The Great Albums of the 2000's
This list is all of the great albums i have heard in rock, in the ten year span of 2000-2009.
No limit on number.
2009 edition - 164 entries
2013 edition - 224 entries
2017 edition - 268 entries
2021 edition - 369 entries
new! = new addition
up - moved up the list since last time
down - moved down the list since last time
italics – 5 star albums
regular font - 4 ½ star albums
100%
1.Funeral - The Arcade Fire (2004)
98%
2.Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio (2006)
3.Trust – Low (2002)
4.The Cold Vein - Cannibal Ox (2001)
5.Gallowbird's Bark - The Fiery Furnaces (2003)
97%
6.The Great Eastern - The Delgados (2000)
7.Third - Portishead (2008)
8.Here Come the Miracles - Steve Wynn (2001)
9.Wilderness- Archer Prewitt (2005)
10.Boxer - The National (2007)
11.Out from Out Where – Amon Tobin (2002) new!
12.Electric Version - The New Pornographers (2003)
96%
13.Ys - Joanna Newsom (2006)
14.Middle Cyclone - Neko Case (2009)
15.The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats (2005)
16.Each One Teach One – Oneida (2002)
95%
17.The Meadowlands - The Wrens (2003)
18.If We Can't Trust the Doctors – Blanche (2004)
19.Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age (2000)
20.Girls Can Tell – Spoon (2001)
21.Burning off the Impurities – Grails (2007) new!
22.The Woods - Sleater Kinney (2005)
23.Un Dia - Juana Molina (2008)
24.Rated O – Oneida (2009)
94%
25.Leaves Turn Inside You – Unwound (2001)
26.In Advance of a Broken Arm - Marnie Stern (2007)
27.Ascenseur Ouvert - Kingsbury Manx (2009)
28.Rubber Factory - The Black Keys (2004)
29.Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective (2007)
93%
30.Allegory of Hearing - Roy Montgomery (2000)
31.Treny – Jacaszek (2008)
32.Be – Common (2005) new!
33.Things We Lost in the Fire – Low (2001)
34.Let the Light In - Shannon Wright (2007)
35.The Boxing Mirror - Alejandro Escovedo (2006) up
36.Cast of Thousands – Elbow (2003)
37.Madvilliany – Madvillian (2004) new!
38.Phrenology - The Roots (2002)
39.Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle (2000)
40.Birds Make Good Neighbors - The Rosebuds (2005)
41.Is This It - The Strokes (2001)
42.Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem (2007)
43.Kill the Moonlight – Spoon (2002)
92%
44.The Argument – Fugazi (2001)
45.Deltron 3030 – s/t (2000) new!
46.Lemon of Pink – The Books (2003) new!
47.Second Storey – Art of Fighting (2004) new!
48.The Anomaly – DJ Logic (2001)
49.Our Love to Admire – Interpol (2007)
50.Whatever You Love You Are – Dirty Three (2000)
51.Blueberry Boat - The Fiery Furnaces (2004) up
52.Hazards of Love – The Decemberists (2009)
53.Anthem of the Moon - Oneida (2001)
54.Quicksand/Candlesnakes - Califone (2003) up
55.The Laughing Stock of Indie Rock – Solex (2004) new!
91%
56.Stars of the Lid – Tired Sounds of (2001)
57.Internal Wrangler - Clinic (2000)
58.Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts - M83 (2003)
59.Hell Hath No Fury – Clipse (2006) up
60.The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine (2007) up
61.Southern Rock Opera - Drive By Truckers (2001)
62.The Last Broadcast - The Doves (2000)
63.Walk it Off - Tapes N Tapes (2008)
64.Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers - The National (2003)
65.It's a Wonderful Life – Sparklehorse (2001)
66.Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes - TV on the Radio (2004)
67.Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers (2000)
68.Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Neko Case (2006)
69.Window City - Fiery Furnaces (2007)
70.Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris (2000)
71.The Coast is Never Clear- Beulah (2001)
90%
72.Garden Ruin – Calexico (2006)
73.Only Built for Cuban Linx Part Two – Raekwon (2009) new!
