The bled - Pass the Flask Converge - Jane Doe Every Time I Die - Hot Damn! Poison the Well - Tear From the Red Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart I could do 100 for each genre tbh
Others may have already known this, but while attempting to do this I’ve realized that 1999 is one of the most insane years for music ever. Kept adding albums only to find out they were released a year too early. All of these would have prob made my list. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Smog - Knock Knock Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness Mos Def - Black on Both Sides Pharoah Monch - Internal Affairs Dr Dre - 2001 Tom Waits - Mule Variations Also other classics like.. Wilco - Summerteeth The Roots - Things Fall Apart Blink 182 - Enema of the Stare Eminem - The Slim Shady LP Jimmy Eat World - Clarity American Football - American Football Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angelas The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Can't wrap my brain around ranking these right now, but here's a list in mostly alphabetical order: Alex G - God Save the Animals Alex G - Beach Music Alex G - House of Sugar Anthony Green - Avalon Beach Fossils - Somersault Circa Survive - Juturna Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien Daughter - Not to Disappear Deafheaven - New Bermuda Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes Deftones - White Pony Deftones - Deftones Deftones - Diamond Eyes DIIV - Deceiver DIIV - Is the Is Are Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside Empty Country - Empty Country Ex:Re - Ex:Re Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist - Alfredo Greet Death - Dixieland Greet Death - New Hell Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter Hovvdy - True Love Hum - Inlet Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle Kendrick Lamar - Damn. Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood The Killers - Hot Fuss The Killers - Sam's Town King Krule - The Ooz M. Ward - Post-War Mac DeMarco - Salad Days Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe Madvillain - Madvillainy MF DOOM - MM.. FOOD Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank The National - Trouble Will Find Me Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven Porches - The House Porches - Pool Radiohead - In Rainbows Radiohead - Kid A Radiohead - The King of Limbs The Sidekicks - Runners in the Nerved World Snail Mail - Lush Sufjan Stevens - Javelin Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell System of a Down - Toxicity Tame Impala - Currents Title Fight - Floral Green Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy Weezer - Maladroit Whitney - Light Upon the Lake Wild Nothing - Nocturne Windows96 - One Hundred Mornings Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard
I just quickly went through the year 2000 and this is the short list lol. No way I can narrow down 25 years to 25 picks. Modest Mouse - Moon and Antartica Deftones - White Pony Radiohead - Kid A Lamb of God - New American Gospel 100 Demons - In The Eyes of the Lord Sade - Lovers Rock At The Drive In - The Relationship of Command Thrice - Identity Crisis Outkast - Stankonia Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence Three Six Mafia - When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1 Madball - Hold It Down Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard In Flames - Clayman Nonpoint - Statement Papa Roach - Infest Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Cave In - Jupiter Taproot - Gift Tragedy - Tragedy Hed(pe) - Broke The Haunted - Made Me Do It Nothingface - Violence Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 Ludacris - Back For the First Time Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
I made a big pile of albums and then cut it down to a 100 and alphabetised it, because ranking it was a pain. This list heavily favours albums that meant a lot to me in the last 25 years (meaning from age 11 to 23), rather than albums I would now call "objectively great" (though the latter was also somewhat of a factor, and I also think that all these are in fact awesome). I also decided to not pick more than one album per artist. 112 - Pleasure & Pain A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service American Football - American Football (LP2) Ariana Grande - Yours Truly Aventura - God’s Project Bad Religion - True North Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens Brandy - Full Moon Bun B - Trill Busted - A Present For Everyone Cam’ron - Come Home With Me Casper - nur liebe, immer. Cassidy - I’m A Hustla Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book Cho - Chosen Common - Be Craig David - Born To Do It Curse - Freiheit Dave – Psychodrama De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody… Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Magnificent Drangsal - Zores Dreezy - No Hard Feelings Dynamie Deluxe - TNT Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino Farhot - Kabul Fire Vol. 2 Fashawn - Boy Meets World Fat Joe - All Or Nothing Ghotsface Killah - Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald CityIce Good Charlotte - The Young And The Hopeless Green Day - American Idiot Headie One - Gang Ice Cube - Laugh Now, Cry Later Intuition & Equalibrum - Intuition & Equalibrum J Hus - Common Sense J. Cole - Born Sinner Ja Rule - R.U.L.E. Jamie Foxx - Unpredictable Javier - Left Of Center Jay Z - The Blueprint Juelz Santana - What The Game’s Been Missing Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material Kamp & Whizz Vienna - Versager Ohne Zukunft Kanye West - College Dropout Kehlani - SweetSexySavage Lary - Hart Fragil Lemar - Time To Grow Lil Kim - The Naked Truth Little Brother - The Minstrel Show Living Legends - Classic LL Cool J - The G.O.A.T. Mac Miller - The Divine Feminine Maino - If Tomorrow Comes… Manillio - Daheim Daheim Manuellsen - Insallah Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer Max Herre - Max Herre Method Man & Redman - Blackout 2 Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead Ne-Yo - In My Own Words Negativ - Negativitijdperk Nelly - Suit Oddisee - The Iceberg Osker - Idle Will Kill Papa Roach - The Paramour Sessions R. Kelly - Happy People / U Saved Me Rick Ross - Rather You Than Me Rihanna - Anti Rola - 12:12 Romeo Santos - Golden Ronnie Flex - Rémi Rosalía - El Mal Querer Ruby Ibarra - Circa91 Ruston Kelly - Dying Star Samy Deluxe - Dis Is Wo Ich Herkomm Sean Paul - Dutty Rock Sido - Ich Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment Spraynard - Mable Statik Selektah - Spell My Name Right Stormzy - This Is What I Mean Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler The Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury The Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity The Game - Doctor’s Advocate The Lawrence Arms – Metropole (Alternative/Punk) The Menzingers - After The Party The Notorious B.I.G - Duets: The Final Chapter The Roots - Game Theory Tony Bennet - Duets 2 Transit – Joyride (Alternative/Punk) Trey Songz - I Gotta Make It UGK - UGK (Underground Kingz) Usher - Confessions Wiki - No Mountains In Manhattan YG - My Krazy Life Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak Albums I cut: Tua - Tua Lorde - Pure Heroine All Time Low - Don’t Panic Wale - Attention Deficit Will Smith - Lost & Found Margo Cilker - Phorylle Black Milk - Popular Demand New Found Glory - Sticks And Stones Rhymefest - Blue Collar Remy Ma - There’s Something About Remy Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece Bad Gyal - Worldwide Angel Boyz N Da Hood - Dem Boyz Jeezy - Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap Paul Wall & Statik Selektah - Give Thanks Michael Jackson - Invincible M.I.A. - Kala Lil Wayne - Carter 3 Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls
Early 2000s was indie hipster shit that surprisingly left forgotten. Only remember the y2k emo now...
I had that thought too hahaha but I was like "@The Lucky Moose knows their shit I'll revisit it later"
I like R&B/Rap crossovers and my then girlfriend (now wife) loved this album a lot too so we spent a lot of time listening to it together
With not much thought: 1. The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound 2. Green Day - American Idiot 3. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past 4. Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 5. The Wonder Years - Suburbia 6. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica 7. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday 8. The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun 9. The Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There 10. Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear 11. Origami Angel - gami gang 12. Rise Against - Siren Song 13. Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transit 14. Butch Walker - Letters 15. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) Wednesday - Rat Saw God Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning The Wrens - The Meadowlands Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday My Morning Jacket - At Dawn Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream Jason Isbell - Southeastern Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds The National - Boxer Spoon - They Want My Soul Big Thief - UFOF Titus Andronicus - The Monitor The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Wilco - A Ghost Is Born Radiohead - In Rainbows Green Day - American Idiot Deafheaven - New Bermuda Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands Ruston Kelly - Dying Star The Strokes - Is This It Thursday - A City by the Light Divided Kathleen Edwards - Failer At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command Foxing - Nearer My God MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Vampire Weekend - Contra Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago Thursday - Full Collapse The National - Sleep Well Beast Kendrick Lamar - Damn Frank Ocean - Blonde The National - Alligator Lucero - 1372 Overton Park Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism My Morning Jacket - Z MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs Japandroids - Celebration Rock Bruce Springsteen - Magic Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free Phosphorescent - Muchacho Outkast - Stankonia Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out Jimmy Eat World - Futures Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind Gillian Welch - Soul Journey The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic Sonic Youth - Murray Street Bruce Springsteen - The Rising Los Campesions! - All Hell Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Baroness - Blue Record Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People Deafheaven - Sunbather Tyler Childers - Purgatory Passion Pit - Gossamer The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Mastodon - Leviathan Alvvays - Blue Rev Radiohead - Kid A White Reaper - You Deserve Love The Decemberists - The King Is Dead Tame Impala - Lonerism Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound The Hotelier - Goodness Baroness - Yellow and Green Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
