Best year since '00?

[MADSTA]

Which of the 2000s have been the best in music?

[Dr. Acula]

Off the top of my head, 03 was pretty damn good.

AFI "Sing the Sorrow"
Against Me "As the Eternal Cowboy"
The Blood Brothers "Burn, Piano Island, Burn"
Brand New "Deja Entendu"
Cursive "The Ugly Organ"
Death Cab For Cutie "Transatlanticism"
Fall Out Boy "Take This To Your Grave"
Gatsbys American Dream "Ribbons and Sugar"
The Lawrence Arms "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
The Mars Volta "De-Loused in the Comatorium"
Muse "Absolution"
The Postal Service "Give Up"
Pretty Girls Make Graves "The New Romance"
Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
Rise Against "Revolutions Per Minute"
RX Bandits "The Resignation"
The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "Hearts of Oak"
Thrice "The Artist in the Ambulance"
Thursday "War All The Time"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Fever to Tell"

And many more.

[Machu505]

2000
2003
2006

I can't really pick one, but those are the best.

[eman83]

2003, 2006, 2009(hopefully).

[blimpcityhero11]

2003

The Postal Service - Give Up
Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave
Anberlin - Blueprints for the Black Market
Guster - Keep It Together
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Motion City Soundtrack - I Am The Movie
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
Something Corporate - North
Jay-Z - The Black Album
blink-182 - Untitied or Self-titled (Whichever you wanna call it)

Those are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head. I'm probably forgetting or missing some...

[11:11]

2003/2005

Phantoms was/is such a fantastic album.

[voncorn]

2000.

Radiohead - Kid A
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Cursive - Domestica
Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Live Antennas to Heaven
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
Outkast - Stankonia
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

Couldn't agree more.

I'd throw Botch - We Are The Romans into there as well however.

[c_rob2700]

lunchforthesky'd em

[just.Starla.]

Tough choice, but 2003 by far.

[just.Starla.]

How can there be a clear winner when something is a tough choice?
Because I was thinking of everything that came out in 2003 and comparing it to other stuff that came out in the other years. In the end, I realized that some of my favorite albums came out in 2003.

[theguy77]

None of those are good albums.

3 actually worthwhile pop-punk albums and death cab's best album :shrug:

/response that still won't sway your opinion at all

but really if you're going to say a year you should represent more than one type of music to support your point.

[SanePsychotic]

Off the top of my head I remember liking a lot of stuff that came out around 2000, but when I look at some lists I like 2003 as well. Really, I can't stay because I wasn't as into music for much of the 2000s.

[BrennanHickson]

How can there be a clear winner when something is a tough choice?

My thoughts exactly.

[Burn That Shit]

2002 duh, that's when Caution came out.

[TheSkyline]

lol at the guy who said 2008.

[TheSkyline]

None of those are good albums.

lunchforthesky'd em

Hahahaha. I'm convinced that dude doesn't like music..

[chipdip18]

Good idea for a thread.

[alltimecam]

poor 2004

[kwsqd]

Hahahaha. I'm convinced that dude doesn't like music..
You're right, he hates it. How did you know?

[theguy77]

I did.

I count electronica, indie, folk, hip hop, post hardcore, post rock and whatever genre you'd call the Avalanches on my list.

hahaha i wanst talking about your list i was talking about the one you quoted

[GuitarR0cker1]

2003 for me, lots of good releases even besides the huge amount of worthwhile pop punk that came out that year.

[SanePsychotic]

Hahahaha. I'm convinced that dude doesn't like music..

Ha, yeah that's not it. He just likes to argue a lot. Personally, I find many of his posts to be good reads.

[fadedmemories]

Tie between 2002 and 2003

[funkel]

2004:


A Day In Black & White - My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys
Autopilot Off - Make A Sound
Cult of Luna - Salvation
The Ergs! - Dorkrockcorkrod
Hammock - Kenotic
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Isis - Panopticon
James Newton Howard - The Village OST
JEW - Futures
mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes
Owen - I Do Perceive
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Scraps of Tape - Read Between The Lines At All Times
and most importantly:
65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math

[zubinmoosa]

I picked 2003. Lots of my favorite releases were from that year. Hopefully 2009 will be right up there, as there are countless records I am unbelievably excited for.

