Top Albums from the 2000s ('00 to '09)
After listening to 280 critically acclaimed albums of all genres from the first decade of the new millennium I’ve ranked them to find the best albums of the 2000’s. |
| 1 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
(2000)
Alt Rock, Electronic, Indie Rock |
| 2 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(2000)
Post Rock |
| 3 |  | Arcade Fire
Funeral
(2004)
Indie Rock |
| 4 |  | Converge
Jane Doe
(2001)
Metalcore |
| 5 |  | Tool
Lateralus
(2001)
Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock |
| 6 |  | Brand New
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
(2006)
Emo, Indie Rock |
| 7 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
(2001)
Progressive Metal |
| 8 |  | Burial
Untrue
(2007)
Electronic |
| 9 |  | Gospel
The Moon Is a Dead World
(2005)
Post Hardcore |
| 10 |  | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
(2009)
Indie Pop, Electronic |
| 11 |  | Agalloch
The Mantle
(2002)
Black Metal, Folk |
| 12 |  | The Antlers
Hospice
(2009)
Indie Rock |
| 13 |  | At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
(2000)
Post Hardcore |
| 14 |  | The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium
(2003)
Progressive Rock |
| 15 |  | Between the Buried and Me
Colors
(2007)
Progressive Metal, Metalcore |
| 16 |  | Frightened Rabbit
The Midnight Organ Fight
(2008)
Indie Rock |
| 17 |  | Unwound
Leaves Turn Inside You
(2001)
Post Hardcore, Indie Rock, Alt Rock |
| 18 |  | Kashiwa Daisuke
Program Music I
(2007)
Electronic |
| 19 |  | Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica
(2000)
Indie Rock, Alt Rock |
| 20 |  | Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP
(2000)
Hip Hop |
| 21 |  | Isis
Panopticon
(2004)
Post Metal |
| 22 |  | dredg
El Cielo
(2002)
Alt Rock, Progressive Rock |
| 23 |  | mewithoutYou
Brother, Sister
(2006)
Indie Rock, Post Hardcore |
| 24 |  | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
(2009)
Death Metal, Post Metal |
| 25 |  | The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2
(2001)
Lo-fi, Indie Rock |
| 26 |  | Immolation
Close to a World Below
(2000)
Death Metal |
| 27 |  | Daft Punk
Discovery
(2001)
Electronic |
| 28 |  | Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb
(2003)
Ska |
| 29 |  | Interpol
Turn on the Bright Lights
(2002)
Post Punk, Indie Rock |
| 30 |  | Jay-Z
The Blueprint
(2001)
Hip Hop |
| 31 |  | The National
Boxer
(2007)
Indie Rock, Post Punk |
| 32 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
(2002)
Stoner Rock, Alt Rock |
| 33 |  | Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
(2002)
Indie Rock, Country |
| 34 |  | The Avalanches
Since I Left You
(2000)
Electronic |
| 35 |  | Off Minor
The Heat Death of the Universe
(2003)
Post Hardcore |
| 36 |  | The Strokes
Is This It
(2001)
Indie Rock |
| 37 |  | Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It in People
(2002)
Indie Rock |
| 38 |  | maudlin of the Well
Bath
(2001)
Progressive Metal |
| 39 |  | Nujabes
Modal Soul
(2005)
Hip Hop, Jazz |
| 40 |  | Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
(2007)
Folk, Indie Folk, Indie Rock |
| 41 |  | Madvillain
Madvillainy
(2004)
Hip Hop |
| 42 |  | The National
Alligator
(2005)
Indie Rock, Post Punk |
| 43 |  | Boris
Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
(2003)
Drone, Doom Metal |
| 44 |  | Neurosis
The Eye of Every Storm
(2004)
Post Metal |
| 45 |  | Circle Takes the Square
As the Roots Undo
(2004)
Post Hardcore |
| 46 |  | Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
(2005)
Indie Rock |
| 47 |  | Stars of the Lid
And Their Refinement Of The Decline
(2007)
Ambient |
| 48 |  | Shiina Ringo
Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana
(2003)
Pop, Jazz |
| 49 |  | The Decemberists
The Crane Wife
(2006)
Indie Rock, Indie Folk |
| 50 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows
(2007)
Alt Rock, Electronic, Indie Rock |
| 51 |  | Mew
Frengers
(2003)
Indie Pop |
| 52 |  | The Ruins Of Beverast
Rain Upon The Impure
(2006)
Black Metal |
| 53 |  | Defeater
Travels
(2008)
Post Hardcore, Hardcore |
| 54 |  | The Mountain Goats
All Hail West Texas
(2002)
Indie Rock, Indie Folk |
| 55 |  | Sun Kil Moon
Ghosts of the Great Highway
(2003)
Indie Folk, Folk, Indie Rock |
| 56 |  | Nujabes
Metaphorical Music
(2003)
Hip Hop, Jazz |
| 57 |  | Blackalicious
Blazing Arrow
(2002)
Hip Hop |
| 58 |  | Agalloch
Ashes Against the Grain
(2006)
Black Metal, Folk |
| 59 |  | Blink-182
blink-182
(2003)
Pop Punk |
| 60 |  | The Weakerthans
Reconstruction Site
(2003)
Indie Rock |
| 61 |  | 0edit
Neotokyo
(2009)
Electronic |
| 62 |  | Carissa's Wierd
Songs About Leaving
(2002)
Indie Folk, Indie Rock |
| 63 |  | Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye
(2003)
Post Metal |
| 64 |  | Guthrie Govan
Erotic Cakes
(2006)
Jazz Fusion |
| 65 |  | Kanye West
Late Registration
(2005)
Hip Hop |
| 66 |  | Cynic
Traced in Air
(2008)
Progressive Metal, Death Metal |
| 67 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Rated R |
| 68 |  | Isis
Oceanic
(2002)
Post Metal |
| 69 |  | Jay-Z
The Black Album
(2003)
Hip Hop |
| 71 |  | Elliott Smith
Figure 8
(2000)
Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Folk |
| 72 |  | CunninLynguists
A Piece Of Strange
(2006)
Hip Hop |
| 73 |  | Porcupine Tree
In Absentia
(2002)
Progressive Rock |
| 74 |  | Sweet Trip
Velocity : Design : Comfort
(2003)
Electronic, Shoegaze |
| 75 |  | Moonsorrow
Verisäkeet
(2005)
Black Metal, Folk |
| 76 |  | Discordance Axis
The Inalienable Dreamless
(2000)
Grind |
| 77 |  | Have a Nice Life
Deathconsciousness
(2008)
Post Punk, Ambient |
| 78 |  | Cult of Luna
Somewhere Along the Highway
(2006)
Post Metal |
| 79 |  | LCD Soundsystem
Sound of Silver
(2007)
Electronic, Post Punk, Indie Rock |
| 80 |  | Death Cab for Cutie
Transatlanticism
(2003)
Indie Rock |
| 81 |  | Tigers on Trains
Grandfather
(2009)
Indie Folk, Folk |
| 82 |  | Oceansize
Frames
(2007)
Progressive Rock |
| 83 |  | Rx Bandits
Mandala
(2009)
Progressive Rock |
| 84 |  | Grouper
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
(2008)
Dream Pop, Ambient |
| 85 |  | Rosetta
The Galilean Satellites
(2005)
Post Metal |
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