Top Albums of the 2000's

So Pitchfork.com came out with another one of their lists--most recent being this.

Frankly, I'm disappointed by the list as a whole. I do agree with Kid A being number one, because even today it still has the same effect on me as it did nine years ago. I feel that no song sounds dated, the album inadvertently gave a higher tolerance to stubborn fans who originally wouldn't think twice about any form of electronic music and finally, Radiohead completely succeeded in capturing the proverbial tyranny/rise of technology and the Internet (a scary thing if you dissect it's existence today, while theorizing what it may bring tomorrow). Radiohead destroyed the foundation they built throughout the 90's and made something they wanted to make, appropriate for the world around them, whether the fans appreciated it or not. This album was more of a development in rock's history, than another piece added to it's existence.

Now, as for the rest of the 199 albums, I'd say about 50% of them actually belong on the list; so I'd like your opinion, what's your pick for the top album (singular) of the 2000's and discuss why.

[PLEASE avoid flaming, don't post "All new music sucks" or anything of the like.....and don't post Muse's newest album--Ten years is a long time, think harder than that]

Your pick doesn't have to be on the list. Whatever you feel is best.

Your pick doesn't have to be on the list. Whatever you feel is best.

aka_Static

I'm happy to see Kid A and The Moon & Antarctica on that list.

I love both of those albums.

Sorry, I'm too lazy to look at the other 190 albums on the list... >_>

That list is...pretty bad, only album I've seen on there so far that I think deserves to be on the list is Kid A...and even then, it doesn't deserve to be anywhere near number 1. Darth-Caedus

Keep in mind that pitchfork kind of avoids/neglects a lot of different genres. Which is why I'm not really interested in the list itself, more of what you think the best album from the past 10 years is. REGARDLESS of whether or not it's on the list.

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]That list is...pretty bad, only album I've seen on there so far that I think deserves to be on the list is Kid A...and even then, it doesn't deserve to be anywhere near number 1. aka_Static

Keep in mind that pitchfork kind of avoids/neglects a lot of different genres. Which is why I'm not really interested in the list itself, more of what you think the best album from the past 10 years is. REGARDLESS of whether or not it's on the list.

The best album of this decade is Back to Times of Splendor.

i only got to reading the top 50, but i didnt like that segment at all. im not sure what id pick as the top album, but my top 3 would easily be traced in air by cynic, emergent by gordian knot, and machinations of dementia by blotted science. since i always talk about cynic, ill go with gordian knot today. emergent masterfully blurs the lines between prog rock, metal, and jazz fusion while giving tributes to malone's musical heroes such as bach. the album covers complex emotions such as repressed joy to freedom and innocense all without lyrics. its all done in a compositional format that much less blocky than the mundane verse-chorus format. LoG-Sacrament

Sounds like something more people need to hear. Specifically the writers of this entry. I'll check that out when I get home.

My top album of the 2000's would be Agalloch's Ashes Against The Grain. Mirrorthrone's Carriers Of Dust and Ikuinen Kaamos' The Forlorn are both great albums as well. Anaal Nathrakh released pretty much their entirely discography after 2000, and so did Bloodbath. and Ulver completely changed direction while still remaining a quality band. There's a lot of great albums that came out in the last decade, however most of them were limited to the underground, which I'm sure was neglected in making that list and most lists like that.

[QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"]i only got to reading the top 50, but i didnt like that segment at all. im not sure what id pick as the top album, but my top 3 would easily be traced in air by cynic, emergent by gordian knot, and machinations of dementia by blotted science. since i always talk about cynic, ill go with gordian knot today. emergent masterfully blurs the lines between prog rock, metal, and jazz fusion while giving tributes to malone's musical heroes such as bach. the album covers complex emotions such as repressed joy to freedom and innocense all without lyrics. its all done in a compositional format that much less blocky than the mundane verse-chorus format. aka_Static

Sounds like something more people need to hear. Specifically the writers of this entry. I'll check that out when I get home.

Here's my top 10 (in no order).

• CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
• Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
• Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
• Nas - Stillmatic
• Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
• MF DOOM - Mm..Food
• Madvillain - Madvillainy
• J Dilla - Donuts
• KMD - Black Bastards
• Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but my top 10 would be (in no particular order):

• The National- Alligator
• LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
• The White Stripes- White Blood Cells
• TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
• Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary
• Arcade Fire- Funeral
• K'Naan- The Dusty Foot Philosopher
• Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it in People
• The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls in America

Jane Doe by Converge, for me at least

American Idiot should be on this listimthemostwanted

They sure love Radiohead over there. :P

My top ten would go something like this:

• Soulfly - "Dark Ages" 2005
• Dream Theater - "Train of Thought" 2003
• Kamelot - "The Black Halo" 2005
• Machine Head - "Through The Ashes of Empires" 2003
• MNEMIC - "The Audio Injected Soul" 2004
• Scar Symmetry - "Holographic Universe" 2008
• Warmen - "Japanese Hospitality" 2009
• Reveille - "Bleed the Sky" 2002
• Opeth - "Blackwater Park" 2001
• Symphony X - "Paradise Lost" 2007

That's just off the top of my head.

