51 Rock Albums That Early 2000s Teens Listened To

    For the metal, emo, punk and indie kids who has these on their iPods.

    Bob Marshall
    by Bob Marshall

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends

    Victory

    Featuring: "Cute Without the 'E' (Cut From the Team)," "You're So Last Summer"

    2. The Strokes – Is This It

    RCA

    Featuring: "Last Night," "Someday," "Hard to Explain"

    3. The Postal Service – Give Up

    Sub Pop

    Featuring: "Such Great Heights," "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight"

    4. Brand New – Deja Entendu

    Triple Crown Records

    Featuring: "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades," "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows"

    5. Arcade Fire – Funeral

    Merge Records

    Featuring: "Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)," "Wake Up"

    6. System of a Down – Toxicity

    Columbia

    Featuring: "Toxicity," "Chop Suey!"

    7. Garden State Soundtrack

    Epic Records

    Featuring: Zero 7's "In the Waiting Line," Frou Frou's "Let Go"

    8. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory

    Warner Bros.

    Featuring: "One Step Closer," "Crawling," "In the End"

    9. Blink-182 – Blink-182

    Geffen

    Featuring: "Feeling This," "I Miss You," "Always"

    10. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head

    Parlophone

    Featuring: "Clocks," "In My Place," "The Scientist"

    11. Alien Ant Farm – ANThology

    DreamWorks Records

    Featuring: "Smooth Criminal," "Movies"

    12. Music From The O.C. Mix 1

    Warner Bros. Records

    Featuring: South's "Paint the Silence," Phantom Planet's "California"

    13. Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism

    Barsuk

    Featuring: "Title and Registration," "The Sound of Settling"

    14. Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous

    Brute/Beaute Records

    Featuring: "Portions for Foxes," "It's a Hit"

    15. Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless

    Epic Records

    Featuring: "The Anthem," "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"

    16. The Starting Line – Say It Like You Mean It

    Drive-Thru Records

    Featuring: "The Best of Me," "Leaving"

    17. New Found Glory – Sticks and Stones

    MCA/Drive-Thru

    Featuring: "My Friends Over You," "Head On Collision"

    18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell

    Interscope

    Featuring: "Maps," "Date with the Night"

    19. Panic! at the Disco – A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

    Fueled by Ramen

    Featuring: "I Write Sins Not Tragedies," "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"

    20. Sum 41 – All Killer No Filler

    Island Records

    Featuring: "Fat Lip," "In Too Deep"

    21. A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms

    Virgin

    Featuring: "Judith"

    22. Deftones – White Pony

    Maverick

    Featuring: "Change (In the House of Flies)," "Back to School (Mini Maggit)," "Digital Bath"

    23. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells

    Third Man / XL / Sympathy for the Record Industry

    Featuring: "Fell in Love with a Girl," "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"

    24. Dashboard Confessional – A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar

    Vagrant

    Featuring: "Hands Down," "Rapid Hope Loss"

    25. Cursive – The Ugly Organ

    Saddle Creek

    Featuring: "Art is Hard," "The Recluse"

    26. Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill

    Domino

    Featuring: "Pretty (Ugly Before)," "Twilight"

    27. Tool – Lateralus

    Volcano Entertainment

    Featuring: "Schism"

    28. 311 – From Chaos

    Volcano

    Featuring: "You Wouldn't Believe," "Amber," "I'll Be Here Awhile"

    29. Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way

    Warner Bros.

    Featuring: "By the Way," "The Zephyr Song," "Can't Stop"

    30. Fall Out Boy – From Under the Cork Tree

    Island

    Featuring: "Sugar, We're Goin Down," "Dance, Dance"

    31. Green Day – American Idiot

    Reprise

    Featuring: "American Idiot," "Holiday," "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Wake Me Up When September Ends"

    32. The Killers – Hot Fuss

    Island

    Featuring: "Somebody Told Me," "Mr. Brightside," "Smile Like You Mean It," "All These Things That I've Done"

    33. Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)

    Nothing / Interscope

    Featuring: "The Fight Song," "Disposable Teens"

    34. No Doubt – Rock Steady

    KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records

    Featuring: "Hella Good," "Hey Baby," "Underneath It All"

    35. Incubus – Morning View

    Epic Records

    Featuring: "Nice To Know You," "Wish You Were Here," "Warning"

    36. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand

    Domino Records

    Featuring: "Take Me Out"

    37. The Distillers – Sing Sing Death House

    Hellcat

    Featuring: "Seneca Falls," "City of Angels," "I Am a Revenant"

    38. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

    Warner Bros. Records

    Featuring: "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1," "Do You Realize?"

    39. Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American

    Interscope Records

    Featuring: "Bleed American," "The Middle", "A Praise Chorus"

    40. Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors

    Saddle Creek

    Featuring: "The Calendar Hung Itself," "Something Vague," "Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh"

    41. Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Sumbliminal Verses)

    Roadrunner

    Featuring: "Duality," "Vermilion," "Before I Forget"

    42. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News

    Epic Records

    Featuring: "Float On," "Ocean Breathes Salty"

    43. Foo Fighters – One By One

    Roswell/RCA

    Featuring: "All My Life," "Times Like These"

    44. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf

    Interscope

    Featuring: "No One Knows," "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" "Go with the Flow"

    45. The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium

    Universal Records

    Featuring: "Inertiatic ESP," "Televators"

    46. Muse – Absolution

    Warner Bros.

    Featuring: "Time is Running Out," "Hysteria"

    47. Radiohead – Kid A

    Parlophone / Capitol

    Featuring: "Everything in its Right Place," "Idioteque," "The National Anthem"

    48. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm

    V2 Records

    Featuring: "Helicopter," "Banquet," "This Modern Love"

    49. Minus the Bear – Menos el Oso

    Suicide Squeeze Records

    Featuring: "Pachuca Sunrise"

    50. Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil

    Warner Bros.

    Featuring: "Beast and the Harlot," "Bat Country," "Seize the Day"

    51. My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

    Reprise Records

    Featuring: "Welcome to the Black Parade," "Famous Last Words"