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

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The more I think about it, the more I think All That You Can't Leave Behind might take this. Or The Rising. Betcha they both show up top 10 on any RS top albums of the decade list.

Mordy, Friday, 20 February 2009 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

God, what got worse? ILM or music?

Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 20 February 2009 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

Both are FANT!

doobieborther, Friday, 20 February 2009 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ all that you can't leave behind is another that i meant, somewhere in the back of my mind, to include in that decade list, but spaced on. and play's a good 99 suggestion, though more for crossover-to-rock (influence on rock?) than as a rock record. shit, "southside" alone. though it's lower-level, commercially speaking, the self-titled le tigre record is another that seems to have cast a long shadow.

what's the deal with californication though? massive hit, "substantial" in the sense rolling stone likes, but how did it define the 00s of rock?

you are nude spock (contenderizer), Friday, 20 February 2009 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

all i know is that coldplay's ass is still cashing checks that all you can't leave behind wrote...

i am an evil halfperson (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 20 February 2009 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

The more I think about it, the more I think All That You Can't Leave Behind might take this. Or The Rising.

No way. Wrong decade.

Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:07 (seventeen years ago)

^lol

i am an evil halfperson (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:48 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

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

snitch revvy-rev (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

that girl on the strokes cover has a nice side butt

who's got the (platform) 9 3/4ths? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

are you so sure it's a girl

(e_3) (Edward III), Friday, 1 October 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

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]

('_') (omar little), Friday, 1 October 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

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.

reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Saturday, 2 October 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

chicken dance: song of the millenium

('_') (omar little), Saturday, 2 October 2010 00:48 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Moka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

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

Moka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 04:59 (fifteen years ago)

i wrote a lot of things in this thread

having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Saturday, 2 October 2010 17:29 (fifteen years ago)

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!

snitch revvy-rev (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)

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

musicfanatic, Saturday, 2 October 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

Or probably Dave Matthews...

musicfanatic, Saturday, 2 October 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

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

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

what a stupid thread

I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

http://i55.tinypic.com/2w4z7sm.jpg

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:51 (fifteen years ago)

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

banaka, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

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

StanM, Sunday, 3 October 2010 03:33 (fifteen years ago)

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

I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Sunday, 3 October 2010 04:49 (fifteen years ago)

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

bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 3 October 2010 04:53 (fifteen years ago)

http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e14/robert-plant-and-alison-krauss.1794905.40.jpg

not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 3 October 2010 04:55 (fifteen years ago)

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?

it takes a nation of will.i.ams to hold us back (San Te), Sunday, 3 October 2010 14:37 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 3 October 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

All rock fans like "OK Computer"

That's not opinion, it's science.

Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:43 (fifteen years ago)

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

ciderpress, Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)

rock album i mean

ciderpress, Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:54 (fifteen years ago)

actually the real answer to this thread is

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

ciderpress, Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

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

EZ Snappin, Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:59 (fifteen years ago)

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

StanM, Sunday, 3 October 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

it's been
two weeks since I challopsed you

markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

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".

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

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"

markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

Geir on a roll.

Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

A rock 'n roll even.

EZ Snappin, Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:18 (fifteen years ago)

ciderpress OTM

Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)

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

insecure ultra rico suave crossover star (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

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

Matt DC, Sunday, 3 October 2010 23:02 (fifteen years ago)

has to be 'is this it' then

or something by white stripes

J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 October 2010 23:06 (fifteen years ago)

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

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 3 October 2010 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

something by Voxtrot

markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

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, 3 October 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

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

chronicles of ridically (samosa gibreel), Monday, 4 October 2010 00:00 (fifteen years ago)

Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

modest marky (m coleman), Monday, 4 October 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)


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