Okay, that decade went by sooner then we realized! I think it'd be great to look at the great Alternative musical artifacts of the decade. I've included some records in this essential list that are infact quite well known, and are on the edge of what we consider mainstream (this is where the hypocrisy of Alternative music seeps in). Whereas some may only be known to only a few closely knit people. Either way, lets go:
40 Essential Alternative albums of the 00’sAll Gone Dead - Fallen & Forgotten - An excellent piece of the Deathrock revival of the 00's
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - Post-Britpop at its best (as it sucked)
Bauhaus - Go Away White - Even reformed bands can make good albums
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - A golden monument of Electroclash
The Birthday Massacre - Violet - The most haunting Synthrock record ever made
Bloc Party - IntimacyBloc Party - Silent AlarmCrystal Castles - Crystal CastlesThe Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Horse Of The Dog - A Garage-Punk-Gothabilly classic for all fans of the genre
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz FerdinandGodspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to HeavenThe Hives - Tyrannosaurus HivesThe Horrors - Primary Colours - Europhic, dark, intricate, loud and psychedelic
The Horrors - Strange HouseInterpol - Turn On The Bright LightsKlaxons - Myths Of The Near Future - Nu Rave was a short lived fad, this is a long lived record
Leftover Crack - Mediocre GenericaM83 - Saturdays = Youth - Synthgazing masterpiece
MC Lars - The Graduate - The Godfather of Post-Punk Laptop Rap at his godliest moment
Mindless Self Indulgence - You’ll Rebel To Anything - Synthrock masterpiece, it's the Birthday Massacre, except gothless and Hip Hop influenced
Mr. Lif - Emergency RationsMy Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade - I personally despise 4th-Wave Emo bands, but these guys just shot a bullet in my head
Neils Children - Something PerpetualParalitikos - Roma No Paga TraidoresPlacebo - Black Market MusicPlacebo - CoversPeaches - The Teaches of PeachesRadiohead - Kid A - Brought underground forms of Electronic into the mainstream atmosphere
Rammstein - Reise, Reise - What was left of Industrial Metal following the genre's downward spiralling
Robots in Disguise - Get RID!Robots in Disguise - We’re In The Music BizSex Gang Children - Bastard ArtShe Wants Revenge - She Wants RevengeThe Strokes - Room Of FireSonic Youth - The EternalTest Icicles - For Screening Purposes OnlyVarious Artists - Who’s America? (Def Jux) - For all to remember Left-Leaning Anti-War and Anti-Bush Hip Hop of the decade
Various Artists - Yes New York (Wolfgang Morden) - An insight into the New York Alternative scene of the early 00's that centered around
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To TellYeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!