Top 10 Albums of the 2000s so far

[BillyLiar]

As per the show's discussion, I've decided to put together my top 10 albums of the 2000s (so far).

Because we have rules for maximum fun.. I put mine together by these standards: (feel free to amend or adapt)

-Whole albums count more than a collection of solid songs.
-I still need to be able to go to this album today.. If I loved it in 2004, but burnt out of it, it's probably not going to make the list. (sorry arcade fire.. too much Rebellion (lies) too soon)


1. Malajube - Trompe-L'oei (2006)
2. Beulah - Yoko (2003)
3. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
4. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
5. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins (2005)
6. Broken Social Scene (2005)
7. The Strokes - Is This It? (2001)
8. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)
9. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
10. Hot Hot Heat - Make up the Breakdown (2002)

[GreatAmericanZero]

1. Ween - Quebec
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Ween - White Pepper
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
8. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
10. Ween - La Cucaracha

[RickMcCrank47]

even though i posted this over in the music thread...

Fall Out Boy - Take this to your grave (2003)
Rx Bandits - The Resignation (2003) <-- if you haven't heard it, PLEASE take a listen
Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up (2002)
Saves the Day - Stay what you are (2001) i was very pleased to see this on jivins list
Five Iron Frenzy - The end is here (2003/4) their entire discography is amazing
Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo (2001)
Coheed & Cambria - the second stage turbine blade (2002)
Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3 (2003)
Modest Mouse - Good news for people who like bad news (2004)
Relient K - Two left turns dont might a right....but three do (2003)

[burrben]

-white stripes - elephant (2003)
-loretta lynn - van lear rose (2004)
-bob dylan - the bootleg series vol. 6, live 1964 (2004)
-white stripes - get behind me satan (2005) (i think im the only one that liked it)
-beck - sea change (2002)
-the black keys - rubber factory (2004)
-the flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots (2002)
-hank williams - alone with his guitar (2000) (this is probs cheating like the dylan one but i dont care, its just too good)
-various - endless highway: the music of The Band (2007)
-yeah yeah yeahs - show your bones (2006)

[Caseyelan]

In no particular order

Air-Virgin Suicides Score (2000)
Beck-Sea Change (2002)
Billy Bragg and Wilco- Mermaid Ave vol. 2 (2000)
Broken Social Scene- You forgot it in people (2002)
Hot Snakes- Suicide Invoice (2002)
The Rapture- Echoes (2002)
Lupe Fiasco- Food and Liquor (2006)
!!! Chk Chk Chk- Louden up now (2004)
The Postal Service- Give up (2003)
Radiohead- Kid A (2003)

[C_T]

as listed on the show:

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
2. Cake - Comfort Eagle (2002)
3. The New Pornographers - Electric Version (2003)
4. Ash - Free All Angels (2001)
5. Tegan & Sara - So Jealous (2004)
6. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)
7. Ladytron - Witching Hour (2005)
8. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (2004)
9. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans (2005)
10. The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)

[JerseyRich]

In no particular order

Air-Virgin Suicides Score (2000)
Beck-Sea Change (2002)
Billy Bragg and Wilco- Mermaid Ave vol. 2 (2000)
Broken Social Scene- You forgot it in people (2002)
Hot Snakes- Suicide Invoice (2002)
The Rapture- Echoes (2002)
Lupe Fiasco- Food and Liquor (2006)
!!! Chk Chk Chk- Louden up now (2004)
The Postal Service- Give up (2003)
Radiohead- Kid A (2003)

Hail to the Thief was in 2003. Kid A was 2000

Not that it matters. They're both pretty damn good.

[badorties]

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
radiohead - kid a
tv on the radio - desperate youth, blood thirsty babes
white stripes - elephant
jim o'rourke - insignificance
stephen malkmus - stephen malkmus
u2 - all that you can't leave behind
elvis costello & the imposters - the delivery man
pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea
yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out

[CousinDave]

AC/DC Black Ice has already sold more than 3 million copies in the US and it hasn't even been released yet.

Wal-Mart bought 3 million (nonreturnable) copies, plus the sales from AC/DC's own website.

[tdawg420]

Nickelback - Dark Horse

Release date November 18, 2008

[Reynolds]

Nickelback - Dark Horse

Release date November 18, 2008

I hope this is sarcastic.

[RickMcCrank47]

I hope this is sarcastic.

it is and it isnt.....the saddest part is that he and others enjoy going to see them live.

ugh, it makes me fuckin ill

[Brandon From Ohio.]

In no particular Order.

