As you'll see later in this list, the 2000s may well be looked back upon as the decade in which rock music lost its urgency, favouring instead a slacker-based brand of lazy cool. However, Queens of the Stone Age's breakthrough album ensured that the genre didn't completely lose the traditional fire in its belly. Songs For The Deaf is a banger, no question. Everything is turned up to one hundred and rammed down the listener's throat, establishing frontman Josh Homme as a grizzly defender of face-melting hard rock. Decade Defining Track: No One Knows
