Jan 8, 2011

25 Essential Records: 2000-2010

After sorting through every piece of music I own, it really hit me how much the new millennium sucked...in countless ways, but musically especially.  My post will not be as illustrative, or as informative as Joes because....well, I don't give a fuck.  Enjoy.

1.) GY!BE - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Constellation Records, 2000)

2.) Cursive - The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek Records, 2003)

3.) Crowbar - Sonic Excess in its Purest Form (Spitfire Records, 2001)

4.) The Black Keys - Brothers (Nonesuch, 2009/2010)

5.) Sunn 0))) - ØØ Void (Rise Above Records, 2000)

6.) All Out War - Condemned to Suffer (Victory Records, 2003)

7.) Best Coast - Crazy For You (Mexican Summer Records, 2010)

8.) Ringworm - Birth is Pain (Victory Records, 2001)

9.) Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions (A389 Records, 2009)

10.) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (Paper Bag Records, 2002)

11.) Mogwai - EP + 6 (Toy's Factory Records, 2000)

12.) Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (Rise Above Records, 2000)

13.) Rival Schools - United by Fate (Island Records, 2001)

14.) Mastodon - Remission (Relapse, 2002)

15.) Cave In - Epicenter EP (BMG Records, 2002)

16.) Boris - Heavy Rocks (Quattro/UK Discs, 2002)

17.) Thursday - Full Collapse (Victory Records, 2001)

18.) Sleep - Dopesmoker (Tee Pee Records, 2003)

19.) Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head, 2000)

20.) Converge - Jane Doe (Equal Vision, 2001)

21.) Tragedy - Vengeance (Tragedy Records, 2002)

22.) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino Records, 2009)

23.) Isis - Celestial (Escape Artist Records, 2000)

24.) Saviours - Accelerated Living (Kemado Records, 2009)

25.) Floor - Floor (No Idea, 2002)



-Woods