I'm going to tease this out just a bit more before the reveal of the Top 11 of the decade. Until then, here are the runner-ups. Those who were good...but maybe...just not good enough.
The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:
- ...And You Will Know Us - Source Tags & Codes
- Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
- Against Me! - New Wave
- Alicia Keyes - The Diary of Alicia Keyes
- Animal Collective - Feels
- Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
- The Anniversary - Your Majesty
- At The Drive-In - Relationship in Command
- Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
- Beck - Guero
- Black Rebel Motorcycle - Black Rebel Motorcycle
- Bob Dylan - Modern Times
- Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake and It's Morning
- Bright Eyes - Cassadega
- Burial - Untrue
- Cat Power - The Greatest
- Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards (Hospital Beds)
- Cursive - Happy Hollow
- Cursive - The Ugly Organ (Sierra)
- Damien Rice - O
- Danger Mouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
- Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
- The Darkness - Permission To Land
- Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
- Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (The New Year)
- Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We Are Voting Yes
- The Decemberists - Her Majesty
- The Decemberists - Picaresque
- Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
- DJ Shadow - The Private Press
- Drive By Truckers - Dirty South
- Elliott Smith - Basement on the Hill
- Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- The Faint - Danse Macabre
- FELT - A Tribute to Lisa Bonet
- Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
- The Foo Fighters - There Is Something Left To Lose
- Fugazi - The Argument
- Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
- Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks
- Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
- Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
- The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
- The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
- Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
- Iron and Wine/Calexico - In The Reins
- Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
- Jay-Z - Blueprint 3.0
- Jay-Z - MTV Unplugged
- Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
- Joanna Newsom - Ys
- John Legend - Get Lifted
- Kayne West - 808s and Heartbreak
- The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
- The Knife - Silent Shout
- The Libertines - The Libertines
- Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
- Loretta Lynne - Van Leer Rose
- Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
- M. Ward - Post War
- Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion
- Mastodon - Leviathon
- Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
- The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
- Metallica - Death Magnetic
- M.I.A. - Arular
- Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
- Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive
- Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
- Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
- Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
- Mr. Lif - I Phantom
- Muse - Absolution
- Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead
- Neko Case - Fox Confesor Brings The Flood
- The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
- Okkervil River - Stage Names
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch
- Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
- The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
- Q-Tip - Kamaal: the Abstract
- Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
- The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
- Radiohead - Amnesiac
- Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
- Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
- Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
- Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
- The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
- The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
- Santogold - Santogold
- She and Him - Volume One
- Sia - Colour The Small One
- Sigur Ros - ()
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (The Ghost of You Lingers)
- The Strokes - Room On Fire
- The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
- Talib Kweli - Quality
- Tapes and Tapes - The Loon
- Tegan and Sara - The Con
- Tool - 10,000 Days
- Tool - Lateralus
- Travis - The Invisible Band
- TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
- U2 - How To Build An Atomic Bomb
- Usher - Confessions
- The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
- Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
- The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
- The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
- Wilco - The Album
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ReplyDeleteIs "The Black Parade" too emo for the list? I myself found it to be a fantastic rock record, mixing the Tim Burton/iPod generation with 70's awesomeness. Is it not good enough for consideration, at the least?
ReplyDeleteThe Black Parade is a decent album. I was surprised to find myself liking it as much as I did. But at the same time...I felt like its popularity was far more fabricated by all the MTV hype rather than just being a solid rock record. If anything...they're previous album (3 Cheers) was more suited for the list. Of course...IMO.
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