My Favorite Music of the 2000s
2000
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Acetone | York Blvd. |
| The Beatles | 1 |
| Big L | The Big Picture |
| The Cure | Bloodflowers |
| Don Caballero | American Don |
| Duster | Contemporary Movement |
| Idaho | Hearts of Palm |
| Neil Young | Silver & Gold |
| Panchiko | D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L |
| Q and Not U | No Kill No Beep Beep |
| Radiohead | Kid A |
| Rage Against the Machine | Renegades |
| Relient K | Relient K |
| Ryan Adams | Heartbreaker |
| St Germain | Tourist |
2001
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs |
| Cake | Comfort Eagle |
| Converge | Jane Doe |
| Ex Models | Other Mathematics |
| The Other People Place | Lifestyles of the Laptop Café |
| Kid Dakota | So Pretty |
| Missy Elliott | Miss E …So Addictive |
| Radiohead | Amnesiac |
| Red House Painters | Old Ramon |
| Ryan Adams | Gold |
| Staind | Break the Cycle |
| System of a Down | Toxicity |
| Telefon Tel Aviv | Farenheit Fair Enough |
| Weezer | Weezer (Green Album) |
| Yann Tiersen | Amélie Soundtrack |
2002
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Ben Kweller | Sha Sha |
| CKY | Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild |
| Indian Summer | Science 1994 |
| Missy Elliott | Under Construction |
| Norma Jean | Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Q and Not U | Different Damage |
| Sonic Youth | Murray Street |
| Stars of the Dogon | Stars of the Dogon |
| System of a Down | Steal This Album! |
| Weezer | Maladroit |
2003
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| 50 Cent | Get Rich or Die Tryin’ |
| AFI | Sing the Sorrow |
| Aphex Twin | 26 Mixes for Cash |
| Arcade Fire | Arcade Fire |
| Black Eyes | Black Eyes |
| Ceephax Acid Crew | Ceephax Acid Crew |
| Early Humans | Early Humans |
| Ima Robot | Ima Robot |
| José González | Veneer |
| Luke Vibert | YosepH |
| Missy Elliott | This is Not a Test! |
| Monolake | Momentum |
| The Postal Service | Give Up |
| Radiohead | Hail to the Thief |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | Greatest Hits |
| Sufjan Stevens | Michigan |
| Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway |
2004
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Arcade Fire | Funeral |
| Baroness | First |
| Black Eyes | Cough |
| Brian Wilson | SMiLE |
| Destroyer | Your Blues |
| Horses | 4 5 6 7 |
| Jay-Z & Linkin Park | Collision Course |
| Joanna Newsom | The Milk-Eyed Mender |
| Mason Jennings | Use Your Voice |
| Mastodon | Leviathan |
| Modest Mouse | Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Old Crow Medicine Show | Old Crow Medicine Show |
| Phonique | Identification |
| Sonic Youth | Sonic Nurse |
| Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans |
2005
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| AFX | Analord (1–11) |
| Baroness | Second |
| The Chariot | Unsung |
| Cloud Cult | Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus |
| Coughs | Fright Makes Right |
| Dick Slessig Combo | Wichita Lineman |
| Discover America | Psychology |
| HORSE the Band | The Mechanical Hand |
| Junip | Black Refuge |
| Made in Mexico | Zodiac Zoo |
| My Morning Jacket | Z |
| Sufjan Stevens | Illinois |
| System of a Down | Hypnotize |
| System of a Down | Mezmerize |
| Various Artists | Everything is Illuminated Soundtrack |
| Various Artists | We Are the Music Makers, Volume One |
| Weezer | Make Believe |
2006
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Aphex Twin | Chosen Lords |
| Beirut | Gulag Orkestar |
| Beirut | Lon Gisland |
| Bowerbirds | Danger at Sea |
| Bribe the Ghost | Identity |
| Clark | Body Riddle |
| Clark | Throttle Clarence |
| Clark | Throttle Furniture |
| The Cloud Room | The Cloud Room |
| Coughs | Secret Passage |
| Grizzly Bear | Yellow House |
| Heartless Bastards | All This Time |
| HORSE the Band | Pizza |
| Ima Robot | Search and Destroy |
| Joanna Newsom | Ys |
| Junior Boys | So This is Goodbye |
| The Knife | Silent Shout |
| The One Up Downstairs | The One Up Downstairs |
| Thom Yorke | The Eraser |
| Trentemøller | The Last Resort |
| Amy Winehouse | Back to Black |
2007
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Baroness | Red Album |
| Beirut | The Flying Club Cup |
| Bowerbirds | Hymns for a Dark Horse |
| Burial | Untrue |
| Caribou | Andorra |
| The Chariot | The Fiancée |
| Clark | Throttle Promoter |
| Joanna Newsom | Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band |
| José González | In Our Nature |
| Modest Mouse | We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Soundtrack |
| of Montreal | Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Pantha du Prince | This Bliss |
| Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | Raising Sand |
| Ryan Adams | Easy Tiger |
| The Tuss | Confederation Trough |
| The Tuss | Rushup Edge |
| Yakuza Heart Attack | Yakuza Heart Attack |
2008
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Deerhoof | Offend Maggie |
| Dennis Wilson | Bambu |
| Department of Eagles | In Ear Park |
| Exaspirin | Cassette |
| Faster on Building | Faster on Building |
| Fleet Foxes | Sun Giant |
| John Patton | Soul Connection |
| La Dispute | Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Menahan Street Band | Make the Road by Walking |
| One Day as a Lion | One Day as a Lion |
| Ryan Adams & the Cardinals | Carindology |
| She & Him | Volume One |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | Shallow Graves |
| True Widow | True Widow |
2009
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Cacaw | Get a Brain |
| Dawes | North Hills |
| Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele | The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele |
| Kowloon Walled City | Gambling on the Richter Scale |
| MHE | MHESAMPLER |
| MRR-ADM | Untitled |
| Polvo | In Prism |
| Radiohead | In Rainbows |