Vote for the Best Album of the Decade (from rateyourmusic.com top 50)

It's hilarious that RYM minus "metal, experimental, avant-garde jazz, modern classial" = PFork

Even when you exclude everything but "pop", you still get pretty much PFork there. Mainly because mainstream pop get so many demonstrative 0 votes from people who hate, say, Britney Spears that it will always end up near the bottom of the list no matter how good or bad it may be.

Btw. I find RYM's ratings and computer lists pretty uninteresting. But what I like there is to look at lists made by users with a similar musical taste to mine. And then just ignore all those metal or avante garde fans there.

How is it "proper" if everything is taken out?

99 per cent of the music that people do actually listen to is still in there. The list is completely owned by pop and (non metal) rock. Which is how it should be.

that's our Geir, folks.

but if site users voted for those bands how are they not proper results? You dont think Jazz or Metal or country are as valid as pop or indie?

And, well, I didn't remove hip-hop or R&B. But the RYM users manage to fix that themselves, by giving lowly ratings to mainstream hip-hop/R&B albums so that they will not get in the lists. :)

but if site users voted for those bands how are they not proper results? You dont think Jazz or Metal or country are as valid as pop or indie?

Genres that are only listened to by those who like them will get a way too high rating because all those who dislike them have never heard of them and thus will not give bad ratings to them even though they would probably hate them if they heard them. This goes for all "extreme" genres such as metal and all things avant garde.

that's our Geir, folks.

I think this is Geir's favourite filtered RYM 2000's chart
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=2000s&genre_include=0&genres=metal%2C+experimental%2C+avant-garde+jazz%2C+modern+classical%2C+post-rock%2C+soundtracks%2C+experimental+rock%2C+alt-country%2C+film+soundtrack%2C+film+score%2C+hip+hop%2C+abstract+hip+hop%2C+drone%2C+avant+folk%2C+doom+metal%2C+black+metal%2C+death+metal%2C+progressive+metal%2C+post-hardcore%2C+breakcore%2C+jazz%2C+stoner+rock%2C+hard+rock%2C+art+rock%2C+avant-prog%2C+blues%2C+blues+rock%2C+stand-up+comedy%2C+idm%2C+alternative+dance%2C+post-punk%2C+garage+rock%2C+progressive+electronic%2C+dark+ambient%2C+neofolk%2C+psychedelic+folk%2C+funk%2C+progressive+rock%2C+electronic%2C+ambient%2C+freak+folk%2C+chanson%2C+romantic+period%2C+southern+rock%2C+country+rock%2C+ska%2C+noise%2C+noise+rock%2C+american+primitivism%2C+african+popular+music%2C+neoclassical+darkwave%2C+jam+band%2C+country%2C+punk+rock%2C+neo-soul&include_child_genres=t&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=

Nothing wrong with a lot of those genres. :)

Yet, I usually tell it to list pop only, ignoring all other genres. That usually gives a quite nice list, because albums by mass produced teenybopper acts and all things R&B/hip-hop will always have very low rankings at RYM due to all the low grades from the haters. :)

http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=2000s&genre_include=1&genres=pop&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=

Actually THIS: http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=2000s&genre_include=1&genres=power+pop%2C+synth+pop%2C+symphonic+rock&include_child_genres=t&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries= :)

If you really just want to limit outliers that receive unduly high ratings from a small group of respondents, you should limit the results by the number of votes received.

Top 100 by Rating, limited to those receiving at least 5,000 votes:

1). Radiohead - Kid A (2000) -- Rating: 4.18 [avg. of 11304 votes]
2). Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000) -- Rating: 4.16 [avg. of 5275 votes]
3). Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004) -- Rating: 4.12 [avg. of 8667 votes]
4). Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) -- Rating: 4.06 [avg. of 5152 votes]
5). Tool - Lateralus (2001) -- Rating: 4.04 [avg. of 6058 votes]
6). Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (2002) -- Rating: 4.03 [avg. of 5971 votes]
7). Sigur Rós - ( ) (2002) -- Rating: 4 [avg. of 5329 votes]
8). Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) -- Rating: 3.93 [avg. of 7504 votes]
9). Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002) -- Rating: 3.92 [avg. of 5130 votes]
10). The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) -- Rating: 3.9 [avg. of 5245 votes]
11). The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003) -- Rating: 3.89 [avg. of 5023 votes]
12). Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001) -- Rating: 3.86 [avg. of 8639 votes]
13). The Strokes - Is This It (2001) -- Rating: 3.85 [avg. of 5869 votes]

Still a noticeable metal/experimental bias...

