Favorite Albums of the 2000s
More lists, ahoy! This time, it's my picks for top 15 favorite albums of each decade (other AFINers are at liberty to post theirs as well). Since so many of the other end-of-decade lists are best-of-centric, I figured I would step away from that to highlight my personal favorites, rather than collecting just what is critically acclaimed/respected by legions of people. Yes, there will be a number of "popular" choices here, but these are all albums that I adore and have re-listened to many, many times, including albums that were introduced to me through various channels and people and fantastic independently-released albums. As usual, you are more than welcome to list your 2000s favorites in the comments, as well as throw virtual tomatoes at me for not including picks you think I ought to know about, since there's still so much out there I've got to hear! A quick re-cap of my recent 2009 albums picks first - an essay-styled article to accompany my take on music in the 2000s is forthcoming this week (not in this post, as I am in right in the midst of the process of moving) so stay tuned:
2009
1. The Horrors - Primary Colours
2. TwinSisterMoon - The Hollow Mountain
3. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
4. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
5. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
6. Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
7. Blank Dogs - Under and Under
8. La Roux - La Roux
9. Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
10. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2008
1. thenewno2 - You Are Here
2. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
3. Isengrind / TwinSisterMoon / Natural Snow Buildings - The Snowbringer Cult
4. The Kills - Midnight Boom
5. Adam Green - Sixes & Sevens
6. Burnt Fur - Unfurl
7. Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
8. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
9. Mt. Moon - A Burial in Seven Births
10. Panda steps in chocolate - Just Pretend You're a Pegasus
11. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
12. The Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde
13. Cheveu - Cheveu
14. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
15. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
2007
2. HEALTH - HEALTH
3. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
4. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
5. The Horrors - Strange House
6. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
7. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
10. !!! - Myth Takes
11. Coconut Records - Nighttiming
12. TwinSisterMoon - When Stars Glide Through Solid
13. Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
14. Radiohead - In Rainbows
15. Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
20061. Adam Green - Jacket Full of Danger
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. Belbury Poly - The Owl's Map
4. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
5. Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang
6. Ratatat - Classics
7. Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
8. Hot Chip - The Warning
9. Nicky Wire - I Killed the Zeitgeist
10. Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere
11. Zero 7 - The Garden
12. The Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men
13. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
14. The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
15. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
2005
2. The Kills - No Wow
3. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
4. Adam Green - Gemstones
5. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
6. Grouper - Way Their Crept
7. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
8. The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
9. Boris - Pink
10. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
11. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
12. Franz Ferdnand - You Could Have it So Much Better
13. Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
14. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
15. Beck - Guero
2004
2. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3. The Libertines - The Libertines
4. The Killers - Hot Fuss
5. Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
6. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
7. The Skygreen Leopards - One Thousand Bird Ceremony
8. Belbury Poly - The Willows
9. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
10. Madvillain - Madvillainy
11. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
12. Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
13. Interpol - Antics
14. Mission of Burma - ONoffON
15. Susumu Yokota - Symbol
2003
2. The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
3. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
4. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
5. Rufus Wainwright - Want One
6. The White Stripes - Elephant
7. Adam Green - Friends of Mine
8. The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
9. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
10. Blur - Think Tank
11. Room on Fire - The Strokes
12. Massive Attack - 100th Window
13. Lighting Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
14. Jay-Z - The Black Album
15. The Rapture - Echoes
2002
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
3. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
4. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5. The Young Knives - ...Are Dead
6. Les Rallizes Dénudés - Heavier Than a Death in the Family
7. Doves - The Last Broadcast
8. Beck - Sea Change
9. Susumu Yokota - The Boy and The Tree
10. Ladytron - Light & Magic
11. Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My... The Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit
12. Tom Waits - Alice
13. Glifted - Under and In
14. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
15. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy X: Piano Collections
2001
2. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
3. The Fall - Are You Are Missing Winner
4. Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
5. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
6. Ladytron - 604
7. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery, Repetition & Noise
8. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
9. Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
10. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
11. Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
12. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
13. Robots in Disguise - Robots in Disguise
14. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
15. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
2000
1. The White Stripes - De Stijl 2. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy IX
5. Air - The Virgin Suicides
6. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
7. Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
8. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
9. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
10. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
11. Cat Power - The Covers Record
12. The Fall - The Unutterable
13. Outkast - Stankonia
14. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
15. XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 1)
10 COMMENTS / POST COMMENT:
Overall, very nice list. I especially like your 2003 and 2009 top picks. However, I am appalled at the lack of M.I.A.
Yeah glad to have ur end decade lists in a new fashion, i hadn't even heard of your 2008's #1, and it's always cool to hear unappreciated unheard material. i think you can make a list for your favorite track, too! good luck Marlyn.
Thanks Marilyn! Burnt Fur #6 for '08! YAY! You Rock!
Patrik & Scott
Thank God someone finally put 'Demon Days' in their decade list. You have no idea how appalling it was to see that opted out in every magazine this month.
<3 Lovely list, though. I quite enjoy reading your blog. Glad I found you on Tumblr!
- achtung
this is amazing. i will have to look out for the ones i don't know. i believe in the future of noise because of you, Marilyn.
solid list, Marilyn. lovin the Kills up there. Keep in touch!
Marc & Red Bellows
my gOOdness- i'm so excited to see burnt fur's 'unfurl' on the '08 list among all these other great artists! word to ya moms, marilyn!!
-shana (formerly of burnt fur)
<3
What, no Gnarls Barkley? Shame. St. Elsewhere belongs on your list.
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