Vida La Vida Or Death and all his friends - Coldplay
Zeitgeist - Smashing Pumpkins
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
Broken Boy Soldiers - Raconteurs
Whatever People Say I am, that's what I am not - Arctic Monkeys
Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
Good News For people who love bad news - Modest Mouse
International Superhits - Green Day

[fezident]

THE BLACK PARADE by My Chemical Romance.

DECADANCE by Head Automatica
POPAGANDA by Head Automatica

MUSICOLOGY by Prince

EVERYBODY'S GOT A STORY by Amanda Marshall

LEFT OF SELF CENTERED by Butch Walker

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA by Queen (remastered in 2006... had to include it!!)

GRADUATION by Kanye

THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS by Alicia Keys

and

MIZUNDERSTOOD by Pink

[RickMcCrank47]

i got really mad when after the days of thinking and looking up all the music i remember and enjoy....i realized i never made mention of Ozma - Rock and Roll part 3

i need to omit FIF2 - Electric boogaloo

CT is right, this list can be very mentally taxing

[JerseySean]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

[paulisded]

I'm doing this off the top of my head, so I'm sure I'll have some substitutions tomorrow or the next day:

Paul Westerberg, Folker (or Mono/Stereo)
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
White Stripes, Elephant
Radiohead, Kid A (tough one between this and In Rainbows)
Hold Steady, Separation Sunday
Arcade Fire, Funeral
Beck, Sea Change
Decemberists, Picaresque
Morrissey, You Are the Quarry
Wrens, Meadowlands
Cursive, The Ugly Organ
Libertines, Up the Bracket
Bright Eyes, Lifted Or the Story Is...
GBV, Isolation Drills
Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker

[paulisded]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

It's just you.

[IMSlacker]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

Nickelback - Dark Horse

Release date November 18, 2008

Not everyone.

[burrben]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

its the only way i know

[Brandon From Ohio.]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?
I was being completely honest.
It's just you.

or that.

[paulisded]

I just get tired of the whole "too cool for the room" complaint, as it has become sort of an implied "how dare you don't like what I like" attitude. Just because I tend to listen to stuff that's not topping the charts, or am not a fan of action movies, doesn't mean that I'm trying to show how cool I am or any of that other nonsense. The albums I listed above were the recordings that have been the soundtrack of MY last few years, and I could give a fuck if others liked them or even heard of them.

[EddieMoscone]

Lupe Fiasco- Food and Liquor (2006)


Rock is Dead!!! Good choice. = )

What I can come up with in a couple of minutes:

Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings (2004)
White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Robert Randolph and The Family Band - Live at the Wetlands (2002)
System of a Down - Steal This Album! (2002)
MF Doom - Mm...Food? (2004)
Prince - Musicology (2004)
DJ Shadow - The Private Press (2002)
TV on the Radio - Young Liars (2003)
Pearl Jam - Live at Benaroya Hall (2004)

[Oilfield Canuck #3]

THE BLACK PARADE by My Chemical Romance.



This was a good album, and I do enjoy it, but I have a hard time getting around the fact that it sounds like a parody of Pink Floyd's The Wall.

[RickMcCrank47]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

just because someone posts shit youve never heard that isnt mainstream does not mean that theyre trying to be 'too cool for the room'....it just means they have a different taste than you in music, and maybe they live some where that has a faction of music you havent heard, or they are just cooler than you and know better music.

what ever the matter, try some new stuff out, i know ive found 5 or 6 albums that have repeated themselves im going to be looking into.

[badorties]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

it's you, maybe

[TheGameHHH]

just because someone posts shit youve never heard that isnt mainstream does not mean that theyre trying to be 'too cool for the room'....it just means they have a different taste than you in music, and maybe they live some where that has a faction of music you havent heard, or they are just cooler than you and know better music.

what ever the matter, try some new stuff out, i know ive found 5 or 6 albums that have repeated themselves im going to be looking into.

A-fuckin-men........this thread has inspired me to listen to new music. so far i've downloaded the postal service, death cab for cutie, arcade fire and tegan & sara. i've been having fun listening to these albums and im not even afraid to speak my mind about them. i really like the postal service album and i thought the arcade fire one sucked major balls. nonetheless, keep them coming.

[Reynolds]

Rock is Dead!!! Good choice. = )

What I can come up with in a couple of minutes:

Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings (2004)
White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Robert Randolph and The Family Band - Live at the Wetlands (2002)
System of a Down - Steal This Album! (2002)
MF Doom - Mm...Food? (2004)
Prince - Musicology (2004)
DJ Shadow - The Private Press (2002)
TV on the Radio - Young Liars (2003)
Pearl Jam - Live at Benaroya Hall (2004)

hmmmm... Mmm...Food? over Madvillainy?

