100 Greatest Albums of 2000

Criteria: These music albums from the year 2000 were chosen for their initial and lasting popularity and their influence and impact on rock music in general. Also considered is critical acclaim. The list includes rock and roll and related genres that were influential on rock music.

Note: Yearly album lists go by earliest 'release date'. Not necessarily the year an album peaked in the U.S. charts.

1. The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
2. Stankonia
OutKast
3. Kid A
Radiohead
4. All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2
5. Like Water For Chocolate
Common
6. Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
7. Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
8. Parachutes
Coldplay
9. Voodoo
D'Angelo
10. Music
Madonna
11. The Moon and Antarctica
Modest Mouse
12. Quality Control
Jurassic 5
13. Relationship of Command
At the Drive In
14. R
Queens of the Stone Age
15. Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
16. White Pony
Deftones
17. Mer De Noms
A Perfect Circle
18. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
19. Figure 8
Elliott Smith
20. Supreme Clientele
Ghostface Killah
21. No Strings Attached
'NSYNC
22. Two Against Nature
Steely Dan
23. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Yo La Tengo
24. Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1
Jill Scott
25. The Noise Made by People
Broadcast
26. Return of Saturn
No Doubt
27. Mad Season
Matchbox Twenty
28. TP-2.com
R. Kelly
29. Since I Left You
The Avalanches
30. Crush
Bon Jovi
31. Veni Vidi Vicious
The Hives
32. Can't Take Me Home
Pink
33. All Hands on the Bad One
Sleater-Kinney
34. Country Grammar
Nelly
35. Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
36. Whoa, Nelly!
Nelly Furtado
37. De Stijl
The White Stripes
38. Aijuswanaseing
Musiq Soulchild
39. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Oasis
40. Warning
Green Day
41. Deltron 3030
Deltron 3030
42. Fear of Flying
Mya
43. Oops...I Did It Again
Britney Spears
44. Life'll Kill Ya
Warren Zevon
45. The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
46. Riding with the King
Eric Clapton and B.B. King
47. Bloodflowers
The Cure
48. Binaural
Pearl Jam
49. Black & Blue
The Backstreet Boys
50. Selmasongs
Björk

51. Dopethrone
Electric Wizard
52. J.E. Heartbreak
Jagged Edge
53. XTRMNTR
Primal Scream
54. Internal Wrangler
Clinic
55. The Last of a Dying Breed
Scarface
56. Mass Romantic
The New Pornographers
57. Things to Make and Do
Moloko
58. Lovers Rock
Sade
59. The Sophtware Slump
Grandaddy
60. Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree
61. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Glassjaw
62. Farmhouse
Phish
63. The Platform
Dilated Peoples
64. The Art of Drowning
AFI
65. The Teaches of Peaches
Peaches
66. Jazzmatazz, Vol. III: Streetsoul
Guru
67. Fevers and Mirrors
Bright Eyes
68. Hot Shot
Shaggy
69. Brave New World
Iron Maiden
70. Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump
De La Soul
71. Daisies of the Galaxy
Eels
72. Wasp Star (Apple Venus II)
XTC
73. Black Market Music
Placebo
74. Antony and the Johnsons
Antony and the Johnsons
75. Lost Souls
Doves
76. Sing When You're Winning
Robbie Williams
77. White Pepper
Ween
78. Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Belle and Sebastian
79. Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
Billy Bragg & Wilco
80. The Night
Morphine
81. Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
The Dandy Warhols
82. The Rising Tide
Sunny Day Real Estate
83. Mwng
Super Furry Animals
84. The Better Life
3 Doors Down
85. United
Phoenix
86. Resolver
Veruca Salt
87. Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
88. The Friends of Rachel Worth
The Go-Betweens
89. We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Death Cab for Cutie
90. The Lioness
Songs: Ohia
91. Excuses for Travelers
Mojave 3
92. One Touch
Sugababes
93. Transcendental Blues
Steve Earle
94. The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
The Apples in Stereo
95. Ecstasy
Lou Reed
96. The Unutterable
The Fall
97. The Coroner's Gambit
The Mountain Goats
98. L.D. 50
Mudvayne
99. The Distillers
The Distillers
100. This Business of Art
Tegan and Sara
DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 2000
Ryan's choice - An unheralded great album from 2000
* One Mississippi
J Church

Lew's choice:
* America Town
Five for Fighting
1999   |   2001