Was there any good music in the 2000's?

OneOfThem

(Lets just skip lithely over what that decade is going to be known as and move along in an orderly fashion - you all know the one I mean - 2000-2009 inclusive).

I was struck by an unusual and sudden desire to hear music from those years tonight. I think I remember liking some, but that might have been a dream, drew a blank, I don't do so good at remembering when things happened. So I figures "oh hey, youtube is a thing that exists, they might know what music was now, when it was then", so I put 'best music of the 2000's' into it. And started clicking links of playlists or whatever, dealies, lists... ye know?

This was the 'best' I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_p0eC_ijFA

I let it count back from 100 to 40 before I had to turn it off and curl up in a ball and hug myself and cry.

What was the good music of that decade again? There was some songs and stuff wasn't there, that were good? I was almost sure there was... could have been a dream...

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

you're just not a music fan if you think the whole decade was crap. that's OK

The Backwards Man

June 1 1989. That was the day the music died. Hasn't been one good tune recorded since.

GLaDOS

I swear to god this exact thread is made every single month

The Backwards Man

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I swear to god this exact thread is made every single month

Bet you it wasn't made before the year 2000:)

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi, the Campfire Headphase.

OneOfThem

georgiecasey wrote: »

you're just not a music fan if you think the whole decade was crap. that's OK

But I don't, I remember quite enjoying a lot of music. I just am struggling to think of it. Do try to keep up. You may benefit from the companion e-book that accompanies the OP to this thread - "The big book of how to read the OP of this thread", it's available on all the main torrent sites.

Man, why you gotta break balls? The thread is just a premise for getting people to post good songs from the decade so I don't have to search them out myself. Stop looking behind the wizards curtain and post a youtube video of a song so I can listen to it.

Edit: Ehh, please? Thanks.

Lia_lia

nyarlothothep

Yup, the early 00s had a slew of fairly decent "pop" songs by rockbands, Wheatus, Alien Ant Farm, Papa Roach, Jimmy Eat World etc, (I'll even include Limp Bizkit). I wouldn't be into their music and you might call it crap but as pop music went it was a lot better than what we have now. Marilyn Manson released Holywood which was fairly good, Radiohead had Kid A and Hail to the Thief, there was the retro punk/80s revival. As much as I didn't get into it there were some good songs produced by the likes of Interpol and Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs. On the best end of the spectrum imo you had ATDI and The Mars Volta who released some amazing albums. Also you had RATM, Rammstein and System of a Down producing good stuff. I never really liked the British Indie bands as the music they played was too soft/trying to impress critics/in crowd but The Coral weren't bad. There was also The Flaming Lips, that Irish band, JJ72, another Irish band The Marbles (falling overground is a good song). There was some good stuff in the pop field as well by Kylie Minogue - the come on and dance with me song, Justin Timberlake - the one where he does vocal drumbeats, Nerd- the she's hot/sexy song, I mean these weren't bad songs at all for what they were. It was around 2007 that music began to get really sh1t and I have to say aside from a few exceptions like Ghost, I absolutely hate everything that's being produced eg Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, all the hip hop/rnb bs, dance music. It's nearly all crap, it's like a return to 1950s easily listening music. This has occurred in tandem with rock becoming a niche genre like jazz.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Some songs like Seven Nation Army, Hey Ya, Feel Good Inc will be very fondly remembered in years to come.

Starscream25

The best of the 2000's in my opinion was 2001, bands like ash, muse, feeder, foo fighters, the strokes, chilli peppers and weezer going strong. There all still around but haven't reached the same heights IMO.

wrmwit

The first song that came into my head when I read the heading was Mark McCabe Maniac. What a track!! I started college in 2000 and the club played it every night. The shapes I threw when that song was on!

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Eh...Arcade Fire, The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, Amy Winehouse, The Libertines, The Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Bright Eyes, Outkast, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse?

Even the stuff more at the billboard end of the scale, you had your Kylies, your Lady Gagas, your Justin Timberlakes, your Destiny's Childs, your Eminems (might sound crazy to you youngsters but he used to be good!). Fairly solid pop choonage right there. There was a lot of sh1te too, but sure you'll have that whatever the decade

IamNotNumber

Philip Young Loner wrote: »

Some songs like Seven Nation Army, Hey Ya, Feel Good Inc will be very fondly remembered in years to come.