absolutely brutal narrowing this down to 100 lol but I think I'm okay with it edit cos I had a duplicate whoops The Receiving End of Sirens - Between the Heart and the Synapse Circa Survive - Juturna Fugazi - The Argument Elliott Smith - Figure 8 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Jimmy Eat World - Futures blink-182 - Untitled Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Foxing - Nearer My God Alvvays - Blue Rev Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People dredg - El Cielo Empty Country - Empty Country At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes Bon Iver - 22, A Million Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning Thrice - Beggars Karnivool - Sound Awake Thursday - No Devolucion My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Madvillain - Madvillainy The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You The Wrens - The Meadowlands Incubus - Morning View Opeth - Ghost Reveries The National - Alligator Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister Lydia - Illuminate Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside Jimmy Eat World - Invented The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation Gang of Youths - angel in realtime. Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation Mac Miller - Circles Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You The Avalanches - Since I Left You Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains Frank Ocean - Blonde Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy Sharon Van Etten - Are We There Underoath - Define the Great Line Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There Weezer - The White Album Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city mewithoutYou - Ten Stories The Roots - undun St. Vincent - Strange Mercy Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were Flying Lotus - You're Dead! Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert The Killers - Pressure Machine The Used - The Used Wild Pink - ILYSM The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle Turnover - Peripheral Vision Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service The Hotelier - Goodness Childish Gambino - Because the Internet There Will Be Fireworks - The Dark, Dark Bright Wilco - A Ghost Is Born Sharon Van Etten - epic Women - Public Strain Strange Ranger - Remembering the Rockets The Antlers - Hospice Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist Paramore - Paramore Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun Anberlin - Cities +44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor Alexisonfire - Crisis The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
ERRA - ERRA The Contortionist - Language From Autumn to Ashes - Holding a Wolf by the Ears ERRA - Impulse Volumes - Via The Roots - Undun Misery Signals - Controller Northlane - Discoveries ERRA - Augment Charli xcx - Pop 2 Jay-Z - 4:44 Alexisonfire - Otherness Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun Underoath - Ø Lydia - Illuminate The National - I Am Easy to Find Finch - Say Hello to Sunshine The Receiving End of Sirens - The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi Invent Animate - Stillworld Novelists - Souvenirs Invent Animate - Everchanger These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lioness Sleeps When Its Antelope Come Home Jimmy Eat World - Invented blink-182 - blink-182 Boysetsfire - The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years Empty Country - Empty Country II The Receiving End of Sirens - Between the Heart and the Synapse Poison the Well - You Come Before You Radiohead - Kid A dredg - El Cielo Circa Survive - Juturna Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat Thursday - No Devolucion Charli xcx - BRAT Alexisonfire - Crisis The Bled - Silent Treatment Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation Dream On Dreamer - Loveless Jay-Z - The Blueprint Chief Keef - Almighty So 2 Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs A Lot Like Birds - No Place Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix TesseracT - War of Being ERRA - Cure My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible Converge - You Fail Me Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart Secret and Whisper - Great White Whale Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room - Hurricane Season The National - Boxer Foxing - Nearer My God Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Madvillain - Madvillainy Enter Shikari - The Spark Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends The Horrible Crowes - Elsie Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition The Chariot - One Wing In Hearts Wake - Divination Scarlet - Cult Classic Architects - Hollow Crown AFI - Sing the Sorrow Thrice - Beggars Cog - Shared Space The Parallel - Weaver Saba - Care for Me The Roots - And Then You Shoot Your Cousin Underoath - Define the Great Line Jay-Z - The Black Album Counterparts - A Eulogy for Those Still Here After the Burial - Rareform August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore Peter Gabriel - Up From Autumn to Ashes - Too Bad You’re Beautiful Johnny Truant - In the Library of Horrific Events The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts Parkway Drive - Horizons Zao - The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here Between the Buried and Me - Colors Ghost Atlas - All Is in Sync… The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghosts Senses Fail - The Fire Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan Jay-Z - American Gangster Norma Jean - Wrongdoers Alexisonfire - Watch Out! The Used - The Used The Word Alive - Life Cycles Architects - Daybreaker The Blood Brothers - Crimes The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave Invent Animate - Heavener Dead Poetic - Four Wall Blackmail yeah this was brutal lmao