Listening to Illinois was always such an experience. After so many years, it's a nostalgic experience. It's like getting to relive the memories of a summer vacation you had as a kid, every emotional high and low. There's really nothing quite like it.
Songs for the deaf is by far the album from 2002 that has held up the best. The production on that album is just on another level, let alone how catchy the songs still are 20 years later
Love Songs for the Deaf, love Turn on the Bright Lights, but this year was so stacked with great rock records: You Forgot It In People, In Absentia, ( ), Lil Beethoven
For 2001, apart from The Microphones, Opeth's Blackwater Park should have been mentioned, it blew every one away, not just in the metal world but all genres of music.
It's Pitchfork in the 2000s, they're never going to acknowledge that a prog metal album even exists, never mind it being better than their AOTY. The sole exception is if it's a Mastodon album.
It's really hard to pick an album of the year for 2007. In Rainbows, Sound of Silver, Untrue, Strawberry Jam, Person Pitch, and For Emma Forever Ago are all classics.
Praising Radiohead albums like Kid A has become so typical that its basic in music communities to the point that underrating Kid A because liking it is basic, is basic
I think fleet Foxes deserved at least A, just because helplessness blues is better doesn't make it less of a great debut. Comparing it to a later album that didn't exist yet is a bit weird in the context of the video imo.
@@davidmattox1308 Yes but in the case of Fleet Foxes he just talked about how he likes their other album more, not that it necessarily aged poorly. I don't think comparison to other works from the artist should be part of the tier list criteria.
Oh this a fantastic way to continue this style of video! Love love love these tier list videos so much. Here’s to many many more! Thanks for all the content Anthony + Editors!
MPP is such an unbelievable record but I feel like I can't enjoy it without being accused of being a complete poser so thanks Anthony for making me feel validated
I heard "My Girls" for the first time on a League of Legends twitch stream of all places and was instantly hooked. I listened to MPP immediately afterwards and went into Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished and QUICKLY pulled back. I dipped my toes more daintily into Feels and Strawberry Jam and really felt the groove they were going for. I still think Feels, SJ and Sung Tongs are peak AnCo along with STGSTV, which I of course, re-listened to later on and had a much better appreciation of it. AnCo remains my favorite band and I got into them precisely because of MPP. It's their most accessible album BY FAR, but it made a fan out of me while Feels and Strawberry Jam made me a believer.
MY album of the years for the 2000s decade. 2000: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor 2001: The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones 2002: Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age 2003: Velocity: Design: Comfort. - Sweet Trip 2004: Madvillainy - Madvillain 2005: Pink - Boris 2006: Donuts - J Dilla 2007: Untrue - Burial (sorry In Rainbows) 2008: Hi everyone, Nice to meet you. We Are Midori - Midori 2009: World is Yours - MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
I actually like the more classic, maybe even archaic sort of take on folk that the self-titled Fleet Foxes album had, as compared to Helplessness Blues. That's not to say I like it better, but it's a tough call. And I love them both for very different reasons. Plus, it seems a little unfair to look into the future and judge an AotY on that grounds. lol
2000 -- The Avalanches - Since I Left You 2001 -- The Strokes - Is This It? 2002 -- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 2003 -- The New Pornographers - Electric Version 2004 -- Madvillain - Madvillainy 2005 -- Spoon - Gimme Fiction 2006 -- TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain 2007 -- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 2008 -- TV on the Radio -- Dear Science 2009 -- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist
Good list! You had me until Grizzly Bear. Veckatamist has some great tracks, but it's also pretty front loaded, with a few weaker tracks towards the end that drag it down for me. Idk who else would go there, tho. Bat For Lashes, Girls, or Antlers are up there for me, but I might just stick with Animal Collective. Edit - I'd also sub out NP for Ween's Quebec. Freaking love that album to death.
2000 - At The Drive In - Relationship of Command 2001 - The Strokes - Is this It 2002 - The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me is Gone 2003 The Rapture - Echoes 2004 - Animal Collective - Sung Tongs 2005 - Smog - A river aint too much to love 2006 - Grizzly Bear - Yellowhouse 2007 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 2008 - Portishead - Third 2009 - Animal collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2000 -- Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump 2001 -- Circulatory System - s/t 2002 -- The Notwist - Neon Golden 2003 -- Broadcast - Haha Sound 2004 -- Air - Talkie Walkie 2005 -- Deerhoof - The Runners Four 2006 -- Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther 2007 -- Okkervil River - The Stage Names 2008 -- ** pitchfork got this right ** 2009 -- Bibio - Vignetting the Compost
2000 Relationship of Command - At the drive in 2001 tied: Lateralus - Tool / Leaves Turn Inside You - Unwound 2002 Tied: El Cielo - Dredg / Original Pirate Material - The Streets 2003 - Effloresce - Oceansize 2004 - The Libertines / College Dropout 2005 - The Back Room -Editors 2006 - Whatever People Say I am (...) - Arctic Monkeys 2007 - Neon Bible - Arcade Fire 2008 - The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow 2009 - Crack The Skye - Mastodon
That Arctic Monkeys album fuckin slapped... that and Brand New's The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me for 2006 Hip Hop was Food and Liquor by Lupe Fiasco... one of the best debut albums in hip hop history... Lupe is a fucking alien on the mic
Silent Alarm might be my favorite album of the entire decade, but I still would give AOTY to Illinoise, it's just musical perfection and groundbreaking in every possible way. But yeah, Bloc Party is fucking amazing, Matt Tong on drums fuckin BROUGHT IT on their first two albums.
I’m surprised that Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life didn’t get a mention for 2008, it’s one of the greatest albums of all time imo and stands out from all the other sounds at the time
How is there no mention for Vespertine or Discovery in 2001?? I really like The Glow, pt 2 but idk how it could possibly be an S tier when those two albums absolutely sweep it
He has a huge The Glow bias (I get it tbh), watch his classics review. Tbh he probably saw the name and stopped thinking about other albums from that year
i don't think the point of this video was to name every great album that came out that year. i think if he agrees that an album was aoty, there's no where to put it besides S.
