10 Definitive Rock Albums Of The 2000s

10. In Your Honor - Foo Fighters

In between the rise of pop music and hip hop coming into its own, there was still some room for rock and roll on the charts. Even though people like Britney Spears were some of the biggest draws at the time, artists like Queens of the Stone Age were still all over MTV, and even the old guard like U2 found some hits in the next decade as well like Vertigo. Dave Grohl may have taken Foo Fighters to the arenas at this point, but he had something more on his mind than just loud rock and roll.

Working both sides of the musical spectrum, In Your Honor might be the most ambitious Foo Fighters project ever made, looking to make a double album of both the light and the dark side of the group. Although the first disc is the most memorable for its knockout choruses on songs like Best Of You, the second side is where things get interesting, with Dave switching to acoustic guitar and things getting a lot more lowkey on songs like Still or Another Round.

Since it's a lot more intimate with an unplugged setting, Dave also gives us some of his most vulnerable songs here as well, like singing about Kurt Cobain on Friend of a Friend or diving into the world of jazzy harmony on the song Virginia Moon. This era of rock may have been about the more dangerous side of life, but Dave taught us that there was no shame in letting your guard down every once in a while.