Hi :wavey:

As the 2000s are coming to a close, it's time to look back at what great albums the decade offered. Post your own top10.

Here is mine.

10. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
One of the best of the indie era. It's a shame what they are singing nowadays.

9. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (2009)
Pink Floyd meets post-rock in this depressingly optimistic album.

8. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (2009)
Blues + folk + indie = something surprisingly good.

7. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
While lacking the purity of the first album, the change of pace worked well in the long run.

6. The Departure - Dirty Words (2005)
Lacking the marketing and with a lot of internal troubles, this great indie band and album will pass by unnoticed.

5. Editors - An End Has a Start (2007)
They were actually successful of making a Joy Division style of post-punk album. It's almost as good as their mentors' albums and clearly just as dark and confusing.

4. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (2008)
Indie with a huge influence from 60s pop.

3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Probably the best "pure" indie album out there.

2. White Lies - To Lose My Life... (2009)
Like Editors they take inspiration from the Joy Division-style post-punk a lot. But their lyrics move away from the confusing abstract mental images of the style.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (2009)
With this swirling mass of dark indie, abstract lyrics, bad haircuts and Josh Homme's stoner rock, the monkeys abandoned several fans. However those that understood the album got a lot closer to the band. :D


P.S. No reissues of older albums. And no compilation albums.

P.P.S. Yes i know there was a recent thread with picking the CFC album of the decade. But that is a confusing thread and for some reason that thread is top20 songs of the decade. :crazyeye: Plus, my OP is much nicer. :)

i dont care for the big label music of this hopeless decade.

I definitely agree with your Editors and White Lies picks. Two awesome albums.

One of my favorite of this decade would be Rosenrot by Rammstein and consequently Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da, which is quite a bit like Rosenrot.

Another great one is 8 by Mumiy Troll, a rather esoteric band from Russia (They're not indie, nor unknown, but still make good music in my opinion)

Of course I also have to throw in the OST's for Battlestar Galactica which contain so much epic music.

I was going to write out lengthy reasons why I picked these albums, but decided 1/3rd of the way through it was too much effort and scrapped the whole idea.

#1 Muse - Origin of Symmetry

#2 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

#3 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

#4 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

#5 Muse - Absolution

#6 Karnivool - Sound Awake
#7 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
#8 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
#9 The Living End - Modern ARTillery
#10 The Fratellis - Costello Music

Honourable mentions go to;
Deadmau5 - For Lack of a Better Name
Kasabian - Empire
The Presets - Apocalypso
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By the Way
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
System of a Down - Toxicity
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures[

My vote for numero uno goes to Margot & the Nuclear So and So's 2006 album The Dust of Retreat.

I'm probably forgetting a bunch, but off the top of my head, and quickly flicking through my iTunes library:
Muse- Absolution. Unparalleled as an album, IMO. Sometimes you might get one song on an album that is exceptionally good, but this has three (Hysteria, Stockholm Syndrome and Butterflies & Hurricanes) and the rest isn't far off.
Muse- The Resistance. I actually really like it, as compared to most people. IMO, Exogenesis is genius, and Undisclosed Desires and United States of Eurasia are superb, also. And the rest of the album isn't just all decent, it's all good. There isn't a bad song, or even an only half-decent one, on The Resistance.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers- By the Way. Plenty of great songs. The best are probably By The Way and Can't Stop.
The Automatic- Not Accepted Anywhere. I love Keep Your Eyes Peeled. It's great music to play loud. The desire to turn up my speakers is irresistible when listening to this song. The rest of the album is good too, particularly You Shout You Shout You Shout and On the Campaign Trail.
Kasabian- Kasabian. It's hard to pick a highlight from this album, because it's all really good, although it offers no exceptional songs. Reason is Treason is probably the pick of 'em.
Linkin Park- Meteora. I used to be a bigger fan of this, but I've gone past my Linkin Park stage for the most part. But I still think they are pretty good. Don't Stay, Numb and Faint are probably my favourites. The continuity of the album (as in The Resistance) is good and keeps you interested, and there is enough variety of styles to make it more interesting.
Kaiser Chiefs- Yours Truly, Angry Mob. The first two tracks (Ruby and The Angry Mob) are awesome, although the rest isn't quite as good. I still, however, is a really good listen. No bad songs. Just a few only decent ones.
Muse- Black Holes and Revelations. Not as good as Absolution and The Resistance, but it still has plenty of good songs. It fades into mediocrity after the first three tracks (Take A Bow, Starlight and Map of the Problematique), but Supermassive Black Hole and Knights of Cydonia rescue it.
Coldplay- Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. A bunch of plagiarised hackery, but quite good plagiarised hackery at that. Very good background music.
The Cat Empire- The Cat Empire. Good easy listening and really catchy. One Four Five is probably the best song on the album.


