Rank your top 5 "Rock" albums from the past 20 years (released in 2003 or later) (1 Viewer)

[TripItUp]

Well?

 

[kupcho1]

The New Pornographers	Electric Version	2003
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists	Hearts of Oak	2003
The Postal Service	Give Up	2003
Death Cab for Cutie	Transatlantacism	2003
Jay-Z	The Black Album	2003

Music pretty much peaked in 2003

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Elvis Costello
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Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

 

[northern exposure]

Well?

We're waiting......

 

[KarmaPolice]

Well?

Show me yours and I will show you mine.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Rock albums, albums that rock - what are we going here.

I guess at least it's not a poll: "have you heard of the Exploding Hearts??" so there is hope.

 

[rockaction]

5. White Stripes - Elephant
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
3. The Killers - Hot Fuss
2. Franz Ferdinand - S/T
1. Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

 

[KarmaPolice]

0 thinking response of the first 5 albums I imagined myself grabbing first from the last 20 years:

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

One of those would be #6, and I will name the true top 5 soon enough.

 

[KarmaPolice]

5. White Stripes - Elephant
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
3. The Killers - Hot Fuss
2. Franz Ferdinand - S/T
1. Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

I was just staring at my playlist and realized that we haven't had anything from this one yet. I thought all had shown up that were going to besides the one odd song from a different later album.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Radiohead - In Rainbows

I think I'm the only person who has this pretty far down in the Radiohead album rankings. I just don't think most of the tracks move me as SONGS.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Radiohead - In Rainbows

I think I'm the only person who has this pretty far down in the Radiohead album rankings. I just don't think most of the tracks move me as SONGS.

Could you expand on what you mean with that last part?

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Radiohead - In Rainbows

I think I'm the only person who has this pretty far down in the Radiohead album rankings. I just don't think most of the tracks move me as SONGS.

Could you expand on what you mean with that last part?

The pieces work as a unified mood type of thing but with a couple of exceptions they're not memorable to me. They feel like "experiments" more than "songs."

 

[Don Quixote]

I think most of these were guessed by me or others in rock’s thread, but anyway…

• Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
• White Stripes - Elephant
• The Black Keys - Brothers
• Green Day - American Idiot
• Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (maybe not “rock”, but close enough for me)

 

[MAC_32]

Where I struggle with White Stripes is Elephant or Icky Thump

 

[Pip's Invitation]

The New Pornographers	Electric Version	2003
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists	Hearts of Oak	2003

Music pretty much peaked in 2003

Two of my favorite records.

 

[rockaction]

Jay-Z

The Black Album

2003

Rock and roll?

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
Arcade Fire - Funeral
LCD SS - Sound of Silver
The National - Alligator
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

 

[rockaction]

Honorable mentions:

The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Those three can easily rotate into the top five of mine and displace any album there for a moment.

It's just a shimmy and a shake oh ho -- we're on top - The Killers "On Top"

 

[kupcho1]

Jay-Z

The Black Album

2003

Rock and roll?

Of course.

 

[Manster]

Jay Z?? What is the definition of "rock"?

5. Truckfighters.....Gravity X
4. King Buffalo.......Regenerator
3. Modest Mouse......Good News for People who Love Bad News
2. Elder.....Reflections of a Floating World
1. Tool.....10,000 Days

Honorable mention

Failure......Wild Type Droid

Modest Mouse.....We were Dead before the Ship Even Sank

Melvins.....A Senile Animal

 

[-OZ-]

It’s going to be fun listening to some of your responses

(Obligatory “subject to change”)

Megalithic Symphony AWOL Nation
Live from Manchester Blue October
The Warrior's Code Dropkick Murphys
The art of sampling Parov Stelar
Jekyll + Hyde Zac brown band

 

[Juxtatarot]

Rock loosely defined:

5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. HMLTD - The Worm
2. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
1. Black Midi - Hellfire

 

[-OZ-]

Green Day - American Idiot

I didn’t even bother to look this one up to see if it met the criteria, just assumed it was older. But it’s definitely a classic.

 

[KarmaPolice]

0 thinking response of the first 5 albums I imagined myself grabbing first from the last 20 years:

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

One of those would be #6, and I will name the true top 5 soon enough.

