Best Albums of 2000-2007

boroff89

In honor of these ridiculous threads that suggest this has been a bad decade for music, here's my top 20 non-Pearl Jam albums from January 1, 2000 up until now:

1. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (It really is that good)
2. The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow
3. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
4. Green Day- American Idiot
5. Beck- Sea Change
6. The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
7. The Shins- Wincing the Night Away
8. Arcade Fire- Funeral
9. Incubus- Morning View
10. Thrice- Vheissu
11. Radiohead- Kid A
12. Wilco- A Ghost is Born
13. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
14. Death Cab for Cutie- Plans
15. The Shins- Oh Inverted World
16. Idlewild- The Remote Part
17. Incubus- A Crow Left of the Murder
18. AFI- Sing the Sorrow
19. Sleater Kinney- The Woods
20. Mark Lanegan Band- Bubblegum

There are a ton of others that could have just as easily been on this list, but my main point is, there has been some spectacular stuff made in the last seven years.

pearljam_addiction

Oh God i need like a Week to narrow my list down

boroff89

pearljam_addiction wrote:

Oh God i need like a Week to narrow my list down

Yeah, I just did this quickly because I was irritated with some of the posts on the other threads.

pearlzepfan

Here's mine off the top of my head right now:

Bob Dylan's "Love And Theft"
Arcade Fire "Funeral"
The Libertines "Up The Bracket"
Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
Kasabian "Empire"
The White Stripes "Elephant"

Those are my favorites so far. Pretty safe list, but they're what I'm listening to these days

culot4

boroff89 wrote:

In honor of these ridiculous threads that suggest this has been a bad decade for music, here's my top 20 non-Pearl Jam albums from January 1, 2000 up until now:


The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow
Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antarctica
Green Day- American Idiot
Beck- Sea Change
The Shins- Oh Inverted World

I'm too lazy to really give this more thought right now but from your list I would definately agree with these.

pearljam_addiction

ok here is my list , and i hate it because there are sooooo many i havent listed and want to,

1.) My morning Jacket- It still Moves
2.) Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
3.) Sparta- Wire Tap Scars
4.) The Arcade fire- Funeral
5.) Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
6.) Sleater-Kinney- the Woods
7.) Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak
8.) Thursday- War All the Time
9.) Damien Rice- O
10) Ray LaMontagne- Trouble
11) Broken Social Scene- S/T
12) Thrice- The Artist in the Ambulance
13) Dashboard confessional- the Places you Have come to Fear The Most
14) ColdPlay- Parachutes
15) Coheed and Cambria- Second Stage Turbine Blade
16) the Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatorium
17) Brand New- The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
18) And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of Dead- Worlds Apart
19) Jack Johnson- In Between Dreams
20) the Killers- Hot Fuss
21) Sufjan Stevens- Seven Swans
22) John Butler Trio- Sunrise over Sea
23) AFI- Sing the sorrow
24) Circa Survive- Juturna
25) The Early november- The Rooms too Cold

Todd76

So many people on this board have been left behind in the '90s....as illustrated by the "ridiculous threads" about how terrible '00s have been

my 2000-2007 list could be a mile long, as I personally think this decade has been freakin amazing for music.....here we go:

2000
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant
the Cure - Bloodflowers
the Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Doves - Lost Souls
Elliot Smith - Figure 8
Grandaddy - the Sophtware Slump
Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers
Morphine - the Night
Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Radiohead - Kid A
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
Ween - White Pepper
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

2001
Bjork - Vespertine
Death Cab For Cutie - the Photo Album
Hayden - Skyscraper National Park
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
Mogwai - Rock Action
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Rheostatics - Night Of The Shooting Stars
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
the Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life

2002
Beck - Sea Change
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Doves - Last Broadcast
the Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui UXO
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Sigur Ros - ()
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2003
Cat Power - You Are Free
Damien Rice - O
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Grandaddy - Sumday
Kathleen Edwards - Failer
Metric - Old World Underground Where Are You Now
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter
the Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Sloan - Action Pact
Stars - Heart
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
Ween - Quebec
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun

.......this is exhausting - and i'm sure nobody has bothered to read this far anyways - so i'm stopping at 2003

stateoflove79

Pearl Jam: Lost Dogs, Riot Act, Avocado
Smashing Pumpkins: Machina
Radiohead: Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief
RHCP: By The Way, Stadium Arcadium
Mars Volta: Frances The Mute, De-Loused In The Comatorium, Amputechture
NIN: With Teeth
Tool: 10,000 Days, Lateralus
Dream Theater: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, Train Of Thought, Octavarium
A Perfect Circle: Thirteen Steps
Incubus: Moening View, A Crow Left Of The Murder, Light Grenades
Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism, Plans
Sparta: Porcelain, Threes, Wiretap Scars
My Morning Jacket: Z, It Still Moves

many many more...

