10 excellent post-9/11 rock albums Ted Cruz hasn't heard
Ted Cruz told CBS This Morning this week that he stopped listening to rock music after 9/11.
Cruz grew up listening to classic rock, he told CBS, but all that changed after 2001.
"But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me. And I have to say, it just is a gut-level. I had an emotional reaction that says, these are my people," the presidential candidate said. "So ever since 2001, I listen to country music."
We at the Register's politics team think that's a shame, because a lot of good rock music has come out since 2001. Our desk compiled a list of 10 landmark rock albums Cruz has missed out on, with a lot of debate along the way.
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The White Stripes: "Elephant" (2003).
Listen to it here.
Radiohead: "In Rainbows" (2008).
Bob Dylan: "Modern Times" (2006).
Wilco: "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (2002).
Green Day: "American Idiot" (2004).
Modest Mouse: "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" (2004).
Spoon: "Kill The Moonlight" (2002).
The Black Keys: "Magic Potion" (2006).
The Shins: "Chutes Too Narrow" (2003)
--- Jason Noble, Annah Backstrom and Joe Lawler contributed to this article.