 

[Ilov80s]

Without looking at anyone elses list and sticking to pure rock (so no Sufjan, Vampire Weekend, Big Thief, etc)

• Arcade Fire- Funeral (2004)
• Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not (2006)
• TV on the Radio- Dear Science (2008)
• Japandroids- Celebration Rock (2012)
• Fontaines D.C.- Dogrel (2019)

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak (2003)
My Morning Jacket -- It Still Moves (2003)
New Pornographers -- Electric Version (2003)
Arcade Fire -- Funeral (2004)
Failure -- The Heart Is a Monster (2015)

 

[Ilov80s]

Narrow misses for me: Franz Ferdinand, Elephant, Good News for People....,Teens of Denial, Hearts of Oak and there a bunch that are sort of rock (folk rock, art rock, etc.) that would definitely be in the convo if I expanded the definition.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Narrow misses for me: Franz Ferdinand, Elephant

These would be in my Last 5 Out along with Wilco's A Ghost Is Born (2004), The Raconteurs' Broken Boy Soldiers (2006) and The Both s/t (2014).

 

[Dr. Octopus]

My definition of rock is broad (and not a big fan of genre labels to begin with):

5. Harlem River Blues - Justin Townes Earle
4. SOUND & FURY - Sturgill Simpson
3. Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
2. The Dirty South - Drive-By Truckers
1. I and Love and You - The Avett Brothers

Just missed:

Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
Southeastern - Jason Isbell
Rainy Day Music - The Jayhawks
Black Star - David Bowie
Lotta Sea Lice - Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile
Traveller - Chris Stapleton

 

[Dr. Octopus]

maybe not “rock”, but close enough for me

Their biggest influences are Paul Simon and the Grateful Dead so I'd say they're rock. It's really nit-picky if not.

 

[beef]

1. AUDIOSLAVE (technically released in Nov 2002, but Grammy nominee in 2004 so I'm counting it)
2. Into The Wild - Eddie Vedder

still thinking on the next 3.

 

[kupcho1]

1. AUDIOSLAVE (technically released in Nov 2002, but Grammy nominee in 2004 so I'm counting it)
Not sure on the other 4 yet.

 

[Dwayne Hoover]

This is a really good question. Without doing too much serious thought this is what came to mind

5 Self Titled - Fuzz
4 Amputechture - The Mars Volta
3 Sleeping Through the War - All Them Witches
2 Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age
1 Self Titled - Them Crooked Vultures

 

[Brony]

Seeds - TV on the Radio
Teens of Denial - Car Seat Headrest
Farm - Dinosaur Jr
Future Me Hates Me - The Beths
Celebration Rock - Japandroids

Top albums of the past 20 years would look a lot different.

 

[El Floppo]

This is fun to look at... Love a lot of these.

I'll try to come back with 5 that haven't appeared yet (even though a bunch covered would be on mine)

 

[Manster]

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak (2003)
My Morning Jacket -- It Still Moves (2003)
New Pornographers -- Electric Version (2003)
Arcade Fire -- Funeral (2004)
Failure -- The Heart Is a Monster (2015)

Were you the one who turned me on to Failure? I forget now, but it was def someone in here.

 

[Grahamburn]

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak (2003)
My Morning Jacket -- It Still Moves (2003)
New Pornographers -- Electric Version (2003)
Arcade Fire -- Funeral (2004)
Failure -- The Heart Is a Monster (2015)

Were you the one who turned me on to Failure? I forget now, but it was def someone in here.

They were a big answer in the "bands who should have had more recognition" thread, or something like that. I'm grateful. Listen to them all the time now and had never heard of them.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

Radiohead - In Rainbows

I think I'm the only person who has this pretty far down in the Radiohead album rankings. I just don't think most of the tracks move me as SONGS.

Could you expand on what you mean with that last part?

The pieces work as a unified mood type of thing but with a couple of exceptions they're not memorable to me. They feel like "experiments" more than "songs."

I understand this point of view. Definitely more of a “soundscape” vibe imo

 

[Ilov80s]

Seeds - TV on the Radio
Teens of Denial - Car Seat Headrest
Farm - Dinosaur Jr
Future Me Hates Me - The Beths
Celebration Rock - Japandroids

Top albums of the past 20 years would look a lot different.

