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It was very hard to limit the list down to 15 albums since there were tons of amazing albums in 2000's but I managed to do it finally. Once again I had a self imposed rule that no more than 1 album per band. Here it goes:

A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (2000)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001)
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane (2002)
Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street (2004)
Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (2004)
City and Colour - Sometimes (2005)
dredg - Catch Without Arms (2005)
Poets of the Fall - Signs of Life (2005)
John Mayer - Continuum (2006)
Fair to Midland - Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True (2007)
Metallica - Death Magnetic (2008)
Animals as Leaders - Animals As Leaders (2009)
Freak Kitchen - Land of the Freaks (2009)
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition (2009)

Even though I said there's no particular order, I think Blackwater Park was THE best album of this decade...

The most important bands of the decade for me were:
Opeth
Riverside
Freak Kitchen

There are many more albums that I wanted to put in this list but I didnt want to make a big list so I put the ones that I enjoyed the most.

Cheers!

ARTISTS
Social Distortion
Rise Against
Jonas Brothers
Lostprophets
Sum 41
Fightstar
Story of the Year
Anti-Flag
Cauterize
All-Time Low
The Sounds
The Offspring
blink-182
Dropkick Murphys
3 Doors Down
Switchfoot
Treble Charger
Zebrahead
The Killers
Ten Second Epic
Matt Willis
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Flogging Molly
Green Day
Three Days Grace
Nickelback
AFI
Pennywise
Mobile
Busted

ALBUMS
Social Distortion - Sex, Love, & Rock 'n' Roll
Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission
Rise AgainstThe Sufferer and the Witness
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Cauterize Disguises
Fightstar - Be Human
Jonas Brothers - Jonas Brothers
Story of the Year - In the Wake of Determination
Anti-Flag - The Bright Lights of America
All Time Low - Nothing Personal
The Sounds - Crossing The Rubicon
Matt Willis - Dont Let It Go To Waste
Ten Second Epic - Hometown
Treble Charger -Detox
Lostprophets - Start Something
Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer
Sum 41 - Chuck
Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
Cauterize - So Far From Real
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
Story of the Year - The Black Swan
Jonas Brothers - Lines, Vines and Trying Times
Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
3 Doors Down - 3 Doors Down
Mobile - Tomorrow Starts Today
Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The City Sleeps in Flames
Fightstar - One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours
AFI - DECEMBERUNDERGROUND
Story of the Year - Page Avenue
Faber Drive - Can't Keep A Secret

SONGS
Social Distortion - Reach for the Sky [149 plays]
Rise Against - Survive [76 plays]
Fightstar - War Machine [44 plays]
blink-182 - Stockholm Syndrome [42 plays]
Jonas Brothers - Hollywood [40 plays]
Lostprophets - A Town Called Hypocrisy [37 plays]
Beatsteaks - To Be Strong [30 plays]
Jonas Brothers - Hold On [29 plays]
Lostprophets - 4:AM Forever [29 plays]
Sum 41 - Hooch [29 plays]
Atreyu - Blow [29 plays]
Matt Willis - Crash [29 plays]
Jonas Brothers - Paranoid [27 plays]
Jonas Brothers - A little Bit Longer [26 plays]
Social Distortion - I Wasn't Born to Follow [26 plays]
3 Doors Down - Runaway [25 plays]
Story of the Year - Wake Up [25 plays]
Alkaline Trio - Fall Victim [25 plays]
Cauterize - Dare You To Scream [24 plays]
The Sounds - No One Sleeps When I'm Awake [23 plays]
Rise Against - Injection [23 plays]
Franz Ferdinand - Michael [23 plays]
City and Colour - Sleeping Sickness [23 plays]
Social Distortion - Cold Feelings [22 plays]
All Time Low - Weightless [22 plays]
The Sounds - Beatbox [22 plays]
Metric - Help I'm Alive [22 plays]
Mobile - New York Minute [21 plays]
Rise Against - Whereabouts Unknown [21 plays]
The Killers - Human [21 plays]

This has been a VERY difficult album list to compile. Through out time, music changes with me; so I decided to compile a list of albums which have stuck with me through out my life changes. Nevertheless, here are the top 25 albums of my life...in no particular order of course:

1. What's your favorite song by #15 (Alexisonfire)?
- We Are The End, Boiled Frogs, and This Could Be Anywhere In The World.