@@jorgekech Right, I just don't think it had any influence at all on the whoa-oh indie rock chorus trend. Radiohead never used that. I agree with the original comment which is that Arcade Fire started that trend. Particularly with "Wake Up"
MPP was the one for me. It came out during my junior year of high school. It’s the one that opened my eyes to all the amazing current music I was missing out on. It truly changed my brain chemistry.
My personal fave of 2001 is Tool's Lateralus, but the Microphones album is a close second. I also really liked Behind The Music from that same year, my personal favorite Soundtrack of Our Lives record.
@@kvothe9933 I also love their live energy at this time - with some members literally putting on helmets during songs like "Laika" to play percussion on everything on-stage, including each others' said helmets
Even though I'm a fan of 90% of the albums you pointed out from 2007 I still think person pitch is the best that year and actually the best animal collective album. Guess it's just the dub and sunshine pop fan in me.
Illinois is one of my all time favorite records of all time. I've been listening to it since I was 14 and it's music has evolved with me and my experiences, and I credit that album to why I am so into experimental and avant-garde music nowadays (well, that and Mr. Bungle as well lol).
I don't agree that today 20 years after, Funeral by Arcade Fire sounds dated. I've listened to it lately which I haven't done for many years and I was suprised how much I liked it more than I used to do in the past. For me it is a modern classic and the music is timeless
I agree. I hadn't listened to it ever until yesterday and even if the mixing on the vocals was a bit spotty and the lyrics weren't exactly mind blowing, the hugely varied, and grand sonic palette more than made up for in my opinion. As much as Madvillainy calls into question the "album of the year" title, Funeral is worthy of at least A tier I think.
It's a shame Panda Bear gets shit on so much for the production style, because the ideas behind his music and the craft of what he does is incredible. If he were produced by Dre he'd be a household name.
I think it's easy to hate on Arcade Fire because of their poor run of recent albums but tbh they single handedly made indie mainstream for 2004-2012 or so. I prefer The Suburbs but if there's one album that defines nostalgia for me in the 2000's it's funeral
@@ChristofEightyEight arcade fires great, they always got the critical appraise and have a good fan base, but single handedly? That’s a bit much, there were a lot of great bands pushing indie to the forefront, in fact I would say arcade fire was the laughing stock of indie back then unless you got it, mainstream music loving people didn’t care for them and would borderline tease you if you liked them, now that changed since then but during the time I saw it
mine: 2000 - kid a 2001 - is this it 2002 - yankee hotel foxtrot 2003 - dead cities, red seas, lost ghosts 2004 - madvillainy 2005 - arular 2006 - harmony in ultraviolet 2007 - person pitch 2008 - microcastle/weird era cont. 2009 - merriweather post pavilion
Merriweather Post Pavilion was the soundtrack to many of my college acid trips, have a spiritual loving for that album. I'll still never forget hearing the intro to Also Frightened and absolutely FEELING that song and just melting. Really couldn't get into their other albums (as full projects, found singles that a did like) but Merriweather Post Pavilion I'll throw on and listen full through any day
It belongs there. AF have at least three better albums (Neon Bible, The Suburbs and Reflektor). There are those who still prefer Funeral and that’s fine, but it’s become far too fashionable to pretend Funeral was their best.
Disagree strawberry jam is obviously better. 4-5 gems and then good to meh songs when person pitch's only bad song imo is the second to last which is less a song and more just sounds. And I just don't get how someone could find that album "boring" like Anthony does when my only qualm is that it might be a little too much at times, with my ear balls squinting to hear Panda who's ten miles away while thunder strikes or children are randomly laughing behind you. The transitions on take pills and bros and good girl/carrots are still so exciting even after hearing them a billion times. In rainbows would be my pick for the year, but this album is still a masterpiece that holds up and is still exciting IMO
Shitting on Funeral is a trendy take these days but I think it's deeply moving and wonderfully constructed. The fact that it's "aged poorly" in relation to the zeitgeist is more of an indictment of the zeitgeist than on the record itself lol
The hate will die out eventually, I think. Also, Fantano still praises this record and the other two big ones, Neon Bible and The Suburbs, to this day. I don't think that's changed.
I don't understand the claims of it aging poorly. I think it still sounds amazing, and the backlash is probably just because Arcade Fire have fallen off in more recent years (I still love Reflektor, but their two most recent albums are definitely their two worst).
Wow man, I haven't thought of The Microphones in a looooong time. That was a fantastic album kind of in the same territory as The Books - The Lemon of Pink. Meanwhile, I just listened to that Rapture album literally yesterday. I agree I don't like it as much as I did as a twacked out teenager but liked it much in the same vain as Chk Chk Chk, Cut Copy, and all the other dancy bands at the time. Interpol over QotSA Songs for the Deaf is ridiculous. Enough on that. I would give Strawberry Jam AOTY long before Person Pitch. I like Panda, but I never understood the insanely high reviews back then. Fleet Foxes debut, I never stop listening to it. I never get tired of their albums or performances. And Merriweather is a no-brainer. Let the normies into the Animal Collective universe. Pretty good takes from the Meloness.
If Fleet Foxes has included "Mykonos" on Fleet Foxes album would that bump it up to S or A? Great album already, but Mykonos is one of the favorites from them.
The pitchfork review said their 2008 album of the year was the combo of Sun Giant/Fleet Foxes, so Mykonos should technically be included in their pick. Although I don't know if Fantano realized that.
I have that Animal Collective album cuz Sputnik ranked it giga high yeaes ago and I thought I'd order it and give it a shot. Never really "got it". But it was interesting. Haven't listened to it in probably 7 years at least. Might have to spin it.