74.The Slow Wonder - A.C. Newman (2004)
75.Neon Bible - Arcade Fire (2007)
76.Ancient Melodies of the Future - Built to Spill (2001)
77.Vaudeville Villain - Viktor Vaughn (2003) new!
78.The Spell - Black Heart Procession (2006)
79.Static Patterns and Souvenirs – Lorna (2005) new!
80.Hate - The Delgados (2002)
81.How Will You? – Azita (2009) up
82.Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You Black Emperor (2000)
89%
83.You Forgot it In People - Broken Social Scene (2002)
84.Mirrored – Battles (2007)
85.Quiet City – Pan American (2004) new!
86.Game Theory – The Roots (2006) new!
87.Excuses for Travelers - Mojave 3 (2000) new!
88.Directions to See a Ghost – The Black Angels (2008)
89.Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade (2005)
90.The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face - Man Man (2004)
91.You are Free - Cat Power (2003)
92.One Beat - Sleater Kinney (2002)
93.Kingdom of Rust – Doves (2009) up
94.This is it and I am It - Marnie Stern (2008)
95.Boys and Girls in America - The Hold Steady (2006)
96.Friend or Foe – Menomena (2007)
97.Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats (2002)
98.Michigan – Sufjan Stevens (2003) new!
99.My Music @ Work - The Tragically Hip (2000)
100.Elysium – Velvet Teen (2004) new!
101.Sharpen Your Teeth - Ugly Cassonova (2002)
88%
102.The Ecstatic - Mos Def (2009)
103.Drums not Dead - Liars (2006)
104.The Creek Drank the Cradle - Iron and Wine (2002)
105.Crooked Fingers – s/t (2000) new!
106.This Time Next Year - Lorna (2003) new!
107.I and Love and You - The Avett Bros. (2009)
108.Jessica Bailiff - Jessica Bailiff (2002)
109.Float - Aseop Rock (2000) new!
110.Blinking Lights and Other Observations - The Eels (2005) up
111.Visiter – Dodos (2008)
112.Oh, Inverted World - The Shins (2001)
113.Proof of Youth - The Go! Team (2007)
114.Bows and Arrows - The Walkmen (2004)
115.Hour of the Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy (2000)
116.Lord Willin – Clipse (2002) new!
117.Echoes - The Rapture (2003)
118.Toxicity – System of a Down (2001)
119.Bitte Orcha - Dirty Projectors (2009)
120.Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not - The Arctic Monkees (2006)
121.Knife Play - Xiu Xiu (2002)
122.Liars - s/t (2007)
123.Lullibies to Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age (2005)
124.Fields Recordings from the Sun - Comets on Fire (2002)
125.Purling Hiss – s/t (2009)
126.April - Sun Kil Moon (2008)
127.Blessing and a Curse - Drive by Truckers (2006)
128.Ceaders – Clearlake (2003)
129.Automatic Midnight – Hot Snakes (2000) new!
130.Jerusalem – Steve Earle (2002) new!
87%
131.Amsterdam - Lofty Pillars (2001)
131.Man on the Moon – Kid Cudi (2009) new!
132.Ritual of Hearts - Maquiladora (2002)
133.Illinois - Sufjan Stevens (2005) up
134.For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver (2007)
135. Coastal - s/t (2001)
136.Desert Farmers – Hannah Marcus (2004) new!
137.Up in Flames - Caribou (Manitoba) (2003)
138.Some Echoes – Aloha (2006)
139.Three - Black Heart Procession (2000)
140.Crossing Dragon Bridge - Steve Wynn (2008)
141.Bromst - Dan Deacon (2009) up
142.Feels - Animal Collective (2005)
143.Translations - Sylvie Lewis (2007)
144.Supermodified – Amon Tobin (2000) new!