2. How did you get into #20 (Poison the Well)?
- Nerdy was playing in the background at a friends house one night. I just had to know who that was.

3. Who is your favorite member in #1 (In Flames)?
- Anders Fridén, his voice = love.

4. Whats your favorite lyric bit by #29 (Foo Fighters)?
- "What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?"

5. Have you ever seen #22 (Incubus) live?
- Yep. It was a very good birthday present a few years back.

6. What's your favorite album from #10 (Atreyu)?
- The Curse

7. Do you own any merchandise from #3 (Deftones)?
- A few shirts, there's a hoodie around here somewhere. Lots and lots of CDs and a DVD, if those count.

8. What is a good memory you have of #7 (Swift)?
- My god, there's so many. The Tavern and every memory made there. Standing at the front of every show. Riding back from one of said shows, in a 98 Eclipse, going over 100 for some unknown reason, but he was in the back seat with me holding my hand while The Search was playing. It was cute at the time, lol.

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in #2 (Nine Inch Nails)?
- Nope.


10. When did you first get into #8 (System of a Down)?
- In middle school. Sugar was my shit, haha.


11. Who likes #4 (Five Finger Death Punch) along with you?
- Dustin was the one that opened me up to these guys. And I guess the 132 thousand other listeners, lol.


12. Which song did you first hear from #16 (The Smashing Pumpkins)?
- Zero, duh. So angst-y at the time, lmao.


13. What song made you fall in love with #5 (Seether)?
- The Gift


14. Which song do you not like by #18 (Shiny Toy Guns)?
- Sky Fell Over Me is sorta bad.


15. Why do you like #14's (Chevelle) songs?
- The band itself flows nicely together. Pete Loeffler has a way of saying what needs to be said, but in a different way than most writers.

16. Where did you first hear #6 (Radiohead)?
- I... borrowed, my friends OK Computer CD. Couldn't get enough after that.

17. How long was #19 (Slipknot) a band before you liked them?
- A band? No idea. I started listening to them when Wait and Bleed came out.


18. Does #13 (Queens of the Stone Age) have a song that gives you a bad memory?
- Not really, no.


19. When did you get into #17 (Staind)?
- Mudshovel. Lol. Still, to this day, I can listen to that song on repeat.


20. How long have you been into #9 (As I Lay Dying)?
- Only about a year or so.


21. If #11 (Muse) had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
- To be completely honest, no, lol.


22. How many CDs do you own of #12 (City and Colour)?
- 5. Thank you, Darren. <3


23. Does #21 (Sublime) have a song that makes you cry?
- No way, it's Sublime.


24. Does #27 (Cold) have a song that makes you happy?
- I don't know about happy. If only these last two questions were reversed, lol.


25. Does #23 (School for Heroes) have a song that makes you smile?
- In a way, yes. Mainly because listening to SFH brings back good memories. Ziggy's was fun, boys.


26. What's the last song you've listened to from #28 (Weezer)?
- Probably This Is Such a Pity.


27. Is there a song by #32 (Paramore) that you've listened to more than 30 times?
- Almost. Apparently I've listened to Stuck on You 22 times.


28. What is a song from #50 (Finch) that you've only listened to once?
- What It Is to Burn. Crappy song, imo.


29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by #24 (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)?
- Nope.


30. What song got you into #40 (Stone Temple Pilots)?
- Creep :D

31. What is your favorite single by #25 (Marilyn Manson)?
- Single... probably The Beautiful People. It still has that wanna-break-shit riff to me.


32. If #49 (Fear Factory/The Postal Service) hated you, what would you do?
- Tell them to write a song about it and get over it? I don't know.


33. What would you say if one of the members from #42 (Kings of Leon) asked you out?
- Nah, I'm good? Again, I don't know, lol.


34. Would you care if #41 (Coldplay) had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
- No? These questions are getting sort of stupid.


35. Who has the best voice in #46 (Bush)?
- Gavin Rosedale, adur.


36. Do you think #26 (Lamb of God) is/are good-looking?
- Meh, not really.


37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by #36 (A Perfect Circle)?
- 41 times, according to my charts.