I'm not so much of an Origins of Symmetry fan, but it's close to Top 10, by sheer virtue of being Muse. The Love Below by OutKast is close too. I like it less than I used to. Hybrid Theory was close, and so was Intimacy by Bloc Party and Demon Days by Gorillaz. Other than that Vulture Street by Powderfinger and RHCP's Stadium Arcadium were pretty good, too. Oh, and Franz Ferdinand's self-titled album was good, too.

1 - The Killers - Sam's town - possibly one of the most underrated albums of all time
2 - Kings of Leon - Only by the night - I know, I know, but when this came out I knew it would be popular because it was that good.
3 - Muse - Origin of symetrey - Nuff said
4 - Arcade Fire - Funeral - Got me interested in indie music
5 - Coldplay - A rush of blood to the head - my heart aches when i hear their new stuff
6 - Garbage - Version 2.0
7 - Green Day - American Idiot - for personal reasons
8 - Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
9 - The Wombats - Tales of love, loss and depression
10 - Nine inch nails - Year Zero

Probably forgot a lot of things but this should suffice.

Hmm noone thinks the second Franz F. album is better than the first?

Havoc Unit - h.IV+
Satyricon - The Age of Nero
Alex Shields - Fantasies of Another World :smug::smug::smug::smug::smug:
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
...And Oceans - Cypher
Samael - Reign of Light
Therion - Lemuria & Sirius B
The Phenomenauts - For All Mankind
Fairytale Abuse - Perversion of Angel IV
Panzerchrist - Roomservice
...And Oceans - A.M.G.O.D.

It's actually hard for me to come up with such a list since I don't buy a lot of music.

I can proudly say I have never heard of 90% of the bands in this thread so far.

I can proudly say I have never heard of 90% of the bands in this thread so far.

Congratulations. Do you want a prize for the least mainstream music taste on CFC? :rolleyes:

Some picks in no particular order:

Tool - Lateralus Probably the best album from the most impressive band of this decade. I doubt that any list can be taken seriously without it.

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Muse- Origin of Symmetry

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero The return of NIN.

Tony Iommi - Iommi While the sound of this album was insignificant to the evolution of music in this decade, it's unsurpassed monument to the heavy metal as it sounded before we wanted to listen something more speedy, artsy or full of rapping.

Medeski Martin & Wood - End of the World Party (Just in Case) The best album from what I consider best in contemporary jazz.

Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun The ewel in the crown of post-rock. Repetitive musics never sounded so dynamics.

dredge - Leitmotif Probably the Best Album that Nearly No-one Heard Of. Very uncommon sounding indie rock.

White Stripes - Elephant Can we really omit them from top albums of this decade? Me thinks not.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela The best samba/acoustic rock player are former trash metalists. Bear with it.

Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals- Lifeline
Ray LaMontage- Til the Sun Turns Black
A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms
Tool- Lateralus
The Strokes- Is This It
Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf(or hard of hearing)
Killswitch Engage- The End of Heartache
Pearl Jam- Backspacer
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (a pretty cool duo and the cover of Stairway to Heaven is just sick sick sick, wouldn't have thought of it hadn't Algeroth mentioned it)

Hi :wavey:

As the 2000s are coming to a close, it's time to look back at what great albums the decade offered. Post your own top10.

Here is mine.

10. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
One of the best of the indie era. It's a shame what they are singing nowadays.

9. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (2009)
Pink Floyd meets post-rock in this depressingly optimistic album.

8. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (2009)
Blues + folk + indie = something surprisingly good.

7. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
While lacking the purity of the first album, the change of pace worked well in the long run.

6. The Departure - Dirty Words (2005)
Lacking the marketing and with a lot of internal troubles, this great indie band and album will pass by unnoticed.

5. Editors - An End Has a Start (2007)
They were actually successful of making a Joy Division style of post-punk album. It's almost as good as their mentors' albums and clearly just as dark and confusing.

4. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (2008)
Indie with a huge influence from 60s pop.

3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Probably the best "pure" indie album out there.

2. White Lies - To Lose My Life... (2009)
Like Editors they take inspiration from the Joy Division-style post-punk a lot. But their lyrics move away from the confusing abstract mental images of the style.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (2009)
With this swirling mass of dark indie, abstract lyrics, bad haircuts and Josh Homme's stoner rock, the monkeys abandoned several fans. However those that understood the album got a lot closer to the band. :D


P.S. No reissues of older albums. And no compilation albums.