2,000 - 4,999 Votes:

14). Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) -- Rating: 4.08 [avg. of 4208 votes]
15). Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000) -- Rating: 4.07 [avg. of 3941 votes]
16). Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004) -- Rating: 4.07 [avg. of 2146 votes]
17). Agalloch - The Mantle (2002) -- Rating: 4.04 [avg. of 2030 votes]
18). Isis - Panopticon (2004) -- Rating: 4.03 [avg. of 2101 votes]
19). Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) -- Rating: 4 [avg. of 2008 votes]
20). Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005) -- Rating: 3.99 [avg. of 4797 votes]
21). Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002) -- Rating: 3.97 [avg. of 3527 votes]
22). At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000) -- Rating: 3.96 [avg. of 3780 votes]
23). Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People (2002) -- Rating: 3.96 [avg. of 3108 votes]
24). Mastodon - Leviathan (2004) -- Rating: 3.96 [avg. of 2492 votes]
25). Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002) -- Rating: 3.95 [avg. of 2134 votes]
26). The National - Boxer (2007) -- Rating: 3.94 [avg. of 2873 votes]
27). Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005) -- Rating: 3.92 [avg. of 3192 votes]
28). Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003) -- Rating: 3.91 [avg. of 3447 votes]
29). Björk - Vespertine (2001) -- Rating: 3.91 [avg. of 3246 votes]
30). Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (2005) -- Rating: 3.91 [avg. of 3004 votes]
31). Opeth - Damnation (2003) -- Rating: 3.9 [avg. of 3326 votes]

1,000 to 1,999 Votes:

32). Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006) -- Rating: 4.14 [avg. of 1517 votes]
33). Yann Tiersen - Amélie (2001) -- Rating: 4.1 [avg. of 1383 votes]
34). Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (2002) -- Rating: 4.05 [avg. of 1261 votes]
35). Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000) -- Rating: 4.04 [avg. of 1489 votes]
36). Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (2000) -- Rating: 4.01 [avg. of 1952 votes]
37). Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man (2000) -- Rating: 4.01 [avg. of 1230 votes]
38). Jay Dee - Donuts (2006) -- Rating: 4.01 [avg. of 1113 votes]
39). Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm (2004) -- Rating: 4.01 [avg. of 1096 votes]
40). Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000) -- Rating: 4 [avg. of 1264 votes]
41). Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született (2005) -- Rating: 4 [avg. of 1244 votes]
42). Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part (2001) -- Rating: 3.99 [avg. of 1894 votes]
43). Converge - Jane Doe (2001) -- Rating: 3.99 [avg. of 1822 votes]
44). Jay-Z - The Blueprint (2001) -- Rating: 3.99 [avg. of 1341 votes]
45). The National - Alligator (2005) -- Rating: 3.98 [avg. of 1961 votes]
46). Isis - Oceanic (2002) -- Rating: 3.98 [avg. of 1941 votes]
47). The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (2001) -- Rating: 3.98 [avg. of 1648 votes]
48). Fugazi - The Argument (2001) -- Rating: 3.98 [avg. of 1570 votes]
49). Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I (2000) -- Rating: 3.98 [avg. of 1122 votes]
50). Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (2006) -- Rating: 3.97 [avg. of 1847 votes]
51). Ulver - Perdition City (2000) -- Rating: 3.97 [avg. of 1515 votes]
52). Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane (2002) -- Rating: 3.97 [avg. of 1149 votes]
53). Tom Waits - Alice (2002) -- Rating: 3.94 [avg. of 1676 votes]

The man on the street isn't really on RYM at all, which is part of the problem here.

http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=2000s&genre_include=1&genres=twee+pop%2C+grindcore&include_child_genres=t&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=country&countries=united+states

lol

I could be very happy listening to a mix based on that

Generally, however, RYM year-end lists from the 90s or earlier are looking perfectly fine. It is just in the 00s that the metal/avante garde bias has become a huge problem.

The man on the street is not a real guy, Geir.

