - Ledges
63. Lori McKenna - The Tree
64. The Killers - Pressure Machine
65. The Killers - Hot Fuss
66. John Mayer - Heavier Things
67. Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
68. Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
69. Donovan Woods - Without People
70. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
    
    
71. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer, Different Park
72. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
73. Mat Kearney - Nothing Left to Lose
74. Safetysuit - Life Left to Go
75. Maren Morris - Hero
76. Motion City Soundtrack - Even If it Kills Me
77. Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
78. Mat Kearney - City of Black and White
79. Marvelous 3 - Readysexgo
80. John Mayer - Born and Raised
    
    
81. The New Frontiers - Mending
82. Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands
83. Chad Perrone - Wake
84. Butch Walker - Glenn
85. The Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart
86. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
87. Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein
88. Something Corporate - North
89. Dawes - Nothing is Wrong
90. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star
    
    
91. Sister Hazel - Chasing Daylight
92. Avril Lavigne - Let Go
93. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
94. Miranda Lambert - Revolution
95. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
96. Kelsea Ballerini - Patterns
97. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
98. Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black
99. Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
100. Will Hoge - The Wreckage

 

Any and all Kathleen Edwards representation gets a like. "Scared at Night" is one of my most listened to songs ever

 

Rolling Stone dropped their list, made a separate thread to not clog up this one discussing their list

Rolling Stone’s 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century • forum.chorus.fm

 

Subbin + Rough Draft List

 

Subbing, will try to work on a Top 25 tonight

this is The One

 

I've thought about it more and decided I'll make a list in like 3 years after the more recent albums have sunk in a bit more

 

1. Weezer - Raditude

 

yeah looking at the Rolling Stone list is funny because I love MJ Lenderman but seeing his album from September listed is wild.

 

This is fun but hard as most of my formative music taste began in the late 90s, early 00s. Limited to 50. Loving seeing all the lists - gives me loads of recommendations to check out.

1. Thursday - war all the time
2. Thursday - A city by the light divided
3. Thursday - Full Collapse
4. Pianos become the teeth - Keep you
4. Taking back Sunday - Tell all your friends
5. Julien Baker - Sprained ankle
6. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
7. Moving mountains - moving mountains
8. La dispute - wildlife
9. Prawn - Kingfisher
10. Foxing - Dealer
11. Manchester Orchestra - Mean everything to nothing
12. Thursday - common existence
13. The Antlers - Hospice
14. Hotelier - Goodness
15. Caracara - New Preoccupations
16. Mandancing - the good sweat
17. Phoebe Bridgers - strangers in the alps
18. Poison the well - you come before you
19. The Moirai - Bury yourself
20. Mewithoutyou- Brother, Sister
21. Explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
22. Thursday - no devotion
23. Ceres - we are a team
24. Hop along - bark your head of dog
25.Jimmy eat world - bleed American
26. My chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge
27. Novo Amor - birthplace
28.From autumn to ashes - too bad you’re beautiful
29. Frightened rabbit - pedestrian verse
30. Captain, we’re sinking - the future is cancelled
31. Appleseed cast - two conversations
32. Biffy Clyro - blackened sky
33. Turnover - peripheral vision
34. The used - the used
35. From Indian lakes - able bodies
36. Deftones - white pony
37. Bright eyes - fevers and mirrors
38. The hotelier - home is no place
39. Deathcab for cutie - transatlanticism
40. Funeral for a friend - casually dressed and deep in conversation
41. Manchester orchestra - simple math
42. Paramore - riot!
43. The weakerthans - left and leaving
44. Caracara - summer megalith
45. Balance and composure - the things we think we’re missing
46. Foxing - the albatross
47. All get out - the season
48. Bartees strange - live forever
49. The good life - novena on a nocturn
50. Moving mountains - Pneuma

 

This is ridiculously hard. Like, I know certain albums -- In Rainbows, The Moon and Antarctica, White Pony, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes -- are going to be there. But I am unsure of how to make this list other than putting every album I own into bias sorter (plus some I don't) and spending like a week sorting through it all lol

 

Well I made a list of about 200 records and now I'm staring at it totally lost besides my top 3 (which I knew without thinking)

 

I’m very close and I remembered an album in the cast yesterday that really needs to be on the list only to forget it again 5 minutes later

 

Madvillain - Madvillainy

 

Up there for sure but I prefer MM..FOOD

 

These are my favourite DOOM projects, I’d probably rank them like this but they’re all 10/10s to me

Madvilliany
Mm..Food
Operation: Doomsday
Vaudeville Villian