P.P.S. Yes i know there was a recent thread with picking the CFC album of the decade. But that is a confusing thread and for some reason that thread is top20 songs of the decade. :crazyeye: Plus, my OP is much nicer. :)

I have never heard of any of those.

I have never heard of any of those.

See this:

Congratulations. Do you want a prize for the least mainstream music taste on CFC? :rolleyes:

See this:

Does it come with a cash prize?

Does it come with a cash prize?

Of course not. All you get is the honour of having a music taste far superiour to anybody who listens to anything that has been on the charts. :rolleyes:

But anyway, do you even know ten albums from this decade?

Of course not. All you get is the honour of having a music taste far superiour to anybody who listens to anything that has been on the charts. :rolleyes:

I never once stated anything of the sort. You Danes and your habit of insulting people!
:mad::mad::mad:

But anyway, do you even know ten albums from this decade?

Probably not, I'm more of a 90s guy myself. I had free time back then.

I never once stated anything of the sort. You Danes and your habit of insulting people!
:mad::mad::mad:

Ok, maybe I was exaggerating a bit, but you did make a post contributing nothing to the thread except to state that you don't know any of the music mentioned.

Kid A - Radiohead (2000) say what you like regarding the definition of a decade, it was less than ten years ago
Origin of Symmetry - Muse (2001)
Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA (2001)
Mutter - Rammstein (2001)
Toxicity - SOAD (2001)
Lateralus - Tool (2001)
Vespertine - Bjork (2001)
Funeral - Arcade Fire (2004)

errrr ...

Hail to the Thief - Radiohead (2003)
In Rainbows - Radiohead (2007) longer ago than I had realised

Ok, maybe I was exaggerating a bit, but you did make a post contributing nothing to the thread except to state that you don't know any of the music mentioned.

Didn't you also make a post that contributed nothing to the thread except point out that someone else did the same?

:rudolf:

So I translated the Swedish titles. I will try to decide which one of the radiohead albums that deserves the first.

10- Fleet foxes - Fleet foxes
9- Håkan Hellström - Ett Kolikbarns bekännelser (Confessions of a colic-child)
8- Bob Hund - Folkmusik för folk som inte kan bete sig som folk (Folk-music for people who can't act like people (Lame with the translation))
7- Muse - Black holes and revelation (I just can't get their early albums...)
6- Radiohead - Hail to the thief
5- Kent - Du & jag döden (You and me death)
4- Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3- Thom Yorke - The Eraser
2- Lali Puna - Faking the books
1- Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac/In Rainbows. (Damnit.)

i dont care for the big label music of this hopeless decade.
Which is why only one of my top10 is from a big label. :D
Hmm noone thinks the second Franz F. album is better than the first?
Personaly, i didn't like it at all. But their 3rd album is far FAR worse.
I can proudly say I have never heard of 90% of the bands in this thread so far.
Post your own then. :D
I have never heard of any of those.
Reason in spoiler:

None of them are german.
They are all british.
:D

The following albums i will listen to at some point in the near or far future:


#9 The Living End - Modern ARTillery
#10 The Fratellis - Costello Music

The Automatic- Not Accepted Anywhere
The Cat Empire- The Cat Empire.
Vulture Street by Powderfinger

4 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
9 - The Wombats - Tales of love, loss and depression
dredge - Leitmotif Probably the Best Album that Nearly No-one Heard Of. Very uncommon sounding indie rock.
10- Fleet foxes - Fleet foxes

I don't think anything that I listen to that came out in the past ten years would be considered anywhere near the top 10 of the decade.

best albums of the decade: (no particular order)
mia - arular :love:
black light burns - cruel melody
tool - lateralus (i actually may have liked 10,000 days a little better)
nine inch nails - with teeth
nitin sawhney - philtre
shpongle - ineffable mysterries of shpongleland
younger brother - a flock of beeps
fischerspooner - entertainment
something by regina spektor
all the buddha bar cds

honorable mention:
eminem's 2009 cd would have been good if he only released songs like "insane" and "same song and dance" and not songs like "beautiful."

bands that are still destroying music:
1. linkin park/disturbed/slipknot/limp bizkit/korn and all other nu metal bands
2. radiohead/coldplay/muse/franz ferdinand/killers and all that indie garbage
3. hollywood undead/3oh3/brokencyde and all crunkcore
4. all those merdine metal bands who play loud to compensate for awful music and vocals who are way too bad to even remember.
5. daftpunk and eurofag teeniebopper music
6. nearly all rap and rnb. repetitive and uncreative.

I can proudly say I have never heard of 90% of the bands in this thread so far.
consider yourself lucky.

Didn't you also make a post that contributed nothing to the thread except point out that someone else did the same?