2000: Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water 2001: Creed - Withered 2002: Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless 2003: Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary 2004: Chingy - Powerballin' 2005: Nickelback - All the Right Reasons 2006: Plain White T's - Every Second Counts 2007: Kid Rock - Rock n Roll Jesus 2008: Soulja Boy - iSouljaBoyTellem 2009: Papa Roach - Metamorphosis
00 Kid A - Radiohead 01 Lateralus - Tool 02 Songs Fort The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age 03 The War in Errorism - Nofx (yes, really) 04 Miss Machine - Dillinger Escape Plan 05 Demon Days - Gorillaz 06 Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 07 Fear of a blank Planet - Porcupine Tree 08 Third - Portishead 09 Crack the Skye - Mastodon
Room on Fire a much better album for the 2003 pick. Also, good news for people who love bad news is a great pick for 2004. Float on was on the radio constantly and beloved by everybody.
Those are both definitely standouts for those years for me, too. I was surprised at the absence of mentions for Joanna Newsom (I vaguelly recalled her not being aoty on pitchfork, but Ys is a strong contender for album of the decade for me) and Jens Lekman, whose most celebrated output was during the 00s and I thought I remembered pitchfork being a big booster for (Night Falls Over Kortedala was the big one for me, but iirc You're So Silent, Jens was super popular)
good news is so sleeped on. i know that they went into a more mainstream route with the record, but is still incredibly solid and good times is such a killer closer
2000: Kid A 2001: Is This It 2002: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 2003: Give Up 2004: Funeral 2005: Illinoise 2006: The Black Parade 2007: In Rainbows 2008: Third 2009: Actor
Good list, But the album's actually called "Illinois", Simply with the the text "Sufjan Stevens invites you to come on feel the Illinoise!" on the cover. Unsubscribed.
2000 is one of the heaviest years ever in terms of classic albums. Somewhere between 5 and 10 albums came out that are absolutely essential to their genres.
I encourage everyone to listen to "Korova Milky Bar" from 2002 by a Polish band Myslovitz. It's a very beautiful and sad alt rock album with immaculate production. Seriously, give it a try as no one outside Poland would probably find it on purpose
Thank you for reminding me of Myslovitz. Spent a student exchange week in eastern Poland in the second half of the 2000s and remember how all the hip kids would recommend Myslovitz, totally forgot about them.
I think the thing you gotta understand about Kid A was that it was the closing of the coffin lid on the Boy Band/Rap-Rock-Korn era. Thats why old guys love it so much. It shut that whole chapter
I've been watching you since you first started, and being reminded of that Fever Ray pick for 2009 AOTY just brought me back. Fantastic album. I'm so happy that you're still doing this stuff today.
I’d be curious to see your thoughts on all the albums that Pitchfork gave a perfect 10 upon release. Some choices are pretty interesting like Source Tags & Codes.
I don't really have a definitive list for each year between 00-09, but I know that my pick for 2006 is easily Underoath's "Define the Great Line". Absolutely revolutionary post-hardcore/metalcore album. A lot of people prefer the sound of the previous album "They're Only Chasing Safety", but it's a way more basic pop-punk/post-hardcore project, Spencer's harsh vocals aren't nearly as refined, it's less experimental across the board. DtGL is the apex of their career, and a pivotal piece in the history of post-hardcore as a genre like Refused's "The Shape of Punk to Come" imo.
Giving it a listen at the moment and it's pretty damn great! If you loved Shape of Punk To Come then I can't recommend "It's Me God" by Breach, one of the greatest post-hardcore releases ever made. Their swan song Kollapse is absolutely wonderful too and veers right into post-metal
I was 15 years of age at the release of DtGL and it was a gamechanger for me. Didn't think I'd ever see it being mentioned in these parts of the internet
What my personal picks would be: 2000- Eminem- Marshall Mathers LP 2001- Opeth- Blackwater park 2002- Meshuggah- Nothing 2003- Dream theater- Train of thought 2004- Kanye West- The college dropout 2005- Gorillaz- Demon days 2006- Celtic frost- Monotheist 2007- Between the buried and me- Colors 2008- Enslaved- Vertebrae 2009- Mastodon- Crack the Skye
2000 - LYSF 2001 - Vespertine 2002 - Yanqui UXO 2003 - Radio Amor 2004 - Madvilliany 2005 - Mezmerize 2006 - Harmony In Ultraviolet 2007 - In Rainbows 2008 - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill 2009 - Brand New Eyes
S - Kid A, Illinois, Funeral; A - The Glow Pt. II; B - Merriwether Post Pavilion, Person Pitch, Fleet Foxes; C - Turn On the Bright Lights, Silent Shout; D - Echoes
Thom Yorke kicking himself for not calling it Kid S
HAHAHAHAHA
god this is extremely funny
💀
Thank God he didn't call it Kid F
preach brother
Anthony has really changed since the Pitchfork review. It was sad watching him balled up in the fetal position, crying & apologizing to Pitchfork here
Lol. Lots of ppl on YT not aware that the Pitchfork review was not real and was a joke 🥴
These jokes are so lame
@@thath09 it’s not a fucking joke to me, I’m not gonna let pitchfork publish slander about my close personal friend althony rightano
Nothing has ever been the same since "the incident"
He’s a changed man now. He’s in a new era of his career.
Listening to Illinois was always such an experience. After so many years, it's a nostalgic experience. It's like getting to relive the memories of a summer vacation you had as a kid, every emotional high and low. There's really nothing quite like it.
Songs for the deaf is by far the album from 2002 that has held up the best. The production on that album is just on another level, let alone how catchy the songs still are 20 years later
Love Songs for the Deaf, love Turn on the Bright Lights, but this year was so stacked with great rock records: You Forgot It In People, In Absentia, ( ), Lil Beethoven
I only just learnt it's the same producer/engineer as the prime Good Charlotte albums, if you go back and listen the production is unnecessarily good.