145.It Still Moves - My Morning Jacket (2003)
146.Leviathan – Mastadon (2004) up
147.Little Fugitive - Amy Rigby (2005) new!
148.Up the Bracket - The Libertines (2002)
149.Rock it to the Moon - Electrelane (2001)
150.Chutes too Narrow - The Shins (2003)
151.Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float - Drones (2005) new!
152.Noble Beast - Andrew Bird (2009)
153.Crystal Castles - s/t (2008)
154.Marry Me - St. Vincent (2007)
155.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands say Yeah (2005)
156.The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse (2000)
157.Aztec Discipline - Kingsbury Manx (2003)
158.Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float – The Drones (2005)
86%
159.Stankonia – Outkast (2000) new!
160.The College Dropout – Kanye West (2004)
161.La Foret - Xiu Xiu (2005) down
162.Turn off the Bright Lights - Interpol (2002)
163.Memories of Another World - Alcest (2007) new!
164.Low Kick and Hard Bop - Solex (2001)
165.Get Color - Health (2009) new!
166.Feast of Wire – Calexico (2003)
167.Gulag Orkestar – Beirut (2006)
168.Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished - Animal Collective (2000)
169.Onoffon - Mission of Burma (2004)
170.Where You Go I Go Too – Lindstrom (2009)
171.Bringing Home the Last Great Strike - Pinetop Seven (2000) new!
172.Witchcraft Rebellion - Old Time Relijun (2001)
173.Cathedral - Castanets (2004)
174.Sybris - Sybris (2005)
175.White Sands – Maquiladora (2000) new!
176.Roomsound – Califone (2001)
177.All My Friends are Funeral Singers – Califone (2009) down
178.Over the Sun - Shannon Wright (2004)
179.Lullaby for Liquid Pig – Lisa Germano (2003)
180.Bachelor Number 2 - Amiee Mann (2000)
181.Sermon on Exposition Blvd - Rickie Lee Jones (2007)
182.Carried to Dust – Calexico (2008)
183.A Paper Gift - Motion Picture (2001)
184.In the Air – The Handsome Family (2000) new!
185.Halfway to You – Coastal (2004) new!
186.Lateralus - Tool (2001)
187.The Glands - The Glands (2000)
85%
188.Food and Liquor – Lupe Fiasco (2006) new!
189.Kasha iz topora – Gultskra Artikler (2007) new!
190.Kesto – Pan Sonic (2004) new!
191.Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear (2009)
192.The Mysterious Production of Eggs - Andrew Bird (2005)
193.Velocity Design Comport - Sweet Trip (2003) new!
194.Since I Left You – Avalanches (2000) up
195.Los Angeles - Flying Lotus (2008)
196.All Hail West Texas - Mountain Goats (2001)
197.Castaways and Cutouts - The Decemberists (2002)
198.The Crane Wife - Decemberists (2006) new!
199.Rejoicing in the Hands - Devendra Banhart (2004)
200.For Carnation – s/t (2000)
201.Like Her - Volebeats (2005)
202.I'll Sleep When I'm Dead – El-P (2007)
203.Gutter Tactics - Dalek (2009)
204.Black Eyes - s/t (2003)
205.Please….Mr Baulbous - King's X (2000) up
206.Source Tags and Codes- ...And you Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead (2002)
207.Ole! Tarantula - Robyn Hitchcock (2006)
208.From Chaos – 311 (2001)
209.Ghosts of the Great Highway - Sun Kil Moon (2003)
210.Heavy Ghost - DM Smith (2009) up
211.Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga – Spoon (2007)
212.Vincent and Mr. Green - Jade Vincent (2004) new!
213.The Unseen – Quasimoto (2000) new!
214.Bang Bang Rock 'n Roll - Art Brut (2005)
215.Midnight Boom - The Kills (2008)
216.Fur and Gold - Bat for Lashes (2006)
217.Riot Act – Pearl Jam (2002) new!
218.Here Comes the Indian - Animal Collective (2003)
219.In the Vines – Castanets (2007) new!
