Most influential album of the Noughties?

Stompbox

As somewhat of a spring chicken, the Noughties (the latter half anyway) was the first decade I could really identify with music. Whilst I missed out at the time, I still remember hearing 'Is This It' in its entirety and immediately acknowledging both its quality and how it represented a shift for me in terms of my listening material. It's an album that still has a profound impact on me to this day and cliches aside, made me pick up a guitar and start penning tunes. It was a genuine catalyst for my musical development. I only wish I was old enough in 2001 to have the Strokes soundtracking my summers.

Technically speaking, its a masterclass in songsmithery. Rich timeless melodies, watertight interlocking guitar lines, Casablancas' snatches of desultory glibness, the album oozes with class and confidence. You only have to look at the slew of bands who followed in their wake and the crossover effect on style to appreciate how good this album is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDTkxV-X2w

Yes.Yes.Yes.

Over to you.

ColmDawson

The latter half of the naughties? How young are you? :eek:

mickeypat

definately maybe

CDH

mickeypat wrote: »

definately maybe

Definitely Maybe came out in 1994.

Stompbox

ColmDawson wrote: »

The latter half of the naughties? How young are you? :eek:

19. My musical enlightenment came a while after 10. :P

nxbyveromdwjpg

yea that, Up The Bracket and Funeral probably

KeanSeenan

Sweet wrote: »

19. My musical enlightenment came a while after 10. :P

I'm in around that age, well 18, and I agree with you. My main listening habits before 'Is this it' consisted of a Death Row records compilation and some soundtracks and while I revisited some later, I think 'Is This It' was the 1st album to make a real impression on me.

S.M.B.

I'm not a massive Strokes fan but I'd have to agree on Is This It.

Personally, it had little impact on me when it came out but you can't deny the influence it had on the alt/indie circles.

Birneybau

"Kid A", obviously.

Like the black monolith in "2001", the missing link (too much hyperbole?), the decade would'nt have been the same without it.

No videos, no singles, no ads, just revolutionary music!

S.M.B.

What exactly did it influence?

Greatest album of the decade? Probably. Most influential? I'm not so sure.

JerryHandbag

Birneybau wrote: »

"Kid A", obviously.

Like the black monolith in "2001", the missing link (too much hyperbole?), the decade would'nt have been the same without it.

No videos, no singles, no ads, just revolutionary music!

Agreed. All because of this album we now have the phrase "doing a Kid A"

Nolanger

Wiley's first album Treddin' on thin ice'.

Miguel_Sanchez

Nolanger wrote: »

Wiley's first album Treddin' on thin ice'.

It's not really alt/indie though is it?

punchdrunk

Arcade Fire Funeral,unquestionably so!

speedboatchase

Daft Punk - Discovery and The Strokes - Is This It. Lock the thread, I'm right

punchdrunk

speedboatchase wrote: »

Daft Punk - Discovery and The Strokes - Is This It. Lock the thread, I'm right

maybe not as influential but Homework kicks it's arse

encyclopedia

"Bur - Parklife" deserves a mention

punchdrunk

encyclopedia wrote: »

"Bur - Parklife" deserves a mention

jaysus the record stores in Galway must be pure ****e if you only heard "parklife" between "2000-2010"

encyclopedia

Crap thought it said ninties

KeanSeenan

Hahahaha, I don't normally laugh at stuff on the internet, but that made me chuckle.
I think Apologies to Queen Mary is a good one, well it's been pretty influential in where I look for music, really opened my eyes to Canada...That and Arcade Fire.
My favourite album of the Noughties is probably The Unicorns.

encyclopedia

mickeypat wrote: »

definately maybe

At least I wasn't the only one

punchdrunk

encyclopedia wrote: »

At least I wasn't the only one

well in-fairness Oasis re-recorded the same three songs so many times it's hard to remember which tune came from which album

KeanSeenan

encyclopedia wrote: »

At least I wasn't the only one

Dyslexic person?or somebody who doesn't know their decades?

rcaz

speedboatchase wrote: »

Daft Punk - Discovery and The Strokes - Is This It. Lock the thread, I'm right

You're so wrong though. What the hell did Discovery influence? Discovery wasn't even influenced by something else, it was stolen and derived.

encyclopedia

KeanSeenan wrote: »

Dyslexic person?or somebody who doesn't know their decades?

I was refering to the fact that I wasnt the first person to misread the thread title

pappyodaniel

I loved the Avalanches - Since I Left You, they took sampling to a level which hasn't been equalled since.

