When I went back and ranked my top 100 2000s records a few years back, I forgot about it. Wasn't doing that again! I don't think you're alone on either of those. That's definitely the Butch album I hear discussed least, and a lot of people felt like Dashboard sold out with Dusk. But man, I love those albums so much. I played them both exhaustively that summer, and they're still two of the records that just evoke idyllic summer for me. I've got super personal connections to both of them, too; Butch that summer was my first concert and he played most of that record, and Dusk and Summer..well, I've written that whole story in a retrospective, I think! Over the years, I've come to find that I just prefer Love Drunk. That album is just so stacked with ridiculous hooks. But self-titled (mostly) holds up.
My 2006 list, haven't done a re-ranking so this was from the end of that year. 1. The Format - Dog Problems 2. The Early November - The Mother, The Mechanic and The Path 3. Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me 4. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! 5. Gatsby's American Dream - Gatsby's American Dream 6. Portugal. The Man- Waiter: "You Vultures!" 7. Anathallo - Floating World 8. Mute Math - Mute Math 9. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now 10. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade 11. The Hush Sound - Like Vines 12. Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel As School Children 13. Sugarcult - Lights Out 14. Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat 15. Saves The Day - Sound The Alarm 16. Incubus - Light Grenades 17. Cobra Starship - While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets 18. The Mars Volta - Amputechture 19. Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness 20. Tool - 10,000 Days
lol, funny that I just posted my list with that on it. Yes I can help anyone who wants some Anathallo, DM me
1. The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls in America The first album I ever heard by my favorite band. If there is a Heaven, when I die, the 15 second mark of the Stuck Between Stations will be the first thing I hear when I get there. 2. The Forecast- In the Shadow of Two Gunmen This band was one of the only cool parts about growing up in Central Illinois. I remember this album's release show at the East Peoria Legion Hall really well. Fuck I miss that place. 3. Moneen- The Red Tree I was lucky enough to live across the street from a record store in college, and I had the guy call me as soon as this and the Saves record came in. I liked both but this is the one I still listen to regularly. 4. The Format- Dog Problems I don't remember if it was a leak or what caused it, but I remember the band surprise dropping this album one night in the Summer with a long statement from Nate about the making of it. My enormous expectations for it were surpassed. 5. Manchester Orchestra- Like A Virgin Losing a Child I didn't listen to this record for weeks because I thought the band name was dumb. I was dumb. "Colly Strings" alone puts this one in the top 5. 6. The Bronx- Bronx II I'm a pretty mellow guy, but "History's Stranglers" still makes me want to run through a fucking wall and then watch Bloodsport. 7. The Killers- Sam's Town I liked the first Killers record a lot, but wasn't completely sold on the band until they went full Springsteen. 8. New Found Glory- Coming Home Ben Sherman NFG > Dickies NFG > basketball outfit NFG. 9. The Matches- Decomposer I checked this record out just because I liked the album cover. Glad I did. 10. My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade It was rad seeing a band from this scene put out a massively successful swing for the fences arena rock record. 11. Saves The Day- Sound The Alarm 12. The Loves Ones- Keep Your Heart 13. Angels and Airwaves- We Don't Need To Whisper 14. The Thermals- The Body, The Blood, The Machine 15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Show Your Bones 16. Lily Allen- Alright, Still 17. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife 18. Band of Horses- Everything All The Time 19. TV On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain 20. The Early November- The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path
honorable mentions: jay z - kingdom come, tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain, the strokes - first impressions of earth 25. pete yorn - nightcrawler 24. converge - no heroes 23. muse - black holes & revelations 22. beirut - gulag orkestar 21. drive-by truckers - a blessing and a curse 20. kevin devine - put yer ghost to rest 19. deftones - saturday night wrist 18. the walkmen - a hundred miles off 17. the swell season - the swell season 16. pearl jam - pearl jam 15. silversun pickups - carnavas 14. the raconteurs - broken boy soldiers 13. thursday - a city by the light divided 12. the killers - sam’s town 11. margot & the nuclear so and so’s - the dust of retreat 10. band of horses - everything all the time 9. the mars volta - amputechture 8. mogwai - mr. beast 7. my chemical romance - welcome to the black parade 6. j dilla - donuts 5. thom yorke - the eraser 4. manchester orchestra - im like a virgin losing a child 3. clipse - hell hath no fury 2. mastodon - blood mountain 1. arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am, that’s what i’m not
I remember writing like a 2000 word review for it on AP.net when it released - I remember the first and second disc having a lot of good material but also a good amount just kind of existing - probably could have been an all timer with some editing
I associate that more with 2005 cause I had it/it leaked in 2005, and a super early 2006 release, but yeah, it's easily my least favorite Yellowcard album and I didn't like it at the time either. It does fit in with the darker theme a bunch of these albums were having though. Paper Walls has had great legs however, and that'll feature nicely in 2007. Wikipedia tells me this came out in January of 2006 and I coulda sworn it was 2007. I remember listening to it much more in 2007, but I don't think I would have bumped anything for it. Heh, I remember this album and about two years ago went back to see if it holds up at all. It does not. This would probably make the list if I gave more credit to stuff I discovered way later in life. Yeah, that was a huge swing. It's interesting how many bands went for that concept record thing right around here and really tried to go BIG ... and ... some of it was way too big and aggressive and didn't really work. Next week has one of those in spades.
wow i remember how divisive cove saosin was. this is about the time i started following the site in my high school computer lab.
The review that I think Steve Henderson wrote for that album was a master of online arguments and fights.
I remember coming on AbsolutePunk around 06/07 and feeling totally gutted seeing people rip on The Black Parade in the forums. A lot of the old "oh they sold out" stuff, saying they were no different than a major label boy band, and most memorably for me (at the time not even a preteen girl) that their music was for "13 year old girls." I'm totally stoked to have been proven right by time, but man, people were not kind to MCR back in the day. This scene was so deeply homophobic and sexist that bands were catching flack for wearing as much makeup and kissing as many boys as MCR did, and in spite of that, they doubled down on all of it during the Black Parade era. That meant so much to me growing up, and I truly feel that the same people heaping praise on them nowadays forget exactly what they went through to make them so influential and so resonant with young folks ten years ago and to this day.
1. Underoath - Define The Great Line 2. Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat 3. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister 4. Norma Jean - Redeemer 5. Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness 6. Mute Math - Mute Math 7. Machester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child 8. Thursday - A City By The Light Divided 9. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds 10. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade 11. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now 12. Senses Fail - Still Searching 13. Saosin - Saosin 14. John Mayer - Continuum 15. He Is Legend - Suck Out The Poison 16. AFI - decemberunderground 17. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time 18. Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! 19. Anathallo - Floating World 20. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! THAT album by THAT band would've been #2 at the time.