Metacritic Top 30 (2000-2005)

Metacritic is a Los Angeles meta-review site: they aggregate reviews from many standard source, and convert site-specific rating structures to a standard percentage to produce a weighted average that is hopefully more representative of some kind of universal good taste and less skewed by the idiosyncrasies of individual reviewers. Topics covered are music, films, games, books, dvds and tv shows.

Every year since 2000, they've produced a music top 30 chart. In order to help me explore interesting music, I used their "Best of" data for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 to produce an aggregated chart, with 180 entries sorted according to score. Here are the results:

Score	Album	Artist	Year
97	Van Lear Rose	Loretta Lynn	2004
97	SMiLE	Brian Wilson	2004
97	How The West Was Won	Led Zeppelin	2003
95	Stankonia	OutKast	2000
93	The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Version]	Talking Heads	2004
93	Madvillainy	Madvillain	2004
93	Love And Theft	Bob Dylan	2001
92	Boy In Da Corner	Dizzee Rascal	2004
91	Elephant	White Stripes	2003
90	Illinois	Sufjan Stevens	2005
90	A Grand Don't Come For Free	The Streets	2004
90	World Without Tears	Lucinda Williams	2003
90	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	OutKast	2003
90	Alice	Tom Waits	2002
90	Is This It?	The Strokes	2001
90	Canto	Los Super Seven	2001
89	Z	My Morning Jacket	2005
89	Wearemonster	Isolée	2005
89	Hypermagic Mountain	Lightning Bolt	2005
89	HoboSapiens	John Cale	2004
89	Funeral	The Arcade Fire	2004
89	Where Shall You Take Me	Damien Jurado	2003
89	Rounds	Four Tet	2003
89	Neon Golden	The Notwist	2003
89	Original Pirate Material	The Streets	2002
89	Since I Left You	The Avalanches	2001
89	Miss E... So Addictive	Missy Elliott	2001
89	XTRMNTR	Primal Scream	2000
89	Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo)	Aimee Mann	2000
88	I Am A Bird Now	Antony And The Johnsons	2005
88	Ta Det Lugnt	Dungen	2004
88	Last Exit	Junior Boys	2004
88	Yours, Mine & Ours	Pernice Brothers	2003
88	Chutes Too Narrow	The Shins	2003
88	Songs For The Deaf	Queens Of The Stone Age	2002
87	The Woods	Sleater-Kinney	2005
87	Arular	M.I.A.	2005
87	Showtime	Dizzee Rascal	2004
87	Rejoicing In The Hands	Devendra Banhart	2004
87	From A Basement On The Hill	Elliott Smith	2004
87	College Dropout	Kanye West	2004
87	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus	Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds	2004
87	Up In Flames	Manitoba	2003
87	Decoration Day	Drive-By Truckers	2003
87	Kill The Moonlight	Spoon	2002
87	Wicked Grin	John Hammond	2001
87	Vespertine	Bjork	2001
87	The Blueprint	Jay-Z	2001
87	The Argument	Fugazi	2001
87	Leaves Turn Inside You	Unwound	2001
87	Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea	PJ Harvey	2000
86	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	2005
86	Aerial	Kate Bush	2005
86	The Dirty South	Drive-By Truckers	2004
86	Seven Swans	Sufjan Stevens	2004
86	Now, More Than Ever	Jim Guthrie	2004
86	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	2004
86	Favourite Colours	The Sadies	2004
86	Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts	M83	2004
86	Stumble Into Grace	Emmylou Harris	2003
86	Phantom Power	Super Furry Animals	2003
86	One Word Extinguisher	Prefuse 73	2003
86	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	Wilco	2002
86	The Creek Drank The Cradle	Iron & Wine	2002
86	Phrenology	The Roots	2002
86	Time (The Revelator)	Gillian Welch	2001
86	Things We Lost In The Fire	Low	2001
86	Fixed::Context [EP]	Labradford	2001
86	Cold House	Hood	2001
85	Thunder, Lightning, Strike	The Go! Team	2005
85	The Mysterious Production Of Eggs	Andrew Bird	2005
85	Minimum-Maximum [Live]	Kraftwerk	2005
85	Lookaftering	Vashti Bunyan	2005
85	LCD Soundsystem	LCD Soundsystem	2005
85	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	Bright Eyes	2005
85	Extraordinary Machine	Fiona Apple	2005
85	Black Sheep Boy	Okkervil River	2005
85	The Futureheads	The Futureheads	2004
85	Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine	Cee-Lo	2004
85	Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds Vol. 2	Jill Scott	2004
85	You Forgot It In People	Broken Social Scene	2003
85	Welcome Interstate Managers	Fountains Of Wayne	2003
85	The Wind	Warren Zevon	2003
85	The Lemon Of Pink	The Books	2003
85	The Intercontinentals	Bill Frisell	2003
85	The Decline Of British Sea Power	British Sea Power	2003
85	Quicksand / Cradlesnakes	Califone	2003
85	Hearts Of Oak	Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	2003
85	Feast of Wire	Calexico	2003
