So, it’s decade ending time. All the music publications, webzines, blogs, fans everyone with a computer and the ability to type has a list of their top 5, 10, 20, 50, 1,000, 1,000,000 albums of the last ten years and the great, thoughtful, original minds that drive, create, nurture and bring you Tickets There have finally decided we’ll do one to. Sher if everyone else is, why wouldn’t we? Tickets There never claimed (in the last 30 minutes) to be original or independent so we’ll follow the herd with the list thing. Not really sure what’s the point since we probably only bought 20 albums in the last ten years that were actually released in that time.
Instead of doing the 1 – 50 order, we’re putting them in chronologically. This is a basic, hastily put together history of what shaped the amazing, the incredible, the mind-bendingly stunning tastes held by all at Tickets There HQ.
(Please don’t give me hell for Testament, but that album deserves to be on this list, even though it wasn’t released in the time frame. Damn calendar counter counters!!)
Artist | Album Title | Year |
Testament | The Gathering | 1999 |
Turn | Antisocial | 2000 |
The Avalanches | Since I left you | 2000 |
At The Drive In | Relationship of Command | 2000 |
The Dandy Warhols | Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia | 2000 |
Smashing Pumpkins | MACHINA/The Machines of God | 2000 |
Iron Maiden | Brave New World | 2000 |
White Stripes | White Blood Cells | 2001 |
The Foo Fighters | One By One | 2001 |
Ash | Free All Angles | 2001 |
Berkeley | Hope Prayers and Bubblegum | 2001 |
Muse | Origin of Symmetry | 2001 |
The Strokes | Is This it | 2001 |
Weezer | The Green Album | 2001 |
Idlewild | 100 Broken Windows | 2001 |
Rammstein | Mutter | 2001 |
Ben Kweller | Sha, Sha | 2002 |
The Frames | Set list | 2002 |
Johnny Cash | American IV: The Man Comes Around | 2002 |
Turn | Forward | 2003 |
Future Kings of Spain | Future Kings of Spain | 2003 |
Bell X1 | Music in Mouth | 2003 |
Queens of the Stone Age | Songs for the Deaf | 2003 |
Blur | Think Tank | 2003 |
Iron Maiden | Dance of Death | 2003 |
The Darkness | Permission to land | 2003 |
Motorhead | Inferno | 2004 |
Arcade Fire | Funeral | 2004 |
Jape | The Monkeys At The Zoo | 2004 |
The White Stripes | Elephant |
2004 |
Turn | Turn | 2005 |
Humanzi | Tremors | 2006 |
White Stripes | Icky Thumb | 2007 |
Marilyn Manson | Eat Me, Drink me | 2007 |
Happy Mondays | Uncle Dysfunctional | 2007 |
Siouxsie Sioux | MantaRay | 2007 |
Bruce Springsteen | Magic | 2007 |
Guns N Roses | Chinese Democracy | 2008 |
Metallica | Death Magnetic | 2008 |
Def Leppard | Songs from the Sparkle Lounge | 2008 |
Future Kings of Spain | Nervousystem | 2007 |
The Aftermath | Friendlier Up Here | 2008 |
Jape | Ritual | 2008 |
Whitesnake | Good to be Bad | 2008 |
Wired Desire | Barley legal (EP, Honorable mention) | 2008 |
Lady GaGa | The Fame | 2008 |
KISS | Sonic Boom | 2009 |
Megadeth | EndGame | 2009 |
Bell X1 | Blue Lights on The Runway | 2009 |
Them Crooked Vultures | Them Crooked Vultures | 2009 |