220.Tangos and Tantrums - Sylvie Lewis (2005)
221.Last Exit - Junior Boys (2004)
222.Vivian Girls - s/t (2008)
223.Maroon - Barenaked Ladies (2000)
224.Tarot Sport – Fuck Buttons (2009) new!
84%
225.Endless Summer – Fennez (2001)
226.Lost Souls - The Doves (2000)
227.Rounds – Four Tet (2003) new!
228.The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow (2008)
229.Gypsy Freedom - Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice (2006)
230.All Hour Cymbals – Yeasayer (2007) new!
231.And the Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out – Yo La Tengo (2000)
232.Comets on Fire - s/t (2001)
233.Alligator - The National (2005)
234.Universal Audio - Delgados (2004)
235.Come Across the River – Heather Duby (2003)
236.Let Us Garlands Bring – Early Day Miners (2002) new!
237.There is No Enemy - Built to Spill (2009)
238.Hold Time – M Ward (2009) new!
239.Dear Science - TV On the Radio (2008)
240.Secret South – 16 Horsepower (2000)
241.The Rising - Bruce Springsteen (2002)
242.Kala – MIA (2007) new!
243.The World Won’t End – Pernice Brothers (2001)
244.Mount Eerie – The Microphones (2003) new!
245.45:33 - LCD Soundsystem (2006)
246.De Stijl - White Stripes (2000)
247.Dyed in the Wool - Shannon Wright (2001)
248.Blacklisted - Neko Case (2002)
249.Z - My Morning Jacket (2005) down
250.Dig Lazarus Dig - Nice Cave (2008)
251.Harmony – Gordon Lightfoot (2004)
252.BRMC – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2001)
253.None Shall Pass – Aesop Rock (2007) new!
254.Scarlet’s Walk – Tori Amos (2002) new!
255.That's Your Fire – Aloha (2000) up
256.Field Songs – Mark Lanegan (2001)
257.Thickfreakness - The Black Keys (2003)
258.Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews (2002)
259.Blackwater Park – Opeth (2001)
260.Devotion - Beach House (2008)
83%
261.Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine (2004)
262.Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers (2005)
263.DIA - Amen Dunes (2009)
264.The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn – Cocorosie (2007) down
265.First Impressions on Earth - The Strokes (2006)
266.A Piece of What You Need - Teddy Thompson (2008)
267.Real Gone - Tom Waits (2004)
268.Nickel Creek – s/t (2000) new!
269.A Piece of Strange – Cunninlynguists (2005) new!
270.The Universe Will Provide - Mike Keneally (2004)
271.Symbiosis - Demdike Stare (2009) new!
272.Sea Change – Beck (2002)
273.The Milk Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom (2004)
274.Seperation Sunday - The Hold Steady (2005)
275.holy fuck - lp (2007)
276.Ha Ha Sound – Broadcast (2003)
277.Ghost Tropic – Songs Ohia (2000) new!
278.Secret Wars – Oneida (2004)
279.Fleet Foxes - s/t (2008) up
280.Street DAD – Out Hud (2002) new!
281.American Idiot - Green Day (2004)
282.Alternative to Love- Branden Benson (2005) down
283.Everything is Good Here/ Please Come Home - Angels of Light (2003)
82%
284.The Visitor – Jim O’Rourke (2009) new!
285.Loud like Nature – Add N to X (2002) new!
286.Hypnotic Underworld - Ghost (2004)
287.LCD Soundsystem - s/t (2005)
288.This Bliss – Pantha du Prince (2007) new!
289.O Brother Where Art Thou – Sndtrk (2000) new!
290.All is Dream - Mercury Rev (2001)
291.Heron King Blues – Califone (2004)
292.Avatar - Comets on Fire (2006)
293.Journal for Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers (2009) new!
294.Mclusky Do Dallas – Mclusky (2002) new!
295.It’s A Game – Edith Frost (2005) new!