Who?

pappyodaniel

I was a bit pissed off with music in the early 2000s. We had to put up with a slew of nu metal bands, Coldplay/Travis type stuff, David Gray, RHCP minus the heroin and then all the maudlin Irish acts like The Frames and Paddy Casey et Al.

Then I heard The Strokes Last Nite and everything changed for the better.

Fr_Dougal

Starscream25 wrote: »

The best of the 2000's in my opinion was 2001, bands like ash, muse, feeder, foo fighters, the strokes, chilli peppers and weezer going strong. There all still around but haven't reached the same heights IMO.

Ash?!

freshpopcorn

I think every decade has bad music but it sort of gets forgotten about.
Lots of people listen to music from the 1990's/2000's that some people would consider crap but it reminds them of happy times be it finishing school/meeting their partner/having a child.

pappyodaniel

Jaylene Plain Tech wrote: »

Even the stuff more at the billboard end of the scale, you had your Kylies, your Lady Gagas, your Justin Timberlakes, your Destiny's Childs, your Eminems (might sound crazy to you youngsters but he used to be good!). Fairly solid pop choonage right there. There was a lot of sh1te too, but sure you'll have that whatever the decade

I didnt know there was more than one Kylie, Justin Timberlake, Destiny's Child or Eminem.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I didnt know there was more than one Kylie, Justin Timberlake, Destiny's Child or Eminem.

Infinite hordes of them so there are

Turpentine

wrmwit wrote: »

The first song that came into my head when I read the heading was Mark McCabe Maniac. What a track!! I started college in 2000 and the club played it every night. The shapes I threw when that song was on!

It took me a long time to wipe that abomination from my memory.

Now it returns to haunt me.

Thanks wrmwit, thanks a bunch.

IamNotNumber

Starscream25 wrote: »

The best of the 2000's in my opinion was 2001, bands like ash, muse, feeder, foo fighters, the strokes, chilli peppers and weezer going strong. There all still around but haven't reached the same heights IMO.

But are they not more 90's bands? who cotuined into 00's..ashs trailer ep was awesome when it was released..lost interest after the first album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRpSHK6F7E

Cienciano

It's called getting old OP. It's completely normal to think music in "your day" was better and modern stuff is rubbish.

Starscream25

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Ash?!

Yes, free all angels, their number 1 album, with shining light that Tim wheeler won an Ivor Novello award, burn baby burn winning kerrang single of the year award, not to mention their other singles there's a star, walking barefoot, sometimes and candy, an album laden with hits.

OldMrBrennan83

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wrmwit

wrmwit wrote: »

The first song that came into my head when I read the heading was Mark McCabe Maniac. What a track!! I started college in 2000 and the club played it every night. The shapes I threw when that song was on!

The horror...the horror...

Dirty Dingus McGee

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you...

charlietheminxx

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I didnt know there was more than one Kylie, Justin Timberlake, Destiny's Child or Eminem.

There was definitely more than one eminem, sure he wrote a song about it and all. He had to keep standing up to prove he was the real one.

I loved early 2000s nu metal and I make no apologies for it, still love some of it. I also liked some soft rock stuff in the mid 2000s like Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers and that.

brian_7070

Interpol released 3 albums in that time frame. That alone makes it good

Starscream25

IamNotNumber wrote: »

But are they not more 90's bands? who cotuined into 00's..ashs trailer ep was awesome when it was released..lost interest after the first album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRpSHK6F7E

You could call them a 90's band, but they've also released albums in the naughties and in this decade, so I wouldn't write them off as a 90's band, they just happened to make it big when Brit pop was alive and kicking.
Meltdown is a great album and their new album Kamblammo ain't half bad either.

Edit, sorry read that wrong, loads others, too many to mention but I prefer early naughties to latter naughties., I just list my favourites

Turpentine

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you...

