Albums of the Decade, year by year.

Indie bum-boys NME have just announced that The Strokes "Is This It?" is the album of the 00's. I personally have alot of time for The Strokes and their first 2 albums (especially Room on Fire) but I thought since my music taste isn't so fucking obvious I thought I would run down what I think are the best albums of the decade, year by year, before choosing one to put at the top. Eep!

Now, if you think the pinnacle of cinema is Twilight and the pinnacle of music is Sex on Fire, you can quite frankly, stop reading here.

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Here we go.

2000 - Deftones/White Pony.

Now, Deftones were my all time favourite band for a few years, and this is their best album, hands down. They keep all the drop G heavy shit going on this one, but throw in a bit of atmosphere for good measure, dull, dense, and fucking brilliant. Plus, Maynard from Tool is on here!

Runner up - Radiohead/Kid A
Shittest album - Pearl Jam/Binaural

2001 - Tool/Lateralus.

Second only to Metallica's "Master of Puppets" as the greatest metal album of all time. That is all.

Runner up - Jimmy Eat World/Bleed American
Shittest album - Michael Jackson/Invincible

2002 - Counting Crows/Hard Candy

Now, the Crows have their critics, and they certainly deserved them after appearing in that gay Pepsi commerical in 2002, but this album, is just simply gorgeous pop. They're known for being a bit miserable, and lyrically it's not all Rainbows and Blowjobs here, but the music is that upbeat (without being trite) and brilliantly produced you forget all about that. I've spent many a drunken evening riding around on my bike to this record, and loved every fucking second.

Runner up - Dream Theater/Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Shittest album - Justin Timberlake/Justified

2003 - Death Cab For Cutie/Transatlanticism

Now, I can't fucking STAND the early Death Cab stuff, the whole lo-fi indie thing is about as appealing as incest to me, and whilst there is still some of that here, Death Cab starting using atmospheric production to make an album as opposed to a bunch of songs thrown together. If you've just been dumped and plan on spending your evening feeling sorry for yourself, look no further man!

Runner up - John Mayer/Heavier Things
Shite - The White Stripes/Elephant

2004 - Incubus/A Crow Left Of The Murder

Again, although everyone is all "SCIENCE LOL", I can't fucking STAND early Incubus, because they manage to rob everything Mike Patton did in Faith No More/Mr Bungle and throw it over some horrible nu-metal esque riffage. Thankfully, after Make Yourself in 1999 Incubus found their inner pop-writers and started writing just solid fuckin' rock songs, as Morning View shown. Here, they keep their pop-stylings but throw in a fat wedge of 70's Floyd meets King Crimson prog-rock and the results are killer! Drawn out solo's, odd time signatures mixed in withamazing pop tunes like Talk Shows on Mute, pisses all over everything else they, or any of their rivals have ever done. No question.

Runner up - Jimmy Eat World/Futures
Steaming Poo - The Arcade Fire/Funeral (felt like it listening to this dirge).

2005 - Opeth/Ghost Reveries

2005 was one of my all time favourite years for music so this was well 'ard, but eventually I went with my good buddies Opeth. Opeth are basically the soundtrack to watching a witch-burning. And this album makes me want to light up a piece of timber and join in it's that bloody good!

Runner up - Porcupine Tree/Deadwing
Massive chonging poo - Dream Theater/Octavarium

2006 - Saosin/Saosin

Now, 2006 was a shit hot year for music too so this was equally tough.
Saosin are the only sort've post-hardcore band (i.e Billy Talent, Alexisonfire) that I give a flying fuck about, because instead of writing concept albums about the four fucking elements like those posh-boys in Thrice did, they keep it simple. They churn out the riffs, go sick on the drums, and keep the mood high, and just simply rock the fuck out. There's a danger when your singer goes above a D5 that you might sound like you're in fucking Dragonforce, but this guys probably got the best voice out of the lot too. The albums over before you know it too, 12 songs in 41 minutes. Even Weezer would be proud of that shit!

Runner up - Mastodon/Blood Mountain
Rubbish - Muse/Black Holes and Revelations

2007 - Between the Buried and Me/Colors

2007 was the ultimate in polarisation for me, there was some unbelievable peaks and alot of absolute fucking trifle, and Colors for me is the ultimate example of a band simply putting every other release that year to shame.
I like my music in 2 forms, unapologetic simple pop (no fucking gay gimics or pretentiousness like Florence and the Machine with their 12 members), or, music that is completely off it's tits, i mean, stuff that you just can not get your head around complex. BTBAM fit the second bill, this album is one, continuous 64 minute song that skates through genres like nobodies business, can't explain it, just try listening to them without having chest pains is all I can say. Their new record released this year is amazing too, but no metal album since has or ever will top this one I think, pure fucking bliss.

Runner up - The Dillinger Escape Plan/Ire Works
Shite - plenty to choose from, but i'll go with Chris Cornell/Carry On.

2008 - Panic At The Disco/PrettyOdd.

The first Panic album is probably the 2nd greatest party record evahhh (the first belonging to Steel Panther's Feel The Steel, lul whut?). So when this was released everyone got their knickers in a twist cause it didn't have any of that, instead Panic came out sounding like The Beatles circa '67. Now, simply, I could give my left nut to sound half as good as that, and these guys manage to make the most gloriously over-the-top pop record since Prince's Love Symbol album 16 years earlier, not a dull moment on here, perfect summer record.

Runner up - Weezer/The Red Album
Utter crap - Laura Marling/Alas I Cannot Swim

2009 - Taking Back Sunday/New Again.

TBS is a band that have gotten simply better with every release, I think their first album is shite, Where You Want To Be was great, Louder Now was even better, and now this. Can't really say much man, they've just hit an unstoppable peak, and the last song, Everything Must Go, is snuggles up to God Only Knows as one of my all-time favourite songs. Forget the emo tags and just listen to it, these guys are fucking class.

Runner up - Saosin/In Search of Solid Ground
Unbelievable fucking garbage - John Mayer/Battle Studies.

That is all yo, I know this is long, but was for personal gratification, and thus, I practically have a semi-on.