rock is a relative term. you'll know when you see my list. and this is just personal favorites; i'm not going rolling stone on here and saying they're definitive or you must respect them...although some of them have been considered great by many critics.

Radiohead - "OK Computer"
Wilco - "Being There"
J. Mascis & the Fog - "More Light"
R.E.M. - "New Adventures in Hi-Fi"
Weezer - "Pinkerton"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment"
The White Stripes - "White Blood Cells"
Blink 182 - "Enema of the State"
Green Day - "Nimrod"
Fugazi - "The Argument"
Moby - "Play"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Slip"
Nada Surf - "Let Go"
Grandaddy - "The Sophtware Slump"
Ween - "Quebec"
Tool - "Aenima"
Burning Brides - "The Levity Ball"
Sublime - "Sublime"
They Might Be Giants - "Factory Showroom"
The Rentals - "Seven More Minutes"
Aerosmith - "Nine Lives"
Ben Folds - "Rockin' the Suburbs"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"
Apples in Stereo - "Tone Soul Evolution"
No Doubt - "Return of Saturn"
Tenacious D - "Tenacious D"
Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt"

i don't give a shit what anyone disagrees with or thinks is garbage...but feel free to list your own, pretentiously obscure or painfully mainstream.

i'll probably list a few more that i forgot about...

Weezer - Pinkerton
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Gomez - How We Operate
The Strokes - Is This It?
Vampire Weekend - Self Titled (and kiss my ass)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ben Folds Five - Forever and Ever Amen
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

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Brand New "Deja Entendu"
Alkaline Trio "From here to Infirmary"
Lagwagon "Double Plaidinum"
Against Me "New Wave"
NOFX "The war on errorism"
Blink 182 "Dude Ranch"
Slightly Stoopid "Everything you need"
Cobra Skulls "Draw Muhammad"
A Day to Remember "And their name was treason"
Korn "Follow the leader"

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Stone Temple Pilots - "No. 4"
AFI - "Sing the Sorrow"
Foo Fighters - "The Colour and the Shape"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Plans"
We are Scientists - "Brain Thrust Mastery
Oasis - "(What's the Story) Morning Glory"
Queens of the Stone-age - "Songs for the Deaf"
Incubus - "Morning View"
Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory"

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

Dig Me Out and The Libertines would make my list for sure.

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Yellow Loudness - "Where In America"
Bash - "Fanfares"
Spider T. - "Right Below Canada"
The Brain - "The Knee"
Mugging - "Statistic"
The Minority Malcontents - "Death Before Fireworks"
I made these up, but I only listen to what Pandora tells me to listen to.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Theory Of A Deadman is awesome.

whatever and ever amen you mean

and i had forgotten that qualified because i thought it was older but indeed it does qualify and indeed it was their best album.

No White Stripes love here?

Crosscheck, Morning Glory was 95

Do you mean "Fall of The Plastic Empire"? The Levity Ball is a track on that album. They're an extremely underrated band that should've gotten the chance to make it big. Very good live also.

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I love that album...so many good songs...

...I especially love how you transition from something so somber and serious as "Brick" to the upbeat and bitter "Song for the Dumped"

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Here are a few that immediately leap to mind:

The Shins, Oh Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Being There
Fountains of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers
New Pornographers, Electric Version, Twin Cinema, and Challengers
Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Okkervil River, The Stage Names
Steve Earle, The Mountain
Gillian Welch, Revelator
Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac

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Here's my list:




I'm pretty sure I haven't listened to a single entire rock album released in the last 15 years..

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Forgot Sufjan Stevens--both the Michigan and Illinois albums.

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Apologist + Dan McNeil = MATCH!

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I never pegged TM as the resident hipster.

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Doug's off the hook.

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Agreed. Perhaps a resident hipster doofus, but not just a resident hipster.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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Weezer - Pinkerton
Smoking Popes - Born To Quit
Local H - Pack Up The Cats
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
White Stripes - Elephant
The Hives - Barely Legal
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
System Of A Down - S/T
Verbena - Souls For Sale
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own
Black Keys - Thickfreakedness
Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace, Love, Death Metal

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That didn't come out in 96? My bad, I guess it didn't. Destination Failure is good, but I wouldn't put it on my fav list.

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Tributosaurus-- Greatest Hits That Were Actually Other Bands Greatest Hits

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Old 97s, Fight Songs

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MY GUY!!!!!

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I haven't listened/ bought many preceding the last 15 years... I BOLDED the critical part of the statement. As WZ alluded to, it depends upon a wide interpretation of what a "rock" album is..

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Ike Reilly, Salesmen and Racists

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While that is a fine choice I prefer what I believe are their 2 greatest works. "Not covering but Becoming the Starlight Vocal Band because Afternoon Delight fucking rocks" or "the john popper years"

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