:rudolf:

Well first of all, I was just about to post my list, and second, all that ruckus (I like that word :D) could have been avoided if you hadn't made that post in the first place. ;)

Anyway, my list here:
10. 10,000 Days - Tool
9. In Rainbows - Radiohead
8. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7. No More Stories... - Mew
6. Du & jag döden - Kent
5. Amnesiac - Radiohead
4. Takk... - Sigur Rós
3. Funeral - Arcade Fire
2. Lateralus - Tool
1. Kid A - Radiohead

downloaded that Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (2009) album because Blues + folk + indie sounded like ti could be interesting.

well, it lacks the freaking choruses, as any other indie stuff, but it's ok background music.

Welcome to the metal:

10. Black Stone Cherry - Black Stone Cherry
9. Hatecrew Deathroll - Children of Bodom
8. Brave New World - Iron Maiden
7. Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth
6. City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold
5. Blackbird - Alter Bridge
4. The Poison - Bullet for my Valentine
3. Blooddrunk - Children of Bodom
2. The Blackening - Machine Head
1. Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom

Honorable mentions:
Death Magnetic - Metallica
All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot
The Crusade - Trivium
Are you dead yet, Hatebreeder - Children of Bodom
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Come Clarity - In Flames

Random "order";

Slipknot - Iowa
Static X - Shadow Zone
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
The Haunted -rEVOLVEr
Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
Tiamat - Amanethes
The Kristet Utseende - Sieg Hallelujah
Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devastation
Fear Factory - Transgression

Well first of all, I was just about to post my list, and second, all that ruckus (I like that word :D) could have been avoided if you hadn't made that post in the first place. ;)

Why didn't you just post your list and ignore the other people? All of this ruckus would have been avoided if you hadn't made an irrelevant comment to an irrelevant post made by an irrelevant poster in an irrelevant thread.

:xmascheers:

What about pop?

http://israbox.com/uploads/posts/1186262143_b000070gmg.02.lzzzzzzz.jpg

downloaded that Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (2009) album because Blues + folk + indie sounded like ti could be interesting.

well, it lacks the freaking choruses, as any other indie stuff, but it's ok background music.
That's because choruses are what big labels would ask of bands. :mischief:
What about pop?
Metal was included, so i don't see why pop wouldn't be. :D (I gave no restriction to genre.)

Well, I think that Kylie Minogue's Fever is one of the greatest albums of the decade, don't you?

1. Tool - Lateralus
2. Rammstein - Mutter
3. A Perfect Circle - Mer Der Noms
4. System Of A Down - Toxicity
5. Deftones - White Pony
6. Gojira - From Mars To Sirus
7. Slipknot - Volume 3: The Subliminal Verses
8. Machine Head - The Blackening
9. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
10. Engel - Absolute Design

edit: I forgot Lamb Of God - Ashes In the Wake and I forgot Killing Miranda - Trangression By Numbers. But then thats 12. Ahhhh!

bands that are still destroying music:
1. linkin park/disturbed/slipknot/limp bizkit/korn and all other nu metal bands
2. radiohead/coldplay/muse/franz ferdinand/killers and all that indie garbage
3. hollywood undead/3oh3/brokencyde and all crunkcore
4. all those merdine metal bands who play loud to compensate for awful music and vocals who are way too bad to even remember.
5. daftpunk and eurofag teeniebopper music
6. nearly all rap and rnb. repetitive and uncreative.


Doesn't that basically sum up all music that has came out in the last decade?

At the top?!

"Alive or Just Breathing" by Killswitch Engage

Doesn't that basically sum up all music that has came out in the last decade?
hmmm... well yeah, pretty much.

I couldn't limit my favorite to ten, this is in random order. I also tried to keep it to artists that people have possibly heard of. There are numerous obscure artists no one here would know that I would like to list but didn't.

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven-Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2000)
Illinoise-Sufjan Stevens (2005)
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below-Outkast (2003)
In Rainbows-Radiohead (2007)
Hail to the Thief-Radiohead (2003)
Amnesiac-Radiohead (2001)
Kid A-Radiohead (2000)
El Cielo-dredg (2002)
Lateralus-Tool (2001)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots-The Flaming Lips (2002)
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco (2002)
Leviathan-Mastodon (2004)
You're a Woman, I'm a Machine-Death from Above 1979 (2004)
Toxicity-System of a Down (2001)
The Crane Wife-The Decemberists (2006)
Return to Cookie Mountain-TV on the Radio (2006)
The Satanic Satanist-Portugal. The Man (2009)
Songs for the Deaf-Queens of the Stone Age (2002)
Only by the Night-Kings of Leon (2008)
Takk-Sigur Rós (2005)
Funeral-Arcade Fire (2004)
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place-Explosions in the Sky (2003)
De-Loused in the Comatorium-The Mars Volta (2003)
Morning View-Incubus (2001)
The Origin of Symmetry-Muse (2001)
The Moon and Antarctica-Modest Mouse (2000)

Okay, Ive had more time to go through and pick out my top 10. These are in no particular order.

