2000-2009 : The Decade in Music

[Knife-Chase]

So now it's 2012; two full years separating us from the past decade. I'm sure you got familiar with some records that you didn't know about during the decade that were from the decade and I'm sure some that you thought you really liked at the time you lost some love for by now. So we all probably have a better perspective on the decade now that it's done than we did during it.

What are your favourites?

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows

2. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill

3. Radiohead - Kid A

4. Why? - Alopecia

5. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze

6. Portishead - Third

7. The Antlers - Hospice

8. Gorillaz - Demon Days

9. Thom Yorke - The Eraser

10. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

11. Broken Social Scene - (self titled)

12. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 2

13. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

14. Them Crooked Vultures - (self titled)

15. Radiohead - Amnesiac

16. Death From Above - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

17. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

18. Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy

19. Lil Wayne - No Ceilings

20. Elliott Smith - Figure 8

21. Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock

22. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People

23. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

24. Velvet Revolver - Contraband

25. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris

26. Radiohead - The King of Limbs

27. Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium

28. Liars - Drum's Not Dead

29. MGMT - Congratulations

30. John Frusciante - The Empyrean

31. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

32. Animal Collective - Feels

33. Gorillaz - (self titled)

34. Beck - Modern Guilt

35. Fleet Foxes - (self titled)

36. The Libertines - Up the Bracket

37. M.I.A. - Kala

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

39. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

40. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

I took a good half hour putting this list together. You guys can just throw out a couple album names with no order if you want or (better yet!) compile a list like mine.

[Death Star]

1. The Devil Wears Prada- Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord

2. P.O.S- Audition

3. Alesana- On Frail Wings Of Vanity and Wax

4. Audioslave- Out Of Exile

5. Audioslave- (self titled)

6. Megadeth- The World Needs a Hero

7. Slash's Snakepit- Ain't Life Grand

8.The Devil Wears Prada- Plagues

9. Hawthorne Heights- Fragile Future

10.Hawthorne Heights- The Silence In Black In White

11. Guns N' Roses- Chinese Democracy

12. Norma Jean- Redeemer

13. Norma Jean- O' God The Aftermath

14. Dr. Dre- Chronic 2001

15. Pantera- Reinventing The Steel

16. Megadeth- United Abominations

17. The Black Keys- Rubber Factory

18. Buckethead- Somewhere Over The Slaughterhouse

19. Aerosmith- Honkin' On Bobo

20. Eminem- The Eminem Show

21. The Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium

22. Velvet Revolver- Contraband

23. HeavyHeavyLowLow- Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watching

24. Stone Temple Pilots (self titled)

25. Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism

26. Velvet Revolver- Libertad

27. Motion City Soundtrack- Commit This To Memory

28. Motion City Soundtrack- I Am The Movie

29. Alice In Chains- Black Gives Way To Blue

30. Primus- Green Naugahyde

[James Bond]

As far as new bands that came around/became prominent in that decade I'd say my favorite is The Killers. Those guys just keep getting better with each album.

The release of long awaited albums by AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, and Metallica all in the same year within a month or two was pretty awesome in 2008.

Contraband came out not long after I started getting into Guns N' Roses so it was exciting to see what this "new band with Slash" was all about.

I didn't really discover much "new music" during that decade as I was really just starting to discover music in general at the beginning of it. Before I'd listen to pretty much anything just for some background noise, then finally I started discovering some rock bands with AC/DC being the first I really got into thanks to television. I caught a showing of "Live at Donington" and it blew me away. I picked up a guitar not long afterward so really, that decade of music is extremely important to me. It changed my life, and hell, it brought me to MyGNR.

