Top 10 Albums of ’00
Since the decade is three weeks away, give or take, from ending I figured it’d be a good time to start thinking about what I really enjoyed during the last decade. There’s a lot of albums I couldn’t put on. There’s a lot that I could have put on to get cool points. This is what I really enjoyed though. These albums are the ones I had on loop for better portions of a year or longer. These are the albums I can associate with a certain age or time in my life.
I also threw in the runners up, but kept them out of order. It’d be too hard to arrange. I actually also think my runners up are kinda the safe bet, can do no wrong albums.
A little note: This is completely based on what I listened to during the time. This is not what albums I think deserve to be there. That’s too subjective a subject for me to write about. I’ll leave that in the hands of those capable like Pitchfork.
- Arcade Fire – Funeral
- Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights
- Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
- Russian Circles – Enter
- Broken Social Scene – S/T
- Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
- Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
- Death From Above 1979 – You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine
- Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals
- The Dodos – Visiter
Runners up (in no order):
- Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
- Battles – Mirrored
- Explosions in the Sky – How Strange, Innocence
- Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
- Maps & Atlases – Tree, Swallows, Houses
- Radiohead – Kid-A
- Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
- Sigur Rós – Takk…
- Spoon – Gimme Fiction
- The Shins – Chutes to Narrow
If you notice, I’m kinda biased against music released in the last year or so for this list. Merriweather Post Pavilion, although a completely solid album, I haven’t had a chance to let it settle like everything else has. Same goes for Veckatimest. Great albums, I just can’t tell their lasting factor like these others.