ROC presents a special presentation: Post-2000 Albums That Changed His Life: Part 1

[ROC]

THEROC-REVOLT PRESENTS HIS FINE RETRO-GRADE LIST OF POST-MILLENIAL LPS THAT INFLUENCED HIS EXISTENCE.

AND INSTEAD OF WASTING LIFE ON MENIAL TYPING, I JUST WRITE ALL THE ONES DOWN.

2000!

The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious

2001!

Cake - Comfort Eagle

Incubus - Morning View

The Strokes - Is This It

Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler

2002!

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken, and Gritz

2003!

The Bronx - The Bronx (I) (Though, this was more recent in its influence on my existence!)

Muse - Absolution

Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

The Strokes - Room on Fire

White Stripes - Elephant

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

2004!

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

Auf der Maur - Auf der Maur

Death From Above 1979 - You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine

Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder

Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Saul Williams - Saul Williams

Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere

!!! - Louden Up Now

2005!

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Kanye West - Late Registration

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

System of a Down - Hypnotize

2006!

Beck - The Information

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco

Nas - Hip Hop is Dead

Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope

Tool - 10,000 Days

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

2007!

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Caribou - Andorra

Justice - †

Kanye West - Graduation

Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

St. Vincent - Marry Me

2008!

Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward

The Bronx - The Bronx (III)

Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound

Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak

Ladytron - Velocifero

Portishead - Third

2009!

We shall learn soon!

Woo!

Edited January 25, 2009 by ROC

[METALMAN]

These are mostly good.

[GA!]

Elephant was released in 2003. But apart from that, good list!

[IAceI]

But why did they change your life?

[ROC]

But why did they change your life?

I shall reason this at a later date.

Mostly, it's because I heard the acts on the radio, but you can even kind of see that it pushes towards my fascination with indie, then to great hip-hop, then to...uhm...more indie. I don't really have an elaborate explanation, but even looking back at my posts from 2004/2005 about music, my taste was not refined (or pretentious). Great music made me into a person that felt like he needed to explore more media. That and frankly, the urge to download is so so tempting.

So yeah, that awkwardly explains everything.

[Clawson]

Are me and YI the only two people who prefer Sink and Swim to The 59' Sound?

[METALMAN]

No. I used to prefer Sink Or Swim.

But then they released the '59 Sound.

Oh and lots of other people prefer it as well I believe. I may actually be in the minority on this forum.