Rolling Stone magazine's (idiotic) top 100 albums of the 00's

[Eldritch]

More like the worst 100 records of the decade, or the most overrated ones.

Two Coldplay albums. Three U2 albums. Four Radiohead albums.

Was there any music worth listening to made in the 00's at all?

Albums of the Decade

1 | Radiohead: Kid A

2 | The Strokes: Is This It

3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint

5 | The White Stripes: Elephant

6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral

7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP

8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times

9 | M.I.A.: Kala

10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout

11 | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

12 | LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

13 | U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind

14 | Jay-Z: The Black Album

15 | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising

16 | OutKast: Stankonia

17 | Beck: Sea Change

18 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

19 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

21 | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head

22 | Green Day: American Idiot

23 | D'Angelo: Voodoo

24 | Bruce Springsteen: Magic

25 | Radiohead: Amnesiac

26 | Cat Power: The Greatest

27 | The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

28 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell

29 | Sigur Rós: Ágaetis Byrjun

30 | Radiohead: In Rainbows

31 | My Morning Jacket: Z

32 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

33 | Daft Punk: Discovery

34 | OutKast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

35 | PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

36 | U2: No Line on the Horizon

37 | 50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin'

38 | Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker

39 | Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak

40 | Kanye West: Late Registration

41 | Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

42 | Elliott Smith: Figure 8

43 | The Killers: Hot Fuss

44 | System of a Down: Toxicity

45 | Kanye West: Graduation

46 | Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds

47 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

48 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science

49 | Fiona Apple: Extraordionary Machine

50 | Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning

51 | Spoon: Kill the Moonlight

52 | M.I.A.: Arular

53 | Kings of Leon: Only By the Night

54 | Norah Jones: Come Away With Me

55 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand

56 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend

57 | Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism

58 | Danger Mouse: The Grey Album

59 | Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights

60 | Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

61 | The Shins: Oh, Inverted World

62 | Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man

63 | Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak

64 | Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator

65 | Manu Chao: Próxima Estación Esperanza

66 | Antony & the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now

67 | Björk: Vespertine

68 | U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

69 | Missy Elliott: Under Construction

70 | Sleater-Kinney: The Woods

71 | Bright Eyes: Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Eart to the Ground

72 | Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand

73 | Coldplay: Parachutes

74 | Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium

75 | Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

76 | Sigur Rós: ()

77 | Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

78 | Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

79 | The New Pornographers: Electric Version

80 | Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood

81 | Ryan Adams: Gold

82 | Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R

83 | The Black Keys: Attack & Release

84 | Eminem: The Eminem Show

85 | Coldplay: Viva La Vida

86 | The Postal Service: Give Up

87 | Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere

88 | Brian Wilson: Smile

89 | Radiohead: Hail to the Thief

90 | Amadou & Miriam: Dimanche a Bamako

91 | The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious

92 | Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

93 | Johnny Cash: Unearthed

94 | The Libertines: Up the Brackett

95 | Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor

96 | The Streets: Original Pirate Material

97 | Wilco: Sky Blue Sky

98 | TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain

99 | The Hold Steady: Almost Killed Me

100 | Leonard Cohen: 10 New Songs

[Birka]

What a waste of time reading that list of crap.

[W. R.]

20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

I had to read three times before I understood that it is actually "The White Stripes"... It's about time to go to bed.

[Electronic God-Man]

I'll say that the Radiohead albums, the Flaming Lips, Daft Punk and Sigur Ros are OK picks. Nothing incredible.

But, yeah, there weren't many great albums released so they didn't have much to choose from.

[Eldritch]

I'll say that the Radiohead albums, the Flaming Lips, Daft Punk and Sigur Ros are OK picks. Nothing incredible.

But, yeah, there weren't many great albums released so they didn't have much to choose from.

Radiohead are incredibly overrated imo -- the only reason anyone ever heard of them in the first place is that the British pop music press needs a new "this week's greatest band of all time" regularly.

The Flaming Lips are okay. At least they're openly and unapologetically pretentious.

As for some of the other names on that list ...

I actually like Arcade Fire. Indie Rock is dead, but sometimes decomposing bodies make interesting sounds.

The Streets's Original Pirate Material was amusing, I'll give it that. And I do vaguely like Yo La Tengo and Wilco.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rock music.

[Allenson]

Wilco is quite good, I think...

[Aemma]

Green Day, Norah Jones and Kings of Leon do it for me. up

Gah! Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan? Give me a flippin' break?

[Psychonaut]

Wow, Fleet Foxes are on there! They're definitely one of the most interesting bands of the late 2000s:

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[Birka]

Wow, Fleet Foxes are on there! They're definitely one of the most interesting bands of the late 2000s:

[youtube]DrQRS40OKNE[/youtube]

Interesting band and video. I never heard of them, but that song sort of reminds me of early Genesis.

[Svarog]

Rolling Stone, nothing new, some of these are not just only the worse albums in 00 but could be put into the category of worse ever.

I did like few of them, still far from the best of the best tho.

Radiohead's album is nothing short of disaster imo
The White Stripes? Seriously? Anyone takes that band seriously?!
Justin Timberlake with future sex lol
Even Toxicity is not all that good album, more like mediocrity..
50 Cent, two Eminems, The Postal Service!??
Did I go insane?