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Tag: 2000s albums
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours: #641 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Could this be true? It all comes down to you.
Spoon – Gimme Fiction: #652 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, you got the weight of the world coming down like a mother’s eye.
Rollins Band – Get Some Go Again: #655 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No safety net: you get what you get, what you settle for.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Adicción, Tradición, Y Revolución: #660 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She don’t like The Toasters or The Skeletones, she’d rather pound some beers and listen to the Ramones.
The Riff Randells – Doublecross: #669 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So come on, check it off now.
Radiohead – In Rainbows: #549 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A surprisingly warm tone gives way to something more fractured, shattered, and eventually becomes somewhat haunting. Well, this is Radiohead, right?
Wolfmother – Wolfmother: #672 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You see right through me – I got the feeling of love.
Metric – Fantasies: #678 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?
Transplants – Haunted Cities: #683 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are true sonic gems hiding on these streets, in this shadowy world.
The Fratellis – Here We Stand: #686 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You can find her screaming along with the ghosts, reminds you she’s the one that you need the most.
Various Artists – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Motion Picture Soundtrack): #691 of best 1,000 albums ever!
He rides across the nation, the thoroughbred of sin. He got the application that you just sent in.
The Shins – Oh, Inverted World: #700 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’d tell you, but you need to understand the new slang to get it.
PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea: #702 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is love, this is love that I’m feeling.
No Doubt – Rock Steady: #706 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey baby, it’s hella good, okay?
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Steady As She Goes: #711 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Nada en la cabeza.
Graham Day and the Gaolers – Soundtrack to the Daily Grind: #714 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One listen and you’ll be on the pull.
Beck – The Information: #717 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Think I’m in love… with The Information.
Babyshambles – Down in Albion: #720 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I still turned out to be a huge Babyshambles fan, didn’t I?
Mad Caddies – Just One More: #733 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Drink smoke drink smoke this is what we do. Well, not what I do necessarily but… you get it.
Streetlight Manifesto – Everything Goes Numb: #743 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ska punk with a level of musicianship and sophistication that very few bands ever achieve. Oh, and don’t forget the energy energy energy.
ABBA – The Definitive Collection: #746 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Join us on the journey to become a proud card-carrying Phase IV ABBA fan.
Gorillaz – Demon Days: #749 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It will, I suppose you could say, make you (sha, sha-ba-da) feel good.
Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine: #755 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Playful and orchestral, bombastic and pulsing, trippy and sultry.
Patsy Cline – The Ultimate Collection: #760 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I don’t think it’s crazy at all to say that this is one spectacular musical collection.
Beck – Modern Guilt: #769 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It grooves and clicks and jumps like a fanciful anxious thought, beautiful and foreboding.
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped: #778 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do you believe in this sweet sensation? You should.
Dilated Peoples – Expansion Team: #783 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Worst come to worst… actually, that’s best come to best.
System of a Down – Toxicity: #797 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A genuinely unique, truly eclectic (oddball?), moving, memorable, alternative (nu?) metal rollercoaster.
Descendents – Cool To Be You: #798 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Houston, we have a problem indeed. But not with this record.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!: #799 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heads will rock n’ roll to this one.
Catch 22 – Alone in a Crowd: #806 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t point the blame – just check out this frantically upbeat ska punk album.
RJD2 – Magnificent City Instrumentals: #820 of best 1,000 albums ever!
To not dig this one would be mad, man.
The Suicide Machines – Steal This Record: #829 of best 1,000 albums ever!
May the record show that The Suicide Machines have stolen their way into my heart (and another entry on the best 1,000 albums ever project).
Britney Spears – Blackout: #835 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Britney at her darkest, sleekest, pulsing synth-est best. Best-est?
Tommy Roe – Tommy’s 22 Big Ones: #837 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Come on everybody, it’ll get you feeling dizzy.
The Streets – Everything Is Borrowed: #840 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Mike Skinner lets the sun in.
Audioslave – Out of Exile: #853 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The supergroup comprised of Rage Against the Machine (minus Zach de la Rocha) and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell finds their cohesive sound.
Reel Big Fish – Cheer Up!: #855 of best 1,000 albums ever!
RBF can rock you with their specialty of snarked up ska punk, but it’s the more mature power pop material that really stands out here.
Liam Lynch – Fake Songs: #860 of best 1,000 albums ever!
More than a one-hit wonder album? Whatever.
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution – A Call to Arms: #863 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A short and incredible acoustic ska punk album.
Various Artists – Luaka Bop 10th Anniversary: Zero Accidents on the Job: #864 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Legit excellent world music, alt rock, funk, and pop from an eclectic group of bands and musicians.
Bitter:Sweet – The Mating Game: #874 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Orchestral strings, hip hop beats, and gorgeous lounge vocals that keeps it moving while keeping it chill.
Zero 7 – Simple Things: #883 of best 1,000 albums ever
Nine to five, living lies, everyday, stealing time.
Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak: #884 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s complicated… but with this Kanye album, something broke through for me.
The Beta Band – Hot Shots II: #885 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Daydream, I fell asleep amid the flowers.
Thunderball – Scorpio Rising: #889 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An incredible soundtrack for a movie that doesn’t exist.
Roy Orbison – The Essential Roy Orbison: #892 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An iconic voice and tremendous career packaged into a massive double album.
Q-Tip – The Renaissance: #902 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The best solo album by the great Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest (and many collaborations) fame.