[Kid A]

The Killers

The Strokes

The White Stripes

The Dead Weather

Queens of the Stone Age

The Eagles of Death Metal

of Montreal

Mumford and Sons

Radiohead

Silversun Pickups

The Black Keys

The Black Lips

Animal Collective

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Wilco

Bright Eyes

Jay-Z

Kanye West

Muse

The Mars Volta

Noah and the Whale

Cocorosie

Sigur Ros

Tom Waits

Vampire Weekend

Honorable mentions for their activity, not neccisarily putting out any or great records:

U2

NIN

Guns N' Roses

Bruce Springsteen

Neutral Milk Hotel

Great decade for music

[username]

Roughly, this:

Flogging Molly - Swagger (2000)

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising (2000)

BB King & Eric Clapton - Riding With The King (2000)

Oasis - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants (2000)

Coldplay - Parachutes (2000)

Izzy Stradlin - River (2001)

Bob Dylan - Love And Theft (2001)

Black Crowes - Lions (2001)

Izzy Stradlin - On Down The Road (2002)

Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies (2002)

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002)

Flogging Molly - Within A Mile Of Home (2004)

Tommy Stinson - Village Gorilla Head (2004)

Aerosmith - Honkin On Bobo (2004)

Velvet Revolver - Contraband (2004)

Anouk - Hotel New York (2004)

Maria Mena - Apparently Unaffected (2005)

David Gilmour - On An Island (2005)

Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang (2005)

The Beatles - Love (2006)

Beth Hart - Leave The Light On (2006)

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All The Roadrunning (2006)

Bob Dylan - Modern Times (2006)

The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution (2007)

Velvet Revolver - Libertad (2007)

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2007)

Bruce Springsteen - Magic (2007)

Black Crowes - Warpaint (2008)

Coldplay - Viva La Vida (2008)

Duffy - Rockferry (2008)

Maria Mena - Cause And Effect (2008)

Johnny Flynn - A Larum (2008)

Adele - 19 (2008)

Guns n' Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008)

Metallica - Death Magnetic (2008)

AC/DC - Black Ice (2008)

Bob Dylan - Together Through Life (2009)

Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More (2009)

Matt Schofield - Heads, Tails And Aces (2009)

Black Crowes - Before The Frost... / ...Until The Freeze (2009)

Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream (2009)

It was the decade of old heroes rising from the ashes (Dylan, Stones, AC/DC, Springsteen, Metallica after St. Anger, GnR), rock bands blooming (crowes, coldplay), ladies (adele, amy, maria mena) and new folk (mumford, flynn). Not that bad overall.

Edited January 5, 2012 by username

[Guest Len B'stard]

fuckin horrible decade, most of The Ramones died, Joe Strummer died, fuckin grim decade for music. most music i came across in said decade was a load of fuckin shite, pretty much spent it listening to old stuff. yeah yeah yeah, there's good music out there, you just gotta look for it, so's Lord Lucan but no ones found the cunt.

Loads of hip hop was good though...

Edited January 5, 2012 by sugaraylen

[mrandyk]

I didn't start paying attention to music at all until like 07, but still nothing I listen to comes from an artist who emerged during that decade.

[Graeme]

In rough order of preference:

Anberlin- Cities

In Flames- Sounds of a Playground Fading

Coheed & Cambria- Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume I: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness

Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More

Martha Tilston- Bimbling

Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy

Coheed & Cambria- Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume II: No World For Tomorrow

Runrig- The Stamping Ground

In Flames- Come Clarity

Coheed & Cambria- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Porcupine Tree- Deadwing

