The MB Top 50 of the 00s

[adidasss]

Ok, several people have suggested this would be cool. We could eventually do an actual MB list based on the most recurring albums. For now just give us your list.

Here's what I've come up with:

Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Shins - Oh, Inverted world
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Animal Collective - Merriwhether Post Pavillion
Arcade fire - Funeral
My Morning Jacket - Z
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Sigur Ros - Takk
The Knife - Silent shout
System of a down - Hypnotize/Mezmerize
Tv on the Radio - Return to Cookie mountain
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your bones
Coldplay - X&Y
Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Punk Robots
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Beirut - Gulag orkestar
Travis - The boy with no name
At the drive-in - Relationship of command
Be your own PET - Be your own PET
Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Cut Copy - In ghost colours
Devotchka - How it ends
Dirty projectors - Bitte orca
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Interpol - Antics
Keane - Hopes and fears
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Klaxons - Myths of the near future
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Of Montreal - Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Bellow
Rage against the machine - Renegades
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack decay sustain release
Spoon - Ga ga ga ga ga
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Hidden Cameras - Mississauga goddamn
The Maccabees - Wall of arms
The Rapture - Echoes
The White Stripes - Elephant


The first 20 or so are lined according to quality, the rest is just alphabetical. I tried to keep it one per artist, although to be frank, I'd also include the other 3 Coldplay albums, White blood cells, Frances the mute, the other two by Franz Ferdinand, another 3 by Of montreal, other two by The shins etc. :\

[lucifer_sam]

oh god, this is worse than the NME list! no wonder you didn't think theirs was that bad...

here's some of my favorites from the noughties:
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
mclusky - mclusky do dallas
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Old Man Gloom - Christmas
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Agalloch - The Mantle
Queens of the Stone Age - R
Tool - Lateralus
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum

[The Monkey]

I don't think I have 50 albums, would it work if I put like 20-30 instead?

[stormjh]

coldplay, keane and SOAD, really?

Any list of 00's needs Meet Me In St Louis on.

[Mojo]

More excuses for the MB nazi's to enforce their superiority over commercialism. How fun. I dont really know the rules so i just made a shortlist of albums, in alphabetical order, some i know would be on a final list and some i know wouldnt but have played such a big part in my musical maturity over the last 10 years from being 15 onwards that they really do need mention.

Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
And So I Watch You From Afar - S/T
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C
Bongzilla - Gateway
Boris - Feedbacker
Church of Misery - Master of Brutality
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
Cult of Luna - The Beyond
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Deftones - White Pony
Earth - The Bee's Made Honey In The Lions Skull
Earthless - Sonic Prayer
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Electric Wizard - Dopehtrone
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Feeder - Comfort In Sound
Goatsnake - Flower of Disease
God is an Astronaut - The End of the Beginning
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Joy Wants Eternity - Those Who Pretend To Sleep
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Khoma - The Second Wave
Machine Head - The Blackening
Manchild - United States
Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Maybeshewill - Not For Want of Trying
Maylene & The Sons of Disaster - S/T
Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
Mirror of Deception - Foregone
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Mono - Under the Pipal Tree
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Muon - The New Mutants
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
My Vitriol - Finelines
Nebula - Apollo
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Om - Variations on a Theme
Opeth - Damnation
Orange Goblin - The Big Black
Pelican - Australasia
Pharaoh Overlord - #2
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead - Kid A
Rage Against The Machine - Renegades
Ramesses - Misanthropic Alchemy
Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody
Rodrigo y Gabriela - re-Foc
Stinking Lizaveta - Caught Between Worlds
Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar
The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through and Leave
The Coral - The Coral
The Eighties Matchbox B- Line Disaster - Horse of the Dog
The Haunted - Made Me Do It
The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Music - S/T
The Raveonettes - Whip It On
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Sword - Age of Winters
The White Stripes - Elephant
This Is Your Captain Speaking - Storyboard
Thrice - Identity Crisis
White Hills - Heads on Fire
Wolfmother - S/T

[Norg]

Originally Posted by mojopinuk

More excuses for the MB nazi's to enforce their superiority over commercialism. How fun. I dont really know the rules so i just made a shortlist of albums, in alphabetical order, some i know would be on a final list and some i know wouldnt but have played such a big part in my musical maturity over the last 10 years from being 15 onwards that they really do need mention.

Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
And So I Watch You From Afar - S/T
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C
Bongzilla - Gateway
Boris - Feedbacker
Church of Misery - Master of Brutality
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
Cult of Luna - The Beyond
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Deftones - White Pony
Earth - The Bee's Made Honey In The Lions Skull
Earthless - Sonic Prayer
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Electric Wizard - Dopehtrone
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Feeder - Comfort In Sound
Goatsnake - Flower of Disease
God is an Astronaut - The End of the Beginning
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Joy Wants Eternity - Those Who Pretend To Sleep
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Khoma - The Second Wave
Machine Head - The Blackening
Manchild - United States
Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Maybeshewill - Not For Want of Trying
Maylene & The Sons of Disaster - S/T
Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
Mirror of Deception - Foregone
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Mono - Under the Pipal Tree
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Muon - The New Mutants
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
My Vitriol - Finelines
Nebula - Apollo
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Om - Variations on a Theme
Opeth - Damnation
Orange Goblin - The Big Black
Pelican - Australasia
Pharaoh Overlord - #2
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead - Kid A
Rage Against The Machine - Renegades
Ramesses - Misanthropic Alchemy
Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody
Rodrigo y Gabriela - re-Foc
Stinking Lizaveta - Caught Between Worlds
Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar
The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through and Leave
The Coral - The Coral
The Eighties Matchbox B- Line Disaster - Horse of the Dog
The Haunted - Made Me Do It
The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Music - S/T
The Raveonettes - Whip It On
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Sword - Age of Winters
The White Stripes - Elephant
This Is Your Captain Speaking - Storyboard
Thrice - Identity Crisis
White Hills - Heads on Fire
Wolfmother - S/T

Decent list u like alot of Rock music dontcha stuff i never heard of before that i like YAY !!!!

Minsk
My Vitriol
Ramesses
Richard Ashcroft
Stinking Lizaveta

[Molecules]

Originally Posted by mojopinuk

More excuses for the MB nazi's to enforce their superiority over commercialism. How fun. I dont really know the rules so i just made a shortlist of albums, in alphabetical order, some i know would be on a final list and some i know wouldnt but have played such a big part in my musical maturity over the last 10 years from being 15 onwards that they really do need mention.

interesting, i'm not even sure I have 50 albums from this decade, will have to check RYM... lots of names from the past cropping up here, some great albums, couldn't possibly talk about all of them so kudos on BRMC, that still plays extremely well and now i am gutted that i left the CD at home =/ I think watching them tour that album, clouded by smoke and continuous strobing, is one of my favourite memories of a live band. What's this with 'Veni Vidi Vicious'? Didn't you just get 'Your New Favourite Band' like the rest of us?

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Molecules

interesting, i'm not even sure I have 50 albums from this decade, will have to check RYM... lots of names from the past cropping up here, some great albums, couldn't possibly talk about all of them so kudos on BRMC, that still plays extremely well and now i am gutted that i left the CD at home =/ I think watching them tour that album, clouded by smoke and continuous strobing, is one of my favourite memories of a live band. What's this with 'Veni Vidi Vicious'? Didn't you just get 'Your New Favourite Band' like the rest of us?

I have lots of albums from this decade really, just not that many from the last 2 or 3 years. BRMC are great live. Although i once managed to sleep through the first 2 or 3 songs of their set at a Leeds festival, i swear it was due to the shit i'd been putting my body through the few days beforehand but i really still dont know i managed to do it.

The Music touring their first record at the small Basement in Newcastle University is one of my favourite memories from around that time, gig wise. That was a great show. I really like their first two records, especially the first one but they were different class as a live band. They aren't quite the same now.

As for The Hives i have Veni Vidi Vicious, Barely Legal and Tyrannosaurus Hives. The first two there still have price stickers on them and were £6.97 I think i had Your New Favourite Band first but recorded onto a minidisc and so when i did put my hand in my pocket and spend some cash i got the proper albums.

[jackhammer]

Maybe to simplify it, we could have a year by year poll choosing the top 5 from each year to create our 50?

[Schizotypic]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Maybe to simplify it, we could have a year by year poll choosing the top 5 from each year to create our 50?

Yeah, I vote something like that idea.

Another idea is we recruit ten very diverse members. Like whoever would be the best advocate for progressive rock albums in the 2000's would be chosen, and then pick someone for hip-hop, someone for metal, etc. Ten members with ten different preferences could probably easily make a list of 200 and it wouldn't look anything like the NME list.

I wouldn't prefer those ten members to have the final say, though. Maybe we could open a poll thread where each of the people who made the base of the list could give their input in a paragraph as far as what they prefer and why, and then the community would chose from there. It sounds complicated but I think having representatives for MB would much better reflect the diversity of the site then someone going through 100 different top 50 lists to find similarities... and even then who has the final say?

Just saying... organization guys.