# Best rock albums post-2000? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2007, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194 "2007-05-23T07:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/41 "2007-05-24T19:31:56Z")
Lots of great stuff already mentioned in this thread, but I have to add **Bloc Party** - _Silent Alarm_. And I’ll second: **The Arcade Fire** - _Funeral_ **Maxïmo Park** - _A Certain Trigger_ **Franz Ferdinand** - _Franz Ferdinand_ **Coldplay** - _A Rush of Blood to the Head_ And probably a bunch more that I can’t think of off-hand. I’ll also say that I love the new albums from Bloc Party and The Arcade Fire, but I’ll hold off on adding them to the list of best albums until I see how they hold up to repeated listenings. If I’m still listening to them a year from now, they’ll definitely be on the list though. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/42 "2007-05-24T20:48:36Z")
_Time Bomb High School_ The Reigning Sound ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/43 "2007-05-24T21:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] If I was forced to do something like a top-10, it would have to include Xiu Xiu - A Promise the Microphones - the glow pt. 2 and mount eerie Lambchop - nixon Cannibal Ox - the cold vein Destroyer - Streethawk: a seduction Green Day - American Idiot Vincent Gallo - When Scott Walker - the drift yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out [/QUOTE] I admire you for adding Vincent Gallo. I am a fellow fan of his and I think he has a great lo-fi sound. Some of his stuff on _When_ even verges into post-rock territory. I wouldn’t really say his stuff is dynamic enough to qualify for _best_ album post-2000, but I do love it anyway. (By the way, **VCO3,** I know you catch a lot of flack for various things in our other forums, but in Cafe Society, you have a comrade.) ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/44 "2007-05-27T01:56:44Z")
Atomic Bitchwax --Boxriff Monster Magnet --God Says No High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings Flesh Eaters – Miss Muerte ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/45 "2007-05-27T03:49:37Z")
I don’t think I posted this in the other thread, but in my opinion Kid A by Radiohead is the best rock album of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/46 "2007-05-28T03:29:33Z")
[QUOTE=HowieReynolds] The Hold Steady - **Separation Sunday** [/QUOTE] Fabulous album. I think their first record ( **Almost Killed Me** ) is better though. The other recording I’d like to nominate is: **Southern Rock Opera** by Drive-By Truckers. I love that band. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/47 "2007-05-28T04:55:29Z")
[QUOTE=Ass For A Hat] The other recording I’d like to nominate is: **Southern Rock Opera** by Drive-By Truckers. I love that band. [/QUOTE] I do too. They have a great three-guitar sound. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194/48 "2007-05-28T05:19:48Z")
Hmm. It seems that, with a few exceptions, SDMB members like their rock as “pop” as possible. They like the “pop” in “pop/rock”. Not that there’s anything REALLY wrong with that, but if you’re talking the top albums that actually have some rock to them? Stuff that I’d hear on a “rock” radio station rather than a “top 40” station, rock with a little meat on its bones, a little roar in its, ah, roar? The Big Bands that are Big for a Reason: Tool - Lateralus Green Day - American Idiot Audioslave - Audioslave (or Revelations, really - both excellent) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists Slightly Less Big Bands - though certainly not obscure: Wolfmother - Wolfmother Monster Magnet - God Says No Seether - Disclaimer Chevelle - Wonder What’s Next, and This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May The “We Sound Like A Lot Of These Other Mainstream Bands, We Just Rock More” division: Jet - Get Born and Shine On AFI - Sing the Sorrow and Decemberunderground A little more out there: Noise Therapy - Tension The Black Mages - The Black Mages (Yes - this is music from the Final Fantasy games played by the composer’s instrumental rock band. And it absolutely rocks harder than 90% of this thread.) 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-rock-albums-post-2000/405194.md?page=2)