Favourite 00s Albums, as chosen year by year

In preparation for some kind of forthcoming favourite 00s albums list, here’s a recap of which albums I picked as favourites at the end of each of the last ten years.

2000: Laurent Garnier – Unreasonable Behaviour (FR)

2001: The Avalanches – Since I Left You (AU)

2002: The Streets – Original Pirate Material (UK)

2003: OutKast – Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (US)

2004: Annie – Anniemal (NO)

2005: Broadcast – Tender Buttons (UK)

2006: The Knife – Silent Shout (SE)

2007: Feist – The Reminder (CA)

2008: Erykah Badu – New AmErykah Part 1: Fourth World War (US)

2009: The Juan Maclean – The Future Will Come (US)

Think less than half of those will actually make a 00s top 10 now, using the average percentage rating system. I think I overrated Garnier, OutKast (tho maintain there’s as many good-great tracks on there as on any of the other single albums here), Broadcast and Feist a bit but still like them all. Of course there’s a few albums I overlooked or didn’t get round to in their year of release that became firm favourites later, one of which is likely to top the overall list.

Pleased also about the amount of different nationalities there. Three American albums, two British and one each from France, Australia, Norway, Sweden and Canada. Only three debut albums which is interesting although for three others (Garnier, Feist and The Juan Maclean) it was the first album I’d heard in full by each. Two solo men, three solo women, one male duo, three male/female duos, only one group of sorts – again quite a nice balance (I guess I hate Actual Bands tho ha).

I think that’s enough sad-statting for now…