Albums of the Noughties

[Bunny]

With winter approaching, festival season over, and another decade drawing to a close - thought it would be fun to list out favourite albums from the last decade... something to pass the time!!

I was going to suggest 1 per year, but when I started doing it, it wasn't that easy! So I've gone for 2 per year (to suit me!).

Here it goes! (Allowing for the fact 2009 isn't over yet......)

2000

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast

Soulwax - Much Against Everyones Advise

2001

Gomez - Liquid Skin

Shed Seven - Truth Be Told

2002

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood to the Head

2003

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

The Darkness - Permission To Land

2004

The Bees - Free the Bees

The Killers - Hot Fuss

2005

Brendon Benson - Alternative to Love

Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

2006

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am....

The Fratellis - Costello Music

2007

Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

2008

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires

2009 (so far)

The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

Little Boots - Hands

Edited October 6, 2009 by Bunny

[tomdsjames]

With winter approaching, festival season over, and another decade drawing to a close - thought it would be fun to list out favourite albums from the last decade... something to pass the time!!

I was going to suggest 1 per year, but when I started doing it, it wasn't that easy! So I've gone for 2 per year (to suit me!).

Here it goes! (Allowing for the fact 2009 isn't over yet......)

2000

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast

Soulwax - Much Against Everyones Advise

2001

Gomez - Liquid Skin

Shed Seven - Truth Be Told

2002

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood to the Head

2003

Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

The Darkness - Permission To Land

2004

The Bees - Free the Bees

The Killers - Hot Fuss

2005

Brendon Benson - Alternative to Love

Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV

2006

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am....

The Fratellis - Costello Music

2007

Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

2008

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires

2009 (so far)

The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

Little Boots - Hands

[Bunny]

Foo Fighters - In Your Honour was 2005

Good idea for a thread though, I'll do mine later

[Cydonia_90]

I'll have a go

(from the last 5 years)

2004

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Kasabian - Kasabian

2005

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

2006

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...

Muse - Black Holes & Revelations

2007

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

2008

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

2009 So Far...

White Lies - To Lose My Life

The Horrors - Primary Colours

[luckysalt]

Im just gunna give you TEN from each year, and this is going from what my PC tells me, too much to cut down to 1 or 2, its bloody hard doing 10!

2000-

Avalanches- Since I left You

Badly Drawn Boy- Hour of the...

Deftones- White Pony

Doves- Lost Souls

Eminem- Marshall Mathers

Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows

JJ72- JJ72

No Doubt- Return of Saturn

Queens of the Stone Age- Rated R

Radiohead - Kid A

2001-

Elbow- Asleep in the Back

Gorillaz- Gorillaz

Muse- Origin of Symentry

Orbital- The Altogether

Radiohead- Amnesiac

Slipknot- Iowa

The Strokes- Is This It

System of a Down- Toxicity

Tenacious D- Tenacious D

White Stripes- White Blood Cells

2002-

Chemical Brothers - Come With Us

Foo Fighters- One by One

The Hives- Your New Favourite Band

Hot Hot Heat- Make Up the Breakdown

Hundred Reasons- Ideas Above Our Stations

Jurassic 5- Power In Numbers

The Music- The Music

Queens of The Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf

Rilo Kiley- The Execution of All Things

Starsailor - Love is Here

2003-

Biffy Clyro- The Vertigo of Bliss

Billy Talent- I

The Concretes- Concretes

The Distillers- Coral Fang

Kings of Leon- Youth and Young Manhood

The Knife- Deep Cuts

Million Dead- A Song To Ruin

Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts

Radiohead- Hail To The Thief

The Stills- Logic Will Break Your Heart

2004-

The Dears- No Cities Left

Delays- Faded Seaside Glamour

The Futureheads- Futureheads

Interpol- Antics

The Killers- Hot Fuzz

The Music- Welcome To The North

My Chemical Romance- Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

The Prodigy- Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Rilo Kiley- More Adventurous

Slipknot - Vol 3

2005-

Bloc Party- Silent Alarm

Editors- The Back Room

Fiery Furnaces- EP

Foo Fighters- In Your Honour

Hot Hot Heat- Elevator

Kasabian- Kasabian

Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak

Queens of the Stone Age- Lullabies to Parallyse

System of A Down- Hypnotize/Mezmerize

We Are Scientists- With Love and Squaler

2006-

!!!- Myth Takes

Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I am

Be Your Own Pet- BYOP

Billy Talent- II

Eagles of Death Metal- Death by Sexy

Gomez- How We Operate

Guillemots- Through The Windowpain/From The Cliffs

The Knife- Silent Shout

Phoenix- Its Never Been Like That

Secret Machines- Ten Silver Drops

2007-

Arcade Fire- Neon Bible

Biffy Clyro- Puzzle

Chemical Brothers- We Are The Night

Digitialism- Idealism

Killswitch Engage- As Daylight Dies

Kings of Leon- Because of the Times

Paramore- Riot

Queens of The Stone Age- Era Vulgaris

Radiohead- In Rainbows

Smashing Pumpkins- Zeitgeist

2008-

Bat For Lashes- Fur and Gold

Black Tide- Light From Above

Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles

Metallica- Death Magnetic

The Music- Strength in Numbers

Nine Inch Nails- The Slip

Portishead- Third

Sevendust- Chapter 7

Shinedown- The Sound of Madness

Slipknot- All Hope Is Gone

2009- [only 5 so far]

