Best Albums of the "Noughties" (as thick people call it)

[Shaun Ponsonby]

End of a particularly shitty decade...war...terrorism...recession...plummeting average IQ...rise in celebrity culture...Fox News...Bono...Simon Cowell...et al...

Still, there must have been something good.

Right?

Anything?

And, on that note...here are my favourite albums of the decade in no particular order other than alphabetical...

3121-Prince (2006)

The '59 Sound-Gaslight Anthem (2008)

A Matter of Life and Death-Iron Maiden (2006)

Balm in Gilead-Rickie Lee Jones (2009)

Bridge Across Forever-Transatlantic (2002)

Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop N Stroll-Urban Voodoo Machine (2009)

Contraband-Velvet Revolver (2004)

Deadwing-Porcupine Tree (2005)

Here We Stand-The Fratellis (2008)

Inferno-Motorhead (2004)

Long Time Comin'-Jonny Lang (2004)

Men, Women & Children-Men, Women & Children (2006)

Oracular Spectacular-MGMT (2007)

Permission to Land-The Darkness (2003)

Revival-John Fogerty (2007)

The Rising-Bruce Springsteen (2002)

Skin Deep-Buddy Guy (2008)

Snakes and Arrows-Rush (2007)

Snow-Spock's Beard (2002)

Tell Em What Your Name Is-Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears (2009)

[UK ROCKER]

[Shaun Ponsonby]

^^^

Would you believe I havn't actually heard it yet?

[NATEDOG001976]

Injected - 2004

Fuel "Something Like Human" - 2000

Social Burn "Where you are" - 2003

Avenged Sevenfold "Avenged Sevenfold" -2007

Audioslave "Audioslave" - 2002

Buckcherry "15" - 2006

Josh Todd "You made me" - 2004

Chevelle "Wonder What's next" - 2002

Filter "The Amalgamut" - 2002

Foo Figters "One By One" - 2002

Goo Goo Dolls "Gutterflower" - 2002

Green Day "American Idiot" - 2004

Joe Satriani "Strange Beautiful Music" - 2002

Lit "Lit" - 2004

Local H "12 Angry Months" - 2008

Offspring "Splinter" - 2003

Our Lady Peace "Gravity" - 2002

Puddle Of Mudd "Come Clean" - 2001

Prince "3121" - 2006

Ra "From One - 2002

Stoned Sour "Stoned Sour" -2002

Stone Temple Pilots "Shangri - La Dee Da" - 2001

Velvet Revolver "Contraband" - 2004

Weezer "Green Album" - 2001

[Mr Badguy]

Halford "Resurrection"

For me, the only album that really meant something in the last ten years.

[binnie]

In no particular order:

Mastodon - 'Crack The Sky', 'Blood Mountain' and 'Leviathon'

Lamb of God - 'Sacrament' and 'Wrath'

Machine Head - 'The Blackening'

Corrosion of Conformity - 'In the Arms of God'

Fu Manchu - 'We Must Obey'

Mars Volta - 'De-Loused in the Comatorium'

Testament - 'The Formation of Damnation'

Opeth - 'Ghost Reveries'

Slipknot - 'Iowa'

A Perfect Circle - A Mer De Noms

Tool - Lateralus

Life of Agony - Broken Valley

Deftones - White Pony

Slayer - God Hates Us All

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

Tha Haunted - Made Me Do It

Slashs Snakepit - Ain't Life Grand

Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest

Down - 'II: Bustle in Your Hedgerow' and 'III: Over the Under'

Clutch - 'From Beale Street to Oblivion'

The Wildhearts - 'Must Be Destroyed'

Goatwhore - 'Carving Out The Eyes of God'

Muse - 'Absolution'

[BITEYOASS]

Eagles of Death Metal - "Death By Sexy"

[standin]

ramstein

[Coyote]

Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites (2005)

[binnie]

Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites (2005)

That's a good call - great fuckin' record....

[ace diamond]

hell fucking yes!!!