I personally think Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the best from that year that album is just so beautiful.
Yeah but yankee hotel foxtrot is just too good. One of the best albums of all time, despite what fantano might believe
Geogaddi is AOTY worthy
For 2001, apart from The Microphones, Opeth's Blackwater Park should have been mentioned, it blew every one away, not just in the metal world but all genres of music.
Meh, there were better metal albums that came out that year like Jane Doe, Lateralus, Toxicity, and Iowa
your taste inmusic is superb, sir
I commend you
>toxicty
>iowa
Better than BWP
Lol
Lmao even
@@tylersquanto8938 All of those albums have absolutely nothing on Blackwater Park
It's Pitchfork in the 2000s, they're never going to acknowledge that a prog metal album even exists, never mind it being better than their AOTY. The sole exception is if it's a Mastodon album.
It's really hard to pick an album of the year for 2007. In Rainbows, Sound of Silver, Untrue, Strawberry Jam, Person Pitch, and For Emma Forever Ago are all classics.
For Emma was 2007? Holy crap I'm old
I would also add Lust Lust Lust by The Raveonettes, which came out in 2007.
@@BrofUJu self released in 2007 and then Jajaguwar re-released it officially in 2008 on a much larger scale.
glad people are repping Burial. dubstep was done dirty
Is oracular spectacular not a contender?
Praising Radiohead albums like Kid A has become so typical that its basic in music communities to the point that underrating Kid A because liking it is basic, is basic
it happens... that jonathan ross interview with jonny and thom, you can see how uncomfortable thom is with the fact that ross is overpraising kid a.
Basic
I call it The Dark Side of the Moon-effect
So if you praise it you're basic if you don't praise it you're still basic?
@@anabell7184 it deserves all the praise, one of the best albums of all time
turn on the bright lights at b tier is an issue we need to discuss anthony
yes
yes
I think fleet Foxes deserved at least A, just because helplessness blues is better doesn't make it less of a great debut. Comparing it to a later album that didn't exist yet is a bit weird in the context of the video imo.
Felt like he rated them all in present context, like the Funeral tier. Talked a lot about how various albums aged well/poorly
@@davidmattox1308 Yes but in the case of Fleet Foxes he just talked about how he likes their other album more, not that it necessarily aged poorly. I don't think comparison to other works from the artist should be part of the tier list criteria.
@@davidmattox1308 I feel like the only one whose still love Funeral. Fantastic album.
@@zackzallie8735you're with me. One of my fav albums of all time
It's an incredible debut if you buy the vinyl version which comes with Sun Giant. As it stands, it's really good, but not great.
Illinois is such an amazing album
Definitely brilliant yep
Just heard it for the first time today. Beautiful Album
Oh this a fantastic way to continue this style of video! Love love love these tier list videos so much. Here’s to many many more! Thanks for all the content Anthony + Editors!
Agreed
Love the feist pfp
Vespertine by Björk was the album of the year in 2001, maybe even the album of the decade.
unfortunately Pitchfork gave Vespertine a score of 7.2 😒
It's an easy 10 BUT DAFT PUNK DISCOVERY
Tbf 2001 had too many amazing albums
you should do a tier list for the best albums per year from RYM, tonytano.
MPP is such an unbelievable record but I feel like I can't enjoy it without being accused of being a complete poser so thanks Anthony for making me feel validated
Just tell them what your favorite AC albums are in order 😆 People talking shit probably don't even know.
I heard "My Girls" for the first time on a League of Legends twitch stream of all places and was instantly hooked. I listened to MPP immediately afterwards and went into Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished and QUICKLY pulled back. I dipped my toes more daintily into Feels and Strawberry Jam and really felt the groove they were going for. I still think Feels, SJ and Sung Tongs are peak AnCo along with STGSTV, which I of course, re-listened to later on and had a much better appreciation of it. AnCo remains my favorite band and I got into them precisely because of MPP. It's their most accessible album BY FAR, but it made a fan out of me while Feels and Strawberry Jam made me a believer.
MY album of the years for the 2000s decade.
2000: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2001: The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones
2002: Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
2003: Velocity: Design: Comfort. - Sweet Trip
2004: Madvillainy - Madvillain
2005: Pink - Boris
2006: Donuts - J Dilla
2007: Untrue - Burial (sorry In Rainbows)
2008: Hi everyone, Nice to meet you. We Are Midori - Midori
2009: World is Yours - MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
Yes, Mass of Fermenting Dregs. And I'm also agree with almost all your choices :)
midori w
I love how Fantano subtly roasts Wilco whenever he can 😂
Unsubscribed
Foxtrot, specifically.
Someone that loved that album must have hurt him.
A heavy metal drummer stole his girl
positive, encouraging statement
contradictory negative statement
please laugh
@@Sport87ywhvifcc11 quirky meta reply
@@dpage446 calling out quirky meta reply reply
I actually like the more classic, maybe even archaic sort of take on folk that the self-titled Fleet Foxes album had, as compared to Helplessness Blues. That's not to say I like it better, but it's a tough call. And I love them both for very different reasons. Plus, it seems a little unfair to look into the future and judge an AotY on that grounds. lol
Burial’s Untrue is one of the greatest albums ever, not just of 2007
W, very underrated
Yes
@@riffrangler Definitely not underrated. It's getting much praise and it's well deserved.
2000 -- The Avalanches - Since I Left You
2001 -- The Strokes - Is This It?
2002 -- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2003 -- The New Pornographers - Electric Version
2004 -- Madvillain - Madvillainy
2005 -- Spoon - Gimme Fiction
2006 -- TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
2007 -- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2008 -- TV on the Radio -- Dear Science
2009 -- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist
Can’t argue with any of these!