[c_rob2700]

Hahahaha. I'm convinced that dude doesn't like music..
He just doesn't like a vast majority of the stuff that people here do which is why people are always arguing with him

[TheSkyline]

Yes I spend a lot of my time running a music website without actually liking music. I think what you meant to say is I'm convinced that dude doesn't like the horrendous shit my 15 year old self listens to. In which case you would be correct.

See what I mean? Can you make a point without being an ass? I wasn't trying to be mean to you, just chill.

[googirl8907]

2003.

[MADSTA]

Aww, no love for 2001... I'm sure we can find some worthwhile releases from that year.

[blimpcityhero11]

3 actually worthwhile pop-punk albums and death cab's best album :shrug:

/response that still won't sway your opinion at all

but really if you're going to say a year you should represent more than one type of music to support your point.

Eh... I wasn't trying to say those were why everyone should definitively consider it the best year for music. I was just using those to display why it was my, in my opinion, the best year in music for this decade. Eh it's the intrawebz... :shrug:

[Rodeo]

'05.

[underthetalking]

Hahaha.

Ben's posts make this thread.

[Rodeo]

2001 was pretty bad. Slightly better than 2008.

Thursday - Full Collapse
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Dead Meadow - Howls from the Hills
Small Brown Bike - Dead Recocking
Hot Water Music - A Flight and a Crash
Pinback - Blue Screen Life

That's just off the top of my head.

[Robototron]

Tough, but I went with 03. Also I guess I'm alone in thinking that 08 was a great year.

[batmannj]

i voted for 08 because thats when i started listening to things outside of the metalcore/hardcore realm, so its sort of a vote for the year i discovered better music if that makes sense.

i think mr.mealforthesky likes music quite a bit, he just enjoys instigating arguments a lot more.

[fadedmemories]

Aww, no love for 2001... I'm sure we can find some worthwhile releases from that year.
Full Collapse

[FeynmanWannabe]

Aww, no love for 2001... I'm sure we can find some worthwhile releases from that year.
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Ted Leo + the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Yann Tierson - Amelie OST
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
The Dismemberment Plan - Change

[bobby runs]

2002-2003

[oddwithoutend]

The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2


This alone puts 2001 in contention for the best year of the decade.

[kearn1tm]

Of all my favorites of the decade, 2006 had the most:

The Thermals -- The Body, The Blood, The Machine
Joanna Newsom -- Ys
Liars -- Drums Not Dead
M. Ward -- Post-War
Fionn Regan -- The End of History
Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa -- Raw Materials
Camera Obscura -- Let's Get Out of This Country
TV on the Radio -- Return to Cookie Mountain
Bob Dylan -- Modern Times
The Hold Steady -- Boys and Girls in America
The Decemberists -- The Crane Wife
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins -- Rabbit Fur Coat
Sonic Youth -- Rather Ripped

Yeah, I was happy with 2006.

[xEmmettx]

2006

From First To Last - Heroine
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
AFI - Decemberunderground
Cute Is What We Aim For - The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch
Rise Against - The Sufferer And The Witness
Alexisonfire - Crisis

To be honest I'm biased because I think Heroine was one of the best cd's I've ever heard.

[doyouhas?]

2000

Radiohead - Kid A
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Coldplay - Parachutes
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Elliott Smith - Figure 8

[chipdip18]

2000

Radiohead - Kid A
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Coldplay - Parachutes
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Elliott Smith - Figure 8


This is a pretty good list.

[zubinmoosa]

2006

From First To Last - Heroine
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
AFI - Decemberunderground
Cute Is What We Aim For - The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch
Rise Against - The Sufferer And The Witness
Alexisonfire - Crisis

To be honest I'm biased because I think Heroine was one of the best cd's I've ever heard.
yikes

[FeynmanWannabe]

2002 or 2005 for me, since (excluding) 2005, I think.