To "rock fans", what is meant to be the canonical, everyone can agree on, album of the decade?

^lol

the Coheed song was "welcome Home": great song.

that girl on the strokes cover has a nice side butt

are you so sure it's a girl

The July and August 2001 cover art of Is This It is by Colin Lane and features a photograph of a woman's nude bottom and hip, with a leather-gloved hand suggestively resting on it.[21] The model was later revealed to be Lane's then-girlfriend, who explained that the photoshoot was spontaneous and happened after she came out of the shower naked. Lane recalled that a stylist had left the glove in his apartment and noted, "We did about 10 shots. There was no real inspiration, I was just trying to take a sexy picture."[22] The result was included in the book The Greatest Album Covers of All Time, in which Grant Scott, one of the editors, noted influences from the daring works of Helmut Newton and Guy Bordin in its design. Scott concludes, "It’s either a stylish or graphically strong cover or a sexist Smell the Glove travesty." Although British retail chains HMV and Woolworths objected to the photograph's controversial nature, they stocked the album without amendment.[21]

The group deliberately left out the grammatically correct question mark from the album title because aesthetically, "it did not look right".[23] The booklet insert contains stylized separate portraits of The Strokes, Raphael, Gentles, and Bowersock, all photographed by Lane.[7] For the American market and the October 2001 release, the cover art of Is This It was changed to a microscopic close-up of particle collisions. RCA product manager Dave Gottlieb commented that "it was straight up a band decision", while Gentles indicated that Casablancas had wanted it to appear globally. According to the band's manager, the frontman phoned him before the Japan and Europe release and said, "I found something even cooler than the a ... picture." At the time, the Lane photograph was already at the presses and was included in the July and August 2001 versions.[24] The Strokes' 2003 biography mentions the fear of objections from America's conservative retail industry and right-wing lobby as reasons for the artwork's alteration.[23]

someone played last nite at a wedding reception i was at 30 mins ago.
sounded like it will probably get played at wedding receptions forever. unlike anything on Kid A.

chicken dance: song of the millenium

after she came out of the shower naked.

Ok, yeah it'd been weird if she came out of the shower with those gloves on.

Strong point Jamie. I also think that for any album to be canonical it should withold the test of wedding receptions. Celine Dion is the biggest thing since sliced bread.

But when you touch me like this And you hold me like that I just have to admit that it's all coming back to me

i wrote a lot of things in this thread

someone played last nite at a wedding reception i was at 30 mins ago.
sounded like it will probably get played at wedding receptions forever. unlike anything on Kid A.

precisely the reason why at my wedding I only want songs from Nevermind and OK Computer being played.

But nothing from Loveless! My wedding will be loveful!

If we're talking about "Clear Channel Rock Fan," it's going to be Nickelback. :(

Or probably Dave Matthews...

http://www.cmj.com/relay/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/TapesnTapes_Loon.jpg

what a stupid thread

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the strokes are useless reactionaries but their choice to change the album cover was a laudable decision.

I didn't even know Americans got a diff'rent strokes cover.

Theres that running Tapes n' Tapes gag! Its like your git-r-done, markers.

sorta, but sorta maybe kick back a bit with that shit dude

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what a stupid thread

― I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Saturday, October 2, 2010 7:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

got any youtubes about how the gov't is concealing the best ILX threads?

All rock fans like "OK Computer" but that was not an 00s album, and "Kid A" is considerably more controversial amongst rock fans. Dance/electronica fans may prefer "Kid A" though, but they would never list it as their favourite album of the 00s nevertheless.

All rock fans like "OK Computer"

That's not opinion, it's science.

i think 'funeral' is the only canonical agreed-upon album from the 00s that i still like

rock album i mean

actually the real answer to this thread is

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/a/andrew-wk/album-i-get-wet.jpg

Mark Ronson sings the praises of QotSA's Rated R in today's NY Times so that must be the correct answer.

The album of the decade is that first leaked version of Veckatimest. It's the only one I've heard, too.

it's been
two weeks since I challopsed you

i think 'funeral' is the only canonical agreed-upon album from the 00s that i still like

― ciderpress, Sunday, October 3, 2010 8:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

rock album i mean

― ciderpress, Sunday, October 3, 2010 8:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

If "Funeral" is the only rock album from a 10 years period you like, then I guess you cannot be considered a rock fan.

Not that I know, I am no typical rock fan, and tend to find most canonical rock albums slightly overrated. Just that I dislike R&B and hip-hop much more. Rock is passable, after all.

Canonical pop albums, on the other hand, but there hasn't been a classic pop album in the classic songwriting sense added to the critical canon since "Woodface".

i think 'funeral' is the only canonical agreed-upon album from the 00s that i still like

does not equal

"i think 'funeral' is the only rock album from the 00s that i still like"

Geir on a roll.

A rock 'n roll even.

ciderpress OTM

If "Funeral" is the only rock album from a 10 years period you like, then I guess you cannot be considered a rock fan.

Funeral nixxed. We're talking about proper rock with noisy guitars and riffs and solos not Pitchfork indie.

has to be 'is this it' then

or something by white stripes

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f444/f44455lkaoe.jpg

something by Voxtrot

We're talking about proper rock with noisy guitars and riffs

You mean, industrial and metal? Genres that didn't even exist at the time the rock genre was established?

if the jr cult continues to grow i wouldn't bet against blood visions giving some of the competition a run for rock canon dominance, but that's kind of a personal pipe dream. maybe it already is canonical everyone can agree on punk album though

Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

question answered, lock thread

yeah i was just talking about albums that are hailed as modern classics up there, i'm thinking of stuff like 'is this it?' and 'kid a' and 'elephant' and whatever, there's tons of rock albums from the decade that i love but none of them were major events critically

never trust a critic?

We're talking about proper rock with noisy guitars and riffs

You mean, industrial and metal? Genres that didn't even exist at the time the rock genre was established?

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, October 3, 2010 7:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or more like... the numerous types of proper rock with noisy guitars and riffs that did exist at the time the rock genre was established.

Geir is way too Hong up on genre stereotypes

The Andrew WK album really is amazing, and totally underrated. I think it maybe is the album of the decade.