As many may know, my ultimate brand is the band. My greatest addiction is music. It’s the social-est of all social media. The first search I do on any new search engine or platform is “Pearl Jam.” So naturally, I dig any top music list. While I don’t usually agree with MTV and VH1, Rolling Stone usually plays these games well. Let’s see how it goes… Here’s their list of the Top 100 Albums of the 2000s.
100. Leonard Cohen – Ten New Songs
99. The Hold Steady – Almost Killed Me
98. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
97. Wilco – Blue Sky Blue
96. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
95. Alicia Keys – Songs in A Minor
94. The Libertines – Up the Bracket
93. Johnny Cash – Unearthed
92. Bon Iver – For Emma Forever Ago
91. The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
90. Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche a Bamako
89. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
87. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
86. The Postal Service – Give Up
85. Coldplay – Viva la Vida
84. Eminem – The Eminem Show
83. The Black Keys – Attack & Release
82. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
81. Ryan Adams – Gold
80. Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood
79. The New Pornographers – Electric Version
78. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
77. Yo La Tango – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
76. Sigur Ros – 0
75. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
74. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
73. Coldplay – Parachutes
72. Sleater Kinney – The Woods
71. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
70. Missy Elliot – Under Construction
69. Bright Eyes – Lifted or…
68. U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
67. Bjork – Vespertine
66. Antony & the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
65. Manu Chao – Proxima Estacion Esperanza
64. Gillian Welch – Time the Revelator
63. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak
62. Johnny Cash – American III: Solitary Man
61. The Shins – Oh, Inverted World
60. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
59. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
58. Danger Mouse – The Grey Album
57. Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
56. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
55. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
52. Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
51. Kings of Leon – Only By the Night
50. M.I.A – Arular
49. Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
48. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
47. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
46. Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
45. Kanye West – Graduation
43. System of a Down – Toxicity
42. Elliott Smith – Figure 8
41. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not
40. Kanye West – Late Registration
39. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
38. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
37. 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
36. U2 – No Line on the Horizon
35. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
34. Outkast – Speakerboxx: The Love Below
33. Daft Punk – Discovery
32. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
31. My Morning Jacket – Z
30. Radiohead – In Rainbows
29. Sigur Ros – Agitus Byrjun
28. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
27. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
26. The Greatest – Cat Power
25. Radiohead – Amnesiac
24. Bruce Springsteen – Magic
23. D’Angelo – Voodoo
22. Green Day – American Idiot
21. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
20. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
19. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
18. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
17. Beck – Sea Change
16. Outkast – Stankonia
15. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
14. Jay-Z – The Black Album
13. U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
12. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
11. Bob Dylan – Love and Theft
10. Kanye West – The College Dropout
9. M.I.A. – Kala
8. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
7. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
6. Arcade Fire – Funeral
5. The White Stripes – Elephant
4. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
3. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. The Strokes – Is This It
1. Radiohead – Kid A
There you have it. I’m pretty pumped to see Fiona Apple, Cat Power and Sigur Ros get some love, but I don’t think Coldplay and Kanye West deserved as many accolades on this list as they did. I don’t like anything by M.I.A. and can’t believe The Strokes made it to #2, but a majority of the albums make sense to me. I’m disappointed not to see Alice in Chains / Black Gives Way to Blue and Pearl Jam’s self-titled album (Binaural, too, but I don’t expect RS to agree). I don’t like that Animal Collective didn’t make the 100 and I’m a bit surprised Clash, Modest Mouse, Muse or Gorillaz didn’t either. I also have to agree with a commenter, the 2000s were nothing without the lyrical battles between Taking Back Sunday and Brand New.
Well, what do you think? What’s missing or overrated? Weigh in below!
Posted on July 23, 2011
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