Muse - Origin of Symmetry springs to mind.

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

weezer - pinkerton, all of norman schwarzkopf's picks, the band - the band, kings of convenience - riot on an empty street

It didn't get much acclaim but one of my favourite second albums is '10,000Hz' by Air. 'Burnin' by the Wailers is a gem and one of the classic reggae albums. Also; A Quick One - The Who Meat is Murder - The Smiths Transformer - Lou Reed Quality Control - Jurassic 5 Magic & Medicine - The Coral

The Bees - Free The Bees The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Ocean Colour Scene - Moasley Shoals Jack Johnson - On And On Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak Radiohead - The Bends Ryan Adams - Gold Mundy - 24 Star Hotel Hold Steady - Separation Sunday Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes The Frames - Fitzcarraldo Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Robbie Robertson - Storyville Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day The Decemerbists - Her Majesty Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street

Agree with most of Gar's long list (the ones I have anyway - The Shins, Jack Johnson, Kings Of Leon, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Death Cab For Cutie, The Frames, The Decemerbists - all great albums) Eels - ElectroShock Blues is pretty great as is Tift Merritt's Tamborine and Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Read a few days ago how people rated music at either extreme - really bad or really good - there was very little "centrism". Can't find article but I suppose most of the albums that we like we can call great.

Here's another few; The Rapture - Echoes Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique KMD - Black Bastards De la Soul - De la Soul Is Dead Edan - Beauty and The Beat PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation David Holmes - Let's Get Killed My Bloddy Valentine - Isn't Anything Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Oh and Gar those albums by Mundy, Damien Dempsey and OCS are all stinkers.

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