100 Greatest Albums of 2000

2000 record album covers for The Marshall Mathers LP, Stankonia, Kid A, and All That You Can't Leave Behind
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
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem album cover
Stankonia OutKast album cover
Kid A Radiohead album cover
All That You Can't Leave Behind U2 album cover
Like Water For Chocolate Common album cover
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park album cover
 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


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