Good list! You had me until Grizzly Bear. Veckatamist has some great tracks, but it's also pretty front loaded, with a few weaker tracks towards the end that drag it down for me.
Idk who else would go there, tho. Bat For Lashes, Girls, or Antlers are up there for me, but I might just stick with Animal Collective.
Edit - I'd also sub out NP for Ween's Quebec. Freaking love that album to death.
2000 - At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
2001 - The Strokes - Is this It
2002 - The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me is Gone
2003 The Rapture - Echoes
2004 - Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
2005 - Smog - A river aint too much to love
2006 - Grizzly Bear - Yellowhouse
2007 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2008 - Portishead - Third
2009 - Animal collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2000 -- Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
2001 -- Circulatory System - s/t
2002 -- The Notwist - Neon Golden
2003 -- Broadcast - Haha Sound
2004 -- Air - Talkie Walkie
2005 -- Deerhoof - The Runners Four
2006 -- Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
2007 -- Okkervil River - The Stage Names
2008 -- ** pitchfork got this right **
2009 -- Bibio - Vignetting the Compost
@@johnnycatsupman you have some amazing taste, you got any more recommendations? 😅
2000 Relationship of Command - At the drive in
2001 tied: Lateralus - Tool / Leaves Turn Inside You - Unwound
2002 Tied: El Cielo - Dredg / Original Pirate Material - The Streets
2003 - Effloresce - Oceansize
2004 - The Libertines / College Dropout
2005 - The Back Room -Editors
2006 - Whatever People Say I am (...) - Arctic Monkeys
2007 - Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
2008 - The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
2009 - Crack The Skye - Mastodon
Great picks
That Arctic Monkeys album fuckin slapped... that and Brand New's The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me for 2006
Hip Hop was Food and Liquor by Lupe Fiasco... one of the best debut albums in hip hop history... Lupe is a fucking alien on the mic
Good takes except for neon bible
The Oceansize mention is so fucking awesome.
Can’t wait for Fantano to rank Pitchfork’s AOTY’s of the 90s
Shoo
Same. 1890’s music is so underrated.
@@lopezfan24 Jay Z js a rapper from the 1890s btw
Bro I see you in every music ig comment section lmao
How would that work? They deleted whatever 90s lists they made from their archives. I think that they only ever published a small list in 1999.
2005 had Sleater-Kinney, The Woods, and Bloc Party, Silent Alarm as well, but SS is solid
Silent Alarm might be my favorite album of the entire decade, but I still would give AOTY to Illinoise, it's just musical perfection and groundbreaking in every possible way.
But yeah, Bloc Party is fucking amazing, Matt Tong on drums fuckin BROUGHT IT on their first two albums.
@@danielgray65Silent Alarm is my second favorite album right behind AM’s Whatever People Say I Am, nothing beats that for me
Really wish you did the last few years of the 90s as those were also epic years for Pitchfork
2000 - lysflath
2001 - discovery
2002 - songs for the deaf
2003 - velocity comfort design
2004 - madvilliany
2005 - illinois
2006 - the black parade
2007 - in rainbows
2008 - deathconsciousness
2009 - mpp
Bluish still puts me on a beach in a dream
The rapture were amazing, crazy energy, them and the Walkmen were both super energetic driven albums, genre defying!
That's what I'm saying. I used to love both of those albums
I always felt like the rapture was a bit of a ripoff of public image ltd. Felt the same about Interpol and gang of four. 🤷
I’m surprised that Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life didn’t get a mention for 2008, it’s one of the greatest albums of all time imo and stands out from all the other sounds at the time
I'm with ya there, great album
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i like that album a lot but i also feel like it didn't age well
@hugjass6585 what about it didn't age well to you im genuinely curious because i think it holds up as an all time great
@@hugjass6585it aged very well lmfao most blackgaze copies it
2009 was a big music for me graduating highschool and I do love MPP.
How is there no mention for Vespertine or Discovery in 2001?? I really like The Glow, pt 2 but idk how it could possibly be an S tier when those two albums absolutely sweep it
He has a huge The Glow bias (I get it tbh), watch his classics review. Tbh he probably saw the name and stopped thinking about other albums from that year
i don't think the point of this video was to name every great album that came out that year. i think if he agrees that an album was aoty, there's no where to put it besides S.
'absolutely sweep it' is an exaggeration, c'mon
Glow Pt.2 is better than everything björk put out.
@@SwitchbIadeNo
Surprised 'You Forgot It In People' wasn't given a mention.
AOTY 2002 is undoubtably Geogaddi by Boards of Canada for me
that was pitchfork's #8 album for that year
Fantano dunking on Person Pitch, finally another opinion I can put excessive and copious amounts of energy into hating!
Dude I just checked this out, wtf is the production on this album? Just sounds absolutely awful.
Funeral is almost solely responsible for the decade long trend of whoa-oh indie rock choruses.
nah Kid A was responsible
nah Kid B was responsible
@@jorgekech ... huh?
@@vegamode8706 Kid A was the most important album of 2000s ..
@@jorgekech Right, I just don't think it had any influence at all on the whoa-oh indie rock chorus trend. Radiohead never used that. I agree with the original comment which is that Arcade Fire started that trend. Particularly with "Wake Up"
MPP was the one for me. It came out during my junior year of high school. It’s the one that opened my eyes to all the amazing current music I was missing out on. It truly changed my brain chemistry.
The Glow Pt. 2 is an dreadful beautiful album.
Everybody would have to listening to it. It is too incredible.
My personal fave of 2001 is Tool's Lateralus, but the Microphones album is a close second. I also really liked Behind The Music from that same year, my personal favorite Soundtrack of Our Lives record.
Solid choice. Blackwater Park for me!
