DoctorChicken
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So, everyone here has been begging for my Best Albums of the 2000s list for months, so I guess I'll be doing that right now.
I was trying to number them, but outside the top 10, I can't really number them and they all become a blur of indie rock, lost relationships, partying, and alcoholism. Like me. So those won't be numbered. I'll try to provide a description and a song from each album, or if I can, the whole album as a lot of them are on youtube or wherever.
I am fully intoxicated the way anyone involved with music should be, and I'm gonna try to write a quick review of each album too. I'm also not going to embed the videos because the post would be even bigger. So if you click on the album you'll be teleported to my selected song/or full album. Also do not keep track of all the times I start an album description with "I mean".
40 - 21, any order
- Teens Of Denial - Car Seat Headrest - Indie Rock
An album written by a 20 something kid about how he's never going to actually do anything productive in life. Good to see he has realistic expectations.
The best song on this album is Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales, which is interesting because he perfectly reflects 80% of every millennial's predicament - they know they're screwed, and there's not much they can do about it right now, so they're lazy and unproductive. Why try when you're set up to fail?
- Melodrama - Lorde - Pop
Similar to the above, but written by Lorde, who's reflects feeling we all can relate to. In a more reactionary way though, because she's a bit of a psychopath. I mean maybe not a "psychopath", just subtly kind of weird. Like if she killed someone one day I wouldn't be surprised. But we all have our quirks.
But this is a pop album and it is a damn good pop album. For those that think pop can't be artistic, they need to listen to this.
- Pure Comedy - Father John Misty - Rock/Folk
This album is a bit difficult to listen to. It's like listening to Elton John if Elton John was born in the 80's and was a drug addict. So am I calling Joshua Tillman the modern Elton John? No. But not all the way no.
I would rank this album higher, because it's stunning and his songwriting is great. But he has this big "message" he's trying to send about the modern age, and it gets a bit tiring to me.
- St Vincent - St Vincent - Experimental pop?
Immensely talented woman. She's directing a new Portrait of Dorian Gray too. Her music is something that switches genres up so much that I can't really describe it as something other than experimental pop.
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Experimental... folk/pop?
An album that hits close to home... for everyone. It's human emotion.
- A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay Alternative Rock/Britpop
This album is depressing. Not because it is depressing, because it is, but because it's so ******* great. And now Coldplay sucks. Sigh.
- Lemonade - Beyonce - R&B and... folk I guess?
I mean the freaking Dixie Chicks are on this album. She sings about her dad and his gun and bible.
- Back to Black - Amy Whinehouse - Soul/R&B
What Adele wishes she was.
- White Blood Cells - The White Stripes - Garage Rock/Punk Rock
Love, hope, betrayal, paranoia.
- American Idiot - Green Day - Punk Rock
The most influential punk rock record of the 2000s.
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes - Folk
It's a folking masterpiece.
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips - Experimental Rock/Psychedelic
This album sounds exactly like it is titled.
- The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem HipHop/Rap
A great album that I'm not linking to because I'd prefer not to get suspended. So just enjoy what I did link like a civilized person.
- Sea Change - Beck - Soft Rock/Folk
It's Beck.
- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Dark Ambient/Instrumental
A very beautiful, dark ambient album. Almost sounds like a movie soundtrack.
- Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age - Hard Rock
A drive through the desert in a 69 Camaro.
- For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver - Folk
Bon Iver's debut. Soft acoustic folk songs he recorded in a cabin in Wisconsin in the dead of winter.
- Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective - Experimental pop/art rock
Sounds like an album that's considered very good now, but will be more important in 2030.
- Stankonia - Outcast - HipHop
I mean, damn. This album opened up southern hip-hop to the rest of the country. Is there anyone you can't get down to Hey Ya?
- Amnesiac - Radiohead - Experimental Rock
Radiohead's darkest album. Potentially. Maybe. Definitely their most Egyptian sounding.
- Since I Left You - The Avalanches - Dance/Electronic
It feels weird to put a dance album on this list. But I mean, it's great. Electonics are instruments too, and The Avalanches make use of them in a way that stands out.
- Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros - Experimental/Art Rock/Ambient
I mean good grief. Do yourself a favor and listen to this song if you haven't yet. I think Sigur Ros could be considered this generation's Pink Floyd if they spoke English.
