The Decade in Music

The 200 Best-Reviewed Albums of the 2000s

 101 - 200

101. Comicopera - Robert Wyatt
102. Monoliths & Dimensions - Sunn O)))
103. Welcome To Mali - Amadou & Mariam
104. Mirrored - Battles
105. Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts - M83
106. Fixed::Context[EP] - Labradford
107. Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
108. Estudando o Pagode - Tom Ze
109. Robyn - Robyn
110. Separation Sunday - The Hold Steady
111. The Decline of British Sea Power - British Sea Power
112. Quicksand / Cradlesnakes - Califone
113. Blues Dream - Bill frisell
114. Rings Around The World - Super Furry Animals
115. You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
116. Minimum-Maximum [Live] - Kraftwerk
117. Thunder, Lightening, Strike - The Go! Team
118. Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds Vol. 2 - Jill Scott
119. 'Sno Angel Like You - Howe Gelb
120. Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains of Wayne
121. 45:33 - LCD Soundsystem
122. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
123. Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River
124. Feast of Wire - Calexico
125. What Does it All Mean? 1983 - 2006 Retrospective - Steinski
126. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
127. Chavez Ravine - Ry Cooder
128. Trancendental Blues - Steve Earle
129. Harps And Angels - Randy Newman
130. Fortress - Protest The Hero
131. Boxer - The National
132. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
133. The Wind - Warren Zevon
134. All Hands on The Bad One - Sleater - Kinney
135. Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton
136. Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine - Cee-Lo
137. The Lemon Of Pink - The Books
138. Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Bob Dylan
139. Hospice - The Antlers
140. Ocean's Eleven OST - David Holmes
141. The Intercontinentals - Bill risell
142. OST - 24 Hour Party People
143. The Convincer - Nick Lowe
144. The Mysterious Production of Eggs - Andrew Bird
145. Rook - Shearwater
146. Party Music - The Corp 
147. Life... The Best Game In Town - Harvey Milk
148. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
149. Third - Portishead
150. Don't give Up On Me - Solomon Burke
151. Didn't it Rain - Songs: Ohia
152. Holopaw - Holopaw
153. Girls Can Tell - Spoon
154. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
155. Pause - Four Tet
156. Magnolia Electric Co. - Songs: Ohia
157. Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition - Murs
158. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
159. Laulu Laakson Kukista - Paavoharju
160. Mesmerize - System of A Down
161. Beauty And The Beat - Edan
162. Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
163. For Hero: For Fool - Subtle
164. New Moon - Elliot Smith
165. The Drift - Scott Walker
166. Streetcore - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
167. The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions In The Sky
168. Source Tags & Codes - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
169. Happy Songs For Happy People - Mogwai
170. Oceans Apart - The Go-Betweens
171. Vekatimest - Grizzly Bear
172. Kicking Television: Live In Chicago - Wilco
173. The Real New Fall L.P. (Formerly country On The Click) - The Fall
174. Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan Band
175. Tenacious D - Tenacious D
176. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
177. Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers
178. Wind's Poem - Mount Eerie
179. I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass - Yo La Tengo
180. Chemistry of Common Life - Fucked Up
181. Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
182. Crimes - The Blood Brothers
183. Blinking Lights And Other Revelations - Eels
184. Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie
185. Run To Ruin - Nina Nastasia
186. Dongs of Sevotion - Smog
187. The Meadowlands - The Wrens
188. Boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady
189. Ys - Joanna Newsorn
190. Late Registration - Kanye West
191. Supermodified - Amon Tobin
192. Kish Kash - Basement Jaxx
193. Revolution - Miranda Lambert
194. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Miranda Lambert
195. Axe To Fall - Converge
196. One Beat - Sleater-Kinney
197. This Right Here Is Buck 65 - Buck 65
198. Cole's Corner - Richard Hawley
199. Emeritus - Scarface
200. Lookaftering - Vashti Bunyan

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The 200 Best-Reviewed Albums of the 2000s
   
   1 - 100

1. Smile - Brian Wilson
2. Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn 
3. How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin 
4. Live at Reading - Nirvana 
5. Stankonia - OutKast
6. Savane - Ali Farka Toure
7. Madvillainy - Madvillain
8. The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Release] - Talking Heads
   
9. Love and Theft - Bob Dylan
10. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards - Tom Waits
    
11. Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
12. Elephant - The White Stripes
13. Live In London - Leonard Cohen
14. A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
15. Speakerboxx/The Love Below - OutKast
16. Canto - Los Super Seven
17. From Here We Go Sublime - The Field
    
18. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
    
19. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
    
20. Alice - Tom Waits
21. Is This It - The Strokes
22. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
23. London Zoo - The Bug
24. Untrue - Burial
25. XTRMNTR - Primal Scream
26. Z - My Morning Jacket
27. Since I Left You - The Avalanches
28. Neon Golden - The Notwist
29. Rounds - Four Tet
30. Modern Times - Bob Dylan
31. Miss E... So Addictive - Missy Elliot
32. HoboSapiens - John Cale
33. Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo) - Aimee Mann
34. Fed - Plush
35. Last Exit - Junior Boys
36. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
37. Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
38. Wearemonster - Isolee
39. Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse
40. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
41. Yours, Mine & Ours - Pernice Brothers
42. Hypermagic Mountain - Lightening Bolt
43. 69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields
44. Ta Det Lugnt - Dungen
45. Dear Science, - TV On The Radio
46. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II - Raekwon
47. Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio
48. Wicked Grin - John Hammond
49. Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey
50. Up In Flames - Manitoba
51. College Dropout - Kanye West
52. Where Shall You Take Me - Damien Jurado
53. Rejoining In The Hands - Bevendra Banhart
54. Vespertine - Bjork
55. From A Basement On The Hill - Elliot Smith
56. The Blueprint - Jay-Z
57. In Rainbows - Radiohead
58. The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
59. Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer
60. Kill The Moonlight - Spoon
61. Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
62. I Am A Bird Now - Antony And The Johnsons
63. Fishscale - Ghostface Killah
64. Arular - M.I.A.
65. Remedy - Basement Jaxx
66. Exit - Shugo Tokumaru
67. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
68. Leaves Turn Inside You - Unwound
69. Person Pitch - Panda Bear
70. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
71. The Argument - Fugazi
72. Decoration Day - Drive-by Truckers
73. Showtime - Dizzee Rascal
74. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
75. The Dirty South - Drive By Truckers
76. The Town And The City - Los Lobos
77. The World Without Tears - Lucinda Williams
78. Things We Lost In The Fire - Low
79. Cold House - Hood
80. Now, More Than Ever - Jim Gutherie
81. Raising Sand - Robert Pland And Alison Krauss
82. Let's Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav
83. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
84. Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
85. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire
86. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
87. Congotronics - Konono No. 1
88. Stumble Into Grace - Emmylou Harris
89. Phrenology - The Roots
90. Favourite Colors - The Sadies
91. The Creek Drank The Cradle - Iron & Wine
92. Children Running Through - Patty Griffin
93. Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
94. Kala - M.I.A
95. Phantom Power - Super Furry Animals
96. Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers
97. Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
98. American Saturday Night - Brad Paisley
99. One Word Extinguisher - Prefuse 73
100. Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch

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Well, allow me first to introduce myself:

I'm Justin.

There, now that's over with I suppose I can tell you a little bit about where I'm coming from and how I ended up writing this blog:

• I just graduated a few months ago with an unfortunate degree in Psychology. No, I'm not saying Psychology degrees are worthless, it's just that I've long since decided that it isn't really where I want to pursue a career.

• See, about halfway through my college years I began studying digital arts, or more specifically 3d Modeling, Animation, and Visual Effects. I fell in love with it almost immediately, and it really is where my passion lies. However, my school's program was brand new and not yet offered as a major, so....

• So, I finished my psychology degree, and with the rest of my schedule space I took every digital arts course available and worked hard to learn the craft.

Now what on earth
Does any of that have to do with a blog about music?

• Well, in the process of learning digital arts, my time spent in front of a computer increased drastically, and so did my time spent listening to music.

• When i read, and to a slightly lesser extent when I write, I find music to be very, very distracting, almost to the point where it's pretty impossible for me to effectively read with music on.

• Working on art is an entirely different monster though, and when I'm drawing, painting, modeling, or animating, playing music is far from distracting and can really inspire my ideas and creativity.

• Naturally, as my hours spent listening to music increased, so did my interest in finding new artists and albums to listen to, and I started using Pandora, Last.Fm, Amazon, Metacritic, iTunes, etc. to build my awareness of what's out there in the music world today.

Like many, I'm very interested in how music has been revolutionized and influenced by technology over the last decade or so, and this interest paired with my recently increased interest in music discovery are really the impetus for initiating this project of mine.

To conclude,

I want to emphasize that I don't have any sort of special training in music, nor am I particularly knowledgeable on the subject. I don't intend to "review" any albums here, nor do I intend to listen with a particularly critical ear. My write-ups are meant more to convey my personal experience and reaction than anything else, and maybe give readers a better feel for artists and albums they haven't heard.

This project of mine is really about discovering and listening to a lot of artists and albums from the past ten years that I probably never would have heard otherwise, and maybe helping others do the same.