Here's my own (top-of-the-head, barely-sorted) favorite albums of the 00s list:
- Spoon - Girls Can Tell
- White Stripes - White Blood Cells
- Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
- Gillian Welch - Time The Revelator
- Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production Of Eggs
- Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow
- Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked
- Marah - If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry
- Shins - Oh, Inverted World
- New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
- Green Day - American Idiot
- Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Matt Pond PA - Last Light
- Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
- Black Keys - Attack & Release
- Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
- No Knife - Riot For Romance
So there.
Congratulations to The Shins, Wilco, Rogue Wave and Spoon, for each appearing twice!
Tall order as it’s been a fine decade. In no particular order:
1. Radiohead, Kid A
2. Radiohead, In Rainbows.
3. The White Stripes, White Blood Cells.
4. Green Day, American Idiot.
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell.
6. The Strokes, Is This It?
7. Thom Yorke, The Eraser.
8. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.
9. The Shins, Wincing The Night Away.
10. The Raconteurs, Consolers Of The Lonely.
11. B.R.M.C. – Baby 81
12. QOTSA, Songs For The Deaf.
13. Portishead, Three.
14. PJ Harvey, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.
15. Supergrass, Life On Other Planets.
16. Muse, Origin Of Symmetry.
17. MGMT, Oracular Spectacular.
18. Doves, The Last Broadcast.
19. Metric, Live It Out.
20. The Dandy Warhols, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia.
21. Graham Coxon, Happiness In Magazines.
22. Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand.
23. Arctic Monkeys, Whatever They Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
24. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm.
25. Arcade Fire, Funeral.
I could go on … and on … I’ve missed out loads.
a bunch of those were right on the edge of my list. (Kid A, Franz, MGMT, Monkeys, etc).
PJ Harvey, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
i’m gonna have to check this out. i really liked her first few records but kindof lost track of her after 95 or so.
I love how Pj Harvey reinvents herself with every album – here last 3 or 4 albums sounds totally different.
I could of made my list a lot longer – I’m missing a couple of other Radiohead releases, some more ‘Stripes, Flaming Lips, Charlatans, Elbow, Feist, Gorillaz, Howling Bells, Jenny Lewis, Kasabian, Killers, Kings of Leon, Rilo Kiley, Secret Machine, TSOOL, Super Furry Animals, Tapes N’ Tapes…
Ack. My iTunes 00s playlist is over 400 albums long.
I’ve listened to that Wilco album twice today and it’s really growing on me BTW. Yay!
I’m glad to see somebody putting Chutes Too Narrow above Oh, Inverted World. I do like both albums, but I feel Chutes far surpasses its predecessor in both production quality and songwriting craft.
Yet I see a trend (mostly among Insufferable Music Snobs, I suppose) to declare that everything has gone downhill since the first album. I’m not buying it.
Forget the ’00’s — turns out the Beatles never broke up! Dig his FAQs.
I’m glad to see somebody putting Chutes Too Narrow above Oh, Inverted World.
without a doubt. C.T.N. is my fav Shins album.