10 Best Rock Albums Of The 2000s

As rock music was going back to its roots, The White Stripes were the band that spearheaded the entire movement with their minimalistic approach to the rock band. With just two people, the sound of rock music went from being stale imitations to something authentically different in the age of iTunes.

Each of the Stripes's albums could have easily made its way onto this list, but Elephant is the album where everything came together, from the hits to the songwriting. Mastermind Jack White had truly found his groove by this point, as he delivered some of his most ear-grabbing guitar hooks on songs like "Black Math" and "The Hardest Button to Button." With drummer Meg White holding down a simple foundation, Jack is able to fly off the hinges on songs like "Ball and Biscuit," whose bluesy licks are almost flammable.

And let's not forget "Seven Nation Army," whose central riff and eerie presence has filled stadiums the world over for years now. Being one part soulful and one part chaotic, Elephant is the essence of what made the Stripes such a breath of fresh air in the 2000's. It may not reinvent the wheel at all times, but what the band produced here is impossible to duplicate.