Rammstein -- Rosenrot (2005)
Rammstein -- Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da (2009)
Mumiy Troll -- 8 (2008)
Muse -- Absolution (2003)
Muse -- Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
Tool --Lateratus (2001)
Tiamat -- Judas Christ (2002)
Dead Soul Tribe -- The Dead Word (2005)
Editors -- An End Has A Start (2007)
White Lies -- To Lose My Life (2009)

Uh, I dunno. I don't listen to albums usually. I probably couldn't come up with ten.

In no particular order

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - At times evokes the feeling of Joy Division at others just evokes its own powerful feeling. Best listened to late at night with a few beers.
Magic Dirt - What are Rockstars Doing Today - Sharp and snappy Aussie pop/rock, what we do best!
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf - Loud and nasty as all good rock should be. Dave Grohl ain't half a bad drummer either
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm - Just love the raw emotion in all their songs.
Radiohead - In Rainbows - Hadn't really gotten into any of the albums since OK Computer but was intrigued at the pay your own price for the download and can say one of the best pounds I've ever spent.
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command - To be honest I have no idea what any of the songs are about but I am captivated by how much feeling there is in the nonsense he sings.
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs - Cute quirky pop at its best
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike - Indefinable in genre, taking slices of pop, hip hop, rock, beats and double dutch, yet fantastic in catchiness and ease on the ear.
Gerling - When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun - Aussie dance music at its best, blended with some Sonic Youth style rock at times and Kylie Minogue guest vocals at others. The best band I saw live this decade as well.
PJ Harvey - Songs From the City, Songs From the Sea - The woman is a genius and this was her best album of the decade. Quite a change in direction as she mellowed out, sang some upbeat pop songs. Then went back to schreeching and stripped back numbers for the rest of the decade (and was still great)

Pitchfork Media did their albums of the 2000s (http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7710-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-20-1/), don't necesarrily agree with most of it but an interesting read.

That's because choruses are what big labels would ask of bands. :mischief:


in european music songs have been having choruses since before there were physical records.

Didnt Radiohead produce anything good in the 00's?

Didnt Radiohead produce anything good in the 00's?

I think 5 separate people have chosen at least one Radiohead album...

Didnt Radiohead produce anything good in the 00's?

in rainbows is good, but i prefer ok computer and the bends.

there weren't any good albums in this decade.

Didnt Radiohead produce anything good in the 00's?

It was in the 00's the good albums were made....

2. radiohead/coldplay/muse/franz ferdinand/killers and all that indie garbage
Of that list Franz Ferdinand was indie for a few years till 2006. After that they started singing disco or some sort of castrated stuff.
Same story with the killers but they held on till 2007. But Brandon Flowers didn't have any balls to begin with, so starting to sing like Bee Gees + Madonna was the next logical step anyway.
The others aren't indie. :D
Pitchfork Media did their albums of the 2000s (http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7710-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-20-1/), don't necesarrily agree with most of it but an interesting read.
This one is much better. (http://www.nme.com/list/the-top-100-greatest-albums-of-the-decade/158049/page/10) :D

More albums i need to note:

Far by regina spektor
Magic Dirt - What are Rockstars Doing Today - Sharp and snappy Aussie pop/rock, what we do best!

For me

1. The Killers - Hot Fuss
2. The Strokes - Is this it?
3. RHCP - By the way
4. U2 - All that you can't leave behind
5. - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

I can't really say top 10 albums, but I will put albums that I thoroughly enjoyed, in some order, though by no means in this exact order.

1. System of a Down - Toxicity
2. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
3. Evanescence - Fallen
4. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
5. Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles
6. Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
7. Disturbed - The Sickness
8. Khaled - Nssi Nssi
9. Fort Minor - The Rising Tied
10. System of a Down - Mezmerize

And for a little side-note:
bands that are still destroying music:
1. linkin park/disturbed/slipknot/limp bizkit/korn and all other nu metal bands


EDIT: I put Mezmerize even though I wanted to have a one band limit because I liked it more than other options I could have put by other bands.

Hi :wavey:

:wavey:

I can't really give reasons beyond "I really like the songs on the album" or "very good memories when I listen to these albums".