Pure Reason Revolution- The Dark Third

Frank Turner- Love, Ire & Song

Rachel Sermanni- The Bothy Sessions

Ross Crawford- Marjorie & Isabella

The Darkness- Permission to Land

O' Brother Where Art Thou? OST- Various

Blair Douglas- A Summer in Skye

Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticism

Pure Reason Revolution- Amor Vincit Omnia

Guillemots- Walk The River

James- Hey Ma

Stereophonics- Just Enough Education to Perform

The Low Anthem- Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

Blackfield- Blackfield II

All That Remains- The Fall of Ideals

Death Cab for Cutie- Plans

Porcupine Tree- In Absentia

Train- My Private Nation

Anberlin- Never Take Friendship Personal

Runrig- Everything You See

Mark Knopfler- Get Lucky

Vanessa Carlton- Harmonium

A Perfect Circle- Mer De Noms

James- Pleased To Meet You

Blood Stain Child- Mozaiq

Bumblefoot- Normal

Owl City- Ocean Eyes

A Fine Frenzy- One Cell In The Sea

Loney, Dear- Hall Music

Frank Turner- England, Keep My Bones

The All-American Rejects- Move Along

Biffy Clyro- Only Revolutions

Pendulum- In Silico

Fleet Foxes- Sun Giant

Between the Buried and Me- Alaska

Good decade for music? Absolutely.

[Chewbacca]

Alice In Chains - BGWTB

Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip

MetallicA - St. Anger, Death Magnetic

RHCP - By The Way, Stadium Arcadium

Gn'R - CD

KoRn - Untouchables, See You On The Other Side, Untitled, Take A Look At The Mirror was meh.

Buckethead - A lot of stuff, especially Crime Slunk Scene and Electrical tears.

Rob Zombie - Educated Horses

Drowning Pool - Full Circle, Drowning Pool

SOiL - Scars/ Redefine

[Kid A]

It doesn't really take much looking to find fantastic music from this decade.

It jus requires you taking your heads out of your ass.

[Chewbacca]

It doesn't really take much looking to find fantastic music from this decade.

It jus requires you taking your heads out of your ass.

True, Though I have a better time with the 80's and, especially, the 90's - personal opinion here.

the 2000's lacked a huge musical movement like previous decades, but it wasn't a bad decade at all.

[Use Your Delusion 1]

The Rising by Bruce Springsteen stands out along with Chinese Democracy, Back to Black, Parachutes & Rush of Blood to the Head, Hot Fuss, Contraband, Village Gorilla Head, Buckethead and Slim Shady in the early parts of the decade and Black Holes & Revelations, can't think of any more but there are some others I've no doubt missed

[Kid A]

It doesn't really take much looking to find fantastic music from this decade.

It jus requires you taking your heads out of your ass.

True, Though I have a better time with the 80's and, especially, the 90's - personal opinion here.

the 2000's lacked a huge musical movement like previous decades, but it wasn't a bad decade at all.

It had a movement, to an extent.

I wasn't alive in the 80s, and didn't really notice in the 90s so I can't offer much as far as that goes.

I do enjoy a lot of the alternative 90s groups. The 80s was mostly weak for me, save GNR of course.

[Chewbacca]

It doesn't really take much looking to find fantastic music from this decade.

It jus requires you taking your heads out of your ass.

True, Though I have a better time with the 80's and, especially, the 90's - personal opinion here.

the 2000's lacked a huge musical movement like previous decades, but it wasn't a bad decade at all.

It had a movement, to an extent.

I wasn't alive in the 80s, and didn't really notice in the 90s so I can't offer much as far as that goes.

I do enjoy a lot of the alternative 90s groups. The 80s was mostly weak for me, save GNR of course.

Just like me, but that's what YT is for.

Edited January 6, 2012 by Chewbacca

[ITW 2012]

It was a shit decade. I like By The Way, In Rainbows and Chinese Democracy though.

[Powerage5]

I decided to go back and list notable albums from each year, as I noticed I actually left quite a few off of my original top 20 list. Obviously I wound up with a lot more than 20 this time around. This list represents what I was into at the time, or what I appreciate more now looking back on it. Some of these albums I've outgrown (I'm looking at you, 90's punk bands), but I still listed them as they were part of what I was into at the time.

Album of the decade for me is Mayer Hawthorne's "A Strange Arrangement", no contest. I can't even begin to guess how many times I've listened to that album front to back; somewhere in the hundreds I'm sure.