If we're actually talking about voting, "Songs for the Deaf" is a pretty kick-ass rock'n'roll rekkid. I'd put it up there with "Here are The Sonics" or "Slayed?", and it's the only one on the list I own and would want to stick on right now.

Even though Norway is kind of (in)famous for our metal scene, this still doesn't look too bad. :)
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=2000s&genre_include=1&genres=&include_child_genres=t&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=country&countries=norway

geir whats the best RYM type site then?

The RYM ratings haven't been around since the 90s. At least I don't think so. So the earlier ratings simply reflect the older stuff that current, experimental-metal-listening RYM users dig. And that naturally tends to skew mainstream/familiar/fondly remembered.

No shortage of metal (and TONS of hip-hop) in the all users/all genres Best of the 90s list. Same for the 80s, but with less hip-hop and more punk & hardcore.

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/year_madvillain.jpg

can somebody, anybody, make a best-of-the-00s list that doesn't smell of ass?

I find it hard to believe the decade was that dire

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday

Can you? Be constructive, you wuss

this is the current top 100 of the 00s from my friends + favourite users on rateyourmusic.cm

1 Neurosis
A Sun That Never Sets (2001)

Sludge Metal, Atmospheric Sludge Metal

Avg rating: 4.30 | Ratings: 43 | Reviews (total): 37 | Buy this release

2 Perdition City
Ulver
Perdition City (2000)

Electronic, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.26 | Ratings: 50 | Reviews (total): 83 | Buy this release

3 Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000)

Post-Rock, Experimental Rock
Avg rating: 4.15 | Ratings: 107 | Reviews (total): 421 | Buy this release

4 Kid A
Radiohead
Kid A (2000)

Experimental Rock, Art Rock
Avg rating: 4.13 | Ratings: 118 | Reviews (total): 799 | Buy this release

5 The Eye of Every Storm
Neurosis
The Eye of Every Storm (2004)

Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Rock, Sludge Metal
Avg rating: 4.19 | Ratings: 55 | Reviews (total): 61 | Buy this release

6 Leaving Your Body Map
maudlin of the Well
Leaving Your Body Map (2001)

Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.20 | Ratings: 45 | Reviews (total): 67 | Buy this release

7 Panopticon
Isis
Panopticon (2004)

Sludge Metal, Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Avg rating: 4.12 | Ratings: 74 | Reviews (total): 102 | Buy this release

8 Leaves Turn Inside You
Unwound
Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)

Post-Hardcore, Indie Rock
Avg rating: 4.26 | Ratings: 33 | Reviews (total): 58 | Buy this release

9 Choirs of the Eye
Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye (2003)

Experimental Rock, Experimental, Avant-Garde Metal
Avg rating: 4.15 | Ratings: 53 | Reviews (total): 99 | Buy this release

10 Blackwater Park
Opeth
Blackwater Park (2001)

Progressive Metal, Progressive Death Metal
Avg rating: 4.09 | Ratings: 76 | Reviews (total): 323 | Buy this release

11 Bath
maudlin of the Well
Bath (2001)

Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.17 | Ratings: 45 | Reviews (total): 75 | Buy this release

12 Black Earth
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Black Earth (2002)

Jazz, Dark Ambient
Avg rating: 4.18 | Ratings: 42 | Reviews (total): 65 | Buy this release

13 Supermodified
Amon Tobin
Supermodified (2000)

Electronic
Avg rating: 4.15 | Ratings: 42 | Reviews (total): 29 | Buy this release

14 Oceanic
Isis
Oceanic (2002)

Sludge Metal, Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Avg rating: 4.08 | Ratings: 62 | Reviews (total): 71 | Buy this release

15 Endless Summer
Fennesz
Endless Summer (2001)

Glitch, Electronic, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.10 | Ratings: 53 | Reviews (total): 46 | Buy this release

16 The Painter's Palette
Ephel Duath
The Painter's Palette (2003)

Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal
Avg rating: 4.18 | Ratings: 34 | Reviews (total): 36 | Buy this release

17 Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree
Lightbulb Sun (2000)

Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 4.10 | Ratings: 49 | Reviews (total): 88 | Buy this release

18 Maaäet
Tenhi
Maaäet (2006)

Neofolk
Avg rating: 4.15 | Ratings: 38 | Reviews (total): 15 | Buy this release

19 Neon Golden
The Notwist
Neon Golden (2002)

Indie Electronic
Avg rating: 4.08 | Ratings: 52 | Reviews (total): 62 | Buy this release