@@burkeysreviewsDamn, I forgot that also came out in '01. What a good year for music.
i wouldve chose either chose that or jane doe for 2001, but definitely switched out interpol for qotsa for 2002
that person pitch opinion is criminal
Illinoise = 10! Would love to see a Sufjan worst to best, Anthony.
Although I do prefer suburbs that feeling of listening to the overwhelming opening of funerals is unbeatable
@@kvothe9933 I also love their live energy at this time - with some members literally putting on helmets during songs like "Laika" to play percussion on everything on-stage, including each others' said helmets
Even though I'm a fan of 90% of the albums you pointed out from 2007 I still think person pitch is the best that year and actually the best animal collective album. Guess it's just the dub and sunshine pop fan in me.
Hearing him grill it like that was killing me inside lol
Illinois is one of my all time favorite records of all time. I've been listening to it since I was 14 and it's music has evolved with me and my experiences, and I credit that album to why I am so into experimental and avant-garde music nowadays (well, that and Mr. Bungle as well lol).
is it really an experimental album?
@@GoodByeSkyHarborLive Oh absolutely, just listen to track 3 or track 2, they are absolutely experimental
I don't agree that today 20 years after, Funeral by Arcade Fire sounds dated. I've listened to it lately which I haven't done for many years and I was suprised how much I liked it more than I used to do in the past. For me it is a modern classic and the music is timeless
I agree. I hadn't listened to it ever until yesterday and even if the mixing on the vocals was a bit spotty and the lyrics weren't exactly mind blowing, the hugely varied, and grand sonic palette more than made up for in my opinion. As much as Madvillainy calls into question the "album of the year" title, Funeral is worthy of at least A tier I think.
KID A IS S TIER STOP UNDERRATING PERFECT ALBUMS
MPP and Silent Shout both sound really really good. Ditto FF.
It's a shame Panda Bear gets shit on so much for the production style, because the ideas behind his music and the craft of what he does is incredible.
If he were produced by Dre he'd be a household name.
As if animal collective aren’t like the most popular “indie alternative” band on the internet.
The fear that Ryan Dombal instilled in bands was very real. The AA Gill of college critics
15:43 - You made me jump and nearly made me throw my breakfast across the room, thinking there was an impostor in the house. Kudos to you, sir.
“And I’m a freaking Blood Brothers fan”
TotBL is a devastating record.
I found out about Radiohead because I confused them for the talking heads and bought OK Computer and Kid A. Best mistake of my life.
Too many heads in music
Neighborhood #1 alone makes Funeral deserve an A Tier atleast
Wake Up, Rebellion, Neighborhood 4 are all absolutely fantastic
@@brycedavis9458 Even Neighbourhood 2 and 3, every cut on there is fantastic
I think it's easy to hate on Arcade Fire because of their poor run of recent albums but tbh they single handedly made indie mainstream for 2004-2012 or so. I prefer The Suburbs but if there's one album that defines nostalgia for me in the 2000's it's funeral
@@ChristofEightyEight arcade fires great, they always got the critical appraise and have a good fan base, but single handedly? That’s a bit much, there were a lot of great bands pushing indie to the forefront, in fact I would say arcade fire was the laughing stock of indie back then unless you got it, mainstream music loving people didn’t care for them and would borderline tease you if you liked them, now that changed since then but during the time I saw it
mine:
2000 - kid a
2001 - is this it
2002 - yankee hotel foxtrot
2003 - dead cities, red seas, lost ghosts
2004 - madvillainy
2005 - arular
2006 - harmony in ultraviolet
2007 - person pitch
2008 - microcastle/weird era cont.
2009 - merriweather post pavilion
Merriweather Post Pavilion was the soundtrack to many of my college acid trips, have a spiritual loving for that album. I'll still never forget hearing the intro to Also Frightened and absolutely FEELING that song and just melting.
Really couldn't get into their other albums (as full projects, found singles that a did like) but Merriweather Post Pavilion I'll throw on and listen full through any day
Putting Funeral in B tier hurt me way more than it should have
I shed a tear. Or two! Fuck I love that album still.
If only it was a good album :x
FR IK
@@KayButtonJay it is though LOL
It belongs there. AF have at least three better albums (Neon Bible, The Suburbs and Reflektor). There are those who still prefer Funeral and that’s fine, but it’s become far too fashionable to pretend Funeral was their best.
i discovered illinois because of this video and it's album art
changed something inside of me
I’d love a ranking of animal collective albums
Seconded
Thirded
Fourded
Fiveded
farted
Was fun hearing pitch forks anime of the year!
For me it's:
S - The Glow, Kid A, Funeral
A - MPP, Person Pitch
B - Illinois,Turn On The Bright Lights, Fleet Foxes
C - Echoes, Silent Shout
Illinoise should be in a top tier by itself
Persons Pitch hate is nuts
Agree better 2007 albums but its still a masterpiece imo
@llucsimon418 agreed strawberry jam is obviously the better album, but persons pitch is probably by 3rd fav anco album
@llucsimon418 also sound of silver would probably be my 2007 pick
I think his take is completely disrespectful. It’s a unique record that fills me like a thicc drug. I absolutely love Person Pitch.
Disagree strawberry jam is obviously better. 4-5 gems and then good to meh songs when person pitch's only bad song imo is the second to last which is less a song and more just sounds. And I just don't get how someone could find that album "boring" like Anthony does when my only qualm is that it might be a little too much at times, with my ear balls squinting to hear Panda who's ten miles away while thunder strikes or children are randomly laughing behind you. The transitions on take pills and bros and good girl/carrots are still so exciting even after hearing them a billion times. In rainbows would be my pick for the year, but this album is still a masterpiece that holds up and is still exciting IMO
Shitting on Funeral is a trendy take these days but I think it's deeply moving and wonderfully constructed. The fact that it's "aged poorly" in relation to the zeitgeist is more of an indictment of the zeitgeist than on the record itself lol
It pretty much defined the sound of that era. So many bands and songs that were basically following in its footsteps
@@_moonmoth influential≠good
Am I weird for liking suburbs more
The hate will die out eventually, I think. Also, Fantano still praises this record and the other two big ones, Neon Bible and The Suburbs, to this day. I don't think that's changed.