Dercheef

1. The Strokes - Is This it
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
6. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
7. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
8. We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
9. The Strokes- First Impressons Of Earth
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
11. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
12. The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
13. Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
14. Deftones - White Pony
15. Muse - Absolution
16. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
17. Kimono - Arctic Death Ship
18. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
19. Audioslave -Audioslave
20. Mando Diao - Hurricane Bar

Tek Money

Here are the albums I love that I have on my PC... I have more on my CD rack and more in my MP3 player but I am too lazy to check... In Alphabetical Order:

AC Newman - The Slow Wonder
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
The Dears - Gang of Losers
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Destroyer - Your Blues
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
John Mayer - Heavier Things
John Mayer - Continuum
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Local Rabbits - This is it here we go
Loose Fur - S/T
Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
Matthew Good - Avalanche
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Metric - Live it Out
Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
My Morning Jacket - Z
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Neko Case - Austin City Limits
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Novillero - Aim right for the Holes in their Lives
Pilate - Caught by the Window
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
The Rheostatics - 2067
The Rheostatics - Night of the Shooting Stars
Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Ryan Adams - Gold
Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
Ryans Adams - Cold Roses
Sarah Harmer - I am a Mountain
The Shins - Oh Inverted World
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Sigur Ros - No Title
Sigur Ros - Takk
Tapes 'n' Tapes - The Loon
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - 10,000 days
The Tragically Hip - In Between Evolution
The Tragically Hip - In Violet Light
The Tragically Hip - World Container
Tv on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The White Stripes - Get Behind me Satan
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

boroff89

Todd76 wrote:

So many people on this board have been left behind in the '90s....as illustrated by the "ridiculous threads" about how terrible '00s have been

my 2000-2007 list could be a mile long, as I personally think this decade has been freakin amazing for music.....here we go:

2000
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant
the Cure - Bloodflowers
the Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Doves - Lost Souls
Elliot Smith - Figure 8
Grandaddy - the Sophtware Slump
Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers
Morphine - the Night
Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Radiohead - Kid A
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
Ween - White Pepper
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

2001
Bjork - Vespertine
Death Cab For Cutie - the Photo Album
Hayden - Skyscraper National Park
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
Mogwai - Rock Action
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Rheostatics - Night Of The Shooting Stars
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
the Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life

2002
Beck - Sea Change
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Doves - Last Broadcast
the Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui UXO
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Sigur Ros - ()
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2003
Cat Power - You Are Free
Damien Rice - O
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Grandaddy - Sumday
Kathleen Edwards - Failer
Metric - Old World Underground Where Are You Now
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter
the Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Sloan - Action Pact
Stars - Heart
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
Ween - Quebec
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun

.......this is exhausting - and i'm sure nobody has bothered to read this far anyways - so i'm stopping at 2003

I read them all, and I appreciate your thoroughness. I just hope that when some of the close-minded folks on the board see albums popping up repeatedly on people's lists, they actually make an effort to leave the early 90s and give those albums a try. Based on that goal, if you could narrow it down to 20 that you think everyone should own or at least give some attention, that would be awesome.

mdigenakis

Good music is hard to find, especially if you don't have the time and your only outlet is the "top 40". Threads like these help though, speaking from personal experience.

drew0

I've used these threads a lot to find music from this decade, as living in a small town all I have access to is MTV, VH1, Top 40 Radio, my peers (who love MRC & Fall Out Boy), and the Internet...so I've used this a lot. However, I've found most of the music from this period that people love on here to be very boring, unintersting, and redundant..but that's just me.

I can't really rank them, however, so here are my absolute favorites...

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The White Stripes - Elephant
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Wilco - Kicking Television
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Tool - Lateralus
The Strokes - Is This It?
Deftones - White Pony
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Todd76

boroff89 wrote:

I read them all, and I appreciate your thoroughness. I just hope that when some of the close-minded folks on the board see albums popping up repeatedly on people's lists, they actually make an effort to leave the early 90s and give those albums a try. Based on that goal, if you could narrow it down to 20 that you think everyone should own or at least give some attention, that would be awesome.

thanks - i too appreciate your thoroughness

Top 25'ish

Arcade Fire - Funeral, Neon Bible
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People, s/t
the Dears - No Cities Left, Gang Of Losers
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism, Plans
the Decemberists - Picaresque, the Crane Wife
Doves - Lost Souls
the Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Grandaddy - Sumday
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Metric - Old World Underground Where Are You Now
Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter
the New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Radiohead - Kid A
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here, All Of Our Names
the Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sigur Ros - ()
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Stars - Heart
Ween - White Pepper
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Yo La Tengo - And The Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

Alex_Coe

I don't like these kinds of threads because instead of listing the best albums of 2000+, everybody is likely going to list their favorite bands.

That said, I normally don't like Fu Manchu, but All Systems Are Go was a great album.

Tek Money

Alex_Coe wrote:

I don't like these kinds of threads because instead of listing the best albums of 2000+, everybody is likely going to list their favorite bands.

That said, I normally don't like Fu Manchu, but All Systems Are Go was a great album.

You need to take a more positive look at things. You are nothing but negative and grumpy.

boroff89

Alex_Coe wrote:

I don't like these kinds of threads because instead of listing the best albums of 2000+, everybody is likely going to list their favorite bands.