Tom McRae - Tom McRae (2000)
Blanche - If We Can't Trust the Doctors (2004)
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble (2004)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)
Amy MacDonald - This is the Life (2007)
Justice - Cross(2007)
Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More (2009)

Only 8, as despite my best efforts I couldn't find many albums from this past decade (a lot of the music I got into these past few years have been 70's-90's stuff) that I really enjoyed, or something that wasn't a soundtrack to a film or television series. Ah well, maybe two utterly brilliant albums will come out in the next month...

Of these albums, I think Muse is the only band I've actually listened to/even heard the name of.

I'm still lost in the 1990s apparently, excepting Phish Farmhouse (2000). Anything else I own post 2000 is a compilation of earlier stuff.

In no particular order

Lady GaGa-The Fame
Agent Sparks-Red Rover
Picture Atlantic-Kleos
Imogen Heap-Speak For Yourself
Passion Pit-Chunk Of Change
Silversun Pickups-Pickul EP
The White Stripes-Icky Thump
Nobuo Uematsu-The piano collections
Michele Branch-The Spirit Room
The Ting Tings-We Started Nothing

No particular order:

Toxicity (System of a Down) - 2001

Takk (Sigur Rós) - 2005

And The Glass Handed Kites (Mew) - 2005 (Although this one is the best by far)

Mr. Beast (Mogwai) - 2006

Franz Ferdinand (Franz Ferdinand) - 2004

And tbh, I don't think anything else is worth mentioning as "best" in any way. At least not the crap I've been listening to from this decade.

1. The Fame - Lady Gaga
2. All the Right Reasons - Nickleback

I can't really say top 10 albums, but I will put albums that I thoroughly enjoyed, in some order, though by no means in this exact order.

5. Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles


Sorry to be pedantic but that came out in 1999, good album though.

On a unrelated separate note I think that the 00's will be remembered for the beginning of great music accessability. There are so many artists out there that may not be well known, but you can easily hear them if your willing to put in the effort and be open minded to look for new music. The best bands are not always the most well known in my opinion.

Back even in the 90's there weren't really all that many bands you could know about. Everything you knew was the result of record label promotion on the radio or mtv, or maybe in a magazine. Then you had to risk paying for a possibly terrible album. I think I had maybe 60 albums growing up during the ninties
Now if you base your music tastes on only these things you're missing out on a dearth of music. If you were to look at lists of previous decades best albums in these sites such as Pitchfork the albums would be more widely recognized; whereas most of the albums listed for the 2000's are not widely recognized.

I do think word of mouth will always play a roll because you have to hear of a band to know to look for them, but now it's so easy to take a couple minutes and check them out. Artists that do not have heavy label promotion could possibly gain grassroots support and disintermediate the record companies in the future. Those who complain that there is no good music this decade may be mistaken. You may have to slog through crap sometimes, but there maybe something out there you like if your commited.

On a negative side, I think that never buying music is wrong. I don't want to be preachy because I download a lot of music, but if I really enjoy something I will support the artist and buy their album. I think excessive illegal downloading can hurt the artists. As stupid as Myspace is as a social networking site it is still a good place to listen to new artists; I also use Youtube often to listen to stuff. I'll probably randomly listen to some artists I've seen on this thread who I am not familiar with.
I also wonder what will happen to the album format as opposed to artists just releasing singles in the future. I really like a good cohesive album experience.

I've had to listen to some stuff that I didn't like very much over the years, but there's nothing better than discovering something new. I guess the purpose of this thread to implore greater musical exploration. Everything is at your fingertips and I think that's wonderful. Not to say that mainstream bands are bad, because my list is pretty conventional, I just want to see some stuff I've never heard listed in this thread.

I will close out my musing on music with a little ancedote. I see the band Muse mentioned a lot in this thread. Back in 2001 not very many people I knew heard of them here in the U.S.. They were fairly popular in the U.K. I think by then. As far as I know they were never played on the radio or were on mtv or vh1 here. I was able to catch wind of them and heard The Origin of Symmetry through the wonders of the internet. I was able to buy an import of the album from a locally owned record store in my neighborhood.
During a discussion of music with friends I mentioned that I though this band Muse could be really popular. They sound like a bombastic modern day Queen. Now I recognize people are naturally not always open to music proselytizing, but they dismissed the band because they never heard of them. I think the attitude that if I haven't heard of them they must suck is prevalent. Now that we are bombarded by Muse on the radio, in commercials, in seemingly every movie trailer, these same friends are now huge fans of Muse. I've long since moved on from Muse and would list them far down amongst my favorite artists, but know I can have a really smug attitude towards my friends when we discuss music. I realize my superior, snobby attitude when it comes to music may be a hinderance to them listening to my obscure recommendations.

