Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Best albums of the 2000s - Rolling Stone vs The People 5: Best of the Best

Wouldn't it be great if somehow we could combine the Rolling Stone and People's lists into one uber-list?

Loose no more sleep pining! With the magic of Excel I have done just that.

I gave each album on each list a score out of 100. This was just 101 minus the rank - so the top album has a score of 100 while the lowest album has a score of 1. Then I added the scores on the two lists together. So if an album appeared on both lists its total score was the sum of the separate scores. For albums appearing on only one list, the total score was just the score from that list. Then I ranked the albums by total score and took the top 100.

Here is the resulting top 100.

Best albums of the 2000s - Rolling Stone and People (RYM) combined


1 . Radiohead  Kid A
2 . Arcade Fire  Funeral
3 . Wilco  Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4 . The Strokes  Is This It
5 . Radiohead  Amnesiac
5 . Radiohead  In Rainbows
7 . The Flaming Lips  Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
8 . Jay-Z  The Blueprint
9 . Interpol  Turn On The Bright Lights
9 . The White Stripes  Elephant
11 . Kanye West  The College Dropout
12 . Daft Punk  Discovery
13 . Sigur Rós  ()
13 . Sufjan Stevens Illinoise
15 . Björk  Vespertine
16 . LCD Soundsystem  Sound Of Silver
17 . Godspeed You Black Emperor!  Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! 
17 . PJ Harvey  Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
19 . Opeth  Blackwater Park 
20 . Madvillain  Madvillainy 
21 . Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
22 . Bob Dylan Modern Times
22 . Tool  Lateralus 
24 . M.I.A. Kala
25 . Bob Dylan Love And Theft
26 . Modest Mouse  The Moon & Antarctica 
26 . U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind
28 . Arcade Fire  Neon Bible
28 . J Dilla  Donuts 
28 . Jay-Z The Black Album
31 . Bruce Springsteen The Rising
31 . Queens of the Stone Age  Songs for the Deaf 
31 . Radiohead  Hail To The Thief
34 . At the Drive-In  Relationship of Command 
34 . OutKast Stankonia
36 . Beck Sea Change
37 . MGMT Oracular Spectacular
37 . Portishead  Third 
39 . Amy Winehouse Back To Black
39 . The National  Boxer 
41 . Isis Panopticon 
41 . The White Stripes White Blood Cells
43 . Agalloch  The Mantle 
43 . Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
45 . Green Day American Idiot
46 . Agalloch  Ashes Against the Grain 
46 . D’Angelo Voodoo
48 . Bruce Springsteen Magic
48 . Electric Wizard  Dopethrone 
50 . Tom Waits  Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards 
51 . Cat Power The Greatest
51 . Joanna Newsom  Ys 
53 . Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man 
53 . Porcupine Tree  In Absentia 
53 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell
56 . Sigur Rós Ágætis Byrjun
56 . The Mars Volta  De-Loused in the Comatorium 
58 . Converge  Jane Doe 
59 . Boards of Canada Geogaddi 
59 . My Morning Jacket Z
61 . Lil Wayne Tha Carter III
62 . The Microphones  The Glow Pt. 2 
63 . OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
63 . Unwound  Leaves Turn Inside You 
65 . Clint Mansell  The Fountain 
66 . Broken Social Scene  You Forgot It in People 
66 . Fleet Foxes  Fleet Foxes
66 . U2 No Line On The Horizon
69 . 50 Cent Get Rich Or Die Tryin’
69 . The National  Alligator 
71 . Opeth  Ghost Reveries 
71 . Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
73 . Kings Of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
73 . Yann Tiersen  Amélie 
75 . Kanye West Late Registration
76 . Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
76 . Sigur Ros Takk 
78 . Elliott Smith Figure 8
78 . Immolation  Close to a World Below 
80 . The Avalanches  Since I Left You 
80 . The Killers Hot Fuss
82 . Opeth  Damnation 
82 . System Of A Down Toxicity
84 . Kanye West Graduation
84 . Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds  No More Shall We Part 
86 . Deltron 3030  Deltron 3030 
86 . Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds
88 . Johnny Cash  American IV: The Man Comes Around 
89 . Panda Bear  Person Pitch 
89 . TV On The Radio Dear Science
91 . Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine
91 . 山岡晃 [Akira Yamaoka]  Silent Hill 2: Original Soundtrack 
93 . Bright Eyes I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
94 . Mastodon  Leviathan 
94 . Spoon Kill The Moonlight
96 . Coil  The Ape of Naples 
96 . M.I.A. Arular
98 . Fugazi  The Argument 
98 . Kings Of Leon Only By The Night
100 . Animal Collective  Merriweather Post Pavilion 
100 . Norah Jones Come Away With Me


Now that's a list!

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