So, what was the best year of the noughties?

Btw. this is ILM, not ILE, so we're speaking music obv. :)

As for me, it was long a call between 2002 and 2005, but then, 2009turned out to be a marvellous music year, actually IMO probably the best since the mid 80s. Particularly within prog and electronic pop, 2009 was a wonderful year. Plus it was also an unusually strong year for Norwegian music. So 2009 it is.

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2007 for me; it had loads of my favorite albums. In Rainbows, From Here We Go Sublime, Mirrored, Boxer, Person Pitch, Ga Ga..., Kala, Sound of Silver, Random Spirit Lover, and more.

For me it's 2003. War All The Time, Elephant, Fever to Tell, The Black Album, Electric Version, Think Tank, A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar, Give Up, You Are Free, Deja Entendu, In Da Club, Lose Yourself...

i think we've done this before

maybe. i knew my answer right away, so i must've thought about it at some point in the past. maybe on another thread.

i think i might vote for 2005 but i have a poor memory when it comes to these things

after reviewing some lists real quick i feel good about 2005 -- monster year for pop singles

06 is major sleeper pick imo

2005, i think.

2005

06 is major sleeper pick imo

Agreed. I don't do too well keeping tracks of singles though. I think I'd have to say 05 was better for singles (and actually I'm thinking here of reggaeton) but 06 still had some singles from that wave of activity, plus it was an all around outstanding year for albums (for the particular mix of things that interest me, which is probably mostly irrelevant to others).

2001: Daft Punk, Ms Dynamite and lots of UK garage generally, Wu-Tang Clan, Aaliyah, Basement Jaxx, Jay-Z, Mystikal, Missy Elliot, Kylie Minogue, Kompakt, Elephant Man, Foxy Brown...

2004, 2005, 2007, and 2009 all hold my affection still.

2003: R&B singles from that year were unstoppable

We've made this poll before.

Yep. Here it is:

best year this decade

Yeah but before the decade was over.

2001 because of Daft Punk-Avalanches-Jaxx.

2001

2001: Daft Punk, Ms Dynamite and lots of UK garage generally, Wu-Tang Clan, Aaliyah, Basement Jaxx, Jay-Z, Mystikal, Missy Elliot, Kylie Minogue, Kompakt, Elephant Man, Foxy Brown...

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Those examples listed in various posts here almost make it seem like 2001 was a bad year, which it wasn't. Probably the fourth best year of the noughties, after 2009, 2002 and 2001. But for completely different reasons than the ones mentioned in this thread. :)

I voted for 2005. Antony & the Johnsons, Saint Etienne, My Morning jacket, Annie, Go-Betweens, LCD Soundsystem, Broadcast, Junior Senior, Rachel Stevens, Sufjan Stevens, Girls Aloud, Common, Maximo Park, Arcade Fire, Fischerspooner, Ladytron, Final Fantasy, Erasure, Vitalic, Patrick Wolf, Elbow, Go-Kart Mozart, Kate Bush and Art Brut's debut which was easily my favourite album of the decade.

Geir, If 2001 is in your top 3 years of the decade and also at number 4 doesn't that mean it would win overall?

haven't fully excavated the first half of the decade yet, but 2008 sucked the worst since i've been paying attention.

Geir, If 2001 is in your top 3 years of the decade and also at number 4 doesn't that mean it would win overall?

Yes. But I meant to write after 2009, 2002 and 2005. :)

2005 IMO had the best top three. Depeche Mode, Coldplay and McCartney. All among the best albums of the entire decade.

I'm sure we did this poll not long ago.

We should poll the decade day by day.

Looking forward to the hour by hour poll myself.

i remember 2000 sucking a LOT, and then 2001 making up for it. is that just me?

XP and XXP: Claims could easily be made that grouping music by year is pretty much pointless, but it's still what critics and a lot of music geeks do.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

2001 best year for albums (2002 worst)

2003 best year for hit singles (2009 worst)

that's about right for me too

I don't care all that much about hit singles anymore, but still see 2009 as the best year for hit singles because it sounded more like the early 80s than anything else did.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

2000

The year the greatest album of all time came out.

Comparing this album to other albums is like comparing an aquarium to blue construction paper

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

I had forgotten what came out in 2000 , but it wasnt a bad year really. People didn't vote 2000 just because Kid A came out, did they?

was 2000 a great year for hiphop?

best year this decade

hmmm...

So, what was the best year of the noughties?

2006 and 2008 why were they so bad and hated?

Too many nineties fans here. 2000 was of course the worst year of the 00s because it was more like the 90s than anything later on.

It is interesting how a lot of people voted for 2000 now, but hardly anyone two years ago though.....

2001, for me. Is This It and White Blood Cells were the first records I went out and bought by myself, and were, at the time, so perfect and cutting edge to me. It was only later that I found The Microphones, but The Glow pt. 2 is my favorite album. It's a Wonderful Life is close behind. Can't forget Amnesiac, either.

Too many nineties fans here.

too many you

poll it in a decade's time, will probably be reversed