Acclaimed Music - The Top 200 Albums from the 2000s
The Top 200 Albums from the 2000s





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1 60 The Strokes
Is This It
2001
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2 88 The White Stripes
Elephant
2003
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3 101 The Arcade Fire
Funeral
2004
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4 105 Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
2005
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5 106 TV on the Radio
Return to Cookie Mountain
2006

6 112 Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
2004
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7 115 Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2002
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8 116 OutKast
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2003
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9 128 Radiohead
Kid A
2000
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10 137 Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP
2000
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11 150 The White Stripes
White Blood Cells
2001
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12 157 M.I.A.
Arular
2005
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13 170 Antony and The Johnsons
I Am a Bird Now
2005
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14 189 OutKast
Stankonia
2000
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15 190 Joanna Newsom
Ys
2006
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16 194 The Streets
Original Pirate Material
2002
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17 197 Brian Wilson
SMiLE
2004
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18 239 Jay-Z
The Blueprint
2001
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19 241 Kanye West
College Dropout
2004
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20 245 Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2006

21 276 Bob Dylan
Modern Times
2006
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22 283 Coldplay
A Rush of Blood to the Head
2002
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23 291 Dizzee Rascal
Boy in da Corner
2003
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24 299 Bob Dylan
Love and Theft
2001
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25 321 The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2002
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26 335 P J Harvey
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
2000
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27 339 Kanye West
Late Registration
2005
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28 353 Interpol
Turn On the Bright Lights
2002
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29 360 Bloc Party
Silent Alarm
2005
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30 365 Radiohead
Hail to the Thief
2003
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31 366 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
2004
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32 369 Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
2002
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33 381 Coldplay
Parachutes
2000
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34 401 Gnarls Barkley
St. Elsewhere
2006
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35 404 LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem
2005
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36 411 The Streets
A Grand Don't Come for Free
2004
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37 414 The Libertines
Up the Bracket
2002
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38 428 The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow
2003
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39 441 Ghostface Killah
Fishscale
2006
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40 454 Radiohead
Amnesiac
2001
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41 466 Primal Scream
Xtrmntr
2000
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42 475 Björk
Vespertine
2001
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43 498 Ryan Adams
Heartbreaker
2000
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44 500 Loretta Lynn
Van Lear Rose
2004
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45 529 The Avalanches
Since I Left You
2000
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46 535 …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Source Tags & Codes
2002
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47 536 Wilco
A Ghost Is Born
2004
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48 540 Queens of the Stone Age
R
2000
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49 547 Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica
2000
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50 552 Missy Misdemeanor Elliott
Miss E…So Addictive
2001
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51 564 Bright Eyes
I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
2005
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52 572 Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It in People
2002
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53 574 Cat Power
The Greatest
2006
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54 575 Franz Ferdinand
You Could Have It So Much Better
2005
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55 576 Blur
Think Tank
2003
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56 577 Yo La Tengo
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
2000
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57 580 The Darkness
Permission to Land
2003
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58 581 U2
All That You Can't Leave Behind
2000
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59 586 The Notwist
Neon Golden
2002
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60 601 At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
2000
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61 631 Hot Chip
The Warning
2006
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62 638 Gorillaz
Demon Days
2005
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63 643 Spoon
Kill the Moonlight
2002
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64 644 My Morning Jacket
Z
2005
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65 653 Sleater-Kinney
The Woods
2005