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Essential Albums of the Last 15 Years

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Everyone share what you considered the essential albums of the last 15 years. So try to pick ones that actually brought something, instead of just sounding nice.

No OLP included in list, they're a given.


Janes Addiction - Strays
Janes Addiction - Ritual
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pearl Jam - Vitology
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Nirvana - In Utero
I Mother Earth - The Quicksilver Meat Dream
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The Tea Party - Transmission
Matthew Good Band - Audio of Being
Matthew Good - Avalanche
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Incubus - Make Yourself
Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
Outkast - Stankonia
Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
Big Wreck - The Pleasure and the Greed
The Vines - Highly Evolved


there's some more i'm missing, but i'm sure you guys can some up with some too
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"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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I'd add some White Stripes to that list.
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weezer- pinkerton
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mineral - end serenading
green day - dooky
old blink 182
probably something by the cure
thursday - full colapse
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I Mother Earth - The Quicksilver Meat Dream



just curious.. you think this has already brought influence?
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A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - Ænima
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
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Here's my additions!

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan...
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Kind Of Like Spitting - Old Moon In The Arms Of New
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Slint - Spiderland
Nirvana - Nevermind
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wron With Love
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
White Stripes - De Stijl

That's enough for right now. I'll post more when they come to mind.
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Nevermind by Nirvana is essential.

Red hot chili peppers- Californication
U2- the Joshua tree


meh too lazy i'll think of more later. perhaps some guns n roses(is that from the last 15 years..? duno), or sloan.
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It all depends on taste and age.
but since we are talking from 1990 on. Here are my CD's

Acthung Baby-U2
Use Your Illusions-1 & 2 -Guns N' Roses
Californication-Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Parachute/Rush of Blood-Coldplay
The Bends/Ok Computer-Radiohead
Nevermind-Nirvana
The Black Album(Metallica) Metallica
Straight out of Compton(org released in 88-but reissued in 02')-NWA
Superunknow-Sound Garden
Ten-Pearl Jam
Tragic Kingdom-No Doubt
16 Stone- Bush
Debut CD-Wall Flowers
Mirrorball-Sara McLachan
Does This Look Infected- Sum 41
Grace-Jeff Buckley( although I am not a JB fan. Influenced alot of people)
The Color and the Shape-Foo Fighters
Anti-Christ- Marliyn Mansion
Pretty Hate Machine/Downward Spiral-NIN
Live Through This- HOLE
Dookie- Greenday
Smash- Offspring

there are more, but I will have to get back toyou. I cna cover all areas.
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starseed_10 wrote:
I Mother Earth - The Quicksilver Meat Dream



just curious.. you think this has already brought influence?


lol i didn't say anything about bringing influencial, i said it brought something new or unique, or artistic. Which it did, IME's small fan base means nothing they do is that influential
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"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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i agree with most of Gail's list as well
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good

"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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I AM ME wrote:i agree with most of Gail's list as well


thank you. I didn't really think of influential. I thought more or less of CD's that held up well over the years and almost everyone I knew had.

Like I said it is all taste and age. I am older so I might not of heard of abunch of the newer bands/artist coming out now that you guys think infuential.

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What about Alanis with Jagged Little Pill.

I keep remembering these things at random. I can't come up with a good list. :P
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Random Name wrote:What about Alanis with Jagged Little Pill.

I keep remembering these things at random. I can't come up with a good list. :P


ALanis is a great choice. It is hard to come up with list. I only came up with one cause I was listening to my friends IPOD before( I was tempted to keep it :lol: )

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Meh, people don't agree with my list because people don't know music.
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actually i agree with several from your list, i just haven't heard the rest, considering i'm not the hip punk/emo college radio type that you are.

You would love our new college radio in town
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good

"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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As Gail said, its all about the person listening.
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Most of the ones I'd suggest have already been said. But also:

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pixies - Doolittle
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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xjsb125 wrote:As Gail said, its all about the person listening.


thanks Matt, and SOOZ I would also add SM's Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings :drool:

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Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Nirvana - Nevermind, Bleach, In Utero
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Ten
Radiohead - Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A
Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
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