Good major Label Rock/Metal albums from Late 90's-2008?

stephen why don't you check out pitchfork, i'm sure they've got a few good ideas

Louis whatchu talkin bout, Pitchfork-approved (or dissed) is hardly my measuring stick for good music.

The unida album was great but sadly I was wrong about the label. I thought it was just the vinyl wasn't on a major. But i also have it on cd too and checked that as well just now.

The 2nd album is good so that label can fuck off for not releasing it.
The official bootleg cdr i have isnt very good quality however thankfully A) there was a better mp3 version around and B) it was bootlegged on vinyl and is good quality.

Lazy zing, my good man. Plus your opinions largely seem to scan with theirs, on this issue at least. :p

Just thought of an absolute thread-winner: Catherine Wheel - Adam And Eve

Stephen > some Unida here http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=unida&search_type=

Louis you are joking aren't you?

Why would I be joking? It's an absolutely brilliant record on a major label, and I reckon it qualifies as hard rock.

I fingered through the CDs and outside of anything that mentioned, this is about it. It definitely was not good times for the hard rock and roll band on the big labels. Even if you add in rock on indie labels, it won't get that much better.

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

It's from 97. Definitely not metal, but I liked it though it wouldn't end up on a list of favorites of the last 10 years or anything.

I also liked Jesus Lizards major label album "Shot", which came out in 96. It isn't as good as some of their earlier records, but I still listened to it a bunch.

The first two Gov't Mule albums came out in the mid to late 90s. I never heard them until a few years ago, but they are pretty good old 70s style hard blues rock band.

I suppose this helps to explain why I was buying so much old jazz and electronic music around that time period.

Just thought of an absolute thread-winner: Catherine Wheel - Adam And Eve

Yeah Louis that's a fucking winner, great great album, top 5 or so for that year AT LEAST.

Sadly the manics dont make this list as their later stuff isnt up to much after everything must go. Same goes for Therapy?

Spiritualized,Built To Spill, Modest Mouse would make a non metal list .

how about: Hum - Downward is Heavenward

that was major label... right? definitely their best album. definitely rock music. so so so good.

I have one for every year that I just love! Which is why i brought it up.

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
Helmet - Meantime (1992)
The Melvins - Houdini (1993)
Korn - Korn (1994)
Faith No More - King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime (1995)
Sepultura - Roots (1996)
[Nothing for 1997. This is a terrible year]
Hole - Celebrity Skin (1998)
Deftones - The White Pony (1999)
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R (2000)
Burning Brides - Fall Of The Plastic Empire (2001)
Andrew WK - I Get Wet (2002)
Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn (2003)
Say Anything - Is A Real Boy (2004)
System Of A Down - Hypnotize (2005)
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)
Against Me! - New Wave (2007)

I take it Refused were'nt on a major :P

I realized I have an album like that for every year and just started working backwards into a list. Still have to stumble across 2008's big hard rock record tho.

Celebrity Skin > Mechanical Animals > Shape Of Punk To Come

White Pony is very nearly unfuckwithable save for Chino's attempt at rapping/talking his verses on a couple songs.

Whiney, you oughta hear the Hum record from 97 (assuming you haven't). pretty damn good.

as for 2008, it's gotta be Boris' Smile.

How about Pinkerton? I think that's at least a decent record.

Um, what major label is Boris on?

there must be something from 1997 http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/

Esoteric tops 2008 and thats my fave metal album this year. Portishead is my fave of 2008 so far. That will actually get in some metal lists though(scott walker did with the drift)

oh right, major. sorry. fuck.

(xp)

Hum and Weezer are indie rock tho. This thread is about HARD ROCK

definitely agree with Smile for this year (so far). (xp yeah i guess it's not on a major. damn.)

'97 was kind of a dismal year for music for me. i was just going through the rateyourmusic best-of for that year and it made me wonder what i even listened to that year. some of my favorite groups throughout the 90s released albums in '97 so crappy that i stopped listening to them completely.

Mods should prolly add the word "hard" in the title, cuz it doesn't make it clear.

I mean '97 is all about Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole which is KIND of a hard rock record, but not enought for the purposes of this thread.

Torche would take 2008 easy if a major label was smart enough to have put that album out and made it glossier.

maybe mods should wipe your ass for you too

and the original post doesn't make it clear either

Deftones - Around The Fur was 1997

That album srsly blows except for "My Own Summer" tho

cloud COOOOOME!

"My Own Summer" is hella sweet

I'm gonna listen to it right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TyLtbsxmc

one of the best albums of 97 but not on a major
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/harvey_milk/courtesy_and_good_will_toward_men/

ZZ Top's Rhythmeen, 1996.

There are a number of 2008's discussed in Rolling Hard Rock. A few mainstream country releases this year also do double duty as hard rock records, all released on majors. Offhand, Flynnville Train and Cross Canadian Ragweed come to mind.

By the way, y'all can pre-emptively kiss my ass, because I'm gonna stick up for Disturbed's second album (Believe, 2002) and the new one. The debut and Ten Thousand Fists are kinda weak.

:O

Would Nimrod count? It ain't great, though.

totally love downward is heavenward, but yeah, I don't think that it counts.

I suppose this helps to explain why I was buying so much old jazz and electronic music around that time period.

Same here. Late 90s was a lot closer to the death of rock than the Elvis-in-the-Army -> Beatles era ever was.

http://www.galeon.com/allmusic/caratulas/a/Andrew_WK-I_Get_Wet-Frontal.jpg

I have Downward Is Heavenward too, and yeah it's pretty good. Wish Kerr would stop listing all his favourite artists and being all "now if only they were on a major label they might make this list..."

shut it oceansize fan

are Beggars Banquet a major label, come to think of it?

werent they owned by a major?

There's some sort of connection to a major with them but I can't think what it is. Probably to do with distribution. Which would also mean that McLusky would technically qualify but in practical terms it's not all that relevant

Lots of labels must have a distribution with a major but that doesn't qualify them as being on a major, it might disqualify them from being 100 % independent.

I'll give you Radiohead. Maybe QOTSA, I guess. Aside from that, this is pretty weak sauce. "Lean times," indeed.

Sepultura - Roots (1996)

Stopped reading after that. Besides, since when is Roadrunner a major?

Seriously, it's pretty hard to find a better rock album on a major than A Matter Of Life And Death.

I was going to say Sepultura Roots but that's on Roadrunner so I guess it doesn't count...

But Limp Bizkit and Nickelback are hardly examples of Good major label hard rock/metal bands.
-- Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 19:20 (2 days ago) Link

I'm not saying that it's good, just that most people think it is (based on popularity), which is different to what Mencap was saying.

Does Down's NOLA count? It was '95 (iffy) but came out on Elektra. That disc eats pussies like Pearl Jam and Nirvana for breakfast. It's monstrous.

i liked stone temple pilot's 4 album. from 1999. that was a good hard rock record.

i would bring up nine inch nails on here, but i didn't dig the fragile that much and downward spiral is too early for this thread.