20 The Mantle
Agalloch
The Mantle (2002)

Folk Metal
Avg rating: 4.07 | Ratings: 57 | Reviews (total): 145 | Buy this release

21 Turn On the Bright Lights
Interpol
Turn On the Bright Lights (2002)

Post-Punk, Indie Rock
Avg rating: 4.01 | Ratings: 83 | Reviews (total): 377 | Buy this release

22 Pop
Gas
Pop (2000)

Ambient, Ambient Techno, Minimal Techno, Electronic
Avg rating: 4.39 | Ratings: 18 | Reviews (total): 25 | Buy this release

23 The Ape of Naples
Coil
The Ape of Naples (2005)

Industrial, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.18 | Ratings: 32 | Reviews (total): 41 | Buy this release

24 The Glow Pt. 2
The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)

Lo-Fi, Psychedelic Folk, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.12 | Ratings: 40 | Reviews (total): 88 | Buy this release

25 Martes
Murcof
Martes (2002)

Glitch, Minimal Techno, Ambient Techno, Electronic
Avg rating: 4.20 | Ratings: 28 | Reviews (total): 18 | Buy this release

26 In Harmonia Universali
Solefald
In Harmonia Universali (2003)

Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.27 | Ratings: 23 | Reviews (total): 14 | Buy this release

27 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Yo La Tengo
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)

Dream Pop, Indie Rock
Avg rating: 4.07 | Ratings: 46 | Reviews (total): 72 | Buy this release

28 Geogaddi
Boards of Canada
Geogaddi (2002)

IDM, Electronic
Avg rating: 3.98 | Ratings: 76 | Reviews (total): 90 | Buy this release

29 In Absentia
Porcupine Tree
In Absentia (2002)

Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 4.00 | Ratings: 65 | Reviews (total): 219 | Buy this release

30 Funeral
Arcade Fire
Funeral (2004)

Indie Rock
Avg rating: 3.96 | Ratings: 93 | Reviews (total): 687 | Buy this release

31 Of Natural History
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Of Natural History (2004)

Experimental Rock, Avant-Prog, Avant-Garde Metal
Avg rating: 4.13 | Ratings: 32 | Reviews (total): 38 | Buy this release

32 Blood Inside
Ulver
Blood Inside (2005)

Electronic, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.02 | Ratings: 51 | Reviews (total): 73 | Buy this release

33 The Cold Vein
Cannibal Ox
The Cold Vein (2001)

Abstract Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop
Avg rating: 4.17 | Ratings: 28 | Reviews (total): 83 | Buy this release

34 Jane Doe
Converge
Jane Doe (2001)

Metalcore, Mathcore, Post-Hardcore
Avg rating: 4.02 | Ratings: 49 | Reviews (total): 175 | Buy this release

35 Souvenirs
The Gathering
Souvenirs (2003)

Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 4.09 | Ratings: 36 | Reviews (total): 36 | Buy this release

36 The Sham Mirrors
Arcturus
The Sham Mirrors (2002)

Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal
Avg rating: 4.04 | Ratings: 44 | Reviews (total): 73 | Buy this release

37 Autumn Aurora
Drudkh
Autumn Aurora (2004)

Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal
Avg rating: 4.18 | Ratings: 25 | Reviews (total): 37 | Buy this release

38 5
Supersilent
5 (2001)

Free Improvisation, Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental
Avg rating: 4.38 | Ratings: 16 | Reviews (total): 2 | Buy this release

39 Deliverance
Opeth
Deliverance (2002)

Progressive Metal, Progressive Death Metal
Avg rating: 3.98 | Ratings: 58 | Reviews (total): 119 | Buy this release

40 Damnation
Opeth
Damnation (2003)

Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 3.95 | Ratings: 71 | Reviews (total): 185 | Buy this release

41 Lateralus
Tool
Lateralus (2001)

Alternative Metal, Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 3.94 | Ratings: 73 | Reviews (total): 448 | Buy this release

42 Jesu
Jesu
Jesu (2005)

Drone Doom Metal, Shoegaze
Avg rating: 3.97 | Ratings: 59 | Reviews (total): 63 | Buy this release

