Top 20 Greatest Albums of the 2000s
It's really hard for me to choose whether I like the 90s or 2000s more. I'd say the average quality of music was better in the 90s, but the best music of the 2000s surpassed that of the 90s. On the flip side, it's absolutely a no-brainer picking the best year of music in the 2000s. A full 30% of this list is represented by 2004, which I think is the greatest musical year of all time.

| No. | Album | Artist | Best Song(s) | Year |
| 1 | Antics | Interpol | NARC | 2004 |
| 2 | Hot Fuss | The Killers | Smile Like you Mean it & Jenny was a Friend | 2004 |
| 3 | Funeral | The Arcade Fire | Neighborhood #1 | 2004 |
| 4 | Boxer | The National | Fake Empire | 2007 |
| 5 | Turn on the Bright Lights | Interpol | Untitled | 2002 |
| 6 | Twin Cinema | The New Pornographers | The Bleeding Heart Show | 2005 |
| 7 | Girls can Tell | Spoon | Anything you Want | 2001 |
| 8 | Our Love to Admire | Interpol | Pioneer to the Falls | 2007 |
| 9 | Absolution | Muse | Blackout | 2003 |
| 10 | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | It can't come Quickly Enough | 2004 |
| 11 | Origin of Symmetry | Muse | Citizen Erased | 2001 |
| 12 | Good News for People who Love Bad News | Modest Mouse | Float on | 2004 |
| 13 | Modern Guilt | Beck | Chemtrails | 2008 |
| 14 | Merriweather Post Pavilion | Animal Collective | My Girls | 2009 |
| 15 | In Rainbows | Radiohead | Videotape | 2007 |
| 16 | Once upon a Time in the West | Hard-Fi | Little Angel | 2007 |
| 17 | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | Wilco | Jesus, etc. | 2002 |
| 18 | Army of Anyone | Army of Anyone | Goodbye | 2006 |
| 19 | The Meadowlands | The Wrens | Boys, you Won't Remember | 2003 |
| 20 | American Idiot | Green Day | American Idiot | 2004 |
| Posted 4/23/12 by the Rock Czar |
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