I always wished music were more accesible, and there was an easier to way to get to it. But remember that guy in high school who was wierd and dressed funny? And listened to that really crappy music that no one had ever heard of and no one liked and he was really stuck up and pretensious about it, flaunting his air of superiority over how underground his music was, and how we were all being spoonfed our music and being played like a violen by our corporate overlords?

Instead of what I wanted coming true and being good, I got this guy from high school. Everywhere. All that accesabilaty seems to have done is give a lot more really crappy bands a bigger shot at lasting way longer then they should have.

Upon reflecting I realized to my shame that I've acquired preciously few albums in the last decade. Most of my CDs I bought in the 90s

Still, I managed to scrape up a few in the end (in no specifc order, and without reasons :p):


Dance of Death - Iron Maiden
Rammstein - Mutter
Nightwish - Once
Die Ärzte - Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!
Evanescence - Fallen
Amy Macdonale - This is the Life

Sorry to be pedantic but that came out in 1999, good album though.

For some reason I thought it came out in 2001 :crazyeye:

Also, Nssi Nssi actually came out in 1993. I meant Ya-Rayi, which came out in 2004.

Combat 84 - All Tooled Up

Rudra - Brahmavidy Primordial I

Orange Goblin - Coup De Grace

Ananda Shankar & State of Bengal - Walking On

Bad Manners - Ska Party

Leningrad - Made In Zhopa

2 Stone 2 Skank - Trois Complices

There's 7 albums I've liked from this decade.

Well, I can come up with ten, but the low amount of albums (rather than just songs on YouTube) I listen to means they probably aren't my favorites, but here they are in no particular order:

Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory
Pearl Jam- Backspacer
Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace
Green Day- American Idiot
Linkin Park- Meteora
Foo Fighters- In Your Honor
Red Hot Chili Peppers- By The Way
3 Doors Down- 3 Doors Down
R.E.M.- Accelerate
System of a Down- Toxicity

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Man on the Moon: The End of the Day - Kid Cudi
Only For Cuban Lynx Pt. 2 - Raekwon
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Bake Sale - The Cool Kids
The Eminem Show - Eminem
By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
Buena Vista Social Club Soundtrack
Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco

1. Bloco do Eu Sozinho - 2001 - Los Hermanos

2. Ventura - 2003 - Los Hermanos


These are in no particular order.

Nadadenovo (2004) - Mombojó
That's right and I don't care about what anyone thinks on this one :p

Maria Rita (2003) - Maria Rita

Ompa til du dør (2001) - Kaizers Orchestra

Tribalistas (2002) Os Tribalistas

Idem (2005) Móveis Coloniais de Acaju

C_mpl_te (2009) Móveis Coloniais de Acaju

Residente o Visitante (2007) - Calle 13

Alone At My Wedding (2002) - Kočani Orkestar

Michele Branch-The Spirit Room
Die Ärzte - Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!
I enjoyed these albums (though I kinda liked Farin Urlaub's solo outing Endlich Urlaub! a bit better). The first of these is my favorite of all time.

Ah, Stadium Arcadium and Laugh Now, Cry Later were also quite good.

Thank you for your thoughts dannyshenanigan.

I must've had about 5 albums when growing up. Foreign music was sorta hard to come by. :(
Even now it's really hard to find rock albums here. And i mean anything other than Linkin Park/Green Day/etc. And even when you find them they are too expensive for people here to actually buy them. They do get cheaper with age tho. But you'll have to wait.
When we'll have a music/entertainment subforum we might be able to discuss each of these subjects more indepth.

Also
Noting some more albums:

Tom McRae - Tom McRae (2000)
Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)

MY 10:

2000 - Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
others - Green Day - Warning
Coldplay - Parachutes
Radiohead, Kid A
2001 - Muse, Origin of Symmetry
Radiohead, Amnesiac
2002 - Coldplay, A rush of blood to the head

2003 - The White Stripes, Elephant
Muse, Absolution
Radiohead, Hail to the thief
Death Cab, Transatlanticism
2004 - Arcade Fire, funeral
Green Day, American Idiot
Franz Ferdinand
Modest Mouse, Good news for people who like bad news
The killers, Hot fuss
2005 - Coldplay, X&Y

2006 - Gnarls Barkley, Saint Elsewhere
The killers, Sams Town
Muse, Black Holes and Revelations
2007 - Modest Mouse, We were dead before the ship sank
Radiohead, In Rainbows
MGMT
2008 - Coldplay, Viva la Vida
Fleet Foxes
Death Cab, Narrow Stairs
Glasvegas
The killers, Day and Age
Kings of Leon, only by the night
Kitty Daisy and Lewis
Vampire Weekend
2009 - Green Day -21st century breakdown
Cage the Elephant
Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus
The Dead Whether- Horehound
Franz Ferdinand, Tonight
Muse, The Resistance
Them Crooked Vultures
U2, no line on the horizon
Weezer, Raditude
Animal Collective, Merriweather post pavillion