43 Blood in Our Wells
Drudkh
Blood in Our Wells (2006)

Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal
Avg rating: 4.16 | Ratings: 26 | Reviews (total): 33 | Buy this release

44 The Perfect Element I
Pain of Salvation
The Perfect Element I (2000)

Progressive Metal
Avg rating: 4.08 | Ratings: 34 | Reviews (total): 57 | Buy this release

45 El Cielo
dredg
El Cielo (2002)

Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 4.04 | Ratings: 39 | Reviews (total): 84 | Buy this release

46 Dead as Dreams
Weakling
Dead as Dreams (2000)

Black Metal
Avg rating: 4.25 | Ratings: 20 | Reviews (total): 41 | Buy this release

47 Amnesiac
Radiohead
Amnesiac (2001)

Experimental Rock, Electronic
Avg rating: 3.90 | Ratings: 99 | Reviews (total): 459 | Buy this release

48 Secret South
16 Horsepower
Secret South (2000)

Alt-Country, Gothic Country
Avg rating: 4.16 | Ratings: 25 | Reviews (total): 18 | Buy this release

49 Back to Times of Splendor
Disillusion
Back to Times of Splendor (2004)

Progressive Metal, Progressive Death Metal
Avg rating: 4.10 | Ratings: 30 | Reviews (total): 63 | Buy this release

50 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

Alt-Country, Alternative Rock
Avg rating: 3.95 | Ratings: 63 | Reviews (total): 325 | Buy this release

51 Vespertine
Björk
Vespertine (2001)

Progressive Pop, Electronica, Art Pop
Avg rating: 3.93 | Ratings: 73 | Reviews (total): 160 | Buy this release

52 The Milk-Eyed Mender
Joanna Newsom
The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Folk, Freak Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Avg rating: 4.02 | Ratings: 42 | Reviews (total): 134 | Buy this release

53 Xtrmntr
Primal Scream
Xtrmntr (2000)

Alternative Dance, Alternative Rock, Electronic
Avg rating: 4.00 | Ratings: 44 | Reviews (total): 61 | Buy this release

54 Ashes Against the Grain
Agalloch
Ashes Against the Grain (2006)

Folk Metal
Avg rating: 3.94 | Ratings: 62 | Reviews (total): 137 | Buy this release

55 Absence
Dälek
Absence (2005)

Experimental Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop
Avg rating: 3.99 | Ratings: 45 | Reviews (total): 42 | Buy this release

56 Relationship of Command
At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command (2000)

Post-Hardcore
Avg rating: 3.94 | Ratings: 61 | Reviews (total): 243 | Buy this release

57 Beautiful Speck Triumph
Birchville Cat Motel
Beautiful Speck Triumph (2004)

Drone
Avg rating: 4.37 | Ratings: 15 | Reviews (total): 17 | Buy this release

58 A Strangely Isolated Place
Ulrich Schnauss
A Strangely Isolated Place (2003)

Downtempo, Electronic
Avg rating: 4.05 | Ratings: 34 | Reviews (total): 26 | Buy this release

59 Far Away Trains Passing By
Ulrich Schnauss
Far Away Trains Passing By (2001)

Electronic, Downtempo
Avg rating: 4.09 | Ratings: 28 | Reviews (total): 23 | Buy this release

60 Väre
Tenhi
Väre (2002)

Neofolk
Avg rating: 4.09 | Ratings: 28 | Reviews (total): 4 | Buy this release

61 He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...
A Silver Mt. Zion
He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... (2000)

Post-Rock
Avg rating: 3.92 | Ratings: 64 | Reviews (total): 61 | Buy this release

62 Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
Boris
Boris at Last -Feedbacker- (2003)

Drone, Drone Doom Metal, Noise Rock
Avg rating: 4.07 | Ratings: 30 | Reviews (total): 61 | Buy this release

63 Pale Ravine
Deaf Center
Pale Ravine (2005)

Ambient
Avg rating: 4.16 | Ratings: 23 | Reviews (total): 12 | Buy this release

64 Flares
Port-Royal
Flares (2005)

Ambient, Post-Rock
Avg rating: 4.03 | Ratings: 34 | Reviews (total): 27 | Buy this release