Arctic Monkeys- Humbug

Billy Talent- III

Calvin Harris- Ready For The Weekend

The Prodigy- Invaders Must Die

White Lies- To Lose My Life

[Animaal]

2000

Kid A - Radiohead

Parachutes - Coldplay

2001

Amnesiac - Radiohead

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Origin of Symmetry - Muse

2002

By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

2003

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 - Coheed and Cambria

De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta

Hail to the Thief - Radiohead

2004

Start Something - Lostprophets

Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

2005

Hold Your Colour - Pendulum

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness - Coheed and Cambria

Leaders of the Free World - Elbow

2006

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

The Eraser - Thom Yorke

2007

Lead Sails Paper Anchor - Atreyu

Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold

A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party

Grinderman - Grinderman

Because of the Times - Kings Of Leon

Our Earthly Pleasures - Maximo Park

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

In Rainbows - Radiohead

Icky Thump - The White Stripes

2008

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

From First to Last - From First to Last

Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke

Dig Lazarus Dig - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

And I Was A Crow - The Parlor Mob

In Silico - Pendulum

2009

The Resistance - Muse

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian

I really couldn't choose out of those lists for '07 and '08...

[The Fly]

2000:

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Coldplay - Parachutes

2001:

Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform

REM - Reveal

2002:

Foo Fighters - One by one

Red hot chili peppers - By the way

2003:

Stereophonics - You gotta go there to come back

White Stripes - Elephant

2004:

U2 - How to dismantle an atomic bomb

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

2005:

Foo Fighters - In your honour

Feeder - Pushing the Senses

2006:

Arctic Monkeys - Whatsever people say I am...

Keane - Under the Iron Sea

2007:

The View - Hats off to the buskers

The Wombats - A Guide To Love, Loss and Desperation

2008:

Coldplay - Viva la vida

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

2009:

U2 - No line on the horizon

The View - Which Bitch?

I really haven't put too much thought into this. Just picked two good albums off the top of my head I can remember each year, sure if I took longer to think this would be different. A few definites in there though. 2002, 2004 and 2007 especially tough years to just pick two!

Edited October 17, 2009 by The Fly

[mfeltham]

I'm gonna name just a few, and make them the lesser known acts (not the foo's, chillis, coldplay etc...) not that I am discounting the fact that these have made some cracking albums in the past, but they have the budget and backing to do so. These didnt have the same budget, yet have managed to create brilliant albums. I cant think of every year off the top of my head but here's some:

2000

The Bluetones - Science and Nature

2002

Damien Rice - O

Dirty Vegas - Dirty Vegas

2004

Thirteen senses - The invitation

2005

The magic numbers - The magic numbers

2007

Ghosts - The world is outside

2009

One eskimo - One eskimO

[Shinny]

I'll try to do one per year, but nobody will agree with most of mine

2000 -

How Many People Must Get Dissed - Weird Al Yankovich

2001 -

Fake Sound Of Progress - Lostprophets

2002 -

No Pads, No helmets... Just Balls - Simple Plan

2003 -

Catalyst (UK Release) - New Found Glory

2004 -

Sticks And Stones - New Found Glory

2005 - (not an artist one, but an album none the less)

Walk The Line Soundtrack

2006 -

Coming Home - New Found Glory

2007 -

Riot! - Paramore

2008 -

Simple Plan - Simple Plan

2009 -

Not Without A Fight - New Found Glory

[spwan-of-the-devil]

My faves from eatch year going off what i can remeber and what Media player tells me

2000 -

New Found Glory - New Found glory

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Bowling for Soup - Lets do it for Johny

Spunge - Room of Abuse

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog flavoured water

2001-

The Strokes - Is this it

Rob Zombie - The Sinister urge

Muse - Orgin of Symetry

Lost Propets - The fake sound of progress

Jimmy Eat World - Jimmy Eat world

Papa Roach - Last resort

2002 -

Finch - What it is to burn

Foo Fighters - One by one

The Libertines - Up the Bracket

New Found glory - Sticks and Stones

Simple Plan - No pads No helmets just balls

2003-

AFI - Sing for Sorrow

Dido - Life for rent

Fountins of Wayne - Wellcome interstate managers

Limp Bizkit - Results may very..

Linkin park - Metora

2004-

Alter Bridge - One Day remains

Alkaline Trio/one man army split - Byo split vol 5

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Korn - Greatest hits vol 1

The libertines - The Libertines

NIN - The Downward Sprial - Deluxe Edition

Simple plan - Still not getting any

Nightwish - Over the hills and far away

New Found glory - Catalyst

No Doubt - Greatest hits

Slipknot - The Sublimal verses vol 3

2005-

Trivium - Accendency

The Editors - The Back Room

Blink 182 - The greatest hits..