So Pitchfork.com came out with another one of their lists--most recent being this.

Frankly, I'm disappointed by the list as a whole. I do agree with Kid A being number one, because even today it still has the same effect on me as it did nine years ago. I feel that no song sounds dated, the album inadvertently gave a higher tolerance to stubborn fans who originally wouldn't think twice about any form of electronic music and finally, Radiohead completely succeeded in capturing the proverbial tyranny/rise of technology and the Internet (a scary thing if you dissect it's existence today, while theorizing what it may bring tomorrow). Radiohead destroyed the foundation they built throughout the 90's and made something they wanted to make, appropriate for the world around them, whether the fans appreciated it or not. This album was more of a development in rock's history, than another piece added to it's existence.

Now, as for the rest of the 199 albums, I'd say about 50% of them actually belong on the list; so I'd like your opinion, what's your pick for the top album (singular) of the 2000's and discuss why.

[PLEASE avoid flaming, don't post "All new music sucks" or anything of the like.....and don't post Muse's newest album--Ten years is a long time, think harder than that]

Choosing the best album for any decade is insanely hard, but the best album of the '00s? Impossible as of now. Maybe at the end of the next decade we'll be able to look back and see which album has been the most influential, but right now it's too soon to tell.

Of course I still have my favorites. On the top of my head, Crystal Castles' debut album, for example.

Their list is ok, but here is mine:D

1. Porcupine tree- Deadwing

2. Super furry animals- Rings Around the world

3. Phideaux- Doomsday Afternoon

4. Riverside- Anno Domini High Definition

5. The Dear Hunter- Act 3: Life and Death

6. Porcupine tree- In Absentia

7. Maudlin of the well- Part The Second

8. Aesop Rock- None Shall Pass

9. Mono- Hymm to the immortal wind

10. Diablo Swing Orchestra- Sing Along Songs for the damned and delirious

11. Gazpacho- Tick Tock

12. Black Bonzo- Operation Manuel- The guillotine model drama

13. Dredg- The pariah, the parrot. the delusion

14. Minimum Vital- Capitaines

15. Deluge Grander- the form of the good

16. Kevin Gilbert- The Shaming of the true

17. iona- Open Sky

18. Porcupine tree- Lightbulb Sun

19. Volapuk- Polyglot

20. Kashmir- No Balence Palace

21. Devin Townsend- terria

22. Green Carnation- Light of day, day of darkness

23. Evergrey- In Search of truth

24. The Decemberists- The Hazards of love

25. Zero Hour- The towers of Avarice

26. The Ocean- Precambrian

27. Pure Reason Revolution- Amor Vincit Omnia

28. Anathema- A fine day to exit

29. Rosetta- Wake/Life (Dig)

30. Arcturus- The Sham Mirrors

31. Peter Gabriel- Up

32. Tempano- The Agony and The Ectasy

33. Nebelnest- Nova Express

34. Akineton retard Akranania

35. Pineapple Thief- Variatons on a dream

36. Belle and Sebastian- The Life Pursuit

37. God Help the girl- God help the girl

38. Porcupine tree- The Incident

39. Frost- Experiments in mass appeal

40. Anekdoten- Time of day

41. Kayo Dot- Choirs of the mind

42. Ayreon- The Human Equation

43. Magma- K.A

44. Magenta- Seven

45. Puressence- Don't Forget to remember

46. Blur- Think Tank

47. Radiohead- Kid A

48. Twilight Sad- Forget the night ahead

49. Mountain Goats- Heretic Pride

50. Unexpect- In a flesh Aquarium

That Panda Bear album is pretty boss, I'd say my top album of this decade is "M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us".

(Pitchfork = softrock/indie stuff) SAGE_OF_FIRE

Those are included, but I don't think Jay-Z falls into either of those categories :/

Either way, music is so subjective any person could argue any album to be the best (excluding the American Idiot poster)...Take Lateralus for instance-- Pitchfork gave it a 2/10 or something of the like, which has to be a crime.

That list sucks. There are so many better albums from the 2000's, yet too many to list.Immortalica

I'd rather you post something worth posting.

That Panda Bear album is pretty boss, I'd say my top album of this decade is "M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us".

joesh89

Definitely my favorite M83 album, but I find myself liking Saturdays=Youth more and more with each listen.

[QUOTE="imthemostwanted"]American Idiot should be on this listDivergeUnify

After seeing this list and their top songs I can safely say pitchfork absolutely blows.

Anyways, heres 10 albums of this decade I really enjoyed (and I made a point of having no repeat artists in here):

1. Muse-Origin of Symmetry

2. Opeth-Blackwater Park

3. Machine Head-The Blackening

4. Maximum the Hormone-Buiki Kaesu

5. Daft Punk-Discovery

6. Sick of It All-Death to Tyrants

7. Incubus-Light Grenades

8. Katatonia-The Great Cold Distance

9. Avenged Sevenfold-Waking the Fallen

10. Soilwork-Natural Born Chaos

[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"][QUOTE="imthemostwanted"]American Idiot should be on this listC-Lee

"Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind **** America.