That said, I normally don't like Fu Manchu, but All Systems Are Go was a great album.

This isn't about creating some objective greatest albums list. There is no such thing as objectivity. This is about the albums from the past seven years that people on this board really love. Most of the time, when I discover a new band, I hear about it on this board first. When people repeatedly cite an album as being outstanding, that says something. It makes me at least check out the album. I would hope that others would follow suit, especially giving the bitching by so many that there isn't any good music out there. There are a bunch of very knowledgable and passionate music fans here who are listing off albums they feel are outstanding. Take notice.

Twatay

KID A motherfuckers!!!!


sorry, it just deserved it's own post.

Matt Lukin

1. Fugazi - The Argument
2. Beck - Sea Change
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
6. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
7. The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
8. White Stripes - Elephant
9. My Morning Jacket - Z
10. Radiohead - Kid A
11. Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
12. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
13. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
14. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
15. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
16. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
17. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
18. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
19. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
20. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry

Twatay

i see a lot more indie love on here, and IMO it's kinda odd.

markymark550

others that haven't been mentioned...or at least I don't remember seeing them in this thread:
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Mudhoney - Under A Billion Suns
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Brad - Welcome To Discovery Park

I know these all fall under the PJ-related bands theme, but these albums are still worthy of checking out if you haven't already.

soulsinging

i graduated high school in 2000. to list the great albums and bands that have come out since then would crash this board. anyone who says this decade has bad music has shit for brains... or hasnt been listening cos they're too busy jerking off into their doc martens while watching the evenflow video for the 9000th time on youtube.

red mos

Pearl jam- riot act (I like it alot)
Pearl jam- Pearl jam
The Burden Brothers- Mercy
The Burden Brothers- Buried in your Black Heart
The white stripes De Stijl
The white stripes- Elephant
The white stripes - Get behind me Satan
Toadies- Hell below/ stars above
Eagles of Death Metal- Eag;es of Death metal
Radiohead- Kid A

intodeep

wilco- yankee hotel foxtrot
radiohead- kid a
mastodon- blood mountain (leviathan was massive too though)
arcade fire- funeral
modest mouse- moon & antartica
sonic youth- sonic nurse
queens of the stone age- song for the deaf
beck- sea change
flaming lips- Yoshimi battles the pink robots
At the Drive in- Relationship of Command

THere were other great albums but i think these were my ten fav. No particular order except Wilco being number 1.

CM1847

It would take too long to try to rank them, but here is a general breakdown of my favorites:

Top 5(in no order):
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shakes the Sheets
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Code
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Radiohead - Kid A
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

Next 10:
The Strokes - Is This It?
TV on the Radio - Desparate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
White Stripes - Elephant, De Stijl
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Queens of the Stone Age - R
Spoon - Gimmie Fiction
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

And a few from 2006 and 2007 I haven't had enough time with to rank, but will probably be somewhere in my top 20 of the decade:
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Cat Power - The Greatest

Housing Jim

My favourite non - PJ albums from this century:

1. Everclear - Songs from An American Movie - Vol 1
2. Weezer - Green
3. Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
4. Green Day - American Idiot
5. The Vines - Highly Evolved
6. Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky
7. Brand New - Deja Entendu
8. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
9. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
10. Ben Kweller - Sha Sha

South of Seattle

Matt Lukin wrote:

1. Fugazi - The Argument
2. Beck - Sea Change
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
6. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
7. The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
8. White Stripes - Elephant
9. My Morning Jacket - Z
10. Radiohead - Kid A
11. Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
12. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
13. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
14. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
15. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
16. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
17. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
18. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
19. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
20. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry

I think I saw that same top 20 list at Pitchfork.com

dirtyT

pearljam_addiction wrote:

Oh God i need like a Week to narrow my list down

Yeah, I agree!!

intodeep

CM1847 wrote:

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Code

Damn i forgot this album. :( i want it on my list too. Not srue who i would take off though

pjoasisrule

Dont feel like making a long list so I will name my favorite from each year
2007 NIN - Year Zero
2006 Pearl Jam
2005 The Redwalls - De Nova
2004 Jet - Get Born
2003 EIther HIM - Razorblade Romance or BRMC - Take Them On On Your Own............once again, not such a great year for music
2002 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2001 Weezer - Green Album.........must have been a really bad year because this is all I can think of from 2001 at the moment
2000 Oasis - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

The champ of all those........The Redwalls - De Nova, if you havent heard it listen to it because it is the best album you have never heard

boroff89

red mos wrote:

Pearl jam- riot act (I like it alot)
Pearl jam- Pearl jam
The Burden Brothers- Mercy
The Burden Brothers- Buried in your Black Heart
The white stripes De Stijl
The white stripes- Elephant
The white stripes - Get behind me Satan
Toadies- Hell below/ stars above
Eagles of Death Metal- Eag;es of Death metal
Radiohead- Kid A

Again, let's leave Pearl Jam out of this. It's a Pearl Jam board, so we can assume everyone here has listened to those albums.