[EddieMoscone]

hmmmm... Mmm...Food? over Madvillainy?

I almost picked Danger Doom. = )

Madvillainy is great too, but I just think I've had more listens of MM...Food, which is why I chose it.

[danner1515]

A few that I like so far:

Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine
Dan Melchior und das Menace - Christmas for the Crows
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
The Melvins - Nude with Boots
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard Is off to Business
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Paul Westerberg - 49:00

Edit: Ooops, I misread the subject line and though it was the top albums of 2008. A decade list will take some thought. I'll have to get back to this one.

[FunkyDrummer]

A few that I like so far:

Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine
Dan Melchior und das Menace - Christmas for the Crows
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
The Melvins - Nude with Boots
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard Is off to Business
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Paul Westerberg - 49:00

Edit: Ooops, I misread the subject line and though it was the top albums of 2008. A decade list will take some thought. I'll have to get back to this one.

Post those HERE (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=67296&page=5).

[danner1515]

Post those HERE (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=67296&page=5).

Thank you, sir. I knew there was a 2008 thread somewhere.

[itr]

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint (2001)
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy (2000)
Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope (2006)
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2005)
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (2005)
Dead Meadow - Feathers (2005)
Shyne - Shyne (2000)

[fezident]

This was a good album, and I do enjoy it, but I have a hard time getting around the fact that it sounds like a parody of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
You can really only be referring to that 90 second song that opens the record. Yes... it's extreeemly Pink Floydish but, it's merely the intro. The rest of the record has more in common with Queen, Sweet and to a lesser extent, AMERICAN IDIOT than anything else.
But, yeah, that opener is PF all the way.

[Oilfield Canuck #3]

You can really only be referring to that 90 second song that opens the record. Yes... it's extreeemly Pink Floydish but, it's merely the intro. The rest of the record has more in common with Queen, Sweet and to a lesser extent, AMERICAN IDIOT than anything else.
But, yeah, that opener is PF all the way.

That song was the part that tipped me off, you are right that the rest of the album isn't as much reminiscient of Pink Floyd, but I still did find a few parts that felt like it to me. Possibly more the musical themes and movements than the actual lyrics, I would have to listen to it again to see if I still feel the same way. All of the bands you mentioned above have the same kind of "Rock Opera" feel to them though anyways. Not so much that it is an actual Rock opera, but that listening to the album start to finish is more akin to listening to a complete symphony with all of it's movements, than a top 20 song.

I used to get so pissed off when one of my old girlfriends would skip a track on a PF album on a long drive. I would eject it instantly and lecture her on artistic merit and why cuntry music sucks.

Stupid bitch.

[UncleChris77]

I used to get so pissed off when one of my old girlfriends would skip a track on a PF album on a long drive. I would eject it instantly and lecture her on artistic merit and why cuntry music sucks.

Stupid bitch.

Amen, brother!

I very clearly recall a time in high school when I put on some Floyd (maybe Wish You Were Here?) with a group of people and had a girl ask me, quite exasperated, at about a minute and a half into the song, "God, when is this song going to start!"

I believe that that exact moment was when the first chip was taken out of my respect for humanity.

[JoeYaDeadHomey]

oOoOooo something to post about!

Ill give it a go, in no particular order

Atreyu - the curse (2004)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once more with feeling (2002)
Tech N9ne - Absolute power (2002)
Twiztid - The Green book (2004)
Iced Earth - Horror Show (2001)
Blackstone Valley Crew - Woonsocket (2000)
The Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies (2000)
Afi - I heard A Voice (Live 2007) (REALLY captures the feeling of being there)
Slipknot - Iowa (2001)
H.I.M. - Razorblade Romance (2003) (thats the american release, i think it was earlier elsehwere)


and if i can throw in an honorable mention it'd be

Murderdolls - Beyond the valley of the murderdolls (2003)

[yomudder21]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

you would be happier reading the post up top who liked Fall Out Boy.

[GreatAmericanZero]

Is it me or is everyone trying to be too cool for the room here?

i am so not surprised that this comment comes from the die-hard rah-rah Republican of this board

[biozombie]

Here's my shitty list. I think It's simultaneously "too cool for the room" while still being almost entirely "dirtbag", without actually trying to accomplish such a mess.

Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (2007)
Fu Manchu - We Must Obey (2007)
Jesu - S/T (2004)
Poison Idea - Latest Will And Testament (2006)
Om - Variations On A Theme (2005)
Cathedral - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights (2005)
Outlaw Order - Legalize Crime (2003)
Eyehategod - Confederacy Of Ruined Lives (2000)
Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine - Rampton (2002)
Melvins - either Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002) or (A) Senile Animal (2006)

honorable mentions:
Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies (2001)
Tomahawk - Mit Gas (2003)
Whitehouse - Bird Seed (2003)
Leviathan - Tentacles Of Whorror (2004)
Dukes Of Nothing - War & Wine (2003)
16 - Zoloft Smile (2003)
Arson Anthem - S/T (2008)
Khanate - Things Viral (2003)

[RickMcCrank47]

you would be happier reading the post up top who liked Fall Out Boy.

you ever listen to that last indy album they had? it was rather kick ass and not nearly as emo, much more punk rock....no radio play.

youve completely missed the reason for this thread by the way.

[fezident]

Nuthin' wrong with Fallout Boy.


They make pretty solid pop records. More power to 'em.

[badorties]

Nuthin' wrong with Fallout Boy.

They make pretty solid pop records. More power to 'em.


eh -- i would say the complete opposite, i see (or hear) nothing redeemable in them ... maybe it an age/generation thing, but they're just dogshit

[MacVittie]

I really haven't gotten into many new artists in this decade, so here a couple of the album i've purchased in the last 8 years:

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000)
Green Day - Warning (2000)
NaS - Stillmatic (2001)
Beck - Sea Change (2002)
Johnny Cash - American IV (2002)
NaS - God's Son (2002)
RJD2 - Deadringer (2002)
Jay-Z - The Black Album (2003)
Beck - Guero (2005)
Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams (2007)

I've also gotten into a lot of underground hip-hop, Living Legends, Rhymesayers, etc.

[bobstevens4]

I'm doing this off the top of my head, so I'm sure I'll have some substitutions tomorrow or the next day:

Paul Westerberg, Folker (or Mono/Stereo)
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
White Stripes, Elephant
Radiohead, Kid A (tough one between this and In Rainbows)
Hold Steady, Separation Sunday
Arcade Fire, Funeral
Beck, Sea Change
Decemberists, Picaresque
Morrissey, You Are the Quarry
Wrens, Meadowlands
Cursive, The Ugly Organ
Libertines, Up the Bracket
Bright Eyes, Lifted Or the Story Is...
GBV, Isolation Drills
Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker

I listen to 1 or more of these records every week.:thumbup:

[RickMcCrank47]

eh -- i would say the complete opposite, i see (or hear) nothing redeemable in them ... maybe it an age/generation thing, but they're just dogshit

have you listened to the album in question? if you have then thats fine, but if you havent, i hope youll atleast take a listen to not make yourself sound like a rambling idiot that is talkin out his ass.

i find it odd how only RF.net regulars are the ones comin in here and bashing peoples choices..... ctandjivinfans.com = renting a room in a crowded tenement.

[Oilfield Canuck #3]

ctandjivinfans.com = renting a room in a crowded tenement.

Amen Brother

[paulisded]

have you listened to the album in question? if you have then thats fine, but if you havent, i hope youll atleast take a listen to not make yourself sound like a rambling idiot that is talkin out his ass.

i find it odd how only RF.net regulars are the ones comin in here and bashing peoples choices..... ctandjivinfans.com = renting a room in a crowded tenement.

Well, to each their own, obviously, but I've never understood the appeal of them to anybody older than 12.

[Brandon From Ohio.]

ctandjivinfans.com = renting a room in a crowded tenement.

Amen Brother

Exactly.

They need a paying gig, so they can upgrade to small, but stable, independent fansite.

[TheGameHHH]

have you listened to the album in question? if you have then thats fine, but if you havent, i hope youll atleast take a listen to not make yourself sound like a rambling idiot that is talkin out his ass.

i find it odd how only RF.net regulars are the ones comin in here and bashing peoples choices..... ctandjivinfans.com = renting a room in a crowded tenement.

whats the name of said indy album?

i like to consider myself a member of both rf.net and ctandjivinfans, and from what ive heard Fall Out Boy sucks. so give me the name of this album so i can hear some tracks and realize they still blow.

[RickMcCrank47]

whats the name of said indy album?

i like to consider myself a member of both rf.net and ctandjivinfans, and from what ive heard Fall Out Boy sucks. so give me the name of this album so i can hear some tracks and realize they still blow.

my contention was never really with the album being good or bad....but that album just meant alot to me during that time, it doesnt really hit me like it used to since ive gone back and listened to it again. but im really sick of constantly having to defend threads over here cause RF.net'ers are posting at will in CT and Jivin world without regard for the content involved in the thread or from the show.

Take this to your Grave is the album.