85	Rings Around The World	Super Furry Animals	2002
85	OST	24 Hour Party People	2002
85	White Blood Cells	White Stripes	2001
85	The Convincer	Nick Lowe	2001
85	Ocean's Eleven OST	David Holmes	2001
85	Little Sparrow	Dolly Parton	2001
85	Blues Dream	Bill Frisell	2001
85	Transcendental Blues	Steve Earle	2000
85	All Hands On The Bad One	Sleater-Kinney	2000
84	Twin Cinema	The New Pornographers	2005
84	This Right Here Is Buck 65	Buck 65	2005
84	These Were The Earlies	The Earlies	2005
84	Separation Sunday	The Hold Steady	2005
84	Oceans Apart	The Go-Betweens	2005
84	Mezmerize	System Of A Down	2005
84	Late Registration	Kanye West	2005
84	Chavez Ravine	Ry Cooder	2005
84	Blinking Lights And Other Revelations	Eels	2005
84	Beauty And The Beat	Edan	2005
84	Apologies To The Queen Mary	Wolf Parade	2005
84	Akron/Family & Angels Of Light	Akron/Family & Angels Of Light	2005
84	The Real New Fall L.P. (Formerly Country On The Click)	The Fall	2004
84	Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition	Murs	2004
84	Crimes	The Blood Brothers	2004
84	Bubblegum	Mark Lanegan Band	2004
84	The Meadowlands	The Wrens	2003
84	The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place	Explosions In The Sky	2003
84	Streetcore	Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros	2003
84	Magnolia Electric Co.	Songs: Ohia	2003
84	Holopaw	Holopaw	2003
84	Happy Songs For Happy People	Mogwai	2003
84	Hail To The Thief	Radiohead	2003
84	The Last Broadcast	Doves	2002
84	Source Tags & Codes	...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead	2002
84	One Beat	Sleater-Kinney	2002
84	Geogaddi	Boards Of Canada	2002
84	Don't Give Up On Me	Solomon Burke	2002
84	Didn't It Rain	Songs: Ohia	2002
84	Ágætis Byrjun	Sigur Rós	2001
84	Tenacious D	Tenacious D	2001
84	Pause	Four Tet	2001
84	Girls Can Tell	Spoon	2001
84	Supermodified	Amon Tobin	2000
84	Mass Romantic	The New Pornographers	2000
84	Dongs of Sevotion	Smog	2000
84	Bow Down To The Exit Sign	David Holmes	2000
83	Lost And Safe	The Books	2005
83	Medulla	Bjork	2004
83	Blue Cathedral	Comets On Fire	2004
83	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots	The Flaming Lips	2002
83	We Love Life	Pulp	2002
83	Veni Vidi Vicious	The Hives	2002
83	The Beginning Stages Of...	The Polyphonic Spree	2002
83	S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.	Out Hud	2002
83	Cobblestone Runway	Ron Sexsmith	2002
83	Blood Money	Tom Waits	2002
83	Old Ramon	Red House Painters	2001
83	Nixon	Lambchop	2000
83	Mwng	Super Furry Animals	2000
83	Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	godspeed you black emperor!	2000
83	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out	Yo La Tengo	2000
82	In Search Of... [Second Version]	N.E.R.D. [The Neptunes]	2002
82	God's Son	Nas	2002
82	lilac6	The Lilac Time	2001
82	Party Music	The Coup	2001
82	Isolation Drills	Guided By Voices	2001
82	Idiology	Mouse On Mars	2001
82	Essence	Lucinda Williams	2001
82	Change	Dismemberment Plan	2001
82	I Am Shelby Lynne	Shelby Lynne	2000
81	The Rising	Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band	2002
81	Skyscraper National Park	Hayden	2002
81	OOOH! (Out Of Our Heads)	The Mekons	2002
81	Cookie: The Anthropological Mix Tape	Me'Shell NdegéOcello	2002
81	Come Away With Me	Norah Jones	2002
81	Blacklisted	Neko Case	2002
81	Unreasonable Behavior	Laurent Garnier	2000
81	Public Domain: Songs From the Wild Land	Dave Alvin	2000
81	Mermaid Avenue Vol. II	Billy Bragg & Wilco	2000
81	Mad for Sadness	Arab Strap	2000
81	Figure 8	Elliott Smith	2000
81	Discovery of a World Inside the Moone	The Apples In Stereo	2000
81	Come to Where I'm From	Joseph Arthur	2000
80	The Noise Made By People	Broadcast	2000
80	The Moon & Antarctica	Modest Mouse	2000
80	Good Looking Blues	Laika	2000
79	The Covers Record	Cat Power	2000
79	Music	Madonna	2000
79	Mama's Gun	Erykah Badu	2000
79	Kid A	Radiohead	2000
79	All That You Can't Leave Behind	U2	2000

Interestingly, among the 180 albums mentioned few artists are represented more than once, and none is entitled to more than 3 appearances. Sleater-Kinney and Super Furry Animals share the honor of having three albums placed in the Metacritic top 30 between 2000 and 2005, while 19 artists managed to get two top 30 placements: Bill Frisell, Bjork, David Holmes, Dizzee Rascal, Drive-By Truckers, Elliott Smith, Four Tet, Kanye West, Lucinda Williams, OutKast, Radiohead, Songs: Ohia, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, The Books, The New Pornographers, The Streets, Tom Waits and White Stripes.

Comments

[eclectica]

Wow!! awsome!