Modern Classics?

markv

I've had a fun half an hour going through my collection. Obviously these are favourites of mine, but I do think they're classics

Doves - Lost Souls
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
La Roux - La Roux
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf


Trying to think what might get the nod to appear in the actual "Classic Albums" TV series - the only post-2000 album to feature in it so far is Amy Winehouse's Back To Black.

Agree with @ICBM that something can't be considered to be "classic" until a decent period of time has passed - at least 5 years, probably 10.

EricTheWeary

markv said:

I've had a fun half an hour going through my collection. Obviously these are favourites of mine, but I do think they're classics

Doves - Lost Souls
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
La Roux - La Roux
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf


Trying to think what might get the nod to appear in the actual "Classic Albums" TV series - the only post-2000 album to feature in it so far is Amy Winehouse's Back To Black.

Agree with @ICBM that something can't be considered to be "classic" until a decent period of time has passed - at least 5 years, probably 10.

Interesting to discover that there were a bunch of extra episodes made for Dutch TV and the only 21st century album there is:
Caro Emerald - Deleted Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor.
So, that. 

BigLicks67

Bill Callahan Dream River
Hiss Golden Messenger The Lateness of Dancers
Nathan Salsburg Affirmed
Portishead Third
Lambchop Flotus
Nick Cave The Boatman's Call & PTSA
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 

Grumpyrocker

Evanescence - Fallen
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
Anathema - Weather Systems
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Ghost - Prequelle
Bruce Soord and Jonas Renkse - Wisdom of Crowds
Riverside - Love, Fear, and the Time Machine
The Gathering - Souvenirs
Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
Insomnium - Winter's Gate

ICBM

Grumpyrocker said:

Garbage - Beautiful Garbage

Good to see someone else not following the usual “the first album is great but all the others are rubbish” line. I actually think all the first four albums are equally good, and the two more recent ones almost as much.

DiscoStu

There are loads, although admittedly the 90s was a great musical decade.

A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Biffy Clyro- Puzzle
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaus
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Muse - Absolution

EricTheWeary

Grumpyrocker said:

Evanescence - Fallen
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
Anathema - Weather Systems
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Ghost - Prequelle
Bruce Soord and Jonas Renkse - Wisdom of Crowds
Riverside - Love, Fear, and the Time Machine
The Gathering - Souvenirs
Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
Insomnium - Winter's Gate

Ahh, Dixie Chicks.

I’m not sure if musically you could call Permission to Land a classic as it’s effectivley retro but if I were the producer of the Classic Album series I think it would be on my list; not hard to imagine that being a colourful episode. 

Winny_Pooh

BigLicks67 said:

Bill Callahan Dream River
Hiss Golden Messenger The Lateness of Dancers
Nathan Salsburg Affirmed
Portishead Third
Lambchop Flotus
Nick Cave The Boatman's Call & PTSA
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 

Hiss golden messenger, Nick Cave and Bill Callahan, hell yeah!

ewal

Efterklang - Parades
Low - Ones and Sixes
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Hammock - Mysterium
Low - The Great Destroyer
The Antlers - Hospice
Mogwai - Hardcore will never die, but you will

Fuengi

ewal said:

Efterklang - Parades
Low - Ones and Sixes
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Hammock - Mysterium
Low - The Great Destroyer
The Antlers - Hospice
Mogwai - Hardcore will never die, but you will

I adore that album by The Antlers. Kettering is an exquisite track, the whisper vocal is unique.

Low are so musical and rhythmical, it's a brilliant album.

lasermonkey

Boards Of Canada- Geogaddi
Doves- Lost Souls
The Besnard Lakes- Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
Radiohead- Hail To The Thief
Low- The Great Destroyer
Mogwai- Happy Songs For Happy People
Iain Archer- Magnetic North


just for starters.

 IMHO Geogaddi is far and away the greatest album released this century. @MagicPigDetective ; described it as "the sound of the zone between sleep and awake" and he's not wrong. Having spent many an amitriptyline-fuelled night stuck in exactly that state (not out of choice, mind!) I can confirm that.
It is a dark album, though not in the traditional sense. It's choc-full of subliminals and backwards masking and leaves you with the feeling of having remembered your childhood through a twisted filter. It just doesn't ever seem like there's a time when I don't want to listen to it. 

Genius.

Vintage-T

Couple off the top of my head:
Black Keys -The Big Come Up
Biffy Clyro -Blackened Sky
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Gomez -How We Operate
Hell Is For Heroes -The Neon Handshake
Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
John Mayer - Heavier Things
Strokes - Is This It

I could go on but...

all great albums.

ICBM

Vintage-T said:

Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows

I’d pick The Remote Part.

Vintage-T

ICBM said:

Vintage-T said:

Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows

I’d pick The Remote Part.

You could make an argument for both.

Creed_Clicks

What would make it be considered a classic? Every song is a cracker? There are way too many to mention. Superunknown would be one for me, but that's 25 years old at this stage...

Master of Puppets? I used to really like Elbow. Revisited recently, and was undewhelmed a little bit. Some really really good songs on each album, but none of the albums, for me, now, are a "every song is brilliant".

I'd possibly chuck in something from Mogwai or Sigur Ros ( ) .

ICBM

Creed_Clicks said:

What would make it be considered a classic? Every song is a cracker? There are way too many to mention.

I would say that, plus it has to be widely popular, and that it has to have had been fairly influential - if not all three, then at least one of them has to be so overwhelming that it overrides whichever one it isn't.

I'm aware that there's at least one historical classic album which was not widely popular when first released - The Velvet Underground & Nico. But it's one of the most influential albums ever, so it is a classic.

StageStruck

Blues Pills -Blues Pills
The Strypes - Snapshot
Not sure if this qualifies, as it was released in 2000, Badly Drawn Boy - Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Fuengi

Aim and Ignite by Fun, their debut is absolutely stonking from start to finish. 

SouthpawMark

Audioslave’s debut album was pretty darn good. Other than that, I can’t think of any that haven’t already been mentioned. 

Perhaps Lost in the dream by The War On Drugs? 

CloudNine

@Fuengi ;;  Noticed Sufjan Stevens on your list. I reckon Carrie & Lowell is probably his best album now, definitely a modern classic imo, and I am not a super fan or anything like that. What did you think to it?