The Strokes - This Is It influenced so many bands that decade not just musically but also the way bands looked. I always thought The Libertines were great but always considered them to be a Strokes UK.

rcaz

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I loved the Avalanches - Since I Left You, they took sampling to a level which hasn't been equalled since.

*cough* DJ Shadow *cough*

S.M.B.

What's your verdict El Pr0n?

rcaz

S.M.B. wrote: »

What's your verdict El Pr0n?

It's a really tough one... I know it looks like I'm just on here to slate other people so far, but I don't mean it that way. I'm trying to figure it out.

Personally, the most influential album of the decade for me is Kid A. No other album has tied together disparate ends so well, from anything I've heard. I don't know how much the album has influenced the sound of others in the music world, though, so I'm reluctant to suggest it.

crazyground2005

punchdrunk wrote: »

jaysus the record stores in Galway must be pure ****e if you only heard "parklife" between "2000-2010"

Ha ha well said!!!!

S.M.B.

El Pr0n wrote: »

It's a really tough one... I know it looks like I'm just on here to slate other people so far, but I don't mean it that way. I'm trying to figure it out.

Personally, the most influential album of the decade for me is Kid A. No other album has tied together disparate ends so well, from anything I've heard. I don't know how much the album has influenced the sound of others in the music world, though, so I'm reluctant to suggest it.

Gotta agree with that.

homerun_homer

Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights has got to be the biggest influence on me in the noughties. Amazing album and like all my favourites, it's got that dark edge to it. The band may never be as good as this again but they are still brilliant. The duality of Paul & Daniel's guitars, Sam's intense drumming and Carlos D sounding like no other bassist I'd heard - it still gives me shivers.

I still remember when I first heard and saw the video of PDA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw97oth25Vg

An album with songs so great that this one, Specialist didn't make the cut. And it's one of their very best!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-B2ipW8eaQ

cashback

homerun_homer wrote: »

Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights has got to be the biggest influence on me in the noughties. Amazing album and like all my favourites, it's got that dark edge to it. The band may never be as good as this again but they are still brilliant. The duality of Paul & Daniel's guitars, Sam's intense drumming and Carlos D sounding like no other bassist I'd heard - it still gives me shivers.

I still remember when I first heard and saw the video of PDA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw97oth25Vg

An album with songs so great that this one, Specialist didn't make the cut. And it's one of their very best!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-B2ipW8eaQ

That PDA video criminally cuts out the brilliant outro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA5xtHxfiTI

The Specialist is great. My version of TOTBL has it as track 12, think because it's the Australian version.

rcaz

S.M.B. wrote: »

Gotta agree with that.

Hmm, still kinda bothering me though... When I think of 'influential', I think of bands that did something completely totally new and made everyone go "Whoah, I didn't know that could be done!". Who/what really illicited responses like that? Miles Davis, Xenakis, Autechre, DJ Shadow, Aphex Twin, Jimi Hendrix, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, I dunno...

Kid A didn't do that. Kid A took a band that used to make one type of music and brought them into a pretty different kind of music (though not as radically different from OK Computer as a lot of people seem to make out, I think...). Kid A took a load of different influences, from 90s UK electronic music, 1900s classical, 70s jazz/fusion, and still the rock stuff that Radiohead had been doing for ages, and stuck them all together. They were stuck together really well, and Radiohead's undeniable skill as songwriters can't be ignored here, but the sounds aren't all that original or unusual, if you look in the same places they did. Kid A took all these sounds and styles and threw them into the brightest spotlight in popular music at the time, and that's a kind of valuable experience/demonstration/whatever if you ask me. But that isn't a reflection on the quality of the music.

So Kid A had the biggest influence on me, personally, but for those reasons, I'm hesitant to suggest it as the most influential album of the noughties.

Perhaps Aphex Twin's drukqs is more influential. But then that's kind of the same thing, lots of sounds that had been around before, stuck together. Though I think drukqs' sound is a lot more unique to Aphex Twin than Kid A is to Radiohead.

smokedeels

Donuts by J Dilla has be to on the list. The beats have been re-used so many times, the style duplicated and I hear references to it in so many albums that came after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyOmeWmwx9s

Miguel_Sanchez

smokedeels wrote: »

Donuts by J Dilla has be to on the list. The beats have been re-used so many times, the style duplicated and I hear references to it in so many albums that came after.

