2000s

essential

Score: 127.5

Albums: 61
Artists: 61

Average Rating: 3.56/5.00

Last Rated: Apr 11 26

Why this decade is essential:

score
= 100 · quality · confidence

quality
= sum_weights / (5 · album_count)
= 217 / (5 · 61)
= 0.711

confidence
= log₁₀(album_count + 1)
= log₁₀(61 + 1)
= 1.792

score
= 100 · 0.711 · 1.792
= 127.5

sum_weights = total of all album ratings from this decade

album_count = number of rated albums released in this decade

5 = maximum possible rating per album

+1 = smoothing factor for small sample sizes

Albums by Rating

essential 12 albums

Good Health by Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Guest (Expanded Edition) by Phantom Planet
3 Guys, 12 Eyes by The Ergs!
Rockin' The Suburbs by Ben Folds
Everything Will Never Be OK by Fiction Plane
The Used by The Used
The Slaying of the Dragon by Bendixon
Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus by Cloud Cult
Humanistic by Abandoned Pools
Keep It Together by Guster
The Alkaline Trio by Alkaline Trio
Never You Mind by The New Amsterdams

strong 18 albums

Electric Sweat by The Mooney Suzuki
Memoirs At The End Of The World by The Postmarks
Nail Yourself to the Ground by Small Brown Bike
Love Everybody by The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Only Boundaries by Balance And Composure
Hombre Lobo by Eels
Hurricane Glass by Catherine Feeny
Watsky by Watsky
So You Call These Flowers by Audiocrush
FINALLY WE ARE NOWHERE by SOLEA
Girls And Boys by Ingrid Michaelson
This Is Unity Music by Common Rider
Never Say by The Action Design
Weekends Away EP by Math and Physics Club
Nothing Makes Sense Without It by Kind of Like Spitting
Nautical Antiques by Pinback
The Seaside EP by Owen
Oh, Inverted World by The Shins

solid 23 albums

How It Works by Bodyjar
Focus on the Light by True Colors
Load My Revolver, Baby by Her Words Kill
Like Water For Chocolate by Common
How To Make Millions In Real Estate by Grey Does Matter
Wide Awake Bored by Treble Charger
Fate by Dr. Dog
The Butterfly Collection by The Nerve Agents
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
Temporary Contemporary by Cross My Heart
Time Is The Distance by Deviates
Dream to Make Believe by Armor For Sleep
In Defense Of The Genre by Say Anything
Last Stop Suburbia by Allister
Move Along by The All-American Rejects
Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound
Lost Souls by Doves
No Way Down by Air France
In Case We Die by Architecture In Helsinki
capsule rmx by CAPSULE
Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket
Unstoppable by The Planet Smashers

weak 8 albums

horrible 0 albums

No albums in this tier

Artists by Rating

essential 12 artists

Bendixon (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Cloud Cult (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Ben Folds (avg 5.00, 1 album)
The Used (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Pretty Girls Make Graves (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Fiction Plane (avg 5.00, 1 album)
The New Amsterdams (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Guster (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Alkaline Trio (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Abandoned Pools (avg 5.00, 1 album)
Phantom Planet (avg 5.00, 1 album)
The Ergs! (avg 5.00, 1 album)

strong 18 artists

SOLEA (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Common Rider (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Pinback (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Owen (avg 4.00, 1 album)
The Shins (avg 4.00, 1 album)
The Mooney Suzuki (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Eels (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Watsky (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Audiocrush (avg 4.00, 1 album)
The Action Design (avg 4.00, 1 album)
The Postmarks (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Ingrid Michaelson (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Balance And Composure (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Math and Physics Club (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Catherine Feeny (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Small Brown Bike (avg 4.00, 1 album)
Kind of Like Spitting (avg 4.00, 1 album)
The Presidents Of The United States Of America (avg 4.00, 1 album)

solid 23 artists

Armor For Sleep (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Grey Does Matter (avg 3.00, 1 album)
The Nerve Agents (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Allister (avg 3.00, 1 album)
CAPSULE (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Architecture In Helsinki (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Bright Eyes (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Cross My Heart (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Dr. Dog (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Unwound (avg 3.00, 1 album)
My Morning Jacket (avg 3.00, 1 album)
The All-American Rejects (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Say Anything (avg 3.00, 1 album)
The Planet Smashers (avg 3.00, 1 album)
The Last Shadow Puppets (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Bodyjar (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Common (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Treble Charger (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Deviates (avg 3.00, 1 album)
True Colors (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Her Words Kill (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Air France (avg 3.00, 1 album)
Doves (avg 3.00, 1 album)

weak 8 artists

The Magic Magicians (avg 2.00, 1 album)
Dashboard Confessional (avg 2.00, 1 album)
Josh Joplin Group (avg 2.00, 1 album)
Anti-Flag (avg 2.00, 1 album)
Hot Rod Circuit (avg 2.00, 1 album)
Lily Allen (avg 2.00, 1 album)
A Static Lullaby (avg 2.00, 1 album)
Broken Spindles (avg 2.00, 1 album)

horrible 0 artists

No artists in this tier