2006-

Killswich Engage - As Daylight dies

Tool - 10000 days

The Offspring greatest hits

2007-

New Found glory - From your screen to the stereo part 2

Paramore - Riot

Five Finger Death punch - Way of the fist..

2008-

Disturbed - Inestructable

New Found glory/International superheroes of hardcore ep - Tip of the iceberg

Trivium - Shogun

Simple plan - Simple plan

2009-

New found glory - Not without a fight...

Edited October 8, 2009 by spwan-of-the-devil

[thetime]

blimey bunny its a bit difficult this one.

but I will give it a go, might be a year on some though.

2000

fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant - belle and sebastian

2001

vespertine - bjork

2002

last broadcast - doves

2003

the beginning stages of - polyphonic spree

2004

medulla - bjork

2005

the magic numbers - the magic numbers

2006

the eraser - thom yorke

2007

an end has a start - editors

2008

in rainbows - radiohead

2009

kingdom of rust - doves

[tomdsjames]

Ok, here's mine, it was too hard to choose just 2 on some years.

2000

Green Day - Warning

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

2001

System Of A Down - Toxicity

Tenacious D - Tenacious D

Muse - Origin Of Symmetry

Sum41 - All Killer No Filler

2002

Foo Fighters - One By One

Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?

2003

Linkin Park - Meteora

Muse - Absolution

2004

Green Day - American Idiot

Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land

Lostprophets - Start Something

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

2005

Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

System Of A Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize

2006

Muse - Blackholes & Revelations

Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission

2007

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Biffy Clyro - Puzzle

Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight

Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor

Fightstar - One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours

2008

AC/DC - Black Ice

The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

Scars on Broadway - Scars on Broadway

2009 so far

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

Muse - The Resistance

Fightstar - Be Human

[PAH030]

Except for this year i've been very strict with myself.

2000

Coldplay – Parachutes

2001

Daft Punk – Discovery

2002

Eminem – The Eminem Show

2003

Damien Rice – O

2004

Interpol – Antics

2005

Coldplay – X&Y

2006

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever they say I am……….

2007

Jamie t – Panic Prevention

2008

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

2009 (so far)

Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

or

Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires

or

Doves - Kingdon of Rust

[rockinthecasbah]

2000

Idlewild- 100 Broken Windows

Elliot Smith- Figure 8

2001

Daft Punk- Discovery

Muse- Origin of Symmetry

2002- Couldn't eliminate any of these.

The Streets- Original Pirate Material

Queens of the Stone Age- Songs For The Deaf

Interpol- Turn On The Bright Lights

2003

Biffy Clyro- The Vertigo of Bliss

Patrick Wolf- Lycanthropy

2004

Modest Mouse- Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Graham Coxon- Happiness in Magazines

2005

Bloc Party- Silent Alarm

Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak

2006

The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls In America

Brand New- The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

2007

The Shins- Wincing The Night Away

Radiohead- In Rainbows

2008

Laura Marling- Alas I Cannot Swim

Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago

2009

The Horrors- Primary Colours

Bombay Bicycle Club- I Had The Blues...

2006 and 2009 were my weakest years.

[rhysieg]

2000

millencolin - pennybridge pioneers

eminem - marshall mathers lp

green day - warning (imo the best green day album)

2001

mest - destination unknown

2002

the streets - original pirate material

coldplay - a rush of blood...

2003

muse - absolution

2004

kasabian - s/t

the explosion - black tape

lostprophets - start something

kanye west - the college dropout

kings of leon - aha shake heartbreak

arcade fire - funeral

2005

all american rejects - move along

funeral for a friend - hours

2006

kasabian - empire

taking back sunday - louder now

2008

the streets - everything is borrowed

all american rejects - when the world comes down

so far this year:

twisted wheel - s/t

kasabian - WRPLA

jamie-t - kings and queens

Edited October 17, 2009 by rhysieg

[mercury]

two per year...

2000

radiohead-kid a

yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out

2001

life without buildings - any other city

nick cave and the bad seeds - no more shall we part

2002

the mountain goats-all hail west texas

sonic youth - murray street

2003

four tet - rounds

buck 65 - talkin' honky blues

2004

joanna newsom-the milk eyed mender

lali puna - faking the books

2005

herman dune - not on top

why? - elephant eyelash

2006

the hold steady - boys and girls in america

subtle - for hero: for fool

2007

the twilight sad - fourteen autumns and fifteen winters

von sudenfed - tromatic reflexxions

2008

marnie stern - this is it and i am it and you are it and so is that and he is it and she is it and it is it and that is that

the wave pictures - instant coffee baby

2009

the pains of being pure at heart - the pains of being pure at heart

vivian girls - everything goes wrong