AKA: THESE ARE ALBUMS I LIKED
All add :culture::culture::culture::culture::culture::cult ure::culture::culture::culture::culture::culture:

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem - 2000
Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent - 2002
Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna - 2008
The Eminem Show - Eminem - 2002
Speakerboxxx - Outkast - 2002
Revolutionary Volume 1 - Immortal Technique - 2001
The Massacre - 50 Cent - 2004
Relapse - Eminem - 2009
Elephunk - Black Eyed Peas - 2003
Encore - Eminem - 2004

Camera Obscura- Let's get out of this country
(and the 3 others)

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love songs

Nice Peter- Songs for Moms

Jeremy Soule- Oblivion OST

Bishop Allen- Charm School

5. Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles

I was going to say that but it was released November 2nd 1999 (at least, according to wiki) :(

I already addressed that (I thought it came out in 2001)

I must be very slow at typing then.

2000: Lambchop - Nixon
2001: Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: The White Stripes - Elephant
2004: Kanye West - College Dropout
2005: Spoon - Gimme Fiction
2006: The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
2007: Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2008: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2009: Mos Def - The Ecstatic

1. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
2. Interpol - Antics
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. The Killers - Hot Fuss
5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
7. Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti... is Skyscraper
8. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
9. Saint Motel - ForPlay
10. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/VivaLaVida.jpg
1. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)
I know what Heretic_Cata thinks about this pick, but this may well be my favourite album of all time. Even if it isn't the consensus, I think this is vastly better than Coldplay's earlier albums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xfWCDLoCU (42)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/Sigurros%28%29.jpg/200px-Sigurros%28%29.jpg
2. Sigur Rós - ( ) (2002)
I don't know if you have ever heard of them, but Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band. This album is one really different masterpiece. Sung in an imaginary language, every song is untitled and even the album title is not pronouncable. I would've wanted to put their album Ágætis byrjun on the list but apparently it was released in 1999. Anyway, you should give it a go as well; Viðrar vel til loftárása is one of the best songs ever made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPBQniIeBUg (untitled #1, also known as Vaka)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Mew-No-More-Stories-Cover.jpg/200px-Mew-No-More-Stories-Cover.jpg
3. Mew - No More Stories... (2009)
As far as I'm concerned, Mew (as in the Danish band, not as in the Pokémon) isn't really known of outside Scandinavia. I didn't really listen their music before, but this album made me a fan. The album is alternative rock with some progressive and post-rock influences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz0aVur1F2A (Introducing Palace Players)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Bon_iver_album_cover.jpg/200px-Bon_iver_album_cover.jpg
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
I found this American new folk album when I surfed through critics' albums-of-the-year lists and can say that it's really worth the critical acclaim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yaQ20dpWI (For Emma)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Power_in_Numbers.jpg/200px-Power_in_Numbers.jpg
5. Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers (2002)
My favourite hip-hop album of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvPayu-X5A (A Day at the Races)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/St_Elsewhere_Cover_Art.JPG/200px-St_Elsewhere_Cover_Art.JPG
6. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006)
I bet most of you know this album, but anyway it's a quite unexpected collaboration between rapper Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe500eIK1oA (Crazy)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/BHARCOVER.jpg/200px-BHARCOVER.jpg
7. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
A bit different than their previous albums, I think this is their best though Origin of Symmetry is close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mkIrvuU_zE (Knights of Cydonia)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/Ratatat_LP3_Cover.jpg/200px-Ratatat_LP3_Cover.jpg
8. Ratatat - LP3 (2008)
A curious mix of alternative rock and electronic music that I wouldn't have expected to come from the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAU4KO-mBaw (Shempi)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/Fleet_foxes.jpg/200px-Fleet_foxes.jpg
9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
A really intriguing folk album with baroque pop influences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE (White Winter Hymnal)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b1/Bluecarpet.jpg/200px-Bluecarpet.jpg
10. Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment (2006)
Yeah, it's very commercial but very good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzh4dnjk0R4 (Think About It)

coldplay... oh dear

Moved as requested.

I would like to change my list.

1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory or maybe Reanimation
2. System of a Down - Toxicity
3. Evanescence - Fallen
4. Korn - See You On The Other Side
5. Disturbed - Indestructible
6. Rammstein - Mutter
7. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
8. Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
9. Khaled - Ya-Rayi
10. Rage Against the Machine - Renegades