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✅ PopMatters - Best Albums of the 00's (2014)

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Here is the first part

100) D'Angelo - Voodoo
99) Mastodon - Leviathan
98) Autechre - Confield
97) Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
96) Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
95) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
94) Elliott Smith - Figure 8
93) The Clientele - Strange Geometry
92) Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
91) Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
90) Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die?
89) Vex'd - Degenerate
88) Amon Tobin - Foley Room
87) Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
86) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
85) Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
84) My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
83) Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
82) Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
81) Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

They released an article called "a polite dissent to Kid A" and another one explaining why Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Oracular Spectacular and White Blood Cells are fading and don't deserve classic status... not too sure if those are signs of futur results or just personal opinions of one writer.
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Nassim wrote: They released an article called "a polite dissent to Kid A" and another one explaining why Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Oracular Spectacular and White Blood Cells are fading and don't deserve classic status... not too sure if those are signs of futur results or just personal opinions of one writer.
If you read them they are clearly personal opinions. The one about Kid A is somewhat interesting, if also a bit condescending towards people who like it, but the other one about Wilco, MGMT and The White Stripes seems pointless, because the writer doesn't seem to have all that much problems with the albums.
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Rob wrote: If you read them they are clearly personal opinions. The one about Kid A is somewhat interesting, if also a bit condescending towards people who like it, but the other one about Wilco, MGMT and The White Stripes seems pointless, because the writer doesn't seem to have all that much problems with the albums.
Yeah but I meant I don't know if they are warnings or reactions to the main list, they have mean validated by the redaction team, if they want any editorial coherence they should at least partly follow those.

80-61

80) Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
79) Raekwon the Chef - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
78) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
77) Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
76) The Postal Service - Give Up
75) U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
74) The Bug - London Zoo
73) Harvey Danger - King James Version
72) J Dilla - Donuts
71) Doves - Lost Souls
70) Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
69) The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
68) Steve Earle - Jerusalem
67) Joanna Newsom - Ys
66) Fugazi - The Argument
65) The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
64) Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
63) Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
62) System of a Down - Toxicity
61) Underworld - Oblivion With Bells
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60-41

60) The Knife - Silent Shout
59) Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
58) Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
57) Manitoba (Caribou) - Up in Flames
56) The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
55) The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
54) Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
53) Opeth - Blackwater Park
52) Scott Walker - The Drift
51) Robyn - Robyn
50) Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
49) Madvillain - Madvillainy
48) Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
47) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
46) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
45) PJ Harvey - White Chalk
44) Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
43) Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
42) Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
41) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Third album by the Drive-By Truckers !
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40-21

40) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
39) Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
38) Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
37) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
36) Green Day - American Idiot
35) Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
34) The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
33) White Stripes - Elephant
32) Bjork - Vespertine
31) M.I.A. - Kala
30) Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
29) Kanye West - The College Dropout
28) Beck - Sea Change
27) Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
26) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
25) Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
24) Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
23) Daft Punk - Discovery
22) White Stripes - White Blood Cells
21) Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner

Nice to see Dizzee high !
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I kind of agree with them regarding Oracular Spectacular and White Blood Cells, but Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is to me a masterpiece that still manages to get better with age. And it's funny how White Blood Cells managed to rank higher than Elephant, even after that article. I think Elephant is the FAR better album.
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And the top 20, with lots of usual suspects but some surprises too

20) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
19) Avalanches - Since I Left You
18) Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
17) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
16) Kanye West - Late Registration
15) The Strokes - Is This It?
14) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
13) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
12) Radiohead - In Rainbows
11) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
10) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9) M.I.A. - Arular
8) The National - Alligator
7) Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
6) Burial - Untrue
5) Portishead - Third
4) Jay-Z - The Blueprint
3) Arcade Fire - Funeral
2) Outkast - Stankonia
1) Radiohead - Kid A
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