65 Suspended Animation Dreams
Subterranean Masquerade
Suspended Animation Dreams (2005)

Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 4.12 | Ratings: 25 | Reviews (total): 26 | Buy this release

66 6
Supersilent
6 (2003)

Free Improvisation, Electronic, Experimental Rock
Avg rating: 4.02 | Ratings: 36 | Reviews (total): 23 | Buy this release

67 Terraforming
The Postman Syndrome
Terraforming (2002)

Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock
Avg rating: 4.25 | Ratings: 18 | Reviews (total): 16 | Buy this release

68 Verisäkeet
Moonsorrow
Verisäkeet (2005)

Folk Metal, Black Metal
Avg rating: 4.25 | Ratings: 18 | Reviews (total): 33 | Buy this release

69 Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Tom Waits
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)

Singer/Songwriter, Blues Rock, Folk Rock
Avg rating: 4.05 | Ratings: 31 | Reviews (total): 101 | Buy this release

70 ( )
Sigur Rós
( ) (2002)

Post-Rock
Avg rating: 3.85 | Ratings: 106 | Reviews (total): 269 | Buy this release

71 The Empty Hollow Unfolds
Raison d'être
The Empty Hollow Unfolds (2000)

Dark Ambient
Avg rating: 4.55 | Ratings: 11 | Reviews (total): 6 | Buy this release

72 Rossz csillag alatt született
Venetian Snares
Rossz csillag alatt született (2005)

Breakcore, Drill and Bass, Electronic
Avg rating: 3.96 | Ratings: 45 | Reviews (total): 71 | Buy this release

73 Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois (2005)

Singer/Songwriter, Indie Pop, Chamber Pop
Avg rating: 3.88 | Ratings: 78 | Reviews (total): 356 | Buy this release

74 Finally We Are No One
múm
Finally We Are No One (2002)

Electronic, Indie Electronic
Avg rating: 3.94 | Ratings: 51 | Reviews (total): 52 | Buy this release

75 Untrue
Burial
Untrue (2007)

Dubstep, Electronic
Avg rating: 3.93 | Ratings: 53 | Reviews (total): 138 | Buy this release

76 Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Green Carnation
Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001)

Progressive Metal
Avg rating: 3.99 | Ratings: 38 | Reviews (total): 55 | Buy this release

77 Rounds
Four Tet
Rounds (2003)

Electronic
Avg rating: 3.95 | Ratings: 46 | Reviews (total): 39 | Buy this release

78 Pain Necessary to Know
Ephel Duath
Pain Necessary to Know (2005)

Avant-Garde Metal, Progressive Metal, Mathcore, Jazz Fusion
Avg rating: 4.13 | Ratings: 23 | Reviews (total): 14 | Buy this release

79 Remedy Lane
Pain of Salvation
Remedy Lane (2002)

Progressive Metal
Avg rating: 4.02 | Ratings: 33 | Reviews (total): 62 | Buy this release

80 Things We Lost in the Fire
Low
Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)

Slowcore
Avg rating: 3.95 | Ratings: 45 | Reviews (total): 43 | Buy this release

81 Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Katatonia
Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2001)

Alternative Rock
Avg rating: 4.00 | Ratings: 34 | Reviews (total): 31 | Buy this release

82 The For Carnation
The For Carnation
The For Carnation (2000)

Post-Rock, Slowcore
Avg rating: 4.02 | Ratings: 32 | Reviews (total): 18 | Buy this release

83 The Black Halo
Kamelot
The Black Halo (2005)

Power Metal
Avg rating: 4.14 | Ratings: 22 | Reviews (total): 53 | Buy this release

84 Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck
Flotation Toy Warning
Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (2004)

Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Avg rating: 4.23 | Ratings: 18 | Reviews (total): 27 | Buy this release

85 Person Pitch
Panda Bear
Person Pitch (2007)

Psychedelic Pop, Experimental
Avg rating: 3.90 | Ratings: 57 | Reviews (total): 250 | Buy this release

86 Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Yndi Halda
Enjoy Eternal Bliss (2006)

Post-Rock
Avg rating: 4.00 | Ratings: 33 | Reviews (total): 81 | Buy this release

87 Svidd neger
Ulver
Svidd neger (2003)

Electronic, Ambient, Film Soundtrack
Avg rating: 4.04 | Ratings: 29 | Reviews (total): 18 | Buy this release

