With the end of the 10s rapidly approaching and with it, an inevitable decade-recapping list, I felt a deep inspiration to look back at my previous effort to summarize a decade’s musical output. I made a list of The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s back in high school. In the year 2000, I was but a fresh 8 years old, listening to the Indigo Girls, smooth jazz and Enya my parents played in the house. Not an ideal way to keep track of releases.
Eventually I came around to classic rock and then dived into the dungeon of indie rock, thanks to discovering sites like Pitchfork, Stereogum and other music blogs. I had a lot of catching up to do in listening to albums that were released pre-2007 while making the list in 2010, but I’d say that it was a pretty decent mirror to my personal tastes at the time, with a few minor exceptions. Looking back on it now, there are a few albums in there I don’t remember ever listening to, along with a few things ranked suspiciously high.
As a fun little project that took far too much of my time, I recreated the list to accommodate all the records from the 00s I’ve listened to since I published the original list. This process served as an ample distraction while my life hurtles at an uncomfortable speed toward “adulthood”. The end product is a winning Warm Visions bingo card: my useless knack for list-making, navel-gazing circle-jerkery, music that no one on the planet would consider unique or interesting in 2018 and beyond, and being approximately 8 years irrelevant are all present. Enjoy!
* indicates a record newly added to the list.
100. HEALTH – Get Color *
99. Studio – West Coast *
98. The Postal Service – Give Up
97. Colleen – Everyone Alive Wants Answers *
96. Kanye West – Late Registration
95. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine
94. The Tough Alliance – A New Chance
93. Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
92. Beck – The Information *
91. Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron & Fred Squire – Lost Wisdom *
90. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
89. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
88. The Killers – Hot Fuss
87. Life Without Buildings – Any Other City *
86. m83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
85. Sweet Trip – Velocity : Design : Comfort *
84. Smog – Dongs Of Sevotion *
83. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
82. Boris – Pink *
81. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
80. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
79. Beck – Modern Guilt
78. A Place To Bury Strangers – A Place To Bury Strangers *
77. Outkast – Stankonia
76. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
75. The Books – Thought For Food *
74. Sun Araw – Beach Head *
73. Animal Collective – Feels *
72. Portishead – Third
71. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism
70. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
69. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele *
68. Animal Collective – Sung Tongs *
67. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped *
66. Mount Eerie – Wind’s Poem *
65. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
64. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
63. Have A Nice Life – Deathconsciousness *
62. Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther *
61. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life *
60. Sleater-Kinney – One Beat *
59. Stars Of The Lid – The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid *
58. Arcade Fire – Funeral
57. Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
56. MF Doom – MM.. Food? *
55. Sam Amidon – All Is Well *
54. Songs: Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co. *
53. Flying Lotus – Los Angeles *
52. Broadcast – Haha Sound *
51. Sonic Youth – Murray Street *
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