best major label rock albums of the decade

let's list the best major label rock albums of the decade. i want to listen to more. also, no tv on the radio/yeah yeah yeahs style major label indie rock.

my faves

my chem - black parade
fall out boy - infinity on high / folie a deux
against me - new wave
green day - american idiot
blink-182 - take off your pants and jacket

want more

is the first sum 41 album good

together through life bob dylan

major suggest ban

Discounting rock albums by country acts and teen-pop acts (both of which it's dumb to discount, but I get the idea they're not what you're looking for), there are at least these -- though probably a third of them border on marginal, as far as I'm concerned.

2000
Green Day – Warning (Reprise)
2001
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (Sympathy For The Record Industry/V2)
Kid Rock – Cocky (Lava/Atlantic)
Bob Dylan – “Love And Theft” (Columbia)
2002
The Donnas – Spend The Night (Atlantic)
Cyclefly – Crave (Radioactive/Universal)
2003
The White Stripes - Elephant (V2)
H.I.M. – Razorblade Romance (Universal)
2004
The Mooney Suzuki – Alive & Amplified (Red Ink/Columbia)
2005
The Living Things – Ahead Of The Lions (Jive/Zomba)
The Darkness – One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back (Atlantic)
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (V2/Universal)
Flyleaf – Flyleaf (Octone/Sony BMG)
Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (Necessary/Atlantic)
El Pus – Hoodlum Rock Vol. 1 (Virgin/EMI)
2006
Huck Johns – Huck (Hideout/Capitol)
Def Leppard – Yeah! (Mercury)
The Lordz – The Brooklyn Way (Perfect Game/East West)
2007
Kid Rock – Rock ‘n’ Roll Jesus (Atlantic)
The Hives – The Black And White Album (A&M/Octone)
The White Stripes - Icky Thump (Third Man/Warner Bros.)
2008
Nickelback - Dark Horse (Roadrunner/Warner Bros.)
2009
Living Things – Habeas Corpus (Jive/Zomba)

thanks

i need to listen to the darkness album

Actually, not sure why I only listed the second Darkness album -- Their first one, Permission To Land from 2003 (also Atlantic) was a lot better.

And wasn't sure if you'd consider White Stripes, Hard Fi, etc, "major label indie" or not.

Even dumber omission -- probably my favorite major-label rock album of the decade, ZZ Top's Mescalero (RCA/BMG) from 2003.

Turns out there's another thread on this, though:

Good major Label Rock/Metal albums from Late 90's-2008?

i liked that hard-fi album - id consider the stripes "major label indie" but mostly i meant bands that got the cover of spin in anticipation of their second album if you get me

mostly i was looking for stuff that came out of punk/emo scenes instead of brooklyn, so yeah

like, are the academy is... albums any good

Looks like I also listed these (among other albums listed by other people) on that other thread:

2000
Everclear – Songs From An American Movie: Vol One: Learning How To Smile (Capitol)
2001
Beautiful Creatures – Beautiful Creatures (Warner Bros.)
Days of the New – Days of the New III (Uptown/Universal)
2004
Courtney Love – America’s Sweetheart (Virgin)
2005
The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang (EMI)
2006
Damone – Out Here All Night (Island)
Rammstein – Rosenrot (Universal)

That Damone album is great fwiw. Another real good one, from 2004:

Silvertide - Show And Tell (J/BMG)

And oh yeah, best rock album of 2009, easy:

The Last Vegas – Whatever Gets You Off (Eleven Seven Warners)

this is roughly how I'd rank a top 25 of these:

Spymob - Sitting Around Keeping Score
Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux
System Of A Down - Mezmerize
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Blink 182 - Blink 182
Radiohead - Kid A
Paramore - Riot!
Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times
No Doubt - Rock Steady
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
The Strokes - Is This It
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love
Green Day - Warning
Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre

the Qotsa albums that were on a major(everything after the 1st)

I was gonna say, this is a straight fite between Rated R and Songs For The Deaf for me.

Yeah, those QOTSA albums -- especially Rated R -- definitely better than half of the albums I named. Probably missed them because the only QOTSA album still on my active shelf/not in storage is their first and best one from '98, which came out on an indie. (Didn't like their last couple, though.)

Rather Ripped

Listening to Rated R again for the first time in five or so years, and I'd forgotten quite how great it actually is. The critical idea of it at the time of it being the blueprint for the rock music of the next decade now seems slightly fanciful but as a bridge between 90s and 00s it's pretty much unparalelled.

