rockaction
Footballguy
Go
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
I am listening to the best rock and roll album of the past twenty years - guess which one (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter rockaction
- Start date
rockaction
Footballguy
I'm actually listening to the demos leading up to the album, but it's so strong that it gets me thinking that it's the best album if they were to combine the two.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
SMiLE?
rockaction
Footballguy
No, but that would be a great guess for the past sixty years. Heroes and Villians is a great track, one of the finest the Beach Boys ever put out.
Think more recently and a little more esoteric, maybe. Think a little lo-fi, even.
rockaction
Footballguy
It's not a re-release or a re-release of old demos. It's a flat-out properly released album from 20--
rockaction
Footballguy
Thanks for humoring me by the way, Don. Appreciate it.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Alright.. was thinking maybe the Brian Wilson Presents.. or the SMiLE Sessions versions as qualifying for the last 20 years. May need to chew on another guess.
Bluesbomber
Footballguy
Black Keys....Delta Kream ?
rockaction
Footballguy
Some fine guesses here. I started the thread and am now picking up pizza, but the point was to hear suggestions and comment on either how great the album was or that rock and roll is dead. I’ll have thoughts in twenty or so minutes.
rockaction
Footballguy
Why Delta Kream over the ones in the 2010-11 era? What makes it better?
rockaction
Footballguy
In Rainbows isn’t quite what I had in mind. In Rainbows being after Kid A is a little bit electronic for rock.
Is This It is a great guess, but too early.
Arctic Monkeys also a great guess, but they’re not my jam necessarily.
Elephant might be the best pure rock album of the aughts, but one other takes the cake.
Is This It is a great guess, but too early.
Arctic Monkeys also a great guess, but they’re not my jam necessarily.
Elephant might be the best pure rock album of the aughts, but one other takes the cake.
rockaction
Footballguy
American Idiit is not Green Day at its finest, IMO. Other people see that differently. But you’re crowd-adjacent to the band I’m thinking of.
Zow
Footballguy
Doesn't have to be their best to still be in the conversation for the best rock album of the last 20 years.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I am going 20 years on the nose and The Strokes - Room on Fire.
Before the clue above I was going to stretch expectations of rock and roll record and guess some Run the Jewels
ETA: also Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City popped in my head when I read the OP too.
Before the clue above I was going to stretch expectations of rock and roll record and guess some Run the Jewels
ETA: also Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City popped in my head when I read the OP too.
TripItUp
Footballguy
F'ing Hipsters
Zow
Footballguy
My thumbs up nod.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
With the Green Day adjacent mention…. The Black Parade?
Bluesbomber
Footballguy
Ever since Dan Aurbach produced my friends album as his first in his Nashville studio and toured with her, I have wanted to listen and purchase some Black Keys albums. But with so much good Blues being released and buying friends discs at shows and gifted to me I have a huge listening backlog. Coupled with replenishing 70's hard rock feen I have not bought any new rock till this album so I cannot answer your question directly. What would you advise as 2nd purchase? El Camino?
Bluesbomber
Footballguy
Yep a 64 year old hipster who goes to 40 Blues shows a year, sorry.
dkp993
Footballguy
Thought for sure you’d nominate The Wall. But I’m sure you didn’t as it misses the cutoff date.
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
This was my first thought knowing how much RA loves this album.
rockaction
Footballguy
Interesting responses.
Room On Fire - great album
Black Parade - G Noted (look up what that means. You’ll get a kick out of it.) Still not the best. Fine album.
LCD - one groove says Dale
Foster The People - good songs not familiar enough
Room On Fire - great album
Black Parade - G Noted (look up what that means. You’ll get a kick out of it.) Still not the best. Fine album.
LCD - one groove says Dale
Foster The People - good songs not familiar enough
rockaction
Footballguy
I was going to say no baroque pop to specifically eliminate Vampire Weekend. But that is probably the finest album of the aughts to these ears. Just not rock and roll.
rockaction
Footballguy
Oracular Spectacular is the greatest album to come out of CT in its statehood.
rockaction
Footballguy
Brothers or El Camino. Both really quality stuff. I am by no means an expert and only know the hits, so I asked you to maybe expound upon it a bit, but I see I’m the one supposed to expound. So there you go.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Well, I have another guess. If correct it would spoil my countdown a tad, but tie nicely into tomorrow's pick.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Hot Fuss or Franz Ferdinand?