I don't understand the claims of it aging poorly. I think it still sounds amazing, and the backlash is probably just because Arcade Fire have fallen off in more recent years (I still love Reflektor, but their two most recent albums are definitely their two worst).
Is that the editor with the quick note at 14:15 that Person Pitch is in S+ tier for them?
i was so confused i thought fantano said that
Yeah, any of those little text flashes are the opinions of his editor. If Anthony has anything to add after he records, he’ll shoot a pickup.
Always fun to hear Anthony talk about music from prior to his reviewing days
Wow man, I haven't thought of The Microphones in a looooong time. That was a fantastic album kind of in the same territory as The Books - The Lemon of Pink. Meanwhile, I just listened to that Rapture album literally yesterday. I agree I don't like it as much as I did as a twacked out teenager but liked it much in the same vain as Chk Chk Chk, Cut Copy, and all the other dancy bands at the time. Interpol over QotSA Songs for the Deaf is ridiculous. Enough on that. I would give Strawberry Jam AOTY long before Person Pitch. I like Panda, but I never understood the insanely high reviews back then. Fleet Foxes debut, I never stop listening to it. I never get tired of their albums or performances. And Merriweather is a no-brainer. Let the normies into the Animal Collective universe. Pretty good takes from the Meloness.
Phil is a force to be reckoned with. He is probably the most authentic and incredible songwriter today.
That Arcade Fire is great and I can see why it’s their pick but I feel like the 2004 AOTY is From A Basement On The Hill
If Fleet Foxes has included "Mykonos" on Fleet Foxes album would that bump it up to S or A? Great album already, but Mykonos is one of the favorites from them.
The pitchfork review said their 2008 album of the year was the combo of Sun Giant/Fleet Foxes, so Mykonos should technically be included in their pick. Although I don't know if Fantano realized that.
I have that Animal Collective album cuz Sputnik ranked it giga high yeaes ago and I thought I'd order it and give it a shot. Never really "got it". But it was interesting. Haven't listened to it in probably 7 years at least. Might have to spin it.
did you give it a spin? it's a real grower. i think it's just wonderful.
2000: Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water
2001: Creed - Withered
2002: Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless
2003: Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary
2004: Chingy - Powerballin'
2005: Nickelback - All the Right Reasons
2006: Plain White T's - Every Second Counts
2007: Kid Rock - Rock n Roll Jesus
2008: Soulja Boy - iSouljaBoyTellem
2009: Papa Roach - Metamorphosis
Based
Wild that they gave Echoes AOTY over either of Ben Gibbards projects from 2003
Between Transatlanticism, Give Up, and even the Home EP, dude was absolutely on fucking fire in 03.
00 Kid A - Radiohead
01 Lateralus - Tool
02 Songs Fort The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
03 The War in Errorism - Nofx (yes, really)
04 Miss Machine - Dillinger Escape Plan
05 Demon Days - Gorillaz
06 Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
07 Fear of a blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
08 Third - Portishead
09 Crack the Skye - Mastodon
El único tipo con cerebro
Much better list than most of this simpy dogshit
ILLINOIS BEST ALBUM OAT
Indiana >
YOU’RE RIGHT
A fact.
mid album with annoying singing sadly
@@anyways276 brother, u sound like you’re 12.
14:14 holy shot he’s right, in 2007 you had
Neon Bible, FWN, Oracular Spectacular, HFAYTD? Ga Ga Ga Ga, Wincing the Night away, Graduation
Anthony *finally* talking at length about Illinois has made this a wonderful start to the day 🥰
(There was that video on another channel he’d recorded talking about it, but that was deleted years ago so this is all I’ve got xxx)
@@max-beckett yay!
This is the closest we're getting to a classic review 😔
@@CaldoV1 agreed 😭
I keep requesting it for a patreon review but it gets ignored even when it got the most upvotes one time ;_;
I don't understand how Pitchfork can give Wilco a 10 and not give it album of the year?
Personally though Kid A, Person Pitch and MPP are S Tier
It wasn't even the only 10 they gave that year lol. Source Tags & Codes by Trail of Dead got one too.
Here’s mine:
2000: Lift your skinny fists
2001: Discovery
2002: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: Give Up
2004: Madvillainy
2005: Illinois
2006: Donuts
2007: In Rainbows
2008: Deathconcsiousness
2009: Merriweather Post Pavilion
That's a good one!!
who hurt you
2000: since I left you
My List
2000: KID A (Radiohead)
2001: Vespertine (Björk)
2002: Geogaddi (BoC)
2003: Elephant (White Stripes)
2004: Madvillany (Madvillain)
2005: Illinois (Sufjan Stevens)
2006: 10,000 Days (TOOL)
2007: In Rainbows (Radiohead)
2008: Dragging A Dead Deer.. (Grouper)
2009: Merriweather Post.. (AnCo)
W skinny fists
Room on Fire a much better album for the 2003 pick.
Also, good news for people who love bad news is a great pick for 2004. Float on was on the radio constantly and beloved by everybody.
Those are both definitely standouts for those years for me, too.
I was surprised at the absence of mentions for Joanna Newsom (I vaguelly recalled her not being aoty on pitchfork, but Ys is a strong contender for album of the decade for me) and Jens Lekman, whose most celebrated output was during the 00s and I thought I remembered pitchfork being a big booster for (Night Falls Over Kortedala was the big one for me, but iirc You're So Silent, Jens was super popular)
good news is so sleeped on. i know that they went into a more mainstream route with the record, but is still incredibly solid and good times is such a killer closer
The rapture definitely has some Bangerz - house of jealous lovers is a great track. But if I had to choose between that or Reptilia? You already know.
