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Tag: 2000s albums
Cake – Comfort Eagle: #907 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Equal parts fun, good, and ironic.
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver: #915 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s rangy and genre bend-y. It’s electronic and lounge-y and rock and dance-y and then it’s an ethereal kind of something else.
Bitter:Sweet – Drama: #917 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let’s get nuts. Let’s spend some money.
Ratatat – Classics: #922 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Electronic lounge journeys, dark and synth-y at times, with great energy, pulse, and beats.
King Changó – The Return of El Santo: #923 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“Latin ska” is only the beginning: it’s an exuberant and energy-packed record that also incorporates hip hop, punk, hard rock, dub, and trip hop.
Infectious Grooves – Mas Borracho: #926 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shot out of a canon, hard funked up metal and other party-influenced sounds. And that’s for starters.
Method Man – 4:21… The Day After: #929 of best 1,000 albums ever!
High highs, consistently stellar production work, and A Game from our man. That being the M-E-T-H-O-D Man.
Living Colour – Collideoscope: #933 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A lesser work of one of great hard rock bands still easily makes this here list.
Nerf Herder – American Cheese: #936 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A strong sense of humor and the musical chops to create songs that are both fun and musically compelling.
Arctic Monkeys – Who the F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? #937 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is a (small!) collection of songs that demanded to make this list by a fun, brash, and talented band at their early best.
9th Prince – Prince of New York: #941 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wu-Tang Clan and RZA vibes await.
The Dazes – Just Dreamy: #942 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ebullient spirit imbued with (Ramones-y) punk energy and great pop hooks.
Gore Gore Girls – Get the Gore: #946 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Revved up garage rock with punk attitude. Get it.
The Pink Spiders – Teenage Graffiti: #948 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fun power pop with a little punk and glam influence thrown in – nothing wrong with that (and much that’s right).
Röyksopp – Melody A.M.: #950 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache.
Benny Benassi – Hypnotica: #963 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’ve got an electro house urge, this album brings the satisfaction.
Rosalia De Souza – Garota Moderna: #965 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Brazilian and bossa nova roots with a modern upbeat lounge feel.
Descartes A Kant – Paper Dolls: #967 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s kind of weird and disturbing and great. Come take the trip.
Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell: #969 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Adams spans singer songwriter-y pop to chilled out rock to alt country for quite a moody trip.
Thievery Corporation – The Mirror Conspiracy: #640 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Too low to find my way, too high to wonder why.
Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers: #973 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Serious about its 1970s and 1980s guitar rock sensibilities. Doubly serious about having a gas in the lyrical content department.
Immortal Technique – Revolutionary, Vol. 1: #975 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smart, blistering underground hip hop with ultra-tight flow.
KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope: #977 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’re not yet hip to it, suddenly you shall see that super satisfying sounds abound.
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into: #988 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Crunching, groovy electro beats that could chew through the back of the club (or your mind, yeah?).
La Roux – La Roux: #990 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love love “Bulletproof,” and the whole album has a high-octane dance pop energy.
Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain: #991 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whatever he chooses to call himself, MF Doom… er, Viktor Vaughn is a hip hop genius.
Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire: #995 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’re in the mood for a melancholy, quiet, pretty album with a Beatles-y vibe (and with literal Beatles-y lineage), Friendly Fire fits the bill.