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

Return to Sucky Mountain?

Yankee Hotel Sucktrot?

Fuck all of you.

I think this decade more than ever the gulf between the established music media [print, radio, tv] and what is going outside the mainstream has grown wider.

Just look at the crap that has been mentioned on this thread, The Hives [retro bucket wrenching crap], Queens of the Stone Age [one trick pony riff merchants], Foo Fighters [making the same radio friendly album over and over again], The Strokes [simpleton music for college kids], White Stripes [rather limited and one dimensional], The Darkness [comedy rock], the Shins [tedious indie rock drivel], The Hold Steady [trad rock tripe that needs a good critical bashing]

All the bands you just mentioned are good except for The Hold Steady.

Queens of the Stone Age [one trick pony riff merchants]

This one is just rong rong rong.

the Shins [tedious indie rock drivel]

Goddamnit Chutes Too Narrow is not tedious or drivel.. If this is honestly what people think, then why did any of you bother listening to any rock since 2000?

I think the best straight-up rock album since 2000 is Gimme Fiction, but I'm not sure if I count as a "rock fan.."

Does anybody wanna give me an OTM on Linkin Park? I think I fucking nailed it!

you listen to the wrong type of rock

try: Ephel Duath, Agalloch, Negura Bunget, Isis, Miriodor, Supersilent, Scott Walker, Ulver, Cave In, Dark Tranquillity, Earthtone 9, Neurosis

yay!

Thread delivers

Cave In, Dark Tranquillity

masterful use of commas

I have one Cave In record and it is very not good. I think I might have bought the wrong one though.

Cavein - Jupiter - is the masterpiece

http://www.cavein.net/disc/hh66652.htm

Always get Cave In, Capdown and Kapowski confused.

not one Chinese Democracy nod...

at the drive in?

What about Chikinki? xxp

lol I remember Chikinki

you listen to the wrong type of rock

Thanks!

I was going to say Hybrid Theory myself upthread, but was worried I'd be ostracised. If we really are taking this seriously, how about Back to Black?

re: you listen to the wrong type of rock

that statement was a response to:

If this is honestly what people think, then why did any of you bother listening to any rock since 2000?

― billstevejim

Word. Isis and Cave-In are awesome, (I haven't heard the rest of your list), but I doubt they're contenders for the canonical rock album of the decade.

good call on linkin park, whoever. plus also the big obvious overlooked, decade framing, present-anticipating rock steady, courtesy of yr no doubt

forgot that one yesterday, but seems super obv in retrospect

reminder of what ilm voted the best albums of the first half of this decade
http://base58.com/ilx/ilm/top100/20002004/

and thank you dj martian for posting approved listening list. i'm glad people still do that

you listen to the wrong type of rock

try: Ephel Duath, Agalloch, Negura Bunget, Isis, Miriodor, Supersilent, Scott Walker, Ulver, Cave In, Dark Tranquillity, Earthtone 9, Neurosis

No I don't.

lol two of my favourite bands are in that DJ Martian list

lot of stuff on mid-point ILX hot list that still might be worth considering: shellac 10000 hurts, real new fall, gallowsbird bark, le tigre, fever to tell, VCN, etc. most unlikely to emerge as among THEE albums, except maybe that yeah yeah yeahs thing, i dunno

"Kid A" isn't a rock album, thus, I don't understand its mention here.

lol two of my favourite bands are in that DJ Martian list

Which ones, country matters?

guys i think we have to wait until the lil wayne rock album drops before we decide this

kid A: tops rym decade list, ilm mid 00s and ondarock

Boringly, Neurosis and Ulver

a good time to covert more followers to the mighty Ulver

http://www.myspace.com/ulver1
track: Christmas [from Ulver: Blood Inside]

if Depeche Mode turned in a experimental trip-rock band they might sound like this

yer all high. the answer is somethin' by the RHCP (ick!).

rock music in the 00s doesn't get better than this:

the atmospheric brilliance of:

Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves

from the esteemed 2006 album: Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/agalloch/ashes_against_the_grain/

goths keep swingin'

more decade defining rock brilliance:

Negura Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta

atmospheric avant progressive post-black metal from Romania

taken from the esteemed 2006 album: Negura Bunget - OM
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/negura_bunget/om/

The tragedy is that DJ Martian is posting brilliant, brilliant songs, but the fact they're on this thread will mean they get nothing but derision

"Christmas" is my favourite track on my favourite album of the decade

The tragedy is that DJ Martian is posting brilliant, brilliant songs, but the fact they're on this thread will mean they get nothing but derision

― country matters

*sob*

Well, the derision's kinda earned. This is more a thread to be discussing Linkin Park, Chikinki and maybe The Darkness on. A Dom thread.

They are brilliant tracks, but moving pretty far away from any sort of "canonical" look at the decade.

The brilliance is lost on me. Perhaps I am not a "rock fan".

And yeah, even taking this thread at all seriously, jon otm. Stevem, I think it's more that you're not an experimental black metal fan tbh

i don't know, man - that djmatian approved u-tube rawk is fine for what it is, while it's on, but instantly forgettable thereafter. at least Wolfmother have hooks.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Muse. What about Black Holes and Revelations? Definitely a very popular rock record and very much of this decade.

Also, Rush - Snakes and Arrows - where's the love, folks?