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.
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.)
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.)
