1. Mars Volta, De-Loused in the Comatorium
2. John Frusciante, Shadows Collide With People
3. Slipknot, Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)
4. Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Brand New, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
7. Against Me!, As The Eternal Cowboy
8. The White Stripes, Under Blackpool Lights
9. Muse, Hullabaloo
Bryce's Top 9 Artists that Defined Music in the 2000's
- Timbaland
- DJ Danger Mouse
- Jay-Z
- T-Bone Burnett
- The Arcade Fire
- Lady Gaga
- Beyonce
- Thom Yorke
- Outkast
9. Coldplay's First Two Albums - Whatever your opinion is of them now (as pop music pioneers or the lovechildren of U2 in the worst way possible), there's no denying that Parachutes and A Rush of Cold Blood to the Head are two really damn good albums - no matter how sick you are of "Yellow" and "Clocks" - released at a time early in the decade in which truly great music was really, really hard to find.
8.. Radiohead's In Rainbows - It's cliche to repeat this, but this album was truly a radical event which gave credence to the all-too-obvious change had already happened in the manufacturing and consumption of music which seemed obvious to everyone but the music industry itself, also legitimizing the guerrilla-style distribution practices already exercised by Clap Your Hands say Yeah and Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine. It's also just a damn good album.
7. The Mash-up - Further evidence of the changes in the manufacturing and consumption of music that In Rainbows evidenced, mash-ups (in both audio and video form) were this decade's truly liberating form of art. The biggest props go to the unadulterated genius of Girl Talk.
6. The Death of 'Garage Rock' - The first hint of a sea change in alternative music came around 2002 when heavily publicized bands like The Hives, The Vines, The Strokes, and The White Stripes came into the forefront from obscurity. But the lesser of these bands quickly fizzled out as The White stripes proved themselves to be a band not fitting into any of these simple group labels, and Jack White being the closest thing this decade had to a legitimate rock star. The fizzling of Garage Rock also thankfully made way for the far more real sea change that would happen in...
5. 2004 - This was the year the floodgates open. When emo in 2003 threatened to be the only accessible alternative source to mainstream music, Arcade Fire, TV on the Radio, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, and many more artists all released groundbreaking work mere months apart, drastically altering the musical landscape of the decade for those of us fortunate enough to be in college at the time.
4. The 80s Return in a Good Way - From brief comebacks by Morrissey, The Cure, and New Order to 80s-sound-summoning bands like Interpol, She Wants Revenge, Ladyhawke, La Roux, M83, and even the Madonna-channeling Lady Gaga, this decade embraced the true musical depth and worth (or the shameless synth pop) of Reagan-era New Wave and popular music, appropriating it into unique-but-heavily-influenced sounds without a hint of irony. Okay, maybe there was a little irony.
3. "Side Projects" - Every great musician this year seemed devoted to so many other musical groups and projects that they never seemed to ever devote themselves to any "main act" (ex., Jack White, Wolf Parade, the entire concept of Broken Social Scene), thus allowing musicians to show off the extent of their versatility and unique talents
2. Brooklyn - The decade's (for better or worse) self-appointed mecca of tragically hip culture offered us some truly great music (TV on the Radio, The National, Yeasayer, School of Seven Bells) that rose above any of the borough's mustachioed, gentrifying trust fund baby cliches.
-- bryce, arielle, and landon palmer
landon's blog can be found at http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/author/landon
landon's blog can be found at http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/author/landon
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