The Best Albums of the 00s: Honorable Mentions (A-C)

As you can imagine when you do a list like this one, there are plenty of albums you must leave off and it breaks your heart.

So as a way of showing some appreciation for all the other great albums of the 00s, here are the ones that landed just outside the list. They need some lovin' too, you know. You can show your love by sampling these tracks, and buying the albums if you like what you hear.

And don't just download the song by bands you're already familiar with like most of you usually do. I have the statistics y'know, and the most well-known artists always get more downloads while the more obscure ones and left sad, lonely and unappreciated.

Which of course makes perfect sense, but take a chance whydoncha. Start with the ones you've never heard of - you already know what the other ones sound like anyway so there's no rush. Who knows, you might have a new favorite band by the time you reach the end of this post.

Here's the first batch of people who almost made the list:

(mp3) The Accidents - Every beat of my heart
Available on All Time High (2004)

(mp3) Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thunder god
Available on Twilight Of The Thunder God (2008)

(mp3) Andrew W.K. - Ready to die
Available on I Get Wet (2001)

(mp3) The Angelic Process - The resonance of goodbye
Available on Weighing Souls With Sand (2007)

(mp3) Astra - The weirding
Available on The Weirding (2009)

(mp3) Auf Der Maur - Followed the waves
Available on S/t (2004)

(mp3) Blacktusk - Prophecy one by one
Available on Passage Through Purgatory (2008)

(mp3) Brain Police - Mystic lover
Available on Beyond The Wasteland (2006)

(mp3) Brant Bjork - Searchin'
Available on Keep Your Cool (2003)

(mp3) Breach - Breathing dust
Available on Kollapse (2000)

(mp3) Bullet - Rock us tonight
Available on Bite The Bullet (2008)

(mp3) Clutch - The mob goes wild
Available on Blast Tyrant (2004)

(mp3) Converge - Effigy
Available on Axe To Fall (2009)

(mp3) Corrosion of Conformity - Dirty hands empty pockets
Available on In The Arms Of God (2005)

(mp3) Cult of Luna - Leash
Available on The Beyond (2003)

(mp3) The Cumshots - The fear I am
Available on Last Sons Of Evil (2001)

(mp3) Curse of the Golden Vampire - Manslaughter
Available on Mass Destruction (2003)