This record is 'emo' at one of it's finest moments.Ģ3. Thursday is perhaps best known for their energetic live performances which, in my opinion, fall nothing short of what speaking-in-toungues, snake handling, caught-up-in-the-spirit southern Christians must feel at a backwoods tent revival. It has since spawned countless imitations, all of which fail to capture the raw emotion on this record. When this album came out in 2001, there was nothing like it of its kind. There is the occasional ignorant lyric here and there that you would normally find in the other 99% of hip-hop and rap, but if you can avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater, you should thoroughly enjoy this album.ġ3 years after being a band, this release, their 2nd official one, is arguably their best and still stands the test of time. Taking on matters such as US foreign policy, the war on drugs, the loss of civil liberties and the crooked music industry itself, Immortal Technique lends his poetic stylings creatively and admirably to each subject with very catchy beats and smooth lyrics. I'm not much of a hip-hop fan as I really can't stand most of the themes rappers seem to mindlessly babble about, but Immortal Technique is a breath of fresh air to the otherwise stale and debased genre. Just copy and paste each link into the address bar at the top of your browser.Ģ5.

Several of the artists in my list produced many albums throughout the decade that I was crazy over but I limited my selection to the one album of theirs that moved me the most.Īll albums can be downloaded in their entirety via links at the end of my brief summary of each album. These probably aren't 'the best' of the decade by critics standards, but for me, these are the 25 albums that define the decade and ones that I continue to come back to over and over.Ī few rules I went by were to not select from soundtracks, compilation albums or live albums and to only list one album per artist. These albums have influenced me in one way or another and have been in heavy rotation ever since I discovered them. Listed below, are my favorite 25 albums released since the year 2000.

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