Yeah if it was just albums of any genre, 1 of my pure rock albums makes it, maybe 2.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak (2003)
My Morning Jacket -- It Still Moves (2003)
New Pornographers -- Electric Version (2003)
Arcade Fire -- Funeral (2004)
Failure -- The Heart Is a Monster (2015)

Were you the one who turned me on to Failure? I forget now, but it was def someone in here.

Yes.

 

[El Floppo]

IDLES- Joy as an Act of Resistance
Eddy Current Suppression Ring- Primary Colours
Parquet Courts- Wide Awake!
LCD Soundsystem- Sounds of Silver
Jay Reatard- Blood Visions

 

[Footdude]

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
The Smashing Pumpkins - ATUM
Spose - Get Rich or Die Ryan
White Stripes - Elephant

Honorable mention

Yeah yeah yeahs - It’s Blitz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your Bones
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

Probably leaving something off.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
The Smashing Pumpkins - ATUM
Spose - Get Rich or Die Ryan
White Stripes - Elephant

Honorable mention

Yeah yeah yeahs - It’s Blitz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your Bones
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

Probably leaving something off.

Have you dug into the Pumpkin's new magnum opus?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
The Smashing Pumpkins - ATUM
Spose - Get Rich or Die Ryan
White Stripes - Elephant

Honorable mention

Yeah yeah yeahs - It’s Blitz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your Bones
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

Probably leaving something off.

Have you dug into the Pumpkin's new magnum opus?

Isn’t that “ATUM” which is in his top 5?

 

[Dwayne Hoover]

IDLES- Joy as an Act of Resistance
Eddy Current Suppression Ring- Primary Colours
Parquet Courts- Wide Awake!
LCD Soundsystem- Sounds of Silver
Jay Reatard- Blood Visions

LIke that Parquet Courts album, good one

 

[PIK95]

This is nearly impossible for me. This is my non hip hop list, and I didn't put a ton of thought into it, so I may have forgotten a monster.

Arcade Fire-Funeral (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire-the Suburbs (We Used to Wait)
Arcade Fire-Neon Bible (Intervention)
LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver (All My Friends)
Tie-Taylor Swift-1989 (Shake it Off)
Tie-White Stipes-Get Behind Me Satan (lil ghost)

 

[kupcho1]

Jay-Z

The Black Album

2003

Rock and roll?

Actually yeah, Hall of Famer as a matter of fact. (Jay-Z was inducted into the Rock & Roll HoF in 2021.)

You're question is really puzzling (unless you're unfamiliar with the album, in which case, disregard).

99 Problems (link included in case you haven't heard it before) for example, is one of the harder rocking tunes of the millennium. Produced by the legendary Rick Rubin, I'd go so far as to say it out rocks a lot of artists/albums in this thread including two I nominated (Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service) which passed you by without question.

Interesting ...

 

[PIK95]

Jay-Z

The Black Album

2003

Rock and roll?

Actually yeah, Hall of Famer as a matter of fact. (Jay-Z was inducted into the Rock & Roll HoF in 2021.)

You're question is really puzzling (unless you're unfamiliar with the album, in which case, disregard).

99 Problems (link included in case you haven't heard it before) for example, is one of the harder rocking tunes of the millennium. Produced by the legendary Rick Rubin, I'd go so far as to say it out rocks a lot of artists/albums in this thread including two I nominated (Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service) which passed you by without question.

Interesting ...

"I ain't passed the bar, but I know a lil bit.!"

 

[Dwayne Hoover]

This is a really good question. Without doing too much serious thought this is what came to mind

5 Self Titled - Fuzz
4 Amputechture - The Mars Volta
3 Sleeping Through the War - All Them Witches
2 Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age
1 Self Titled - Them Crooked Vultures

Not sure how I could forget but I have to put Tool - Fear Inoculum somewhere on this list.

 

[Bogart]

Nowhere near the "best" albums, but the ones I have listened to, front to back, the most:

• Postal Service - Give Up - 2003
• Green Day - American Idiot - 2004
• Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - 2007
• LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening - 2010
• Quiet Company - We Are All Where We Belong - 2011
• Toadies - Heretics - 2015
• Old 97s - Graveyard Whistling - 2017