love @op for mentioning magnolia electric co. RIP Jason Molina

my 5 are:
Kanye - Late registration
Opeth - Damnation
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Incubus - Morning View
Soilwork - Figure Number Five (there's better albums, but this reminds me of the good times in high school playing maplestory with my bros)

HM:
In Flames - Reroute to Remain (not their best but the one that got me into them
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (his best imo)
Kanye - College Dropout (i didn't wanna put 2 ye albums in my top 5 tbh)
Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
System of a Down - Toxicity

Incredibly consistent output from him tbh. His other albums hit me just as hard as magnolia does. RIP

Nice list DAVID

nah put some respek on my name

surprised by the lack of converge love so far. Where my metalheads at?

these threads cool but I’m too lazy to contribute don’t really have the mental energy to go thru 5 years each thread

i forgot to mention CAKE. Comfort Eagle and Pressure Chief deserve a mention too. their first 5 albums had no misses and i will fight anyone who disagrees

50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Cam'ron - Come Home Wit Me
Dipset - Diplomatic Immunity
Kanye West - The College Dropout

no love for Carter 1?

Kanye West - The College Dropout/Late Registration

Madvillain - Madvillainy

Jay - Z - The Blueprint

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

had to check to see if you were actually davidp after these albums

put it in my HM.

the blueprint
get rich or die trying
the eminem show
the college dropout
late registration

h/m be, the black album, stillmatic, lord willin

tried doing it but too many of my favorite albums dropped in this time period, that I consider perfect can’t justify a top 5

I will give a shout out to the silent hill 2 soundtrack!! beautiful

the effort is appreciated regardless.

neurosis - the eye of every storm
converge - jane doe
aphex twin - drukqs
jesu - jesu
mia - arular

if i knew how to link all my rated 4-5 albums on here i'd just do that

it would make things a lot easier. I wouldnt have to search by each year and then copy/paste the albums

this a classic too

converge

honorable mentions:
nerd - in search of
common - be
madlib - shades of blue
lil wayne - carter 1
50 cent - get rich or die tryin
mf doom - mm food
mf doom - vaudeville villain
nas - god's son
gorillaz - gorillaz
demon days - gorillaz
the strokes - is this it
queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
linkin park - meteora
hikaru utada - deep river
hikaru utada - distance
ringo sheena - shoso strip
ringo sheena - utaite myōri: sono ichi
namie amuro - genius 2000
BoA - id; peace b

ngl this might be my favorte song in this era

the only thing i know for sure is that my number 1 is
unwound - leaves turn inside you

these other albums are interchangeable

microphones - glow pt 2
kanye - late registration
madvillain - madvillainy
interpol - totbl