38. How many CDs do you own of #30 (Primer 55)?
- None, only a few random Mp3s.


39. Is there a song from #38 (Mindless Self Indulgence) that makes you mad?
- Not mad, no. It's hard to place an emotion to these guys. The lyrical content is sometimes dark, but the music is always... bouncy? I don't know how you would describe that, lol.


40. Which member from #31 (Rage Against the Machine) do you want to see go solo?
- Um, none. I want to see them get back together.


41. What does your favorite song from #3 (Deftones) remind you of?
- No one really.


42. Did you hate #43 (Story of the Year) at first?
- Not hate, but it still takes me awhile to appreciate some of their songs.


43. Does your best friend also listen to #33 (Fiona Apple)?
- I'm sure she has at one point in time.


44. Do you think your parents would like #37 (Feist)?
- My Mom might, not really my Dad's flavor, lol. He's more into everything from 1 to 36.


45. Does #47 (Soulfly) have a song that makes you want to dance?
- Is being crushed in a mosh pit considered dancing? Regardless, no.


46. Have you ever seen #34 (Tiësto) in person?
- Nah.


47. Do you like #44's (Pogo) name?
- It works, for the type of music.


48. Is there someone in #45 (Depeche Mode) that you want to go out with?
- Stupid question is stupid.


49. Do you know anyone that hates #39 (Drugstore Fanatics)?
- Don't really know anyone else that has listened to them.


50. Have you ever danced to a song from #35 (Ferry Corsten)?
- No, lol.

01. Alexisonfire
First Song: No Transitory
Fall In Love: Pulmonary Archery
Current Favourite: To A Friend

02. The Number Twelve Looks Like You
First Song: Like A Cat
Fall In Love: Devil Dick Disaster
Current Favourite: The League of Endangered Oddities

03. City and Colour
First Song: Waiting
Fall In Love: The Girl
Current Favourite: Boiled Frogs (AoF cover)

04. Converge
First Song: Concubine
Fall In Love: You Fail Me
Current Favourite: Dark Horse

05. The Killers
First Song: All These Things That I've Done
Fall In Love: On Top
Current Favourite: For Reasons Unknown

06. Rise Against
First Song: Ready to Fall
Fall In Love: Blood to Bleed
Current Favourite: Paperwings

07. Give Up the Ghost
First Song: Theres A Black Hole In The Shadow Of The Pru
Fall In Love: Theres A Black Hole In The Shadow Of The Pru
Current Favourite: AM/PM

08. Dead Swans
First Song: In the Halflight
Fall In Love: The Hanging Sun
Current Favourite: Thinking of You

09. Misery Signals
First Song: The Failsafe
Fall In Love: Weight of the World
Current Favourite: Reset

10. Modré Hory
First Song: Energia sa musí hýbať
Fall In Love: Svet 2000
Current Favourite: Démon s telom

11. Misfits
First Song: Dig Up Her Bones
Fall In Love: Dig Up Her Bones
Current Favourite: The Bullet

12. Dinosaur Jr.
First Song: Raisans
Fall In Love: Raisans
Current Favourite: Back to Your Heart

13. MF DOOM
First Song: Operation: Greenbacks
Fall In Love: Rhymes Like Dhymes
Current Favourite: Hot Guacamole (feat. MC Paul Barman Prod. Prince Paul)

14. The Red Chord
First Song: Fixation on Plastics
Fall In Love: Responsibles
Current Favourite: Hour of Rats

15. King Gheedorah
First Song: Fazers
Fall In Love: Fastlane (feat. Biolante)
Current Favourite: Fastlane (feat. Biolante)

16. August Burns Red
First Song: Back Burner
Fall In Love: Composure
Current Favourite: Ocean of Apathy

17. Black Sabbath
First Song: Paranoid
Fall In Love: Under the Sun/Everyday Comes and Goes
Current Favourite: Under the Sun/Everyday Comes and Goes

18. My Bloody Valentine
First Song: Touched
Fall In Love: When You Sleep
Current Favourite: When You Sleep

19. Johnny Truant
First Song: The Grotesque
Fall In Love: The Bloodening
Current Favourite: Realist Surrealist

20. HORSE the band
First Song: A Million Exploding Suns
Fall In Love: A Million Exploding Suns
Current Favourite: Manateen

