Thursday, March 13, 2008

Music, Music, Music

So all this talk about music has stirred a little interest in me. In the last 10 years (1998-2007), which year had the best music? In this little post I will post my top 10 or so choices from each year, and decide on an overall winner. NOTE: I'm only talking FULL albums, not individual songs....Feel free to leave your comments and shit...

1998 (8)
  • Fastball - All the Pain Money Can Buy
  • Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
  • System of a Down - System of a Down
  • Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
  • Korn - Follow the Leader
  • Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
  • Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby
  • Outkast - Aquemini
1999 (10)
  • Sugar Ray - 14:59
  • Eminem - Slim Shady LP
  • Blink 182 - Enema of the State
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
  • Limp Bizkit - Signifcant Others
  • Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left To Lose
  • Jimmies Chicken Shack - Bring Your Own Stereo
  • Rage Against the Machine - The Battle for Los Angeles
  • Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
  • Dr. Dre - 2001
2000 (10)
  • Goldfinger - Stomping Ground
  • Iron Maiden - Brave New World
  • Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
  • Green Day - Warning
  • Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
  • U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
  • Coldplay - Parachutes
  • Papa Roach - Infest
  • Matchbox 20 - Mad Season
  • .At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2001 (so many good ones...I had to pick 15!)
  • Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
  • Daft Punk - Discovery
  • Gorillaz - Gorillaz
  • Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
  • Weezer - Weezer (Green Album)
  • Blink 182 - Take off Your Pants and Jacket
  • 311 - From Chaos
  • Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
  • Sugarcult - Start Static
  • The Strokes - Is This It
  • System of a Down - Toxicity
  • Tenacious D - Tenacious D
  • Lost Prophets - Fake Sound of Progress
  • Incubus (Morning View)
  • No Doubt - Rock Steady

2002 (11)
  • Eminem - The Eminem Show
  • Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
  • All-American Rejects - All-American Rejects
  • Hot Hot Heat - Make up the Breakdown
  • Jason Mraz - Waiting for my Rocket to Come
  • Foo Fighters - One by One
  • Phantom Planet - The Guest
  • Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
  • Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Thing
  • Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
2003 (12)
  • Linkin Park - Meteora
  • White Stripes - Elephant
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
  • Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
  • Rooney - Rooney
  • Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
  • Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
  • Billy Talent - Billy Talent
  • The Strokes - Room On Fire
  • Jay-Z - The Black Album
  • Blink 182 - Blink 182
  • Jet - Get Born
2004 (14)
  • Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet
  • Straylight Run - Straylight Run
  • Headautomatica - Decadance
  • Lostprophets - Start Something
  • Muse - Absolution
  • Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
  • Bad Religion - Empire Strikes First
  • My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
  • The Killers - Hot Fuss
  • Taking Back Sunday - Where you Want to Be
  • Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
  • Green Day - American Idiot
  • Jimmy Eat World - Futures
  • Relient K - Mmhmm
2005 (11)
  • Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
  • Fallout Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
  • The Bravery - The Bravery
  • Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
  • Gorillaz - Demon Days
  • Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
  • White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
  • All American Rejects - Move Along
  • 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
  • Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
  • Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat out
2006 (9)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
  • Angels and Airwaves - We Dont Need to Whisper
  • Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
  • Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
  • Lily Allen - Alright, Still
  • Hellygoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
  • The Killers - Sam's Town
  • My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
  • Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
2007 (10)
  • Fallout Boy - Infinity on High
  • Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
  • Relient K - Five Score and Seven Years Ago
  • The Bravery - The Sun and The Moon
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
  • Rooney - Calling the World
  • Motion City Soundtrack - Even if it Kills Me
  • White Stripes - Icky Thump
  • Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
  • Radiohead - In Rainbows
So, what did I learn? 2001 had the most albums that I enjoyed, coming in with a whopping 15 with 2004 coming in right behind with an almost right there 14. I hope you enjoyed my boredom.

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