Best Albums released after 2000?
 

Saw this thread on another discussion forum I frequent and it made for good discussion. What, in your opinion are some of the best albums released since the year 2000?

Here are mine.

Stankonia - Outkast (2000)
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem (2000)
Word of Mouf - Ludacris (2001)
Phobia - Breaking Benjamin (2006)
The Sound of Madness - Shinedown (2008)
Sunny Side Up - Paolo Nutini (2009)
Only Revolutions - Biffy Clyro (2009)
Wasting Light - Foo Fighters (2011)
+ - Ed Sheeran (2011)

DOWN-II a bustle in your MOFOIN Headgerow

The National - Boxer (2007)
Dismemberment Plan - Change - (2001)
The Microphones - Glow pt.2 (2001)
Badley Drawn Boy - The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast (2000)
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (2002) A Grand Don't Come For Free (2004)
J-Dilla - Donuts

Forward Russia - We are Grey Matter
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Aphex Twin - DrukQs
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
DFA 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Burial - Untrue
Wolf People - Steeple
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Tool - Lateralus

All that you can't leave behind - U2

Bumping again to mention Is This It - The Strokes

I'm curious how all these albums from 2000 qualify as being released after 2000.

I really do not understand the whole Ed Sheeran thing. I saw more emotion in my cat's wails last week when he had an infection.

:laughing:

Just for ****s and giggles. 13 years is a pretty broad time frame to cull any sort of definitive list.

Arms and Sleepers - Matador (2009)
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (2006)
Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers (2010)
Ray Lamontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black (2006)
Lil' Wayne - The Carter III (2008) (You see, I'd just gotten divorced, well, separated-- don't you judge me-- and there was this gorgeous Mexican girl named Vanessa who also just happened to be my new roommate, And was quite persistent in her quest to help me forget about all my misgivings. This just happened to be the soundtrack to the memorable Summer Shagfest of 2008. Perhaps that influences my opinion of this album in a positive manner. Either way, I like it so...suck it.)
Isis - Panopticon (2004)

silversun pickups - carnavas - 2006
the flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots - 2002
yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell - 2003
hell is for heroes - the neon handshake - 2003
be your own pet - get awkward - 2008
interpol - turn on the bright lights - 2002
brand new - deja entendu - 2004
the distillers - coral fang - 2003
reuben - racecar is racecar backwards - 2004
hundred reasons - ideas above our station - 2002
million dead - a song to ruin - 2003
less than jake - anthem - 2003
rival schools - united by fate - 2001
biffy clyro - blackened sky - 2002
the used - in love and death - 2004
my vitriol - finelines - 2001
sonic youth - sonic nurse - 2004
ash - free all angels - 2001
melvins - nude with boots - 2008
dinosaur jr - farm - 2009
allister - last stop suburbia - 2002
placebo - meds - 2006
arcade fire - funeral - 2005
fenix tx - lechuza - 2001
mclusky - mclusky do dallas - 2002
yourcodenameismilo - ignoto - 2004
simian mobile disco - attack decay sustain release - 2007
my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge - 2004
death from above 1979 - you're a woman, i'm a machine - 2004
metric - fantasies - 2009
nine inch nails - with teeth
deftones - deftones - 2003
the xx - the xx - 2009
marilyn manson - the golden age of grotesque - 2003

probably some others but i can't think right now.

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (2007)
Black Light Burns - Cruel Melody (2007)
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)
Tool - 10,000 Days (2006)
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead (2007)
System of a Down - Steal This Album! (2002)
Korn - See You on the Other Side (2005)
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark (2000)
Android Lust - The Human Animal (2010)
Martin Grech - Unholy (2005)
Micah Buzan - Word Salad (2011)
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (2005)
Dr. Steel - People of Earth (2002)
ohGr - Welt (2001)
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)
Dead by Sunrise - Out of Ashes (2009)
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (2004)
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009)
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (2009)
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle (2007)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Death (2002)
Muse - Origin of Symmetry (2002)
Aesthetiv Perfection - A Violent Emotion (2008)
Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2001)
Thom Yorke - The Eraser (2006)
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (2003)

Reading these titles & band names reminds me why I've become increasingly anti-democratic & fond of people watching.

Welp, in regards to the O.P.:

metal releases:
Black Witchery - Upheaval of Satanic Might
Impiety - Ravage & Conquer
Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication
archgoat - Heavenly Vulva (Christ's Last Rights)
anal **** - ****in' a


non-metal:
Chelsea Wolfe - apokalypse
Bob Wayne - outlaw carnie
Colleen Green - Milo Goes to Compton

...
 

Tool-Lateralus
The Decemberist-The King is Dead
Sigur Ros-( )
Explotions in the Sky-All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

Is it just me or is most of the metal extremely incohesive and ignorant? At least all black and death metal does.

All black and death metal does what?

Stone Sour's whole discography

It's just you.

Maybe not best to everyone's ears, but Dalek's Absence is easily one of the most important albums to my musical evolution. I heard it shortly after I started getting into hip hop but Dalek not only pushed me into the realm of underground/alternative hip hop, it made me realize how much I love noisy production and constant abrasiveness. Not that music has to be exclusively like that for me to like it, but allowing me to listen to the likes of Death Grips, Gorguts, Techno Animal and Swans is really thanks to Dalek.

Speaking of Death Grips; they are good, really f*cking good but it's kinda sad to see Dalek be swept aside when they pushed the abrasive limits of hip hop, but like most 'firsts' in music, they're not the ones who get enough credit. The new Death Grips album is incredibly dark and isolating, but it pales to the likes of those Dalek tracks that are smothering with their layers of noise and political rage.

When the mellotron/strings kick in at 3:07... I still get a shiver down my spine after hearing it dozens and dozens of times.



So for me, I'll say Absence. Some others I would include...

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I could post a pointless list of albums, but I'm just going to post this

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Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving (2002)
Over the past couple of years this has grown to become probably my favourite album of the past 12 years or so. It's not particularly revolutionary to me, but it just hits the spot perfectly. The music really reminds me of my favourite season of the year - autumn, with the changing colour of the leaves and the days getting darker and colder. It's a very emotionally-draining album, but has a warm quality to it that's very inviting and keeps you coming back.