1. How did you get into 29? (Dilated Peoples)
YouTube

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
Vestido Azul

3. What's your favorite lyric by 31? Chase & Status
Saxon

4. How did you get into 49? Zenzile
An ex used to play it when we had sex.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Thievery Corporation
Three.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Evol Intent
Mutiny

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Cookie Monsta
No.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? Robbie Williams
No Regrets

9. What is your favorite song by 5? The White Stripes
Truth Doesn't Make A Noise

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Kings of Leon
Closer

11. What is the worst song by 40? Erica Jennings
I only know one, which I love.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Disturbed
Down With The Sickness

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? The Pierces
Three Wishes played on Gossip Girl.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Lovage
To Catch A Thief

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? IAMX
Lulled By Numbers

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? Rammstein
Ohne Dich

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Iron Maiden
I don't remember.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? Patrice
And I need you like the moon needs the sun to shine.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Portishead)
Beth Gibbons

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? Jedi Mind Tricks
Not in particular.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Amy Winehouse
Quoting her songs on Ade's profile.


22. What is your favorite song by 16? Bebe
Siempre me quedara

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Korpiklaani
Fields In Flames

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Clint Mansell
Requiem For A Dream OST.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Sia
Sunday

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Looptroop
Adrenaline Rush

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Tricky
Maxinquaye.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Placebo
My Sweet Prince

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Maroon 5
This Love

30. What is you favorite song by 8? Air
All I Need

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Skream
Once.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Habana Blues
They're mostly melancholic, so no.

33. How did you get into 12? Blue Foundation
I don't remember.

34. What is the worst song by 45? Led Zeppelin
Can't name one.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?Eluveitie
Anagantios

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? The Cat Empire
The Lost Song

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? Cat Power
Never.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? Lhasa de Sela
De Cara A La Pared

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Silent Strike
Detasare

40. What is you favorite album by 7? Gare du Nord
Don't have one.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Chase & Status
Smash TV

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Erica Jennings
Don't have one.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Rammstein
Ohne Dich

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Benga
The conceeeeert and everything that happened before and after.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Caspa
Low Blow

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Kelly Jones
No.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Massive Attack
Mezzannine.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Korn
No one.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? P!nk
Get The Party Started

50. What is your favorite song by 20? City and Colour
Day Old Hate (live)

10000: (2008-09-06 18:15:35): Cancer Bats - Lucifer’s Rocking Chair
15000: (2008-10-31 06:05:43): Give Up the Ghost - you and me
20000: (2008-12-13 08:31:18): MF DOOM - Rapp Snitch Knishes Feat. Mr Fantastik
25000: (2009-01-07 00:20:14): Kings of Leon - King of the Rodeo
30000: (2009-02-14 19:56:14): Genghis Tron - White Walls
35000: (2009-03-03 18:09:19): Alexisonfire - Waterwings
40000: (2009-04-08 07:47:02): City and Colour - Sleeping Sickness
45000: (2009-05-08 02:52:23): Crystal Castles - Crimewave
50000: (2009-06-13 16:36:01): Converge - You Fail Me
55000: (2009-07-08 06:53:29): Misery Signals - Reset
60000: (2009-07-30 12:16:57): Dead Swans - Thinking Of You
65000: (2009-08-24 17:12:30): Alexisonfire - To A Friend
70000: (2009-10-11 18:17:35): My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
75000: (2009-12-05 01:18:07): Deftones - Feiticeira

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atr3y's top albums (overall) 1. Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire (1622) 2. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love (1043) 3. Alexisonfire - Watch Out! (846) 4. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Worse Than Alone (732) 5. Alexisonfire - Crisis (730) 6. Dead Swans - Southern Blue (701) 7. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Nuclear Sad Nuclear (700) 8. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (694) 9. King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader (682) 10. Give Up the Ghost - Background Music (653) 11. Misery Signals - Controller (650) 12. The Killers - Sam's Town (637) 13. IAMX - The Alternative (588) 14. Modré Hory - Modré hory (533) 15. The Beatles - 1 (529) 16. Converge - Axe To Fall (519) 17. A Breath Before Surfacing - Death is Swallowed in Victory (505) 18. Daitro - Laissez Vivre Les Squelettes (495) 19. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Mongrel (494) 20. Architects - Hollow Crown (491)