296.Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Go! Team (2004)
297.You Can’t Fight What You Can’t See - Girls Against Boys (2002) down
298.Deathconsciousness – Have a Nice Day (2008)
299.Murray Street - Sonic Youth (2002)
300.Jesu – s/t (2004) new!
301.Armchair Apocrypha - Andrew Bird (2007) up
302.Life on other Planets - Supergrass (2002)
303.La Novia – Acid Mothers Temple (2000) new!
304.Way Their Crept - Grouper (2005) new!
305.Mr. Lucky – Chris Issak (2009) new!
306.Bubblegum – Mark Lanegan (2004) new!
307.Suicide Invoice – Hot Snakes (2002) new!
81%
308.Andora - Caribou (2007) new!
309.Frances the Mute – The Mars Volta (2005) new!
310.Stories from the Cites, Stories from the Sea – PJ Harvey (2000) new!
311.A Man Under the Influence - Alejandro Escovedo (2001)
312.Fever Ray – s/t (2009) new!
313.Boy in Da Corner – Dizzie Rascal (2003) new!
314.At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade (2008)
315.A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones (2005)
316.Pound for Pound - Royal Trux (2000)
317.A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party (2007)
318.Writer's Block - Peter, Bjorn, and John (2006)
319.Power in Numbers – Jurassic 5 (2001) new!
320.Dead Prez – s/t (2000) new!
321.Feathers – Dead Meadow (2004) new!
322.The Loon - Tapes n' Tapes (2005) new!
323.Wilco - s/t (2009) new!
324.Weather Systems - Andrew Bird (2003)
325.Attack and Release - The Black Keys (2007)
326.Burnside on Burnside – R.L. Burnside (2001)
327.Tales From New Bohemia – The Dandy Warhols (2000) new!
328.Street Horsing - Fuck Buttons (2008)
329.The Great Misdirect – Between the Buried and Me (2009) new!
330.Tera Melos – s/t (2005) new!
331.Vs 7 Hertz – David Thomas Broughton (2007) new!
332.Veni Vidi Vicious - The Hives (2000) new!
333.Transatlanticism – Death Cab For Cutie (2003) new!
334.Serena Maneesh – s/t (2008)
335.Suburban Light – Clientele (2000) new!
336.Crooked Fingers – s/t (2001)
337.Serena Maneesh – s/t (2005) new!
80%
338.A Promise - Xiu Xiu (2003)
339.Ladybird – Shit and Shine (2005)
340.Lovetune for Vacuum – Soap and Skin (2009) new!
341.The W – Wu Tang Clan (2000) new!
342.From the Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots – Dalek (2002)
343.Late Registration – Kanye West (2005)
344.Never Hear the End of It - Sloan (2006) new!
345.Hospice - The Antlers (2009)
346.Mapmaker - Parts and Labor (2007) down
347.How I Loved You – The Angels of Light (2001) new!
348.Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle – Bill Callahan (2009) new!
349.Workout Holiday - White Denim (2008)
350.The Dirty South – The Drive by Truckers (2004)
351.Under an Hour - Menomena (2005)
352.Them Crooked Vultures - s/t (2009) new!
353.Brightblack Morning Light - s/t (2006) new!
354.Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age (2002) new!
355.Furnace Room Lullaby – Neko Case (2000)
356.Singing Bones – The Handsome Family (2003) new!
357.EP - Fiery Furnaces (2005) new!
358.Jewelery – Miccachu (2009) new!
359.A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park (2005)
360.The Later After – DJ Hidden (2007) new!
361.Shadow on the Sun – Zen Guerrilla (2001) new!
362.White Pony – Deftones (2000)
363.The Love Language – s/t (2009) new!
364.The Big Come Up - The Black Keys (2002)
365.Passover – The Black Angels (2006) new!
366.The Magnolia Electric Company – Songs: Ohia (2003) new!
367.Non-Stop Je Te Pile Deux - We are Wolves (2005)
368.21st Century Breakdown – Green Day (2009) new!
369.Thought for Food – The Books (2000) new!