You can see how 2005 pans out or anything really by going to their site at .net, but this is what I'm really interested in.
Top 100 Albums from the 2000s:
1 The Strokes Is This It 2001
2 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand 2004
3 The Arcade Fire Funeral 2004
4 The White Stripes Elephant 2003
5 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2000
6 The White Stripes White Blood Cells 2001
7 Sufjan Stevens Illinois 2005
8 OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2003
9 Radiohead Kid A 2000
10 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002
11 OutKast Stankonia 2000
12 The Streets Original Pirate Material 2002
13 Brian Wilson SMiLE 2004
14 Jay-Z The Blueprint 2001
15 M.I.A. Arular 2005
16 Bob Dylan Love and Theft 2001
17 Kanye West College Dropout 2004
18 The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free 2004
19 Antony and The Johnsons I Am a Bird Now 2005
20 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head 2002
21 Interpol Turn On the Bright Lights 2002
22 Radiohead Hail to the Thief 2003
23 The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot 2002
24 Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf 2002
25 Dizzee Rascal Boy in da Corner 2003
26 P J Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 2000
27 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow 2003
28 Wilco A Ghost Is Born 2004
29 Coldplay Parachutes 2000
30 Kanye West Late Registration 2005
31 Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose 2004
32 Radiohead Amnesiac 2001
33 Primal Scream Xtrmntr 2000
34 Björk Vespertine 2001
35 Spoon Kill the Moonlight 2002
36 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem 2005
37 Bloc Party Silent Alarm 2005
38 Missy Misdemeanor Elliott Miss E…So Addictive 2001
39 …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags & Codes 2002
40 Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica 2000
41 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People 2002
42 The Notwist Neon Golden 2002
43 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus 2004
44 U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind 2000
45 Ryan Adams Heartbreaker 2000
46 Madvillain Madvillainy 2004
47 Beck Sea Change 2002
48 Blur Think Tank 2003
49 D'Angelo Voodoo 2000
50 The Avalanches Since I Left You 2000
51 The Libertines The Libertines 2004
52 Queens of the Stone Age R 2000
53 Badly Drawn Boy The Hour of Bewilderbeast 2000
54 Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 2000
55 Interpol Antics 2004
56 Godspeed You Black Emperor! Lift Yr. Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven 2000
57 TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes 2004
58 Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better 2005
59 Morrissey You Are the Quarry 2004
60 The Strokes Room on Fire 2003
61 Elliott Smith From a Basement on a Hill 2004
62 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning 2005
63 The Roots Phrenology 2002
64 Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands 2004
65 Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump 2000
66 Fugazi The Argument 2001
67 The Libertines Up the Bracket 2002
68 Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News 2004
69 Cat Power You Are Free 2003
70 At the Drive-In Relationship of Command 2000
71 The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia 2000
72 Missy Misdemeanor Elliott Under Construction 2002
73 My Morning Jacket Z 2005
74 System of a Down Toxicity 2001
75 Björk Medulla 2004
76 Gorillaz Demon Days 2005
77 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema 2005
78 N.E.R.D. In Search of… 2001
79 Ryan Adams Gold 2001
80 Weezer Weezer ("The Green Album") 2001
81 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell 2003
82 Eminem The Eminem Show 2002
83 Basement Jaxx Rooty 2001
84 Sleater-Kinney One Beat 2002
85 The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium 2003
86 Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil,Keep Your Ear to the Ground 2002
87 Beth Gibbons and Rustin' Man Out of Season 2002
88 The Rapture Echoes 2003
89 Sleater-Kinney The Woods 2005
90 Solomon Burke Don't Give Up On Me 2002
91 The Darkness Permission to Land 2003
92 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. 2001
93 Dizzee Rascal Showtime 2004
94 Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters 2004
95 Tom Waits Real Gone 2004
96 Green Day American Idiot 2004
97 DJ Shadow The Private Press 2002
98 The Wrens The Meadowlands 2003
99 The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan 2005
100 Röyksopp Melody A.M. 2001
― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)
Which lists have been included for the compilation of the Acclaimed Music lists?Almost all critics lists I have got my hand on, including best-of-year lists, best-of-all-times lists etc., from critics, artists and music industry people all over the world. Lists by people who work with music. Personal critics lists have been omitted with the exception of lists published in books and special essays in magazines, like Elvis Costello's in Vanity Fair. However, since some of the Acclaimed Music single lists are poorly substantiated, I also include single lists (not by-year lists) by well-experienced music critics (e.g. Michaelangelo Matos' lists of the top 100 singles from the 70s, 80s and 90s) which are not in print but on the web. Genre-specific best-of-lists are only included if they are from a magazine specialised in this genre. Readers lists of all kind have been omitted.
How have the lists been compiled?
This is really not simple to explain. Please do not despair if you do not fully understand...
I have written a program which computes the lists. The basic idea is that I match all records against each other in pairs. In a match, each critics list is weighted depending on
* the number of lists I have from different parts of world (USA, UK or the rest of the world)
** when the list was presented (newer lists are weighted more heavily)
*** how many matches the list is a part of (a list which only embraces a few years is not part of many matches and is therefore weighted heavily in the matches where it is included).
To be able to compare new records (which only exist on best-of-year-lists) with older records, I have put together best-of-year-list from the same magazine, e.g. the #1 record on NME's best-of-year-list of 2001 beats not only the other records from year 2001, but also #2, #3... from older NME's best-of-year-lists. Of course with less weight in each match (see *** above).
The weight of a list when one of the records is outside the list depends on which records that are included in the list. The more records that are included among my pick of 30 recordings from each year, the heavier weight.
If a record is preferred over the opponent in at least 75% of all critics lists (after weighting each list) where at least one of the two records have been listed, the record gets a maximum match point and the opponent gets no match point. If the 2 records are preferred in 25-75% of the critics lists, the maximum match point is shared between the 2 records.
I thereafter weight all matches due to the number of lists that are included in each match (it is more important to have a high match point in a match based on many lists). All records get a score between 0 and 1000 (a record with maximum match point in each match would get the score 1000). The score is then corrected due which opponents a record has been matched against. This is because the critical acclaim of rock music differs between years (in most of the all-time-lists the majority of the records are from the 70's or earlier). If the mean score of the opponents is above average, the corrected sum score becomes slightly greater and vice versa.
― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)
PS: I hate techno. -- Michael F Gill (planck.lengt...), January 9th, 2006. (Michael F Gill) (later)
B-b-b-b-b-b-but!
100 Röyksopp Melody A.M. 2001
It's nearly as good as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club!
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)
Well there are enough critics that don't hate techno anyway (and "Melody AM" is certainly better than anything BRMC have ever released - in spite of me usually liking guitar based traditional songs better than electronic free-form based instrumentals, more or less)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)