88 Below the Lights
Enslaved
Below the Lights (2003)

Progressive Metal, Black Metal
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89 American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)

Americana, Country
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90 Remembranza
Murcof
Remembranza (2005)

Electronic, Ambient
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91 Sunset Mission
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Sunset Mission (2000)

Jazz, Dark Ambient
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92 Terria
Devin Townsend
Terria (2001)

Progressive Metal
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93 The Gathering Wilderness
Primordial
The Gathering Wilderness (2005)

Folk Metal
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94 The Tired Sounds Of
Stars of the Lid
The Tired Sounds Of (2001)

Ambient, Drone
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95 Annihilation of the Wicked
Nile
Annihilation of the Wicked (2005)

Death Metal, Technical Death Metal
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96 White Pony
Deftones
White Pony (2000)

Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock
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97 V: Hävitetty
Moonsorrow
V: Hävitetty (2007)

Folk Metal, Viking Metal
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98 Madvillainy
Madvillain
Madvillainy (2004)

Abstract Hip Hop, Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
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99 Star Is Just a Sun
The White Birch
Star Is Just a Sun (2002)

Slowcore
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100 And Their Refinement of the Decline
Stars of the Lid
And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)

Ambient, Drone
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Notwist's Neon Golden really should be one of those first 50. None of those are any better than it. And not that I care too much about production techniques, but if you really needed a tiebreaker...

ok, i screwed this up royally the first time out... so once more:

Greece

success! still more metal (56 albums by my count--woo-hoo!) than thou, malakes!!!!!!

geir whats the best RYM type site then?

I would say Acclaimed Music, because it concentrates on critics and doesn't care about all those metal fans who are able to take over a site.

Of course RYM is a fantastic place for lists anyway. Your own lists, and other users' lists, that is.

For 1990s or earlier, RYM is quite good though. Note that their all time list contains very little from the 00s up there at all, simply because opinions on 00s albums are too divided for them to do very well against older albums, who are mostly rated by people who like them and not so much by people who hate them. :)

basically, anything that's been released post 2000 that winds up getting 4.00 or above at RYM is doing astoundingly well.

All those filters are quite cool, but what I miss is an opportunity to pick "albums that have been rated by at least * RYM users"

I would put the limit around 8.000, and get rid of most of the obscure metal.

Best Norwegian Albums of the 00s - clear evidence that Norway has produced some of the best music of the 00s - particularly taking into account the population of the country

http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=2000s&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&origin_countries=Norway&limit=none&countries=

Geir: uninterested in reality since 1983

i voted for ashes against the grain. because it's my favorite album of the decade. if they had put blood inside on that list instead of perdition city i might have had a dilemna. blood inside and ashes are probably my top two of the decade.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part (2001)

Really???? Ugh.... hate that album.

ts: Norway vs. Sweden

Sweden

This is the proper Norwegian 00s list (metal is not music):
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=2000s&genre_include=0&genres=metal&include_child_genres=t&include=both&origin_countries=Norway&limit=none&countries=Norway

i love any country that can house both the kings of convenience and mayhem.

But really, the RYM lists are useful only for the 90s or earlier. In the 00s they are too dominated by weird and strange extreme stuff.

you mean good?

(metal is not music)
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro),

we really need that photoshop

Geir: uninterested in reality since 1983

― a full circle lol (J0hn D.),

Master Of Unreality is his fave sabbath album!

Coil for sure here.

like, not even close.

2) why the fuck don't men listen to female artists? it's not like women have the same weird moratorium on listening to male artists.

i'm not going to read the whole thread to see whether this is addressed, but kate, this ^^^^ strawman of yours is totally absurd & ridic. fwiw i think everyone going in to a thread about lists understands that lists are subjective based on who compiled them. in this case, a bunch of nerdy dudes who spend time on rate your music. note a larger percentage of metal than you'd find on any other non-genre-specific list.

furthermore, plenty of men listen to female artists. have you noticed how much ILM loves Kate Bush? or Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie? What about MIA, or Annie, or Sleater Kinney or... c'mon. At least try to think about things for a minute before getting up on some stick-horse abt it.

sorry if i come across as a dick btw, i don't intend to. i just disagree with you.

What if the best album of the decade shows up in December? Can we take the poll over again?