2000:

AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip

Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet

Dio - Magica

Goldfinger - Stomping Ground

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention

Motorhead - We Are Motorhead

Rage Against The Machine - Renegades

Slash's Snakepit - Ain't Life Grand

2001:

The Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Dead Kennedys - Mutiny On The Bay

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La Dee Da

2002:

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

Bad Religion - The Process Of Belief

Buckethead - Electric Tears

Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around

Coheed & Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Dio - Killing The Dragon

Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

The Pietasters - Turbo

Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up!

2003:

Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3

Godsmack - Faceless

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

Riverboat Gamblers - Something To Crow About

Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions

Tower Of Power - The Oakland Zone

2004:

Buckethead - Population Override

The Casualties - On The Front Line

Dio - Master Of The Moon

Cee Lo Green - Is The Soul Machine

Motorhead - Inferno

Reverend Horton Heat - Revival

Velvet Revolver - Contraband

2005:

Buckethead - Enter The Chicken

Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume I: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness

Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds

Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny Of Souls

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Tony Iommi - Fused

Queen + Paul Rodgers - Return Of The Champions

Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang

2006:

Godsmack - IV

Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

2007:

Bad Brains - Build A Nation

Buckethead - Acoustic Shards

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

Rush - Snakes & Arrows

Sixx:AM - The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack

Velvet Revolver - Libertad

2008:

AC/DC - Black Ice

Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles

Motorhead - Motorizer

Testament - The Formation Of Damnation

Scott Weiland - Happy In Galoshes

2009:

4 Point 0 - The College Try

Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot

Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know

Iron Maiden - Flight 666

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pin Points & Gin Joints

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

Reverend Horton Heat - Laughin' & Cryin' With The Reverent Horton Heat

Slayer - World Painted Blood

Tower Of Power - The Great American Soulbook

[chevelle]

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen and City of Evil

Beck - Modern Guilt

Between the Buried and Me - Colors

Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot The Son of Chico Dusty

Bumblefoot - Normal

Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion

Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade and Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV

Cynic - Traced in Air

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Deftones - Deftones and Saturday Night Wrist

Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

In Flames - Reroute to Remain

Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica and Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Muse - Origin of Symmetry

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero and Ghosts I-IV

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

P.O.S. - Never Better

Pearl Jam - Binaural

Protest the Hero - Kezia

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R and Songs for the Deaf

Radiohead - In Rainbows and Kid A

Rush - Snakes & Arrows

Saliva - Back Into Your System

Scale the Summit - Carving Desert Canyons

Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La Dee Da

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger and Manipulator

Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

Thirst for Hunger - Silence and Seclusion Vol. II

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Weerd Science - Friends and Nervous Breakdowns

Weezer - Maladroit and Red Album

Edited January 6, 2012 by chevelle

[batman007]

Chinese Democracy

Black Ice

Death Magnetic

Hurley (Weezer)

Edited January 6, 2012 by batman007

[Use Your Delusion 1]

Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around

Yes!

[GivenToFly]

Does anyone really read all these long lists?

[username]

Does anyone really read all these long lists?

I actually did. Or...scanned through them anyway. Mostly to see what people most agreed upon and if I saw any of the albums I listed myself.

[batman007]

I do.

[DirtyDeeds]

2008:

Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

You gotta be kidding me, that was 3+ years ago already? Aye yaye yaye! I thought that was like, early 2011 lol. Can't believe it. Time sure goes fast now. I wish I still had a 4-year-old's sense of time. Great album, though, and I loved the promo videos, especially as I'm a big fan of Psycho.

[drtydane]

14. Dr. Dre- Chronic 2001

Despite the title, this album came out in 99.

[Cosmo]

GnR - Chinese Democracy

Motorhead - Inferno

KISS - Sonic Boom

AC/DC - Black Ice

AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip

Velvet Revolver - Contraband

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg

RHCP - Stadium Arcadium

U2- How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

U2- All that you can't leave behind

Rush - Snakes & Arrows

NIN - The Slip

Sixx A.M - This Is Gonna Hurt

Slash - Slash

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight

Linkin Park - Meteora

JET- Shaka Rock

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

Coldplay - X&Y

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Edited January 8, 2012 by It Don't Really Matter