I made a list with this idea when I was still a teen. So I thought I'd make an updated version. I do still think it's the best decade for music, with the 70s for second best.
It was honestly hard to contain it to 100, there's so many amazing albums.
@RadioSuicide I'd be interested to see a similar list for the 00s. Lots of great stuff from that decade. When I think about tho, nowhere near as many classics or top tier albums come to mind.
that’s fair, especially if a lot of the more prevalent genres here are your favorites. hip hop, dm, noise rock, and hxc all more less peaked in the 90s imo.
some 00s essentials off the top of my head:
The National - Alligator/Boxer
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Oxbow - An Evil Heat/Narcotic Story
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
Glassjaw - EYEWTKAS/Worship and Tribute
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun/In Absentia/Deadwing/FOABP
Opeth - Blackwater Park/Deliverance/Ghost Reveries
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Sufjan - Seven Swans/Illinois
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play/A Promise/Fabulous Muscles/The Air Force
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Kanye - The College Dropout/Late Registration
GY!BE - LYSFLAtH
Converge - Jane Doe/You Fail Me/Petitioning The Empty Sky/No Heroes/Axe To Fall
Cave In - Jupiter
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving/Reconstruction Site
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues
Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
Ween - Quebec/Live at Stubb’s
Tool - Lateralus
Flylo - Los Angeles
CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes/New Erections
Protest the Hero - Kezia/Fortress
SikTh- Death of a Dead Day/The Trees…
SOAD - Toxicity/Steal This Album!
Benighted - Icon
La Dispute - Somewhere…
mewithoutYou- Brother, Sister/Catch For Us The Foxes
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors/LIFTED/I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
i could go on and on, and maybe i will make that list, but 00s can definitely hold their own in an all timer convo
Nice dude. Undeniably a lot of great stuff. Some of my fave albums of all time are 00s. Like Panopticon, Geogaddi, Leaving Your Body Map, Dead as Dreams and The Always Open Mouth.