Benny Caine of Cocaine: Favorite Albums of the Decade

Here are my five favorite albums after the year 2000 (no particular order).

Airbourne Runnin’ Wild: This album really fuckin’ rocks, start to finish. You could label it another AC/DC knockoff, but these guys have the right attitude. I’ve seen them live and that’s really what did it for me. The front man is like Bon Scott and Angus Young rolled into one person. Songs like “Cheap Wine, Cheaper Woman” just really seem to hit close to home. [Purchase]

Motorhead Inferno: There’s not really much to say about this one except, how does Lemmy keep putting every young “tough” metal band to shame. Songs like “Smilin’ Like a Killer” and “Life’s a Bitch” show that this band is as good as they ever were! They even break it down acoustic on “Whorehouse Blues” and prove you can be a badass with an acoustic and a harmonica. [Purchase]

Tom Petty Highway Companion: Tom Petty’s solo album released in 2006. It stands up to it’s name, possibly one of the best road trip albums to come out. The song “Saving Grace” might be my favorite Tom Petty song ever recorded. With it’s bluesy vibe and django slide guitars it really stand apart from the other more folky songs. [Purchase]

L.A. Guns Tales From the Strip: This is one that probably not too many of you know about. I picked it because the L.A. Guns have stayed true to their style since the ’80s, not trying to evolve and change for a younger crowd. I’m lucky enough to be good friends with these guys, and I can tell you they LOVE rock n’ roll. [Purchase]

The Black Keys Attack and Release: These guys have done pretty good for a two-piece blues rock group. The singer is bluesy as shit and I love the production on all these guys albums, stripped down, very live sounding. “I Got Mine” stands out with some heavy riffing and hard hitting drums. [Purchase]

So that’s a couple albums I like released after 2000. It wasn’t too easy seeing as I don’t listen to much music recorded after 1983, but I proved to myself that there is still hope for rock n’ roll, if you dig deep enough you can always find something good. So do yourself a favor and turn off 93x and check some of these disks out.

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