Pitchfork at the time far to hipster to choose the modest mouse album, kind of agree with them though, deep cuts are kind of annoying on that album
Yuck, Modest Mouse really started their creative downfall with that album.
2000: Kid A
2001: Is This It
2002: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2003: Give Up
2004: Funeral
2005: Illinoise
2006: The Black Parade
2007: In Rainbows
2008: Third
2009: Actor
Good list, But the album's actually called "Illinois", Simply with the the text "Sufjan Stevens invites you to come on feel the Illinoise!" on the cover. Unsubscribed.
Good list
You have terrible taste in music, Kid A okay the rest is just a big NO.
OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT ABOUT PERSON PITCH MELON. JESUS. THIS IS GONNA TAKE SOME TIME TO GET OVER.
would love for you to do a classics review on Turn On The Bright Lights, i wanna hear what else you have to say about the album 21 years later
Since I Left You and Deltron 3030 are definitely contenders for 2000.
2000 is one of the heaviest years ever in terms of classic albums. Somewhere between 5 and 10 albums came out that are absolutely essential to their genres.
That Deltron3030 album is straight genius, wish more hip hop albums were made with concepts like that... what an exhausting but amazing experience.
I encourage everyone to listen to "Korova Milky Bar" from 2002 by a Polish band Myslovitz. It's a very beautiful and sad alt rock album with immaculate production. Seriously, give it a try as no one outside Poland would probably find it on purpose
Thank you for reminding me of Myslovitz. Spent a student exchange week in eastern Poland in the second half of the 2000s and remember how all the hip kids would recommend Myslovitz, totally forgot about them.
@@Hopesfallout My pleasure!
great reccomendation thank u
artur rojek my beloved
@@noralie3295 avec plaisir ❤️
Kid A isn’t a S-tier album Melon?!?!
It’s right there in the name, kid A, not kid S
i just wonder what other 2000 album he would’ve chose as album of the year ngl
@@antfromupthere1probably lift your skinny fists
No Strokes but Interpol? Nah….
@@joaocardoso6697 nah Kid A is a S
I think the thing you gotta understand about Kid A was that it was the closing of the coffin lid on the Boy Band/Rap-Rock-Korn era. Thats why old guys love it so much. It shut that whole chapter
Merry Christmas melon.
Merry Christmas Post Pavillion
Fleet Foxes is a masterpiece
Here’s mine:
2000 - Hybrid Theory
2001 - All Killer No Filler
2002 - AROBTTH
2003 - Meteora
2004 - American Idiot
2005 - Mesmerize
2006 - Black Parade
2007 - Minutes to Midnight
2008 - Viva La Vida
2009 - 21CB
Deloused in the Comatorium is another 2003 option….
Sonic Youth tier list when
I second this.
Seriously
I've been watching you since you first started, and being reminded of that Fever Ray pick for 2009 AOTY just brought me back. Fantastic album.
I'm so happy that you're still doing this stuff today.
Pitchfork really did The Strokes dirty
slandering Person Pitch is crazy but yeah in retrospect it's supposed to be Untrue
I’d be curious to see your thoughts on all the albums that Pitchfork gave a perfect 10 upon release. Some choices are pretty interesting like Source Tags & Codes.
I am so glad you mentioned Terrifyer by Pig Destroyer!!! I deeply appreciate that Melon!
I would love for Fantano to do his own album of the year series.
I don't really have a definitive list for each year between 00-09, but I know that my pick for 2006 is easily Underoath's "Define the Great Line". Absolutely revolutionary post-hardcore/metalcore album. A lot of people prefer the sound of the previous album "They're Only Chasing Safety", but it's a way more basic pop-punk/post-hardcore project, Spencer's harsh vocals aren't nearly as refined, it's less experimental across the board. DtGL is the apex of their career, and a pivotal piece in the history of post-hardcore as a genre like Refused's "The Shape of Punk to Come" imo.
Giving it a listen at the moment and it's pretty damn great! If you loved Shape of Punk To Come then I can't recommend "It's Me God" by Breach, one of the greatest post-hardcore releases ever made. Their swan song Kollapse is absolutely wonderful too and veers right into post-metal
I was 15 years of age at the release of DtGL and it was a gamechanger for me. Didn't think I'd ever see it being mentioned in these parts of the internet
Kid A and MPP = both exceed the S tier 😛
13:22 Anthony reading off the rym 2007 chart
he gave 3 albums from 2001 a 10/10, but he still likes their pick, goes to show how good of a year it is
What my personal picks would be:
2000- Eminem- Marshall Mathers LP
2001- Opeth- Blackwater park
2002- Meshuggah- Nothing
2003- Dream theater- Train of thought
2004- Kanye West- The college dropout
2005- Gorillaz- Demon days
2006- Celtic frost- Monotheist
2007- Between the buried and me- Colors
2008- Enslaved- Vertebrae
2009- Mastodon- Crack the Skye
2000 - LYSF
2001 - Vespertine
2002 - Yanqui UXO
2003 - Radio Amor
2004 - Madvilliany
2005 - Mezmerize
2006 - Harmony In Ultraviolet
2007 - In Rainbows
2008 - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
2009 - Brand New Eyes
S - Kid A, Illinois, Funeral; A - The Glow Pt. II; B - Merriwether Post Pavilion, Person Pitch, Fleet Foxes; C - Turn On the Bright Lights, Silent Shout; D - Echoes
TOTBL is an excellent album with no flaws and some absolute banger tracks such as obstacle 1 PDA and the New
@@itshonkfact.
TOTBL > Elephant , Songs for the Deaf , Every Arcade Fire Album , Every Joy Division album , All Post-Punk/Garage Rock Revival Albums