In line with a few other threads of started, here are my favorite albums of the 2000s. I recommend checking all these out, obviously, because they are all amazing.
1) The Hold Steady; Boys and Girls in America (2006)
2) The Hold Steady; Separation Sunday (2005)
3) Radiohead; Kid A (2000)
4) Arcade Fire; Neon Bible (2007)
5) Arcade Fire; Funeral (2004)
6) The Strokes; Is This It (2001)
7) The Hold Steady; Stay Positive (2008)
8) Kanye West; The College Dropout (2004)
9) Wilco; Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
10) Jay-Z; The Black Album (2003)
11) Eminem; The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
12) The White Stripes; Elephant (2003)
13) Jay-Z; The Blueprint (2001)
14) Spoon; Kill the Moonlight (2002)
15) Kanye West; Late Registration (2005)
16) Spoon; Gimme Fiction (2005)
17) The Shins; Chutes too Narrow (2003)
18) The New Pornographers; Electric Version (2003)
19) The Shins; Oh, Inverted World (2001)
20) Bruce Springsteen; The Rising (2002)