Numbers 20-1 are next.
I was trying to number them, but outside the top 10, I can't really number them and they all become a blur of indie rock, lost relationships, partying, and alcoholism. Like me. So those won't be numbered. I'll try to provide a description and a song from each album, or if I can, the whole album as a lot of them are on youtube or wherever.
I am fully intoxicated the way anyone involved with music should be, and I'm gonna try to write a quick review of each album too. I'm also not going to embed the videos because the post would be even bigger. So if you click on the album you'll be teleported to my selected song/or full album. Also do not keep track of all the times I start an album description with "I mean".
40 - 21, any order
- Teens Of Denial - Car Seat Headrest - Indie Rock
An album written by a 20 something kid about how he's never going to actually do anything productive in life. Good to see he has realistic expectations.
The best song on this album is Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales, which is interesting because he perfectly reflects 80% of every millennial's predicament - they know they're screwed, and there's not much they can do about it right now, so they're lazy and unproductive. Why try when you're set up to fail?
- Melodrama - Lorde - Pop
Similar to the above, but written by Lorde, who's reflects feeling we all can relate to. In a more reactionary way though, because she's a bit of a psychopath. I mean maybe not a "psychopath", just subtly kind of weird. Like if she killed someone one day I wouldn't be surprised. But we all have our quirks.
But this is a pop album and it is a damn good pop album. For those that think pop can't be artistic, they need to listen to this.
- Pure Comedy - Father John Misty - Rock/Folk
This album is a bit difficult to listen to. It's like listening to Elton John if Elton John was born in the 80's and was a drug addict. So am I calling Joshua Tillman the modern Elton John? No. But not all the way no.
I would rank this album higher, because it's stunning and his songwriting is great. But he has this big "message" he's trying to send about the modern age, and it gets a bit tiring to me.
- St Vincent - St Vincent - Experimental pop?
Immensely talented woman. She's directing a new Portrait of Dorian Gray too. Her music is something that switches genres up so much that I can't really describe it as something other than experimental pop.
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Experimental... folk/pop?
An album that hits close to home... for everyone. It's human emotion.
- A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay Alternative Rock/Britpop
This album is depressing. Not because it is depressing, because it is, but because it's so ******* great. And now Coldplay sucks. Sigh.
- Lemonade - Beyonce - R&B and... folk I guess?
I mean the freaking Dixie Chicks are on this album. She sings about her dad and his gun and bible.
- Back to Black - Amy Whinehouse - Soul/R&B
What Adele wishes she was.
- White Blood Cells - The White Stripes - Garage Rock/Punk Rock
Love, hope, betrayal, paranoia.
- American Idiot - Green Day - Punk Rock
The most influential punk rock record of the 2000s.
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes - Folk
It's a folking masterpiece.
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips - Experimental Rock/Psychedelic
This album sounds exactly like it is titled.
- The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem HipHop/Rap
A great album that I'm not linking to because I'd prefer not to get suspended. So just enjoy what I did link like a civilized person.
- Sea Change - Beck - Soft Rock/Folk
It's Beck.
- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Dark Ambient/Instrumental
A very beautiful, dark ambient album. Almost sounds like a movie soundtrack.
- Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age - Hard Rock
A drive through the desert in a 69 Camaro.
- For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver - Folk
Bon Iver's debut. Soft acoustic folk songs he recorded in a cabin in Wisconsin in the dead of winter.
- Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective - Experimental pop/art rock
Sounds like an album that's considered very good now, but will be more important in 2030.
- Stankonia - Outcast - HipHop
I mean, damn. This album opened up southern hip-hop to the rest of the country. Is there anyone you can't get down to Hey Ya?
- Amnesiac - Radiohead - Experimental Rock
Radiohead's darkest album. Potentially. Maybe. Definitely their most Egyptian sounding.
- Since I Left You - The Avalanches - Dance/Electronic
It feels weird to put a dance album on this list. But I mean, it's great. Electonics are instruments too, and The Avalanches make use of them in a way that stands out.
- Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros - Experimental/Art Rock/Ambient
I mean good grief. Do yourself a favor and listen to this song if you haven't yet. I think Sigur Ros could be considered this generation's Pink Floyd if they spoke English.
Numbers 20-1 are next.