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

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?

Oh shit, that reminds me

Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta

That was one universally beloved record!

lol @ the last 4 posts

I believe a Muse record kicked off this discussion, but it was Origin of Symmetry.

(I actually LOVE FtM but was kinda hoping TMV wouldn't make it onto this thread)

exactly jon, but I somehow think Moodles is operating to a plan on this thread

I'm not operating on any plan. Those two records would definitely be in my top 10 for rock records of the decade.
Rush may not get much love from anyone else, but I think the Muse suggestion is reasonable.

I'm kind of ignorant of Muse's earlier records, so I didn't realize that Origin was their's too.

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

thanks for ensuring I'll never listen to them!

some records that came out

2000:
relationship of command - at the drive-in
parachutes - coldplay
the white pony - deftones
the sickness - disturbed
veni, vedi, vicious - hives
hybrid theory - linkin park
mad season - matchbox 20
kid a - radiohead
1000 hurts - shellac
all hands on the bad one - sleater kinney

2001:
love and theft - bob dylan
vision creation newsun - boredoms
sinner - drowning pool
gorillaz - gorillaz
origin of symmetry - muse
silver side up - nickelback
rock steady - no doubt
come clean - puddle of mudd
oh, inverted world - shins
break the cycle - staind
is this it - strokes
toxicity - system of a down
lateralus - tool

2002:
source tags and codes - ...and you will know us by the trail of dead
i get wet - andrew WK
beaches and canyons - black dice
yoshimi battles the pink robots - flaming lips
oceanic - isis
neon golden - notwist
songs for the deaf - queens of the stone age
yankee hotel foxtrot - wilco

2003:
transatlanticism - death cab for cutie
a mark, a mission, a brand, a scar - dashboard confessional
kid rock - kid rock
hypermagic mountain - lightning bolt
de-loused in the comatorium - mars volta
sing sing death house - the distillers
the real new fall LP - the fall
elephant - white stripes
fever to tell - yeah yeah yeahs

2004:
sung tongs - animal collective
funeral - arcade fire
crimes - blood brothers
franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
american idiot - green day
they were wrong, so we drowned - liars
leviathan - mastodon
vol. 3: the subliminal verses - slipknot
burned mind - wolf eyes

2005:
X&Y - coldplay
from under the cork tree - fall out boy
blessed black wings - high on fire
wonderful rainbow - lightning bolt
frances the mute - mars volta
gimme fiction - spoon
black one - sunn0)))
hypnotize - system of a down
standing in the way of control - the gossip
separation sunday - the hold steady

2006:
the warning - hot chip
blood mountain - mastodon
black holes and revelations - muse
the black parade - my chemical romance
pearl jam - pearl jam
10,000 days - tool
return to cookie mountain - tv on the radio

2007:
new wave - against me!
mirrored - battles
pink - boris
infinity on high - fall out boy
in rainbows - radiohead

2008:
saint dymphna - gang gang dance
vampire weekend - vampire weekend
oracular spectacular - MGMT
when the world comes down - all american rejects
pretty. odd - panic at the disco

2009:
merriweather post pavilion - animal collective

somewhere in there = a definement of sorts. plus why am i supposed to care who started this thread?

lol louis and DJ, yeah i could sit here and post shit off like the first blind shake record and all this other obscure shit i like but they are not going to be canonized.

lot of that stuff i listed isn't gonna be canonized, either, but i expect that pretty much all of it will be listened to and talked about and playlisted and soundtracked and passed on for a long, long time. defining the decade, defining "rock music" in some sense, defining whatever comes next. some of it canonized by people who do that for a living, most of it just listened to by people.