Album Reviews & Rarities The Defining Records Of The Noughties Every decade music writers, review mongers and critics decry the state of modern music, preaching the end of the quality of cheap snapback caps their youth. However, hindsight usually proves them wrong and the noughties have been no exception with a huge amount of great albums that have been released between 1st January 2000 and 31st December 2009.

 The 2000s kicked off with an admittedly week year. Badly Drawn Boy put out The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, Coldplay broke onto the music scene with Parachutes and The Dandy Warholes hit their best in Thirteen Tales of Modern Bohemia.

 2001 saw Gorillaz appear for their self-named first cartoon album and Daft Punk Discovery brought us Digital Love. However, the year was made by the emergence of both The Strokes with Is This It and White Stripes?brilliant White Blood Cells.

 Foo Fighters released One By One in 2002, alongside Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head, The Coral with their self-titled debut album, The Flaming Lips with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Red Hot Chilli Peppers released By The Way. The best of cheapest snapbacks the year, though, was The Libertines Up The Bracket and The Doves?Last Broadcast.

 2003 saw Blur return with Think Tank, Radiohead Hail to the Thief, The Coral Magic and Medicine, Snow Patrol Final Straw, Jet Get Born and The Strokes Room on Fire. The most defining albums were White Stripes Elephant and Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood.

 2004 was massive. We had Franz Ferdinand NFL Snpback Hats with Franz Ferdinand, Graham Coxon Happiness In Magazines, The Futureheads, Razorlight Up All Night, Embrace Out Of Nothing, Kasabian, Green Day American Idiot, The Zutons Who Killed...... The Zutons, and Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. But then on top of all that we also had The Killers?Hot Fuzz, The Libertines self named second album, Arcade Fire Funeral, Interpol Antics and Kings of Leon Aha Shake Hearbreak as the soundtracks to 2004.