I may be out of guesses after those.
I may be out of guesses after those.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Just guessing off the timeline, something by The White Stripes.
rockaction
Footballguy
Well, I have another guess. If correct it would spoil my countdown a tad, but tie nicely into tomorrow's pick.
It was from the year Beyond was released. Scratch that. It's earlier than Beyond.
Last edited:
rockaction
Footballguy
Great picks. Hot Fuss is a favorite of mine, as is Franz Ferdinand.
rockaction
Footballguy
They certainly qualify, but not who I had in mind.
rockaction
Footballguy
I can sense the suspense
MAC_32
Footballguy
Fall Out Boy's From Under the Cork Tree?
northern exposure
Footballguy
Songs For The Deaf?
landrys hat
Footballguy
MMJ - It Still Moves
rockaction
Footballguy
Adjacent before they signed to a major. . .
Think of punk rock towns producing great power pop.
Think north of that.
Move to Portland, OR
Go listen to the Exploding Hearts and their first and only album, Guitar Romantic and include the demos from the Shattered comp, later released.
It has everything you'd want. It's got power pop, swinging rock n' roll, trash, glam, all rolled into a maximum rock effort.
Unfortunately, the boys died young in a van crash on their way back from a gig.
Adam Cox, Matt Fitzgerald, Jeremy Gage.
RIP to all of them. I always get this sense of incredible sadness when I think about it, often moved.
From Wikipedia:
The band rose to prominence in the US Pacific Northwest scene shortly after they formed in 2001. The band drew influences from early British punk bands such as The Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Jam, The Boys and The Only Ones, as well as power pop acts like Nick Lowe.[1] Adam Cox invited New Orleans musician King Louie Bankston into the band's lineup after Cox heard Bankston's song "I'm a Pretender" during a telephone conversation.[2] Cox and Bankston formed a songwriting partnership that would produce many of the songs that would appear on Guitar Romantic.[2]
The Exploding Hearts led a revival of 1970s-era power pop and new wave in the Seattle and Portland area along with bands like The Briefs and the Epoxies on the then-Seattle-based Dirtnap Records. Their combination of punk rock and power pop influenced melodies and their energetic live shows brought them attention on the West Coast and from magazines such as Maximumrocknroll and Shredding Paper, which featured them on their covers.[3] They released their debut studio album, Guitar Romantic, in April 2003. Bankston left the band shortly after the album was released.[2]
Exploding Hearts - Modern Kicks
Exploding Hearts - Shattered (You Left Me)
Pitchfork review of Guitar Romantic
The Exploding Hearts: Guitar Romantic
Ladies and gentlemen, please switch off your irony detectors. The Exploding Hearts are not tongue-in-cheek punk-pop revivalists, and they aren ...
Ten years later, in reminiscence
Still Crazy: Ten Years of the Exploding Hearts
In 2003, the Portland power-pop band released their debut album, Guitar Romantic, and then ended in heartbreaking tragedy. Matt LeMay looks back on their legacy a decade later.
"What I remember about the Exploding Hearts is how excited they made me, both about their music and about the music that they loved. The Exploding Hearts fundamentally got both the artistry and the energy behind the best pop and punk music of the last half-century. They channeled it so well that it was easy to miss just how much was actually going on, how many perfect little decisions were made in each of their songs."
Last edited:
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
If it was this century then I would have guessed Turn Out the Bright LIghts
Alas, released 21 years ago
(technically 20 years, 10 months and 9 days)
Alas, released 21 years ago
(technically 20 years, 10 months and 9 days)
rockaction
Footballguy
The album I'm thinking of is April 2003, so you're right there. I consider myself in under a technicality.
rockaction
Footballguy
"Turn Out the Bright Lights" is also an excellent album, though I thought it was earlier than 2003. Yeah, it was 2002.