Also, the opening of Better Living Through Chemistry and the ending of Lost Art... are still shiver-down-spine shit.

i haven't heard a lot of these albums, and, man, i really don't care if i ever hear a lot of these albums.

i did like rated r a bunch. didn't like any of the queens stuff after it though.

songs for the deaf was even better (but the first is best)

Listening to this again has reminded me how lucky I was to see to see the Homme - Oliveri - Laneghan - Grohl - other dudes lineup ot QOTSA. I'm not a big rock person but I've still never seen anyone hit drums that hard.

Rated R is great no doubt. got tired of songs for the deaf pretty fast, but then again the "no one knows" video was on ten times a day

Healthy in Paranoid Times? Hell no, the Bob Rock-less Spiritual Machines is the obvious answer.

Actually led me to read the Kurzweil book, too.

haha yeah i dunno, my wife is big into Our Lady Peace so all those CDs are around here but that was the one that stuck out to me the most.

both Panic at the Disco albums aren't bad. bit weird really, first one has a sort of trying to be cool electropop sound failing hopelessly, but the tunes are all pretty good sing alongs. the recent one is even weirder cause our posterbois are now trying to be the Beatles and the Beach Boys. there's at least 1 great tune on that one, sung by, i believe, the guitarplayer.

i don't know if they qualify as rock though. maybe.

rock enough, i'd say

Lots of good ones already mentioned. Here are some more that haven't been, yet. Listed by year, except when they're not.

2000: PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
2001: Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
2002: Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
2003: The Strokes - Room On Fire
2004: Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
2005: Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers (really 2003 but all the best from 05 have been said)
2006: New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
2007: Bruce Springsteen - Magic
2008: U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (really 2000, but what is time, really?)
2009: ?

2008: U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (really 2000, but what is time, really?)

I loled.

Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

I don't understand what the question is asking for.

It's asking people to name what they think are good rock albums released on major labels between 2000 and 2009.

This first is the best, but Rated R is certainly the first album that came to my mind when I saw this thread title.

It's kinda sad that my list is so short, but that's the way the corporate cookie is crumbling.

Oh wait - RUSH SNAKES & ARROWS!!!

i really think we're at the point where it's impossible to make like a big budget "name brand" major label rock record that is actually good. they all just sound like shit now

― could it be that it was all so shipley? (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:19 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Mastodon kinda did it but even then it doesn't hold a candle to their first couple of albums.
If Torche and Baroness become a name brand it could be possible. I think Qotsa's best days are sadly behind them though, even if i liked their recent albums, they just werent as great as preceded it.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:21 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but that would probably be better on its own thread

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:23 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah yr right, nu metallica would suck a dong even if they did that shit in robert pollard's basement or the most expensive studio in the world

― could it be that it was all so shipley? (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:24 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

all bands run out of steam. Some quit and some shit over their legacy cuz it makes them money and still sell out stadiums. Some fans put up with it because they still mainly play the old songs live.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:27 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and if one truly awful album is followed by a "decentish" album then it's regarded as a "return to form".

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:28 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"Mastodon kinda did it but even then it doesn't hold a candle to their first couple of albums."

I disagree with this. I think their new one is much better than Remission, and its up there with Leviathan. I think these guys are getting better.

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:29 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

anyway i still reckon you should start a separate thread and paste those posts on it.
xp

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:30 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Herm, are you going to make a poll about which of the above comments is the best? I vote the one that starts "anyway I still reckon" followed closely by "decentish".

i don't know if mastodon should count as major label rock since it's still totally metal, even though the vocals and stuff are edging towards modern rock style. agree with this 100% though:

i really think we're at the point where it's impossible to make like a big budget "name brand" major label rock record that is actually good. they all just sound like shit now

Both Silversun Pickups albums are pretty great.

kid a was released on capitol, i think thats a major, so i would say that

neither Silversun Pickups album is on a major label -- in fact it was a big deal when one of their singles recently became the first indie record in x years to hit #1 on the modern rock chart

elephant in the room:

Andrew WK - I GET WET

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Liars - Drum's not dead (Mute, 2006)

The Knife - Silent Shout (Mute, 2006)

Fever Ray - Fever Ray (Mute, 2009)

Mmm wait, those are barely rock albums right?