I'm welling up here. Who's wearing the onion on their belt?

longfellow deeds

The Beatles!
Ronan Collins use to play them during the 2000's, they were so good he'd always play 2 tracks together

SharpshooterTom

I did a poll on AH's favourite decade and 21st century music got absolutely massacred in the poll.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057079041

YurOK2

wrmwit wrote: »

The first song that came into my head when I read the heading was Mark McCabe Maniac. What a track!! I started college in 2000 and the club played it every night. The shapes I threw when that song was on!

I came here just for this :pac:

the_syco

December 8th 2004 was a bad day for music, but music always finds a way.

freshpopcorn

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I did a poll on AH's favourite decade and 21st century music got absolutely massacred in the poll.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057079041

Do the poll in twenty years time and you'd see a big growth of people liking 2000's music and people saying 2020's music is crap.

The Adversary

This was a fairly good album in fairness.

ThisRegard

nyarlothothep wrote: »

Yup, the early 00s had a slew of fairly decent "pop" songs by rockbands, Wheatus, Alien Ant Farm, Papa Roach, Jimmy Eat World etc, (I'll even include Limp Bizkit). .................... I absolutely hate everything that's being produced eg Taylor Swift

You make good points but I disagree with the last point, Taylor Swift is great at doing pop in all fairness.

TrustedApple

Green Day - american idiot the full CD fantastic

Must of Muses stuff.

Fall out Boys 2nd 3rd CD are fantastic

My Chemical Romance - the black parade a rock opera that gets better by the years.

Daft Punk - Human After All and Discovery and there even better Alive 2007 basically that Live CD is a Orgram to my ears.

Justice - Cross

Foo Fighters mid 2000s stuff just great music.

Plenty more out there that i cant think of at this moment !!!.

ThisRegard

Also, After Hours is full of degenerates, but at least many of the degenerates have good taste in music.

NachoBusiness

Magic for me but I'm biased.

Otherwise though, Amy Winehouse I think put an indelible mark on the 2000's / noughties and I think Back to Black is pretty much the song I will always associate with that decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1TQRJWLZ3s

OneOfThem

Cienciano wrote: »

It's called getting old OP. It's completely normal to think music in "your day" was better and modern stuff is rubbish.

But it was 'my day', that's what's so disturbing. Maybe it just wasn't all that memorable. I think I have the alcatraz... the alakaz... alzeer... the bad brain thinking thing.

Insect Overlord

Damien Rice released O 12 years ago. Jaysus.
Elbow, Seldom Seen Kid, 2008, same year Portishead came back with Third. Flawless albums.

MGMT had one very good album, CSS had some very cool stuff, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.
Rodrigo y Gabriella made their names during the 2000s.
Seasick Steve too.

Good times!

Turpentine

OneOfThem wrote: »

But it was 'my day', that's what's so disturbing. Maybe it just wasn't all that memorable. I think I have the alcatraz... the alakaz... alzeer... the bad brain thinking thing.

It would appear that you have an acute case of no stalgia.

You know what they say though, if you can remember the 2000's you weren't there man.

Aongus Von Bismarck

An File wrote: »

Damien Rice released O 12 years ago. Jaysus.

Utterly turgid and self-indulgent drivel. The type of album designed for playback in the nursing homes of the 2050s'.

Birneybau

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Utterly turgid and self-indulgent drivel. The type of album designed for playback in the nursing homes of the 2050s'.

Not often I agree with Der Kaiser but there you go.

Akabusi

I was in a car accident once caused by Mark Mc Cabes Maniac. The driver was trying to dance and drive at the same time which ended up with the car on its roof. We all crawled out except the driver who broke his arm. I remember we where waiting on the emergency services and the song was still playing in the car

FloatingVoter

...I have high hopes that Elvis will return from the army and save us all.

Turpentine

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Utterly turgid and self-indulgent drivel. The type of album designed for playback in the nursing homes of the 2050s'.

You have to give it to the man though, he's ahead of the pack in that regard.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Utterly turgid and self-indulgent drivel. The type of album designed for playback in the nursing homes of the 2050s'.

Maudlin dirge alright.

fleet_admiral

Blur's Music Is My Radar is one of the best of the decade, imo

KKkitty

Can't believe I used to like some of those.