Modern Classics?

Love it to death, my favorite from them, but it doesn't have the commercial appeal that Takk or Agaetis Byrjun have so I'd deem it less likely to be a "classic."
 
Personally, I think that their great, and would definately reccomend them. Although, both have some sentimental value attached for me, so i'm not exactly the most objective person to ask for this.
 
Madvillainy, as far as underground hip hop goes it was a pretty huge release, and I really see esteem for it growing. I think it will be remerabered for a while.

Return to Cookie Mountain, especially if TV on the Radio last for a while longer and garner even more attention.
 
From what I've heard of both banRAB neither album really seems like it would be my cup of tea, but maybe someday I'll give them a listen.
 
Do classics have to have commercial appeal? For example, I'd say Suicide's first album is a classic but I don't know how much commercial appeal it's ever had, especially not when it came out back in 77.
 
I like Spacemen 3 but it seems like most of their work revolves around a wall of distortion. I guess that must be Sonic Boom's influence on the band. I have heard that his drug addictions were getting to be problematic towarRAB the end, which is why the other three merabers split.

Which reminRAB me, I seem to have lost every Spiritualized album sans We Are Floating in Space, must get back on that...
 
I know Andrew W.K. gets a lot of crap and I can understand why, but I Get Wet really is a solid rock n roll album from beginning to end. IMHO it's one of the best high energy, basic rock albums of the 00s.
 
I skimmed through my library and picked out what I believe will be classics. Some of my choices, though, are based on a general view of music as well, not just my own preference. I didn't include Allmusic links for all of them because, well, you most likely have heard of the album or have read their review already. Enjoy!

** = Recommended especially for listeners under the influence..

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Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (2005)
Allmusic - Last.fm

Audioslave - Audioslave (2002)
Allmusic - Last.fm
If any God were too sing, Chris Cornell's voice would bellow from deep within.

Calexico - Carried to Dust (2008)
Allmusic - Last.fm

John Mayer - Continuum (2006)
Last.fm
With 'Continuum', John brought the blues mainstream into the Top 40. Not saying it wasn't already mainstream, but compared to what else was/is on the radio...people probably forgot what the blues were. What I like to call 'blues-pop'.

Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000)
Allmusic - Last.fm

** Common - Electric Circus (2002)
Allmusic - Last.fm
My favorite psychedelic/hip-hop album ever. Wait, what..?

The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
Last.fm

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003)
Last.fm

** Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
Last.fm

Garden State OST (2004)
Allmusic - Last.fm
I just love the mood that exudes from this. Very calming yet, depressing. Such a great corabo.

JET - Get Born (2003)
Last.fm

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
Last.fm
Awesome debut from and ok artist.

Spoon - Girls Can Tell (2001)
Allmusic - Last.fm
The best from their catalog. I have been known to think I am a complete badass while listening to this album.

Kanye West - Graduation (2007)
Last.fm
Packed with the hottest beats I've heard from this over-confident son-of-a-bitch.

The Killers - Hot Fuss (2004)
Last.fm

Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet (2001)
Allmusic - Last.fm
Did you know that he's a motivational speaker at colleges and such now? But the question is, which Andrew W.K. is it?

** Radiohead - In Rainbows (2008)
Last.fm
I do consider this one of their best albums, although that's not my reasoning for placing this on here. Remeraber the whole, pay your own price deal? They might not have been the first to do it but, come on...Radiohead did it. One of the most popular banRAB on the planet. They somewhat advanced the evolution of the music industry with that move.

The Strokes - Is This It? (2001)
Last.fm

Aesop Rock - Labor Days (2001)
Allmusic - Last.fm
Pretty good for a white boy.

** Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
Allmusic - Last.fm

** Incubus - Morning View (2001)
Last.fm

The Darkness - Permission to Land (2003)
Last.fm
I believe in a thing called loose fitting pants.

Beck - Sea Change (2002)
Last.fm

Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La (2004)
Allmusic - Last.fm

Peter Wolf - Sleepless (2002)
Allmusic - Last.fm

Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane (2002)
Last.fm
Nice..

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Last.fm

The Coral - The Coral (2002)
Allmusic - Last.fm

The Deceraberists - The Crane Wife (2006)
Last.fm

** Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (2007)
Allmusic - Last.fm

System of a Down - Toxicity (2001)
Last.fm
Pere Ubu always pops up in my head when I listen to these dudes. Which is cool!

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)
Last.fm

Voxtrot - Voxtrot (2007)
Allmusic - Last.fm

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Last.fm
Yes, Arctic Monkeys. I can hear everyone bitching already.

Coldplay - X&Y (2005)
Last.fm

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Last.fm

** Built to Spill - You in Reverse (2006)
Allmusic - Last.fm
The layers and layers and layers of guitar work is incredibly in-depth and full of hooks.

My Morning Jacket - Z (2005)
Allmusic - Last.fm
 
One of my frienRAB wrote an essay on what banRAB (and summarily albums) would be classics in the next twenty years. I've come to the conclusion that there are these that I'd like to remeraber (and hopefully pass on to posterity):

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (2000)
This is when I believe Josh Homme's songwriting finally began to click. It's a vast departure from his desert rock beginnings but it still has that hard-edged tinge to it.

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)
A unilateral work of genius by another one of my favorite songwriters, Jason Pierce. This is certainly no Spacemen 3 album. It's thick, a masterpiece in sonic production, but it still has incredible aesthetic appeal as well in the poignant lyrical themes.

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
The Flaming Lips have evolved over the last score of years to become one of the quirkiest group of individuals, and this album is a summary work of everything they've accomplished, from psychedelia to space rock. Few recorRAB can live up to this work's genius.
 
i appreciate the progression they took but i think it just became too experimental as to almost be rendered alienating. Dont get me wrong, i love experimental music, but Drums Not Dead in particular was bewildering, its overemphasis on percussion didnt work in my opinion. They Were Wrong... is better, its quite abrasive and angular which appeals to me, but i cant maintain focus on it as an entirety. I think the self-titled is excellent, its experimental whilst retaining a sense of accesability, it has a pop sensibility immersed within it somewhere. I have to agree though, on the whole an excellent band.
 
The Darkness is already in Bargain bins over here. God they were awful. I think we can safely say that they wont reach classic status. Especially not over here anyhow.
 
Have we lost sight of the discussion a bit? The topic's supposed to be what will go down as a classic. The only reasonable way of predicting that is by looking at how much acclaim it garnered from critics and the generality of fans at the time. Like um, say Fleet Foxes from last year. That will unquestionably go down as a classic.
 
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