Well maybe I'm the **** America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue."

You really think that's ambitious? I don't care how many copies it sold. That in no way makes an album great

People still care for Pitchfork? This is Pitchfork's deal

A)The Hip-Hop, Pop, Mainstream decenters get mad at Pitchfork for making up a list of Indie and underground acts

B)Pitchfork needs to seem cool, and get some site views, so they'll add a gussied up list of mainstream appealing and indie appealung list.

KID A on the top shows you that they are just playing the feild, while fools look on and think their siding with them. Rich Dork Media = We need site views, what's the most mainstream and racially appealing artist we can put on this list, to seem "Cool" without seeming like we sold out to out Indie audience?

[QUOTE="Immortalica"]That list sucks. There are so many better albums from the 2000's, yet too many to list.aka_Static

I'd rather you post something worth posting.

After seeing this list and their top songs I can safely say pitchfork absolutely blows.

Anyways, heres 10 albums of this decade I really enjoyed (and I made a point of having no repeat artists in here):

1. Muse-Origin of Symmetry

2. Opeth-Blackwater Park

3. Machine Head-The Blackening

4. Maximum the Hormone-Buiki Kaesu

5. Daft Punk-Discovery

6. Sick of It All-Death to Tyrants

7. Incubus-Light Grenades

8. Katatonia-The Great Cold Distance

9. Avenged Sevenfold-Waking the Fallen

10. Soilwork-Natural Born Chaos

LostProphetFLCL

Wow... That site is such a joke. Didn't care about the top albums of 2000. But there was not one Queen album in the top 100 albums of the 70's.

[QUOTE="C-Lee"][QUOTE="DivergeUnify"] That's one of the funniest things I've heard. I don't think anyone can objectively say American Idiot deserves to be called one of the best albums of the 2000sDivergeUnify

"Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind **** America.

Well maybe I'm the **** America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue."

You really think that's ambitious? I don't care how many copies it sold. That in no way makes an album great

I have to say to people, But i wouldn't trust anyone's list. Especially anyone who's list is made up of one genre only. People's music taste are subjective, and backwars of what's always said "If you don't like my music taste, blah blah..." If someone doesn't like your music, then so be it. Music unity is a bogus thoughtm keep hip-hop, rock, dance, and indie seperate. We don't need all genres clashing into one all pleasing hodge podge of crap, and Taylor Swift is videos with T-Pain.

I love Hip-Hop, I like Indie, I like Metal, I like Alternative. I like Electronica, heck I like all types of music. But music unity should be held more in the ears of the listener, and not a bunch of hacks trying to find the perfect blend of some cheesy rock and rap artist making some terrible album together, to at it's core, is to just try to intrude and take the almost easiest way to penetrate some other fan base.

It's why rapcore sucks, it's why Nu metal sucks, it's why a lot of stuff sucks. We need to get back to a time in music when it WAS UNITED! But everyone wasn't trying to piggy back, and sound the same, and your sound was respected no matter what genre you played.

Keep em seperated. And pitchfork list = worst yet.

How bout you not give a damn what I post. kthxImmortalica

Call me human, but considering I made the topic I tend to hold some sort of "I care what people post"-bias. I don't think you need to post anything with attitude....ever. So grow up and move on.

[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]

[QUOTE="C-Lee"] It's my favorite album of all time. An extremely ambitious, rock opera that sold 14 million copies. It fully deserves to be on this list.C-Lee

[insert crappy lyrics here]

You really think that's ambitious? I don't care how many copies it sold. That in no way makes an album great

[QUOTE="C-Lee"][QUOTE="DivergeUnify"] That's one of the funniest things I've heard. I don't think anyone can objectively say American Idiot deserves to be called one of the best albums of the 2000sDivergeUnify

"Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind **** America.

Well maybe I'm the **** America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue."

You really think that's ambitious? I don't care how many copies it sold. That in no way makes an album great

Really? You choose American Idiot out of all the songs on the album? Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming are much better than that song.

Wow... That site is such a joke. Didn't care about the top albums of 2000. But there was not one Queen album in the top 100 albums of the 70's.

Blu_Falcon37

[QUOTE="C-Lee"]

[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"] Being your favorite album of all time doesn't objectively make it one of the best albums of the 2000s. Do you listen to a lot of punk in general?

[insert crappy lyrics here]

You really think that's ambitious? I don't care how many copies it sold. That in no way makes an album great

DivergeUnify

[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]

[QUOTE="C-Lee"] It's my favorite album of all time. An extremely ambitious, rock opera that sold 14 million copies. It fully deserves to be on this list.sxdx89

You really think that's ambitious? I don't care how many copies it sold. That in no way makes an album great

Really? You choose American Idiot out of all the songs on the album? Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming are much better than that song.

Thank you.

off the top of my head

we love life by pulp

brightblack morning light by brightblack morning light

apple venus by xtc

bright flight by silver jews

haha sound by broadcast

outside closer by hood

Really? You choose American Idiot out of all the songs on the album? Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming are much better than that song.

sxdx89