That's not really Alt/Indie though.

smokedeels

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

That's not really Alt/Indie though.

It's on an indie label and isn't exactly mainstream, sure the aforementioned Kid A and Daft Punk should be classed as electronic and The Avalanches album that was also mentioned is built around sampling, like the album I posted.

Sorry man, relative newbie here but I often see people stray out of the standard "Alt/Indie" tag on this forum.

seachto7

I think Bon Iver's "For Emma..." could potentially be an influential album from the 00s.
You could just say it's a man and his guitar, but I think sonically he has changed the way you can create "singer songwriter" records...

Even when you break the songs down on the record, they are basic enough from a musicians point of view, but they are put together very well, giving me a unique take on the whole one man and his guitar thing.....

Some of the Sigur Ros stuff could also be viewed in the same way...

John

How can you tell what's influential yet? For all we know something like the Futureheads could be the next generation's Velvet Underground (a very long shot I know but you get my point).

I honestly think Sigur Rós would probably win out, they've seemed to permeate everything from alt/indie, soundtracks, etc. while pioneering an original sound (which can't be said for the likes of The Strokes who are a nostalgia band really).

Nolanger

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

It's not really alt/indie though is it?

So why can other posters nominate Daft Punk and Avalanches albums then? Wiley's album was on the same label as Radiohead/White stripes and has influenced several later artists and sounds.

Kid V

Kid A is my favorite album ever but i wouldn't say its the most influential album of the 2000's or even their most influential album. If it has been influencing acts i'd say it's more of a psychological influence than a purely musical one. I cant hear much of Kid A in many of my favorite records over the last while.

Miguel_Sanchez

Ok point taken.

I was making that point as a poster not a mod though (Mod things are in bold from me).

So I wasn't trying to forbid anyone from nominating anything reasonable at all.

orourkeda

I was going to mention turn on the bright lights by interpol as well. It's a classic.

I Am Brazil by the Redneck Manifesto was easily the best irish album of the decade. I still find it difficult to understand how it is that this band are not stars.

So many to choose but they'd be my 2

S.M.B.

John wrote: »

How can you tell what's influential yet? For all we know something like the Futureheads could be the next generation's Velvet Underground (a very long shot I know but you get my point).

I honestly think Sigur Rós would probably win out, they've seemed to permeate everything from alt/indie, soundtracks, etc. while pioneering an original sound (which can't be said for the likes of The Strokes who are a nostalgia band really).

You can judge an albums influence from the day it was released up until the present day. As much as I'm not a huge fan of to the album I'd have to say Is This It wins based on this criteria.

I recently had this discussion with friends and we really struggled to think of albums that might prove to be influential in the long run.

John

S.M.B. wrote: »

You can judge an albums influence from the day it was released up until the present day. As much as I'm not a huge fan of to the album I'd have to say Is This It wins based on this criteria.

How though? What has it influenced? How do you measure that? Influence is something you assess post hoc.

AdMMM

Surely it's not yet possible to judge what has been the most influential album of the decade seeing as we're just out of it? Maybe at the end of this decade we'll be able to compare the two decades to see what sound stood the test of time. Until then, it's just wild speculation!

pauliewallie

I'd agree with other posters that its not really possible to gauge how influential any album/artist has been in the noughties until we are in the late teens or early 20's - sure its only now that some 80's music is being cited as influential by todays artists

the album with the greatest influence on me - probably Music of the Spheres by Ian Brown - beautiful from 1st note to last!

lordgoat

I may be wrong but i think the OP might mean which album was most influential to getting them to listen to more music rather than influencing other artists.

If it's other artists i'll consider locking this as it's a bit pointless to say an album released so recently has influenced music to any great extent.

bluefinger

good topic. If a little mis-worded. Could be called favourite albums of the 00's from what i read in the op.

Have to agree with some posters here though that it's very early to be identifying a most influential album of the noughties. You won't see their influence really for a few years yet, if they have any.

Having said that there are some albums that you just have a feeling will be referenced in the years to come, and that might even have fed into the alt-indie mix in the years subsequent to their release.

Kid A is a good example given above. As a rave goer in the 90's i always thought that it was only a matter of time before some savvy rock band got a handle on electronic/dance music and attempted to harness it's transcendent energy and heavy use of beats. Chemical brothers and prodigy did this to some extent but Radiohead really made a statement with this album and it's influence can be felt throughout the rest of the decade. I realise other bands may have been doing this before but not with the wide appeal of radiohead.