You always hear about the 60's/70's/parts of the 80's + 90's of the amazing albums [+ most often tracks singled out] released by bands (+ other rock/metal/punk/alt singers), but what about the 21st Century?

 

What's been the best rock/metal/punk/alt. etc. album + or single/track of the 21st Century? 2000 onwards, that is. ;)

 

 

For me, the best album would be blatantly MCR's 'The Black Parade' :heehee:

Honestly, there hasn't been hardly any decent rock albums from the 21st Century. The only decent albums I can think of are probably Muse's Black Holes & Revalations and Metallica's Death Magnetic.

Honestly, there hasn't been hardly any decent rock albums from the 21st Century.

 

Now, I certainly dont think that this is true at all Josh.... Machine Head's "The Blackening" is a fantastic piece of contemporary Metal, and last year's great album by Metallica brought them to a whole load of younger Metal fans, as well as shocking us older fans who'd thought they'd just completely lost it... The Killing Joke's superb self-titled 2003 comeback album was one of the greatest Punk albums of recent times, Tool's mighty "Lateralus" album from '01 is another of the decade's greats also... And The Horrors' 'Primary Colours' I think will be revered as one of the 21st Century's great indie/alt rock albums in years to come also....

 

Honestly, there hasn't been hardly any decent rock albums from the 21st Century. The only decent albums I can think of are probably Muse's Black Holes & Revalations and Metallica's Death Magnetic.

 

Both of those are $h!t. :/ Especially Metallica. Some of the absolute worst human beings on this planet, completely awful to their fans, etc.

 

Good rawk albumz:

 

The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn

Sleater-Kinney - The Woods / One Beat / All Hands on the Bad One

Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Future of the Left - Curses

The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine

HEALTH - HEALTH

 

ya bb. There are lots moreee but I don't think you all would consider it 'rock' ;(.

 

The Horrors album is certainly good, but I would not call it one of the best as of yet. At all. They were guuudzz live though.

Especially Metallica. Some of the absolute worst human beings on this planet, completely awful to their fans, etc.

 

I presume you're referring to Lars Ulrich and this anti-file sharing crusade... Yes, he IS a tit, and the whole thing he did with Napster and his whole arrogant-little-sh"t attitude and the fact that their albums since "Black" were absolutely SH!T, seriously put me off Metallica for well over a decade or so.... BUT, come on man, Death Magnetic has some absolutely AWESOME tunes, Rob Trujillo has re-invigorated the band, and they're deffo back on my radar..... And "Black Holes and Revalations" is a good album... Not as good as "Origins of Symmetry" mind.....

 

I honestly think "Primary Colours" could be regarded as a "Psychocandy" or a "Loveless" for the early 00s... Similar things are being done with sounds and sonics here as was done by My Bloody Valentine... With the added bonus that The Horrors' foray into the white noise abyss dont see them being quite as consumed by it all as it did Kevin Shields.... MBV occasionally forgot a tune in amongst the beautiful noise they generated (not that it was really a problem tbh, I was usually stoned when I listened to Loveless anyway... :lol: ), Primary Colours gives us the awesome soundscapes and aural tapestries, but never forgets about a tune.....

I agree that Primary Colours has some incredible hooks, but I feel like its inspirations are a bit too laid out for the listener? It's quite good, but it doesn't feel like something special. It's nothing I've never heard before. Loveless is a genre defining album, as opposed to Primar Colours, which is just another good example if you get me.

I agree that Primary Colours has some incredible hooks, but I feel like its inspirations are a bit too laid out for the listener? It's quite good, but it doesn't feel like something special. It's nothing I've never heard before. Loveless is a genre defining album, as opposed to Primar Colours, which is just another good example if you get me.

 

It kind of sounds to me like you're believing the whole "Geoff Barrow did everything on the album" arguement... I dont buy that... I believe he had an influence, sure, but no more than any other producer would, no more than Martin Hannett had on Joy Division or John Leckie had on The Stone Roses.... Of course when you hear the names associated with the album - Barrow, Chris Cunningham (a co-producer) and Jesus and Mary Chain's Douglas Hart (who directed the Sea Within a Sea video), then it's easy to think the worst and that The Horrors are being manufactured or it's all being laid out as you put it.... But I think that's nonsense, if they were, they'd certainly be found out when it came to live performances....

 

I think what Primary Colours is doing is re-defining a genre, and it's not as if Indie Rock doesn't need it, after all the insufferable bullsh!t that's been around in recent years.... The likes of Coldplay, The Kooks, Razorlight, etc, are just the most awful bands out there for me, the very epitome of the absolute shallowness that has infected Indie for the past decade or so, The Horrors are bringing back to me the reasons I loved Indie in the first place back in the late-80s/early 90s..... So, I hope what might happen is a sea change in UK indie rock and we get back some of the spirit that indie used to have.....

 

Another thing about Loveless is (and this isn't really a criticism, more an observation...), that it's more or less a Kevin Shields solo record with Bilinda coming in to do her vocals (she didn't actually play any guitar on the album at all...) and Colm Cusack doing a bit of drumming.. Shields pretty much plays all the instruments on it, wrote almost all the lyrics, and all the music, and pretty much does all the production himself too with some help from Colm.. There's no real band dynamic on "Loveless", whereas The Horrors are playing as a unit on Primary Colours, as opposed to one individual doing all the work.....